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this week at nasa

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speaking on behalf of president obama

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nasa administrator charles bolden

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addressed celebrants at the 44th annual

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martin luther king jr commemorative

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service held at ebenezer baptist church

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in atlanta golden who has family ties in

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atlanta says the opportunity was an

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honor as i was growing up although i

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never met dr king in person my family

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members in atlanta who who knew him in

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the neighborhood and everything they

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always talked about him and what a what

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an inspirational person he was and as i

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grew up he meant a lot to me i you know

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i i read about him and i listened to him

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on television and i think i was moved

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every time i heard him speak the theme

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of this year's celebration was remember

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celebrate act

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the next three crew members of the

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international space station talked about

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their upcoming mission aboard the

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orbiting laboratory in a news conference

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from the johnson space center really the

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main reason that we're up there is to

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conduct science and now that we are at

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station complete our goal is to get the

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35 hours a week of utilization or time

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working on experiments so we plan on

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putting a lot of time into that that's

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really the main focus i'll be up there

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with don pettit who is just phenomenal

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ideas so i'm hoping i can piggyback on

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some of the things that he's doing and

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bring those back to the students that

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nasa astronaut joe acaba and russian

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cosmonauts gennady padalka and sergey

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revin will continue to train ahead of

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their scheduled march 29th launch aboard

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a soyuz spacecraft from the baikonur

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comprising expeditions 31 and 32.

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aboard the station they'll join nasa

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manager matthew ritzko was recently

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treated to a white house visit where he

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was personally congratulated by

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president obama as the winner of the

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2011 presidential securing americans

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implementation has already begun of

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ritzko's ritsco's money-saving idea to

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establish a nasa lending library for

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sharing specialized tools across the

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priceless for me making the visit to the

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white house was very humbling and it was

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something i always carry with me for the

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rest of my life i don't think many

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people have the opportunity to be in

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that kind of a situation where you're

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one-on-one with the present in the oval

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office i think it's something that's

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going to be extremely memorable for me

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and my family for a highlight of my

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exciting new findings about everything

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from the most remote galaxies in the

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universe to stars and planets right here

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in our cosmic neighborhood were

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announced at the annual meeting of the

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american astronomical society held this

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year in austin texas

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among the findings the discovery by

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nasa's hubble space telescope of the

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farthest protocluster of galaxies ever

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the cluster of five tiny galaxies is

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about 13.1 billion light years away and

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was seen as it appeared 13 billion years

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the discovery was made using hubble's

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wide field camera 3. these new images

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were captured by nasa's dawn spacecraft

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as it continues to orbit the rocky

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and collaboration between nasa's chandra

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science foundation-funded atacama

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cosmology telescope in chile has yielded

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the discovery of the largest galaxy

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cluster seen in the distant universe

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located more than 7 billion light years

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from earth the elgordo galaxy is hotter

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than any other known cluster

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this winter gathering of the aas often

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called the super bowl of astronomy

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attracts thousands of astrophysicists

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educators students and journalists from

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another of nasa's space shuttle main

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center this ssme is the third of 15

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space shuttles to orbit during the

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30-year shuttle program will be stored

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at stennis for future use on nasa's new

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heavy lift rocket the space launch

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system the sls will carry the new orion

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experiments to space providing a safe

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affordable and sustainable means of

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reaching asteroids and other

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with the slides on the screen and how

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exploration and operations was honored

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by the american institute for

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aeronautics and astronautics as the

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presenter of the von carmen lectureship

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in astronautics

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in his lecture to the aiaa's 50th

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aerospace sciences meeting in nashville

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gerstenmaier touted the international

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space station as a global outpost in

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space a platform for discovery

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the annual von carmen lectureship award

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von carmen is given by the aiaa to an

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individual who has distinguished

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nasa's james webb space telescope has

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reached another major milestone in its

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secondary mirror that will fly on the

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webb telescope have passed their final

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facility at nasa's marshall space flight

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center a 10-week test series chilled the

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engineers took extremely detailed

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measurements of how the mirror's shape

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changes as it cools cryo testing

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verifies that the mirror will respond as

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expected to the extreme temperatures of

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space this test campaign has spanned

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over three and a half years and it has

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been a tremendous effort for the team

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to work through all of the difficulties

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as they can the 2012 first robotics

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season had its national kickoff at

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southern new hampshire university in

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first for inspiration and recognition of

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science and technology is a robotics

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building competition during which teams

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students and their professional mentors

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teams around the country attended local

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events to hear what their task is this

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for their participation in the 2012

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first robotics competition high school

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center to learn about this year's robot

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to be really fun and challenging this

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think outside the box more i think it's

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amazing i think every year it gets

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harder and it challenges the students

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what they come up with first competition

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spirit of cooperation they're all

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playing a game you know with them or

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against them it's still you know you're

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all hanging out having a good time and

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not really getting mad at each other for

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anything several local teams will build

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teams from the mid-atlantic region with

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the winners moving to the nationals this

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their assignment and picked up their kit

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to do science and technology you don't

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something like that to be inside

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robotics anybody can be antibiotics if

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you like working hard and trying new

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interest in it at all this isn't an

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opportunity you should miss and there's

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alabama and tennessee received materials

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first kickoff at calhoun community

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the teams were shown the new rebound

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rumble game playing field for which

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present to stennis space center this

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plaque

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attesting to the fact that you are

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one of the very best places to work

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representatives of the partnership for

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public service visited southern

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mississippi to present director patrick

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shireman with an award citing stennis

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space center as one of the best places

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to work in the federal government a

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recent survey released by the non-profit

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nonpartisan organization once again

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placed stennis at number five of the

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best government facilities to be

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employed and among nasa's ten centers

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former nasa astronaut mae jemison the

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first african-american woman in space

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actors terence howard nate parker and

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david oyelawa were accompanied by

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director anthony hemingway who were in

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houston to promote their new movie red

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toured several of jsc's astronaut

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six years ago on january 15 2006

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the return capsule from nasa's stardust

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spacecraft landed in the utah desert

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completing its 2.9 billion mile

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round-trip journey to collect dust

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samples from the tail of comet vilda ii

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research done on these particles

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gathered from the capsule's aerial gel

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collector revealed surprises including

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the sample's closer resemblance to a

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meteorite from an asteroid than that of

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an ancient comet

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stardust is the first spacecraft to make

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it back to earth with cometary dust

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and that's this week at nasa