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this week at nasa

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a rare view of the soyuz streaking

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towards a predawn landing expedition 29

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commander mike fossum of nasa russian

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soyuz commander sergey volkov and japan

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aerospace exploration agency flight

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engineer satoshi furukawa landed safely

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on the step of kazakhstan only hours

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after bidding farewell to the expedition

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30 crew and undocking their soyuz

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spacecraft from the international space

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station the trio completed almost six

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after the arrival of a new trio of

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residents on the station commander dan

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engineers anton shkaplerov and anatoly

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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 your

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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 john glenn

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michael collins and buzz aldrin

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the capitol hill awards ceremony was

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both parties thank you all very very

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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 when we

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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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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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we came in peace for all mankind

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glenn was the first american to orbit

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the earth achieving the feat on board

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friendship 7 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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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 the first time they have been given

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for achievements in space flight

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to receive the congressional gold medal

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and accept

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on behalf 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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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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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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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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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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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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great lakes but also that there is

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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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nasa's galileo spacecraft has produced

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numerous discoveries about jupiter and

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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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manufacturing building at maf that

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to how mishu and its commercial

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suppliers can help in the coordination

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and building of the sls nasa's next

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rocket system to take astronauts beyond

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the directors of seven nasa centers

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vision for the agency's future and take

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questions from the workforce

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partnerships and the need for further

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glenn research center where the group

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this three-day event provided 10

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to highlight their innovations for

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launch energy was the third forum in the

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environmental partnership hosted its

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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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offering an additional service this time

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nasa's wallops flight facility honored

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awareness month by inviting 15 high

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the facility and learn about potential

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potential careers in that area this is

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everybody should just come and check out

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and that's this week at nasa for more on