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this week at nasa

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administrator charles bolden along with

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deputy administrator lori garver chief

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financial officer beth robinson and

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associate administrator robert lightfoot

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unveiled to agency employees the

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president's fiscal year 2014 budget

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request for nasa in a town hall style

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all hands briefing to all centers from

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headquarters it ensures that the u.s

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will remain the world's leader in space

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exploration and scientific discovery for

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years to come i know there's been a bit

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of a misperception out there after

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shuttle retirement that maybe nasa's

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best days are behind us and i think we

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have an opportunity with this budget to

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show that that is in fact

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far from the truth the public benefits

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of nasa that's always the place you want

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to start budgets are a lot about costs

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but of course that we're doing all this

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for the benefits the proposal would

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leverage the agency's capabilities to

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make significant yet affordable advances

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for the nation while meeting the space

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goals set by the obama administration

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one presidential goal to send humans to

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an asteroid by 2025 is targeted by what

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would be the first ever mission to

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identify capture and relocate an

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asteroid to a stable earth moon orbit

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there it could be explored by astronauts

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using the orion spacecraft and the space

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launch system we're going to go

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rendezvous with this asteroid and we're

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going to we're going to take samples off

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of it that allows us to start working on

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the techniques we're going to need that

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are so different than than low earth

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orbit the president's nasa budget

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request supports a balanced portfolio of

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aeronautics and space technology

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development earth and space science and

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the use of innovative commercial

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partnerships for crew and cargo

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transport to the international space

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orbital sciences corporation's in tyrese

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rocket sits poised for its test flight

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from the mid-atlantic regional

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spaceport's pad zero a at the wallops

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flight facility

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this demonstration of the antares launch

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system will send a simulated cygnus

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spacecraft to orbit the real cygnus will

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deliver cargo to the international space

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station under nasa's commercial orbital

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transportation services or cots program

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the curiosity rover continues to analyze

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the john klein area of mars where it

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drilled and collected its first sample

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of rock powder conducting investigations

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with the chemcam instrument to unravel

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the different chemical compositions of

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rocks soils and dust

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although busy with work on rocks and

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dust curiosity took a moment to smell

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the atmosphere with its sam instrument

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analyzing a gas called argon by

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comparing the amounts of light argon

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argon 36 and a heavier form called argon

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mars today is heavier than in the

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earth's atmosphere the sun and in

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jupiter evidence that mars once had a

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thicker atmosphere which would help

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explain the evidence of rivers and lakes

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in the past

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through the month of april mars will be

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behind the sun as seen from earth a

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planetary alignment called solar

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conjunction that happens every 26 months

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because the sun can disrupt radio

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communications between curiosity and

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earth the science team won't send any

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more commands to curiosity until they

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can be safely received curiosity's full

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science operations are scheduled to

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at the dryden flight research center

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testing of maston space systems zombie

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space access technology demonstrator

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produced its highest and longest flight

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to date

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designed and guided to replicate a

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planetary approach zombie ascended more

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than 600 feet above ground and nearly a

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thousand feet laterally before making a

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pinpoint landing the flight was

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supported by nasa's flight opportunities

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program that allows researchers to test

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the flexible wings of the james webb

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space telescope were put in deep freeze

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at the marshall space flight center's

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x-ray and cryogenic test facility

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engineers chilled the wings to a frigid

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minus 414 degrees fahrenheit to simulate

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the extreme temperatures of space

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that'll allow any flaws found in the

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wing's 900 separate parts to be

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corrected before jws makes its scheduled

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2018 launch

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the most powerful space telescope ever

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jwst will see farther back in time than

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even the hubble space telescope to

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provide images of the first galaxies

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ever formed and explore planets around

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april is earth month and employees at

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the goddard space flight center

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volunteer to help with an on-site tree

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planting the 35 trees will not only

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spruce up the area pun intended they'll

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also protect against wind erosion nasa's

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celebration of earth day on april 22nd

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will include the display of hd earth

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imagery on a nine screen hyperwall for

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travelers at washington dc's union

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april 12th is special in exploration

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history as the anniversary of two key

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spaceflight events 20 years apart

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most recent the 1981 liftoff from the

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kennedy space center of space shuttle

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columbia on sts-1

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astronauts john young and bob crippen

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made 37 orbits on the two-day mission

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that successfully tested all major

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systems of the new orbiter and ushered

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in nasa's 30-plus years space shuttle

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and a score of years earlier on april 12

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russian cosmonaut yuri gagarin became

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the first human in space

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his vostok spacecraft completed an orbit

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of earth

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a national hero gagarin went on to serve

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as deputy training director of the

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cosmonaut training center outside moscow

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nasa's official twitter feed at nasa has

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won its second consecutive shorty award

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for the best government use of social

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media the shorty awards also recognized

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nasa's at mars curiosity account as

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foursquare mayor of the year

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the at nasa acceptance tweet read in

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we're sharing the universe one tweet at

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a time

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and that's this week at nasa for more on

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