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good afternoon everyone welcome and

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thank you all for coming i'm cheryl

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hurst director of education and external

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relations here at ksc and it's my

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pleasure to serve as your master's

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ceremonies this afternoon

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on behalf of everyone here at the space

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center and all of nasa i'm pleased you

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all could join us we're very excited to

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share our wonderful facility with you

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and to be hosting this special

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commemoration

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we will begin the presentation of cup

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with a presentation of colors by the

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united states air force 45th space wing

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honor guard from patrick air force base

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and the singing of the national anthem

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by tech sergeant ultra meis meyers

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by the dawn's early light

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what so

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proudly we have

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at the twilight's last gleaming

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whose broad stripes and bright stars

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ramparts we

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were so gallantly streaming

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thank you to the 45th space wing honor

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guard for that stirring introduction you

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may please be seated

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before i introduce our first speaker i

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want to recognize an honored guest that

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we have in the audience with us

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mr patrick gavin representing senator

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posey's office

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and zach sempela the senior constituent

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services representative for senator

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our first speaker this afternoon is the

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director of the john f kennedy space

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center and space shuttle astronaut mr

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mr cabana has flown four space shuttle

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missions two as pilot and two as

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commander including including serving as

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commander of the endeavor on the first

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space station assembly mission in

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december of 1998.

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bob is a member of the astronaut hall of

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fame and the man who served our country

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with distinction as a colonel in the

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united states marine corps

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please join me in welcoming the 10th

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director of the john f kennedy space

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thanks cheryl uh good afternoon and

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welcome to the kennedy space center i

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can't think of a a more appropriate and

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fitting place to have this uh unveiling

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and dedication today

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human space flight has come a long way

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since our uh our first flight 50 years

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as we prepare to take the next step in

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human exploration beyond our home planet

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it's only fitting that we honor those

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who pave the way for us with project

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mercury

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in 1959

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the newly formed national aeronautics

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and space administration

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to volunteer for the manned space flight

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to his dismay

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alan shepard who read about the nasa

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invitations in the newspaper

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couldn't understand why he didn't

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receive an invitation

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as it turns out he was meant to

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but it was misplaced

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by the admiral staff after a timely

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shepard ended up among the seven pilots

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those became

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the first explorers known as astronauts

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shepard spent a little over 15 minutes

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in freedom 7 traveled more than 5 000

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miles per hour and reached an altitude

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of 116 miles above the earth

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all in a six by six foot capsule

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this was the first time that a human had

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and it was watched by millions of people

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piloted missions that accomplished their

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goals of orbiting a crude spacecraft

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function in space and recovering both

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astronaut and spacecraft safely

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to date every crewed mission has

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launched from nasa by nasa has launched

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and with a cutting edge 21st century

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launch complex we plan to keep it that

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our launch services program at the

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kennedy space center serves as a bridge

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for the nasa and non-nasa sponsored

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demonstration missions

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these missions as described by our

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administrator charlie bolden

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enable us to explore new worlds develop

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more innovative technologies foster new

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industries increase our understanding of

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and inspire the next generation of

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explorers

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the messenger spacecraft currently or

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orbiting mercury for the first time is

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doing just that

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messenger stands for mercury surface

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ranging and it was launched nearly seven

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messenger just entered mercury's orbit

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and during its one-year primary mission

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the probe is scheduled to acquire more

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than seventy five thousand images

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unraveling the history and evolution of

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the solar system's innermost planet

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today the united states postal service

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honors nasa by immortalizing the program

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project

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program mercury and the messenger

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spacecraft in stamp form

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as two historic events that frame a

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remarkable 50-year period of discovery

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i don't know about you but i look

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forward to the next 50 years in what

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space exploration is going to bring

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i want to thank the united states postal

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service for recognizing the amazing

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feats accomplished by the men and women

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who have made nasa what it is today and

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i want to thank all of you for coming

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thank you bob

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i'm now pleased to introduce mr steve

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massey our dedicating official from the

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united states postal service like many

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of us here today mr massey also has

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extensive experience in the aerospace

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industry before joining the postal

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service two years ago mr massey worked

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for nearly 20 years in finance with

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bae systems a british aerospace and

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today mr massey joins us as vice

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president finance and planning for the

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u.s postal service ladies and gentlemen

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thank you cheryl

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good afternoon everyone

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it's a great honor for me to be here

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today to celebrate the dedication of our

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two newest commemorative forever stamps

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through our stamp program the u.s postal

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service has the privilege of celebrating

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some of the wonders achievements and

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people that have helped to make our

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today we honor two of those achievements

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first the 50th anniversary of astronaut

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alan shepard's historic flight america's

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first manned space flight

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and second the recent unmanned messenger

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mission to investigate the planet

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50 years ago tomorrow

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alan shepard blasted off

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as people around the world watched

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shepard's flight reached a maximum speed

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of roughly eight times the speed of

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and it reached a maximum height of 116

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as we all know that flight was very

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widely acclaimed

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according to the new york times at the

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time that 15-minute flight roused the

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country to one of its highest peaks of

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exaltation since the end of world war ii

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and because of that flight president

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kennedy declared that america

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goal of landing a man on the moon and

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president kennedy surf noticed to the

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world that a daring and ambitious race

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set the u.s on a path that led to our

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stunning first moon landing in 1969

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the crowning technological achievement

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alan shepard would go to the moon

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himself with apollo 14 just two years

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later and who can forget that wonderful

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moon and went for miles and miles and

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miles as they say

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and also did you know that the post

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office and alert shep and alan shepard's

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there is also a connection between the

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postal service and the mercury project

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long ago courageous men ventured out

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into a bold new frontier

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a hundred years before shepard's space

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these men of the pony express carried

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saddlebags of mail connecting the great

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hopes and the proud spirit of our nation

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and so we come to messenger another

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major milestone in space exploration

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it was first launched in august 2004 to

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investigate the planet mercury

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and successfully entered orbit in march

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the first images that have come back

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from messenger to earth are spectacular

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and as mr cabana has pointed out our

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study of this valuable information is

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we may learn how the planet took shape

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it's not easy to capture the

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significance of these achievements on

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but as you will see the outstanding

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artwork of illustrator

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falls church virginia has done a

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based on nasa photographs and images the

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stamps depict the brave pioneering

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spirit of america's first man in space

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and the fascinating mission to

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investigate the planet mercury

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so now on behalf of our nation and the

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united states postal service i'd like to

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ask today's participants to join me as

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now that we've had the honor to witness

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the unveiling of these special stamps it

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is indeed my privilege to introduce our

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as a navy pilot scott carpenter flew

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missions for the u.s navy

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and and a naval air intelligence officer

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proving he indeed had the right stuff

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mr carpenter was selected as one of the

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original seven mercury project

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astronauts in 1959.

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he served as a backup pilot during

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preparation for america's first manned

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orbital space flight and in 1962 he flew

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the second manned orbital flight

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ladies and gentlemen please welcome our

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thank you ladies and gentlemen good

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afternoon thank you for coming

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today we celebrate the 50th anniversary

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of many many important issues

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among them is the

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the first steps from the home planet

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that were taken by the family of man

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that was

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signified by

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first unfortunately and

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al shepard didn't like this much but by

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the the soviet

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the soviet flight

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of

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eureka garen but shortly after that

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alan shepard

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joined the battle for the united states

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with our

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comrades in the soviet union and

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and the battle was joined partly because

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of

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in

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freedom seven

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and also because of the

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of the charisma

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and

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vision

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and camelot that

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he uh announced that we should go to the

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moon

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and that was largely

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a responsible

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response to alan's success

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aided

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by

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the uh

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the blinding genius of werner von braun

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who showed us how to do

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what the president said we should do

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we finally went to the moon

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but that was because of what was started

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by alan b shepard

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that

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event is what we

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what we celebrate here today

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and i am so pleased to

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notice that the united states

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postal service has chosen to honor

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mercury and alan shepard with the stamp

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it is

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i think

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appropriate to mention

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another item about this stamp

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in the

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postal service and in viewing the the

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custom of today

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a decision was made

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not to put 44 cents on al stamp

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that's appropriate to the stamp but it

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is also

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appropriate to the time

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we should honor

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and remember

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alan b shepherd and freedom 7.

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mr carpenter thank you so much

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what an incredible honor to have him

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our next speaker is jim adams nasa's

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deputy director for planetary science in

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30 years of nasa mr adams has worked on

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projects ranging from weather satellites

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deep space probes and lunar landers and

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rovers

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he is a recipient of three nasa medals

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for exceptional service including

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outstanding leadership

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ladies and gentlemen please welcome jim

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i was talking to my wife this morning

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and i said how do you follow scott

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carpenter

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and she said just be

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yourself so that's all you get

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it is uh

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it's an impressive thing to think about

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if you go back in history

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how explorers and science have worked

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together hand in hand

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to understand the environment and the

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world we live in

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and it's fitting today that we should be

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commemorating

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alan shepard's first flight

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the mercury project and our exploration

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of mercury because that's exactly what's

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going on his science and exploration

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working together to understand where

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we're at

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and where we're going

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both stamps honor an american first the

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first human space flight

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the first

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satellite to ever orbit the

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innermost planet

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of our own solar system

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the messenger spacecraft traveled as you

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heard already six and a half years in

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order to get to mercury

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and in that time

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it traveled over 5 billion miles

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in order to explore the inner solar

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system on the way to mercury

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along the way we've learned a lot about

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venus and about the solar wind and about

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the inner solar system itself and we

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expect that over the next 12 months as

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we orbit that mysterious planet

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that we'll learn a lot about the planet

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itself and maybe unlock some keys

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associated with the formation of our own

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solar system

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the messenger spacecraft carries the

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most comprehensive suite of scientific

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instruments ever to be flown into the

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solar into the inner solar system and it

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will it will

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return

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data that will be used for science by

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scientists for years to come

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in our understanding of what's going on

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it's fitting that nasa and the postal

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service should commemorate

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these two events together

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nasa and the postal service are two

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american institutions this is american

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exploration american science america

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is exploring the solar system and

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bringing you the message

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and that's what we're all about we

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should be proud of that

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as exploration and science work together

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in the future

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we all look forward to what the future

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i'd like to think that

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my children would be standing here

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someday or sitting here and listening to

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people explain how explorers and

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scientists work together to move the

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influence of

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humans out further than low earth orbit

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further than the moon

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further even than mars

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someday i hope that we will have

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satellites with astronauts on board

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looking back from saturn

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and then we will have moved the bubble

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of human influence beyond

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the influence of earth and we'll have

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become true explorers

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thank you everybody for coming

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thank you jim

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so the list just keeps growing of our

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special speakers on this very special

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occasion

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julie shepard jenkins is representing

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her family as the daughter of alan b

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shepard the man honored on this mercury

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project commemorative stamps

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julie julie's sisters laura terchly and

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alice walkerman are also here today with

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us

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and i'd like to take a moment here and

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wish alice a happy birthday tomorrow

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mrs jenkins carries on her father's

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legacy by making presentations to middle

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school students and many others an avid

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space enthusiast she believes space

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travel is essential to expand human

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horizons and to encourage innovation

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at this time i would like to invite

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laura and alice to the stage

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and please join me in welcoming julie

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thank you all for being here today

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at this wonderful united states postal

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service ceremony for the unveiling

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of the stamp for alan bartlett shepherd

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jr

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his own postal stamp our family is very

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honored to be here today and speaking of

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family we have 20 members of our family

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here today and i would like all of them

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stand up

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of all the places in the world to hold

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this ceremony the rocket garden of cape

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kennedy is the best place ever

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we have often walked among these rockets

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and marveled at their different shapes

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and sizes

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of every each individual rocket in its

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shape and size

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and that they were able to send people

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such as our father

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into outer space

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americans should be so proud that the

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united states

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has been the leader in space exploration

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now daddy always had to start a talk

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with a few jokes

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so to set the record straight once and

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for all since we are at a stamp

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unveiling the shepherd daughters did at

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some point in their youth receive a few

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i would also like to tell you about the

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first time that my father

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went to the white house

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it was a couple of days after may 5th

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1961

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after his flight he and john f kennedy

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were sitting talking about the future of

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space and space exploration

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and in skipped caroline kennedy

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so john f kennedy introduced caroline to

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the first american into space

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she looked at daddy and then she looked

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at her father with a very quizzical look

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and thinking about our father's reaction

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to this prestigious honor we realize

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we realize that daddy

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is the only single astronaut to be

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pictured on the united states postal

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stamp

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it will help people to remember what a

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great leader for the astronauts he was

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my sisters and i think daddy would

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acknowledge this honor

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not only for himself

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but for the men and the women that built

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the rockets

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and sent him into space safely

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daddy never thought of himself as a hero

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my family would like to thank you

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would like to thank the united states

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postal service for honoring our father

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with this uniquely designed

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stamp

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we thank you from the bottom of our

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hearts

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we also would like to acknowledge nasa

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for hosting this ceremony in such a

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beautiful and appropriate appropriate

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setting

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and one last thing

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please take advantage of your

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new ability

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to send our father into space again

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thank you so much julie

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and now it's my great pleasure to

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introduce our final speaker for today

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nasa's 12th administrator and retired

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u.s marine corps major general charles

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frank bolden jr warmly known to the nasa

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family is charlie

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this is his second stint with nasa he

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leads the nasa team after serving as an

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astronaut during the 80s and 90s while a

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member of the u.s marine corps

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he traveled to orbit four times aboard

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the space shuttle commanding two

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missions his flights included deployment

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of the hubble space telescope and the

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first joint u.s russian shuttle mission

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he later returned to active duty in the

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marine corps and held numerous domestic

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and overseas commands before his

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retirement from the corps in two

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thousand three he was inducted into the

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u s astronaut hall of fame in two

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thousand six

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please welcome nasa administrator

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thank you all so much for coming out uh

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and i join everyone in welcoming you

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before i start with formal remarks i i

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think it's appropriate that i i kind of

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uh remind everybody about

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we actually suffered some devastation in

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the nasa family this past week

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uh even as we sit here in this beautiful

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sunlight

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we have members of our nasa family in

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and around huntsville alabama who are

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still trying to pick up the pieces

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we've got about 80 percent of our of our

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nasa workforce and about 70

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of the contractor workforce that have

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been accounted for but we're still uh

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trying to make sure that we can account

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for everybody so i would ask you as you

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as we celebrate on this occasion this

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very very joyous occasion that you keep

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them in your thoughts and prayers

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again you know scott

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uh jim

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julie

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and vicariously laura and alice

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uh i thank all of you for the moving

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words that uh that talked about project

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mercury and about the messenger program

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the messenger mission

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you've given us a human perspective on

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these important parts of our nation's

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history

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and uh i just asked julie alice

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i said you know i was thinking and it

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did not occur to me until i was sitting

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there listening to your introduction

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uh

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that you had quite a birthday candle

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uh when on on the 5th of may

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so uh what a special birthday in many

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respects

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i i also want to thank the us postal

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service

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for their initiative in bringing

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awareness of space flight

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and science to wider audiences through

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these two works of art and that's really

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what they are

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i hope all of you agree with me that

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they're absolutely beautiful

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so today we celebrate the inaugural

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manned flight of project mercury

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and our historic first orbital mission

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to the planet mercury

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these are two enormously important

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points separated by years on the nasa

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continuum

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they're joined by more than just a name

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they embody the spirit of innovation and

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doing big things for which nasa has

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always been known

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when alan shepard launched toward the

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stars 50 years ago

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no american had ever done so

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the so-called mercury seven were a

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handful of brave men each of whom would

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accomplish great things

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things no one had done before

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we thank all of them

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and we thank the scientists who

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conceived a messenger and the missions

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like it that are continuing to fill

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rewritten textbooks with new knowledge

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about the universe and to inspire future

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explorers with things we can find out if

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we keep our sights set high

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and try hard i was just a teenager when

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alan stepped into freedom 7 capsule and

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entered history

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but i remember being tremendously moved

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by his bravery

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as a test pilot

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uh you know i can imagine he was much

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more focused on making the flight a

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success

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than he was about any legacy for

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posterity

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on the strength of his accomplishment

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nasa was able to begin building the

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leadership role in human space life that

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we have held ever since

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and he set an example that so many have

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followed

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the crews that orbited and landed on the

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moon

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the astronauts who have flown

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the space shuttle particularly those who

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flew the space the first space shuttle

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bob crippen and john young

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that was effectively the vehicle's first

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test flight as well

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they all walked through the door that

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allen blasted open

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and these stamps

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which will go out by the millions across

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this country

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are also a testament to the thousands of

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nasa men and women who also shared

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dreams of human and robotic space flight

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and of enlarging our knowledge of the

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universe

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the people of mission control

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of launch control the ground crews the

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scientists and engineers with great

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ideas who translated those ideas into

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real hardware

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since 1958

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they have sought through their ceaseless

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efforts to chart a course to the stars

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for the human race

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and to create the eyes and ears that we

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are able to send far and wide through

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amazing spacecraft like messenger and

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its brethren across our solar system

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today

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we celebrate two firsts

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and we celebrate the future

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because at nasa

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each first is grown and expanded until

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we make the next breakthrough

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like a space station flying 250 miles

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overhead right now

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on which men and women have lived

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continuously for more than 10 years a

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logical successor

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of alan's pioneering work

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and missions and testing and design

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stages right now

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that will take us farther and deeper

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into our universe as jim has mentioned

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i'm honored to be a part of the grand

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history that includes alan shepard and

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the and the first orbiting mission to

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mercury

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and we're just getting started

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our future holds many firsts

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new destinations new capabilities

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along with the rest of the nasa family i

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look forward to giving the postal

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service plenty more ideas

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for stamps to honor the space program in

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the coming years

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as we and nasa reach for new heights to

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reveal the unknown

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so the things we learn and the things we

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do

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will make life better for all humankind

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thanks to all of you again for being

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here and thanks for allowing me to be a

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thank you so much charlie

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ladies and gentlemen this concludes the

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speaking portion of our program i have a

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few administrative notes that i wanted

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to offer for you

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we have a very special opportunity for

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you today for a limited time some of our

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program participants will be available

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in front available in front of the space

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shop which is just over the bridge past

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the iss

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scene to the space shop and you can get

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some autographs on this occasion in the

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interest of time we respectfully ask

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that you limit your items to two

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also the mercury project and messenger

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stamps are on sale here today in front

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of the space shop you'll be able to get

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a special hand cancellation with the

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official first day of issue postmark on

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anything bearing one of those postage

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stamps

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on behalf of nasa and the us postal

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service i want to thank you all and

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thank our honored guests as well as all