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Intro music.

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Ah yes, the roar of the engine, the high tech equipment, and... the checkered flag?

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It's not NASA, it's NASCAR... well, as a matter of fact, it's both.

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Driver Tim Fedewa stopped by the Kennedy Space Center in July to take a look at the hardware that's helping NASCAR improve their own speedsters.

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"Some of the lubricant has been developed here and fallen over into NASCAR and the racing industry.

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I know some of the heat shields that we use, to keep us...

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we put them on our floorboards to keep the exhaust heats from coming up into the car and making them even hotter...

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it's used on the Shuttle, actually."

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Fedewa is a big fan of the space program, especially the new Vision, which will send explorers to the Moon, Mars, and even farther into the Universe.

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"I think there's more out there than we know. The more advanced we get technologically,

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the more things we find. It might not be something big, but it'll lead to something bigger, and years from now,

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we're going to amaze ourselves with what we're able to do. It's a frontier and it's cool to see it unravel."

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