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i think if we look at station you know

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we've kind of really spent the

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past 10 years assembling space station

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we've built a tremendous facility in

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space

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you know we have probably the most

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phenomenal research facility ever

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available in in space to take advantage

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of microgravity has a vacuum system high

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rate data video all kinds of capability

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that

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any research lab and on the ground would

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be would be proud to have so our next

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challenge will be to take that same

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energy that same zeal that we put into

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assembly and apply it to research and

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utilization so we've done research all

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along as we were assembling but we

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weren't able to focus and spend the

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quality time on the research activities

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that we will be able to now it's nice we

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know we have a nice 10-year period as

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congress has given some extension dates

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out to 2020 so we know we have a good

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period of time and it's up to us and the

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team to go

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utilize the research community that's

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out there and then make sure we get some

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really quality research on board space

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well the the g whiz thing is the

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zero gravity

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having a long-term laboratory

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with zero gravity

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is very unique and i think it's one that

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i hope that we will reap the benefits

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from in the future

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from a scientific perspective

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we are the experiment

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and initially when people hear me say

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that they think that i'm talking about

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the crew members being guinea pigs for

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life sciences experiments

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and certainly there's an element of that

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we we give a little blood and other

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things

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in pursuit of that kind of research but

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when i say we are the experiment i'm

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talking about the entire

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team of government agencies in the

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international partnership and all the

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contractor teams that support

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in the development of the iss the

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hardware software the integration the

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testing

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the assembly

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and then the day-to-day operations

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all of that is so significant in scope

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and magnitude and complexity but the

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team has pulled it off to that extent i

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think that that is the great experiment

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we don't just

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take the money and launch it into space

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we aren't sending

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dollar bills or 100 bills into space

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we're actually investing the money so

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all of the effort that goes into

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conceiving and designing and

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constructing and operating and launching

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a space vehicle

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requires a lot of thought and that

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thought actually

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produces things that are over and above

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what was the intention in the beginning

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the classic example is that because of

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the effort to get to the moon in the 60s

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there was a lot of miniaturization and

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that miniaturization ended up spinning

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off into a lot of things and for which

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we today can do things like talk on cell

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phones and take hd video with cameras

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that fit in your pocket and that sort of

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thing so likewise

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in the future people will be reaping the

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benefits of the efforts that are

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underway today

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to go into low earth orbit to operate

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the iss or someday go beyond there and

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we don't know what they are today but

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the one thing that i'm sure of is that

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something more than just space flight

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itself will come out of it

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i think the more glorious part of space

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travel is the launch and so everybody

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thinks about space travel during a

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shuttle launch or a soyuz launch but the

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international space station is a little

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bit more unique because people are

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actually living and working up in space

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24 hours a day seven days a week 365

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days a year and what that means is that

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there's a

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myriad of people on the ground all over

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the world making sure that every aspect

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of that spacecraft is working correctly

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and the crew on board is healthy and

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the shuttle's been invaluable to

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allowing us to build station the

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components that were delivered to space

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by the shuttle there's no other way we

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could have really got those elements to

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orbit other than through the space

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than just a delivery of these elements

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it's been our work platform it brings

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its own robotic arm to help with

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assembly it brings its own airlock which

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we used early on for the crews to to go

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do space walks from so and it also

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brings a working crew the seven crew

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members are

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there to help and assist in the assembly

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operation so so each assembly flight was

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unique in its own right the shuttle not

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only brought the hardware but it brought

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the workers it brought the work platform

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to work off of and it was

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it was the asset that made station

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possible if it wasn't for shuttle we

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could not have built this station that

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space station

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is the culminating engineering effort of

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15 countries

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children

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should be able to look up and in simple

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all and wonder

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that we have accomplished this

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engineering feat

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that folks can float and do wonderful

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science and learn more about what we're

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doing on earth as well as going farther

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and the third thing i would say is it

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provides a goal

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maybe an inspiration for the for the

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children to be able to want to

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contribute to our future together we are

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to participate

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is much much more than somebody who

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understands math and science it is

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individuals that understand math and

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science it's individuals that can

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communicate clearly

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individuals that understand other

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languages and other cultures and so kids

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should go to school they should

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specialize in what they're good at and

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what they're interested in

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with an understanding that that will

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apply their goals hopefully to

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participate in the exploration

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looking back

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you know school children now in middle

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school

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you know and then building a colony and

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living there and

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having their kids there and we say that

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this one step in low earth orbit with

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the iss

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was what got us there you know it was

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and that's what legacy is all about

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building from one piece

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and then looking back and saying that's

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what got us to where we are now and it's

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all about you know inspiring the next

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generation of explorers that

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will be those people walking on the

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we have built this with nations that

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have not always been friendly with each

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and together here we've actually built

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this platform

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together here we're building what's

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going to happen next and together

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we are responsible for the future

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fifteen nations

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international space station