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this week at nasa

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let me welcome you administrator charles

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bolden and chief financial officer beth

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robinson rolled out the budget president

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obama has proposed for nasa in fiscal

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year 2012. bolden told media at a

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washington news conference that despite

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austere times the proposed budget will

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allow nasa to continue to innovate

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educate and build for the good of not

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only the agency but also the nation this

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budget requires us to live within our

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means so we can invest in our future

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it maintains our strong commitment to

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human space flight and new technologies

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it establishes critical priorities and

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invests in excellent science

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programs that will help us win the

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future bolden also noted that this focus

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on technological advancement will allow

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nasa to expand its human exploration of

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space in the decades ahead the

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president's fiscal year 2012 budget

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funds a diverse array of human space

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flight programs that maximize our use of

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facilitate innovative approaches to

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deep space taken together these human

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space flight initiatives will enable

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america to retain its position as a

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leader in space exploration for

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nasa managers have announced an official

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launch date for space shuttle discovery

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sts-133 we had a

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really thorough review today and

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announcement came at the conclusion of

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the flight readiness review or fr a

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meeting to assess and determine if

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preparations for flight are on target i

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can't say enough about the work that the

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teams have done they did a tremendous

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job down here at the cape

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removing the foam installing the radius

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blocks making the modifications getting

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the orbiter back out at the pad the team

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just did a tremendous job the amount of

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effort and work that went into this is

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is really truly amazing

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and then you couple that it's at the end

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of the program and we're done building

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tanks and we've effectively uh almost

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all but turned out the lights at that

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math facility uh to have this type of

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failure come in that requires a whole

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lot of test and analysis is a real

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testament to the to the dedication and

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loyalty of those folks to to step up

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and and really come out and help us

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everything's going really really well

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looking forward to the countdown

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starting monday and a lift off next

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sts-133 will be the 35th shuttle mission

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to the international space station

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discovery will carry crew members

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commander steve lindsey pilot eric boe

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and mission specialists alvin drew

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this is discovery's final flight to the

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complex a retirement well earned with a

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total of 38 missions discovery has made

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more flights than any other shuttle

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she's carried satellites like the hubble

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probe into space delivered the japanese

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kibo laboratory to the iss and was the

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first shuttle to rendezvous with the

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expedition 26 flight engineers dmitry

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kandratiev and olex gripochka performed

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they ventured outside the international

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space station to install a pair of

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earthquake and lightning sensing

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they also retrieved a pair of exposed

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panels that will help international

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retrieving a similar materials exposure

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package was among the tests the two

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it will remain there until june when

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we have 122 images we've collected all

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the stardust next mission had its

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it flew by comet temple 1 on february

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at its nearest approach the spacecraft

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scientists had hoped to see any

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differences in the comet since a probe

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from nasa's deep impact mission crashed

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into its surface on the 4th of july in

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2005. if you ask me

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it was a thousand percent successful

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each one of the 72 images taken by

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a group of 55 science and space

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ames research center to participate in

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an event called a tweet up

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these tweeps or people who use twitter

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were given a rare opportunity to tour

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presentations and get answers to their

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the center social networking is is

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and and ride with us as we as we do the

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wonderful things we do at nasa

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throughout the day the participants were

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i think it's a really great way to get

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researchers shared their latest

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discoveries and demonstrated some of the

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the attendees came from 18 states and

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time here and it will use this

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information that i've learned here to

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learning activities during the 2011 bon

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the late marta von meyer former chief

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regular participant in the event her

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husband bob meyer nasa's program manager

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for the sofia flying observatory

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challenged attendees to focus on math

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and science classes that could lead to

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rewarding careers in engineering and

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technology for myself so you have a real

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opportunity today take advantage of it

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walk around learn talk to people that

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are here today and have gone down the

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opportunity knocks open the door but

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just like in aviation the odyssey

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nasa's first space shuttle orbiter

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test at the dryden flight research

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constructed without an engine the craft

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series of approach and landing tests

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that year proved the orbiter could fly

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enterprise was named for the starship on

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the popular television series of that

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today you can see enterprise in the

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museum's udvar hazy center in chantilly

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and that's this week at nasa for more on