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this week at nasa

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landing here down and locked

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after more than 30 years nasa's shuttle

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era has come to a close atlantis made a

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picture-perfect pre-dawn landing at the

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kennedy space center during sts-135's

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200th orbit of earth mission complete

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houston after serving the world for over

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30 years the space shuttle's earned its

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place in history

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and come to a final stop

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brought safely home after 13 days of

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stocking up the international space

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station for the post shuttle era was the

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sts-135 crew commander chris ferguson

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pilot doug hurley and mission

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specialists sandy magnus and rex walheim

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it's a great day to be here and to

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welcome the sts-135 crew back home

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i personally want to salute them and

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everybody who's been involved in this

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program although we got to take the ride

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we sure hope that everybody

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who has ever worked

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or touched or looked at or envied or

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was able to take just a little part of

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the journey with us in all atlantis made

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4848 orbits of its home planet

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throughout 307 days in space the orbiter

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traveled almost 5.3 million miles over

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33 flights as i stood out on the runway

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and stared at it i looked at this winged

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vehicle and i thought about all the

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systems and when they were designed back

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in the 70s and it was a true marvel

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hearing the sonic booms

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as atlantis came home for the last time

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really made it drive home to me that

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that this has been a heck of a program

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everybody feels good that we got the

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crew home safely and we're looking

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forward to our next challenges

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after being towed from the runway

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atlantis was parked outside orbiter

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while workers walked around and

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you guys rock thanks for all that you do

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uh all that you've done over the last 30

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plus years uh you know the astronaut

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office is uh indebted to you all we've

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seen you firsthand at how you process

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this vehicle and how it is your baby

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the space flight business really does

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run in our blood the pride you take in

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your work the care you take in your work

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the dedication the passion you are what

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makes it possible for us to have these

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very challenging missions and succeed

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this was also the setting for an

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employee appreciation event

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hosted by two former shuttle astronauts

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nasa administrator charlie bolden and

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kennedy center director bob cabana we

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got a lot to celebrate today an

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outstanding mission

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a successful program for 30 years

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but you know in the end the space

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makes nasa what makes ksc

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is each and every one of you

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this final shuttle flight makes the end

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of an era

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but also the start of a remarkable new

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chapter in our nation's story of

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exploration with 135 missions flown over

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30 plus years the iconic shuttle nasa's

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space transportation system has left a

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legacy worthy of celebration

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lessons learned during these past

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decades will serve as stepping stones

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for the new era of human space

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while shuttle atlantis is de-serviced in

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opf-2 orbiter discovery will reside in

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it was recently shuttled there from opf

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ii discoveries being prepared for public

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display at the smithsonian's national

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its last mission was sts-133

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administrator charles bolden helped kick

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off take your children to work day at

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headquarters

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geared toward children ages 7 to 15

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the event featured hands-on activities

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presentations and demonstrations to

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teach children about space aeronautics

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chemistry and the work we do at nasa so

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you can go back and say this is what

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they do

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and if you want to see something back go

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to the nasa website go to www.nasa.gov

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my first job

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out of college was working for none

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other than john h glenn deputy

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administrator laurie garver joined

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center director ray lugo in officiating

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at the glenn research center's annual

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honor awards ceremony

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the awards were presented to individuals

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who've made significant contributions to

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but i was i grew up in cold war while at

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glenn garver also sat down with 25 high

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school and college interns from three

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programs that offer support and

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direction for young men and women to

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undertake nasa careers after furthering

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their education in science technology

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engineering and math

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rising high school seniors from around

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summer at nasa langley planning a

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mission to mars it takes all kinds of

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things to make that mission successful

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the virginia aerospace science and

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technology scholars also known as vast

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participated in an online program during

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the school year and more than 100

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students were given the opportunity to

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attend a week-long academy to heighten

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their interest in science technology

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engineering and math trl is nine

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vast is the result of a partnership

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between the virginia space grant

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consortium and nasa langley once it

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comes time to really start

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broken down into four teams that worked

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together to plan the mission to mars the

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teams were getting there

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during the week students had the

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opportunity to hear from astronaut roger

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working here at langley i worked on heat

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shield materials and then i worked on

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electronic materials and then i worked

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different kinds of experiments that

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between researching and team meetings

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students participated in an activity to

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simulate communication in space by

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river must follow instructions from the

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rest of the team acting as a mission

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control from another room they also

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worked on their robotic skills having to

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assemble and program their very own

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for our habitat we decided to use a

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single joint airlock at the end of the

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week the students presented their final

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mission to a panel of experts the isru

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systems would be initially used to

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international space station program

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office at the johnson space center

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to highlight the unique research

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opportunities offered by the world's

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held in cleveland at the great lakes

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science center this destination station

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forum noted the accomplishments of the

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iss national laboratory and promoted

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academic and government research and

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at 9 34 a.m eastern daylight time forty

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years ago astronauts dave scott jim

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kennedy space center headed into lunar

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it was the fourth mission to land humans

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on the moon and featured the first deep

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space eva executed by worden

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the voyage also saw the first flight of

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the lunar roving vehicle which

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astronauts used to explore the geology

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the lrv allowed apollo 15 16 and 17

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and that's this week at nasa for more on