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in phases countries clears the tower

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the footsteps to discovery us where we

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welcome back live to nasa's kennedy

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space center i'm joshua santorum with

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nasa communications

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uh coming to you live on our preside

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lawn here a beautiful day

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on the sunny space coast we are

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preparing in one

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day from right now we will be kicking

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off launch coverage of the demo two

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mission nasa and spacex

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launching the crew dragon with bob

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benkin and doug hurley

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flying to the international space

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station uh wanna jump right in here but

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make sure that you guys are asking your

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questions live online

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a huge thank you to our nasa social

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as well as the virtual launch experience

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guests happy to have you guys along

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um i want to jump right in here and

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introduce the folks on my right so to

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your far left beginning out here nasa

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astronaut nicole mann

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astronaut joel lindgren jill lindgren

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excuse me

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and shuttle astronaut and ksc kennedy

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space center director

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bob cabana thanks all for joining me

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today a pleasure to have you along we're

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going to jump right in here

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and kind of chat through um what's going

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on right now what happened this week

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and then get to the social questions as

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fast as we can and get through as many

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mr breidenstein wanted to ask you give

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us the quick recap obviously we did not

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um so what happened why didn't we fly

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and where are we looking to go tomorrow

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what's going to happen tomorrow

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that's a great question so wednesday it

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to have a good opportunity to go

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we 15 minutes before launch time we have

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that threshold if we're above that

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we're in a no-go criteria and that's

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would be devastating so so we made the

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right call and i want to be clear i'm so

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proud of the nasa team

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so proud of the spacex team they made

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the right decision

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decision for the right reasons and we

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bob and doug are our highest priority um

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that's what got us the the electricity

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and so recycle and same thing again

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the challenge of course is that we don't

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so if this afternoon if we if we believe

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but again here's what we know we will

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it will happen again it will happen

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and it will be bob and doug whether that

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or a day in the future it will happen

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you are um and when i jump over mr

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uh four-time shuttle astronaut you have

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some sitting in in the shuttle waiting

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disappointment that you're not going

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back into crew quarters is everybody

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just wave and smile

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good the right thing happened

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night we went back out

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day we were we were tired

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opportunity to catch back up with their

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grab a quick recharge and get ready to

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another amazing job and it doesn't

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matter whether they go or not

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again just so much pride here uh chell

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you were on expeditions 44 and 45

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waiting to ride again into space

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uh you're getting the chance to watch

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the crew dragon the starliner

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and the orion all coming together do you

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for crew one that's been a phenomenal

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the boeing starliner and getting to

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and so i am so excited about the artemis

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weekend or later this

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um opening the door to continued uh

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like that's uh that's a that's a pretty

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awesome bar to shoot for unless you're

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that basically that's and you may be

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got it all right perfect

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all right so nicole over to you i want

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you've got to be thinking about your

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flight you've got to be thinking about

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bob and doug and like just the energy

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there so what's the emotions

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dreamed of and so i'm right there with

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doug and bob as as they

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go through this every step right they

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wake up in the morning think about

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everything you need to do

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getting suited up i'm checking every

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zipper every pocket i'm ready to go

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you're walking out to the launch pad

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you're running through in your mind what

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are my checklists whatever thing has i

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thought of everything that i need to do

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getting that capsule strapping in now

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they're going to fuel the rocket right

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looking at the displays am i monitoring

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the right thing i'm running through my

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mind everything

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and i am with them every step of the way

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i tell you and

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and it's exciting i can feel my heart

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rate rising right now just thinking

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about it so

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what i what i tell you out there you're

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watching this launch

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join me on this journey follow the crew

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throughout the day through every step

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and think about in your mind

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dream of that what would that be like

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for you to suit up

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to walk to the rocket to get in because

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today it might be a dream

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but not too far in the future you might

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be sitting on top of that rocket

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and you might be launching to the moon

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or mars so take advantage of that

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gel you got to throw in you know i don't

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care how prepared you are

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no amount of training or simulator rides

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prepares you

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for when that rocket lights off that is

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one heck of a ride and it's better than

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a cat shot

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well said so we had a question i'm going

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to throw this one to you um you're the

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most recent to fly into space

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uh a nine nine-year-old eva from new

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hampshire asked what types of food

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do astronauts get to bring with them oh

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that's a great question you know when we

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first get to the space station

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um we get a briefing from the uh the the

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commander there

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and they show us uh the bathroom they

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show us where to get our food

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and they show us where we're gonna sleep

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and then we cover the emergencies of

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course

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uh obviously but but that's a really

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important thing you know we eat every

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day

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and the food lab we have at johnson

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space center has done an amazing job

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making sure that we've got a good

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variety and very healthful foods

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and so you know we have barbecue beef

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brisket we have

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turkey we have

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corn half of our food is dehydrated that

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we have to add water to the other half

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has been prepared

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and we just use a food warmer some of my

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favorites were the the maple muffin for

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breakfast

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and then the chocolate pudding cake for

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dessert um

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i have a little bit of a sweet tooth

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apparently all right but uh but the food

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is great

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fantastic uh mr breinstein question

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about

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the recycle here getting ready to do

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this again uh will all events leading to

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launch be in the exact same order

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um astronauts dressing up going to the

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teslas headed to the white room or do we

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change anything

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no it'll be the look the key is

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repetition and muscle memory so

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everything will be the same yet again um

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you know like i said one thing that we'd

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like to do this time

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is if if if the probability of going is

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not high on saturday

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we might not we might not pull the

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trigger on saturday we might go on

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sunday

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and of course what we don't want to do

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is end up doing back to back

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wet dress rehearsals we might do it i'm

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not saying we won't

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if if we try it on saturday and then

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sunday

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miraculously clears up we might go again

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but um

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but the the amount of effort that it

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takes to go through that is

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is a lot so we want to make sure that

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we're not um unduly burdening people

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yeah absolutely mr cabana question for

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you um

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thinking about the will this mission be

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any

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different than future crude flights uh

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because it's a demonstration flight

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are we gonna see much change from flight

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to flight well

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you know we're going to have to see

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first off this is a test flight and we

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are going to learn from it and there

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will be changes that get made

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afterwards you know i'm not going to

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rest easy until bob and doug

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are home safely after a successful

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mission on orbit and back here on

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on earth but you know eventually we are

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going to get to

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where we are flying a regular cadence of

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both

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the boeing and the spacex vehicles with

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more than just two astronauts aboard

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and this is the future so you know we

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want to get to where we have

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that regularity where we understand the

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vehicles and we can progress to the

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point where

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we're more comfortable doing it but

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we're going to learn from this test

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flight and that's why we're being extra

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careful on this first flight

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yeah absolutely it makes a lot of sense

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can you talk about launch windows really

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fast so there's a question about

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instantaneous launch windows why is it

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instantaneous and

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why do we move three days instead of

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just trying again on thursday so

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uh it depends on a couple of things

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first off this is orbital mechanics all

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right

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the space station is orbiting the earth

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every 90 minutes and there's only

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certain times that it comes over florida

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where we can launch and catch up to it

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all right

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so the reason for the instantaneous

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window

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is like on space shuttle we had about a

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five minute window that we could launch

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within

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spacex they still have a time frame that

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they can launch within but they choose

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an

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vehicle also

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they're going to be recovering this

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first stage on the barge out at sea

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so you know you have to take the

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propellant of the vehicle its

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performance into consideration as well

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as this

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orbital mechanics window of when you can

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actually render with the space station

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and that moves earlier every day

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so if you notice we're two days later

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we're about uh we went from uh

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you know a 4 30 launch to a 3 30 launch

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so about 30 minutes every day

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give or take you know it's going to move

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a little bit earlier so next week it's

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going to be even earlier

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in the day and that's because of the

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orbital mechanics perfect

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of course in florida the earlier the the

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better the weather

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yeah so afternoon thunderstorms we don't

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want them get them yep

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and there's something that actually

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drives home the fact that are flying to

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the space station for those of you that

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have seen a night launch and

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and my my launch was at night the guests

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get treated to seeing the space station

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fly over

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first and then we launch and and so

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you really get that sense of man we are

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we're gonna

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chase after that uh that space station

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to dock yeah if anybody has not gone out

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and seen a space station pass i mean it

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is the brightest star in the sky

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it is so cool especially when it's one

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of these really high inclination passes

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that comes over

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from west to east and you can just track

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it across the sky i remember the first

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time i thought

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i thought what is that an airplane

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somewhere you know with its landing

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light on it is just amazingly bright

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yeah if you're not familiar head online

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and on your search engine search nasa

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spot the station

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you can actually get text message or

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email updates as to when that's going to

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happen when you can see it from your

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city

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which is great and it's distinct it's

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distinguished by the fact that there's

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no flashing lights

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it's a solid constant and it moves

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really quickly much faster than an

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airliner can at this point

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um so uh this question was aimed at the

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astronauts but i'll kind of do it for

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everybody

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30 seconds how did you get to the

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position you are today so kind of what's

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your background

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um what brought you to this moment in

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time mr breinstein i'm a navy

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pilot by trade i've always had an

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interest in aviation and aerospace in

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general

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i got elected to the united states house

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of representatives i was on the armed

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services committee strategic forces

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subcommittee which deals with all of

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you know the national security space

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apparatus of the united states of

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america

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i was also on the science committee

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which oversees noaa the national oceanic

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and atmospheric administration 40

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of their budget is based on

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space-related activities and of course

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it also oversees nasa

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so as a member of congress i was steeped

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into

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kind of the the the national space

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apparatus

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got very involved i drafted a bill uh

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called the american space renaissance

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act it got a lot of attention and then

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when the president got elected i went

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my name popped up somehow i'm still not

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100 sure how that happened

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um but uh but i went through an

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interview process and

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uh was asked to be the nasa

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administrator cool glad that you are

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making lots of progress really fast

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thank you nicole

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sure i grew up in a small town in

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northern california and

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when i was younger i really loved math

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and science but i also really loved

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soccer

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and that was my first you know so i'm

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trying to decide as

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a young kid where to go to college i was

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really conflicted i i knew i wanted to

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serve in the military

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so i started looking at the service

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academies and the naval academy

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had an incredible soccer team uh the

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coach there was my idol growing up as

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a young girl and so it was a engineering

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school

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i could serve my military and i could

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play soccer it was kind of the best of

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both worlds so initially i just

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started following my passions in life um

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you know before my first my senior year

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i got a ride in f-18

566
00:21:05,430 --> 00:21:03,840
and that kind of sealed the deal i

567
00:21:07,669 --> 00:21:05,440
already knew i wanted to be a marine

568
00:21:08,549 --> 00:21:07,679
now i knew i wanted to fly flying in the

569
00:21:10,149 --> 00:21:08,559
marine corps

570
00:21:12,310 --> 00:21:10,159
loved it was awesome but i missed the

571
00:21:14,149 --> 00:21:12,320
engineering side of the house as well

572
00:21:15,510 --> 00:21:14,159
so that led me to test pilot school and

573
00:21:17,909 --> 00:21:15,520
becoming a test pilot

574
00:21:19,510 --> 00:21:17,919
and then naturally when nasa opened up

575
00:21:21,590 --> 00:21:19,520
the application process

576
00:21:23,510 --> 00:21:21,600
you know i i looked at and what i had

577
00:21:25,830 --> 00:21:23,520
done and realized oh my goodness

578
00:21:27,909 --> 00:21:25,840
i i might have an actual shot at this

579
00:21:30,789 --> 00:21:27,919
just based on the experiences that i had

580
00:21:33,510 --> 00:21:30,799
and unfortunately i was uh lucky enough

581
00:21:35,029 --> 00:21:33,520
to be selected in the class of 2013. so

582
00:21:37,029 --> 00:21:35,039
i didn't have it really all figured out

583
00:21:38,390 --> 00:21:37,039
and planned out from day one but i knew

584
00:21:41,909 --> 00:21:38,400
what i enjoyed in life

585
00:21:43,430 --> 00:21:41,919
and i just followed that dream chill

586
00:21:44,950 --> 00:21:43,440
well i wanted to be an astronaut for as

587
00:21:46,630 --> 00:21:44,960
long as i can remember and

588
00:21:48,070 --> 00:21:46,640
what a privilege to to have this

589
00:21:50,950 --> 00:21:48,080
opportunity um

590
00:21:52,470 --> 00:21:50,960
i grew up in an air force family and uh

591
00:21:55,830 --> 00:21:52,480
and was really inspired by

592
00:21:57,430 --> 00:21:55,840
science fiction uh movies and and books

593
00:21:59,590 --> 00:21:57,440
but it was that first shuttle launch in

594
00:22:00,070 --> 00:21:59,600
1981 was in second grade that really

595
00:22:02,710 --> 00:22:00,080
gave

596
00:22:04,470 --> 00:22:02,720
life to that dream so i tried to figure

597
00:22:07,110 --> 00:22:04,480
out how do you become an astronaut

598
00:22:07,590 --> 00:22:07,120
um i read a lot of uh early biographies

599
00:22:10,870 --> 00:22:07,600
of our

600
00:22:12,310 --> 00:22:10,880
like everybody

601
00:22:13,750 --> 00:22:12,320
you had to become a pilot and a test

602
00:22:15,430 --> 00:22:13,760
pilot and growing up in an air force

603
00:22:17,750 --> 00:22:15,440
family i had a desire to serve

604
00:22:18,870 --> 00:22:17,760
i decided to go to the air force academy

605
00:22:20,230 --> 00:22:18,880
and it was at the academy that i

606
00:22:21,350 --> 00:22:20,240
actually discovered a passion for

607
00:22:24,710 --> 00:22:21,360
biology and

608
00:22:27,590 --> 00:22:24,720
uh and for for medicine and so

609
00:22:28,950 --> 00:22:27,600
i actually took a little bit of a turn i

610
00:22:30,470 --> 00:22:28,960
decided to go to medical school i went

611
00:22:32,710 --> 00:22:30,480
to university of colorado

612
00:22:34,149 --> 00:22:32,720
and trained in medicine i went up to

613
00:22:36,149 --> 00:22:34,159
minnesota at hennepin county medical

614
00:22:37,830 --> 00:22:36,159
center to train emergency medicine

615
00:22:39,669 --> 00:22:37,840
and that and just had an absolute

616
00:22:41,669 --> 00:22:39,679
passion for that

617
00:22:42,789 --> 00:22:41,679
but i still had this desire to serve in

618
00:22:45,669 --> 00:22:42,799
human space flight

619
00:22:47,190 --> 00:22:45,679
and so i came down i went down to texas

620
00:22:48,549 --> 00:22:47,200
and i trained in aerospace medicine i

621
00:22:50,789 --> 00:22:48,559
got a job as a flight surgeon

622
00:22:52,830 --> 00:22:50,799
at johnson space center and then had the

623
00:22:56,549 --> 00:22:52,840
great fortune to get selected into the

624
00:22:57,750 --> 00:22:56,559
2009 class and ultimately to get to fly

625
00:22:58,710 --> 00:22:57,760
to the international space station in

626
00:23:01,430 --> 00:22:58,720
2015

627
00:23:02,950 --> 00:23:01,440
uh it is such an amazing uh privilege to

628
00:23:06,390 --> 00:23:02,960
be a part of this team

629
00:23:08,710 --> 00:23:06,400
cool and bob mr oh man josh so

630
00:23:10,390 --> 00:23:08,720
uh when i was a little boy i just wanted

631
00:23:11,669 --> 00:23:10,400
to be a pilot i wanted to be a naval

632
00:23:13,270 --> 00:23:11,679
aviator and take off and land on

633
00:23:14,710 --> 00:23:13,280
aircraft carriers and i never dreamed i

634
00:23:15,909 --> 00:23:14,720
could be an astronaut i held those guys

635
00:23:18,149 --> 00:23:15,919
in such high esteem

636
00:23:19,029 --> 00:23:18,159
watching them on black and white tv and

637
00:23:20,789 --> 00:23:19,039
i just thought

638
00:23:22,630 --> 00:23:20,799
man wouldn't that be awesome but i

639
00:23:24,549 --> 00:23:22,640
couldn't do that and i was fortunate

640
00:23:28,070 --> 00:23:24,559
enough to get into the naval academy

641
00:23:29,909 --> 00:23:28,080
and my senior year the physics honor

642
00:23:31,669 --> 00:23:29,919
society took a field trip down here

643
00:23:33,909 --> 00:23:31,679
to the kennedy space center and i

644
00:23:36,310 --> 00:23:33,919
remember seeing apollo 13 launch

645
00:23:37,110 --> 00:23:36,320
and jim lovell was a naval academy

646
00:23:39,029 --> 00:23:37,120
graduate

647
00:23:40,630 --> 00:23:39,039
naval aviator test pilot and i thought

648
00:23:43,190 --> 00:23:40,640
you know maybe i could do that but

649
00:23:44,950 --> 00:23:43,200
it was a long ways off and so i worked

650
00:23:46,230 --> 00:23:44,960
hard i got my wings i liked nick

651
00:23:47,590 --> 00:23:46,240
cole i chose the commission in the

652
00:23:48,549 --> 00:23:47,600
marine corps marine pilots our naval

653
00:23:51,990 --> 00:23:48,559
aviators

654
00:23:52,549 --> 00:23:52,000
and uh as soon as i got uh got to be a

655
00:23:53,990 --> 00:23:52,559
pilot

656
00:23:55,430 --> 00:23:54,000
and had a thousand hours i said i'd

657
00:23:57,029 --> 00:23:55,440
really like to be a test pilot and use

658
00:23:57,750 --> 00:23:57,039
all that math and engineering i had in

659
00:23:59,990 --> 00:23:57,760
school

660
00:24:01,909 --> 00:24:00,000
and i was able to get into test pilot

661
00:24:04,630 --> 00:24:01,919
school and i absolutely loved it

662
00:24:05,110 --> 00:24:04,640
and while i was there uh as a test pilot

663
00:24:07,029 --> 00:24:05,120
uh

664
00:24:08,710 --> 00:24:07,039
john young and dan brandenstein a couple

665
00:24:10,149 --> 00:24:08,720
astronauts chief the astronaut office

666
00:24:12,070 --> 00:24:10,159
came up to pax recruiting

667
00:24:13,669 --> 00:24:12,080
uh nasa astronauts and they wanted us to

668
00:24:15,830 --> 00:24:13,679
apply and i said well dang i

669
00:24:16,789 --> 00:24:15,840
i actually qualify and so i applied and

670
00:24:18,710 --> 00:24:16,799
i didn't make it

671
00:24:20,950 --> 00:24:18,720
and i was really disappointed but i

672
00:24:23,590 --> 00:24:20,960
reapplied and was fortunate enough to

673
00:24:24,630 --> 00:24:23,600
make it the next year and i man i i just

674
00:24:25,990 --> 00:24:24,640
can't say

675
00:24:27,909 --> 00:24:26,000
you know how proud i am to be part of

676
00:24:29,750 --> 00:24:27,919
this team and how blessed i am to be

677
00:24:31,669 --> 00:24:29,760
able to done the things i did

678
00:24:34,070 --> 00:24:31,679
as far as getting to where i am the last

679
00:24:36,070 --> 00:24:34,080
job i applied for was to be an astronaut

680
00:24:37,909 --> 00:24:36,080
ever since then i've just done what i've

681
00:24:38,789 --> 00:24:37,919
been asked to do i've never said no to

682
00:24:40,710 --> 00:24:38,799
an assignment

683
00:24:42,789 --> 00:24:40,720
and i've always tried to do my very best

684
00:24:44,070 --> 00:24:42,799
at whatever i've been asked and

685
00:24:46,149 --> 00:24:44,080
one day i got asked if i'd be the

686
00:24:47,510 --> 00:24:46,159
director of the kennedy space center and

687
00:24:49,510 --> 00:24:47,520
i can't imagine

688
00:24:51,190 --> 00:24:49,520
not being as hard as it was to leave all

689
00:24:53,669 --> 00:24:51,200
my friends in houston

690
00:24:54,710 --> 00:24:53,679
uh i can't imagine uh not having been

691
00:24:56,470 --> 00:24:54,720
part of this

692
00:24:58,070 --> 00:24:56,480
awesome team here at ksc going through

693
00:24:58,710 --> 00:24:58,080
this transition from shuttle to our

694
00:25:01,269 --> 00:24:58,720
future

695
00:25:02,870 --> 00:25:01,279
yeah can i just add you know i think uh

696
00:25:04,630 --> 00:25:02,880
the common theme in

697
00:25:05,909 --> 00:25:04,640
in the list of accomplishments and the

698
00:25:07,669 --> 00:25:05,919
journeys that uh

699
00:25:09,029 --> 00:25:07,679
that you've heard hear her described

700
00:25:11,990 --> 00:25:09,039
here um

701
00:25:12,710 --> 00:25:12,000
is team and i think uh for all of us

702
00:25:15,430 --> 00:25:12,720
this is not

703
00:25:17,510 --> 00:25:15,440
an individual accomplishment that along

704
00:25:20,710 --> 00:25:17,520
that journey that we are partnered with

705
00:25:23,110 --> 00:25:20,720
friends family teachers coaches

706
00:25:24,470 --> 00:25:23,120
mentors that are all you know it's a

707
00:25:26,390 --> 00:25:24,480
group effort to

708
00:25:28,149 --> 00:25:26,400
to get to be here today and it's a group

709
00:25:29,750 --> 00:25:28,159
effort to to do something

710
00:25:31,510 --> 00:25:29,760
like we're going to do here this weekend

711
00:25:33,110 --> 00:25:31,520
man such a good word obviously

712
00:25:34,630 --> 00:25:33,120
be looking for your own support system

713
00:25:36,070 --> 00:25:34,640
and be a support system for others

714
00:25:38,630 --> 00:25:36,080
i think that's that's part of team is

715
00:25:40,230 --> 00:25:38,640
both ways um mr breinstein

716
00:25:41,590 --> 00:25:40,240
what important data did we get on

717
00:25:42,149 --> 00:25:41,600
wednesday obviously earlier today you

718
00:25:43,669 --> 00:25:42,159
mentioned

719
00:25:45,510 --> 00:25:43,679
this is the first wet dress rehearsal we

720
00:25:46,630 --> 00:25:45,520
had so what good data did we get that we

721
00:25:48,549 --> 00:25:46,640
can apply for future

722
00:25:50,070 --> 00:25:48,559
flights with crew dragon i think the the

723
00:25:52,230 --> 00:25:50,080
best data we got is that

724
00:25:55,110 --> 00:25:52,240
everything seemed to work according to

725
00:25:58,549 --> 00:25:55,120
plan we we got the astronauts on board

726
00:26:01,269 --> 00:25:58,559
we fueled the rocket we got the the

727
00:26:02,630 --> 00:26:01,279
uh the launch abort system armed all of

728
00:26:04,470 --> 00:26:02,640
these things are

729
00:26:06,390 --> 00:26:04,480
our steps that we had not done yet with

730
00:26:08,070 --> 00:26:06,400
the astronauts on board

731
00:26:10,230 --> 00:26:08,080
and everything worked and we were go for

732
00:26:12,470 --> 00:26:10,240
launch from a technical perspective

733
00:26:13,990 --> 00:26:12,480
we were go for launch we just got caught

734
00:26:15,669 --> 00:26:14,000
by the weather so

735
00:26:17,029 --> 00:26:15,679
i think what we learned is that

736
00:26:19,029 --> 00:26:17,039
everything worked

737
00:26:20,470 --> 00:26:19,039
and uh and we're very happy about that

738
00:26:21,909 --> 00:26:20,480
now we're we're

739
00:26:23,510 --> 00:26:21,919
ready to take the next step and get

740
00:26:25,909 --> 00:26:23,520
these guys off the pad good

741
00:26:27,029 --> 00:26:25,919
love it um uh this is from a

742
00:26:29,590 --> 00:26:27,039
nine-year-old abby

743
00:26:31,110 --> 00:26:29,600
um asking our two flown astronauts here

744
00:26:33,510 --> 00:26:31,120
what was the favorite thing you saw

745
00:26:34,149 --> 00:26:33,520
when you were in space you wanna go

746
00:26:37,590 --> 00:26:34,159
first

747
00:26:37,990 --> 00:26:37,600
oh sure boy there that's that's a hard

748
00:26:39,990 --> 00:26:38,000
question

749
00:26:41,269 --> 00:26:40,000
because there are so many amazing sights

750
00:26:43,510 --> 00:26:41,279
for me personally

751
00:26:44,870 --> 00:26:43,520
it was the very first time while i was

752
00:26:45,430 --> 00:26:44,880
still we were still in the rocket still

753
00:26:48,390 --> 00:26:45,440
climbing

754
00:26:49,750 --> 00:26:48,400
towards low earth orbit that first view

755
00:26:52,950 --> 00:26:49,760
out of the window to see

756
00:26:55,830 --> 00:26:52,960
with your own eyes the gentle arc

757
00:26:56,470 --> 00:26:55,840
of earth's horizon highlighted by the

758
00:26:58,630 --> 00:26:56,480
sun

759
00:27:00,789 --> 00:26:58,640
you know you see so many pictures of

760
00:27:02,789 --> 00:27:00,799
that and to see that with your own eyes

761
00:27:03,990 --> 00:27:02,799
i mean it gives me chills right now and

762
00:27:05,990 --> 00:27:04,000
then on

763
00:27:08,149 --> 00:27:06,000
the space station the opportunity to

764
00:27:10,230 --> 00:27:08,159
look back at the earth and find

765
00:27:13,350 --> 00:27:10,240
uh places where you grew up places where

766
00:27:17,350 --> 00:27:15,510
and and to feel that connection uh with

767
00:27:20,310 --> 00:27:17,360
with your family with your friends

768
00:27:22,149 --> 00:27:20,320
and uh and with the earth yeah i got a

769
00:27:23,190 --> 00:27:22,159
second that um

770
00:27:25,190 --> 00:27:23,200
you know i would have loved to have had

771
00:27:27,269 --> 00:27:25,200
a long duration flight but i think what

772
00:27:29,190 --> 00:27:27,279
i remember most is just our earth is a

773
00:27:31,029 --> 00:27:29,200
beautiful blue jewel of a planet

774
00:27:32,549 --> 00:27:31,039
and you see the horizon about like that

775
00:27:34,230 --> 00:27:32,559
from 220 nautical

776
00:27:35,830 --> 00:27:34,240
and there's this thin little hazy line

777
00:27:37,590 --> 00:27:35,840
over it and that's our atmosphere that's

778
00:27:39,190 --> 00:27:37,600
all that's protecting us from that harsh

779
00:27:41,590 --> 00:27:39,200
void of space with its extreme

780
00:27:43,990 --> 00:27:41,600
temperatures and ultraviolet radiation

781
00:27:45,350 --> 00:27:44,000
and space is the darkest black you can

782
00:27:47,110 --> 00:27:45,360
possibly imagine no

783
00:27:48,389 --> 00:27:47,120
black on earth does it just as when

784
00:27:50,389 --> 00:27:48,399
you're on the sunlit side of the earth

785
00:27:52,230 --> 00:27:50,399
it's just the absence of anything

786
00:27:54,389 --> 00:27:52,240
but i always told first-time flyers when

787
00:27:55,830 --> 00:27:54,399
i was chief of the astronaut office

788
00:27:57,269 --> 00:27:55,840
while you're up there you got to stick

789
00:27:58,230 --> 00:27:57,279
your nose up to a window and make a

790
00:28:00,549 --> 00:27:58,240
memory

791
00:28:02,389 --> 00:28:00,559
and time on orbit is very expensive

792
00:28:04,630 --> 00:28:02,399
there's very little free time

793
00:28:05,669 --> 00:28:04,640
but you don't take a picture make a

794
00:28:07,510 --> 00:28:05,679
memory because

795
00:28:09,029 --> 00:28:07,520
pictures fade and they don't do it

796
00:28:11,110 --> 00:28:09,039
justice what you see with the eyes that

797
00:28:13,430 --> 00:28:11,120
god gave you is so much better and

798
00:28:15,350 --> 00:28:13,440
my last flight we were coming up over

799
00:28:16,789 --> 00:28:15,360
baja peninsula across the united states

800
00:28:18,310 --> 00:28:16,799
and there was a big high pressure system

801
00:28:20,950 --> 00:28:18,320
it was a night over the

802
00:28:21,669 --> 00:28:20,960
united states and we flew right over my

803
00:28:23,350 --> 00:28:21,679
hometown

804
00:28:24,950 --> 00:28:23,360
minneapolis-st paul i could see where my

805
00:28:25,669 --> 00:28:24,960
grandparents farm was we went up into

806
00:28:27,269 --> 00:28:25,679
canada

807
00:28:29,029 --> 00:28:27,279
and i looked down and i could see all

808
00:28:30,710 --> 00:28:29,039
the lights of the cities

809
00:28:32,230 --> 00:28:30,720
outlining the great lakes like you were

810
00:28:34,310 --> 00:28:32,240
looking down on a map from

811
00:28:35,350 --> 00:28:34,320
you know west to chicago to long island

812
00:28:37,110 --> 00:28:35,360
and it's just

813
00:28:39,430 --> 00:28:37,120
memories like that i will cherish

814
00:28:40,549 --> 00:28:39,440
forever and they are never going to fade

815
00:28:42,149 --> 00:28:40,559
nicole i look forward to asking you the

816
00:28:43,029 --> 00:28:42,159
same question hopefully here really

817
00:28:44,950 --> 00:28:43,039
really soon

818
00:28:46,310 --> 00:28:44,960
absolutely and mr breinstein last

819
00:28:48,149 --> 00:28:46,320
question for you today i'm going to ask

820
00:28:49,590 --> 00:28:48,159
you to speak for the entire nasa family

821
00:28:51,190 --> 00:28:49,600
and the question is just simple what

822
00:28:53,909 --> 00:28:51,200
what is it what does it feel like

823
00:28:54,310 --> 00:28:53,919
to be a part of history i'll tell you um

824
00:28:57,990 --> 00:28:54,320
it's

825
00:29:00,950 --> 00:28:58,000
this season in my life

826
00:29:02,470 --> 00:29:00,960
to be at the helm of this very storied

827
00:29:06,549 --> 00:29:02,480
agency

828
00:29:09,510 --> 00:29:06,559
we stand on the shoulders of giants and

829
00:29:09,830 --> 00:29:09,520
we're not here because of me i just have

830
00:29:12,950 --> 00:29:09,840
the

831
00:29:15,110 --> 00:29:12,960
moment in time

832
00:29:16,789 --> 00:29:15,120
in this position i want to give a lot of

833
00:29:20,230 --> 00:29:16,799
credit to charlie bolden

834
00:29:22,789 --> 00:29:20,240
my predecessor as the nasa administrator

835
00:29:24,950 --> 00:29:22,799
and and the the commercial crew program

836
00:29:26,389 --> 00:29:24,960
was started under his leadership

837
00:29:28,389 --> 00:29:26,399
and back then he wasn't getting the

838
00:29:30,630 --> 00:29:28,399
support that it needed um

839
00:29:31,909 --> 00:29:30,640
and and you know congress wasn't funding

840
00:29:33,669 --> 00:29:31,919
it at the level that it needed to be

841
00:29:35,269 --> 00:29:33,679
funded and yet he persevered

842
00:29:37,510 --> 00:29:35,279
and because of his hard work his

843
00:29:40,549 --> 00:29:37,520
determination um

844
00:29:42,389 --> 00:29:40,559
you know make no mistake we now have

845
00:29:43,990 --> 00:29:42,399
great support

846
00:29:45,590 --> 00:29:44,000
but we had to go through some tough

847
00:29:46,870 --> 00:29:45,600
times before we got to where we are

848
00:29:48,789 --> 00:29:46,880
right now and the support we're getting

849
00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:48,799
now is overwhelming so

850
00:29:52,710 --> 00:29:50,799
my hat's off to charlie bolden and he

851
00:29:53,990 --> 00:29:52,720
told me when i took this job we sat down

852
00:29:56,070 --> 00:29:54,000
had a long chat

853
00:29:57,350 --> 00:29:56,080
he said jim everything that happens

854
00:30:00,149 --> 00:29:57,360
under your watch

855
00:30:01,830 --> 00:30:00,159
you take credit for and i said sir he's

856
00:30:03,750 --> 00:30:01,840
a general in the marine corps he's also

857
00:30:07,269 --> 00:30:03,760
a nasa astronaut

858
00:30:09,029 --> 00:30:07,279
navy pilot by trade a naval aviator i

859
00:30:10,870 --> 00:30:09,039
should say not a navy pilot but a naval

860
00:30:12,950 --> 00:30:10,880
aviator is a marine corps pilot

861
00:30:13,909 --> 00:30:12,960
um and he said jim you take credit i

862
00:30:17,110 --> 00:30:13,919
said sir

863
00:30:19,590 --> 00:30:17,120
uh this is this is a team effort and and

864
00:30:21,510 --> 00:30:19,600
um what makes this available today is

865
00:30:22,310 --> 00:30:21,520
continuity of purpose over long periods

866
00:30:24,389 --> 00:30:22,320
of time

867
00:30:25,990 --> 00:30:24,399
it's why we need sustainable programs

868
00:30:26,710 --> 00:30:26,000
it's why we work every day on making

869
00:30:28,470 --> 00:30:26,720
sure

870
00:30:30,549 --> 00:30:28,480
that 30 years from now the artemis

871
00:30:32,230 --> 00:30:30,559
program which chell just talked about

872
00:30:33,510 --> 00:30:32,240
the artemis program is going to be here

873
00:30:34,470 --> 00:30:33,520
30 years from now we're going to have a

874
00:30:36,389 --> 00:30:34,480
sustainable

875
00:30:38,070 --> 00:30:36,399
presence on the surface of the moon and

876
00:30:40,149 --> 00:30:38,080
in fact we're going to be on mars

877
00:30:41,669 --> 00:30:40,159
cool man good words appreciate all that

878
00:30:43,110 --> 00:30:41,679
thank you all for being here today

879
00:30:45,029 --> 00:30:43,120
i know we're all anxious to see this

880
00:30:47,110 --> 00:30:45,039
baby fly um so that's gonna do it for us

881
00:30:48,950 --> 00:30:47,120
here today i want to remind everyone to

882
00:30:50,950 --> 00:30:48,960
tune in tomorrow morning at 11 a.m

883
00:30:54,549 --> 00:30:50,960
eastern time we will begin coverage

884
00:30:56,310 --> 00:30:54,559
leading up to a 3 22 pm eastern time

885
00:30:57,750 --> 00:30:56,320
liftoff of the crew dragon

886
00:30:59,669 --> 00:30:57,760
and i'll leave it by just saying go

887
00:31:09,430 --> 00:30:59,679
falcon go dragon