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the three new members of the expedition

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engineers alexander sama kutiev andre

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station in their soyuz spacecraft

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following a successful journey from the

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baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan

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the craft dubbed the gagarin for yuri

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gagarin who became the first human in

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space 50 years ago this week

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docked to the poisk module on the

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space-facing side of the russian segment

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the trio joined expedition 27 commander

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dmitry kandrakiev and flight engineers

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the six will continue research into the

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body biology physics and materials now

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space station now what it was designed

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to do and that's cutting edge science

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cutting edge research and opening up you

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nasa managers will hold a flight

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to assess the team's ability to support

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who returns to the international space

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a veteran of two soyuz flights this will

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mission is to be first and foremost ms-1

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what the shuttle can do so i like to

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nasa headquarters welcomed students from

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maryland school for the blind in

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baltimore to disability mentoring day

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the students ages 12 to 15 rotated

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through several stations exploring and

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mars rovers and other nasa programs they

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the annual event encourages students to

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strive for success and consider careers

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is any evidence that there was ever life

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and personally affected by the news and

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the of the tragic shooting in tucson a

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american red cross to kick off the

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gabrielle giffords honorary save a life

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campaign the quick action by a member of

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her staff played an enormously important

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role in saving her life we never know

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when we might be called on

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part of a nationwide effort that

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encompassed a hundred locations around

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the country the event included red cross

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dress wounds the lesson of tucson

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in saving other people's lives

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congresswoman giffords continues to

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and now centerpieces

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station texas celebrated the end of six

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as part of the activities the students

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mission x involved almost 4 000 students

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students about the importance of staying

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healthy studying hard and working in

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teams and of course listening to your

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them want to become astronauts and what

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and 2nd for the 18th annual nasa great

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moon buggy race the event hosted by the

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marshall space flight center encourages

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that will benefit nasa the nation and

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all humankind students are challenged to

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build and race lightweight human-powered

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innovation and can-do spirit that put

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space flight center team along with

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nasa industry team finalized the lunar

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41 years ago this week on april 11 1970

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this first flight of the space shuttle

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and that's this week at nasa for more on