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now ladies and gentlemen i want you to

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put your hands together and help me

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welcome gene polisinski vice president

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executive director of the first

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amendment center he's a veteran

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journalist whose career has included

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work in newspapers radio television and

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online operations

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gene also represents the mid-south

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chapter of the national television

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academy

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he's part of the board of trustees and a

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great man ladies and gentlemen gene

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thank you all

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well as my colleague phil bell mentioned

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uh tonight marks many milestones our

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board of governors award for lifetime

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achievement recognizes contributions to

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broadcasting beyond the scope of the

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awards categories it's our distinct

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honor to celebrate nasa tv on the

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occasion of nasa's 50th anniversary

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you know they brought us breathtaking

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pictures from space and we applaud them

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we're delighted to have united states

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congressman bart gordon with us as

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chairman of the house committee on

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science he joins us in thanking nasa for

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and nasa tv for their contributions to

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space exploration to all of us on earth

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jane thank you so much

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when people hear the word nasa they

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often think about the apollo moon

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landing the hubble space station

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telescope or the mars rovers

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yet nasa has many other programs that

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are less well known which are addressing

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important national needs

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for example

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nasa's aeronautics program is helping to

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transform the nation's air traffic

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control system by developing new

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technologies to make flying safer with

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less impact on the environment and

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nasa's earth science program is the

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world leader in climate research and

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will help us to both better understand

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our climate and improve our ability to

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forecast the weather

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and over the years nasa tv has provided

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the invaluable service of helping to

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translate nasa's significant

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contributions into terms that the public

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can understand and appreciate

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i'm pleased to present the academy's

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lifetime achievement award to nasa tv

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now here's a look at the history of nasa

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tv assembled by their very talented

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the roots of nasa television reached

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back to the beginning of the space race

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and the launch of america's first

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astronaut in 1961.

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so all of a sudden we've got this

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challenge that we're going to have to

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work out a whole operation for the

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television networks coming up for the

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as public interest in the space program

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grew so did nasa tv's cover four three

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we have commit we have

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with apollo 7 the first live broadcast

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from space would wow audiences worldwide

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christmas eve 1968 the crew of apollo 8

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orbiting the moon read from the book of

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genesis in the beginning

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god created the heaven and the earth

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and in 1969 as neil armstrong and buzz

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aldrin brought the eagle to a soft

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landing on the moon the ankle has landed

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nasa television engineer richard nascar

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held his breath the tv better worker

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else and if it doesn't they really will

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know who i am because i'll be the man

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who didn't bring you television from the

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moon and we're getting a picture on the

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celebrated moment in the history of live

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i think that's one of the best things we

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ever we ever did in the space program

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one of the best decisions ever made

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with regard to the space program was to

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share that with the world

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for the next 40 years nasa tv would

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share evermore voyagers trip through the

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solar system it became a worldwide event

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when voyager was flying by these worlds

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and i had no idea that it would have

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that kind of an impact the awe-inspiring

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images of the hubble space telescope

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this kind of footage is a major

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wonderful major accomplishment

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and for people to be able to see this i

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think it's just absolutely exhilarating

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from the mars exploration rovers landing

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on the red planet

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to live coverage of the space shuttle

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astronauts living and working in space

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in high definition

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you see some of those images that are

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now in hd of the inside of the space

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station and the outside of the space

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station it's just incredible live

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specials news conferences education

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programming and science updates and

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continuous news feeds providing footage

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and interviews to news organizations

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around the world the value really

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is in keeping the public informed about

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what is happening in the program it

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really is a major part in the

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advancement of technology in this

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country and today nasa is working on the

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next advancement in communications

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technology as part of its next great