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Marcia Ball is an American blues singer and pianist, born in Orange, Texas. Her music has been nominated for a Grammy Award and a Blues Music Award.
The Quebe Sisters Band is an American fiddle western swing group from Fort Worth, Texas.
NASA: 50 Years and Beyond program overview narrated by Jim Deutsch, NASA program curator.
Peter Homer is an engineer who designed a new glove for NASA. Homer won the 2007 NASA contest for a new glove design which was open to the public.
Bill Saturno is an archaeologist for NASA. He discusses what he does for NASA and how he studies images.
NASA food scientist Michele Perchonok from the Johnson Space Center talks about food used in space.
Issa Nesnas, an engineer for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discusses and demonstrates prototypes of land rovers.
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