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my name is Donald Smith I work right now

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for bopd we're doing transition work for

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the closing of the shuttle program I got

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a bunch of them I found out here next

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week and be 25 years and I've seen 129

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launches and every launch is just

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spectacular you know especially out here

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you feel it rumbling inside and to have

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all the people cheer and it's just

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wonderful there's some bad memories I

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was here for challenger I was off Texas

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picking up Columbia remains but this is

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like the best place in the world of work

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anybody would give anything to work out

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here and I remember as a kid laying back

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in the front lawn looking up at space

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and going there's a lot out there and I

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lived up in New York at the time never

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thought in my wildest dreams I would get

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a job out here and I live in a lot of

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Dale at the time and I applied up here

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for Lockheed Martin and I got a phone

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call one day and it was then they said

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have you ever worked with hyper calls

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and see what the heck are hyper golf

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every one before so I got the job and

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it's just been remarkable ever since I

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wouldn't trade it for the world and now

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my family works out here my son my

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daughter and that happens a lot out here

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we have generation after generation and

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when i first started i got the work with

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a lot of people that worked the Gemini

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program the other programs are out here

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and to listen to their stories and see

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it through their eyes you know they were

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older I started out here when I was 22

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and to be out here all these years and

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experience it and out anytime I go

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anywhere out of town or to another state

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I selling the Space Center spectacular

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they're like you actually worked there

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get to see astronauts is it every day

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and there again it's just you know it's

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the wonderful thing a good experience

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I'm very sad to see it come to an end in

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but I guess all good things have to come

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to an end but like I said I would never

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trade it for anything in the world

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experiences and meet the people and

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there's a lot of professionals out here

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they do their jobs to do it very well I

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mean right down to the last shuttle

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flight I guarantee that every person is