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base shuttle discovery is now at the

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special multi-day welcome discovery

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celebration at the facility highlighted

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by a special one-hour telecast on NASA

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TV today we turn discovery over to the

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Smithsonian with great expectation that

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as we have always done NASA will

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continue to expire the young people of

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today and tomorrow to dream of space to

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dream of uncovering the secrets of the

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universe and take steps to pursue the

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careers that will make them the

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exploration leaders of tomorrow here's a

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look at the precise process of getting

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the orbiter from NASA's Kennedy Space

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Center in Florida to her new and

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I'm not going to lie to you feeling a

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know watching somebody leave home space

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shuttle discovery began a new mission

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center outside Washington DC discoveries

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shuttle with an aerodynamic tail cone

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over its three main engines was rolled

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facility where NASA's shuttle carrier

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waiting technicians who had prepped

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country ferry flights once again took

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their station inside the main teammate

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device at Kennedy to carefully hoist the

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83 ton discovery and place it gently on

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the 747 the combination was pushed away

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appreciation for employees and NASA

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officials who came out to see the

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astronauts of discoveries last mission

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shuttles departure this has been

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discoveries home for a long time and but

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i think this Smithsonian's going to take

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beautiful care of her as well so I look

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seeing seeing her on display space

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their performances and even flying

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astronauts once you get over the shock

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of realizing that it's going away for

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work how does that fly we're doing a

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series of flyovers starting here at

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Kennedy and we're doing one in

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Washington DC and we want to do the best

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job that we can so a lot of flood of

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eyes watching us on this delivery and

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did not disappoint providing the

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with a series of flyovers giving young

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and old one last look at discovery in

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flight the SCA then brought the most

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prolific Space Shuttle in history back

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induction into the Smithsonian for NASA

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shining example of past successes that

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will help the agency continue to build

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President Obama has set us on a course

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that will tap into the innovative spirit

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humans first to an asteroid and then on

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to Mars carrying these astronauts to

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vehicle used in the pad abort one test

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of Orion's launch abort system was among

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many NASA items and exhibits displayed

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at inver ozzy for the welcome discovery

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celebration the first space bound Orien

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capsule is scheduled for an uncrewed

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test in 2014 that will see it travel

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critical pre-launch process of rolling

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path on terry's is being developed to

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transportation services program or cuts

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Station NASA Chief Technologist Mason

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Peck visited the Glenn Research Center

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technology efforts among the facilities

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toward was a lab where researchers are

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aerogels for use in space and here on

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for a working lunch to share details of

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their research and development efforts

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little while is a little bit about who

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we are and where we are at NASA and

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Colorado Springs the event held at the

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broadmoor hotel has brought together

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discuss and address the future of space

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titled space agency leaders the

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imperative of global collaboration NASA

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space program is truly a collaborative

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become widely known as the premier u.s.

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space policy and program forum and the

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team from Petra Mikado high school in

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the high school division and racers from

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the university of alabama in huntsville

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trophy the winning teams out raised more

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have an opportunity to meet students

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Flight Center the race challenges

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engineering challenges dealt with by

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winning teams post the fastest vehicle

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divisions with the fewest on course

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penalties the race is inspired by the

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original lunar rover first piloted

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missions it's wonderful it's nice being

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to them and compete competitions always

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