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hey what's going on everybody I am

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Joshua Santora coming to you live not

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from the Kennedy Space Center today

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necessarily but from nature as we

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celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of

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Earth Day we wanted to give you a

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special look at some of the things that

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really make the Kennedy Space Center

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special we are in the middle of a

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National Wildlife Refuge to tell us more

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about the institutional effort that is a

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part of our spaceport here is NASA

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communications Greg Harland Greg take it

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away Thank You Joshua and happy Earth

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Day everybody

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I'm Greg Harlan with NASA's Kennedy

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Space Center office communication well

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this is not a typical April it is a

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celebration of our home planet at a time

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when we collectively commit to

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preserving and protecting the earth for

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generations to come

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this year marks the 50th observation of

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Earth Day

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even while practicing social distancing

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we can connect with nature and perhaps

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acquire new skills with healthy benefits

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we can exercise outside landscape

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planted garden or even just enjoy the

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simple sounds of nature NASA is also

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celebrating Earth Day with a campaign we

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like to call hashtag Earth Day at home

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one of the things I like to do at my

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house is cook and I like to use natural

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herbs and spices for my cooking and one

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of the things I'm going to show you

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today is how to actually plant herbs for

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an herb garden right here I have three

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different varieties of herbs and these

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you can get any garden center and you

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can get either regular organic versions

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anyway

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what you're going to do is you're gonna

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get a pot of soil moist soil and you're

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gonna take one of these packages and

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you're gonna open it up like I did right

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here and you're going to basically in

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your moist soil make a little

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indentation with your finger to accept

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the seeds and then you're gonna grab

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some of your parsley seeds like I have

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right here and you're just going to drop

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them right in there and then you're

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gonna cover up the soil and then you're

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gonna give it just a little bit of water

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and that's it you are on your way to

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having your own herb garden about three

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weeks ago I went ahead and planted both

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cilantro and a sweet basil and as you

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can see right here after about three

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weeks I have these two amazing plants

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that are ready to pick and use in my

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gardening or my cooking

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and one of the interesting things about

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this is these plants will keep growing

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and keep growing you can use them over

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and over again you know you have the

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freshest herbs and the stuff you'd like

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to cook Kennedy Space Center shares

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boundaries with the Merritt Island

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National Wildlife Refuge on Florida's

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Atlantic coast the refuge covers

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approximately a hundred and forty-four

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thousand acres and is home to more than

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315 native and migratory bird species 25

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mammal species and 65 amphibian and

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reptile species the refuge supports one

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of the highest numbers of threatened and

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endangered species anywhere in the

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nation one of the animals you might see

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when you visit the Kennedy Space Center

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include our Sentinel the American

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alligator it's not known how many

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resided Kennedy but one thing is for

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sure there are many another resident is

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the Florida scrub jay the only species

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of birds endemic to the Sunshine State

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scrub jays are similar to a blue jay in

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color and size but lack the crest on the

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back of their heads one of our slow

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movers is the gopher tortoise oftentimes

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it can be seen munching on grass

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throughout the center our nation's

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symbol the bald eagle makes KSC its home

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the bald eagle migrates here every fall

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through spring arriving around the third

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week of August there are several eagle

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nests throughout the center and the most

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well-known one can be seen during

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Kennedy Space Center bus tours the nest

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is large enough to fit a king-size bed

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with a diameter of 7 feet

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Kennedy property also has a varied

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habitats including coastal dunes

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saltwater estuaries and marshes

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freshwater impoundments scrub pine

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flatwoods and hardwood hammocks these

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habitats provide refuge for more than

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1,000 species of plants of these there

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are 39 state listed plants as threatened

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within kennedy's boundaries the kandy

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environmental program supports to

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preserve by balancing its programs with

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those of our launch activities one

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example is our shoreline restoration

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project the shoreline restoration

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projects the mission

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is to protect our launch infrastructure

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from the encroachment from the sea a

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secondary benefit it is protecting

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animal life by giving natural habitat to

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those animals that make the coastline

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their home other examples of the

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environmental programs impacted Kennedy

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include support of controlled burns

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which help manage the overgrowth of

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vegetation at the center participation

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in America Recycles day or the many

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solar farms throughout the center that

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provide clean power to our facilities so

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as you can see the Kennedy Space Center

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has a very robust environmental program

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that not only takes care of our

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environment but also does some of the

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greatest things off the earth I want to

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thank you for sharing Earth Day with me

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today and remember if you're on Twitter

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or Instagram you can reach us at hashtag

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Earth Day at home back to you Joshua so

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there you have it not only is the

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Kennedy Space Center a technological and

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engineering masterpiece where we push

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the boundaries of what's possible for

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exploration and the future we are also a

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National Wildlife Refuge where nature

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meets technology so as we push the

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boundaries as we're reaching for new

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heights we're also doing everything we

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can for those on earth and in space to

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make sure that they're ready and

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prepared and well taken care of for

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future generations that's all for this

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special edition of NASA at home

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spaceport series I'm Joshua sanentur

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reminding you that even the sky isn't