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this week at nasa

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i'm standing by for the contact poppy

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and docking confirmed nasa astronaut dan

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burbank and russian cosmonauts anton

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shkaplerov and anatoly ivanishin are

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settling into their new accommodations

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aboard the international space station

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their soyuz spacecraft docked with the

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orbiting laboratory about 48 hours after

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its launch from the baikonur cosmodrome

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in kazakhstan joining them with their

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fellow expedition 29 members commander

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mike fossum and flight engineers satoshi

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furukawa and sergey valka

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those three iss residents are scheduled

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to return to earth on november 21st

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scheduled to launch to the station

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december 21st as expedition 30 flight

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engineers are nasa astronaut don pettit

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russian cosmonaut oleg kononenko and

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european space agency astronaut andre

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gentlemen

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heroes or not

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your acts were heroic and today we add

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you to the many honors with two-year

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many honors with respect and gratitude

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the congressional gold medal

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the gold medal congress's highest

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expression of national appreciation for

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distinguished achievements and

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contributions was presented to four

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storied nasa astronauts

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john glenn

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neil armstrong

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michael collins and buzz aldrin

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the capitol hill awards ceremony was

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hosted by house and senate leaders of

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both parties thank you all very very

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we must consider ourselves among the

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most fortunate of all generations for we

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have lived at a time

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when the dream became a reality

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when we finally could travel above the

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atmosphere around the earth

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where we could establish laboratories in

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and do research

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and for the very first time in history

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other than earth

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as neil and buzz and mike made their

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the message they left on the lunar

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could be said of all our manned space

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travels

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we came in peace for all mankind glenn

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was the first american to orbit the

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earth achieving the feat on board

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friendship seven on february 20th 1962.

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on july 20th 1969

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armstrong and aldrin became the first

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humans to set foot on the moon

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while collins piloted apollo 11's

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command module congressional gold medals

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have been presented

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for aviation and rocketry achievements

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for achievements in space flight

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the apollo 11 crew is

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honored

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to receive the congressional gold medal

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and accept

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on behalf

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of our fellow apollo teammates

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all those who played a role in expanding

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the human presence

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outward from earth

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and all those who played a role

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in expanding human knowledge of the

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solar system

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and beyond

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we thank the congress

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these are exciting times here at nasa

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and this is an especially exciting day

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administrator and former astronaut

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charlie bolden helped roll out nasa's

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new online application process for its

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next class of astronauts the class of

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candidates who for the first time will

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apply for the exciting opportunity

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through the federal government's

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website you will be able to read about

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the nasa mission learn a little bit

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about what it means to be an astronaut

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and what the qualifications for the

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flight crew operations director janet

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cavandi and five members of the recently

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graduated 2009 astronaut class

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participated in the announcement you

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know we're excited because the bringing

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on a new nasa class means a couple of

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things we've got more people to work

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with us to travel to and from the

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international space station we've got

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new commercial vehicles coming online

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the class of 2009 was the first to

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graduate astronauts who fly in nasa's

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new era of space flight aboard

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commercial craft to the international

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space station and nasa spacecraft on

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missions of exploration beyond low earth

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we're excited about europa because it

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represents a place that's somehow alien

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and yet strangely familiar and may be a

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there's existence of life in the solar

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system today data from a previous nasa

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planetary mission galileo have provided

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scientists evidence of what appears to

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be a body of liquid water just beneath

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the icy surface of jupiter's moon europa

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the data suggests that not only is the

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volume of this european subsurface ocean

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similar to that of the north american

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great lakes but also that there is

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significant exchange between the moon's

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could view europa as something like a

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great big battery it's stored energy and

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the question has been whether or not

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that stored energy is actually available

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for life on europa launched by space

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shuttle atlantis in 1989 to the most

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nasa's galileo spacecraft has produced

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numerous discoveries about jupiter

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and provided scientists decades worth of

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a space launch system industry day gave

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potential sls suppliers a look into the

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technological capabilities at host

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michoud assembly facility the event

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featured a tour of the main

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manufacturing building at maf that

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facility executives provided insight as

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to how michoud and its commercial

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suppliers can help in the coordination

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nasa's next rocket system to take

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the directors of seven nasa centers

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visited several centers including here

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at marshall to talk about their shared

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vision for the agency's future and take

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questions from the workforce

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all stressed the importance of nasa's

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partnerships and the need for further

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relationships inside and outside the

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among the other centers visited was the

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glenn research center where the group

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again touted the importance of working

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goals for science engineering and space

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the kennedy space center hosted the

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latest launch forum aimed at identifying

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this three-day event provided 10

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international participants with a stage

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to highlight their innovations for

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launch is an ongoing initiative whose

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founding partners are nasa usaid nike

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launch energy was the third forum in the

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johnson space center's contractors

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environmental partnership hosted its

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fifth electronic waste recycling and

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document shredding event to celebrate

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texas recycles day in 2011.

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jsc's electronic collection events are a

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community service and part of a

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sustainability in and around nasa there

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are no limits set on the number of items

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an additional service this time you can

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recycled and shredded as well

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nasa's wallops flight facility honored

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the national disability employment

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awareness month by inviting 15 high

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school students and educators to tour

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the facility and learn about potential

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career opportunities most of them are in

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do a little career awareness with them

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and give them that experience the

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students participated in tours of

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technical areas including the balloon

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planning lab in each case presenters

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intriguing i think everybody should just

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come and check out and see really what

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running 13 years ago on november 20th

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