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stand by ladies and gentlemen president

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hello everybody

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the uh

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who who am i speaking with uh this is

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charles de la she's the director of jpl

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and we have a room full of the mission

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operation personnel uh uh this is

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well it is great to talk to all of you

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and i just want you to know that uh

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we could not be more excited about what

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you've been doing

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uh somebody asked me uh the other day

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whether you've already found martians

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i told them you know you have to

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we have to give you a little bit of time

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but

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we

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successful landing and i just wanted to

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call and say congratulations to the

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entire uh mars science laboratory team

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and really all of jpl on on last

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monday's incredible success you know

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you're

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through

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your dedicated efforts curiosity stuck

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her land

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and captured the attention and

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imagination of millions of people

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not just across our country but people

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all around the world

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including times square

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and

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you know what you did on mars was

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incredibly impressive

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those 76 pyrotechnics going on

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in perfect succession

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and the the 500

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000 lines of code working exactly the

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way you guys uh had ordered them

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so

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you know it's really mind-boggling

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what you've been able to accomplish

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and and being able to get that whole

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landing sequence to work

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uh the way you did

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uh is is a testimony to your team so

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i i especially want to congratulate uh

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charles watchy uh the head of jpl

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the the entry descent and landing

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lead

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adam stelzner

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uh who helped devise the final step of

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this amazing descent uh

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the skycrane system

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what you've accomplished embodies the

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american spirit and your passion and

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your commitment is making a difference

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and your hard work is now paying

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dividends because uh my our expectations

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is that

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curiosity is going to be

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telling us things that we did not know

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before and laying the groundwork for

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an even more audacious undertaking in

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the future and that's a human mission of

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the red planet so

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i understand there's a special mohawk

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you know he he he seems to be one of the

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many stars on the of the show last

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sunday night

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and uh

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you know i've i've in the past thought

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my team keeps on discouraging me

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and

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now that he's received

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marriage proposals and thousands of new

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twitter followers i think that i'm going

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to go back to my team and see if it

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let's go with a new fashion at jpl

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it does sound like uh nasa's come a long

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way from the white shirt black

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dark limb glasses in the pockets

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you know

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the uh you guys are a little cooler than

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you used to be

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as all of you know uh my administration

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put a big focus on improving science and

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technology engineering and math

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education

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and this is the kind of thing

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that inspire kids

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across the country you know they're

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telling their moms and dads they want to

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be

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first person to walk on mars and

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and that kind of inspiration's the the

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byproduct of work

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of the sort that you guys have done so

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not only do i want to congratulate the

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team

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i want to call out a few of the leaders

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of the group including adam but also

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peter uh

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seisinger

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richard cook

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john groszinger

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john grunsfeld

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and i'd like to congratulate and thank

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all of our international partners spain

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russia germany france canada italy japan

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australia

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all of them contributed i know to the

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instrumentation curiosity landed on

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martian surface and

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all the scientists who were part of the

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jpl team so you guys have done an

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outstanding job you made us all proud

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you've made

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uh

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you know examples of

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of american know-how and ingenuity and

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it's really

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an amazing accomplishment so we can't

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wait to start uh

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uh hearing back from curiosity and

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finding out what uh

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uh what's going on we're fortunate to be

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part of a society that can reach beyond

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our planet and explore frontiers that

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were only imagined by

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our ancestors so it's inspiring to all

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of us

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i'm going to give you guys a personal

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commitment to protect these critical

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investments in science and technology

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i thank you for devoting your lives to

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this cause and

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if uh

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if in fact you do make contact with

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martian please let me know right away

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because

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i've got i've got a lot of other things

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on my plate but i suspect that

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that will go to the top of the list

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even even if even if they're just

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even if they're just microbes it will be

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well thank you mr president and on

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behalf of all of us at nasa we thank you

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for taking the time to give us a call

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and hopefully we inspire some of the

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millions of young people who were

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watching this landing thank you again

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well yeah

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you've already inspired us but i know

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that

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coming back are going to be remarkable

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and amazing and uh again you guys should

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it's

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really what makes us uh best uh

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as as a species is just

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this curiosity that we have uh and uh

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this yearning to

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to discover and know more and push the

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boundaries uh of of knowledge and

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you know you are uh

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perfect examples of that and uh

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we couldn't be more grateful to you so

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congratulations keep up the great work