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this week at NASA after wishing the

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expedition 27 crew farewell expedition

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26 commander Scott Kelly boy use

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commander alexander kaleri and russian

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flight engineer oleg skripochka undocked

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their soyuz spacecraft from the

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International Space Station and turned

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toward home several hours later the trio

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landed safely on the steppes of

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Kazakhstan Kelly tulare and skripochka

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completed almost six months in space

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following their launch to the station in

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October 2010 when the hatch open is just

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quite refreshing to get that cold air

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and you know snow blown inside the

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capsule it was it was definitely a

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once-in-a-lifetime experience they'll be

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replaced on the complex by commander

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andrey borisenko and flight engineers

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alexander samokutyaev and ron garan who

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are scheduled to join dmitry kondratyev

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paolo nespoli and Cady Coleman on

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baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan seeing

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right there shaking

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cell rings are happy for the past six

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and a half years the messenger

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spacecraft has been lapping the inner

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solar system now carrying a host of

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science instruments and fortified

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against the unrelenting heat of the Sun

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the spacecraft has arrived at its final

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destination in orbit around the

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innermost planet Mercury one of the

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mysteries now a 20-year old mystery that

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we hope to solve with messenger is is

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hottest surface temperatures and the

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most extreme variation in temperature

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permanently deposited in cold storage at

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the North and South Pole stay tuned at

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the time of orbit insertion messenger

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for mercury surface space environment

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miles from the Sun and more than 96

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million miles from Earth Messenger has

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already completed one flyby of Earth two

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of Venus and three flybys of mercury now

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with each 12 day orbit of mercury it

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completes messenger will continue

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returning the first new spacecraft data

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of the planet since the mariner 10

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mission more than 30 years ago we are

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unveiling this website the women of NASA

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today we are so proud of the

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contributions of all women NASA unveiled

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its new women at NASA website

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highlighting the contributions women are

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making to the agency dad used to take me

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to the library every weekend and I would

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check out a book on science and math the

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rollout was part of a Women's History

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Month celebration held at NASA

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headquarters in Washington hosted by

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NASA deputy administrator lori garver

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the program included remarks from

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featured guests Valerie Jarrett senior

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presidential advisor and chair of the

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White House Council on women and girls

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astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and

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Sabrina Thompson one of the women

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president called to the nation to have

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to get a hundred thousands new teachers

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of people out there ready to change it

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engaged and dedicated to this very

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important field a routine by the science

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cheerleaders entertained and educated

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the young all-girl audience of area

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school students the performers who are

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also scientists and engineers challenge

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stereotypes and encourage young women to

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pursue careers in science technology

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engineering and math a and you're going

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to fold it and interlock it inside side

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B audience members also took part in a

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demonstration of basic principles of

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flight I think this might be the first

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event you've ever been at we're tweeting

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is encouraged astronaut Doug Wheelock

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AKA Astro wheels hosted a tweetup at

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NASA headquarters this tweet up an

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informal meeting of the users are the

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social messaging medium Twitter allowed

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space enthusiasts to meet and greet we

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lock and other NASA personnel you know

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it's yeah it's cool you know where it

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get to wear a blue suit I get to fly in

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space and so what they're looking at me

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I know now that it's there looking at me

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saying okay the dream came true for you

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how about for me you know is there

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something in this in this passion for

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discovery and exploration their I can

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live my dream as well in June 2010 we

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locked began a stay of almost six months

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aboard the International Space Station

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assuming command of the complex command

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22nd while on orbit Wheelock often took

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pictures of Earth and sent them back

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home via Twitter Wheelock return from

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space on Thanksgiving Day 2010 and now

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a six-week design and build challenge

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that had high school students across the

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world busy every day after school and on

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weekends is wrapping up the NASA nights

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a FIRST Robotics team from new horizons

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Regional Education Center in Hampton

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Virginia spent all of februari building

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and programming a robot to participate

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in the 2011 logo motion competition logo

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motion involves building a robot and

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mini bot that can move and climb as well

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as position inflatable tubes and symbols

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on pegs the team worked up to the last

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minute putting finishing touches on the

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robots mechanical arm and running tests

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of the mini bot for shipping the team's

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hard work has paid off and they are

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gearing up for two regional tournaments

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in March and April it's pretty intense

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we've been here as late as nine ten

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o'clock working on stuff a lot of us are

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here late let us come in every day

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especially saturday saturday is usually

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for some of the NASA nights this will be

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their first robotic competition it's

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pretty exciting I'm never done anything

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like this before so it's definitely

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something to look forward to I think

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it'll be fun just being there and like I

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can you can feel the energy even here

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like people are excited about it i think

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there with all the other teams and

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everything is just me really like just a

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lot of excitement and stuff and emotions

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and things like that with the majority

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of the work behind them the NASA nights

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are ready to take on the other first

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teams in robot battle usually we do a

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pretty good job everybody using pretty

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solid this year we're kind of moving

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toward a little bit of versatility but I

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think we still got a pretty good shot at

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it this was a little bit different from

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most years competitions but I think we

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and speaking of robots NASA's Robonaut 2

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or r2 for short was a big hit at the

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Smithsonian National Air and Space

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Museum in Washington school it was

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excited inside the movie beyond Earth

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gallery the human-like robot whose twin

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is now a member of the international

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space station crew demonstrated its

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strength human-like dexterity and

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applicability in working safely and in

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close proximity to humans are two is

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just one example of technologies being

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developed by the agency to meet the

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challenges of extending the human

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presence into space our goal is to

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overtime to show that it is capable of

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doing many tasks and then let it become

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a system that would operationally help

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the crew on a regular basis r2 also made

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an appearance for NASA tech day on the

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hill members of Congress and their

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staffers watched our to get put through

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his paces it is a while NASA leadership

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spoke of the importance of improving the

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nation's technological research and

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capability when I think about NASA's

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future in space and in aeronautics when

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I think about the future of this country

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I can't help but realize that the pace

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of our technological enervate

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innovations is only going to increase

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with time it's a technological world and

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for the u.s. to remain a technological

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leader we have to make technology

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investments NASA celebrates two

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anniversaries this week 46 years ago on

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March 23rd 1965 the first manned Gemini

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mission was launched from Cape Canaveral

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complex 19 piloted by astronauts of

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Virgil Gus Grissom and John Young the

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three orbit geminii 3 mission tested

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spacecraft and launch vehicle systems

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for future long-duration flights how the

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capsule could be maneuvered in orbit

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then controlled for re-entry and landing

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the Gemini program helps set the stage

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for NASA's future moon landings

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and 15 years ago on March 22nd 1996

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space shuttle atlantis launched from the

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kennedy space center to begin sts 76 it

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was the first flight of the Spacehab

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Mir dockings and the third link up

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between the u.s. spacecraft and the

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Russian space station Atlantis also

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delivered veteran astronaut Shannon

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lucid to mere to be the first American

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woman to live on station and kick off a

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continuous US presence in space for the

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next two years the STS 76 crew was

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specialists were Linda Godwin Michael

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Clifford and Ronald seca finally NASA

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milestone our YouTube channel now has

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everyone at NASA TV thanks for watching