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people keep asking me this question they

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say Hank how do you feel about the end

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of manned exploration of space with the

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with the final launch of the space shot

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into those people I say how did you feel

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when sitcoms ended with the last episode

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of Seinfeld actually I think I may have

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stumbled onto a pretty good metaphor he

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signed felt like the Space Shuttle was a

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long-running and critically acclaimed

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programmed it may have just like the

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space shuttle program been the best

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program of its time it was revolutionary

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it changed everything but everything has

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a beginning and everything has an end

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and now there are no revolutionary

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sitcoms like 30 rock the office and

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Parks and Rec Seinfeld had to step aside

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and as much as it pains me to say it

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much what's happening to the Space

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Shuttle it's time it's done the question

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is what is our 30 rock here turns out

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I'm not the ideal person to answer these

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questions cuz you know I I don't work at

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NASA luckily uh these people do yes I

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got to ask some questions of people at

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NASA via video including charlie bolden

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the guy who is in charge of NASA first

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question how are we gonna get this space

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astronauts to the space station without

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the space shuttle the same way we have

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been getting there almost entirely since

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the Columbia accident we're gonna take

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them all the way to Russia down to

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Kazakhstan and they will launch out of

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Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard

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a soyuz spacecraft so I think we can all

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agree that that's not particularly

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ideally the question becomes what we're

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using the Soyuz capsule now and we will

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be for the foreseeable future but what's

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the next step after they answer that

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question like this is so cool I'm going

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to kick it over to Bobby Braun NASA's

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chief technologist we're going to have a

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whole host of American vehicles

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traveling to space with American crews

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and the best part about that is that

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those systems are being designed today

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by companies all around the country I

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can't tell you exactly what system is

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going to fly because it's it's somewhat

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of a competition it's somewhat of a race

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among these American companies but I am

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looking forward to seeing their their

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vehicles in flight so with the private

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sector and Russia taking care of getting

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to low-earth orbit into the space

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station and stuff what what does NASA's

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focus become NASA's going to turn its

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attention to getting out into deep space

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to going places that we frankly haven't

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been to before not is the stuff that

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gets me going Bobby Braun

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me wrong I love low orbit low orbit is

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great it is fantastic laboratories where

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we need to be to learn about space and

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its effects on people the question is

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how do we get to those new destinations

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hey I'll tell you what the first thing i

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want is faster rockets when you talk

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about trying to get some awesome back

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into things we've got to get some

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awesome into our ability to get from

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point A to point B in space because we

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really want to get the arm lower orbit

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and do some exploring we're going to

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need a better faster way more powerful

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engines rocket engines to get us further

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out into the solar system that last

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fella was Mike Massimino an astronaut

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who coincidentally completely

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coincidentally is speaking at VidCon

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about social media and outer space I

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suppose I have a hard time expressing

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how excited I am about these things or

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even understanding why I'm so excited

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about it we're just now starting to poke

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our nose out of this pond this sphere

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that we live on it created us we were

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built for it but our instinct that we

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can't deny this push for awesome draws

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us exploration of the solar system isn't

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something that you measure in like

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fiscal quarters it's something that

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takes decades these in generations and

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that's one of the most beautiful things

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about it we're not doing this just for

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us body of work the body of science

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necessary for this undertaking is is

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massive but we do undertake it because

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while we were built for this earth we

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were also built to explore we're a slave

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to the awesome we must do it NASA's

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manned space exploration program might

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end up being one of our generations most

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significant legacies for mankind a

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beginning and a continuation of the

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great human endeavor and for vonna word

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i give you lori Garver NASA's deputy

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administrator we are very excited about