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the core stage of nasa's space launch

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system america's newest flagship rocket

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has successfully completed a major

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technical review at the marshall space

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flight center the preliminary design

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review ensured the sls design met system

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requirements with an acceptable risk and

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fell within schedule and budget

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constraints

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also the review proved that the core

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stage which will be built at the michoud

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assembly facility would integrate safely

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with other elements of the rocket's main

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engines and solid rocket boosters the

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orion crew capsule and launch facilities

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at the kennedy space center

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the first flight test of the sls

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propelling an uncrewed orion spacecraft

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powering the upper stage of the sls will

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be the j2x engine

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engineers at the stennis space center

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have wrapped up their 13 test series of

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an important j2x component its power

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pack assembly

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last year's hot fire test saw the power

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pack assembly use millions of pounds of

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propellants during the 90 minutes of

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burn time

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nasa engineers at stennis will next

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focus on testing the fully integrated

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nasa has completed a set of flight tests

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for a technology that can autonomously

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take a spacecraft safely to the moon

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mars or even an asteroid

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it's called the autonomous landing

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hazard avoidance technology better known

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as all hat

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led by the johnson space center and

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supported by the jet propulsion

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laboratory and the langley research

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center all hat is designed to enable a

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planetary lander to touch down safely

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and precisely by detecting and avoiding

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obstacles like holes rocks and slopes

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instrumentation has been verified in

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flight tests aboard a nasa huey

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helicopter at langley and the kennedy

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space center

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future evaluations are planned on a

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vertical test bed that will have all hat

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put down autonomously on a lunar-like

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nasa's newest tracking and data relay

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satellite tdrs-k has been delivered to

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the kennedy space center by an air force

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the satellite is set to be launched into

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geostationary orbit on january 29th

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tdrs-k is the first of three next

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generation satellites nasa's space

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communications and navigation program or

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scan is adding to its fleet to ensure

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its operational continuity

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each teacher's satellite will have more

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spacecraft power to service more scanned

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customers with different and evolving

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unique devices built by teams of middle

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and high school students from southern

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california were put to the test during

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the 15th annual invention challenge

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hosted by the jet propulsion laboratory

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the challenge of the streaming tissue

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toss contest was to build a device that

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could propel an officially supplied roll

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of toilet tissue into the air and

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produce the longest unbroken stream of

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tissue

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the competition gave students a chance

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to be creative and have fun with science

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engineering and math

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the 20 teams at the event were invited

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to jpo based on performances in two

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regional contests nine teams of jpl

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engineers and scientists also competed

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with the passing of jessico von

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putcommer on december 28th nasa lost a

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family member of 50 years who

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contributed to one of the agency's

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greatest achievements

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von podcamer came from germany to nasa

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in 1962

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when as a newly graduated engineer he

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was invited by verna von braun to join

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his fellow countrymen saturn v rocket

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team at the marshall space flight center

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and work on apollo i corresponded and he

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always gave me good advice

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what subjects to concentrate on and so

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so i asked him one day well i want to

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come to america

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but since i'm a greenhorn

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i probably should get some experience

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first learn the ropes

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and go to industry first so i i

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immediately got a telegram from him and

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then a letter don't go to industry come

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to huntsville we are flying to the moon

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von putcommer transferred in 1974 to

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nasa headquarters in washington where he

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most recently worked with the

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international space station program

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among the numerous awards received by

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von put commerce was nasa's prestigious

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exceptional service medal in 2004.

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jessica von putcommer died after a brief

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illness at age 79.

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on january 7 1968 surveyor 7 was

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launched from the kennedy space center

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the fifth and final spacecraft of the

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surveyor series to land softly on the

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moon surveyor 7 helped nasa's coming

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apollo missions by testing landing

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technology providing data about the

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compatibility of the apollo design with

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conditions on the lunar surface and

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gathering science about the moon itself

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and that's this week at nasa

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