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it was the 38th and final time discovery

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an incredible space program there's so

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much the shuttle program has done and i

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that personal appreciation of it after a

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series of flyovers the sca and the most

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prolific space shuttle in history made a

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international airport in advance of its

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northern virginia to those who say our

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reminisce about the past and that is of

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that created them have only just begun

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nasa thank you good morning this is uh

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mark caro for aviation week and three of

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the six crew members living aboard the

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questions from reporters during a news

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expedition 30 commander dan burbank and

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flight engineers don pettit and european

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space agency astronaut andre kuipers

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discussed the multitude of activity

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taking place on board the orbiting

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laboratory dr pettit you'll be the one

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talk about the importance of this

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from capture to ultimately birthing it

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the node nader port burbank along with

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cosmonauts anton shkaplerov and anatoly

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when the soyuz spacecraft are scheduled

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in houston the national space biomedical

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research institute and baylor college of

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medicine's center for space medicine

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laboratory that examines the health

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the new facility open with support from

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significantly more than the sum of their

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their findings down to earth and into

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hospitals and homes

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some of the research that was on display

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we see you know a number of clear

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spin-offs on earth here that we're eager

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to pursue as well we choose to go to the

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moon in this decade and do the other

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thing the new research center is located

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stadium where president kennedy

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on hand for the opening were leadership

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from rice university baylor college of

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medicine the city of houston and u.s

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center and the national park service

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the extreme conditions of california's

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death valley are helping nasa 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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and yubihebi crater where scientists can

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plan crater exploration for missions

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he traveled more than 65 million miles

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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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training since last september to become

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he's the first astronaut certified to

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experience here share my living on board

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year four student teams were selected to

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for its robot repair unit known

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three areas which are the women-owned

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and service disabled veteran small

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businesses so administrator bolden asked

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40 years ago on april 16 1972

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space center crewed by commander john

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about 211 pounds of lunar samples that

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safely in the south pacific

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