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this week at nasa

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nasa has finalized a cooperative

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agreement with the center for the

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advancement of science in space cases to

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manage the portion of the international

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space station that operates as a u.s

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national laboratory

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located in the space life sciences

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laboratory at the kennedy space center

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in florida the independent non-profit

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research management organization will

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help ensure the station's unique

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capabilities are available to the

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broadest possible cross-section of the

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us scientific technological and

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industrial communities it's an asset for

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science it's an asset for exploration

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it's an asset for industry it's an asset

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for our nation the world as a whole

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quite frankly we stand ready to develop

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the premier institution needed to really

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development and education initiatives

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and also to to engage the community of

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advocacy and enthusiasm that is needed

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to drive the discoveries that can't be

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zero and liftoff of the delta ii with

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grail on a journey to the center of the

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moon a delta ii rocket launched from

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cape canaveral air force station in

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florida has sent the twin grail

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spacecraft on their way to the moon

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the two spacecraft will fly in tandem

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orbits around the moon for several

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months to measure its gravity field in

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unprecedented detail from crust to core

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the mission also will answer

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long-standing questions about the moon

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and provide scientists with a better

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understanding of how earth and other

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rocky planets in the solar system formed

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i thought if this is a tweet up i

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shouldn't give a talk

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without tweeting

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among those at the cape for the grail

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launch were

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twitter followers

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these tweets were selected from more

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than 800 people who registered online to

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attend the two-day nasa tweet

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the messages that you are able to get

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out across the world

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is absolutely incredible nasa

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administrator charlie bolden headed a

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list of guest speakers the tweeps

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represented 32 states and seven foreign

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countries including australia india and

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as you can see just passing to the left

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of the view

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one of the larger plumes

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here's how those wildfires burning up

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thousands of parched acres in central

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texas look from space when external

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cameras aboard the iss first passed to

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the southeast of austin on september 6th

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the video was accompanied by comments

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from expedition 28 flight engineer mike

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fossum we're coming on just across the

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coast see houston quite clearly and it

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is a sad sight with all the fires

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burning in texas right now the station

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also continued its coverage of hurricane

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katria and other tropical storms in the

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some of the most stunning images of the

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lunar surface that i've ever seen

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nasa's lunar reconnaissance orbiter lro

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has captured the sharpest images ever

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taken from space of where three apollo

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missions were conducted on the moon's

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surface the pictures of the apollo 17

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apollo 14 and apollo 12 landing sites

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were taken while lro was in what's

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referred to as a dipping orbit where the

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spacecraft was roughly 15 miles above

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the surface they reveal the twists and

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turns of the paths made when the

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mission's six moonwalkers explored these

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areas example at the apollo 17 landing

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site we can see where the lunar rover is

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parked on the surface we can see where

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it drove around around the lunar module

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you can see the areas where the

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astronauts kicked up the dust when they

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walked around you can see some of the

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experiments that were left behind

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sitting on the surface 40 years ago you

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can see where they are still sitting

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and liftoff of the atlas v rocket with

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lro l-cross launched in june 2009 the

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lunar reconnaissance orbiter is creating

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a comprehensive atlas of the moon's

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features and resources necessary to

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design and build an outpost for human

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data gathered by nasa's solar dynamic

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observatory show that a second delayed

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wave of extreme ultraviolet radiation

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emanates from a solar flare well after

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this distinct late phase flare minutes

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to hours later has never before been

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fully observed in fact this second wave

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sometimes has more euv energy than the

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measuring only the effects of the main

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flare would have resulted in

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underestimating the amount of energy

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shooting into earth's atmosphere by 70

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understanding solar flares erupting on

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the sun can help scientists predict

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space weather that can interfere with

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communications and global positioning

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nasa's decommissioned upper atmosphere

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of space shuttle discovery on september

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it was the first multi-instrumented

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satellite to observe numerous chemicals

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in the atmosphere and how they travel

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data gathered by uars initiated

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the satellite also provided key data on

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finally nasa joins the nation and the

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world this week in remembering the

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terrorist attacks of september 11 2001.

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plans for commemorating the 10th

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anniversary included a special

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headquarters presentation featuring

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former nasa astronaut frank culbertson

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who at the time of the 2001 attacks was

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as commander of expedition 3. i realized

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our country was under attack i was

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ironically halfway through

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a tom clancy novel about a similar

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situation at the time and it almost put

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me inside the novel which was a very

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strange feeling and then once i saw it

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second tower was collapsing

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i didn't know exactly what was happening

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but i knew it was really bad because

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there was a big cloud of debris covering

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manhattan that's when it really became

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painful because it was like seeing a

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and ten years later two interplanetary

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tributes to the 9 11 victims remain on

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this image taken by the panoramic camera

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on nasa's mars exploration rover spirit

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shows an american flag on a cuff serving

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as a cable shield for the spacecraft's

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the rat on both spirit and its twin

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opportunity was manufactured by honeybee

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honeybees employees made each rover's

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cuff using aluminum recovered from the

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destroyed world trade center towers we

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felt as a team that it was important for

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us to have something on board that was

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very quiet reminder of the events of

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that year and what was going on in the

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world as we were building these rovers

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and preparing to send them to mars it

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wasn't something that we publicized a

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lot it was something really internally

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that the team wanted to do for our own

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as something that was very closely

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associated with the honeybee robotics

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folks in new york and all the effects it

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had immediately on them but on the the

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team as a whole around the world as a

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and that's this week at nasa for more on