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this week at nasa

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to complete its 39th and final flight

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and nosegear touchdown in the end of a

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historic journey space shuttle discovery

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landed safely at the kennedy space

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center after its 5.3 million mile

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journey to the international space

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station the sts-133 crew of commander

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steve lindsey pilot eric boe and mission

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specialists al drew nicole stott mike

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barrett and steve bowen delivered the

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permanent multi-purpose module which

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provides extra space for science

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discovery also brought the express

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external platform for holding large

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all right you guys i know

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there's more important things to do but

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we want to take a picture of you okay

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okay that's good all right back to work

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bowen and drew conducted two spacewalks

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to do maintenance work and install new

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components on the orbiting complex

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the discovery astronauts also joined

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with their iss hosts to take a call on

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station from president obama who asked

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about the station's newest crew member

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robonaut 2 or r2 the first human-like

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robot to live and work in space are you

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guys making him do chores up there

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washing the dishes or something or does

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he have more exciting jobs he's still in

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packing foam so we hope to uh to get him

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out shortly and uh it's going to be fun

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to see how uh how he works

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he's still in packing foam that's a

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shame man come on guys unpack the guy

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he flew all that way and you guys aren't

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yeah you know the poor guy's been locked

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in that foam for about four months now

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and uh every once while we hear kind of

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some scratching sounds from inside and

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uh the crew was enthusiastically

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welcomed back by nasa administrator

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charles bolden in his remarks about

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space shuttle discovery's final mission

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and the orbiter's place in space

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exploration history if my numbers are

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correct it's the 39th flight on on

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me and for bob cabana over here because

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we both had an opportunity to fly on it

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twice and

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so this is very bittersweet for all of

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us discovery becomes the first in nasa's

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three orbiter fleet to be retired in all

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discovery traveled more than

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148.2 million miles and made more than 5

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800 orbits of earth over a total of 365

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later in the week space shuttle

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assembly building to launch pad 39a for

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its final mission a 14-day journey to

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the international space station the

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sts-134 crew commander mark kelly pilot

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agency will deliver to the iss the alpha

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the crew also will deliver the express

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ends later this year

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and now centerpieces

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huntsville alabama celebrated a major

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milestone it's been 10 years since the

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payload operations center at nasa's

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marshall space flight center became the

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science command post for the

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international space station since march

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8 2001 the marshall team has supported

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more than 6 000 hours of science

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experiments conducted by 41 space

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orbiting complex the center celebrated

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these historic accomplishments during a

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special program which included a plaque

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hanging ceremony in the payload

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operations center to mark the event

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marshall managers including center

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director robert lightfoot took part in

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the activities and discussed the vital

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role the payload operations center has

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played in the history of nasa's

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on a cold and windy february afternoon

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50 years ago the late paul bickle soared

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into the stratosphere with one goal in

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mind to set a world altitude record for

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accomplished sail plane pilot who

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devoted every weekend to soaring

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anaboltson a record-setting sail plane

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pilot himself noted at a recent

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colloquium that bickle knew what he

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prepared very thoroughly and it was a

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and the flying talents could have been a

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in just over two hours bickel and his

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family and was on display during the

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colloquium at nasa's dryden flight

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seeing the aircraft in which bickel's

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record was achieved and comparing it to

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planes his record is all the more

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field center was marked by amazing

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for the past 10 years the reach out for

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the rainbow science fair has inspired

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this year nasa ames research center

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effort to help energize the next

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generation of space explorers we're

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bringing it to them we brought our

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we're doing everything we can to let

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far as the foundation and if you want to

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the festival featured several guest

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examples of what the their possibilities

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the event provides a large community of

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children and their families a valuable

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nasa teamed up with the central

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ciaa to promote nasa awareness week in

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agency-sponsored activities that promote

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charlotte convention center hundreds of

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encourage you to study science

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space station one day each year the ciaa

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tournament brings together men's and

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universities to compete in a six-day

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educational materials also college

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85 years ago on march 16 1926

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robert goddard successfully launched the

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world's first liquid fuel rocket from a

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work throughout the remainder of his

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docked their capsule with an unmanned

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while docked a thruster malfunctioned

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and that's this week at nasa for more on