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this week at nasa

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three weeks after its grand arrival at

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los angeles international airport atop a

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nasa 747 shuttle carrier aircraft

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space shuttle endeavour began the final

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leg of its journey a two-day 12-mile

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parade through the streets of l.a to the

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endeavour's route took it past several

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well-known landmarks it was captured

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from above by the goodyear blimp

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and was witnessed by thousands upon

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thousands of angelenos who came out for

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a peek at nasa's youngest space shuttle

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in a city where celebrities are

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everywhere endeavors role through the

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neighborhood was the star attraction

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this is the most exciting thing i missed

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it when it landed so i'm just so happy i

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could be here to see it make its journey

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this is unbelievable i'm an educator so

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i'm always looking for history making

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events and it's only going to happen

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once so i had the time why not the

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california science center plans to open

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its space shuttle endeavor display to

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powering more than 100 successful

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flights

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nasa's rs 25 engines were the workhorses

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of the space shuttle program

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now these engines will help power the

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core stage of the agency's advanced

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heavy lift rocket the space launch

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sls engineers at the marshall space

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flight center are working on

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enhancements to its engine controller

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unit the device exchanges data between

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the engine and the rocket and monitors

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united launch alliance has reached the

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final milestone in its development of a

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commercial spacecraft for transporting

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technical experts from ula and nasa

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completed their assessment of whether

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ula's atlas v rocket launch hardware

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would keep the crew safe during launch

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and ascent two of three newly funded

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sierra nevada will use the atlas 5 as

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all of nasa's industry partners

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including ula continue to meet their

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established milestones in developing

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the mock-up of boeing's

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landing tests at bigelow aerospace

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headquarters near las vegas

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engineers dropped the capsule-shaped

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test article from a crane into an

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outdoor pool to determine if the airbags

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will stabilize the capsule during

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the tests are part of boeing's ongoing

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work with nasa to develop a vehicle that

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can ferry astronauts between earth and

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meanwhile at the baikonur cosmodrome in

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kazakhstan expedition 33-34 soyuz

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engineer kevin ford and russian flight

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readying themselves for their launch to

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consists of performing generic flight

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commander suni williams of nasa flight

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including the transfer of supplies and

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craft that arrived at the orbiting

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station until october 28th

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hello my name is bettina pavri payload

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downlink coordinator and this is your

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curiosity rover update

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curiosity continues scooping at rocknest

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the mast cam and navcam instruments

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provided images and video used to assess

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the success of the scooping and sample

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processing activities

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these images also provided confirmation

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that the sampling system was

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successfully cleaned after the process

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also this week a soil sample was dropped

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off to the rover's observation tray for

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assessment by the science team

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this sample was determined to be

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suitable for drop-off to the chemin

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order to image the sample and determine

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what minerals make it up this helps

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geologists understand how the rock

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rocks we've studied so far on mars

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scientists identified numerous bright

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grains in the soil

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because of the small piece of plastic

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from the landing event that had been

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found earlier in the week the team

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proceeded cautiously dumping the second

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scoop collected and imaging the bright

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grains these bright grains were later

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determined to be components of the

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martian soil and therefore the sample

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was deemed to be suitable for delivery

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the science team requested mastcam and

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direction of glen elk to plan

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curiosity's journey to this next science

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this has been your curiosity rover

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update please check back for future

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nasa engineers students and amateur

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radio enthusiasts around the world are

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listening for signals from tech ed sat

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the small cube-shaped satellite was

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launched from the international space

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station into low-earth orbit to evaluate

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demonstrate and validate new

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technologies for future experiments

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aboard small space satellites

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tech headset was developed by interns

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from san jose state university with

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mentoring help from employees at the

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ames research center which is great to

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get real science out of really small

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cubesats and it's really it's not

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something that you know 23 year olds

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like myself are often able to do and i

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think it's really a great honor and

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dr nancy grace roman nasa's first chief

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astronomer and the first woman to hold

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an executive position at the agency

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spoke about the origins of nasa's

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astronomy program during a recent

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history office lecture at headquarters

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days and the first place most of the

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technical staff were the cream of the

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instrumental in the success of several

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sts-52 on board commander jim weatherby

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pilot michael baker mission specialists

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well as deploying the laser geodynamic

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satellite 2 and conducting several

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ashes of star trek creator gene

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eleven years ago on october 24 2001 the

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odyssey spacecraft reached mars to study

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and map the elemental composition of the

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planet's surface and evaluate radiation

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and the mars rover spirit and

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it also became the middle link for

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continuous observation of martian

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weather by nasa's mars global surveyor

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2010 odyssey became the longest serving

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nasa administrator charlie bolden helped

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