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this week at nasa

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and liftoff for the final launch of

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endeavor expanding our knowledge

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expanding our lives in space

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space shuttle endeavour lifted off

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monday from the kennedy space center for

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the international space station and

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sts-134 commander mark kelly and his

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five crewmates began their mission with

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a picture-perfect launch at 8 56 a.m

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eastern

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the crew of kelly pilot greg johnson and

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mission specialists mike fink drew

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feuster greg shamatoff and european

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space agency astronaut roberto vittori

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are scheduled to spend 16 days in space

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bringing with them a payload that

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includes the alpha magnetic spectrometer

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a particle physics detector designed to

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search for various types of unusual

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sts-134 is the next to last mission for

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the space shuttle program and the final

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nasa's dawn spacecraft captured its

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first image of vesta the giant asteroid

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it'll start orbiting in july almost 200

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million miles from earth

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taken at about three quarters of a

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million miles from vesta the image

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provides never seen before details of

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the asteroid surface the asteroids are

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fragments of

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rock that date back to the origin of the

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due to mutual collisions in the asteroid

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belt some of these asteroids get

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disturbed into orbits that cross the

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path of the earth and get swept up as

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meteorites there's always a danger of

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course that a large fragment may impact

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the earth so it's in our best interest

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to understand what asteroids are made of

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and how they get into these earth

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crossing orbits the dawn mission will

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help us understand the formation and

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evolution of asteroids

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vesta is 330 miles in diameter and the

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second most massive object in the

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asteroid belt its gravity is expected to

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capture dawn in orbit on july 16th where

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it will remain and collect data for one

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after another long journey the

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spacecraft will arrive in 2015 at its

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second destination ceres and even more

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massive body in the asteroid belt four

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with dawn launched in september 2007 the

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dawn spacecraft will journey a total of

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three billion miles to complete its

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several craft at nasa's fleet of earth

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observing satellites have captured these

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images of severe flooding along the

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mississippi river basin

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so far nearly 3 million acres in

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arkansas tennessee and mississippi have

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been affected by severe springtime rains

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the mississippi river basin is third

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largest in the world and managing floods

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in this area has been a challenge for

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satellite images like these help

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scientists and engineers monitor and

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evaluate critical and dynamic conditions

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about weather and other phenomena like

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wetlands preservation thermal pollution

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members of the sts-133 crew commander

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specialists al drew steve bowen mike

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baron and nicole stott showed a music

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video highlighting their 13-day mission

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to the international space station then

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headquarters audience your challenge

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have you ever had that moment where when

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you're about to lift off and

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you think that you like you feel like

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you don't want to go anymore like you

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sts-133 delivered to the iss the

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permanent multi-purpose module the

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fourth express logistics carrier and

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robonaut 2 the first human-like robot in

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sts-133 was the 39th and final mission

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once again nasa has been recognized for

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several of the world's best internet

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sites by winning two webby awards

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nasa.gov received its third consecutive

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people's voice award for best government

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website

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and nasa's global climate change site

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last year's people's voice award winner

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for science captured this year's judges

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award for best science site created in

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1996 the webby award honors excellence

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in online technology and creativity

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while nasa has had a web presence since

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the early 90s a popular redesign in 2003

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has since brought nasa.gov more than 1.5

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billion site visits

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its customer satisfaction ratings are

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among the highest in government

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comparable to those of popular

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ladies and gentlemen i am proud to

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present to you the united states

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astronaut hall of fame class of 2011

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carol bobco and susan helms

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one of the space shuttle program's

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earliest commanders carol bo bobcon

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and the first woman to live on the

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international space station susan helms

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were inducted into the u.s astronaut

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hall of fame in a ceremony at the

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kennedy space center visitors complex in

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bobco flew as the pilot on sts-6 the

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first flight of space shuttle challenger

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in april 1983.

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two years later he commanded discovery

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on sts-51d

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and landed the shuttle safely despite a

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blown main gear tire six months later

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bobco commanded atlantis on its maiden

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sts-51j many of the people in this

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audience helped me along the way

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your help and encouragement

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have been instrumental in my standing

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here today to receive the honor of being

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inducted into the astronaut hall of fame

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helms an air force veteran like bobco

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flew five times on the shuttle beginning

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with sts-54 in january 1993.

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her space flight career included flights

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on endeavour discovery columbia atlantis

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and the international space station she

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spent more than 5 000 hours in space

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with 163 days of that on the station

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thanks very much to the committee and

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the foundation for honoring me uh it

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truly is a humbling moment for me and um

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and i nothing in the bottom of my heart

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nothing will will surely be able to be

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said that that tells you how much this

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bobco and helms join a group of space

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heroes that includes the legends of

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mercury gemini and apollo

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along with the astronauts who flew the

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space shuttle on some of its most noted

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busloads of middle and high school

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students learned about nasa careers

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while visiting king's dominion one of

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the mid-atlantic's premier amusement

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through games q a sessions with langley

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research center staff exhibits and other

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activities career day attendees learned

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what it's like to live and work in space

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and how studying science technology

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engineering and math can help make that

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happen so if you didn't have a grip on

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this if it wasn't tethered to your kid

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a hair-raising ride on the intimidator

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305 a roller coaster tribute to the late

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nascar driver dale earnhardt helps

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students learn about earth's gravity

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its 305 foot initial lift

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speed taught riders what it felt like to

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pull four genes or four times the

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gravitational force at our planet's

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and that's this week at nasa