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good afternoon everyone and welcome to a

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google hangout i'm here with uh some of

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the brilliant students who created the

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johnson uh nasa johnson style video uh

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and we're just kind of having a hangout

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with them to talk about what that

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experience was like whether they

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expected the popularity of the video

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and um

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you know

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what they hope to what they hope to do

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with their lives uh after they get

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through with the co-op program and and

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getting the space program

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so why don't we just kind of go around

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and everyone who's on the call introduce

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themselves

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all right i'll start my name is adam

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nades

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from plymouth meeting pennsylvania went

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to school over at embry riddle

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aeronautical university i co-opted here

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for four different tours at jsc

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my part in the video was as a mentor and

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um

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my name is eric sim uh i'm from raleigh

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north carolina

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i'm studying

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aerospace engineering at nc state

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and i recorded the song and i played psy

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hi my name is uh gary jordan i'm

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currently a junior at penn state

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university majoring in marketing

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this past fall i co-opted nasa for the

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first time

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in the public affairs office my role in

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the video was director photography some

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hey everyone my name is ronak devaye i'm

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a senior at purdue university majoring

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in aerospace engineering

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and i also did some of the camera work

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and i'm brian grant i'm the uh pathways

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programs and recruiting manager at the

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nasa johnson space center so oversee one

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of our student programs uh where all the

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students here with us today uh work as a

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part of and i'm veronica asylum in the

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education office at nasa johnson space

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center and oversee some of the

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internship programs where the students

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um come on board here at johnson space

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center

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very good thank you so when you guys

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were starting out and i guess you have

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to do a song is it or you have to do a

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video every year was it right away you

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knew you wanted to do a music music

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video and how did you decide upon

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so i guess i'll start off with this atom

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can add to this but uh this isn't really

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a mandatory thing it's a project that

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was started about five years ago 2007

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uh range that some of the co-ops then uh

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had the idea to create unique outreach

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doesn't necessarily

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reach

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there's been about maybe 20 cumulative

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videos made

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i know adam and i last year last fall

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worked on

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four or five of them and their the

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co-ops before us had made a few

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after the success of the the where nasa

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and we know it video and some of the

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stuff curiosity was doing and

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some of the

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publicity on-site we were getting of the

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good work we were doing and

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people were kind of more open to doing

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something a little more liberal and we

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kind of had the idea of doing a music

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video and uh so that's where that kind

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of started i don't know if adam you want

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to add to a little bit of the history

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part before we talk about this one

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specifically

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oh yeah so just in general the co-op

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video committee was created just as a

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way to connect with

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the public in a way that's meaningful to

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a lot of the a lot of the original

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videos focused on tv shows or parodies

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and just things that the pop the general

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public are interested in and are

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entertained by so we kind of continued

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with that and uh we just

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wanted to make fun and entertaining

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videos to explain what nasa is doing and

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there was in the past there have been

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some very popular parody videos made

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we kind of shied away from doing those

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people said oh they've been done before

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i think enough time had passed and we

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saw a unique opportunity with the

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gangnam style and

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one of the other interns joyce just had

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an idea and she emailed it out to

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everybody um because it was just one of

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those songs that

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you know it was pretty much like every

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other song on the radio you heard was

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gangnam style and it was already at like

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some hundred million views and it was

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just sort of everywhere so

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and then we started seeing like mit do a

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parody we saw um you know there was a

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few other ones and we thought you know

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one-up these guys and show them that

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nasa's cool and we know what we're doing

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and we figured the popularity of the

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video uh it was it was a good

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opportunity to exploit that and sort of

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take and take something that was

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originally entertaining and somehow i

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mean i don't know if you've seen gangnam

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style but it's sort of meaningless like

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the whole dancing thing it's it's it got

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kind of random but we put it together in

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a way that was educational and people

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can actually get something out of it

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so when you uh

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when you shot the video

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were there parts of it

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approved i guess were there parts of it

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that were too risky because there were

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some parts in there that were pretty fun

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where you had like you know the

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astronauts

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we wanted to be true to the video but

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also not make it to the point where

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wasn't meaningful so most of this almost

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100 of the shots that we copied have

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some sort of educational

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side to the actual shot uh there's very

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few that are just there to kind of

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parody the video uh we didn't want to

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just stray off to where we were just

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where we were still parodying the video

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but it didn't have any meaning and i i

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mean you guys can add to that that's how

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i saw it i mean yeah obviously

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risky parts of the original video that

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representing government agencies could

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replicate 100 but i think that we we

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took our own spin off of them and

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made them fun and

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so four million four million page views

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did anyone expect that did you guys

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i definitely did not um i mean when we

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released the video like that friday we

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had a release event here at jsc to to

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you know show it off to johnson space

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center first before we made it public

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we we talked to each other we're like

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yeah you know maybe we'll have like a

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thousand views come monday or a hundred

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thousand or something and come monday i

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think we had a million so it was just

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it just blew us away and it was really

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it was an exciting weekend that's for

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sure we actually cracked the youtube

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view algorithm so after you hit a 300

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views in a specific period of time

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they stop counting they keep counting

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the views but they authenticate each

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view because they think someone is

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trying to game the system so we were

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sitting there that night and it hadn't

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budged from like 312 we were like really

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we know more people than 300 have

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watched this why is this not moving and

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then we all did our research and now i

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guess we're all experts on the youtube

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you had like 2 000 likes but only 300

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um i i'm curious

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when some of you have gone back to your

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campuses after this came out or maybe

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you already were on your campuses

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eric or others i mean did people come up

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like where nasa's really popular

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um and they follow nasa videos anyway

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a handful of people that knew me kind of

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shared it with everybody else and so

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like just kind of get like um you know

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double takes when i'm walking in the

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hall and like not sure if it's me

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every day and you know i'm not wearing

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looks kind of like me so just get a lot

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of double takes at school now so that's

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everyone here but we all took the time

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to share with all of our friends so i

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know that when i went back all my

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friends came up to me and were asking

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about the video did you make it was that

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you at you know 58 seconds or wherever i

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popped up but they were they're all

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asking questions about that and they all

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loved it they all shared it with their

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friends and really that was what it was

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all about was just getting them so

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excited that they just wanted to tell

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go ahead brian we've already had our new

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students that are starting on monday

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several of them have been asking us

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about the video and how they can get

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i was actually at a

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aerospace co-op recruiting uh

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informational session kind of thing

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yesterday and uh i was just hanging

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around after the meeting just so some of

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the the freshmen could talk to me about

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the experience

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and uh one of them came up and was like

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that the the video the nasa johnson

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style i was like yeah i helped make it

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and it was just i've been waiting for

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that third party thing to come full

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circle and have someone ask me about it

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it was really funny the way it happened

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so uh do you guys find that generally

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your your fellow students back at your

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home institutions

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know what you're doing here at

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nasa or what johnson space center is

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doing or are they not sure what nasa is

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doing after the shuttle

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i think the general answer is is no i

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think that they don't i think there's a

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large portion of the population that

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correlated the end of the space shuttle

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the end of nasa itself and that is as we

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all know very far from the truth uh

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all across the agency and uh it's really

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it's frustrating to us you know going

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back and having people say hey what do

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so sorry i heard they got cancelled like

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well that's that's not true so we that's

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that's one of the things that we pride

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ourselves on one of our missions to let

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people know that there's still a lot of

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cool things going on a lot of

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awesome things coming up in the future

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so talk maybe either you guys could just

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talk a little bit about what you have

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done as as these co-op students i mean i

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would imagine it's a little more than

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this is this past tour was my second one

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and i was working in uh propulsion

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systems

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and i was working on an in-house

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um test bed called morpheus

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um and then my first toy which was in

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the spring of this year i was working at

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the neutral buoyancy laboratory

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and um it's it's a giant pool with a iss

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mock up in there where astronauts go in

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and train and um i just helped out with

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that and it was just awesome experience

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now this was my first tour uh this past

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fall at nasa and my job in public

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affairs office a very well-rounded

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experience i got to give a lot of tours

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to some pretty important people so i got

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to get out of the office kind of walk

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around show people learn the history um

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i got to talk to media especially about

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all the recent events i was always

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current with what was going on at nasa

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johnson space center and then one of the

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highlights was uh getting to talk to and

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communicate with astronauts

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and uh really getting to know them on a

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personal level when i was talking to

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them and and

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giving them the opportunity to talk to

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the media and tell other people about

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what they were doing so

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operations um the first being in

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communications and data handling

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where i basically worked with the flight

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controllers who work in mission control

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and help them with the tasks that they

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do daily and the things the tools that

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they use daily and making them better

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and helping them out and my second

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operations tour was in

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the iss maintenance and mechanisms group

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a smorgasbord if you will of of tasks

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that happen on station is control are

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controlled by them uh including all the

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of the vehicle and uh

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all the mechanisms that go into birthing

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and my second door which was in between

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those two was also in the propulsion

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system uh branch

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and there i worked on the mmseb or

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multi-mission space exploration vehicle

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and uh i did a lot of work on creating

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one of the new mock-ups that's now built

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being used for rats testing

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uh during uh during my tours i did i did

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four of them so i'll just go through

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them real quickly i started actually as

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an as a intern and moved to a pathway

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intern

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so i started back working on a reduced

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gravity simulator uh which is really

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cool just training astronauts to how

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they would work in lower gravity

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environments like in space or on the

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moon or mars uh then i worked on the

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multi-mission space exploration vehicle

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like ronac did i did that twice i mean

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that's that's pretty much a future

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concept for a spaceship so that was a

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really fun project uh and then i also

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i co-opt in the tools and equipment

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branch so we are responsible for like

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designing testing and

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space tools and that's where i actually

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am now full time as well so a lot of

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cool stuff

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i would just like to say that a lot of

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times our co-op stand our students they

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they're absorbed onto the the teams

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themselves and treated and given

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projects it's like employees would said

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they're given the real-time hands-on

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experiences that they wouldn't get

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normally and so we're very fortunate to

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have a team of experts and

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technical experts who take the time to

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mentor them and to give them the

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responsibilities to handle these

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projects

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yeah it certainly sounds like a pretty

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cool pretty cool opportunity for

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students now i the final question is did

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this experience change anyone's mind now

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do we have any budding internet

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celebrities here or does everyone still

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want to go into space

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when they're when they're done with

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the next step is doing a video in space

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there we go we got to stay with nasa in

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order to do that and that's the only way

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well guys thank you very much i really