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and liftoff

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expedition 3637 flight engineer karen

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nyberg of nasa soyuz commander fiorder

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yurchikhin of the russian federal space

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agency and flight engineer luca

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parmitano of the european space agency

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launched from the baikonur cosmodrome in

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kazakhstan in a russian soyuz spacecraft

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on may 29 kazakhstan time for a six-hour

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journey to the international space

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the arrival of the trio marks the start

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of its five and a half month mission

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aboard the iss

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they joined flight engineer chris

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cassidy of nasa and russians pavel

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vinogradov commander of the station and

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flight engineer alexander misurkin

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cassidy vinogradov and misurkin have

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views from above are the storm system

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associated with the destructive may 20th

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an image from nasa's moderate resolution

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imaging spectroradiometer or modis

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instrument aboard the aqua satellite

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shows the supercell thunderstorm that

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spawned the deadly tornado

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the red line depicts the track of the

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mile wide twister that passed just south

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of oklahoma city and this animation of

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images from noaa's goes 13 satellite

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shows the movement of the storm system

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an ef-5 tornado generates winds of at

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least 200 miles per hour

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nasa administrator charlie bolden was

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updated on the important work being done

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at the agency's california centers

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recently at the dryden flight research

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center in edwards the administrator

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toured sierra nevada corporation space

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systems dream chaser spacecraft the

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dream chaser test article will be

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evaluated later this year as part of

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nasa's commercial crew program to

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develop safe reliable and cost-effective

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space station and low earth orbit i'm

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personally excited about having dream

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chaser here at dryden i can't think of a

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better place to be testing a vehicle

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like this than bringing it right out

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here to the edwards dry lake bed

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which is very historic in its own right

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during a stop at pasadena's jet

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propulsion laboratory bolden was briefed

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on new technology being developed for

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nasa's initiative to capture and

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relocate an asteroid to earth moon space

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for study sample collection and return

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jpl continues to play a critical role in

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our plans to develop a mission to

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identify capture and redirect an

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unprecedented technological challenge

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raising the bar for human and scientific

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exploration and discovery and at ames

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research center in moffett field bolden

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saw work being done with additive

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manufacturing also known as 3d printing

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a critical part of president obama's

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push for a strong american manufacturing

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sector and the phone sat nano satellite

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technology program which builds small

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satellites with off-the-shelf cellular

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phone technology as nasa ventures

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further into space whether redirecting

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an asteroid or sending humans to mars

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future perhaps astronauts will be able

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to print the tools or components they

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on may 31st an asteroid believed to be

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about 1.7 miles long named 1998 qe2 will

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sail safely past earth about 3.6 million

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miles away

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according to astronomers this encounter

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with qe2 at 4 59 pm eastern time will be

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the asteroid's closest approach to earth

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for at least the next two centuries

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this close approach but it provides us a

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very good opportunity to learn more

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about this object the size shape and

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rotation dynamics of this object nasa's

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funds the search study and monitoring of

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asteroids and comets to facilitate a

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chief nasa priority of protecting the

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jack fisher was one of four nasa

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astronauts to fly simulated landings of

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the dream chaser spacecraft at the

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the three-day simulations in a mock-up

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cockpit gave astronauts a feel for how

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the sierra nevada corporation's winged

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vehicle will handle from the moment it

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enters earth's atmosphere through a

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runway landing sierra nevada corporation

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is working with nasa's commercial crew

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program to refine the design of the

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dream chaser for future missions to low

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nasa's curiosity rover has drilled into

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its second rock on the red planet

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curiosity drilled a 2.6 inch deep hole

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into a rock called cumberland located

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about nine feet east of john klein the

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rock curiosity drilled into three months

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plans call for delivering portions of

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the cumberland sample to laboratory

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instruments inside the rover for

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analysis and comparison to samples from

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john klein which indicated that long ago

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conditions favorable for microbial life

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following its launch on the antares test

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rocket in april the ames built phonesat

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cubesats successfully deployed into

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orbit and demonstrated that low-cost

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cell phone based satellites could work

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in space

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during the flight signals carrying image

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data from the cell phone cameras were

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transmitted back to the ground

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volunteer amateur ham radio operators

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worldwide recorded and uploaded the data

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to the research team at ames to form

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pictures of the earth

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researchers are already building the

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next generation of phonesat for launch

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goddard space flight center hosted

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followers for a nasa social about the

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global precipitation measurement mission

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and other nasa programs

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gpm is an international network of

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satellites that will measure rain and

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snowfall around the world and provide

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new insights into our planet's water

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cycles participants heard from gpm

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scientists about this cutting-edge

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science and were treated to tours of the

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facilities where gpm's core satellite

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was tested the core satellite is

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i feel the liftoff the clock has started

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on may 24 1962 mercury astronaut scott

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carpenter launched from cape canaveral

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aboard the aurora 7 spacecraft the

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flight was the second manned orbital

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mission of the mercury program following

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john glenn's friendship seven flight

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three months earlier

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like glenn carpenter circled the earth

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three times the five-hour mission

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focused on science and included the

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first study of liquids in weightlessness

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and earth photography

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a targeting mishap during re-entry took

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the spacecraft about 250 miles off

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course however carpenter and aurora 7

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were safely recovered after splashdown

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in the atlantic ocean

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and that's this week at nasa for more on

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