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this week at nasa

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members of the next international space

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station crew fielded questions from the

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media at the gagarin cosmonaut training

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center in star city russia outside

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soyuz commander oleg kononenko nasa

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flight engineer don pettit and european

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space agency flight engineer andre

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kuipers also took part in traditional

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ceremonies at red square in moscow

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the trio is scheduled to launch to the

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iss later this month to join their

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expedition 30 crewmates dan burbank

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anton shkaplerov and anatoly ivanishin

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work continues on nasa's next generation

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of spacecraft that'll carry humans

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space center the j2x engine that'll help

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propel the new space launch system or

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sls underwent another successful test

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the orion multipurpose crew vehicle was

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put through the latest test of its water

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and at the kennedy space center workers

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testing at launch pad 39b on the sls's

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the mlp will be modified to host the

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that'll send astronauts to destinations

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members of maryland's congressional

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delegation senator barbara mikulski

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representative steny hoyer and

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representative donna edwards took part

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in an employee town hall meeting at the

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goddard space flight center

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those inside the building aid auditorium

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heard about the recently passed nasa

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appropriations bill and other

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legislative issues important to the

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goddard workforce being america the

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exceptional doesn't lie into the future

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it lies right here today and what you do

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technology that helped save the planet

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save the lives and also come up with

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discoveries that weren't even

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lawmakers also toured goddard's robotics

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facility and the james webb space

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nasa's office of education hosted its

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second education stakeholders summit in

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chantilly virginia outside washington

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the summit highlighted nasa's new

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one-stop shopping initiative an

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innovation in the recruitment of the

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agency's workforce of tomorrow the ossi

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infrastructure of internships

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fellowships and scholarships that

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attract students to science technology

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presenters included office of personnel

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management director john barrett and

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nasa associate administrator for

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education leland melvin who spoke of why

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it's cool to work in nasa education if

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something has to be cool about what we

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do it's the it's the people

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world so i think one of the coolest

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things that we do as an agency as when

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we have failures when things happen

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we band together as a community as a

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and we come back and we're resilient and

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we make things happen

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it's an honor to be here

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rocket leave the planet

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helping melvin tout the importance of

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inspiring our youth about stem-based

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careers was entertainer will i am of the

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musical group the black eyed peas

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an avid fan of robotics will and melvin

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were interviewed by tv stations and

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networks throughout north america when

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you think of tomorrow

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and the people that are going to be

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leading the way it's the youth that we

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have right now the celebrity singer

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rapper also joined melvin nasa

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administrator charlie bolden and deputy

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administrator lori garver in speaking

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with attendees of a tweet up during

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curiosity rover's pre-launch activities

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this electrical box built and tested at

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nasa's langley research center in

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hampton virginia is no ordinary box

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it's an interplanetary traveler hitching

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a 354 million mile ride to mars on board

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the mars science laboratory or msl which

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launched november 26th

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medley is an instrumentation system on

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the aeroshell of the mars science

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laboratory and it measures the

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temperature and the pressure

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on the aeroshell as msl flies through

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the martian atmosphere medley stands for

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it's mounted on the inside of the

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spacecraft's heat shield and will take

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accurate heat and pressure data for the

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of the last eight minutes of a trip to

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make each entry descent and landing

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system better and better so that we can

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reduce the risk of landing on mars

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save cost and get more science back

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about a hundred people at nasa langley

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have been preparing for msl and the

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model the vehicle in a computer and we

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has practiced msl's landing four million

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and nasa langley's team will continue

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those simulations almost up to the

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minute the curiosity rover lands in

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nasa scientists are joining with

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researchers from public and private

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institutions in a multi-year airborne

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campaign to study the humidity and

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experiment or atrex will be flown on a

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will focus on small changes in

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stratospheric humidity that may

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the a-trex science team recently

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onto a global hawk and verified their

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operation during several checkout

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flights from the dryden flight research

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just returns to its shape just with a

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the glenn research center recently

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high-powered science fair for the

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automobile industry

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this automotive workshop featured the

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latest gadgets and technologies geared

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to the needs of automakers and their

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local cleveland area firms displayed

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their discoveries from super light super

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strong composites and collision

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avoidance technology to no lubricant

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and please welcome our honorary captain

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for tonight's game astronaut chris

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ferguson flight commander for the last

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astronaut chris ferguson served as

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honorary captain of his hometown

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philadelphia eagles versus the chicago

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contest at lincoln financial field in

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philadelphia what's your call

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the commander of sts-135

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the city of brotherly love taken from

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space during the final space shuttle

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and that's this week at nasa for more on