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inside the Vehicle Assembly Building

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we are coming to you live from NASA's

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Kennedy Space Center welcome to the

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first ever

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NASA's virtual social I'm Joshua Santoro

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with NASA communication and I'm so happy

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that you're with us today and I'm joined

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right now by my good friend Yves lamothe

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Yves thanks for being here man

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absolutely it is such a pleasure once

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again I'm Yves lamothe and I am a

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communications project manager in the

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command control and communication office

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of exploration ground systems so but

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we're super super excited to be here to

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bring this to you as la you know alive

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virtually live so you can experience

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what's going on with us processing for

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this demo to launch it's it's a historic

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moment right we are in omits launching

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something that we haven't done for 11

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years yeah 2011 it's been I'm sorry yeah

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it was 2011 so it's been quite a while

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but we're so excited about being able to

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do that again because that's opening

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that door into deep space exploration as

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America's you know we we are the leaders

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in space so this is an opportunity for

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us to open those doors back up and lead

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the path for deep space exploration yeah

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want to encourage folks out there to

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make sure you ask questions live online

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right now we are taking questions and

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we'll try and handle those as we go but

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before we go too far I want to take just

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a moment and pause and remember that

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here America this is Memorial Day so

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it's special thanks to the men and women

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who serve in our military and especially

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those that have paid the ultimate price

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for our freedom and to make this great

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country what it is today absolutely and

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Marine Corps and it is yeah thanks heaps

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appreciate your service man you bet

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absolutely and I would do it all over

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it's opportunities like this it's people

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you know who who dedicated their lives

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to the middle you know being in the

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military and fighting for our freedom

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which allows us to be able to do what

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we're doing right now so it's a it's an

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honor for me to have served and and

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thank you to all my brothers and sisters

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that are out there you know continuing

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to fight for our freedom and for us to

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be the greatest nation that that is out

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there on this mother earth yeah and one

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also make sure that we point to what's

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over our shoulders today very large this

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picture that is space shuttle Atlantis

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so this is the last vehicle that flew

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Americans into space from American soil

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almost nine years ago so super excited

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to have the Visitor Complex here at the

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Kennedy Space Center hosting us thanks

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to them for this opportunity when a

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preview are scheduled over the next two

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days with you right now today a lot of

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times are all in Eastern in America and

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feature of all of our programs this week

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tomorrow starting off the day with a

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really big show NASA Administrator Jim

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brightenstein and KSC Center Director

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as well so lots of cool people to get to

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talk to and ask questions of and then

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the morning of launch outline is zero

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very busy day ahead of us a couple days

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finally we've been preparing for weeks

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now for this and we're going to jump in

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right now the Vehicle Assembly Building

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we're going to take you inside this icon

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every rocket that is taken if you end

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beyond low-earth orbit into the moon has

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maybe process and then move back inside

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the sack and assembled inside one of the

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high base you can see the crane system

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parts of the shuttle and move them over

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low bass and those orange platforms were

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program so at the end of the program in

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before flight astronauts will walk

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room where the closeout crew will do the

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final suit up of preparations before

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inside look at the VAB we could probably

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spend hours showing you around there and

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hopefully in a future NASA social you'll

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get to come enjoy that with us and Yves

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about what he does because it involves a

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lot of what we just saw and rocket

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launching and mobile launchers and

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things but right now I want introduce

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our special guest mr. Greg Hale Greg

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thanks for joining us thank you

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it's privilege to be here thank you very

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much yeah so those who have been on NASA

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socials in the past will recognize Greg

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I think you've made just about everyone

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of us working here you you've been on

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our NASA socials it's only been about

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three that I haven't done since it first

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probably a decade or more now very much

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yes very good so Greg tell us a little

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bit about yourself obviously we just saw

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the lower third day you're retired but

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continue to come back because you love

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to tell the story so what did you do

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here for us and and what's got you

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excited for this mission I was I worked

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out here for about 25 years eight eight

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years my career was spent inside the VV

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working we were the Quality Assurance

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specialists that did overseeing all the

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contractor work the contractor did about

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the safety of the crew and the vehicle

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and everything so that was that was our

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job we were there my department was out

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here 24/7 for 30 years somebody's in my

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department was here every day every day

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every hour of the year 30 years yeah and

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what's got you excited for this

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particular mission Greg coming up here

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our people back to flying in our

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vehicles rather than sending overseas

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how to get him up there what rocket they

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use factious bring them home bring them

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of beyond what you just mentioned with

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the commercial for program where they're

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the ones that own that hardware but with

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everything so we had a we had to have a

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remains you see how far we go right now

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back quite a ways but they still there

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is some oversight of what's going on

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there's no matter how many times you

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slide passages so the more eyes you got

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a successful flight sure okay so what

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have in our audience on watching

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shuttle program and this one is coming

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fondest memory of this one before you

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the astronauts come out with a smile on

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her face like yeah we did it

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and I wish I could've flown too but they

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watch I was asking can I fly one time it

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just didn't happen so that was that was

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probably my fondest memories the the

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ones that I'll throw this in here the

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ones that I really didn't like was the

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day we lost Columbia and I was on the

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runway the last day this thing behind us

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flew there was a dry out there including

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mine it was a sad day but it was

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fulfilling that what we did we had

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accomplished 30 years of manned flight

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with minimal loss of life now I do want

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to take a moment you know

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while today is Memorial Day and Josh did

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mention about in the beginning I also

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want to thank you all so I'm Greg for

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your service I thank you sir anywhere in

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the in the army and yes you even served

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in Vietnam so thank you so much for your

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service and they give allowing us to be

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able to do what we're doing right here

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right now I want to ask you another

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question I'm from from the audience here

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is what advice would you have for

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someone who wants to work at NASA Wow

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good school step way go school I'd just

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they've got a the program word you can

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come out here and work as a co-op or I

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think it's called something that's why I

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am now let's go up before during my

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career time we did have quite a few

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pathway people

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here come out here and didn't apply for

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the job you know and don't take no for

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an answer if you want to come out here

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and work for NASA just keep applying for

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it and that and NASA's not only here at

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Kennedy Space Center's other centers out

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there that you go to work at depends on

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what you want to do you know but a lot

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of lot of math a lot of sciences is

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there the classes that I would highly

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suggest that you take which would help

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you to get into the pathways program and

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everything and you know it isn't hurt to

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have somebody that you know at NASA that

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Wolf's go hey I think this person will

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be a very good person to come come go do

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it so and when you get here just apply

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yourself I'm gonna throw another another

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tough question for you here is you know

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what does this launch mean to you Wow

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how much static they do it just we're

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back to flying again I mean it's nice to

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see the Rockets go up with with payloads

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that they're not man but this is this is

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a man flight in this this is we're

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getting back to what NASA was designed

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to do was fly man to outer space and to

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other planets and stuff that we need to

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do we want to go and I'm just you know I

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can't wait to get back to a full-time

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schedule of flying like this so that

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does that mean you intend to come back

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to work since you're retired or love to

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come back

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she's nixed that right there but no she

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has given me a kitchen pass to do the

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social media so I will stick to that and

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I do like my supervisors over there

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joining us we'll be rotating through our

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hosting duties this week so we'll get to

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see some of them on later so Greg

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thinking about crew obviously that's the

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big highlight of this particular mission

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and you mentioned working with crews

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back with a shuttle program what's that

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like to get to interact with and work

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with people that actually fly into space

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like most everybody that works here

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doesn't get that opportunity we're

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working the crew is it's just like wow

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you know you got to pinch yourself I'm

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working with an astronaut

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99% that astronauts were very nice they

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were they were they wanted to learn what

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you were doing and then towards them

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towards the end of my career

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we were working I was working in the

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offline labs which is the experimental

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labs and everything we'd put this

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experiments together with the different

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companies or universities come through

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then and we'd bring astronauts down from

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crew quarters and we'd mask up and

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everything and we'd go through the

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procedures of how this this this

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experiment was to work and how what what

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not to do and what you do to maintain

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the safety of the crew plus make a

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success of the of the experiment itself

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and everything that was that was just

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they're just they're just playing joke

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people that did just got to go fly and

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there there's some real fond memories of

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some funny ones but I'm gonna piggy tell

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off that question so if you had the

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opportunity to go to space would you

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take it in a heartbeat in a heartbeat

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I'm 71 years old I'm ready to go

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understand now you know so let's kind of

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take it back to the VAB you know a

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little bit you spent so much time timely

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of your career right working in in the

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VAB how do you how do you see now have

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you seen a a transformation sort of

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speaking into how work is done you know

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technology changes you know the way we

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process the vehicle may even change some

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because we're going from obviously a

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shuttle to to a Saturn 5 like you know

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rock do you do you see the VAB being

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able to last throughout the the changes

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and the infrastructure that that we go

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through - oh definitely definitely

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VB it's it's it's it's like a chameleon

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it just keeps changing and changing

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changes as you need to the it went from

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from the the Apollo program into the

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shuttle program just a little bit of a

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modification a little massaging of and

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everything and it just kept right on

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working one fun fact is is that if

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if you ever get to go inside the Vivi if

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you look up on the 16th floor in your

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city opening there

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well that opening there dictated how big

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of a wingspan we were allowed on the

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orbiter they wanted some more wingspan

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because it gives a little bit more glide

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ratio but they went ok guys you only get

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something so big to slide through that

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opening so you're stuck with that wing

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there so that was that was one of the

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that building basically designed helped

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design the shuttle program there as far

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as Queens thing but once it gets in

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there you know they let it down and

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anything now the new ones coming out the

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stack rocket it's the heart of my said

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it's go in just like the Apollo program

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thing is you know but the cranes we put

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new cranes in probably about halfway

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through this shuttle program we added

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new cranes in there the old cranes are

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still a fair still workable of

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everything but but the newer cranes that

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can handle a higher of tonnage of weight

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and everything so that's uh helps yes

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the wingspan and the opening is a funny

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topic for me and funny isn't the right

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word but just interesting how decisions

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get made sometimes you think about these

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like it has to be so highly technical of

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like why we chose this exact size for

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the or and it was like no that was

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literally as big as we could make it

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like we could make it any bigger and

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that's just a practical decision making

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strategy well you couldn't do it would

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cost

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you'd have to tear the building down

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right to go in and do that another fact

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on the Phoebe - it was originally giant

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designed to be another 120 feet taller

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deep wide and and von Braun had planned

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on a bigger rocket so if you ever get a

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chance to go on top of the building

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there you'll see the stub ups up there

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that was to be able to push that

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building another 120 feet up and there

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was supposed to be two more high Bay's

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farther north towards for the the OPF

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surrett now it's and then it was

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supposed to be there just wanted it to

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be a like a sail like all the high bays

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all on one side everything says no

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because when the Hurricanes would come

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through and blow it down so it's a

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couple more questions and I think we'll

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wrap up Urton they've got it so so Greg

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you know you've met quite a few

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astronauts you've worked in one an

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iconic building you know and you can't

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find enough VAB anywhere on this planet

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and so and you've talked to us a little

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bit about how important this this

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launches to so where exactly are you

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gonna be on Wednesday for the launch

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I'll probably safely be standing my

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friends gonna be a madhouse and I only

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about 14 miles out the north gate so I

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can I can I get a real nice view of all

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the launches from my front yard so this

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one I think I'll set at home not because

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I want to unless I am invited out here

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and I will be I have to sleep in my car

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I will sleep so just one last question

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for you Greg

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you know and we appreciate you coming

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out and doing these socials a year

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you're such an icon yourself they have

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being part of all of that what would you

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say is is your favorite NASA social

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memory another tough question for you so

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you've been doing that socials for a

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decade or more now what's your favorite

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memory from a NASA so Michelle do you

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have a favorite one or a favorite moment

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they're all favorites I mean they're

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always the the people to come out here

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ours are so enthused and they're just

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they're just like little sponges you

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know everything that you can possibly

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tell them and information they just they

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just they just suck it up and everything

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so that's and you know that honestly

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speaks to how amazing the things that we

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do here really really is I mean adult

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children I mean people of all ages from

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all over the world come here just to see

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these amazing things that were able to

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do so very good and that's gonna do it

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for us for this show so Greg appreciate

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you as always for your support of the

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NASA socials at large and especially for

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joining us today

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Yves thanks for riding along with me

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absolutely always always such a pleasure

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must say one thing yeah I was always

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told that my social media people get off

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my bus if I did sit they would they

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wouldn't sit they just sit there and

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look at me I would get off my bus no

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more fitting way to end the program

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next up is gonna be the launch complex

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39b that is the site where we will

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launch humans back to the moon coming up

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very very shortly in just a few years

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that's gonna do it for us for now and we

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will see you at 11 a.m. Eastern Time