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this week at nasa

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all three engines up and burning

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zero and lift off the final liftoff of

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atlantis on the shoulders of the space

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shuttle america will continue the dream

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spain shuttle atlantis lifted off from

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launch pad 39a at the kennedy space

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center on july 8th to begin

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sts-135 the final mission of nasa's

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space shuttle program we got to witness

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something really really special and

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something really amazing the shuttle

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program has been truly phenomenal and i

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take great pride in this team and and

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thank them for all they've done

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we still got a a lot to do before it's

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over and they're going to be doing some

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a lot of work on orbit and then we're

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going to we're going to bring them home

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safe and i'm looking forward to that

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landing back here at the cape the

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atlantis crew of commander chris

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ferguson pilot doug hurley and mission

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specialists sandy magnus and rex walheim

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is delivering cargo and supplies to the

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international space station that are

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crucial for its post shuttle operation

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the mplm will have about fifteen

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thousand pounds of cargo inside it and

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will hold about another eight thousand

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pounds of cargo we have a lot of

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clothing a lot of food

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to the tune of about 4 000 pounds and of

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to be self-sustaining for up to a year

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officially designated ov or orbital

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vehicle 104 atlantis began its maiden

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voyage on october 3rd 1985.

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sts-51j was a four-day mission that took

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into space a classified department of

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defense payload when this flight is in

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the history books atlantis will have

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flown 33 of the space shuttle program's

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135 missions

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scientists analyzing data from nasa's

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cassini spacecraft now have the first

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ever up-close details of a saturn storm

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that's eight times the surface area of

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earth the storm that's been raging since

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cassini's first detected it on december

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5th 2010 wraps around the entire planet

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covering approximately 1.5 billion

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square miles the storm is about 500

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times larger than the biggest storm

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previously seen by cassini and its rate

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of lightning flashes is 10 times more

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frequent than any other storm monitored

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since cassini's arrival at saturn in

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nasa's largest supercomputer pleiades

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has been ranked seventh fastest in the

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world

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named for the prominent pleiades star

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cluster in the night sky the

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supercomputer can theoretically perform

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approximately 1.32 quadrillion

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calculations per second yet has a simple

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interface compatible with standard

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desktop engineering workstations and

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nasa desktop computers

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located at the ames research center more

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than a thousand active users around the

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country rely on pleiades to help advance

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our knowledge of the earth solar system

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and the universe the ranking was

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announced at the 26th international

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supercomputing conference in hamburg

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and now centerpieces

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launched a u.s air force minotaur 1

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rocket carrying the department of

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defense's operationally responsive space

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office's ors-1 satellite june 29th from

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the range at wallops flight facility in

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the mid-atlantic regional spaceport in

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virginia the ors-1 satellite is

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significant because it's the first

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completely dod department of defense

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owned and operated satellite rapidly

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developing and fielding ors-1 is an

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important step to demonstrate the

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capability to meet emerging and

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persistent warfighter needs on

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operationally relevant timelines you can

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imagine that if you were deployed out in

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some very remote part of the world

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not knowing what was over the next

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a satellite like or s1 will actually

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allow them to understand what is over

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that ridge line

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and both good and bad the minotaur 1

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rocket is a four-stage vehicle that

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stands about 70 feet tall and 5 feet

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wide the launch vehicle tonight is

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provided by orbital sciences corporation

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this is a minotaur one launch vehicle

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the first and second stages are left

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over and retrofitted icbm motors the

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upper two stages are commercial motors

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the operationally responsive space

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office and department of defense

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dedicated this launch to the medal of

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honor winners from the u.s central

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nearly 90 students from minority serving

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institutions and community colleges

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around the country visited johnson space

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center to participate in the reduced

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gravity education flight program

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participants were selected to design

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build and fly experiments on board an

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aircraft that flies parabolic arcs to

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simulate microgravity

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this program ties right into nasa's goal

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of preparing students for jobs and stem

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careers by allowing them to take their

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own research all the way from the

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proposal design construction and testing

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phase of parabolic flight we treat them

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just like nasa researchers

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the flight week for minority and

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community college students was designed

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to inspire students from

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underrepresented and underserved

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populations to pursue careers in science

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technology engineering and math

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the flight really provides him an

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opportunity to realize that yeah i can

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i see other people who look like me and

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talk like me are doing this

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it's exhausting but it's also

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extraordinarily intellectually

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stimulating i think when you can feel

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see and touch something it makes that

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much more real rather than just reading

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about it in a book

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in addition to science engineering and

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research skills the students also honed

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other abilities the most important thing

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i've learned from this experience is

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about teamwork

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jsc's education office will host student

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and teacher groups during several other

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reduced gravity flight weeks this summer

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it was awesome it was the word of the

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day it was the best experience of my

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life and i don't think anything could

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the astronomical science and education

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programs of the stratospheric

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sophia were the focus of a media day at

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the dryden aircraft operations facility

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numerous speakers detail the sofia

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educational outreach activities to

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in addition two of the first six

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teachers who flew aboard the sofia as

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ambassadors program during a recent

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mission share their experiences with

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reporters and other attendees this has

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been a huge privilege it's been a huge

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gift

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it's been way up there with one of the

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navy captain and nasa astronaut barry

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butch wilborn astronaut butch wilmore

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appeared at nasa night at the gladiators

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cleveland's arena football league team

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wilmore participated in on-field

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activities at quicken loans arena that

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included the game's official coin toss a

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half-time demonstration by the great

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lakes science center and a post-game

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autograph session

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and that's this week at nasa for more on