An International Space Station Expedition 15 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at the SRJC Day Under the Oaks in Santa Rosa, California USA on 06 May. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 16:48 UTC.
The contact will be a direct between stations NA1SS and W6SRJ. The contact should be audible in western portions of North America. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.
Santa Rosa Junior College is home to 40,000 students in the California wine country of Sonoma County. We're located approximately 38 miles north of San Francisco. We are fortunate and proud to be the home of W6SRJ - one of the telebridge stations for ISS school contacts.
Day Under the Oaks is our annual open house for prospective students, teachers, and the community. The event attracts over 10,000 visitors and is held on the beautiful 110 acre main campus which has hundreds of majestic oak trees with classic ivy covered brick buildings. Some of the oaks and other tree specimens were planted by renowned botanist Luther Burbank.
Day Under the Oaks (DUO) includes demonstrations for students of all ages, including a robot competition, building computer models, shows in our planetarium and tours of the W6SRJ telebridge station. DUO attendees explore SRJC's outstanding instructional program exhibits and demonstrations and a festive array of other colorful activities, plus sample the delicious array of food prepared by student clubs! At Day Under the Oaks you can visit the stunning world class Pomo basket collection in the Jesse Peter Museum and watch the colorful Native American dancers or the dramatic Chinese Dragon Dance Troup. Other activities include a children's theatre, sports clinics and fencing and karate competitions, and dazzling magic shows in the Chemistry Lab.
Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. What kind of research will be done on the space station (ISS) once it is completed in 2010?
2. What challenges do you face while you're in space without any gravity?
3. You participated in the Anomalous Long Term Effects on Astronauts Experiment - Have you seen the results of this experiment yet and what could be the cause of the light flashes?
4. What has been the most exciting part of the Expedition 15? What has been the least exciting?
5. Describe what you like best about being in space?
6. How long did it take you to adjust to microgravity? How long will it take you to re-adjust to earth's gravity when you return?
7. We visited NASA in Houston last month and saw the astronaut training area. What are some differences between training here and doing the real thing up in space?
8. I'm entering a robotics contest today. Do you think my interest in robotics will help me become an astronaut?
9. What do you enjoy most about your current mission?
10. What type of projects or experiments are they working on right now?
11. Since you hold records for number of spacewalks and total time spent on spacewalks by a woman, can you tell us about what kind of jobs you perform while on your spacewalks?
12. How long does it take to reach your destination in space from the time you leave earth?
13. I understand that the ISS is noisy inside - how high is the noise level and why is it so noisy?
14. Was it more or less effort to run the Boston Marathon from Space?
15. What type of exercises do you do in space so that you don't lose muscle tone?
16. What did you like best about your training? What did you like the least?
17. Have you ever seen satellites or "space junk" from the space shuttle or the space station? If so, what have you seen?
18. How many years of schooling did it take you to become an astronaut?
19. What was one of your most interesting moments in space?
20. For fun, do you ever run up the walls and do stunts like in the Matrix movie?
Please note, the amateur equipment on the ISS is not functioning in the automatic modes properly and may be silent more than usual. Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact can be found at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact .
Next planned event(s):
Sunset Mesa Schools, Albuquerque, New Mexico, direct via W5SCA, Wed 2007-05-09 14:39 UTC
Escola Secundaria de Estarreja, Estarreja, Portugal, direct via CT6ESE, Wed 2007-05-09 14:58 UTC
ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.
ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on the website http://www.rac.ca/ariss (graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada).
Thank you & 73,
Kenneth - N5VHO
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*Ferry-Flight Set for Sunday*
*06.30.07 12:45 p.m. EDT* (1645 UTC)
Early Sunday morning, Space Shuttle Atlantis will begin its journey back
to Kennedy Space Center "piggy-backed" on top of a modified 747 jetliner
called the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
<http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/crew/ferryflight.html>.
Known as a ferry-flight, the orbiter will make the trip from Edwards Air
Force Base in California to Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility in one to
two days, depending on weather conditions.
Atlantis landed at Edwards concluding a successful assembly mission to
the International Space Station with Commander Rick Sturckow and Pilot
Lee Archambault at the controls. Atlantis landed at 3:49 p.m. EDT on
June 22.
The STS-117 mission astronauts returned to Johnson Space Center on
Saturday, June 23. Their return was marked by a traditional welcome home
ceremony at Ellington Field in Houston.
The STS-117 crew began its mission June 8 and arrived at the station
June 10. They quickly began work to install the Starboard 3 and 4
(S3/S4) truss structure to the outpost and retracted a set of arrays on
the Port 6 (P6) truss. The (S3/S4) contains a new set of solar arrays
that increases station power-generation capabilities. The P6 will be
relocated during a future assembly mission.
Mission Specialists Patrick Forrester, John "Danny" Olivas, Jim Reilly
and Steven Swanson conducted a total of four spacewalks to activate the
S3/S4 and to retract the P6 arrays. During the third spacewalk, Olivas
repaired an out of position thermal blanket on the left orbital
maneuvering system pod.
Landing also marked the end of a record-setting spaceflight by Mission
Specialist Suni Williams. She broke the record for the longest
spaceflight by a woman and she also became the record-holder for the
most hours outside a spacecraft by a female, completing four spacewalks
during Expedition 14.
Williams' journey began in December with the launch of STS-116. She
lived on the space station for six months before switching places on the
STS-117 crew with Clayton Anderson, who is now a flight engineer on the
station. When Atlantis landed, she had accumulated 194 days, 18 hours
and 58 minutes during her spaceflight.
STS-117 is the 118th shuttle mission and 21st mission to visit the space
station. The next mission, STS-118, is slated to launch in August.
Arthur Rowe wrote:
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>
>> June 29, 2007
>>
>> John Yembrick
>> Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602
>> John Ira Petty
>> Johnson Space Center, Houston
>> 281-483-5111
>> STATUS REPORT: SS07-32
>>
>> INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS07-32
>>
>> HOUSTON -- After the departure of the space shuttle Atlantis,
>> Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg
>> Kotov returned to their daily operations aboard the International
>> Space Station this week, while newly arrived Flight Engineer Clay
>> Anderson began conducting scientific experiments.
>> Atlantis landed in California June 22 after delivering a new
>> starboard truss segment and a set of solar arrays to the station.
>> Returning on the shuttle was Sunita Williams, who lived and worked
>> aboard the orbiting complex for six months. Anderson succeeded
>> Williams on the station and arrived with the Atlantis crew on June 10.
>> Anderson performed his first Saturday Science activity on June 23,
>> showing younger television viewers how Newton's laws apply to sports
>> activities, even in the microgravity of space.
>> On Monday, Anderson began work with a nutrition experiment. He
>> collected blood and urine samples and began logging all of the food
>> and drinks he consumed. The experiment tracks many vitamins and
>> minerals essential for good health. It is the most comprehensive
>> in-flight study to date of human physiological changes during
>> long-duration spaceflight. Also, Anderson and Kotov did a medical
>> emergency exercise, and Yurchikhin replaced one of three transmitters
>> on the Russian Regul communications system.
>> The crew inspected the lights and power systems and performed a
>> routine examination of the windows on the Russian Zvezda service
>> module on Tuesday.
>> Wednesday was filled with science. Each crew member completed medical
>> tests and periodic fitness evaluations, and worked with a variety of
>> Russian experiments. Kotov spent about two hours using a multimeter
>> to do resistance checks on the computer system in the Zvezda service
>> module. The two major computer systems there continue to function
>> well, with two of three "lanes," or data paths, of each system
>> operating.
>> Anderson wore an acoustic dosimeter on Thursday to check station
>> noise levels. He also worked with the Microgravity Science Glovebox
>> in an unsuccessful effort to complete a leak check. Troubleshooting
>> continues. Yurchikhin and Kotov spent more than two hours with the
>> Russian Profilaktika experiment, which looks at measures to
>> counteract the long-term effects of microgravity. Yurchikhin also
>> worked with the Matryoshka radiation detection experiment and Kotov
>> inventoried medical equipment inventory.
>> On Friday, Anderson did a routine cleaning of spacesuit cooling
>> loops. Yurchikhin and Kotov worked in the Russian segment, replacing
>> current converter units in the Zarya module.
>> For more about the crew's activities and station sighting
>> opportunities, visit:
>>
>> http://www.nasa.gov/station
>>
>>
>> -end-
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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> June 29, 2007
>
> Katherine Trinidad
> Headquarters, Washington
> 202-358-3749
>
> Leslie Williams
> Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif.
> 661-276-3893
>
> George Diller
> Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
> 321-867-2468
>
>
> NASA'S SHUTTLE ATLANTIS SET FOR RETURN TO KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
>
> EDWARDS, Calif. - A week after landing at Edwards Air Force Base,
> Calif., NASA's space shuttle Atlantis is about to make its
> cross-country journey back to Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
>
> Mounted on a modified Boeing 747 shuttle carrier aircraft, Atlantis is
> expected to be flown back to Florida this weekend. Due to the fluid
> nature of preparing Atlantis for this ferry flight and changing
> weather conditions, the exact date and time of departure are still to
> be determined. However, the latest information about the flight will
> be available by telephone at 321-867-2525. Current flight information
> also will be posted on the space shuttle's main Web site at:
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
>
> NASA Television will provide live coverage of Atlantis' departure and
> arrival. For NASA TV downlink, the schedule of ferry flight coverage
> and streaming video information, visit:
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
>
> Strict flight weather restrictions may cause unexpected changes to the
> flight path and arrival time of the shuttle in Florida. All media
> should be at the Kennedy News Center two hours ahead of the announced
> arrival time for transport to the Shuttle Landing Facility.
>
> Shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts landed in California on June
> 22 after completing a 14-day mission, designated STS-117, to the
> International Space Station. For more information about Atlantis'
> flight or crew, visit the shuttle's main Web site.
>
>
> -end-
>
>
>
>
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*Ferry-Flight Will Return Atlantis To Kennedy*
Image above: Space Shuttle Atlantis receives post-flight servicing in
the mate-demate device at Edwards Air Force Base in Calif. Photo Credit:
NASA/Carla Thomas
+ View Larger Image
<http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/170421main_demate.jpg>
*06.28.07*
This weekend, Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to begin its journey
back to Kennedy Space Center "piggy-backed" on top of a modified 747
jetliner called the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
<http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/crew/ferryflight.html>.
Known as a ferry-flight, the orbiter will make the trip from Edwards Air
Force Base in California to Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility in one to
two days, depending on weather conditions.
Atlantis landed at Edwards concluding a successful assembly mission to
the International Space Station with Commander Rick Sturckow and Pilot
Lee Archambault at the controls. Atlantis landed at 3:49 p.m. EDT on
June 22.
The STS-117 mission astronauts returned to Johnson Space Center on
Saturday, June 23. Their return was marked by a traditional welcome home
ceremony at Ellington Field in Houston.
The STS-117 crew began its mission June 8 and arrived at the station
June 10. They quickly began work to install the Starboard 3 and 4
(S3/S4) truss structure to the outpost and retracted a set of arrays on
the Port 6 (P6) truss. The (S3/S4) contains a new set of solar arrays
that increases station power-generation capabilities. The P6 will be
relocated during a future assembly mission.
Mission Specialists Patrick Forrester, John "Danny" Olivas, Jim Reilly
and Steven Swanson conducted a total of four spacewalks to activate the
S3/S4 and to retract the P6 arrays. During the third spacewalk, Olivas
repaired an out of position thermal blanket on the left orbital
maneuvering system pod.
Landing also marked the end of a record-setting spaceflight by Mission
Specialist Suni Williams. She broke the record for the longest
spaceflight by a woman and she also became the record-holder for the
most hours outside a spacecraft by a female, completing four spacewalks
during Expedition 14.
Williams' journey began in December with the launch of STS-116. She
lived on the space station for six months before switching places on the
STS-117 crew with Clayton Anderson, who is now a flight engineer on the
station. When Atlantis landed, she had accumulated 194 days, 18 hours
and 58 minutes during her spaceflight.
STS-117 is the 118th shuttle mission and 21st mission to visit the space
station. The next mission, STS-118, is slated to launch in August.
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Station Crew Back to Business
The space station’s newest member, Flight Engineer Clayton Anderson, is
busy at work with his Expedition 15 crewmates Commander Fyodor
Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov. Anderson replaced Suni
Williams who returned home Friday, June 22, aboard space shuttle
Atlantis after a 195-day stay in space.
Williams stayed in space longer than any woman before her. She and her
shuttle crewmates returned to Houston the day after Atlantis landed at
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Meanwhile, science and maintenance continue aboard the International
Space Station. Anderson has been taking blood and urine samples to study
nutritional countermeasures to the effects of microgravity. Yurchikhin
and Kotov have been working on a communications system in the Zvezda
service module and reconfiguring a toilet in the docked Soyuz vehicle
among other tasks.
+ Read more about Expedition 15
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/index.ht…>
+ View crew daily timelines
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/timelines/index.html>
Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2007-06-27 22:30 UTC
Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
Challenger Learning Center of Alaska, Kenai, Alaska, direct via KL7XJ (***)
Sat 2007-07-07 19:43:18 UTC 13 deg (***)
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 302.
Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 1.
Thank you Suni KD5PLB for all of your ARISS contacts!
Welcome Home!
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 302.
Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 1.
QSL information may be found at:
http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.htmlhttp://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's
ISS callsigns: DP0ISS, NA1SS, RS0ISS
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The schedule page has been updated as of 2007-06-27 22:30 UTC.
Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and
questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions
for any contact that may be streamed live.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt
The successful school list has been updated as of 2007-06-15 22:00 UTC
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf
Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing
Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio…
tf
Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf
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There have been rumors in the past indicating that the ISS was having direct
contacts on the 40 meter band. There is no HF radio equipment on board and
available yet. The HF antenna is mounted. Sometimes WA3NAN will retransmit
shuttle audio.
*****************************************************************************
Expedition 15 on orbit:
Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI
Dr. Oleg Kotov
Clayton Anderson KD5PLA
Expedition 15 future:
Daniel Tani KD5DXE
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73,
Charlie Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors
************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
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>> June 27, 2007
>>
>> John Yembrick
>> Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602
>>
>> George Diller
>> Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
>> 321-867-2468
>>
>> NASA'S SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR SET FOR MOVE TO VEHICLE ASSEMBLY BUILDING
>>
>> CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In preparation for the STS-118 mission to the
>> International Space Station, NASA is scheduled to rollover space
>> shuttle Endeavour from its hanger, the Orbiter Processing Facility,
>> to the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building on Monday,
>> July 2.
>>
>> In the Vehicle Assembly Building, crews will mate Endeavour to its
>> external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters.
>>
>> The next milestone for Endeavour is the 3.4-mile rollout to Launch
>> Pad 39A, planned for July 11. Endeavour is targeted for launch in
>> early August. During the 11-day mission to the station, Endeavour's
>> crew of seven astronauts will add the Starboard 5 (S5) segment to the
>> right side of the station's backbone, or truss, deliver 5,000 pounds
>> of supplies and conduct repairs.
>>
>> The mission will be Endeavour's first flight in more than four years.
>> The shuttle has undergone extensive modifications, including the
>> addition of safety upgrades already added to shuttles Discovery and
>> Atlantis. Endeavour also features new hardware, such as the
>> Station-to-Shuttle Power Transfer System that will allow the docked
>> shuttle to draw electrical power from the station and extend its
>> visits to the orbiting lab.
>> Video of the rollover will air on NASA Television's Video File. For
>> NASA TV downlink, streaming video and video file scheduling
>> information, visit:
>>
>> http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
>> For information about the STS-118 mission and its crew, visit:
>>
>> http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
>>
>>
>> -end-
>>
>>
>>
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*Atlantis Crew Home Safe and Sound*
Image above: The crew of mission STS-117 gather in front of Space Shuttle
Atlantis after landing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Image credit:
NASA/Dryden
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<http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/170421main_crew_edwards.jpg>
*06.25.07*
The STS-117 mission astronauts returned to Johnson Space Center on
Saturday, June 23. Their return was marked by a traditional welcome home
ceremony at Ellington Field in Houston.
On Friday, June 29, Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to begin its
journey back to Kennedy Space Center "piggy-backed" on top of a modified
747 jetliner called the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
<http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/crew/ferryflight.html>.
Known as a ferry-flight, the orbiter will make the trip from Edwards Air
Force Base in California to Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility in one to
two days, depending on weather conditions.
Atlantis landed at Edwards concluding a successful assembly mission to
the International Space Station with Commander Rick Sturckow and Pilot
Lee Archambault at the controls. Atlantis landed at 3:49 p.m. EDT on
June 22.
The STS-117 crew began its mission June 8 and arrived at the station
June 10. They quickly began work to install the Starboard 3 and 4
(S3/S4) truss structure to the outpost and retracted a set of arrays on
the Port 6 (P6) truss. The (S3/S4) contains a new set of solar arrays
that increases station power-generation capabilities. The P6 will be
relocated during a future assembly mission.
Mission Specialists Patrick Forrester, John "Danny" Olivas, Jim Reilly
and Steven Swanson conducted a total of four spacewalks to activate the
S3/S4 and to retract the P6 arrays. During the third spacewalk, Olivas
repaired an out of position thermal blanket on the left orbital
maneuvering system pod.
Landing also marked the end of a record-setting spaceflight by Mission
Specialist Suni Williams. She broke the record for the longest
spaceflight by a woman early in the morning on June 16.
Williams' journey began in December with the launch of STS-116. She
lived on the space station for six months before switching places on the
STS-117 crew with Clayton Anderson, who is now a flight engineer on the
station. When Atlantis landed, she had accumulated 194 days, 18 hours
and 58 minutes during her spaceflight.
STS-117 is the 118th shuttle mission and 21st mission to visit the space
station. The next mission, STS-118, is slated to launch in August.
Arthur Rowe wrote: REVISED
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>>> June 26, 2007
>>>
>>> John Yembrick
>>> Headquarters, Washington
>>> 202-358-3749
>>>
>>> James Hartsfield
>>> Johnson Space Center, Houston
>>> 281/483-5111
>>> RECORD-BREAKING ASTRONAUT SUNI WILLIAMS AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS
>>>
>>> HOUSTON - NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who returned to Earth last
>>> week after the longest space voyage ever by a woman, will be
>>> available for satellite interviews on NASA Television from 5:30 - 8
>>> a.m. CDT Friday, June 29.
>>>
>>> Williams spent 195 days in space, 190 of them as a flight engineer
>>> aboard the International Space Station. Although this was her first
>>> spaceflight, Williams also broke the record for most hours outside a
>>> spacecraft by a woman after completing four spacewalks with a total
>>> time of 29 hours, 17 minutes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Williams launched on space shuttle Discovery's STS-116 mission in
>>> December 2006. She then joined the Expedition 14 crew aboard the
>>> station and stayed on the complex to become a member of the
>>> Expedition 15 crew in April. She came home on space shuttle
>>> Atlantis' STS-117 mission that landed at Edwards Air Force Base,
>>> Calif. on Friday, June 22.
>>>
>>> During her stay on orbit, Williams worked with experiments across a
>>> wide variety of fields, including human life sciences, physical
>>> sciences and Earth observation. She also performed education and
>>> technology demonstrations. The experiments conducted by Williams
>>> will help pave the way for future spaceflights.
>>>
>>> "The six months that astronauts spend on the International Space
>>> Station is analogous to the six months they would spend in transit
>>> to get to Mars," said Dr. J.D. Polk, chief of NASA's Medical
>>> Operations Branch at Johnson. "Suni's work on the life sciences
>>> experiments, and indeed Suni herself by virtue of her physiologic
>>> data, give us keen insight that will be needed for exploration
>>> beyond Earth."
>>>
>>> Williams' time on the station was not all work. In April, she became
>>> the first person officially to run a marathon in space,
>>> participating in the 2007 Boston Marathon.
>>> "It is so great to see more and more astronauts, both female and
>>> male, having the privilege to live for extended periods in space,"
>>> said astronaut Shannon Lucid, the previous holder of the female
>>> space endurance record. "These flights are providing the needed
>>> confidence so that some day in the near future we can depart low
>>> Earth orbit and head on out to Mars."
>>>
>>> Williams was born in Euclid, Ohio, and grew up in Needham, Mass.,
>>> near Boston. She is a commander in the U.S. Navy and was selected as
>>> an astronaut candidate in 1998.
>>> Williams' biography is available on the Internet at:
>>>
>>> http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/williams-s.html
>>> For more information about NASA, visit:
>>>
>>> http://www.nasa.gov
>>>
>>> -end-
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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