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good music the astronauts aboard the

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international space station a dozen of

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them in all i've been up for hours

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already they're in the middle of a busy

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day they're about to hold a news

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conference in a little less than 30

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minutes they're going to talk about the

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week-long shuttle resupply mission to

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the station a successful mission

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i'll be a little busy but if i had a

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chance to pose them a question i would

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ask them how they think nasa can help

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stem the tide on the stem problem and by

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that i'm referring to science technology

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engineering and math education and

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acronyms stem well it's nasa yeah you

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got to use that right of course american

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15 year olds now rank 21st in science

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25th and math when compared to their

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peers around the world 21st in science

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25th of math how did that happen

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president obama tackled the issue

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yesterday at the white house

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this isn't news we've seen worrying

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statistics like this for years yet time

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and again we've let partisan and petty

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bickering stand in the way of progress

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and time and again as a nation we've let

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our children down we can't keep doing

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that in the audience for that event lots

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of high school kids or secretaries of

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education and energy sally ride was

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there and the nasa administrator charlie

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bolden former astronaut marine fighter

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pilot the son of two educators and some

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full disclosure here i'm on the nasa

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advisory council heading the committee

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on education and public outreach so i

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might have a little bit of a conflict of

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interest here good morning charlie good

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to have you with us good morning miles

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how are you doing i'm doing well um what

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can nasa do to inspire and engage kids

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and get them excited about science as

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the president said let's make science

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cool again

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well our primary intent is to to expose

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them to the opportunities that are

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available in math and science uh in

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engineering help them understand exactly

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what engineering means you know what is

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it because we we throw the term around

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but there are a lot of teachers who

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don't even know what it means to be an

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engineer so

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we have lots of assets in the way of

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astronauts and spaceships and ten

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centers around the country that we

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starting this summer are hoping to to

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use to expose as many kids as possible

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to to the opportunities available in

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these fields yeah some of this is is

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beyond nasa's purview because some of it

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is the way it is taught in classrooms

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but but

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nasa is a great reminder to them that

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engineering can lead you to great goals

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that's correct and you know

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just by being in communities the way

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that that we are attempting to be by by

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allowing astronauts to go into schools

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where they would not otherwise see

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someone who has attained that particular

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height in life um that opens new doors

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to kids that never imagined they could

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do that before

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charlie i mean with all the budgetary

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restrictions at nasa and the

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frustrations over the last 10 to 15

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years is nasa a great place for an

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engineer to have a career these days

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nasa is a fantastic place for engineers

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to have have a place to work in fact

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i think in the latest poll of

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best places to work in the country

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nasa is either number one or number two

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as a general rule unless you're working

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in washington but but the nasa centers

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are great places to work we have

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tremendous programs for

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college interns and co-ops and

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in fact the secretary for the present

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crew sts-129 i was listening to her do

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an interview yesterday she came to the

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nasa family as a high school co-op and

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found that it was something that would

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allow her to contribute to the space

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program and she's just as important as a

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as an astronaut on the shuttle all right

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well help us out you know john and i are

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here we we grew up in the generation and

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you were there too where we watched the

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space race unfold you know the the

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sister grace edwards would roll the tv

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in and we watched the launches we were

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all engaged because it was so much a

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part of our lives how do we recreate

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well you know miles as you and i have

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talked in the past we need again we need

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to get out on the street we need to

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pound the pavement and help kids

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understand not just kids help kids and

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their parents uh understand what we're

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trying to do now we're involved in an

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incredible and i won't call it a race

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but we're involved in an incredible

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contest for technological leadership in

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the world and the only way we can

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maintain that leadership is by

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continuing to do the types of

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engineering development and innovation

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that uh nasa and the nation have always

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been known for charles what we intend to

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do charles i i need to disclose

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something miles disclosed that he's uh

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you know on on the commission right yeah

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journalists in space candidates um any

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chance i could redeem that for a ride

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well you never know john uh you know we

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only have a few flights left in 2010 but

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but there will be other vehicles so that

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the the the message for people is that

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uh going into space does not end when

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when the shuttle is phased out we're

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we're hoping to develop another vehicle

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we're going to be dependent on the

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russians and and other international

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partners for a while but uh nasa

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engineers right now are busily working

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to try to develop a follow-on for

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shuttle all right well let's talk about

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that for just a minute because we're

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talking about a five maybe seven year

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to whenever this next vehicle comes

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along that's it what do you do to keep

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kids engaged keep them excited about

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being a part of this whole science and

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engineering campaign during that period

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well miles will still have astronauts

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who are going venturing into space and

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will be there 365 days a year american

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period of time between 1975 when we flew

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the last apollo mission in apollo soyuz

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that period of time we had no flights we

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no americans going into space our soviet

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so we're going to go through a period of

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time where we don't have a an american

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organic capability to get to space but

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where we're going to have american

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astronauts going into space 365 days

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over the next five minutes marching kids

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can do that charlie marching forward

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what is nasa's mission is it to go to a

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planet or is it to inspire kids and and

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have them uh

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take up these uh professions of

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engineering and mathematics and science

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my number one goal miles i i i learned

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something and that is you can't inspire

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someone if they haven't been exposed to

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it so uh again as you've heard us talk

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about on the nasa advisory council we

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want to find ways to get nasa engineers

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communities so that we can let kids know

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that there are opportunities there once

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we do that then we can inspire them but

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we've got to expose them to what's

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available we've got to expose them to

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airplanes and to to drones or un you

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know unmanned aerial vehicles uh rockets

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things like that so that's our mars

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all right charlie bolden nasa

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administrator thanks for your time this

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morning