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retention may I have your attention

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please I'm Lori Meggs and I'm bill

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hubscher welcome to focus on Marshall on

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today's program you're going to meet the

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woman behind the voice will helps keep

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Marshall employees safe but first we'll

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visit with a Marshall team that helped

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spread NASA's message all across the

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country we're here at the u.s. space &

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Rocket Centre in Huntsville which is not

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only a space museum and the home to

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space camp but it is also the official

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NASA visitor center here in North

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Alabama and we're joined by the Marshall

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Space Flight centers John Jim lynn who

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is the manager of exhibits John first of

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all to give us a little overview as to

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what the exhibits team does bill the

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exhibits team is a cradle-to-grave

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exhibits program we can design exhibits

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we build them we operate them on the

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road we manage them for years as they're

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at museums around the country we can

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offer research services to people

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projects and programs that would like

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for us to help them get their word out

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in fact you handle displays and models

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as you mentioned including this one

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right here that's right and we did this

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one while we built displays in the

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proper lobby of the rocket center we

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have traveling exhibits here at the

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Visitor Center right now on display but

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we also partner with them through Space

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Act agreements and other agreements to

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operate things around the country tell

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us why NASA felton so important to have

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an exhibits Department well the exhibits

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program complements the other

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communications tools that nASA has in

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NASA's charter the Space Act of nineteen

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fifty eight NASA was chartered to get

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the word out about its projects in

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programs but also about discoveries of

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things that you know that we have

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developed or benefits that have spun out

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of the space program for the last 30

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years 40 years and so the exhibits

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program complements how the public

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learns about those verbally or in

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writing so you basically help get the

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message out that's correct people learn

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in different ways and some folks

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have to touch some experience a lot of

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people learn or used to learn by reading

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and writing and listening to to the

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verbal word some people just have to

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have that information reinforced by

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touching and experiencing exhibits and

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so we do that we also have staffers that

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travel around and help explain things

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further when people have questions well

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you really do build these items the

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displays the models from the ground up

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cradle to grave as you mentioned so

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let's go back onto the Marshall Space

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Flight Center and see where you guys

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build those let's do that now we're out

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here at building 4631 back at the

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Marshall Center and are joined by Sheree

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Smith who is an outreach integration

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lead in here in the model shop well

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that's just not officially the model

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shop is it yes official refer to this as

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our design and fabrication shops but it

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is affectionately known as a model shop

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because of the significant amount of

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work we've done over the years right the

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model shop has been here for what 40

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years we've had employees working here

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for 45 up to 45 years of working on

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models from the f1 engine all the way up

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through our ares model set this is a

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very intricate models you have here and

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this is of course it's just just

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beautiful work how do you do stuff like

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this where our team is comprised of

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technicians who are fabricators and Bill

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the molds for these models and work

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other exhibits we also have graphics

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specialists outreach coordinators

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property manager and we're led by our

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civil service project liaisons and as

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much as I would love to see one of these

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models out on my desk they're actually

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guessing to be to be spread across the

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country right yes they go around to

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various NASA centers trade shows

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technical conferences and any other way

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to get our messages out to the general

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public I know you have one exhibit in

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particular that's very large and very

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high-tech that is our vision for space

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exploration experience trailer can we go

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take a look at that yes again so we've

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stepped outside of the model shop to

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where the vision for Space Exploration

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experiences parked and I say that

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correctly yes this is one of our more

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exciting exhibits that we take out on

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the road to share information about our

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plans for the next 20 years to return to

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the moon go to Mars visitors come in and

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get an overview of the vision and then

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learn about Moon and Mars through our

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holographic images and in the back we

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have the experience the theater portion

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where visitors can act like they're

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kicking moon rocks

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mars rocks now they don't actually kick

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Moon or Mars Roger no sir we use our

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technology with cameras projection

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systems that pick up people's emotions

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to simulate moving the Moon and Mars

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rocks but now we do have a touch of a

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moon rock on the exhibit and it goes out

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on tour as well yes in fact you need a

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whole staff of people to go out on tour

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this thing yes we have outreach

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coordinators and technicians that go

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along with this and it takes several

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months of planning because what we try

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to do is not only have the exhibit

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brought to town but we try to organize

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opportunities for national speakers to

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come out and share information work with

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our NASA Education offices so we can

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organize activities for students and

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have VIP and media nights anything to

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get that message out right everything we

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can in fact you have an example I guess

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of the experience here in town now right

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yes we have our vision for space

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exploration experience dome which is a

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smaller version which has the back

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theater and it's set up here in

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Huntsville set up right here in that

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soon can we go check it out yes you may

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John sherry showed us the model shop and

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the trailer and she told us about the

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dome which is very impressive a true

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floor to ceiling surrounding experience

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what can you tell us about it well this

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particular exhibit was built for a

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headquarters exploration they asked us

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to develop something that allowed the

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public to experience what it might be

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like to walk on the moon or to walk on

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the Mars and you do a lot of these kinds

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of displays for all kinds of departments

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at NASA we do primarily we focus on the

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institution for Marshall but we also our

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client based in other words projects and

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programs that have an exhibits component

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for their outreach and communication

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strategies they will come to us can ask

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us to execute for them and if we have a

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number of clients like that we can get

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some synergy for executing an exhibits

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program for them and save the cost for

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everybody your displays and models and

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exhibits are very popular how many

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different places you visit last year

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well an exhibit event can range from

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loaning a model to somebody for speaking

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engagement all the way up to a big large

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traveling exhibit that might be in a

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mall for nine weeks or there abouts we

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did about 150 of those in 2006 Wow and

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right now the dome is at the early works

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children's History Museum here in

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Huntsville why putting it in a history

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museum for children well museums are our

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key and children's museums are getting

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more key

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for us because we are trying to convey

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information to a next generation of

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astronauts that will run NASA in 20 or

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30 years and actually execute division

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for Space Exploration John this is a

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very impressive multi exhibits have been

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impressive for us to see today and thank