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this week at nasa

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with the launch of

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sts-135 officially set for july 8th at

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11 26 a.m eastern daylight time the

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four-member crew commander chris

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ferguson pilot doug hurley and mission

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specialist sandy magnus and rex wallham

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is making its final preparations for the

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final mission of the space shuttle

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program

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space shuttle atlantis 12-day mission to

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deliver the rafaello multi-purpose

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logistics module filled with supplies

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and spare parts to sustain station

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operations once the shuttles are retired

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the mission also will fly the robotic

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refueling mission an experiment designed

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to demonstrate and test the tools

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technologies and techniques needed to

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robotically refuel satellites in space

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even satellites not designed to be

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serviced this flight is incredibly

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important to space station the the cargo

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really mandatory for for space station

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the first space shuttle mission sts-1

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launched on april 12 1981 with veteran

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astronaut john young and first-time

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flyer bob crippen aboard columbia

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the liftoff of atlantis will be shuttle

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nasa administrator charles bolden

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outlined the agency's post-shuttle

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future in a speech to media and members

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at the national press club in washington

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i'm here to tell you that american

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leadership in space will continue for at

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least at least the next half century

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because we've laid the foundation for

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success and for us at nasa failure is

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not an option bolden told the luncheon

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gathering and a national television

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audience that nasa will continue its

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human space exploration efforts aboard

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the international space station and by

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developing new technologies and

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capabilities to send future generations

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to multiple destinations beyond low

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we are recommitting ourselves to it and

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taking necessary and difficult steps

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today to ensure america's preeminence in

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human space exploration for years to

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come bolden also spoke of nasa's

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continued innovation in aeronautics

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research and dedication to sending

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robotic science missions into the solar

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system and beyond

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special guest speaker four-time shuttle

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astronaut mark kelly talked of the

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continuing recovery of his wife

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congresswoman gabrielle giffords of

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arizona and the end of the shuttle era i

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but i have to say i also love the space

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shuttle very much

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the space shuttle has been very good to

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it's an incredible ship that is

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difficult to let go

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in just one week from today

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the space shuttle will rock it off the

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nasa's robotic lander development

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project of the marshall space flight

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center conducted the second free-flight

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test of a robotic lander prototype 2-1

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the lander successfully executed its

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planned flight profile rising to a

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six-foot hover and descending to a

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overhead and side mounted cameras

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captured the action in high definition

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and infrared allowing engineers to see

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the performance engage the temperatures

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smart versatile robotic landers capable

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all of the mirrors that will fly aboard

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nasa's james webb space telescope have

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been polished representing a major

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jwst has four types of mirrors made of

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beryllium its primary one which is

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capture light from faint distant objects

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in the universe faster than any previous

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space observatory and see objects as far

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universe as the successor to the hubble

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space telescope the webb telescope is

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the world's next generation space

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observatory it will be the most powerful

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two nasa aircraft are conducting

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research flights over the baltimore

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washington region and northeast maryland

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this summer to improve how ground-level

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discover a queue for deriving

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column and vertically resolved

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a targeted four-year science

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investigation to complement data

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gathered by nasa satellites

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between pollution high in the atmosphere

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and pollution near the surface where

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discover a q's measurements will be

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sites to help scientists tell the

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we can work with our private sector and

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lori garver web chatted with users of

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the social media twitter about the

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better known to tweeters by the handle

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astro mike the one-hour question and

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garver and massimino invited the twitter

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capabilities so we can go farther okay

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question they also discussed how nasa

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astronauts will continue to travel and

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the annual agency honor awards ceremony

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and facilities across the country who've

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nasa mission and america's space program

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a total of 88 awards were presented

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the smithsonian's national air and space

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museum in washington was the scene of a

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special celebration noting the 50th

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anniversary of the first nuclear space

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power generator that produced 2.7 watts

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of electrical power as well as other

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nuclear-powered missions undertaken by

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diving like a bird of prey a nasa dryden

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fa 18 has been putting the landing radar

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the aircraft carried an experimental pod

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laboratory the mars science laboratory

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hundreds of fourth through sixth grade

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students from the california high desert

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communities of mojave and california

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city recently participated in the

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seventh annual intermediate space

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challenge rocket contest at the mojave

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the challenge introduced science

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the hands-on experience of building and

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21 classroom teams from mojave and

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hacienda elementary schools built their

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own rockets wrote essays and cheered in

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youthful exuberance as their rockets

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nasa dryden flight research center's

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since 2005 about a thousand students

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have participated in the annual events

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competing against their individual

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grades for the grand prize a traveling

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and that's this week at nasa