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this week at nasa

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this week the kepler science team

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announced the spacecraft was in a

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controlled safe mode the root cause was

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undetermined but the proximate cause

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appears to be an attitude error caused

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by a malfunction in kepler's reaction

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wheel four one of the telescope's

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pointing mechanisms unfortunately kepler

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is not in a place where i can go up and

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rescue it or any other astronauts we're

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going to look at this data very

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carefully to see if it's possible to

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return to a science mode if we can get a

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wheel restarted we do need three

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reaction wheels we believe

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to do the extra planet science the team

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has since put the telescope in what's

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known as a point rest state to minimize

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fuel usage while the investigation

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continues

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though no decisions have been made about

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the fate of a mission the team notes

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that even if data collection were to end

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kepler has collected substantial

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quantities of data that should yield a

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string of scientific discoveries for

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living off earth a special presentation

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at nasa headquarters commemorated the

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40th anniversary of skylab america's

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first space station

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panelists included two skylab astronauts

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and expedition 34 commander kevin ford

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discussion centered around the

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contribution of skylab to long-duration

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space flight missions like those

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conducted aboard the international space

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station the space station was built

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around what we learned from the sky lab

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what they put up there for us the way

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the modules were sized and the way they

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were constructed in space and all that

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kind of stuff came out of what we

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learned from skylab

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also help us venture farther into space

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on future missions of exploration such

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as the recently announced initiative to

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send humans to study an asteroid by

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2025. if we're

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nasa is allowed to continue and persist

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in this direction and with the proper

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funding to do it then nasa will continue

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to be as successful as they have been

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all the way from skylab shuttle and

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space station as well

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during a media briefing at johnson space

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center nasa administrator charlie bolden

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and center director ellen ochoa discuss

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the future of human space exploration

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and the critical role performed by the

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international space station in support

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of those efforts without station

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gain the knowledge of the human system

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that we need to be able to send people

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to mars onto an asteroid and do the

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other kinds of things we need jsc is

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home to the international space station

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and orion program offices and is the

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primary training facility for nasa's

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nasa deputy administrator lori garver

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along with associate administrator for

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space technology mike gazarick toured

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several facilities at glenn research

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center's lewis field in cleveland where

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they were briefed on work being done in

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advanced manufacturing and cryogenic

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propellant systems for future extended

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missions in space and to advance solar

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electric propulsion technologies for

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asteroid exploration to have the

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revitalization of manufacturing be

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driven by projects such as this that

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we're seeing at glenn

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with the nasa research is something

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we're really really proud of the pair

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also toured facilities at glenn's plum

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the j2x engine being installed in the a1

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test stand at stennis space center is

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the first full engine installed in the

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a1 in almost a decade the next

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generation engine is being installed to

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prepare it for a new series of tests

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during which it will be gambled or

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pivoted during test firings

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gimbal tests are an important part of

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the j2x design process because in space

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the engine must move freely to steer the

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upper stage of the evolved space launch

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system nasa's new heavy lift launch

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vehicle this is the first round of

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engine gimbal testing to be performed

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since testing of the space shuttle main

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the langley research center nasa

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aeronautics research took center stage

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when administrator charlie bolden

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visited the langley research center in

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hampton virginia bolden and local media

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checked out a lab that tests cockpit

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technologies that help transform the

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national air transportation system it

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depends on the aircraft but we are now

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at a constrained wave point that has

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280. they also got a look at a nasa

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langley simulator researchers use to

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develop systems that make airplanes

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safer

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former naval aviator bolden got the

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chance to land the virtual plane in near

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zero visibility

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with the help of new cockpit displays

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it gives you all the right directions

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you just got to be able to follow them

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following a five-state journey that

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began in colorado sierra nevada

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corporation's dream chaser engineering

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test article made its arrival at dryden

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flight research center in edwards

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california where it will begin a flight

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test program in collaboration with

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nasa's commercial crew program

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dream chaser will undergo toe testing to

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validate performance of its nose strut

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brakes and tires captive carry flight

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testing to examine the loads it will

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encounter during flight and free flight

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tests to validate aerodynamics the

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flight test will draw upon the

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experience of nasa dryden in conducting

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various approaching landing flight tests

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including testing the space shuttle

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a nasa google plus hangout carried live

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on nasa television connected nasa

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astronauts with cast members of the new

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film star trek into darkness to discuss

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how work aboard the international space

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station is turning science fiction into

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reality there's commercial companies

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coming online would you ever if money

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was not an object would you ever buy a

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flight engineer chris cassidy from

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onboard the station and other astronauts

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from johnson space center discuss life

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and space with movie director j.j abrams

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and actors from the film and took

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questions from followers of the hangout

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from the intrepid museum in new york

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city and the smithsonian national air

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and space museum in washington details

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about upcoming nasa google plus hangouts

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plus nasa

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on may 20th 1978 the pioneer venus

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orbiter was launched and reached venus

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on december 4th that same year the

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pioneer venus project consisted of two

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spacecraft the orbiter pioneer venus 1

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and the multiprobe or pioneer venus 2

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which was launched separately on august

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8 1978. the main objective of the

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program was to investigate the solar

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wind in the venusian environment map the

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planet's surface through radar imaging

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and study the characteristics of the

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upper atmosphere and ionosphere

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the first global topographic map of

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venus was constructed from data

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collected by pioneer venus 1.

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and that's this week at nasa for more on

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