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all right good afternoon and welcome I

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am Joshua Santoro sorry for being a few

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minutes late working technical

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difficulties because I'm not at the

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Kennedy Space Center today although

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that's why normally report for work I'm

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at my house so appreciate you joining us

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and today we are super excited because

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we're talking about humans in space here

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as a nice Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin and

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then Ronny Mike Collins now boarding the

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transfer van

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brother trip to the lunch last you hear

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our cameras as it comes out

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this is a very historical walkway it's

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the same path that the Apollo astronauts

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took to go to the moon

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applying pool now the planning from

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there to quarters

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so incredible amounts of history

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forthcoming there you see may 27 20 20

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we are super excited as we talk about

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the spaceport series specifically today

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we are talking about the Commercial Crew

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program so without any further ado I

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want to introduce my two guests today

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two ladies who I've had the extreme

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privilege of working with over my career

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we have today Marie Lewis thanks for

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being here with me

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of course I hope my internet cooperates

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yeah so technical difficulties that's

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all right we're getting there we're

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gonna make it happen and then Jen

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Hudgens one of our phenomenal educators

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here for NASA yes that's correct

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so even teachers are employees of NASA

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Jen thanks again for being here

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yeah thanks for having me I'm super

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excited cool so I want to jump right in

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here and kind of cycle back for those

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that may not be familiar Marie you work

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in public affairs supporting the

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Commercial Crew program and half of the

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past couple years so what is Commercial

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Crew give me that high level overview

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sure so the Commercial Crew program is a

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way for us to have safe reliable and

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cost-effective transportation for

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astronauts to the International Space

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Station so we haven't had that launch

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capability from here in the United

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States since the Space Shuttle was

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retired in 2011 since then we've had a

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great partnership with Russia

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they've been launching our NASA

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astronauts to the space station for us

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since that time so we are super pumped

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because we're gonna be launching

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American astronauts on American rockets

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and spacecraft for the first time in

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nine years in just a few weeks

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rockets and spacecraft give me just a

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real quick overview what are what is the

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rocket and spacecraft for this mission

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yep so for this mission our partner

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top thinkin and Dunkerley on the crew

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they will bring him back the nasa worm

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been a major crunch getting ready for

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this mission and with all of us working

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at home and dealing with

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all difficulties you know with our

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internet and so forth has been it's been

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a challenging time but really one that

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kind of fills us all with pride because

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we're so close now and we're almost

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there and we're so excited to bring this

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to the rest of the country in the world

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yeah I want to take a quick second and

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remind our viewers today if you're

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watching on the live stream feel free to

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submit questions in the chat window

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there we'd love to have those as we go

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through this conversation also be sure

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know what you want to see in future

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episodes so plug in right back along so

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demo2 is this mission Murry why is demo2

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so important why is this one so

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important well like I said this is gonna

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we've had the capability to launch

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astronauts from US soil to the

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International Space Station so it's a

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first in nine years and beyond that I

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mean this is what's really setting the

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stage for regular rotational missions on

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both of our providers SpaceX and Boeing

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to the International Space Station why

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when we have the capability to launch

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astronauts with both of our providers we

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can have more astronauts on station that

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translates to more time to do research

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and that research has more benefits than

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have here but they're basically twofold

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can go even farther into space than we

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life-sustaining systems for astronauts

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that are going farther and eventually to

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them to Mars and then also it it opens

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up the door to all these technology

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advancements that improve life here on

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earth everything from you know small

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conveniences to life-saving robotic

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surgery so the benefits of this research

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are just endless and the more astronauts

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research time on station the better so

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Murray is that really why is that why we

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find that the average person should care

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this is one of the things that can be

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difficult some days like people can love

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what we do they think it's really cool

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it the research wise is relatable for

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people around America I mean for me

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acknowledge II I mean obviously watching

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people on a rocket is always inspiring

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don't realize the amount of spin-off

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technology that we have that that

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back around to help people all over the

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planet have a better quality of life

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on a lot of things for people to do to

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not tangible they can't hold it but that

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impact is so important but for you guys

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on absolutely Joshua my team and I have

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products and activities to engage

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students in what's currently happening

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with these crude launches that are

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getting ready to happen we want to

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inspire our future generations to pursue

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careers in stem because to be honest

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NASA is going to need that workforce

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coming in the future and the best way to

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do it is to engage them with what's

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activities and ways to engage with

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like coding we have virtual tours that

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facilities and places that you can't

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station where students can actually

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choose their crew weather or their

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astronaut team based on the careers and

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virtual tours that we have there's

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the swimming pool we heard from our our

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stem activities and I really encourage

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that website and you can find all of

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those Commercial Crew activities from K

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to 12 all the way up so thanks for

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letting me chat with you guys and I

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really encourage you to get involved in

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what we have to offer for you yeah

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thanks Jenn appreciate that obviously I

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know there's lots more to come with all

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that so thinking about the future gen

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for you guys what are you looking at as

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far as ways to also engage with people

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that are out there as we get ready to

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launch because obviously launch is an

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exciting time are there other things

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that you guys are doing to kind of say

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hey let's pay special attention to

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what's happening

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absolutely so we've developed a launch

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kit and we'll have a page on NASA's

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website where you can go find out

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minute-to-minute what's happening with

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the crew as they're getting ready for

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launch if you're a teacher or a parent

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that's home with your students there are

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resources that you can look at print or

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engage social media wise how to watch

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videos that we put together we have

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explainer videos what's this all about

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things that you can use to engage with

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your students and how to get involved

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social media wise like that challenge I

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this new this crude launch next month

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slash stem check that out lots of cool

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things there even beyond Commercial Crew

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related stuff there's a ton of good

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things also the nasa.gov slash NASA at

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home also more resources there for you

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for very good reasons but how does this

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rockets so that is really significant

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challenged each other on ways of doing

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things so this is really truly the first

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of its kind yeah that's awesome and I

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weeds of practically how that changes

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our world when we interact with them

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like you said phenomenal partnerships

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with both companies just lots of fun new

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adventures new challenges all the time

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but we are less than a month away from

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excited cannot wait Maria I know that

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you'll actually be hosting the launch

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broadcast that's the plan I'm so excited

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for that and I know you'll have a

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special guest probably not talking about

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who that is yet but exciting to know

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that's coming up what else should people

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be looking forward to between now and

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then highlights of activities obviously

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mission overview a news conference with

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crew Bob and Doug so you'll hear from

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them directly and very soon we're going

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to be putting out a schedule of all of

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the NASA TV events and events

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have that on NASA TV all of the final

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reviews program reviews and approvals in

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order to get to launch and so we'll have

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be going on the air off several hours

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before launch so we can take viewers

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at the duration of their mission awesome

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fantastic cannot wait like you said so

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much going on feel free to follow us or

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this YouTube channel you'll be able to

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keep up with everything that's happening

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and also last last comment fun facts

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marine shares a hometown with doug is

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that correct yes so Doug it was born in

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Endicott New York that's my home

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town he considers apple akin his

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hometown is just across the river so

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very familiar with Doug's hometown and

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so I've got a lot of hometown pride for

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done in particular but super excited for

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both of our crew members and just

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honored to be a small part of what has

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been a massive effort by still many

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people from NASA and Facebook yeah

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awesome

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Murray thank you very much Jen and you

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as well appreciate you both providing

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insight and lots of nuggets of

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information of things to go work on and

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find out about for the future thanks

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Joshua absolutely thanks for having me

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all right so before we send you off for

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the rest of today want to highlight a

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couple things for you in addition to all

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of the amazing things happening that

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we're covering on our program also

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wanted to highlight for you a couple

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social media happenings this week so

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very important the Mars 2020

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perseverance rover which we've

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highlighted a lot on this program over

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the course of the past few weeks has a

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helicopter on board which we will be

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having a show to talk about next week

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Masek this is the plan which we're

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pumped for it got a name yesterday

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ingenuity I believe is its new name so

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excited for that again named by a

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student which is one of the things I

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love we're really bringing in students

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to get involved with our work and naming

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things is really fun so perseverance and

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ingenuity flying as a very dynamic duo

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to the Red Planet here July 17th I

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believe is our targeted liftoff and I

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minutes we're gonna have a massive

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announcement this is the human Lander

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system so for the Artemis program we are

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actually gonna be announcing who will be

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working on the landing system some some

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of I don't know the specifics it's

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pretty hush-hush until it comes up

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publicly all I know is that there's a

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big announcement I want to clock so tune

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in enjoy that and that's gonna do it for

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me here at the Kennedy Space Center sort