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all of you and I just want you to know

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that we could not be more excited at the

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory the Mars

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Curiosity flight control team took a few

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minutes from tending to NASA's newest

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Red Planet Rover to receive a special

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congratula Tory phone call from

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President Barack Obama who was aboard

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Air Force One what you've accomplished

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embodies the American spirit and your

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passion and your commitment is making a

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difference and your hard work is not

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paying dividends because our

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expectations is that curiosity is going

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to be telling us things that we did not

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know before and laying the groundwork

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for an even more audacious undertaking

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in the future and that's a human mission

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of the red planet JPL director Charles

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praise and echoed the

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commander-in-chief's hope that the

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excitement generated by the mission

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would help inspire a sense of

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exploration among younger generations on

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behalf of all of us at NASA we thank you

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for taking the time to give us a call

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and hopefully we inspire some of the

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millions of young people who were

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watching the slamming the president also

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emphasized that this mission is an

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international effort offering gratitude

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to several of the countries that have

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contributed science instruments and

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expertise to aid curiosity's quest for

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evidence of microbial life on Mars Spain

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doubt to the instrumentation curiosity

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landed on Mars and filters the rover

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team continues to transition curiosity

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to a state of readiness for roving the

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Martian surface here's a quick report

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from JPL on what's been happening since

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curiosity's landing hi I'm Bobak

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Ferdowsi flight director with the Mars

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Curiosity rover update this week we did

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a color panorama surrounding the rover

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with both the mask am rande now

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week this new software is like having

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the applications with new

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functionalities on the rover allow us to

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do mobility deploy the arm and get to

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the science that we've been looking

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forward to other mission we also did a

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series of instrument checkouts those

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included the chemcam instrument the

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rover including the Molly instrument we

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also downlinked some Marty

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were called a rover bump or a short

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drive astronomers have found an

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extraordinary galaxy cluster one of the

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largest objects in the universe that is

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breaking several important cosmic

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records observations of the Phoenix

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cluster located about 5.7 billion

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Science Foundation's South Pole

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telescope and eight other world-class

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observatories may force astronomers to

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rethink how these colossal structures

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and the galaxies that inhabit them

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evolve stars are forming in the Phoenix

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cluster at the highest rate ever

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cluster the object also is the most

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powerful producer of x-rays of any known

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cluster and among the most massive the

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data also suggests the rate of hot gas

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cluster is the largest ever observed

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because of their tremendous size galaxy

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properties like the Phoenix cluster is

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the Russian Federal Space Agency

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spacewalk to install debris shields on

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the Zvezda service module the two also

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peers to the zarya module the excursion

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engineer aki hoshide of the japan

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for a six and a half hour spacewalk to

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perform electrical work on the Trust's

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the 20,000 pound space craft descends

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these teams took some of Orion's drogue

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shoot stayed afloat and the best ways to

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get them out of the water and into a

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boat each one of the main chutes weighs

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system the Orion team was joined by

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enterprise for the next ten years it's

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noah DOD all the investments that are

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headquarters recognition ceremony for

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contributors to a new flex book

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education organization ck-12 as we

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help lead to us having that workforce

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and lesson plans is set for broad

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hurricane and severe storm sentinel hs3

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launched a less than a month later was

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and Neptune the duals current campaign

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the Voyager interstellar mission is

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helping NASA reach beyond the outer

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planets to the heliosheath the outermost

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layer of the heliosphere where the solar

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wind is slowed by the pressure of

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interstellar gas this extended mission

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solar system environment and search for

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the heliopause boundary the outer limits

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of the sun's magnetic field and outward

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flow of the solar wind 25 years ago in

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1987 the late Sally Ride America's first

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woman in space headed a group at NASA

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headquarters that completed an

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assessment of NASA's options beyond the

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space station on august seventeenth of

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that year nASA released that groups

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report leadership and America's future

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in space which came to be known as the

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ride report the document recommended

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major programs to study earth sciences

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with powerful orbiting sensors and

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exploration of the solar system with new

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generations of robotic probes and that's

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