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this week at nasa

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this movie is incredible in that it

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articulates

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film

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to help mark nasa's day of remembrance

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administrator charlie bolden hosted a

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special screening of the documentary an

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article of hope in the headquarters

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auditorium

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the hour-long film chronicles the

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journey of a tiny torah scroll beginning

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with its rescue from a german world war

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ii concentration camp by a young

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holocaust survivor

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the torah is taken to israel where years

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later that country's first astronaut

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colonel ilan ramon arranges to carry it

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into space aboard shuttle columbia on

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ramon and his six crewmates lost their

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lives on that ill-fated mission on

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february 1st 2003.

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the film's producer daniel cohen

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discussed the documentary and its

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importance i was able to meet rona ramon

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elon's wife

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and she said to me

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during the meeting that of all the

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things that

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were written about elon ramon this story

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would have been the story he would have

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wanted told

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and it is a powerful story it is a story

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administrator charles bolden met with

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seventh and eighth graders at richmond

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virginia's challenger learning center

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for space science education

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stressing to the youngsters why

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mastering stem courses science

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technology engineering and math is

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important to their futures there is no

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question right now that the united

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states is the acknowledged leader in the

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world in science and technology however

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that leadership is in jeopardy and the

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only way we can maintain it is for you

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all to do what you're doing today that

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message was underscored by other

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speakers including u.s senator mark

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warner and congressman bobby scott the

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students from richmond's albert hill

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middle school also participated in a

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number of solar and molecular science

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experiments and exploration related

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activities

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including building their own rockets and

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president obama has made stem education

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a top priority for helping maintain the

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nation's competitive edge in the global

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marketplace

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the challenger center event was held on

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the 25th anniversary of the loss of

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space shuttle challenger and her crew of

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nasa's hubble space telescope has

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discovered what astronomers believe is

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the most distant object ever seen in the

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universe the dim object is a tiny

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compact galaxy of blue stars that

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existed 13.2 billion years ago roughly

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150 million years farther back in time

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than the previous record holder the age

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of the universe is 13.7 billion year

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the tiny galaxy so small that more than

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a hundred similarly sized galaxies would

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be needed to make up our milky way

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galaxy was discovered by hubble's wide

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field camera 3 installed in 2009 during

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the last space shuttle servicing mission

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nasa astronaut ron garrett and his

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expedition 2728 crewmates russian

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cosmonauts alexander zamokottiev and

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andre borisenko talked with media about

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their upcoming mission to the

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international space station being up

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eventually when we get used to living

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there we when we settle into a routine

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there to be you know it will become

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normal for us you know we will not be

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visitors to space we will be residents

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of space garin somocotia and borasenko

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will join expedition 27 nasa astronaut

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astronaut paolo nespoli and russian

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cosmonaut dmitry kondratyev after their

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launch to the station from the baikonur

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already at the iss is the htv

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the unpiloted japanese cargo ship

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completed its five-day journey to the

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station from the tanegashima space

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center in southern japan with a smooth

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grappling by coleman and nespoli using

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the station's robotic arm canadarm2

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named konotore the japanese word for

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white stork the craft carried more than

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four tons of food and supplies

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contact and captured confirmed following

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close behind was a russian cargo ship

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progress 41 it docked automatically to

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the station's piers ducking compartment

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to deliver some three tons of food water

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fuel air equipment research samples and

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what do optimus prime and nasa have in

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common more than you'd think according

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to the developers of the agency

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sponsored optimus prime video contest

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youngsters in grades 3 through 8 created

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technology selected from nasa's 2009

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each video explores how like hasbro's

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iconic transformers toys that technology

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can alter or transform our lives here on

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online voting for your favorite student

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video is open through february 6th at

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ipp.nasa.gov and click on optimus prime

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the winners will be selected by a nasa

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forty years ago on january 31 1971

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apollo 14 began with its launch from the

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kennedy space center in florida

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astronauts alan shepard stuart russo and

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edgar mitchell manned nasa's third

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mission to land on the moon it looks

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like you're

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about on the bottom step

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and on the surface

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that's bad for an old man shepard and

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mitchell spent nearly 33 hours in the

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framoro highlands the same area to have

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been explored by the aborted apollo 13

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mission

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they conducted two lunar evas and

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collected more material and scientific

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data than apollo 11 and 12.

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and famously commander shepard swung the

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first golf club in space sending two

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meanwhile russo remained in lunar orbit

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in the command service module

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photographing the moon's surface and

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conducting experiments including some

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involving hundreds of seeds the former

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u.s forest service smoke jumper brought

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on the mission

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some of the seeds germinated resulting

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in the so-called moon trees their

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seedlings were planted throughout the

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united states often as part of the

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nation's bicentennial in 1976

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and throughout the world

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apollo 14 touched down in the pacific on

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february 9 1971.

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and that's this week at nasa for more on