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good afternoon

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i am tina thompson the principal of gorn

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flow and i'm very excited to welcome all

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of you to our school on this wonderful

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occasion

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we are here to celebrate and honor the

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achievements of one of gormflow's

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special alumni

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fred hayes

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boys and girls i know all of you

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remember mr hayes who was with us just

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last week at our reading is fundamental

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book day

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mr hayes was kind enough to spend the

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day with us and read a book to all of

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our students

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mr hayes has returned again today to

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share another

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very special day with you

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today all of the gorn flow students have

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enjoyed a day filled with learning and i

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want to take this opportunity to thank

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the nasa staff and the biloxi public

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school staff who helped make this day a

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reality

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i have been given the distinct honor of

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introducing gene goldman

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mr goldman is the director of nasa's

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john c stennis space center

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as director he provides executive

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overall direction and management of the

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mr goldman is responsible for

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implementing the center's roles for nasa

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in the area of rocket propulsion testing

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and applied science

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students i guess you could say that mr

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goldman is like the principal of stennis

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space center please help me welcome gene

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that's the first nice thing a principal

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has ever said about me

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thank you miss thompson for the

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introduction and i especially want to

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thank you superintendent tisdale

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for opening up born flow elementary for

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this very important and special ceremony

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to honor fred hayes

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we have a beautiful school here

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and very enthusia enthusiastic students

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and staff

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we at nasa are very passionate about

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learning and it sure seems everyone here

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at goronflow is as well i'd also like to

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welcome the mayor a.j holloway

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biloxi mayor and some of the city

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officials who are here today also

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fred i know you have some family here

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today so i'm going to let you introduce

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them when they're all here

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this is boys and girls a truly special

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occasion and it's wonderful to see you

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here today to help celebrate this

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because today we are honoring a true

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space pioneer and real american hero and

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apollo astronaut fred hayes jr

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we're also fortunate today to have my

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boss

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nasa administrator charles bolden

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a former astronaut himself who's flown

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in space four times

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mr bolden is the leader of nasa

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directing us and our mission in space

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exploration and discovery and preparing

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us for an exciting future in education

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is one of his primary initiatives

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but before i introduce him i'd like to

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say something to the students of

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goronflow elementary

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as you watch mr hayes receive his roar

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award today and you hear about his

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amazing accomplishments

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please remember that he's not just a

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former astronaut

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he's also a former gorenflo elementary

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student just as you are

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he's a living example of what you can do

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in life if you dream big and dare to try

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amazing things

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as i look out across all your faces i

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wonder if there might be a future

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astronaut

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a future leader of nasa a future nasa

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administrator possibly a president of

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the united states sitting among you

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whatever you dream

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dream big

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and follow it with all your heart and be

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willing to work for it

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if you do you too can accomplish great

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now i'd like you to help me welcome in

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nasa administrator charlie bolden

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charlie thank you so much for taking the

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time today out of your demanding

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schedule to be here we're very honored

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to have you here so ladies and gentlemen

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boys and girls please help me in

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thank you

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thanks very much for the the great the

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undeserved introduction it's um

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good afternoon to all of you

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uh it is uh it's especially great for me

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to be here i've i've had the privilege

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of spending the morning here and

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watching

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if their parents over here you should be

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very proud because watching your kids

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as they would say do their thing they

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they are incredible scientists and

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budding engineers and everything else

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we've watched them make moon rock and

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we've watched them learn about

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gases expanding and contracting and

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learn about the moon and all kinds of

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stuff and and when they get home you'll

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also have to ask them about their their

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crew

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special stories to tell about those also

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it's it's great to be here at gorn flow

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and to see how the teachers and the

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students are working together

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to prepare the next generation of ex

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explorers for their future in space

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this school is a lot like our space

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program

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whenever we face challenges we work

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together to overcome them

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i know that katrina brought six feet

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yeah i am told to this school

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eight feet

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to your neighbor's school

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water here but i also know that all of

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you working together repaired the damage

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rebuilt your school and got back to the

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task of teaching your students

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today gorn flow is the home to more than

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150 students taught by 17 teachers

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your academic performance and and for

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you kids

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i'm not sure you understand how good you

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are so i'm going to talk about you for a

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little while

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your academic performance is quite

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impressive

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i've learned that your grades three and

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five student scores exceed the state

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proficiency average in language

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and grades four and five students exceed

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the state proficiency average for math

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your fifth graders exceed the state

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average for math by more than 50 percent

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an incredible achievement

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this is a fabulous record of success and

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all of you should feel very proud

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because you do your school proud when

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you perform the way that you're doing

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and you also do your teachers proud

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because they feel that you're actually

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learning the material that they're

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trying to teach you in the classroom so

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so in your own special way you're paying

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tribute to them

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it's a fabulous record of success so all

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i can say is keep it up

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whether it be innovative teaching

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concepts such as rocket rocket rules

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or in-depth training in the language

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arts goran flow you're pointing the way

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to a future well-trained and educated

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i think it perf a perfect place to make

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the latest award of nasa's ambassador of

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the son of mississippi that we honor

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today knows something about overcoming

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challenges and achieving his dream

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fred hayes attended gorn flow elementary

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and graduated from biloxi high before

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graduating with honors in aeronautical

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engineering from the university of

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oklahoma in 1959.

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he completed post-graduate courses at

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the air force aerospace test pilot

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california in 1964 and at the harvard

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following completion of his aviator

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training fred served as a united states

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marine corps fighter pilot

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fred was selected by nasa for astronaut

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he was backup lunar module pilot for

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but it is his service as lunar module

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pilot for the apollo 13 mission that

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made famous by movies and books

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the historic apollo 13 mission was as

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dramatic as any hollywood production

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when an explosion crippled his command

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module fred and his crewmates jim lovell

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and jack schweigert guided their

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spacecraft around the moon

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all while the world held its breath

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while fred didn't have the chance to

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walk on the moon the cool courage and

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concentration in the face of crisis is

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among his and nasa's most enduring

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after apollo 13 came home fred was

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commander aboard the space shuttle

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enterprise during the shuttle's approach

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and landing test flights from june to

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these test flights prove the flight

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qualities of the orbiter a key step in

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preparing the way for the space missions

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after he left nasa in 1979 fred spent 17

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corporation and retired in 1996 as

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president of northrop grumman technical

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services in florida

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for all your service to nasa and the

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nation it's my pleasure to be here to

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present you with the ambassador of

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exploration award but

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before we do that we've got a clip of

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video that i would like for everyone to

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have an opportunity to see so i think

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they're going to roll that video right

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boys and girls uh this is a very special

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day for you and i can only echo what mr

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gene goldman said there is no reason

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uh by your academic performance that you

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can learn and that you can do

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exceptionally well so

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nothing would make him happier being

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here at home than to be able to read one

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day that that one of you sitting in this

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audience uh was on a crew that went to

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the moon or even better went to mars so

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uh set your sights really big

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it's now my pleasure to present the

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ambassador of exploration award this

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award recognizes the sacrifices and

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dedication of the mercury germany and

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apollo astronauts with this small lunar

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part of the 842 pounds of moon rocks and

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missions from 1969 to 1972

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at the base of the award

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reads a plaque or on the reads a sample

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is a symbol of human endeavor and

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mankind's hopes for the future of peace

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and harmony it is my honor and pleasure

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to give this ambassador of exploration

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i wish i was that young again

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i i want to thank the nasa administrator

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for taking the time from his very busy

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schedule to

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to make the trip and join us for this

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extra special event

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i know he had to fight some weather even

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getting in last night it wasn't too good

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last night but i'm happy charlie made it

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i respect charlie as a fellow astronaut

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as a fellow marine

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as a friend

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and one who is providing the leadership

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for nasa during these challenging times

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ahead

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this exploration

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bachelor of exploration award is a great

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honor and particularly so to receive it

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here as is mentioned several times where

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i started my education

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i hate to admit it but it was 1939

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70 years ago

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in fact i had trouble

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running down i tried to get more of my

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classmates that uh were there with and i

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had difficulty i see at least

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one arrived today

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uh janice uh

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seymour

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who i knew as janice felcher in those

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days

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and uh i didn't didn't want to

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hate to let you know your age but that's

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all right janice i'm glad you made it

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i'm glad you made it

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the lunar rock uh incidentally is uh and

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if you looked at a nasa catalog i guess

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it's known as number one four three two

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one

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it's a rather inauspicious

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uh title for this uh this this rock

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uh i guess it's uh would be appreciated

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considerably by uh geologists and

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scientists who have studied it

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and trying to understand the origin of

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the moon and how that all fits into

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cosmology

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and

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our solar system

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i hope that many of you remember

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our young president john f kennedy

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i don't know a lot of room didn't

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remember because that was about 1961.

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he made a speech that really started the

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apollo program

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uh kicked it off and

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one of the things he said in that speech

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is we choose to go to the moon

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and do those other things

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not because they're easy

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but because they're difficult

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and at this time

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we had not put anybody into orbit yet

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john glenn had not made his flight

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so it's quite a bullish thing to kick

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off

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and i really don't think he knew just

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how hard it was really going to be

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but for me i hope

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in many of you you really uh when you

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see this rock

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uh you see it as a symbol

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of the uh of the effort

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uh made by a lot of people in fact uh at

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the peak of the program

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uh there were over 400 000

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people 400 000 people on the nasa team

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that enabled us to enjoy the successes

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uh we had

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and for

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uh

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ed mitchell

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and alan shepard to have the opportunity

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on apollo 14 to recover this sample this

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particular sample

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from the hills of fraumero

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on the surface of the moon

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some of you may wonder

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why gorn flow well obvious one obvious

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answer you've heard several times i was

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a student here starting my education

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one little story i shouldn't tell

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probably shouldn't tell

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i think it's already been told i uh i

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got a nickname while it uh gorn flow the

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nickname of peki

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uh because i was a woodpecker and an

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operetta uh here at the school

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and that

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a lot of my friends uh still know me as

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pecky family it's uncle pecky

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and as i look back though and think back

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that that time i was actually happy

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to have the name pecky because in the

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second grade

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we had a reader that was titled freddie

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the green frog

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several several of a family are here

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today not all some didn't want to play

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hooky from school i have a pair of twins

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that are in high school but i wonder if

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my family could stand up family and

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friends actually two

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two are on the staff that go on flow

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you stand up a minute here

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all right

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yeah i see the twins did uh did play

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hooky today i hope you got all right

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shouldn't excuse absence

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and i see uh hope there has a the next

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generation a great

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uh another other thing i noted uh and

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these awards incidentally uh i think

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they started in early 2005

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and i noted that most were given to

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universities

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or major museums

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and i really uh i visited a few museums

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and uh and and sought those out

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and i thought rather than

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just be another artifact among many that

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is the case in these particular

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institutions

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i place it here at garnflow in the

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imagination station

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which did already exist here and it's a

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place for special programming

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and this rock could become a centerpiece

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in supporting the education of you here

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in the audience today and those beyond

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this station also has live video

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capability throughout the school

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and it also has a feature a school

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system already headed that allows a live

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media tie

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to stennis

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and again science teachers that want

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special program can arrange special

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program can take advantage of that

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and uh superintendent tisdale told me

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that

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the program is by science teacher uh

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could actually bring a class in bust

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them in and hold a program here at gorn

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flow for those at even higher levels

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and of course the the hope uh with with

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all of this is to encourage

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and provide that spark uh for young

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children

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uh to use their talents and to use their

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talents obviously to the best we all all

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have talent that's somewhat different

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but those that are good

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in saying math i have a granddaughter

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that there's great difficulty with math

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so

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i don't think i'd encourage her to be a

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rocket scientist but nevertheless we all

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have talent we need to figure out how to

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use it but those that have it i hope

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we'll become

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and steered in the direction of science

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and engineering because this country is

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behind in that

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arena and we need your help

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i want to thank all of you again today

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who who have come for this special event

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made it a great day

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uh

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and special thanks some of my group i've

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been working with four years

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on the infiniti science center project

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it's a partnership with stannis

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also a great education it'll be a great

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education event

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for many of you it'll go on on field

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trips

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in fact all total within the louisiana

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mississippi arena

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we hope we'll get about 250 000 uh

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school

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students on k-12 field trips uh to that

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facility when it's open

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i also give special thanks

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to the beau rivage for their support to

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this event

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i hope some of you will also get a

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chance to go through the exploration

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center

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and uh and look things over it has a lot

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of old bloxy some old bloxy features in

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there as well

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and one of my

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training suits is on exhibit there

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that will stay that i i have to do a

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little homework to relearn some of the

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things and i'll come back and give a

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lecture on on the suit one of these days

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i know each of you children here as i

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said are blessed with talent and i i

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hope you will work hard and take that to

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great advantage to

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enjoy really a productive and exciting

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life ahead

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i would like to invite

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superintendent paul testale up now

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to take receipt except

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the linda rock on behalf of the biloxi

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nasa director bolden

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stennis director goldman that's not easy

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to say two in a row

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astronaut hayes mayor holloway

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guests and boys and girls

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thank you for making garnflow elementary

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school a part of your day today in

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biloxi mississippi

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space program began as someone's dream

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astronaut training

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was someone's dream

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today we have proof

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that dreams come true

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education makes things possible

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they help make dreams come true but

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dreams take time

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to come true

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and i want you to think about your dream

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many days will come and go as you work

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on your dream

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and you must do your very best every day

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and you should hang on to your dream

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every time you see the moon rock

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here at garnflow elementary school

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think about your dream whatever that

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dream is

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remind yourself to work hard

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every day at school

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to make your dream come true

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and you must work hard because it's your

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dream

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thank you mr hayes and mr bolden for

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your service to your country

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our country and to nasa

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thank you fred for remembering

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thank you for bringing a piece of space

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to our space

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and thank you for proving that dreams

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come true

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we would like to welcome all of our

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guests today to a reception held in

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honor of mr hayes after after the

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program today and our very special fifth

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grade guest as well but before we leave

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we haven't

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excuse me

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we have another very special guest i

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need you to please help me welcome my

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i

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well

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boys and girls let's give him a gorm

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welcome he's going to stay here with us

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okay he's going to stay here with us

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that concludes our program teachers i

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need you in an orderly fashion please to

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bring your students to the pot area and

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the astronauts going to visit in the pod