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vehicle that could launch into space as

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a rocket put 25 tons of cargo into orbit

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and land on a runway like an airplane

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not just once but over and over again in

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the 1980s NASA would rip this concept

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from the pages of science fiction and

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place it squarely on the cutting edge of

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going up the launchpad and looking up

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and seeing you know this huge rocket

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that kind of sounds like an animal you

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can kind of hear the gurgling and the

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hissing and you know it sounds like it's

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a few seconds right before liftoff every

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time I've done this has been a little

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bit of fright about whether I really

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want to be doing this or not we have

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built a mansion start I was really just

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focusing right on the tasks at hand and

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trying not to think about you know the

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fact that tons and tons and tons of

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rocket fuel we're about to explode

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Roger roll discovery

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discovery up

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six seconds into the flight that forces

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and sensations are just powerful beyond

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imagination they shake you so much that

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you can hardly see the displays in front

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right after that solid rocket boosters

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are jettisoned at two minutes it's a

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very smooth ride the acceleration is

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very powerful and you're on the way to

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as soon as you achieved orbit the

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engines cut off just instantaneously you

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go from being pressed in the seat to

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hanging in your straps and sort of

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floating in the cockpit the fact that I

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was going to be the first American woman

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to go into space carried huge

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expectations along with it and of course

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it was very important to me that I

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understood my role really well and that

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I was really well prepared for the

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mission because the last thing that I

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wanted to do was get into space and make

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a mistake so I wanted to be very very

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sure that I was able to meet the

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expectations but it wasn't from the

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desire to be the first African American

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in space my desire was to make a

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contribution just to make a contribution

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and I think I probably told people that

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I would probably prefer not being in

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that role versus being in their world

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because I figured being a number two

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see you were having a lot of fun up here

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trying to figure out what happens to the

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it feels like your way twice as much as

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you normally do during the entry portion

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once you get on final all the emotions

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and sin in focus or just on that last

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little bit of landing and it's a it's a

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neat way to end a fight when you

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actually get to put your hands on the

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stick and fly it yourself engines

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throttling up three hundred and hundred

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we come together today to mourn the loss

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of seven brave Americans to share the

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grief that we all feel and perhaps in

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that sharing to find the strength to

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bear our sorrow and the courage to look

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for the seeds of hope risk is something

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we have to just really consider as part

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of our life especially an exploration I

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know we've had some tragedies and we'll

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probably have tragedies in the future

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but you know the ones that we've lost

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were probably the first ones to tell you

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keep pressing on don't stop because of

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us my role as a mechanical engineer was

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to find out you know what fell apart or

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what happened and we finally found that

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the whole ring supposed to be designed

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so the pressure on one side pushes them

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more securely into place the the housing

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for that big old ring was just the

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opposite the pressure actually pushed it

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out finally of course when the thing

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burned through and actually burned the

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nozzle through it's pretty obvious to

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see what what the problem so with we got

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clears the tower Roger roll discovery

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good morning discovery and you gotta go

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for HST deploy ops NASA opened the

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decade of the 90s by placing the Hubble

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Space Telescope into orbit it would peer

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farther into space and further back in

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time than any other telescope and in the

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closing decade of the 20th century

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Hubble and a host of other robotic

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explorers would provide astonishing new

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views and perspectives everybody was up

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we were off to discover the secrets of

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the universe it was it was great and

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then things started to be sort of

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scratch your head why is it taking so

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long why can't we focus the telescope

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what's going on what was wrong with

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Hubble is the kind of the same thing

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that's wrong with your eyes when you

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need glasses basically the shape of the

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lens was wrong so in essence the

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telescope was nearsighted and it needed

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some glasses I was taking a shower in

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the hotel in Germany and had these

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really funny shower heads where the

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shower head will kind of move up and

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down and back and forth and that's when

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it dawned on me we can have this

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instrument robotically raise up the

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corrective lens clip out if you will

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just like that shower head these other

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corrective optics to correct the

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aberration for all the instruments all

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of the work leading up to the first

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servicing mission is probably the most

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the NASA program changed the nature of

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astronomy we need some extravagant

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promises on Hubble we under sold the

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program whatever we said what we'll did

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better I think it really changed the

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nature of what we know the Hubble is one

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of the most phenomenal things we've ever

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done in space data that we get from

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Hubble will continue to change the way

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we think about ourselves about the

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universe and our place in it you know

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the pictures from Hubble are iconic you

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see them everywhere the fingers of God

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this is the gas pillars that are

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actually many many many light-years

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across so the scale of these things is

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enormous and you can actually seeing the

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birth of stars there's a star nursery it

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starts to give you a sense of how small