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all right welcome again to another

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episode of NASA home spaceport series

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this is our Artemis week and I'm joined

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I'm Joshua Santoro and that's

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communication at the Kennedy Space

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Center and I'm joined by my very special

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guest today

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Kelvin Manning Kelvin thanks for joining

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me hey Josh I'm excited to be here you

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know to celebrate to talk about artemis

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week that's what the agency is all about

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returning us back to the moon yeah and

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Before we jump in I want to give you

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guys kind of nice flavor of the Kennedy

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Space Center is one of my favorite

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videos that we have to kind of show the

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breadth of what we're doing it's a

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couple years old so some things that

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have never been updated since then but

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it's a nice snapshot of the Kennedy

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there you go somebody's Go Go

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Roscoe

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maybe I got kids ego grounders go cheezy

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Go Go oh it's them go go for dicier

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terminal count yes SCE go go go D is go

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for final count BS years ago

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so that I mean to me that kind of tells

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that story of we are the world's

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premiere spaceport and as you saw a

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minute ago with Kelvin his entitled the

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Associate Director for technical at KSC

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Kelvin what is it that you do as the

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Associate Director Josh oh you saw that

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video there's so much going on at KSC as

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a senior manager we do whatever it takes

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I like to tell people to keep the wheels

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turning the lights burning the workforce

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turns to the rocket supply and

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politicians buying satellites or and

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astronauts exploring so the kids will

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learn and the public we yearn for

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America's space program that's what

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we're doing at the Kennedy Space Center

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yes fantastic summary there I'm sure

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that with everything going on you have

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no shortage of things to keep you busy

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can you give us some historical

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perspective obviously we are we have

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been through a time of transition

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especially these past nine years from

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the end of the shuttle program so

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historically to today what's what's

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really going on with KSC

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well we've transformed the Kennedy Space

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Center into a multi-user spaceport the

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last shuttle flight of course was July

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2011 and since then we've been working

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to put humans back in space launching

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again from the Americans with they want

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to launch a new American rockets and

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that's coming with Commercial Crew but

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since its ominous week what we're

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focusing on is returning to the moon and

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then on to Mars that's what we've really

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been concentrating on preparing the

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ground infrastructure to make that

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Kennedy Space Center is the home of

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exploration ground systems program and

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that's the organization that you work on

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that ground infrastructure prepare the

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ground infrastructure to launch the

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Orion spacecraft or top the Space Launch

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System rocket and can you tell us so you

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mentioned EGS as we call them

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exploration ground systems can you kind

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of cover what are some of the specifics

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of their responsibilities they have some

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of probably the most physically obvious

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and most historic elements to the Space

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Center but what are those are pieces

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well we'll start with the centerpiece of

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launch complex 39

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that is the Vehicle Assembly Building

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that building was first built in 1966

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started construction in 1962 so just

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think about it one of the largest

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buildings in the worldwide volume when

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it was built it was completed in four

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years and that's where the rocket will

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the rocket will come together the pieces

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of the boosters the core stage the upper

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stage and that'll be topped off with

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your IU spacecraft so we had the

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centerpiece there obviously earlier

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earlier in the week we talked about

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launch complex 39b which is great there

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we also saw the mobile launcher can you

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tell us more about the mobile launcher

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and the launch control center those are

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two other ones that are a huge part in

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that's launching Artemis sure so what

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the mobile launcher is it's essentially

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a platform that the rocket is built upon

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so if you had a Legos or they talked of

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toys you bring in the mobile launcher it

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scare to top that crawler-transporter

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you see that the video roll in there the

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crawler transporter weighs about 6

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million pounds and it's carrying this

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mobile launcher that weighs over 20

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million pounds and I'm sorry it weighs

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between 11 and 12 million pounds and the

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entire stock with the rocket and the

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it'll weigh over 20 million pounds I

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want to make this a so that's what the

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rocket is built on and it's delivered to

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the launch pad it's set atop pedestals

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secured to the pad and the rocket lifts

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off from the mobile launcher you also

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just like the name implies that's where

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the launch countdown is these were a

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part of our preparation is preparing the

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software and all the programs that

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enable us to the test and fuel and

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launch the rocket so what does it mean

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for you Kelvin as we think about bingham

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multi-user spaceport getting ready for

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more more missions to the moon and a

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sustained presence on the moon as an

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Associate Director obviously you have a

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huge vested interest in this

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professionally and I'm sure

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personally as well oh absolutely you

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know as a NASA employee or just as an

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American as I said you may be for us to

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leave this planet and travel to the Nuge

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it's incredible

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if you think about it in the history of

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humankind

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for the for humans have set foot on the

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moon and of those twelve there's only

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four surviving members so what we want

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to do you know we want to put the first

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woman the next man on the moon by 2024

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and first one I hope those fools still

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be around so they can say that hey they

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did it yeah that's awesome

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so that's obviously a nice snapshot of

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KSC and some of our heavy work towards

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Artemis can you tell us a little more

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about the agency as a whole obviously in

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your position you kind of have exposure

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to what's going on so what is happening

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agency wide today so what's the nasty

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doing well first let's talk about

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Commercial Crew that suited with SpaceX

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and go and we're going to the space

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station is one nation because man I'm

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not talking about no context and it's

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not you right here from the floor to

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saying quicker than your mama's minivan

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Under the Sun five four three two one

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we're not gonna be outdone and better

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tune in to NASA TV early because you

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don't want to miss the first launch of

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my friends Bob banking and Doug Hurley

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so join that you believe but don't

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forget about the JWST so big like Hubble

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feel smaller than Barney Rubble yes

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you'll start skipping rope that you

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learn about the wonders of the James

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now the knowledgeable dispersed teaching

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us more about the universe and that's

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not exaggeration but it's also time to

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introduce the Artemus generation yeah

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Apollo they talk back to follow but

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here's the plan we're starting the first

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woman in the next man headed to the need

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will be happening you'll see yes no less

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than a lion on pad 39b lit up like a

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Christmas tree

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giant market rather than Toad the Wet

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Sprocket ready to be set free flying

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right out at KSC and understand this

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ain't no flash in the pan so make way

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for the Gateway because this time we're

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doing aesthetic and we're not fighting

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off more than you can chew because we

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got new partners like max I love you one

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day you could be an astronaut keep that

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same thought he'd be wanted to select

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you mean erase up their float a space

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plus learning about vena

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ice would be nice nothing like the

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adoration you're going to get when you

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tell your professors you

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perfective incensed unionization and

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everyday overturning the big rocks and

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dig it out of the box to give us some

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even close to mods we need everyone keep

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reaching for the stars back to you Josh

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Wow Kelvin that is a lot happening yeah

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okay but I'm sure Manny would still say

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that's sweet a strawberry jam but what

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about my launch services program yes

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there's so much excitement aplenty

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I forgot to even mention Mars 2020 you

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don't need a top secret clearance to

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learn about our new group have called

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perseverance and yeah your friends might

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want to call you doctor when they hear

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you talking about a Mars helicopter tell

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them no need to check your minnow acuity

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NASA's you only got a copter and it's

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called ingenuity so this summer when

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you're out doing the fish fighting a

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Boston cream pie

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don't forget Mars 2020 is happening this

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July there you go Oh Calvin man

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appreciate you so much thank you for

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your time today

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obviously we're excited all eyes on the

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Kennedy Space Center as we get ready to

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return to the moon thanks Josh

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appreciate it

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yeah absolutely my pleasure and

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reminding everybody to tune in the rest

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of the week for more on the Artemis