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this week at nasa

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just like with hurricane irene nasa eyes

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in the sky have helped keep tabs on the

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progress of katya the latest storm on

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the radar of weather watchers

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making the first of its multiple

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international space station's external

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nasa satellites and animators have also

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provided a wealth of imagery to keep

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scientists and the public informed about

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katya's path and his potential for

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nasa's npp the prototype for the next

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generation of earth observing satellites

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has been delivered to vandenberg air

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npp for national polar orbiting

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we'll look at the entire globe once a

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its five scientific instruments will

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data from the satellite will support

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long-term monitoring of climate trends

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and global change studies

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npp will also assist in life-saving

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to natural disasters there are a lot of

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changes happening in our atmosphere the

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npp satellite will continue

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how our atmosphere and the planet are

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changing npp is scheduled to launch from

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the federal aviation administration has

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granted orbital sciences corporation a

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license to launch a nasa cots program

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demonstration flight to the

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international space station early next

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year the commercial orbital

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transportation services demo will have

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carrying an operational cygnus cargo

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logistics spacecraft

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the unpiloted craft will rendezvous with

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and operate near the iss before it's

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the 2011 mission of nasa's desert

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research and technology studies analog

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program is underway

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the two-week series of simulated human

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and robotic space exploration activities

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is again being held on extreme terrain

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some 40 miles north of flagstaff arizona

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this year the desert rat team is

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investigating and developing realistic

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technical and mission-driven operations

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similar to that of an asteroid mission

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a near-earth asteroid is one destination

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nasa is considering for future

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initial work at its new location by

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nasa's mars rover opportunity shows key

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robot conducted in its first seven and a

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opportunity arrived at endeavour crater

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the first rock it examined is tisdale 2

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a flat topped footstool size object

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we've driven up to it we've put the

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instruments on it we've taken

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microscopic images of it which show that

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it was unearthed by an impact that dug a

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tennis court-sized crater right into

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endeavour's rim this is kind of like

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starting a whole new mission we drove

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off the plains of mourinho where we've

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been for the last seven years onto

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something that looks totally different

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opportunity is in the eighth year of its

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90-day mission

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the physics professor came up to me in

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lab one day and he said you know i

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usually try to convince women not to go

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into physics but i think maybe you might

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make it celebrated astrophysicist nancy

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grace roman has a new nasa fellowship

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named in her honor the nancy grace roman

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technology fellowship in astrophysics

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will help early career researchers

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develop new technologies for

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investigating the origin and physics of

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the universe as well as the skills

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necessary to lead future astrophysics

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projects and exoplanet explorations i

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had left teaching which i enjoyed and i

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wasn't sure i wanted to leave research

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but i finally decided that the challenge

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of starting with a completely clean

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slate

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and mapping out a program that i thought

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would influence astronomy for 50 years

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was just more than i could

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turn down roman who was appointed nasa's

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first chief of astronomy in 1959

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is widely regarded as the mother of the

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hubble space telescope for her role in

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its creation and development three

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discovery with the hubble space

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telescope our window on the universe

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when the telescope was first launched

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and we had the poor images and at the

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adaptive optics was becoming usable on

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i wondered had i really oversold

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since retiring from nasa in 1979

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roman spends much of her time consulting

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teaching and lecturing across the

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country as a passionate advocate for

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science the first selection of the nancy

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grace roman fellows will be announced

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still images captured over a 14-year

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period by the hubble space telescope

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have been transformed into movies that

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show new details about how stars are

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strung together the high-resolution

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hubble images taken in 1994 97 and 2007

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show energetic jets of glowing gas

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ejected from two young stars

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in turn scientists are now performing

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laser experiments to recreate in the

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laboratory how these stellar jets

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interact with their surroundings we have

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a small tube a few millimeters across

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with a little washer on the end and we

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one side of the washer and that

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basically squirts plasma or very high

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temperature gas into the tube so the

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material in the washer becomes the jet

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and the material in the tube becomes the

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cloud scientists believe that

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understanding how stars form can tell us

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more about the origins of life here on

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the johnson space center hosted almost 8

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000 employees in a celebration of nasa's

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30-year space shuttle program thanks

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very much it's a it's a big night the

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salute r shuttle event included comments

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from administrator charlie bolden

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johnson center director mike coats and

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other agency leaders who thanked the

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employees for their work on the shuttle

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and underscored the importance of future

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programs such as the commercial orbital

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the program also included a t-38 flyover

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and a special retirement ceremony for

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each of the five space shuttle orbiter

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flags that had flown in front of jsc

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during their respective missions

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the event included a kids zone food

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tours of jsc facilities and a concert by

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several bands including five for

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and that's this week at nasa for more on