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this week at NASA the much-anticipated

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landing of the Mars Science Laboratory

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with curiosity the Red Planet's next

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resident Rover is this monday at 131 am

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e string having been configured by the

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MSL flight team for entry descent and

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landing the spacecraft is on final

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approach for its targeted touchdown in

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Gale Crater MSL has a huge reach reaches

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back into the past it reaches out in the

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future and frankly it reaches around the

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world there's nearly ten countries that

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are involved in this and five of them

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are major partners so I hate to but I

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will compare it slightly to

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international gymnastics in that it is

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going to be a tough series of challenges

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here for the for the team to get this to

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the surface but at the end we're all

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going to stick the landing right guys

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covers of curiosity's landing begin

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Sunday at eleven-thirty p.m. eastern on

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all three NASA TV channels nasa gov and

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engineers at the Johnson Space Center

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have conducted a successful

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seventy-second test firing of the

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project Morpheus Lander Morpheus is a

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vertical testbed vehicle demonstrating

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and all hat autonomous landing and

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hazard avoidance technology this final

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test at JSC had the vehicle tethered to

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a crane and included a 60-second hover

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test with a four-second passent and a

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6-second decent the lander was later

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shipped to the Kennedy Space Center for

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its to undergo its first free flight

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testing 17 meters an unpiloted Russian

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resupply ship loaded with almost three

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tons of food fuel and supplies linked up

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to the International Space Station just

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six hours after its launch from the

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Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

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additional engine firings early in its

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mission were a test to expedite the

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progress its journey to the orbiting

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laboratory which normally takes about

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two days after analysis by Russian

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engineers and managers the technique

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could be used to similarly shorten a

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Soyuz vehicles route to the station

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thereby improving crew comfort as well

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as extending the life of the return

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vehicle while docked to the ISS you are

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our Olympians you are the best of the

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best you are the ones who help us reach

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for new heights deputy administrator

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lori garver led the 2012 nasa honor

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awards recognizing those in the agency

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whose outstanding efforts in the past

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year have helped NASA reach new

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milestones

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a new video spotlighting NASA's

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Curiosity rover was featured during a

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performance of the National Symphony

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Orchestra at wolftrap national park for

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the Performing Arts outside Washington

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DC the video from director Duncan Copp

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was accompanied by a musical selection

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from late french composer george busy

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the NSO was under the direction of

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conductor Emil tuku NASA Administrator

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Charlie Bolden was on hand for the

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performance this mission will not only

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help unlock the mysteries of Mars it's a

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precursor to achieving President Obama's

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goal of sending humans to the red planet

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by the 2030s the curiosity visuals were

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a portion of the NASA imagery featured

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as part of Gustav Holst's the planets

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the 2012 NASA headquarters take your

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children to work day gave younger NASA

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family members a peek inside the agency

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and its diversity of people and

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professions hands-on activities also

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represented tasks performed and some of

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this summer has also been a learning

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experience at headquarters for a group

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of high school students administrator

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charlie bolden spoke to participants of

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the 2012 NASA engineering apprenticeship

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program me app targets high school

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sophomores juniors and seniors

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interested in science technology

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engineering and math the STEM careers

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under the eight-week program students

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work on a project under the guidance of

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a volunteer mentor nASA has hosted more

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than 200 students since the program

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began in 1995 many knee appt students

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have gone on to top colleges and

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positions within NASA and other industry

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organizations discovery endeavour and

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atlantis came home from space for the

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last time in 2011 touching down at the

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shuttle landing facility at kennedy

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space center in florida and after each

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final landing kennedy's landing

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operations team used a temporary spray

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paint to note where the wheel stopped

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local artist chad stout of sea spray

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glass blasting designed manufactured and

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installed the markers wearing safety

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gear he etched the final design in

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absolute black granite an extremely

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durable stone pavers are extra thick and

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weigh at least a hundred pounds each but

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he installed them by hand all three

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papers are aligned with the etchings on

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the runway centerline and like their

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shuttles legacy will stand the test of

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nASA has donated a piece of space

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shuttle history to the coca-cola Space

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Science Center at Columbus State

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University in Georgia the Science Center

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has taken possession of main engine

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nozzle number five thousand two from the

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Marshall Space Flight centers propulsion

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research development plan this

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particular nozzle has flown to space

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numerous times on four different

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shuttles including the STS 60 mission in

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February 1994 we have a go for engine

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start commanding space shuttle Discovery

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for that flight then astronaut Charlie

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Bolden who is now of course NASA

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Administrator the NASA artifact will be

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displayed at the coca-cola Science

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Center to inspire the next generation of

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scientists and engineers 15 years ago on

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August seventh 1997 space shuttle

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discovery launched from kennedy space

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center on sts 85 her crew commander

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curtis brown pilot kit rominger mission

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specialists jan davis bob Curbeam and

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steve robinson and payload specialists

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BR neat rig listen of the Canadian Space

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Agency worked for the compliment of

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payloads focused on mission to Planet

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Earth objectives as well as the

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then-upcoming Assembly of the

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International Space Station among them

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the japanese manipulator flight

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development MFD to evaluate the robotic

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small fine arm that later became part of

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the Japanese Kibo laboratory on the ISS

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discovery and crew returned to Earth 11

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days later landing safely at KSC on

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August nineteenth 32

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Endeavour five years ago on august

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eighth 2007 space shuttle Endeavour

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launched from KSC on sts-118 the 22nd

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shuttle flight to the international

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space station commander Scott Kelly

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pilot Charlie ho ball and mission

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specialists Rick Mastracchio Dave

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Williams of the Canadian Space Agency

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Barbara Morgan Tracy Caldwell and al

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drew continued construction of the ISS

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by delivering s5 the station's third

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starboard truss segment the crew also

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replaced a defective gyroscope and

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they closed out the mission 12 days

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later when endeavour touched down on the

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runway at KSC and liftoff of the Atlas 5

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with Juno on a trek to Jupiter and

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August fifth marks the one-year

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anniversary of the launch of the Juno

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spacecraft atop an Atlas 5 rocket from

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cape canaveral air force station in

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florida launched marked the start of

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journals five-year journey to Jupiter to

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study the planet structure and decipher

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its history and that's this week @nasa

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