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MIKE FINCKE
HI, I'm NASA astronaut Mike Fincke and I'm

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very excited for our country's vision of the
21st century space program.

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Having launched from different launch pads
all over this planet to the beautiful International

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Space Station, I'm very excited that through
the Commercial Crew Program, that we are returning

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launch capability back to the United States.

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JEANNETTE EPPS
To 
go to space we need hardware, vehicles and

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launch pads. NASA's Commercial Crew Program
selected American companies who are putting

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all those pieces together so we can go fly,
lifting off on missions to the International

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Space Station from right here in the United
States and returning home.

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When I go out to talk to students, a lot of
them don't know that the space program is

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still going on here in the United States, so
when they see the U.S. launching American

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rockets that will reinvigorate interest in
STEM and hopefully get more students involved

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and get students excited about space exploration
again.

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SUNI WILLIAMS
NASA's Commercial Crew Program is a new way

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to get to the station and it enables us to
add another crew member which will effectively

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double the science we can conduct in space.

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After completing missions living and working
in space, they'll come home not just to Earth,

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but here to the United States.