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crew dragon mission as we prepare to

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welcome back one final time to this NASA

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communication and so glad that you're

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riding along with us super excited that

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fly astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug

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space shuttle Atlantis huge thanks to

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chat on youtube or in the NASA social

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Facebook group so today we're gonna take

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Space Center Visitor Complex usually

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yeah hoping that this kind of wets your

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appetite to come and see this whether it

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now this place is huge

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70 acres so I brought my skateboard and

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every single rocket here rocket garden

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inspiring that next generation showing

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the past and honoring that but really

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this point but hoping that that's part

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of this a new exhibit where we

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experience future the space the space of

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through the whole plan we have something

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reservations you can't come up and get a

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ticket but we're really excited to open

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right after we launch America I mean how

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cool is that so we're really hoping that

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guests will want to come out and see

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what's going on here at the Visitor

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the future yeah super excited obviously

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being being safe making sure that we're

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taking care of people's health so

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appreciate you guys doing that I want to

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go ahead actually enroll into another

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video we have put together this facility

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has a lot more than just Atlantis so we

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flavor of what else is in here there's

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just a minute clip but we did want to

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give you a taste and also lets you know

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that as we were designing and developing

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decisions that were made were about

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giving people unprecedented access to

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see the space shuttle program so not

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only can you see physically this orbiter

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in ways that nobody ever could before

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but you also get to see and hear the

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stories of the people who made it a

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reality and so much more of what

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Atlantis enabled from the space station

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to the Hubble telescope and beyond

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we move inside now to show off this this

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is it the literal Space Shuttle inside

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of the 64,000 square foot 10 story

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facility that was built specifically

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this space shuttle now it's been

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positioned perfectly so that you can see

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the inside of the cargo bay you see how

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it's open there and it's also been

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tilted at an angle of 40 3.21 degrees

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which is just like the countdown four

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three two and one

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this is my favorite angle here with the

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robotic arm coming at you from Canada of

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course as it goes over the walkway when

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you walk through here you can see

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straight into the cargo bay which shows

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you where the action was this is what

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helped build the International Space

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Station taking segments up into

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low-earth orbit it also put the Hubble

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Space Telescope into space

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pulling it out of the cargo bay with the

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robotic arm space shuttle atlantis

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served well over 33 missions in 26 years

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and atlantis was finally retired in 2011

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and brought here to show the entire

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world what an incredible machine it is

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it was launched like a rocket lie like a

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spacecraft and it would land like a

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glider at 22 degrees inclination which

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is the same as this slide and it would

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travel 17,000 miles per hour building up

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some heat which I actually felt some

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heat coming down this slide if heated

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the Space Shuttle though that was 3,000

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degrees until it finally came to a real

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stop on the Shuttle Landing Facility

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runway

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in history this mini mock-up and I want

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to emphasize many of the International

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Space Station kind of shows you the

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contribution that Space Shuttle made to

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building this in modules you can see the

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nodes they had to come together and this

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kind of represents exactly how that

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worked the International Space Station

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is huge

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imagine all the work that they took it's

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a football field sized in length it

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weighs an incredible 400 tons but the

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science that has gone on board the

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International Space Station has

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benefited all of humanity in the

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American space program because it was

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the last time the American astronauts

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flew from American soil

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into space but now there's a new era of

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space flight with commercial companies

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that are flying new spacecraft and new

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rockets to return American capability to

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hopefully that wets your appetite a

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little bit to come out here and check it

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out but if you're going to it's there

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and I think you told me that there was

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one other thing that people should know

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before they make their way out here yeah

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make sure you check the our website and

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you know we will have restrictions to

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make sure our guests and our associates

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stay safe so there's a full list of

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requirements so just please check that

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out before you come cool yeah make sense

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yep we have another question from social

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that's the last one

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but how did you end up here at the

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Visitor Complex was luck a little bit

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I'm sure well I've always been a space

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geek I've been the hospitality I was

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actually an analyst by trade and my

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company Delaware North offered me to

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come here and you know a background

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story of why I was so exciting to work

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for NASA as my mom grew up in Bluefield

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West Virginia and had ties to Homer

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Hickam so I learned a lot about the

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rocket industry growing up as a kid

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heard all about it made rocket models

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and launched them and when I got the

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chance to come here just dived at it so

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it's just very exciting to actually be

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part of the amazing space industry yeah

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if you don't know Homer Hickam story

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check that out just search for that it's

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it's a fascinating just amazing story of

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you can come from anywhere and then as a

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rocket scientist I want to ask you one

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last question so I actually have had the

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privilege of calling some launches and

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my first one was the final Delta 2 to

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fly Mike's at 2 was the mission and I

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understand that there's been a process

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happening for a while about maybe

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getting a Delta 2 rocket for the rocket

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garden is that gonna happen that is

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going to happen you know we have an

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amazing partnership with ula as well as

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of our other many other minions space

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space industry but yeah we're awarded

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the Delta 2 it should be here sometime

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before the year end and we are very

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excited to partner with ula and to

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really highlight it in the rocket garden

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it's going to be an amazing amazing

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attraction

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yeah super super cool rocket lots of

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history there I think it's roughly 150

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launches in its history so a ton there

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so they're in a big thank you to you for

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joining us and again thank you to you

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and your team for hosting us you guys

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have been phenomenal we've had a great

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experience and gotten to share through

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this beautiful view with all of our

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guests so thinking any time Joshua thank

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you awesome so and that

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do it pretty much for us but a few

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thank-yous before we go I want to make

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sure you know that the launch is coming

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up this afternoon 4:30 3 p.m. is still

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the target of time we are gonna be on

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nasa.gov slash live that's kicking off

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at 12:15 a huge thank you to my team

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here there's been a lot of hard work to

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bring you this a regular NASA social is

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one thing but this is a whole different

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game

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thank you to Bethany who's driving the

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show today for this one hi Bethany thank

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you so much and Wayne as well doing some

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of that driving and a big thank you to

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the folks here behind us again making

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sure we're safe they have been fantastic

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so appreciate you all appreciate the

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viewers for joining in and being a part

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of this and I'm gonna turn over to

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Madison now to take us out and get us