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this week at NASA scientists from

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Argentina Brazil Canada France and Italy

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were at NASA headquarters in Washington

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for a news briefing about their upcoming

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international spacecraft mission

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Aquarius sakdi it is by far the most

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complex and challenging mission ever

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attempted through a partnership between

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the United States and Argentina and has

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capability as comparable to any earth

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science mission that NASA has flown

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scheduled to launch jun 9th the

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spacecraft's primary instrument will

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make the agency's first space-based

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global measurements of salinity or

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concentration of salt at the surface of

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the world's oceans salinity influences

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ocean circulation and the global balance

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of fresh water and climate until now it

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has remained unmeasured by existing

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Earth observing satellites seven other

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sakdi instruments will collect

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environmental data for a wide range of

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applications including studies of

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natural hazards air quality land

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processes and epidemiology space shuttle

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Atlantis has made its final roll over

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from the processing hangar to the

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Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy

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Space Center in Florida inside the VA be

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Atlantis was attached to its external

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fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters

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already perched on a mobile launcher

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platform during sts-135 the final

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mission for Atlantis and the space

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shuttle program the orbiter and its four

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member crew will carry the raffaello

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multi-purpose Logistics Module filled

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with supplies and spare parts to the

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International Space Station among other

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tasks the mission will also fly a system

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to investigate the viability of robotic

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ly refueling existing space craft space

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shuttle Atlantis was delivered to KSC in

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april of nineteen eighty five and made

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its maiden voyage on mission 51 j on

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october third subsequent flights

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included STS 34 and the launch of the

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Galileo probe to Jupiter in 1989 and in

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37 with the gamma ray observatory gr 0

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as its primary payload NASA

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Administrator Charles Bolden toward the

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Astro tech payload processing facility

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near the Kennedy Space Center for a

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close-up look at the Juno spacecraft

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accompanied by his wife Jackie bold and

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tour junos test control center and talk

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with members of the Juno test team the

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solar-powered spacecraft will head for

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Jupiter on August fifth where it will

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orbit the gas giants poles 33 times to

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learn more about the planets origins

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structure atmosphere and magnetosphere

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the Ames Research Center recently

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completed a series of tests that may

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help take some of the loudness out of

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sonic booms and allow supersonic

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aircraft to fly over land inside Ames

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over a sleek new aircraft design at

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speeds replicating flying conditions a

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sonic boom occurs when an aircraft flies

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faster than the speed of sound typically

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around 660 miles per hour at the cruise

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altitude of most airplanes tests like

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these help researchers understand the

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forces acting on a real aircraft and its

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impact like the creation of a sonic boom

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on the surrounding atmosphere we're

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measuring the sonic booms from these

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models in the tunnel we do that with

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sophisticated pressure measurement

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and we take those measurements and run

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them through the computer codes and then

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we can predict how loud the sonic boom

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gleaned from this research will

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literally help shape a new generation of

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quieter environmentally friendly

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supersonic aircraft that may fly twice

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investigating how best to prepare for

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possible future space missions NASA

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astronauts become aquanauts each autumn

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to dive into a series of undersea

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experiments preparations are underway at

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the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

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Administration's Aquarius underwater

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laboratory off Key Largo Florida that's

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where this year's participants in nemo

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NASA's extreme environment mission

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operations will live for nine days under

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the Atlantic to explore the challenges

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of a trip to an asteroid the ocean beds

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buoyancy and topography will serve as a

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good stand-in unlike the Moon or Mars an

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asteroid has little gravity to hold

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astronauts or vehicles so knowing how

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and where to place multiple anchors will

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be the focus of this year's event the

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15th annual Nemo the undersea tests are

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scheduled for October astronaut Shannon

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Walker the first native houstonian in

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space mingled and took pictures with

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students at her hometown alma mater the

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Johnston middle school Walker was

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attending a breakfast in her honor it's

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possible do big things no matter who you

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are i went to the score at least

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around here so just about anybody could

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do anything they put their mind to

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during her stay she gave her

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presentation about her extended stay on

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the International Space Station you can

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do all kinds of things that you cannot

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do on the ground when you're in space in

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this case Tracy and I are moving this

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giant rat from the ceiling to the floor

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the ground needed us to move it so we

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moved it for my particular space flight

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I trained for three years and think

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about that and an appreciation of her

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many accomplishments the school renamed

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their science wing the Shannon Walker

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science satellite Walker served on

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expeditions 24 and 25 to the

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International Space Station last year

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she and her crewmates launched on jun

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10th aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft

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tma 19 while aboard the station Walker

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and crew mate does Wheelock participated

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in a downlink with Johnston students and

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now centerpieces for a group of

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engineers from NASA Langley experiencing

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endeavours final flight Cape Canaveral

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was more than just a launch it was a

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moment they wouldn't forget during the

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sts-134 mission astronauts will test out

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a new state-of-the-art docking a

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navigation system developed in part by

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NASA Langley the new technology called

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storm or sensor test for Orion relative

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navigation risk mitigation will make it

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easier and safer for astronauts to dock

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really nice to build something and be

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able to see it and be able to see it

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work and be able to touch it and it's

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very gratifying to know that you're

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going to be helping future space flights

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NASA Langley worked with Johnson Space

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Langley's role in the project included

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engineering management design and build

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integration testing and certification of

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those components one engineer avionics

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lead Tom Johnson even trained astronaut

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drew Feustel on the flight software it

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Drew and really kind of showing him the

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hardware that we put together and in the

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software the NASA Langley Storm Team

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braved the crowds in the media to

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represent the state of the art

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technology during the launch to finally

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get the hard word up and tested to

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validate everything that we've worked

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for all the sacrifices that's huge heats

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treats and astronaut green NASA welcome

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the public to the Goddard Space Flight

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explore at NASA Goddard was the theme

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for today's event the public had unique

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access to explore learn and enjoy the

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energetic atmosphere of the Space

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Agency's largest research facility

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scientists talked about our planet and

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brought the wonders of the universe down

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to earth for all to see all engineers

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discuss new missions and their future

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discoveries at the mad science tent

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visitors were amazed by incredible

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chemistry others perform their own moon

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even Darth Vader stopped by looking for

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some new recruits each location was a

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technological treasure trove as guests

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toward many of the seldom seen facility

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thousands of visitors toward the solar

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system and beyond all without leaving

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Greenbelt but at NASA Goddard that's

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just a normal day time for a great new

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American Enterprise time for this nation

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to take a

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barely leading role in space achievement

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50 years ago on May twenty-fifth

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nineteen sixty one president john f

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kennedy in a speech before a special

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joint session of Congress challenged the

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nation to set its sights on sending an

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american to the moon so directed NASA

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ramped up its human spaceflight effort

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starting with Project Mercury and

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continuing on through Gemini and Apollo

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10 50 men 15 feet in July 1969 Kennedy's

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goal was realized when Apollo 11s Neil

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Collins made their safe return home and