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really what what we wanted to do was as

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part of the KSC morale team we kind of

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put together a group of folks that

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volunteered to come up with different

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projects that would give people the

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opportunity to become part of the legacy

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of the space shuttle program and the báb

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wall signing initiative was one of those

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projects though that we came up with and

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what we wanted to do is we wanted to

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give folks the opportunity to come and

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record their name as being part of the

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as part of the space shuttle program and

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it was challenging to 41 to find us a

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spot in the VA be that was that would be

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able to capture as many names as we

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anticipated that we would have and so

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far the the I think we're up to about

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2,500 2,500 names and we anticipate

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getting I think we can capture as much

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as 10,000 names so anyone that that

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wants to you know record their name in

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history that's that's we're providing

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that opportunity and the end product is

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going to be the wall which we'll have

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Plexiglas covering the names and the

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plan is to keep it here for folks to to

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be able to to come and see their names

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in history how people love it all the

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initiatives that the morale team has put

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together has been very well received

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we're doing the vab or the OPF tours for

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folks to have the opportunity to see the

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orbiter and processing and the VAB wall

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has been very well received and we're

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publishing it in the KSC Daily News and

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folks are seeing it off-site some of the

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retirees they have access into the KSC

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area than there they're also coming

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inside

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in the law because some folks have put

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in many many years their entire careers

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and the shuttle program and have already

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retired and left and so some of them are

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coming back and signing so very very

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well received folks have been coming

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from every department all over que se as

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a matter of fact some folks that have

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retired and gone on if they have access

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into the KSC area they're coming in to

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sign the wall and folks some of the

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folks have gone over to the Air Force

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side they're coming over and signing it

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and we're having about 250 people a

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shift and the shift is twice a week

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we're providing the opportunity for

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folks to come in and do it so it's very

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well received yeah I signed it as close

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to the orbiters I could get but I was

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one of the first ones my father worked

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out here for NASA and I had always

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wanted to come out here to work for for

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NASA and I started out here working for

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united space alliance and when the

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opportunity came for me to work for NASA

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I transitioned over and I've always been

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very proud of the space shuttle program

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and it's kind of been in my family for

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since I can remember so there's probably

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too many memories to to mention but I

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think it's always been a very important

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initiative for our for our nation so

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it's kind of sad to see it go and with

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the uncertain future and kind of be nice