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well good morning everyone and welcome

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my name is dennis berkey and i have the

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high honor and great privilege of

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president and ceo of worcester

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polytechnic institute i want to start

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this morning by saying personally how

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pleased i am

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that we can have so many of you here to

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celebrate not only the

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very important work that nasa continues

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to do for us in this nation but the

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celebration of science and technology

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and especially education it is a

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wonderful partnership that we enjoy with

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nasa in committing to help

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future generations of scientists and

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engineers and astronauts and leaders of

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industry understand just how important

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science and mathematics and

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technological education is

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to their intellectual platform that they

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will use to proceed to be highly

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productive and very strong in leadership

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for the nation so it's a great pleasure

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to welcome all of you we certainly want

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to welcome our distinguished guests from

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nasa including many nasa educators

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participating in this festival and

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others on the podium who will be more

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formally introduced in just a few

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i want to welcome our political

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delegation including guests on the

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platform and our state senators harriet

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chandler and karen spilka and

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representative harold naughton

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i want to welcome the many worcester

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area business leaders and presidents and

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staffs from the other colleges and

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universities of our city

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a special welcome to melinda boone the

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superintendent of the worcester public

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schools and to many other educators

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committed parents and students for

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making time in your schedule today

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we are honored at wpi to be the first

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university to host a centennial

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challenge

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demonstrating important partnerships of

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universities and federal agencies to

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work together to solve important

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i want to say especially about nasa how

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much we at wpi appreciate not only their

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leadership in space exploration

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and the ways they have been

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so encouraging and so inspiring to

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generations now of young people in this

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country but for the enormous

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technological contributions that the

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agency has made to our daily lives the

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technological advances that many of us

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just don't realize come out of the high

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intensity work that is done by this

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agency it is a vitally important arm of

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the nation's advance and we're so proud

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to have our nasa colleagues with us

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nasa has asked wpi not only to host this

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competition but to create a destination

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for younger populations to engage with

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the possibilities of science and

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engineering and we feel uniquely

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positioned to bring the robotics

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expertise and stem education component

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uh very prominently into the center

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stage for today's activities

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i want to begin by introducing and

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inviting to the podium our congressman

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james mcgovern

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jim has represented our third

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congressional district in massachusetts

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since 1996.

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he is a tireless advocate for his

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district and for the nation and

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certainly is a great friend of wpi he's

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passionate about this economic recovery

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and job development in central

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massachusetts he's authored legislation

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in support of pell grants to provide

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crucial financial resources to allow

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young people to pursue higher education

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two of his sisters are school teachers

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in the worcester public school system

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today's activities resonate very

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strongly with jim's hope for a better

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future for the children and for his

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constituencies it's a great pleasure to

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well let me thank my friend dennis

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berkey for the great introduction and i

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want to thank him and all my friends at

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wpi for

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inviting me to participate in today's

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i'm pleased to see so many innovators

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gathered here to showcase their robotic

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creations and compete for prizes i

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welcome you and i hope that you all

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enjoy our city if you're not from here

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and i hope that you enjoy all of this

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great city has to offer

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i want to thank wpi

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again for hosting the nasa centennial

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challenges weekend

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wpi is a world-class research

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located in my hometown so i take credit

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for everywhere i go

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through its cutting-edge programs wpi

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helps to attract some of the brightest

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students in the country

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to right here in central massachusetts

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and it's working

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this area is quickly becoming a hub for

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game design biotechnology and many more

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technologically innovative startups as

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the first university of the country to

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offer a bachelor's degree program in

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robotics engineering wpi is a

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particularly well-suited venue to

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i want to thank nasa deputy

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administrator laurie yarber

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and other nasa officials are traveling

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to washington today to participate in

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the competition i want to thank mason

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peck the nasa chief technology

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technologist who's here who i was kind

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enough to come out of my office in

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washington a couple of days ago kind of

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briefly on a lot of the things that nasa

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we are exceptionally lucky to have one

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of our nation's most treasured

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organizations supporting strong math and

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science education and research at every

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level from elementary schools to higher

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groundbreaking research that has real

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world applications and touches all of

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a more globalized world

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investments in aerospace technology

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are more important than ever these

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technological investments have led to

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efficiency improvements in ground and

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applications and have even supported the

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creation of cameras found in our cell

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companies throughout massachusetts have

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partnered with nasa to develop and

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improve technology that assist the

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surgeries insulate people and materials

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against extreme temperatures and help

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and the research that you were

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displaying here today can lead to

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innovative discoveries and will advance

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our scientific knowledge in ways we may

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companies and go to a lot of conferences

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in massachusetts and throughout the

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exciting as this event

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which gives us a glimpse of the tomorrow

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that's being built by the trailblazers

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myself in that we all

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need to do a better job about talking

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about the importance of nasa to uh

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constituencies that may not quite

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rockets and start to correct in star

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president berkey mentioned a whole bunch

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of very localized uh advancements that

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investment um we cut back not only on

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the chance that we will develop more

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exhibits i can't begin to understand

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what these exhibits uh entail to put

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of congress i want very much to see our

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economy grow i want more people working

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of what i've seen here today and what

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the key to the future of our economy is

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right here uh and so we need to do those

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investments when mason was by my office

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space shuttle or or uh you know our

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people to work right here you know let's

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uh and so i'm i'm reinvigorated by what

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the importance of nasa uh in my in my in

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my conversation uh so i am very grateful

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uh that this is happening here today

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grateful to all of you for inviting me

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your projects uh and more about ways

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that we can marry the stuff that we're

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is an exciting day

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and i am very grateful to all of you who

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thanks jim for your optimism and your

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passion and your leadership all very

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it's now a great pleasure to introduce

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miss laurie garver who's the nasa deputy

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you she's the number two person in nasa

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as a special assistant to the nasa

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administrator and senior policy analyst

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for the office of policy and plans she

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was then named associate administrator

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for the office of policy and plans

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ms garber is a michigan native she took

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her bachelor's degree in political

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science and economics from colorado

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college she became interested in space

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when she began working for senator john

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glenn from my home state of ohio

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in 1983.

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her career has been long and

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distinguished with her two tours of duty

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for nasa as well as time in the private

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sector between those two stints it's a

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great pleasure to have her with us this

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morning and i invite her to speak to you

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thank you very much president it is

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fabulous to be here

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with your polytechnic institute it is my

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first time uh to this uh institute and

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how wonderful to

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already uh by this time of day on a

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saturday morning we've been able to meet

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with all of the teams and

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address all of you talking with uh the

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congressman i believe that it is already

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a very worthwhile morning to be able to

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elected members

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who

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recognize the value of what it is that

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nasa does is an incredible thing and

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allows i think all of us and the

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university to be able to advance to

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those next great challenges so nasa is

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all about uh addressing challenges right

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we were founded in 1958 to address the

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challenge after sputnik and uh our

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challenge by president kennedy to go to

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the moon was really to have our nation

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lead in the technological areas that

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have made this country this university

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uh great and nasa continues with these

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challenges while they have changed while

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we were all about beating the soviet

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union back in the 60s our challenge

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today is working internationally in

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peaceful ways with the russians on the

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international space station we have had

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the international space station with

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astronauts permanently working and

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living in space for over 11 years now

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with 15 different nations including the

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us and the uh former soviet union the

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russians i just want to highlight that

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we have two such astronauts here today

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lee morin who is uh showing off his

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astronaut status i'm sure we made him at

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nasa headquarters so thank you for

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wearing

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uh your blue suit astronaut and chris

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ferguson who uh is now with boeing who

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you'll hear from later but also an

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astronaut so i know lots of you want to

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grow up to be astronauts and i'm here to

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tell you that while my political science

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and economics degree didn't get me uh to

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be an astronaut i do get to work at nasa

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i say if you

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want to

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work in space and in space and those

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activities that we're doing that are

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such great value

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go get one of those stem degrees uh or

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and i don't normally say this in front

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of congress get a political science

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degree and come up with conflict but it

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is

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are all about providing that value to

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the public and keeping this nation on

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the cutting edge and driving innovation

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and technology to keep us in a

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leadership position nasa is doing that

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today in new ways and new partnerships

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you have most recently seen the dragon

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spacecraft docked to the international

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space station we have a competition

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right now for not only

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providing that cargo to international

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space station but also our precious

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astronauts uh over

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the next

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at least

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eight years of the space station we will

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have our international space station

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until 2020 and as we are

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spending less on those transportation

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needs to low-earth orbit for nasa we're

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investing in rockets and spacecraft that

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are going to go beyond again uh back

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around the moon initially for test

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flights and the president has set a goal

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of going to an asteroid by 2025 and on

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to mars and mid-2030s so the challenge

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we have today literally with those of

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you who are developing uh these robots

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is to in preparation for humans going to

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mars to go to mars and pick up a sample

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return

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saw and met a bunch of the students who

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are doing that today and i'm very

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excited to uh see the competition but

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why do we do prizes at nasa if we are

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about technology and innovation this is

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a way to advance technology and

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innovation it is

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a great way to solve some of these great

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challenges that nasa is all about

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solving and to help us continue to

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inspire future generations to go into

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these fields which again will help fuel

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our economy and give us all a better

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future so nasa's vision

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is to reach for new heights and reveal

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the unknown so that what we do and learn

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will benefit all humankind so what a

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great place to work right uh we do the

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hardest things that have never been done

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and we do it just to do it

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no we do it to benefit all humankind

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lots of ways to benefit humankind human

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health our

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environment pushing the technology and

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health our economic and national

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security base so it is great to see so

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many people continue to be excited about

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nasa we have a very vibrant future so as

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we explore the universe we continue to

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need autonomous robots

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folks here uh much smarter than me are

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showing us how we can do that in very

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creative ways we have teams from

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two members to 60 members from students

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to adults and it's great to see them

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being inspired by prizes so in prizes

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nasa doesn't have to spend the money

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until we sell the challenge right prizes

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have been there as a tool for uh

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innovation

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for centuries and the most famous one

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perhaps the ortiz prize where charles

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limber won it by going across the

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atlantic ocean and in that prize alone

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his team

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raised over twice the 25 000 prize money

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and that and they were not the only team

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so it is a way to leverage in our nasa

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view since we are funded by the taxpayer

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a better value for your taxpayer

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investment to get you a lot more

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innovation and a lot of people have

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different ideas about how to solve these

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challenges so we pay only for success

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and establish a goal that is meaningful

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that is something we need to do and then

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a lot more people get to help reach that

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goal they inspire risk taking

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i saw a lot of people today letting us

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know that they're not going to make it

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today but they will be back next year

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one uh gentleman is wearing a yes

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failure is an option t-shirt and i

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commented right away when i saw it and

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he lit up he said i wore it for you i

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saw massa was coming uh and you know

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that's great because my boss charlie

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bolton the head of nasa four-time

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astronaut two-star marine channel uh has

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told our leadership team often he has

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never learned from a success

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you learn from failures and so uh while

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we hope to give away some money today we

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would love absolutely to uh have winners

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for those who are not able to make the

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challenge today uh you're learning from

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it and i even had a learn from you so i

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so appreciate that uh the benefits of

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course are crucial to nasa as we open

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this next chapter

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of space we talk about human space like

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any robotic space flight like they're

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two different things but they're not not

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only do we not spend any money in space

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my my favorite line from an astronaut

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was yet took my wallet but there was

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nothing to buy

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nothing no stores in space it's all

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spent right here earth but also

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these technologies don't build

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themselves these rockets don't build

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themselves it's all about people it is

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the people throughout the agency and our

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contractor community and our academic

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partners who help us create the future

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so thank you for being here

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today and giving up your saturday i

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could not be more excited this is one of

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the greatest things i get to do as well

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while it is fabulous to be the deputy of

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nasa it truly is about

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all the things that you were doing here

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today and representing with the

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centennial challenges so thank you for