During the STS-134 mission, and for the first several months afterward, about 40 members of the AMS team monitored the experiment and analyzed the data it sent down from the Payload Operations Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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One source was kinescopes found in film vaults at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston that had not been seen for 36 years, NASA said.
He spent nearly eight months preparing for the flight with cosmonauts in Russia and trained briefly at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
But Walter Sipes, a NASA psychologist at Johnson Space Center in Houston, said he thinks he knows where to look to start finding answers: history books.
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"This is the successful culmination of all of the design trade studies and activities to date, " said Mark Geyer, manager of the Orion Project Office at Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Peggy Whitson, who three years ago was named the 13th Chief of the Astronaut Office, making her the first woman to lead the U.S. Astronaut Corps, stepped down in July, a spokesman at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston confirmed to collectSpace.com.
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Shielding that would completely block those rays would be "meters thick" and too heavy to be used aboard a spacecraft, said Eddie Semones, a radiation health expert at NASA's Johnson Space Flight Center.
"I've got no reports that I've seen that talk about people who think they might have recovered debris, " Nick Johnson, Nasa's chief scientist for orbital debris at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, told reporters during a media teleconference.
"It's pretty clear that we're going to want to have a course of action to take as quickly as possible, " Nasa spokesman Rob Navias said at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Perhaps most significant, the spending outline would "transfer space station management reporting from the Johnson Space Center in Texas to NASA headquarters until a new program management plan is developed and approved, " according to the proposed budget.
"We're ready to put them to work and get ready to put bootprints back on the moon, " says Glenn Lutz, NASA's project manager for Extravehicular Activity Systems at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The McDonald's on NASA Road One, just down the street from the Saturn Lane gate of the Johnson Space Center, featured a giant fiberglass astronaut floating out from the roof in the posture of one of the old Gemini spacewalkers, holding an order of fries in his outstretched left hand.
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