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well good morning i'm bob cabana the

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director here at the kennedy space

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center it's my pleasure to welcome you

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here today for this announcement

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as we celebrate the first 50 years of

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the kennedy space center this year

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we embark on a new journey taking us

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forward to the next 50 years of

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exploring space with the announcement of

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the company selected for the next phase

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of development in our commercial crew

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program

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nasa will use the commercial crew

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program to take our astronauts to the

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international space station later this

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decade

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we are working to transform the center

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to support a new era of space

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exploration modifying and upgrading our

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facilities for nasa's space launch

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the orion spacecraft is here right now

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and the team is processing it for its

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first flight in 2014.

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the ksc team has the human capital

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expertise unique facilities and

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specialized equipment to propel the

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agency into the next phase of space

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exploration and a commercial crew

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program is a key part of that

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it's my pleasure now to turn the stage

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over to our administrator

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charlie bolden for more details on this

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historic milestone charlie

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thanks very much bob um

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i want to join bob and the entire ksc

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team in celebrating the 50th anniversary

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of ksc first of all and just the

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remarkable

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contributions of the the entire space

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coast to uh america's leadership in

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space exploration

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from the exhilarating days of mercury

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gemini and apollo to the unprecedented

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30-year history of space shuttle the

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road to space has always and always will

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lead through the great state of florida

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in fact the kennedy space center is now

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the launch pad for the next big leap in

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america's space program our commercial

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crew program this program is a top

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priority of the obama administration and

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you'll hear from program manager ed

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mango shortly

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two years ago right here at kennedy the

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president set a goal of sending humans

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farther into space than we've ever been

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to an asteroid in 2025 and mars in the

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a bipartisan consensus was reached in

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washington that the best way to do that

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was for nasa to acquire services from

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commercial companies to deliver cargo

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and crew to the international space

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that allows us to concentrate on

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building america's next generation space

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exploration system the orion spacecraft

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in the space launch system the vehicle

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and rocket that will take american

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astronauts farther into space than any

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spacecraft developed for human space

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flight has flown in the 40 years since

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our astronauts returned from the moon

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this dual track exploration strategy is

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producing tangible results and the teams

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are making steady progress

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exactly one month ago on july 2nd the

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first space space-bound orion spacecraft

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arrived at kennedy and as bob said is

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now undergoing final construction and

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integration in preparations for its

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initial test flight in 2014 and i'll

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remind you that's less than two years

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from now this work is expected to

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support at least 350 space coast jobs

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the mobile launcher which will serve as

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the launch platform for the sls uh and

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which i just had the privilege of

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touring will soon be ready to support

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our deep space exploration efforts

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the president has fought to invest close

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to one 1.4 billion dollars in nasa's

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21st century space launch complex and

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this investment will help us upgrade

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and make this a more more flexible

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launch facility for the future

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the crawler transporters that have

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carried space shuttles and apollo saturn

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of spacecraft and launch vehicles that

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over one of our former orbiter

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processing facilities to work on their

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crew capsule and indicated they would be

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creating 500 jobs in the process

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test of its full-scale dream chaser

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orbital crew vehicle as well as a test

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establishing a presence here on the

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space coast adding to the growing number

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of commercial companies who find this

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area an attractive place to do business

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spacex became the first private company

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to reach the international space station

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and return its dragon capsule safely

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back to earth launching right here from

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florida and the space coast our

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commercial crew and cargo efforts are

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based on a simple but powerful principle

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by investing in american companies

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and american ingenuity

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we're spurring free market competition

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to give taxpayers more bang for the buck

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while enabling nasa to do what we do

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best reach for the heavens

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we're also making important progress

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toward ending the outsourcing of

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american aerospace jobs and bringing

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them right back here to florida

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and other states all across this country

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our commercial crew program has been

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carefully managed in stages

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first phase of our commercial crew

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initiatives nasa entered into funded

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space act agreements with five companies

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to aid in the innovative innovation and

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development of space transportation

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those companies were blue origin boeing

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entered into funded space act agreements

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with four companies for the continued

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development of commercial rockets and

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spacecraft those companies were blue or

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boeing sierra nevada and space

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exploration technologies or spacex

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today we're announcing another critical

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step toward launching our astronauts

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from u.s soil on space systems built by

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american companies

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we've selected three companies to

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develop crew transportation capabilities

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as a fully integrated system and keep us

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on track to end the outsourcing of our

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human space flight program

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sierra nevada corporation

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space exploration technologies and the

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this is a diverse and dynamic mix of

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companies each with unique experiences

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aerospace industry

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by keeping these three companies in the

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mix we not only ensure competition which

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guaranteeing that we never find

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dependent on a sole provider to get our

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for the next 21 months these partners

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will perform tests and complete designs

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through this initiative nasa will help

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the private sector design and develop

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the human space flight capability that

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could ultimately lead to the

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availability of human space flight

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we'll also help support the creation of

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high-paying technology jobs here in

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florida and across the country

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the ultimate goal of our commercial crew

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space program is to bring human space

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flight launches right back here to

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american soil and in the outsourcing of

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these important jobs

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our u.s industry partners will help us

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achieve safe

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reliable and cost-effective access to

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the system must be certified as meeting

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all of nasa's safety requirements

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certification of commercial systems for

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nasa transportation missions will be

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the innovative spacecraft and rockets

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will also spur technological innovation

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see first of all i want to say uh thank

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my team and i are extremely excited and

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we're ready to continue our partnership

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with industry and between industry nasa

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capability of our three partners under

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icap i believe that we can make great

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progress with these three partners

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that nasa has been able to employ and

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what that means to the taxpayer is nasa

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of this development cost we are sharing

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these costs through a partnership

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through nasa and the individual partners

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of allowing the united states to lead in

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well as for nasa purposes in the future

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as charlie as mr bolton said there are

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sierra nevada is going to be getting 212

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milestones and on an saa approach

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taxpayers and very good for nasa if they

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meet all the milestones they can get up

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to 212.5 million dollars they've been a

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they've been a partner during that

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period of time in which they have

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completed their preliminary design

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review and now they're working on their

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engineering test article which is a test

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article of their dream chaser full scale

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they're going to use for approach and

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landing tests we are very excited to

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continue our work with sierra nevada

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our second partner is spacex spacex will

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be receiving 440 million dollars as they

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complete their milestones throughout the

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base period of ccdev of icap

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as you know spacex is a very progressive

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partner we like the way they think the

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way they think differently and it's

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encouraging my team to think differently

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as we work with them they too have been

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evolving through ccdev2 they take their

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design for cargo which they flew just a

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couple months ago and taken that to

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involve it into a crude capability so

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they're working on their propulsion

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systems as well as working on their crew

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interface systems and that has gone very

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well over the last year or so and we

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want to continue to work with them very

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closely

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the third partner is boeing

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boeing will receive 460 million dollars

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over the course of all the milestones if

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they meet them

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they also are very sound partner through

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ccdev2

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during ccdf2 they completed a

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preliminary design review

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for their spacecraft and also completed

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a software review preliminary design

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review for their software again a very

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uh hard challenge and they met those

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challenges under cease-to-dev2 they also

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are developing their propulsion system

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for their abort and their landing system

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when they land on the ground

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all three of our ccdf all three of these

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were seasidv2 partners and we look

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forward to working with them again in

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icap

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you might ask what does nasa bring to

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the table in this commercial

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partnership well besides the taxpayer

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money that we will diligently manage we

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also bring a team a team of engineers we

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call it a partner integration team or

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for short a pit crew

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this particular pit crew we have for

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each team this crew is made up of

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engineers a lot from here right here at

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the kennedy space center and also from

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the johnson space center and many of the

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other nasa centers they're nasa

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engineers they're nasa safety engineers

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they're nasa operations folks both in

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the flight regime as well as in the

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ground regime we put all these together

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in this pit crew they're going to work

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very closely with these partners we

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bring our expertise our 50 years of

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human space flight experience to the

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table not to tell the partner what to do

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but to tell them what we have learned

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over our 50 years and to help them in

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their design and help them in their risk

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management trade systems

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my team is highly motivated to go do

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this and you need a team that that i was

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able to hand pick so that these folks

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that are on these pit crews can work in

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a very innovative way can do things

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differently than what we've done in the

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past and still try to make it as safe as

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possible and meet our requirements in

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the long run and meet the company's

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requirements in the short run

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a bit later this morning about 10 45

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eastern there will be a teleconference

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in which we'll we'll talk a bit more

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about the details of the agreements and

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our partners at that time

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you know before i end i'd like to take a

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step back

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and think about another time in history

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when the world changed

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that was back in 1927 in 1927 the only

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way to get across the atlantic ocean was

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through ocean liners

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charles lindbergh took the courage to

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figure out a way to fly across the

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atlantic ocean non-stop

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and that was as many many people call it

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a lindbergh moment because it made the

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world smaller it made the world capable

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of doing new and different and

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innovative things

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and there's been many lindbergh moments

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since that time but today the commercial

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crew program and our industry partners

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are on a threshold of setting a new set

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of lindbergh moments

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not just across the atlantic but

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actually to make the world smaller the

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planet smaller and to help commercial

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industry

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thank you

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i think we're now opening up for

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good morning james dean from florida

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today possibly for for mr mango just

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wondering if you could discuss a little

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bit more um

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why this combination of three ultimately

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uh was selected in terms of it giving

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you a diversity of different type of

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types of

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spacecraft a couple launch vehicles of

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course also how many proposals did you

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let's see

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nasa uses a very strict process for

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procurement

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and so

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in that process

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there's many proposals that come in that

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are that are evaluated in this

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particular case and you'll hear a lot

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more about this in the telecon so you

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might want to i encourage you to ask the

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question again

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but the portfolio that was selected as

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you said is really all about diversity

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diversity of launch vehicles diversity

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of spacecraft

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and an ability to actually move through

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these milestones with high confidence

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that we can meet those milestones that's

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how i you know as a program we don't

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make the selections we implement the

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selections when i look at this selection

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base i look at it as a capability of

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diversity and therefore we will not only

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have diversity in systems but also

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redundancy and competition as we move

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good morning julian lee with america

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space uh this one's for charlie i

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believe uh during the cc dev2 blue

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origin was awarded 22 million

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uh did they uh submit a program for ccip

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and yeah i'm going to let you ask that

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question in the next brief i

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and i will tell you i was not privy to

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know how many companies submitted who

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submitted and i did not want to know and

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i think you know when you talk about the

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integrity of the process

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you know i was briefed by bill

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gerstenmaier day before yesterday on

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what was going to happen i knew what the

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process was because we had gone over

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that over and over and over uh so you

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know our the office of general counsel

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our procurement office everybody was

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involved in this so i don't know uh you

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know whether they submitted or not to be

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quite honest i do know who the three

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winners were so uh uh know that okay but

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i would ask bill gerstenmaier that

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yes sir uh chris haber with tara sang

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the press

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are you going to uh is sierra nevada

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i'm going to let bob address it because

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he talks to people all the time actually

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uh we have a space act agreement with

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sierra nevada and eventually they do

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plan to use our facilities we're working

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with them on what'll will be when uh not

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too long ago uh

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sierra nevada was here and they had a uh

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jobs conference if you will and we're

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doing hiring uh from the excellent

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workforce that we have here at the cape

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so uh it's my great hope that yes in the

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future if they move forward and

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ultimately are selected to fly crews to

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the international space station they'll

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be doing operations here at the cape

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and if i could follow that up

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do you know about how many jobs are

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being created here in florida by them

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and if they're using uh any of the

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retired

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shuttle force

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i don't have that number

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colonel cabana just just asking a

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similar question a little bit more

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broadly we're just over a year

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past the last shuttle flight

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um could you just address you know where

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ksc as a center stands now um and how

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these announcements might impact the

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local workforce and sort of the center's

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progression in its transition absolutely

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james uh when i look back on where we

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were a year ago and where we are now we

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have just made tremendous progress i

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wish i could get everybody out to see

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all the changes that are happening here

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at the kennedy space center in a lot of

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areas that you know you can't even see

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them all uh they're down in the balls of

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uh the pad uh within the mcc

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launch control center it's everywhere

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and uh you know the team i think we

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really have turned a corner we're

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reaching stability and we're looking to

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hire as we move forward

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having the orion vehicle here in the onc

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high bay now being built for its first

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flight in 2014 i mean this is the first

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time we've built

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human spacecraft here at the kennedy

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space center in excellent partnership

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with the state of florida

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and that's outstanding the progress

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today has been made on the launch

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facilities out at the pad

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in the vab we're starting work there now

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the transporter

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crawler transporter number two is being

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totally refurbished to handle a heavier

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weight and to have another 20-year life

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on it and the team's doing a great job

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there

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it's just multiple projects like this

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and i think having

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getting to this next step in commercial

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crew i mean

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these two programs i've said it before

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i'll say it again they're not mutually

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exclusive they're extremely compatible

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having a commercial capability along

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with nasa's exploration capability this

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is our future and we really do want to

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transform ksc into that 21st century

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launch complex of the future we want to

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take what was science fiction and make

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it fact and we're moving to make that

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uh i think possibly again for mr mango

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can you just explain a little bit the uh

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the half award um will that company

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accomplish half as much or did they

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benefit from uh sharing a launch vehicle

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with one of the other um competitors or

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or you know what is the difference

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between a full and half award

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uh again i would ask you to ask that

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question in the next briefing because

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you'll see a lot more of the details

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i guess my quick answer is no one has a

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full award or a half award we negotiated

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with these partners how much work we can

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get done in 21 months that seemed

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reasonable to us and fit into an overall

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budget profile so that's how we figured

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okay there's no more questions that

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concludes our briefing thank you

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thank you all very much thanks for