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this week at nasa

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space shuttle endeavour made its final

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move from the orbiter's processing

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hangar to the vehicle assembly building

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at the kennedy space center this

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activity called a rollover was followed

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by endeavors mating to its external tank

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and twin solid rocket boosters already

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during the 14-day sts-134 mission

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endeavors crew commanded by mark kelly

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will deliver to the international space

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station the alpha magnetic spectrometer

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as well as communications antennas a

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high pressure gas tank and spare parts

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targeted to launch on april 19th sts-134

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will be the 36th shuttle mission to the

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international space station and

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i've seen it now within the

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administration

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still we've got work to do to really

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connect our whole budget

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deputy administrator lori garver

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completed a whirlwind tour of nasa

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facilities in california updating the

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golden state centers on the president's

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fiscal year 2012 budget proposal for the

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agency

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garver participated in town hall

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employee presentations at the ames

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research center in northern california

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the dryden flight research center at

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edwards air force base and the jet

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propulsion laboratory in pasadena she

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also met with the glory satellite launch

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team at vandenberg air force base

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during her two-day trip the deputy

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administrator explained how nasa's 2012

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budget request aligns with the

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directives congress laid out for the

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agency in the 2010 nasa authorization

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garver also said nasa will continue to

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support the international space station

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stabilize the aeronautics budget

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emphasize space technology

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and now centerpieces

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if you gradually apply enough pressure

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to a soda can it will eventually ripple

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and collapse that's similar to what a

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team of nasa engineers at the marshall

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space flight center will do to an

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immense cylinder simulating a rocket

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fuel tank

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they hope to generate new shell buckling

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data from which lightweight safe and

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sturdy skins for future launch vehicles

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can be designed why it is critical is if

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we are building structures too heavy

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like we have in the past we're not going

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to be able to get the payload into space

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like we want to the 27 and a half foot

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wide 20 foot tall aluminum lithium

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cylinder will be sandwiched between two

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massive loading rings sophisticated

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cameras and sensors will record how and

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where the test article buckles as it's

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subjected to almost one million pounds

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of force

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during this shell buckling testing we

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also integrated a new method

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seeing strains and seeing

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displacements using video image

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also known as vic

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utilizes black dots on a white

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background on our test article

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and using high resolution cameras

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see the test article in three dimensions

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and be able to actually show real time

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during the load application during test

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such things as displacements in full

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field also researchers believe data from

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this first full-scale shell buckling

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knockdown factor test will help update

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essential design calculations made

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during the apollo era well before the

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advent of modern composite materials

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manufacturing processes and advanced

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in turn that should lead to the design

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and production of lightweight safe and

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cost effective structures like the main

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fuel tank of a future heavy lift launch

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targeted for late this month the test is

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being led by the nasa engineering and

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safety center with the support of

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langley researchers and marshall

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nasa's kepler team celebrated the

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midpoint of their three and a half year

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mission to search for earth-sized

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planets around other stars in the galaxy

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the occasion brought together many of

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the dignitaries whose efforts helped to

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make the mission successful

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the event followed major recent

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announcements from the kepler science

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team including the first confirmed

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extrasolar rocky planet as well as the

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flattest most compact multi-planet solar

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system found to date

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the celebration also coincided with the

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kepler science operations team receiving

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their award for nasa software of the

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year

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the success of the mission so far

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inspired team members to reflect on the

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importance of kepler in the context of

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human history this is a celebration

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uh that's larger than than just a single

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mission just a nasa mission just a bunch

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of scientists getting together this is a

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mission that sans that's answering some

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of the most fundamental questions that

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every person wonders about at night when

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they look up at the stars

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the night was a rare opportunity for the

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diverse kepler team to raise their

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glasses and toast their achievements

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both past and present and to acknowledge

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high expectations for future discoveries

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we have a team of four over here your

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team five team of three is team six two

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dozen teachers became students for a

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week during the virginia aerospace

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science and technology scholars teacher

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institute

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research center in hampton was designed

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to give educators the tools they need to

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bring the excitement of nasa content to

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their students this time we have 25 stem

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teachers so science technology

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engineering and math teachers that are

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coming to us from across the state

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they are high school teachers and

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they're coming to us for the week to

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learn about

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nasa materials curriculum that they can

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integrate into their classroom we are

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using

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mars as a context planning a mars

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mission much like the summer academy for

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the students teachers heard from

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planetary scientists and engineers who

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actually worked on mars missions they

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also had the opportunity to work with

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nasa multimedia materials and create

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their own podcasts for technology

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teacher octavia williams this

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opportunity was too good to pass up it's

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very important and so important that you

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know i had to miss like three days of

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class during a penny hauler game

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teachers were challenged to build a

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propulsion system that would haul the

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most amount of pennies the farthest they

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were given pretend money to buy

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materials in only a certain amount of

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time to build their system

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the team that carried the most pennies

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the farthest for the least amount of

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money won

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the past day and a half they've really

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learned about the science today they're

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learning about the engineering and the

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engineering design process and what

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we're trying to do with this week is

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give them activities and have them

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actually do activities that they could

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easily take back to the classroom for

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many of these teachers the institute

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offered them a fresh perspective and

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introduce them to new ideas oh my gosh

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it's fabulous i just can't you know

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can't get enough of it we've only done

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two days and i could go back with so

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much stuff to use in my classroom we got

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still got two more days to go so i'm

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and that's this week at nasa