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at the kennedy space center orlando

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kennedy area and they're going to take

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over the responsibility for selecting

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and actually managing all of the

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american payloads on the international

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space station payloads and experiments

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we're putting it in the hands of a

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professional organization headed up by

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dr jeanne becker who herself is a

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principal investigator was on the team

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that discovered the salmonella vaccine

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so we're putting real scientists in

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charge of real science stuff

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we have also made significant strides in

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upgrading the ground infrastructure here

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and i'm going to let pepper and the

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other guys tell you about it but we're

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standing under i think what is probably

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the the premiere

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of the of the new structures here at the

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kennedy space center that's why we came

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here today

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this structure built by by a florida

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company

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everything you see

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around this complex involves local

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talent local uh skill and energy and and

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hopefully uh you all will talk about

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that some the space coast is open for

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business

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if any of you have any doubt about it

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while you're you know we're working

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really hard to transition our shuttle

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team

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to some of them are going to other

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industries some of them are moving to

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other places the oil and gas industry

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for example because of the the technical

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expertise that they have so so great

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things are happening bob and i are

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committed to making ksc to keeping ksc

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and the entire space coast the leader in

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the world in terms of exploration

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particularly human spaceflight and

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that's what we're going to do as i said

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all the journeys start right here i

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think the

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i cannot say enough about the ksc

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workforce

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they know their job they do it well they

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uh they're sort of like the marines that

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we used to serve with they ask no

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quarters they just take on the task that

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the american people ask them to do and

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they do it incredibly well the biggest

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change that you're going to see

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in what you see today

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in this picture is

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the footprint of this particular mobile

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launcher base is going to get a little

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we go we go in and it stops