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this week at nasa

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in space flight history the date april

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12th is special

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on that day in 1981 the first shuttle

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mission sts-1 began with the launch of

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columbia from the kennedy space center

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in florida

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administrator charles bolden led a

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commemorative program at kennedy to

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honor the space shuttle's workforce for

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its invaluable contributions to space

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exploration over the past 30 years i

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want to thank each and every one of you

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and the many others in the shuttle

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workforce over the years for your

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significant contribution

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to this tremendous american

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accomplishment you've inspired a

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generation helped make the world a

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better place and given us a road map for

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future space exploration

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bolden also announced the four locations

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at which the orbiters atlantis

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discovery endeavor and enterprise will

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spend their retirement on permanent

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the ceremony also featured astronaut bob

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crippen a veteran of four shuttle

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missions including the first sts-1 when

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the count passed one minute

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i turned to john and i said i think we

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might do it

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that's when my heart rate went up to

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john's was down in a nice calm 90 and

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april 12th is also the date on which

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cosmonaut yuri gagarin became the first

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human in space in 1961.

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nasa dignitaries helped mark the gagarin

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space flight's 50th anniversary at

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several events in russia

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international space officials gathered

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in moscow for a gala at the memorial

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museum of cosmonautics

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among the attendees were retired nasa

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astronaut tom stafford and soviet-era

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cosmonaut alexa eleanor

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they remain close friends more than 35

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years after serving together on the

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apollo soyuz test project the first

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joint mission between the one-time cold

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war adversaries

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also in moscow a golden anniversary

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extravaganza was staged at the grand

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and the week's highlights culminated

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with a gala attended by bolden at the

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home of the u.s ambassador to russia

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one final anniversary note

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nasa astronaut and avid amateur musician

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katie coleman blended the melodic sounds

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of her flute with adam musician ian

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anderson founder of the rock band jethro

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top honoring the achievements of the day

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the pair collaborated on the first space

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earth duet coleman and anderson played a

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portion of beret a song that jethro told

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played during its 1969 u.s tour as neil

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armstrong and buzz aldrin stepped onto

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more than 7 000 students gathered at the

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ames research center to celebrate yuri

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gagarin's historic journey into space

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the 4th through 12th graders engaged in

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hands-on learning activities explored

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interactive exhibits and talked with

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scientists engineers and technology

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experts they built and launched rockets

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drove a replica of a mars rover and

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played instructional games designed to

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the nameplate says it all mission

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control in houston is now known as the

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christopher seacraft junior mission

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control center the building's new

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nameplate was unveiled at a johnson

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space center ceremony in honor of chris

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craft america's first human space

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mission flight director our experiences

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were something that we were all

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extremely proud of we still are today

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kraft was recognized by nasa for his

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service to the nation and its space

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as flight director he managed all of the

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mercury and several gemini missions and

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was in that role for america's first

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human space flight first human orbital

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flight and first spacewalk kraft was

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also one of the designers and

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implementers of the mission control

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center the heart of all nasa crewed

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the impact on the country

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a scientific research park on the moon

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that was the focus of an international

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lunar conference held at the ames

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research center

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workshop gathered pioneering thinkers

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from across the u.s to seek new ways

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nations can collaborate in space

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exploration and development

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discussions centered on building a

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multinational research park on the moon

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earth-bound prototypes would be

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developed with strong u.s leadership and

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operated by a consortium of space-faring

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nations through public-private

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partnerships

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one visionary in attendance nobel

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laureate dr baruch bloomberg succumbed

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to a heart attack after delivering the

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keynote address

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blumberg whose groundbreaking work in

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medical research has saved millions of

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lives died doing what he loved best

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helping explore new ways to improve the

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at the glenn research center four teams

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of students conducted experiments in

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microgravity using glenn's 2.2 second

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drop tower

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the science competition called die for

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dropping in a microgravity environment

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had each team drop test and experiment

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in the tower considered a gateway to

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station were conducted on earth in the

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event entries ran the gamut from how hot

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florida troy high school in troy

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fredonia wisconsin and st ursula academy

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experience working side by side with

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engineers having them help us out with

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our experiments so it's been great

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dime and other educational endeavors of

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nasa's teaching from space program

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helped the agency attract and retain

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students in science technology

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engineering and mathematics the stem

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disciplines critical to space

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developed a new robotics merit badge for

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the bsa stem based curriculum

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to earn the badge scouts will work with

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design build and demonstrate how a robot

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moves senses the environment and

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the new badge is one of 31 stem-related

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boy scout merit badges

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and that's this week at nasa