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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, pronounced /ˈnæsə/) is an agency of the United States government,

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$The space shuttle Atlantis is seen shortly after the rotating service structure (RSS) was rolled back at launch pad 39A at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida in this picture taken July 7, 2011. Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, NASA on May 23, 2013 put out a \$

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This image provided by NASA shows Carroll Whitley, NASA Engineering Technician,right, and Nicholas Karavolos, New Horizons Regional Education Center, HVAC student working on a barany chair at the NASA Langley facility in Hampton, Va., Thursday May 24, 2013.

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$This image provided by NASA shows Carroll Whitley, NASA Engineering Technician, left, and Nicholas Karavolos, New Horizons Regional Education Center, HVAC student working on a Barany chair at the NASA Langley facility in Hampton, Va., Thursday May 23, 2013. Karavolos is one of 16 high school students from the area who helped design and build what\'s called a Barany Chair which teaches pilots what it is like to be disoriented under a program that was new to Langley this school year.$

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$NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visits to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore. Bolden\'s visit comes a month after the Obama administration unveiled its 2014 budget that proposes $105 million to jumpstart the mission, which may eventually cost more than $2.6 billion.$

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This image shows NASA Administrator Charles Bolden during a visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore.

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$NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left to right, Firouz Naderi, Director for the Solar System Exploration, and John Brophy, Electric Propulsion Engineer, are shown during Bolden\'s visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, May 23, 2013. NASA engineers are developing an ion engine for an asteroid capture mission later this decade.$

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The space shuttle Atlantis is seen shortly after the rotating service structure (RSS) was rolled back at launch pad 39A at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida in this picture taken July 7, 2011. Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, NASA on May 23, 2013 put out a "For Lease" notice for one of its shuttle launch pads in Florida.

This image provided by NASA shows Carroll Whitley, NASA Engineering Technician,right, and Nicholas Karavolos, New Horizons Regional Education Center, HVAC student working on a barany chair at the NASA Langley facility in Hampton, Va., Thursday May 24, 2013.

This image provided by NASA shows Carroll Whitley, NASA Engineering Technician, left, and Nicholas Karavolos, New Horizons Regional Education Center, HVAC student working on a Barany chair at the NASA Langley facility in Hampton, Va., Thursday May 23, 2013. Karavolos is one of 16 high school students from the area who helped design and build what's called a Barany Chair which teaches pilots what it is like to be disoriented under a program that was new to Langley this school year.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visits to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore. Bolden's visit comes a month after the Obama administration unveiled its 2014 budget that proposes $105 million to jumpstart the mission, which may eventually cost more than $2.6 billion.

This image shows NASA Administrator Charles Bolden during a visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left to right, Firouz Naderi, Director for the Solar System Exploration, and John Brophy, Electric Propulsion Engineer, are shown during Bolden's visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, May 23, 2013. NASA engineers are developing an ion engine for an asteroid capture mission later this decade.

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