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this week at NASA three hour 21 concepts

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like feeding liftoff liftoff of the

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Soyuz TMA om the Russian Soyuz

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spacecraft carrying expedition 32 33

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Soyuz commander yuri malenchenko nasa

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flight engineer suni williams and flight

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engineer aki hoshide of the japan

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aerospace exploration agency heads to

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the International Space Station

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following its launch from the Baikonur

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cosmodrome in Kazakhstan 40 seconds into

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the flight Mullen chenko williams and

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hoshide a are joining up with expedition

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32 commander gennady padalka nasa

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astronaut joe acaba and cosmonaut sergei

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revin who have been on the orbiting

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outpost since May when the Curiosity

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rover sets off from its landing site

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near Gale Crater to explore the Martian

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surface the mobile Science Laboratory

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might encounter some sand dunes project

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engineers at the Jet Propulsion

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possibility by putting a test Rover

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through the paces here on earth through

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careful targeting we've been able to

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shrink the landing ellipse for curiosity

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and we've been able to move it closer to

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where we want to actually land in case

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we land and dunes that are like this on

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Mars near the landing site we want to be

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sure that the real Rover is able to

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navigate around successfully in those

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dunes and get from the point where we

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landed to the point where we really want

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to be so we come out here today with the

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curiosity scarecrow Rover which is the

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same weight on earth as the real Rover

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is on Mars to practice driving it around

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in the nearest thing to those dunes on

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Mars we're going to find here on earth

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this is similar material and similar

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slopes to the dunes that we're going to

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find in Mars so being able to test this

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Rover in these dunes gives us a good

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idea about what the performance of the

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real Rover is going to be intervenes

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that night landed on Mars still making

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performance on this Rover is actually

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fairly similar to spear an opportunity a

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little bit better we can climb in soft

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sand up to about 15 degrees or so imma

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do the world better than spirit and

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opportunity will do we are in fact right

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now maneuvering it from an area of about

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15 degrees of tilt to an area of about

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25 degrees of tilt try to explore where

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that break is in its performance our top

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speed is very slow but our acceleration

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of that top speed is pretty much

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instantaneous so so we go from a dead

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stop to write about as fast as we run to

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go pretty quickly it's really fun the

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like every once in a while kind of leave

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the office environment behind and come

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what the real Rovers are going to be

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doing on Mars it kind of connects you to

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it and reminds you that that the

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computer models we plan our far cry from

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reality this is that reality NASA's

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Cassini spacecraft has spotted a

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concentration of high-altitude haze and

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a vortex swirling in the atmosphere high

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may be coming on Saturn's largest moon

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inside the vortex is reminiscent of the

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open cellular convection often seen over

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Earth's oceans but they are at a very

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high altitude on Titan which may be a

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response of titans stratosphere to

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approaches the vortex was imaged during

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a jun 27th flyby deputy administrator

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lori garver joined glenn research center

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director ray Lugo rational leaders and

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white house representatives at Ohio's

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Cuyahoga Community College near

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Cleveland for a workshop on building the

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national network for manufacturing

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innovation Garber emphasized how

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important the nation's manufacturing

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capabilities are for NASA space

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exploration and keeping America's new

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technology economy competitive advanced

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manufacturing capabilities are essential

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to turning research discoveries

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inventions and new ideas into better or

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novel products our nation's ability to

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innovate is unmatched Gardner also

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pointed out the important role played by

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Glenn and creating technologies for NASA

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that also benefit American manufacturers

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NASA is supporting President

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Obama's call for new Institute's for

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advanced manufacturing and will

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participate in a pilot Institute later

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this year when Rovers land on Mars they

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travel all the way to the red planet

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protected by a rigid aeroshell or heat

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shield the size of that structure limits

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just how much scientists and engineers

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and fit inside if you look at all the

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origami that's involved in packing a

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rover like we're sending to Mars right

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now into that confined space and then

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having it deploy in the right sequence

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during that time line when you've only

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got a certain amount of time to do it

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it's very complicated so Neil cheap wood

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and his colleagues at NASA's Langley

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Research Center in Hampton Virginia have

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come up with a different idea an

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inflatable heat shield the first flight

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demonstration of the concept is the

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inflatable reentry vehicle experiment or

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ervi the launch of the 10-foot diameter

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mushroom shaped curve III which is

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packed uninflated into a 22 inch

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diameter rocket is currently scheduled

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for mid to late july we will launch ERV

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Island it will go up into space inflate

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to reentry shape and perform its reentry

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experiment and it will radio the data

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erv III has been tested and retested on

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the ground to make sure it can withstand

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the heat and force of atmospheric

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reentry the first line of defense

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commercially available materials this

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combination includes nextel which is an

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aircraft engine insulator we use pyro

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gel which is a pipe insulation material

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and then we use captain coated Kevlar

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used in bulletproof vest ervi has

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already had one successful test assuming

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ERV III does as well Engineers hope to

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expand the concept literally and test a

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larger inflatable in the future

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on July 12 the Smithsonian and the

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Embassy of France marked the 50th

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anniversary of the first transatlantic

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images transmitted by telstar one the

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world's first commercial

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telecommunications satellite with a live

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telecast between the National Air and

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Space Museum in Washington and thus it a

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day telecoms in plum Norbu do what a

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tremendous engineering achievement it

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was and how it really began a new era

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that we now just assume is going to

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continue into the future really but it

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had to begin with a very small step

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telstar one was launched by NASA the

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first telstar transmission 50 years ago

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marked the advent of the exchange of

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global information and the commercial

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use of space who can tell me where the

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International Space Station is yes NASA

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deputy administrator lori garver spoke

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to a group of young female students who

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were visiting nasa headquarters as part

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of the Summer Institute in science

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technology and research or sister

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program I love making a difference I

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feel like we were put here to leave the

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world better than we found it and I

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think it's pretty rare that you get me

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in a job where you feel you do that

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every day sponsored by Goddard Space

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Flight Center the five-day program is

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designed to introduce middle school

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girls to industry professionals like

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Garver in hopes of increasing their

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awareness of the opportunities available

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in non-traditional career fields such as

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science math and engineering July

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fifteenth marched the 37th anniversary

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of the first international partnership

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in space the apollo-soyuz test project

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on that date in 1975 an apollo

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spacecraft carrying astronauts tom

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stafford dance brand and deke slayton

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launched from the kennedy space center

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and two days later docked with a Soviet

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Soyuz spacecraft and its crew of two

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Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubus all

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designed to test the compatibility of

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rendezvous and docking systems and the

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possibility of an international space

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rescue the nine-day apollo-soyuz mission

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brought together the

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two former Cold War spaceflight rivals

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to work and perform as a team the

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successful apollo-soyuz test project

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paved the way for future international

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partnerships and one year ago on July

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four years of travel through the solar

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system NASA's Dawn spacecraft was pulled

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into the orbit of Vesta by the giant

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asteroids gravity dawn became the first

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spacecraft to orbit a main belt asteroid

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Jupiter about 117 million miles from

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Ceres Dawn's next stop will help

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scientists characterize the early solar

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vestas orbit late next month and arrive

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at Series in February 2015 and that's

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