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this week at nasa

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space exploration technologies or spacex

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will launch its dragon spacecraft on its

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second commercial orbital transportation

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services demonstration flight on

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february 7 2012

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pending completion of its final safety

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reviews testing and verification spacex

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might also send dragon to rendezvous

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with the international space station the

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announcement was made by nasa deputy

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administrator lori garver so it is the

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opening of that new commercial

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cargo delivery era for iss and it's

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great news for nasa and spacex together

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we have liftoff of the falcon 9. on its

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first demonstration flight a year ago

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dragon was launched from the kennedy

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space center then splashed down in the

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pacific after successfully completing

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thank you very much garver made the

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spacex announcement during her opening

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remarks to nasa's future forum at the

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museum of flight in seattle

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since 2008 future forums have brought

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together technologists scientists and

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engineers with local business science

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technology and education leaders to

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discuss the importance of innovation

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discovery commercial partnerships and

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education to the success of america's

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space program and the nation as a whole

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together we're truly developing an

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industry that until recently had been

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largely science fiction but now it

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stands poised to open the new frontier

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that next chapter in human space

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development

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at a press conference held at nasa ames

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research center the kepler team

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announced the discovery of its first

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confirmed planet in the habitable zone

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or the region around a star where liquid

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water could exist on a planet's surface

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named kepler-22b

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the planet is about 2.4 times the radius

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of the earth and orbits a sun-like star

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about 600 light years away between the

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constellations of cygnus and lyra well

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certainly the things that's most

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exciting to me is the fact that we have

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finally after looking at all these

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candidates spending all this effort that

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we could confirm a planet in a habitable

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zone that's nearly earth's size

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scientists don't know yet if kepler-22b

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has a predominantly rocky gaseous or

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liquid composition but its discovery is

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a step closer to finding earth-like

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planets the kepler team announced today

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1094 new planet candidates bringing the

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total roster up to 2300

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of those 207 are earth sized it's an

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exciting milestone because we are really

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honing in on on truly earth-sized

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habitable planets

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the announcement helped to kick off the

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beginning of the first ever kepler

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science conference just days earlier the

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kepler mission celebrated one thousand

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days of conducting science operations in

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famed astrophysicist and science

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communicator neil degrasse tyson also

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came to the event to help the team

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celebrate the milestone it's great to

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see the energy and enthusiasm

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of the workforce for kepler

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matching the magnitude of the science

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that's coming out from the telescope

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itself kepler is nasa's three and a half

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year mission to search for earth-sized

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potentially habitable planets in our

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galaxy

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just up the highway from ames in san

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francisco the announcement of another

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exciting finding at the american

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geophysical union's annual meeting

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researchers from nasa and the ohio state

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university confirmed that the major

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tsunami caused by the march 2011 tohoku

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oki earthquake in japan was in fact a

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merging tsunami caused by two wave

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fronts

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the forming of a single double high wave

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increased its intensity and ability to

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travel long distances without losing

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the odds against the nasa and european

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radar satellites observing and capturing

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the data they did of this merging

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more than 34 years after its launch

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nasa's voyager 1 spacecraft has entered

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a new region between our solar system

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and interstellar space

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data it's obtained over the last year

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suggests this new region is a kind of

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cosmic purgatory where the solar wind is

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calm our solar system's magnetic field

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piles up and higher energy particles

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appear to leak from our solar system

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into interstellar space although voyager

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it has yet to cross one major space

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faring threshold we're very close to the

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edge of interstellar space now

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unfortunately our models are not

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accurate enough to tell us how close so

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it could be a few more months or it

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could be a few more years but voyager 1

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is moving out a billion miles every

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three years so we shouldn't have too

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long to wait to find out what's outside

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expedition 30 soyuz commander oleg

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pettit and european space agency flight

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engineer andre calpers have left the

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gagarin training center in star city

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russia for the baikonur cosmodrome in

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kazakhstan where they will complete

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international space station later this

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astronaut chris ferguson the last person

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to serve as commander of a space shuttle

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mission has retired from nasa

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he plans to take a new job in the

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private sector and lift off the final

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liftoff of atlantis on the shoulders of

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the space shuttle america will continue

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the dream on sts-135 in july 2011 the

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retired u.s navy captain was the

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commander for the final flight of space

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shuttle atlantis the 135th and final

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mission of america's 30-year space

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a milestone for engineers in the j2x

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program at the stennis space center they

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recently installed the upgraded j2x

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power pack on the a1 test stand and are

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a step closer to starting new tests

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the power pack is a critical component

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of the j2x the engine that'll produce

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the 294 000 pounds of thrust needed for

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nasa's new space launch system to carry

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astronauts to destinations beyond low

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the microgravity science glovebox team

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has reason to celebrate the science

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facility aboard the international space

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station has passed 10 000 hours of

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operation the glove box developed by the

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european space agency and managed by the

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marshall space flight center launched to

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the station during expedition 5 in 2002

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microgravity research including fluid

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physics combustion science material

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physics and other investigations seeking

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to understand the role of gravity in

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the big thing about msg is containment

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the hubble space telescope has passed

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another milestone in its 21 years of

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exploration the 10 000th refereed

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science paper based on data captured by

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hubble has been published this makes the

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telescope one of the most prolific

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astronomical endeavors in history for

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the past 21 years thousands of

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astronomers around the world in over 35

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getting connected during tedx youth at

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nasa the event sponsored by nasa langley

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virginia air and space center offered 13

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to 18 year olds an evening of motivating

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speakers interactive exhibits and

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messages about creativity risk taking

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and becoming a leader it's not about who

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never falls down it's about who

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builds the skill of getting up faster in

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today's world to really be a superstar

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at tedx youth at nasa the goal was to

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get liberal arts minded students

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in the areas of science technology

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speakers they

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interesting we've got some really tough

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conference is about getting you excited

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nasa administrator charlie bolden and

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deputy administrator lori garver were on

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hand at the 2011 combined federal

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campaign carnival and silent auction at

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cfc the world's largest and most

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successful annual workplace charity

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campaign raises millions of dollars

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every year to support community

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organizations and provide aid to

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survivors of natural disasters the

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support families and folks in need and

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to raise three hundred thousand dollars

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and that's this week at nasa