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ladies and gentlemen welcome back again

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to the NASA social the virtual version I

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again in Yves lamothe I am with the

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commanding command and control systems

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project manager in exploration ground

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systems again enjoying our beautiful

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Atlantis at the KSC visitors visitors

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complex I am so sorry about that I'm a

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little star star truck because we have

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starstruck because we have a special

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guest with us today but before I do that

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let me first introduce my partner in

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crime here Josh Josh how're you doing

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Yves on a scale of 1 to 10 my excitement

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level is a 135 oh wow yeah for all the

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space books out there they're gonna get

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that one yeah so anyway I'm doing great

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I'm so glad that you could join us live

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for a Q&A session with a very special

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guest so be sure to ask those questions

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in the the chat windows there whether

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you're wherever you're watching online

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definitely we'll take those in a few

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minutes and that's really I mean that's

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today's show is where we're having a

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really good kind of conversation here

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with well you saw let you introduce our

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guest all right so so listen up guys in

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before I do that I hope you've been

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enjoying all the shows that we've had

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for you the means is to educate you guys

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and show you guys what goes on kind of

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behind the scenes before we get ready

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for such a historic moment all right now

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with me right the reason that I'm so you

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know you know I'm in fan mode a little

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tongue-tied a little bit is because we

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have our very own NASA deputy

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administrator Jim Moore hard with us Jim

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how are you doing today I'm doing great

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ease Josh I really appreciate you having

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me here yeah absolutely thank you so

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much for being here now of course we

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have a live audience that are watching

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I'm sure they'll have plenty of

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questions for you but first if you can

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just start introducing yourself let us

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know who you are what you're all about

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and it will get to learn a few things

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about NASA from yeah you know the deputy

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administrator of NASA is really I'm to

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help Jim bridenstine who's the

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administrator and we've laid out a

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vision for NASA

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and it's really I would say it's one

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campaign with three domains and the one

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low-earth orbit but we're also looking

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Mars and deep space we're focused on all

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three of those different campaigns and

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we're working hard in each one of those

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areas and hopefully we will get into

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some of what we're doing today and I

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look forward to the questions absolutely

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thank you so much for that great

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introduction and before we get going to

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the questions to the audience how long

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have you been the NASA deputy

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administrator now I was confirmed by the

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US Senate back in October of 2018 so

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it's been about a year and a half and so

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that's been probably the most exciting

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time of your career thus far correct it

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has been the most exciting time of my

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career and and the most challenging to

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that doesn't also means it's very

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difficult but it makes it for a lot of

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fun and the intellectual stimulation as

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well as the the wonderful people at NASA

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really it's been I've been blessed to be

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there well you know we're concerned you

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know they say that you know you don't do

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everybody would do them but I'd like to

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tailor that with it takes great leaders

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as yourselves right to lead a group of

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us to get out there and do these amazing

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not it's not an easy feat and we

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appreciate your leadership and

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everything that you're doing for the

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agency to get us to where we're going

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we're always trying to make it better

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make mistakes too but we certainly are

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doing everything we can

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safely and that's what we're gonna do

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you got it so now I definitely want to

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audience because you're here they want

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the most of you as they as they possibly

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can so Josh I'm gonna head it over to

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you if you would please let us know what

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does the community have to ask

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little background on you yeah I'm just

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of the future the first question out of

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the gate was actually what is your

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vision of the lunar economy in the next

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space travel affordable we know the

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financial problems and challenges we've

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to commercial providers that are going

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to design and develop landing systems

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and we're going to compete on what those

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landing systems are but we really want

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to be a customer to those commercial

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the demand to start off with and they're

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whether we can convert that water ice to

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gonna try and if we can do that with a

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gret you know the gravity well of the

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moon is one-sixth that of Earth so the

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cost of a launch is gonna be a lot

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cheaper going from the moon so we can

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get those material those those elements

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that we can move forward in slingshot

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future awesome and can you give us some

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30,000 foot view of your career you know

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grew up in Virginia has got a MBA and

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law degree from Georgetown have an

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accounting background ended up in the

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United States Senate was working on the

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Senate Appropriations Committee

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Justice Department that parts of the

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Defense Department the Commerce

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Department the State Department ended up

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committee so really responsible for

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passing all the legislation for the

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federal government and then had some

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personal challenges was in a plane crash

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actually and got through that and

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Senator McConnell asked me to come back

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as the deputy sergeant at arms and

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that's really kind of like running a

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small city and well I didn't think that

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would help

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as far as NASA goes understanding

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general council training all the

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different things the administrative part

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of running organization has been very

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helpful and I thank goodness I had that

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experience and thank goodness he gave me

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that opportunity but that got me to NASA

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so so what's that like on the career

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level because obviously I'm I'm fairly

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young in my career and it sounds like

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those amazing jobs you just listed like

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it almost feels like you're like there

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can't be anymore look can't be anymore

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there can't be anymore and there's like

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another amazing opportunity like and now

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like you're number two for NASA like

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that's amazing you know all our paths we

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all have a story and the path that we're

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on each of us are on is not a straight

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path and it's really understanding that

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and when you're zigging and zagging it's

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it's trusting that you're gonna that you

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are there is a plan it's just not your

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plan and you've got a trust in that and

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keep moving forward

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and I think if anything kept me going it

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was just having that faith that this

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would work out and I continue with that

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today you know I guess I kind of look at

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it as you know in life as you journey

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through life opportunities presents

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itself yeah

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and do you capitalize or do you pass on

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it it really depends on you know where

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you are with your career what you want

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to do that your interests are what your

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passion is so now a quick question for

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you um do you do you wear your cape

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inside or outside my friends who tell

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you there's an okay you know that you

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make a good point and there are times we

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all have difficulties in our careers and

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it's understanding that this is part of

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the plan and it's keeping calm and you

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know this is not a crisis and there's a

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reason why this is happening and I'm

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gonna keep moving forward may not be in

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a direct line but I'm gonna keep moving

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forward and that served me well through

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my life now in in line would that can do

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you enjoy what you're doing with NASA I

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do I do I mean look it gets down to

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people it gets get sound to

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relationships enjoying the present

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moment enjoying being with you too today

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I mean I'm enjoying this and it's you've

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got to stand back breathe and enjoy

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where you are right now not what you

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just did and not what you're going to do

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next and that to me is part of the trick

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to life amazing

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so at hand for NASA so not today but

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tomorrow

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crews back to space station from America

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again super exciting

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so as we do that as we prepare for that

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moment I heard you earlier today in the

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the news of the media briefing mentioned

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that we are gonna have as a result of

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and I'll kind of I'll poorly set this up

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and let you correct me and finish this

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out this thought that with the

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Commercial Crew program we're gonna be

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having 300 percent as much research

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happening on space station is did I get

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that right

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yeah a few that you look right now we

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have Chris Cassidy's up there right now

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we have one astronaut on the space

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station and Bob and Doug are gonna get

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there and I know Chris is excited to see

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him but the you know Chris is limited in

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the amount of work he can do as one

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astronaut in fact you know we just had

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HTV nine

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which is a Japanese cargo mission just

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delivered a lot of material up there

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including batteries that need to be

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installed and and Chris needs needs Doug

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and Bob to get those installed but with

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that when we you know the intent is that

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we certify this end-to-end flight test

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and if it's certified then we'll start

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launching crew up to the space station

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to stay for much longer periods of time

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and if we have a full complement of crew

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which is what we envision then we're

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going to be able to as you've said Josh

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increase our research by 300% and when I

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say research you think about some of the

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things we're doing we're working towards

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creating mass producing retinal implants

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at the space station we're working on

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creating human tissue we're looking at

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trying to make fiber optics excuse me

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have a purity level much higher than it

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is to reduce the amount of relay

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stations that are needed it goes on and

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on about the different things that that

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we're doing there there's and this is

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about supply and demand there is an

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overwhelming demand for research we

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don't have enough of a supply of one

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astronauts but what we're really looking

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to do is again going to commercialize

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low-earth orbit and that includes

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creating commercial space stations that

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will meet this demand in the future

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that's really what our goal is here not

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to mention you think of you know

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commercialization of low-earth orbit you

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know just in a commercial launch

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vehicles it wasn't too long ago we had

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no market share and commercial launch

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vehicles we now have 70% of the market

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share in the United States so you know

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this is we're gonna keep going with it

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though and there's a lot more we can do

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in low-earth orbit cool

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so I was gonna say so in inline with

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that you know we're talking about the

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commercial aspect you know at NASA we

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are also working on the SLS rocket you

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know so to get us back to the Moon and

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Mars and beyond and such so how do you

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see this

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this love story if you will right

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between the commercial aspect the NASA

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aspect and bringing in two humans into

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you know space travel and space tourism

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and and how do you see that you know in

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enveloping like over the next 5-10 years

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yeah

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you know you've won it it's their

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economics involved but really when you

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look at going to the moon and you know

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you mentioned it it's the Space Launch

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System and the Orion space capsule which

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you know really has done that you know

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the Orion is here at Kennedy now ready

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to go for Artemis one and we're got the

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SLS rocket is at Stennis Space Center I

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watched it go from masu to get barged

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over there it was pretty exciting the

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thing is very large I might add but we

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are getting prepared to continue with

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the green run which is really where we

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really test all the systems of the Space

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Launch System and and we're gonna light

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up those four rs.25 engines yeah and

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that is gonna be a sight to see I mean

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for those that are old guys like me you

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know there's the old clip of John F

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Kennedy watching as they lit up the

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Apollo engines and you know it's it's

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gonna be a showstopper yeah but it's

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it's putting all that together along

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with gateway along with this the human

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landing system that I mentioned already

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and so this is a system to get us to the

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moon and get us to the moon by 2024 and

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then allow us to be there in a sustained

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away so we can do the development and

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research we talked about like in situ

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resource utilization so that's my answer

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your question yes yes let me jump on

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that because there was a question that

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came in actually and it was the the

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question kind of is are you you just

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mentioned yeah Institue resource

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utilization what data do we hope to gain

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from the new moon missions the Artemis

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program that may help when going to Mars

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yeah I mean first off you know it could

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be and I'll talk about it

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is are you but then we'll talk about

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some of the other things that we need to

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do but with is are you in situ resource

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utilization you know we've got to prove

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economically that we can do it and there

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certainly are entrepreneurs out there

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that are very interested in it

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especially when you've got asteroids

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that are you know have a nickel core and

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and we you know be able we may be able

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to mine asteroids too but those

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economics have to work and that's part

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of this you know part of this

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demonstration that we've got to see how

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this goes but again if we can do that

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and start using some of the assets

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within the moon to go further into space

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and it may be that we'll be able to do

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it at Mars and then go to the next

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planet or next or the next moon that we

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want to go to so it I think that's the

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the hope is that we may be able to Scott

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hopscotch eventually across the universe

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we obviously can't bring all the

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materials with us so we're going to have

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to create it and we're gonna have to

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afford it so and it really gets down to

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that and that's where the

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commercialization is so important so

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that's so as far as going back to the

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other part of the question of the other

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things we need to do you think about Bob

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and Doug you think about what is the

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most complex system on that rocket

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tomorrow that's the human system and

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that's what we're most concerned about

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well it's gonna be the same way on the

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moon you've got radiation exposure that

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we have got to address before we send

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people out to Mars for instance these

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things you know these are serious issues

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we

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you you know for those who follow it

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there are plenty of things we've seen as

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far as bone loss

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you know reverse blood flows there are a

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lot of different challenges where we've

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got to address each one of those for a

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long-term space travel and we're gonna

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be doing that on the moon as well as

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making sure that we can sustainably live

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off Earth and and we're gonna be doing

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that also on the moon

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probably just one or two more questions

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this one kind of switching back towards

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the Commercial Crew program tomorrow's

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flight being the first with crew on

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board the question I'll kind of

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summarize a little bit here

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basically it was thinking about both an

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American and international set of

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activities who do we expect to be the

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the astronauts aboard crew dragon and

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Starliner Starliner being Boeing's space

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capsule so ours is just Americans are

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the International what's the plan you

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know we haven't named you know folks we

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haven't gone out too far yet I know that

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we're going to have an astronaut from

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Japan on one of the first first launches

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of I think it's crew Dragon I'm pretty

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sure as I recall but we certainly want

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to bring our international partners with

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us they're critical to our efforts and

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we've seen it things like the robotic

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arm that Canada built you know and

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there's a lot more coming

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and whether it's ISA or Japan but you

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know we also have many new space

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agencies and so we're really want to

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bring we want to be inclusive

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you know Apollo it was exclusive we

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didn't mean to be but but it was and and

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it was really white test pilots military

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test pilots we want diversity we want

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diversity at NASA and it's been proven I

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mean we get much better intellect

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intellect and and results if we do

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diversify so we want our international

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partners and we want to continue to have

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diversity in NASA too at my net

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do I answer the question yeah I think so

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again it's just that the nature of with

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the crew dragon and Starliner how does

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that work with international partners

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and I think that I think you nailed that

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one okay okay so I kind of want to touch

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a little bit on you know what's going on

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on in Jim's head right so what tell me

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what what is the most exciting part for

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you leading up to tomorrow's launch you

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know keep in mind you know as all that I

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do the the visuals are very exciting to

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to have humans strapped in on top of a

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rocket is exciting but there are many

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processes that go into this many

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complicated processes and the really

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watching the Flight Readiness review the

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launch readiness review all the

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different processes that we have that

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we've worked closely with SpaceX we

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really collaborated with SpaceX to do

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this and that's what I enjoy I come from

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a background of looking at large

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organizations and how do you make a an

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organization better than it's ever been

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that's what you know that's what I enjoy

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doing and that's what I'm trying to do

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I'm not saying I've accomplished it but

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that's my goal at NASA is to try you

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know Leave No Trace and hopefully left

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NASA a better place than it was when I

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got here now what would you take a trip

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up to up the space if you could if I had

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the opportunity I certainly would you

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know it's it's I don't think you're

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gonna get a 63 year old guy there I was

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friends with John Glenn actually 63 yeah

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he was he was actually my my dad worked

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at what they call the Naval Air Systems

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come in he was friends with Alan Shepard

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Wow one day I was six years old and I

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was in my parents Ford station wagon

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thing was so old it had a hinged window

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on the back of it

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and I remember my brother taking me out

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of the car and walking up to some house

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in Arlington Virginia

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and this man opened the door led us in I

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pet the cat it gave me a glass of water

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got his autograph and that was the first

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time I met John Glenn Wow and ended up

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in the Senate and I get to meet him

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again we're working together I was on

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the what they call the military

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construction subcommittee he had the

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same subcommittee on the Armed Services

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Committee he was a chairman I was just a

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staff guy but he was the same kind

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gentle man and I shared that story with

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him and we both had a great laugh but he

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was an amazing individual cool Wow

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that is simply amazing do we miss busy

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guy so he's got to go okay so Jim if you

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can just wrap it up for us I'm just just

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kind of tell us you know where you're

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gonna be you know tomorrow for the

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launch what are the things that you're

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going to be thinking of and and what do

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you hope for or the message that you

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want to lay out to all the people that

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are watching you right now what message

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do you want to give out to the folks

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there yeah you know tomorrow I've got

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doing a lot of media in the morning

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President and Vice President are coming

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along with parts of the cabinet parts of

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the congressional delegations and

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certainly want to make sure that all

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that's going well you know I'm not

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involved in the inner workings of this

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launch it's I'm going to be an observer

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and making sure everything's going as

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well as I can but it is I'm gonna leave

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that to the professionals to do it right

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the message you know I know that there

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are a lot of people that are suffering

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in this country and in this world and

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tomorrow we hope to inspire the United

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States and inspire the world this is a

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generational achievement and we look

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forward to having more of them but this

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is what we do at NASA and yeah it's been

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challenging with kovat

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but we're not out and we're coming back

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and we're gonna keep going so tomorrow

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we're gonna light that candle and it's

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go diem - and I hope you'll all be with

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us watching awesome

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well Jim thank you so much not just for

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your presence here but also for your

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leadership your passion of what you do

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and all the things that you aim to do

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for NASA

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you know us us as employees you know we

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we get to reap the benefits of that it's

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having great leaders like yourselves at

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the top doing these great things that

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that allow us to do what what we can

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down here so I'm honored to be with you

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guys absolutely it's a win-win with that

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folks I definitely hope you did enjoy

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this segment here with our NASA deputy

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administrator it's not every day we get

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to sit down and talk and get to hear

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your words you know from you and

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hopefully you guys I'm got some of your

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questions answered with that we're gonna

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close it out and I'd like to invite you

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all to come back around four o'clock for

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our pop and speakers we're gonna have

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Steve Payne and Dana Hutchinson who will

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be talking to us Josh thank you for

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riding along we've got a three o'clock -

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don't miss the three o'clock 3 o'clock

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are you I'm sorry by the way yes 3

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o'clock as well yeah so many good shows

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guys stay tuned come on back keep your

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questions coming and thank you for

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joining us and letting us educate you a

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little bit about what we do here at NASA