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this week at nasa

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ladies and gentlemen you are in for a

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treat nasa television helped observe the

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last transit of venus we'll see here on

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earth until 2117

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by showcasing live streaming websites

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the world over including observations

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made by scientists in central australia

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there are just a few clouds in the sky

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and we are set up for absolutely

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gorgeous first and second contact and by

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the nasa edge team stationed atop the

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mauna kea observatory in hawaii

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until i put my blinders down yes and now

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well of course now i can't see anything

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scientists at nasa headquarters also

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provided information and insight about

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this rare yet predictable celestial

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phenomenon that has captivated humankind

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for millennia from a perspective of

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system here's an occurrence like an

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eclipse that's very rare and of course

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it attracts our natural interest in

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looking at these

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wondering objects and where they go and

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in this case venus is going to cross in

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front of the sun if i could actually

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transit of earth as seen from mars

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and nasa helped provide some unique

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images this is how the transit appeared

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to astronaut don pettit from his vantage

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point on board the international space

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station and nasa's solar dynamics

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observatory captured the entire transit

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in stunning greater than hd resolution

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several nasa centers hosted public

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research center close to 6 000 people

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ask questions of kepler mission and

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no matter where they were those who

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witnessed the transit were treated to a

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hi i'm gay ye hill at nasa's jet

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california about a half dozen of our

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personal telescopes equipped with solar

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share this once in a lifetime event with

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some of their co-workers and also people

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who live in the neighborhood i saw the

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sun but i saw this tiny black dot

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but then i looked closer and then i saw

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the tiny black dog and i knew that was

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venus what surprised me about it most

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was the fact that i guess that i was

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able to see in my lifetime what are you

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going to do tell your grandkids about

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this assuming i have any it's really

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cool you can see it through and and this

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if and if you can look closely there's

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like a really really extremely tiny

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black dot which is venus if you missed

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this one that's okay there's another one

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coming unfortunately it's a hundred and

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five years away so you can understand

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why these kids are stoked that they just

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witnessed something that happens just

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as nasa joined the world to witness the

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officials at the glenn research center

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hosted media representatives to learn

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about and see some of the capabilities

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developed to pave the way for future

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concepts some of which involve flying in

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glenn researchers summarized glenn's

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capabilities for future venus missions

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and gave a briefing on what a venus

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rover could look like they also talked

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about their excitement in observing the

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venus transit and working with

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scientists around the world to better

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capabilities reporters also toured

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largest of its kind in the world this

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extreme environments rig it can handle

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space shuttle enterprise concluded its

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voyage when nasa's first space shuttle

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made its much anticipated arrival that

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way of barge on the hudson river to its

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new home the intrepid sea air and space

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enterprise will be on exhibit to the

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public beginning july 19 in a temporary

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intrepid continues work on a permanent

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exhibit facility to showcase enterprise

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and enhance the museum's space-related

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exhibits and education curriculum

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to celebrate 100 years of the girl

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scouts nasa helped the organization rock

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the national mall by hosting an event at

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scouts were treated to an engaging

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program that included hands-on

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activities to learn about aeronautics

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they also learned about nasa's missions

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and careers from special guests that

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included former nasa astronauts heidi

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maurice definition piper and pam melroy

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garver the organization the girl scouts

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strives to teach girls self-reliance and

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resourcefulness it also encourages girls

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to seek fulfillment in the professional

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world and to become active citizens in

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their communities in my experience there

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are no better skills than those to

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the future it was great talking to a

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group of girl scouts telling them all

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about the things the neat stuff he can

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this long tube shape may not look like a

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experiment developed at nasa's langley

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that was much to the relief of the

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engineers who thoroughly checked the

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now the team can only hope everything

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works just as flawlessly later this year

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and continue to study your math and

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science because one day we're going to

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huntsville mayor tommy battle's book

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of station inspired living in space

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jack fisher talked with students about

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the work being done together by nasa and

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the nasa family mourns the passing of

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ray bradbury one of our era's greatest

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the future mankind depends upon space

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bind ourselves together into one single

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race one color and go into space and

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mariner 5 shed new light on the hot

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cloud-covered planet and on conditions

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in interplanetary space

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its operations ended in november of

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1967.

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mariner 5 remains in orbit around the

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sun

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and that's this week at nasa

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