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This Week at NASA…

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Ebb and Flow, NASA's Gravity Recovery And
Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL spacecraft,

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have officially begun collecting science data
as they orbit the moon.

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Scientists will use the information gathered
by the twin spacecraft to produce a high-resolution

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map of the lunar gravitational field.

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That should provide unprecedented detail about
the moon's internal structure and composition,

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and lead to a better understanding of how
Earth and other rocky planets in the solar

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system formed.

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Science activities are expected to conclude
on May 29.

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Aboard the International Space Station, flame
tests continued for the Structure and Liftoff

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In Combustion Experiment, or SLICE.

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The experiment investigates the nature of
flames in microgravity.

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I’m ready to light the flame.

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The station tests have yielded stable lifted
flames, which can be simpler to model numerically.

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This research in the world’s only laboratory
in microgravity could lead to reduced pollution

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emissions and more efficient burning by a
wide variety of industries.

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So why do we need engineers.

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The things that we want to do; the technology
development that we have to do to put humans

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beyond low earth orbit, which is our ultimate
goal, require people with engineering backgrounds.

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NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden was at Georgia
Tech to help kick off STAY WITH IT, a new,

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White House initiative to attract more U.S.
college students to engineering,

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So stay with it, stay with it, stay with it.

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Along with Intel, MTV, Google and Facebook,
the online host for the announcement, the

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President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness
has forged this new public-private partnership

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through which students can learn about engineering
internships, financial support and summer

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bridge programs for entering freshmen.

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More than 65 companies have aligned with STAY
WITH IT to double their engineering internships

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this year.

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That’ll result in more than 7,000 opportunities
for hands-on, technical job experience.

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Administrator Bolden has been honored with

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a Patriot Award for his support of employees
serving in the National Guard and Reserve.

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Guard and Reserve employees or their spouses
can nominate supervisors for the Department

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of Defense honor.

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I think it’s really important for us as
an organization to recognize the talent that

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they bring and find a way to get them back
into the workforce, if they left us to go

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off to do their reserve or their national
guard time, because they bring an incredible

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wealth and breadth of talent that we’re
always searching for.

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Also receiving a Patriot Award but unable
to attend the NASA Headquarters ceremony was

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Associate Administrator for Human Exploration
and Operations, Bill Gerstenmaier.

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Accepting on his behalf was the directorate’s
John Olson.

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The Center Operations Directorate is a mission

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support organization which provides security,
procurement, logistical, and technical information,

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and external relation support to the NASA
Glenn Research Center.

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I think NASA has been a place that has given
me a wealth of opportunities.

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\hUm, I came here as a Human Resources Director,
and I learned a lot about federal employment

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because I had never worked for the federal
government before.

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\hUm, and then moving into the senior executive
candidate development program, it’s the

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first time that someone had truly invested
an enormous amount in me for me to figure

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out what it is that I wanted to do.

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And so I think that opportunity in and of
itself is just—spoke volumes about, you

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know, what is available to you here at NASA.

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A number of people have inspired me, and I
like to believe that you know I get inspiration

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daily but most often I have to think of my
grandmother and my mother who are just fabulous

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role models.

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\hBut here at NASA, I’ve met just some phenomenal
women.

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\hI had the opportunity to meet Katherine
Johnson, who is referred to by many people

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as a human computer.

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\hAnd uh, people like Christine Darden and
Crystal Johnson—people who’ve gone into

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the senior executive service before me and
have really paved the way.

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\hSo, you know, inspiration is all around
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I hope that I am inspiring the next generation

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of women managers.

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\hUm, but also inspiring students to be lifelong
learners and realize that anything is possible

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with education and hard work.

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About 150 students from 18 schools in Mississippi
and Louisiana got an inside look at the Stennis

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Space Center during a Women’s History Month
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The outing was part of the G.E.M.S.

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program, for Girls Excited about Math and
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The students were treated to activities and
workshops – including a fashion show that

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featured business attire, an introduction
to Information Technology, a cryogenics demonstration

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and details about college and career planning.

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Air Force Flight Test Center commander General
Robert Nolan and other dignitaries recently

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dedicated a street at Edwards Air Force Base
in California to honor the late NACA test

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pilot Scott Crossfield.

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Crossfield became the first pilot to reach
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the Douglas Skyrocket on Nov. 20, 1953.

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think about the sacrifices and the risk that
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Think about flying Mach 2 in the 1950s.

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And then, think about a career dedicated to
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In a related presentation, retired NASA Dryden
Flight Research Center research pilot Ed Schneider

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detailed Crossfield's contributions to the
advancement of aeronautics and flight research.

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Scott had joined NACA at a time when the United

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States was fully committed to exploring the
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speed and the altitude of manned airplanes
to numbers that were really the stuff of fiction

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in 1945.

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Crossfield later helped design the cockpit
of the famed X-15 rocket plane while employed

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by North American Aviation in the late 1950s.

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He flew the first 14 developmental demonstration
flight tests of the craft before it was turned

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over to the Air Force and NASA for the joint
X-15 hypersonic flight research program.

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He received the 1961 Harmon Trophy and the
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awards for advancements in aeronautics, from
President John F. Kennedy in White House ceremonies.

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to ever strap on an airplane.

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And perhaps I remember him best as an American
hero who always came across as an unassuming,

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well-mannered gentleman.

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It doesn’t always happen that way.

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Hey programs.

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NASA employees, family members and community
leaders recently gathered at the Space Coast

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Stadium in Viera, Fla., to celebrate Space
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Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana threw
out the first pitch before a spring training

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game between the host Washington Nationals
and the Houston Astros.

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NASA booths highlighted how agency research

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and development has contributed to sports,
transportation and everyday life.

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The public was also treated to an up-close
look at a full-scale test version of NASA’s

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new Orion spacecraft.

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Eighty-six years ago, on March 16, 1926, Robert
Goddard successfully launched the world’s

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first liquid-fuel rocket from a field in Auburn,
Massachusetts.

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Goddard continued his rocket development work
throughout the remainder of his life, achieving

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numerous milestones, and helping pave the
way for contemporary spaceflight.

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Established in 1959, the Goddard Space Flight
Center in Greenbelt, Maryland was named in

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his memory.

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And, on that same date 46 years ago, the Gemini
Titan 8 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida,

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on its way to becoming NASA’s first manned
docking mission.

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Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott docked
their capsule with an unmanned Agena target

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vehicle.

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While docked, a thruster malfunction caused
a near-fatal tumbling of the craft.

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The crew was able to stabilize the vehicle,
but used up too much fuel in the process,

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scrapping plans for a spacewalk and other
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About ten hours after launch Armstrong and
Scott made the first emergency landing of

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a manned U.S. spacecraft as Gemini 8 splashed
safely down in the western Pacific Ocean.

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Thirty years ago, on March 22, 1982, Space
Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy

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Space Center on STS-3.

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NASA's third space shuttle mission was one
of several test flights to qualify shuttle

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systems for operational flights.

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Commander Jack Lousma and Pilot C. Gordon
Fullerton tested the Canadarm Remote Manipulator

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System and gathered data on how Columbia handled
the sun’s heat in various attitudes.

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STS-3 was the only shuttle mission to land
at the White Sands Space Harbor near Las Cruces,

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New Mexico.

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And, 16 years ago, on March 22, 1996, space
shuttle Atlantis launched from the Kennedy

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Space Center on STS-76.

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It was the first flight of the SPACEHAB pressurized
module to support shuttle-Mir dockings, and

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the third linkup between the U.S. spacecraft
and the Russian space station.

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The flight delivered Shannon Lucid to Mir
to become the first American woman to live

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on station, and kick off a continuous, two-year
U.S. presence in space.

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STS-76 was commanded by Kevin Chilton; Richard
Searfoss was its pilot.

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Mission Specialists were Linda Godwin, Michael
Clifford and Ronald Sega.

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And that’s This Week @ NASA!