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this week at nasa

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main gear touchdown space shuttle

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endeavour and its six astronaut crew

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sailed home for the final time ending a

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16-day journey of more than 6.5 million

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miles with a landing at 2 35 a.m eastern

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on wednesday at the kennedy space center

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in florida

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i love the space shuttle i mean i'd buy

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it as much as i possibly could i'd

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probably go out there

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every couple months if i could have the

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opportunity to fly in the space shuttle

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but it's uh 30 years old we've got to

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you know grow and adapt and build new

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probably five or six years maybe seven

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spacecraft to take crew members first to

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and from the international space station

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and then hopefully outside of low earth

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but we'll get there sts-134

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was the last mission for the youngest of

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nasa's space shuttle fleet delivering to

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the international space station the

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alpha magnetic spectrometer a cosmic ray

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detector that will search the universe

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for evidence of dark matter strange

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matter and anti-matter

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since 1992

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endeavor flew 25 missions spent 299 days

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in space orbited earth

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times and traveled almost

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extraordinary opportunity to converse

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with you during your mission

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and especially grateful to be able to

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speak to so many of you as both crews

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are present on this situation of this

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time in a history-making event from the

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pope benedict xvi spoke with the

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expedition 27 and

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working on orbit aboard the

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international space station from your

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how do you see situation on earth do you

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see science or phenomena to which we

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need to be more attentive well your

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holiness it's a it's a great honor to

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speak with you and you're right it

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really is an extraordinary vantage point

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we have up here

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on the one hand we could see how

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indescribably beautiful the planet that

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we have been given is but on the other

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hand we can really clearly see how

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fragile it is the pope chatted in

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particular with the two european space

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agency astronauts from italy roberto

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i felt your prayers and everyone's

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we're outside the world we orbit

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and we have a vantage point to look at

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the earth and we feel everything around

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pope benedict's call was the first by a

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less than three days later the soyuz

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capsule carrying the last three members

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of the expedition 27 team made a

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picture-perfect landing on the step of

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coleman and nespoli returned to earth

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and sunny skies and 70 degree

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having arrived at the complex last

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december 17th the trio worked on more

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than 100 experiments involving

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alexander samakoutiyev and ron garan

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scheduled to be joined by three new

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crewmates on june 9. cosmonaut sergey

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james loftus presented kennedy space

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the flag will be prepared to fly aboard

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and bring it home safe it says a lot the

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u.s honor flag has traveled throughout

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the world honoring police officers

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astronauts and other heroes who lost

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nasa administrator charles bolden

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welcome to nasa headquarters in

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washington the 85 winners of the

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presidential award for excellence in

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the award recognizes teachers at the

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kindergarten to sixth grade level i want

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to congratulate all of you on the

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exceptional achievement and and your

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recognition on the part of the president

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president obama's educate to innovate

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campaign aims to strengthen the nation's

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teaching of science technology

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the administrator delivered the keynote

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speech at southern university spring

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commencement speaking to an audience of

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thousands bolden told graduates that

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challenges in their future

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will present big opportunities for them

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to do great things

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he congratulated southern university as

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one of the top 10 producers of african

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americans with undergraduate degrees in

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and encourage graduates to consider

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careers with nasa i hope you're

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optimistic about the future because i am

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it's been my observation that students

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are you excited about the future

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okay located in baton rouge louisiana

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southern university and a m college is a

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historically black institution created

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its goal is to provide students with a

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experience to engage in scholarly

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research and creative activities and to

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community the state the nation and the

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and now centerpieces

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the gates have just opened people are

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the jpl open house is a time-honored

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tradition once a year one weekend in may

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the lab throws open its gates and people

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mobility systems we tried four wheels

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not including an additional 27 000 who

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ustream tv i'm gay ye hell next to me

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here is christopher harris and had their

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chat questions answered by a real nasa

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scientist or engineer athlete has rubber

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excitement of exploration as some folks

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the john f kennedy center for the

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special concert honoring its namesake

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and american achievements in space

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human spaceflight the kennedy legacy

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of landing a man on the moon and

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since those words were spoken nasa has

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taken my brother's charge

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and created a future that even he

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probably could not have dreamt up nasa

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administrator charles bolden was joined

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on stage by deputy administrator lori

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garver astronauts and other special

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guests that included former star trek

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star nichelle nichols june lockhart of

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and grammy-winning recording artist

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herbie hancock who performed a piece

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and that's this week at nasa