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This Week at NASA…

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“3-2-1-Zero and launch of the SpaceX Falcon
9 rocket ….

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In a historic moment for the nation, SpaceX
successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket

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and Dragon cargo craft from Florida’s Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station – marking the

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start of the first ever commercial cargo resupply
flight to the International Space Station

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The CRS-1 mission, the first of twelve such
flights under NASA’s Commercial Resupply

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Services contract, also marks the return of
America’s capability to independently resupply

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the orbiting laboratory – a feat not achievable
since the retirement of the space shuttle.

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“We’re once again launching spacecraft
from American soil with the supplies our astronauts

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need in space.

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The SpaceX launch tonight marks the official
start of commercial resupply missions by American

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companies operating out of U.S. space ports
like the one right here in Florida.”

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While NASA is working with SpaceX and other
U.S. industry partners to develop commercial

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spaceflight capabilities, the agency is also
developing the Orion spacecraft and the Space

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Launch System (SLS), a crew capsule and heavy-lift
rocket to provide an entirely new capability

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for human exploration.

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The SLS and Orion will expand human presence
beyond low Earth orbit and enable new missions

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of exploration across the solar system.

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Discussing the Dragon mission via a Google
Plus hangout were NASA Administrator Charlie

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Bolden and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

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Those who participated in the online video
chat could also pose questions through Twitter

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and Facebook.

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“I think we’ve got 23 student experiments
– that’s special.

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Some of them are making repeat flights and,
you know it’s SpaceX meeting an obligation

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to students that – where we didn’t get
around to doing all of them the first time.”

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One of those science investigations going
up to station on Dragon, named Micro-6, will

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look at the effects of microgravity on a yeast
our bodies use to stay healthy.

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But, when our immune systems are stressed,
Candida albicans can grow out of control and

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produce infections in the mouth, throat, intestines,
and elsewhere.

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By comparing cells grown in microgravity to
cells grown in normal gravity, researchers

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hope to learn how to better manage and treat
the runaway microbes.

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Another important milestone in NASA’s partnership
with industry to deliver cargo to the International

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Space Station has been reached at the Wallops
Flight Facility.

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A test version of Orbital Sciences Corporation's
Antares rocket rolled out to the Mid-Atlantic

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Regional Spaceport’s launch Pad 0A.

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Antares will carry Orbital's Cygnus cargo
module to the ISS.

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A hot-fire test of Antares’s first stage
is slated for later this year, to be followed

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first by an Antares test launch, then a demonstration
flight of an Antares and Cygnus to the orbiting

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lab.

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Hi, my name is Daniel Limonadi.

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I’m the surface sampling and science phase
lead, and this is your Mars Curiosity rover

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update.

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Curiosity still is heading to Glenelg.

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We’ve just stopped at the Bathhurst rock
formation to check it out with the robotic

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arm mounted instruments: a hand lens imager
and a spectrometer.

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Got some great science data there for the
science team and now we’re moving to a new

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rover location called Rocknest.

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And we’ve come to Rocknest because it has
nice windblown sand drifts.

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At the Rocknest location we really are entering
a new phase in Mars exploration with Curiosity.

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We’re starting the surface sampling part
of the mission.

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The reason this is a one-ton rover with a
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because we have these tools to acquire bits
of Mars, you know, either with a scoop or

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a drill; process those samples for our very
sensitive analytical lab instruments.

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So our scoop – this is not a giant backhoe
on Mars – we basically have more like a

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oversized tablespoon attached to the end of
the arm and we grab on the order of 20 grams

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of material.

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And we position the arm over the soil target
and then we just actuate the scoop, do a little

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bit of vibration to kind of level out the
sample and then raise the arm up, close the

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scoop and carry on with our sampling activity.

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Over the next two to three weeks we’ll be
doing the scooping and sampling analysis activities

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and then from there we expect to spend a few
more weeks driving over to the Glenelg area

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proper, doing scratch and sniff science along
the way with the robotic arm.

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And once we get to Glenelg, we’ll look forward
to some exciting first time drilling activities.

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This has been your Mars Curiosity rover update.

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Check back for more reports.

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October is National Cybersecurity Awareness
Month, and the Chief Information Officer’s

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IT Security Division at NASA headquarters
hosted a symposium to stress for employees

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the importance of Cybersecurity in our everyday
lives.

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“Not only is it such a special to be NASA
but we actually do have access to technologies

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and information that people who do not mean
us well would love to get.”

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“The sophistication of attacks continue
to increase every day.

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NASA employees muyst be aware of these types
of attacks in order to protect and safeguard

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our information.”

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To protect the Agency’s IT infrastructure,
NASA workers are reminded to STOP and THINK

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before they CONNECT online.

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Several centers are conducting similar activities
this month to raise cybersecurity awareness.

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The countdown continues for the next crew
to launch to the International Space Station.

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Expedition 33/34 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy
of the Russian Federal Space Agency, NASA

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Flight Engineer Kevin Ford and Russian Flight
Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin are scheduled to

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ride a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS mid-month.

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There they’ll join Expedition 33 Commander
Suni Williams of NASA, Flight Engineer Aki

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Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency and Russian Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko

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aboard the world’s only science lab in microgravity.

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Employees helping shape the future of their
center and NASA; that was the theme of the

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Kennedy Space Center’s first Innovation
Expo.

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The day-long event to promote worker innovation
and creativity featured examples of workplace

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improvements by employees, pitch sessions
for new ideas, and tours of laboratories and

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other KSC facilities not usually open to the
general work force.

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Innovation Expo underscored for Kennedy’s
workforce that it is the center’s prime

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source of ingenuity.

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The mirror on NASA's Stratospheric Observatory
for Infrared Astronomy was cleaned recently

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in preparation for the first full cycle of
science observations.

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Because of the sensitive exposed optics, the
telescope cavity of the heavily modified 747

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is designed to serve as a clean room.

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However, contamination of the optics builds
up over time.

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Thus, while the aircraft and its systems were
upgraded at the Dryden Aircraft Operations

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Facility in Palmdale, California, telescope
technicians used water, a mild detergent and

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a small filtered blower to remove dust and
other material that had adhered to the mirror's

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surface.

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This is in preparation for the next astronomy
observation period, known as Cycle 1, which

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will begin in late 2012 and continue through
December 2013.

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The Enterprise Service Desk at the NASA Shared
Services Center is now fully operational and

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supporting employees across the Agency.

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ESD provides support across the agency in
Human Resources, Finance, Procurement, and

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IT.

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“We have self-service tools available and
also IT call agents available 24 hours a day

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for the NASA employee to submit service requests
for the NASA IT services such as computing

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seats, mobile devices, printers, firewall
rules, static IP addresses, and even bundled

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services.”

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For more about ESD services and the NSSC,
log onto: www.nssc.nasa.gov.

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The 
Langley Research Center celebrated its 95th

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anniversary by hosting some 10-thousand guests
at its first open house in five years.

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Visitors could meet the first mom-in-space,
astronaut Anna Fisher, talk with researchers

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about their projects, and take a tour of facilities
like the center’s aircraft hangar.

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The day’s highlight: watching the 18,000-pound
Orion Spacecraft test article drop 25 feet

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into Langley's hydro impact basin.

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In recognition of October as National Stamp
Collecting Month, NASA and the U.S. Postal

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Service held a ceremony at Goddard Space Flight
Center to unveil a series of new stamps.

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The 15 new Earthscape “Forever” stamps
depict America’s diverse landscapes as seen

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from aerial and satellite perspectives.

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“Each stamp’s unique perspectives makes
it a window into a world most of us never

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get to see, at least not from land.”

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Two of the images, “Volcanic Crater” and
“Center-Pivot Irrigation” were captured

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by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey’s
Landsat 7 satellite.

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The Volcanic crater stamp depicts Mount St.
Helens as it continues to recover from its

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May 1980 eruption, while the latter shows
circular irrigation patterns of crops in Kansas.

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“Goddard Space Flight Center launched the
first weather satellite Tiros 1 almost 50

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years ago.

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Using global imagery to understand how the
Earth changes through time, and the implications

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of these changes is a major focus for NASA’s
Earth science program.

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The next Landsat satellite, the Landsat Data
Continuity Mission, is scheduled to launch

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in February 2013.

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“start … 2-1 … booster ignition and
liftoff …”

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Ten years ago, on October 7, 2002, Space Shuttle
Atlantis launched from the Kennedy Space Center

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on STS-112 – the 15th shuttle flight to
the International Space Station.

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STS-112 was the first shuttle flight to provide
views of the launch from a camera mounted

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on the External Tank.

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Atlantis’ crew - Commander Jeff Ashby, Pilot
Pam Melroy and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus,

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Piers Sellers, David Wolf and Fyodor Yurchikhin
continued construction of the ISS by delivering

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the third segment of the station's 11-piece
truss.

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The crew also transferred cargo and used the
shuttle's thruster jets to raise the station's

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orbit.

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And October 5 is the 130th anniversary of
the birth of Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard,

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the father of modern rocket propulsion.

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Goddard is credited with creating and building
the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which

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he successfully launched on March 16, 1926
from a field in Auburn, Massachusetts.

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Goddard and his team launched 34 rockets between
1926 and 1941.

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Named for the noted scientist and rocketeer
is NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in

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Greenbelt, Maryland.

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Hi, my name is Cassie Rodriquez.

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I grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas, which
is a bit south here of Houston, so a great

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city.

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It's where the Texas State Aquarium is (laughter).

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Being an “OSO”.

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It’s a console position in Mission Control.

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It stands for Operations Support Officer and
we're responsible for all the IVA maintenance

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that's done for the Space Station.

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Robonaut is fun -- he's on orbit, he was launched
in September of 2011 and what my project is,

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is we're working on developing the training
products and the procedures to give him some

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legs.

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With these legs, he'll have the ability to
move anywhere on station.

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I hope to continue supporting the International
Space Station hopefully supporting future

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projects that help human exploration, hopefully
getting us to the Moon or to Mars and helping

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design those vehicles so that they can be
better maintained.

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I have a lot of maintenance practice working
with the Space Station and we're going to

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need to be able to fix things if we do go
to the Moon and Mars.

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So, I hope to contribute to that in the future.

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