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taking off from the Dryden Flight

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orbiters to its final resting place its

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where the SCA flight crew would work

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with que se crews to prepare discovery

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for its ferry flight atop the modified

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smithsonian national air and space

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important event for NASA and for the

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Smithsonian for the country and so we're

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trying to do the best job that we can

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for the delivery for me to actually fly

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maintenance guys the other flight

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engineers I think it's special while a

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mate d mate device or MDD is used at

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kennedy to lift the orbiter for mounting

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to the SCA no such device exists at

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Dulles International Airport the ferry

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flights destination there the process of

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safely lifting discovery off the SCA

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used in more than 20 years que se crews

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rehearsed the left for weeks NASA 905

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has piggybacked space shuttles

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enterprise endeavour and discovery more

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than a hundred times since it was

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acquired by the agency from american

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airlines in 1974 following delivery of

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discovery NASA 905 will ferry enterprise

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from would bar has e to the intrepid

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museum in new york city endeavour is

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scheduled to be similarly moved to the

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california science center in los angeles

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later this year the second of NASA's

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recently retired at the Dryden Flight

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but thank you good morning this is a

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marker Oh for aviation week and Sperry

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of the six crew members living aboard

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the International Space Station fielded

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questions from reporters during a news

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conference shown live on as a television

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and streamed on the agency's website

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expedition 30 commander dan burbank and

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flight engineers Don Pettit and European

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discuss the multitude of activity taking

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place onboard the orbiting laboratory

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dr. petty you'll be the one reeling in

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the Dragon capsule talk about the

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importance of this inaugural commercial

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cargo run andre and i will be doing this

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task and we'll be sharing the robotics

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duties for flying the arm from capture

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to ultimately birthing it on to the node

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when the soyuz spacecraft they're

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Research Institute and Baylor College of

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Medicine's Center for space medicine

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held the official opening of a new

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laboratory that examines the health

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risks associated with spaceflight the

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new facility opened with support from

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government private companies and

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universities and it allows them to work

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human body and how it reacts to space

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the possibilities of dedicated

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researchers and scientists working with

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industry government and academia to

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achieve significantly more than the sum

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of their parts these scientists are not

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only creating experiments that will fly

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their findings down to earth and in the

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hospitals and homes some of the research

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that was on display included experiments

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that look at how the bones in the human

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body can be strengthened through

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exercise diet and medication how kidney

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stones can be detected and moved using

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an ultrasound rather than surgery and

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how an MRI machine which normally takes

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up an entire hospital room can be put in

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the palm of your hand it's very exciting

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to work on it to be honest you know a

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lot of lot of groups that I have worked

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with in the past mets most fun working

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with NASA was thinking about this

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contributing to the space program and

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any sort

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the goal is to develop it for NASA but a

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number of spin-offs on earth here though

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that were eager to pursue it well we

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choose to go to the moon in this decade

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and do the other thing the new research

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center is located directly across the

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street from rice stadium where President

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Kennedy delivered his famous moon speech

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in 1962 on hand for the opening were

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leadership from Rice University Baylor

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College of Medicine the city of Houston

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representatives from the Ames Research

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Center and the National Park Service

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gave the public an up-close look at how

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the extreme conditions of California's

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Death Valley are helping assaf prepare

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for surface exploration of Mars the

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first ever Mars and the Mojave festival

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featured geology and mini rover

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demonstrations a scale model of the Mars

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guided tours of areas whose topography

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and characteristics make them ideal

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research sites for equipment testing and

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evaluation in a Mars like environment

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among these sites is Badwater Basin the

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States where specially adapted microbial

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deposits Mars Hill which mimics the

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boulder-strewn Martian surface first

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and UVB crater where scientists can plan

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crater exploration for missions like MSL

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he traveled more than 65 million miles

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around the planet while living aboard

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the International Space Station for 161

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days but a new journey has led astronaut

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flight engineer and NASA science officer

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is now learning what things are like

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from the ground up literally creamer has

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been training since last September to

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Marshall he's the first astronaut

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certified to lead the team that

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coordinates real-time science operations

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between the crews on orbit the Johnson

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focus that it might be a nice marriage

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to bring that operational experience

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to be able to be the liaison and help

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both in the payload management as well

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as the liaison communications between

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competition in microgravity is underway

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at the Glenn Research Center in

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Cleveland Ohio this year for student

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teams were selected to develop an

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experiment for a NASA drop in the

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control room of the 2.2 second drop

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tower the 79 foot tower gets its name

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because when an experiment is dropped

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world uses tower to study the effects of

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microgravity on physical phenomena such

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as combustion and fluid dynamics and to

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competition for high school students in

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the 9th through 12th grades and open to

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student teams from all 50 states working

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intimidating because these are our

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heroes like this is what we want to do

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older dine is part of NASA's education

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program the program allows the agency to

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continuous work around the country to

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inspire engage and educate the next

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why employees at the Michoud assembly

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facility held a ribbon-cutting ceremony

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for its robot repair unit known

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affectionately as our to the mobile

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machine shop is dedicated to helping

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teams competing in FIRST Robotics events

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make repairs to their robots the r2 unit

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was rolled out at the recent first Bayou

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regionals in Kenner Louisiana assisted

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by adult mentors first robotics teams of

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high school student design and build a

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robot to compete in the specific

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challenge NASA partners with first to

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promote stem based careers with the

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agency contagion play and how to get

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into different agencies the Marshall

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Space Flight Center hosted a NASA

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at the Huntsville Museum of Art more

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than 300 small companies learn the how

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to's of doing business with NASA their

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representatives also got to pitch their

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capabilities to Marshall prime

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contractors and small business

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specialists even though NASA was one of

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the only three nett agencies federal

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government agencies that achieved our

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small business goal we were unable to

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achieve our goal in three areas which

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are the women-owned small business hub

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zone small business and service disabled

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veteran small businesses so

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administrator Bolden asking you to put

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together a plan that we can do extensive

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outreach to these three communities

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there's one of three industry days that

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are planned for fy2012 this will create

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some really good networking

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opportunities and we hope to that just

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will be pay off for many of our

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women-owned small businesses you're in

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40 years ago on April sixteenth 1972

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apollo 16 launched from the kennedy

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space center crewed by Commander John

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Young lunar module pilot Charlie Duke

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and command module pilot Ken Mattingly

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it was the tenth manned mission in the

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Apollo space program the next-to-last to

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land on the moon and the first to land

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in the lunar highlands with Mattingly

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making observations from orbit young and

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Duke spent about 71 hours on the lunar

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surface the pair conducted three moon

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rocks and most notably drove the lunar

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roving bin the LRV a total of about 16

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miles the pair collected about 211

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pounds of lunar samples that return for

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them 11 days later when the Apollo 16

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capsule splashed down safely in the

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South Pacific and that's this week @nasa

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