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is that not a beautiful sight

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good morning everyone and welcome my

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name is cheryl hurst the director of

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education and external relations here at

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for this ceremony this morning i want to

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thank all of our industry partners

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senior executives friends family

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everyone who's coming out today to enjoy

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this wonderful moment

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as you notice leading the atlantis

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parade there was the marathon high

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school honor goward and tidy school high

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school band let's give them a round of

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also accompanying atlantis to bringing

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up the rear are our very important uh

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honorees and a representative from every

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ksc directorate let's give a round of

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now if you would please join me in

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standing for our national anthem by ms

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what so proudly

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last gleaming

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who's brought stripes and bright stars

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or the rampart

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rockets red glare

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gave proof

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and the home

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sierra that was beautiful what a great

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day to be an american

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now our first special guest this morning

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is the commander first commander of

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i'd like you to welcome colonel carol

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good morning

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it was my honor to be the first

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commander to of the atlantis

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and my pleasure to be here

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for the next phase of atlantis journey

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my first flight was on the challenger

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the first slide of challenger and we had

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while they did flight readiness firing

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after flight readiness firing

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to clear the vehicle for flight

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my second flight was on discovery

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and on that flight

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we had gotten close enough

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three times that they made patches and

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then canceled them

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and so i have four patches which look

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almost the same

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my third flight was the first flight of

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atlantis and it went on time to the

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as a matter of fact my wife had come to

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i have an opportunity to do a program

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and she said i think it's going to be

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the day that you guys might be landing

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a military mission and they wouldn't

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or even what day it was going to land

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so i said diane remember challenger and

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all the frfs

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um discovery and all our patches

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this is the first flight of atlantis you

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as it turned out that was the exact time

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that atlantis flew and landed

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and so she met me at edwards

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gave me a peck on the cheek and then

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the capability of the the whole system

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that reflects the maturity the

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reliability and the capability of the

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we had some tragedies afterwards but for

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atlantis and said this is when they were

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able to do what they said they were

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thank you colonel

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now please ladies and gentlemen welcome

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the commander the final commander of

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well thank you and uh good morning gosh

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isn't just a beautiful morning for an

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event like this

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i am fortunate enough to represent the

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entire sts-135 crew who came today uh

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and i thought very quickly i'd just like

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to share uh two stories uh very quick

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stories with you about um our last day

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race to the wall i called it

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there might be a moment at the end where

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we could truly appreciate

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what uh what the nation had built here

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the night before the very last orbit

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before the last landing

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here atlantis's final configuration in

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the visitor center will be in a about a

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45 degree left angle of bank

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out the window and i looked down

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and we looked around at each other and

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we thought to ourselves this is really

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after 30 years of building a space

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station deploying countless payloads

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and changing the world this is the very

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last night that a space shuttle will be

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whether in florida not withstanding of

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course but as it turned out to be the

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case it was really it was a very

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poignant moment um you know personally i

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part of it and i'm sure i speak for the

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earlier that day where we had just put

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the major events that occurred on that

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last mission but i think that between

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doug and i we kind of forgot about this

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doug looked at me and we thought what

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the best capcom in the universe megan

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macarthur came up and she listed every

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payload that a space shuttle arm had

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deployed and every major event

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the international space station and i

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successful space shuttle arm program as

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so uh now atlantis will continue its

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it will go on in what i consider to be

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just an incredibly fitting facility

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right over the hill here and its life of

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exploration will pick up or its life of

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education will pick up from this point

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forward and i'm sure it will inspire

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generations of young men and women

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for decades to come so thank you very

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much for allowing us to be a part of

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this event and please let us continue

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thank you commander

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now please join me in welcoming the

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chief operating officer of delaware

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north companies parks and resorts the

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operator of our kennedy space center

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i have no idea how these guys feel in

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space but this is a this is an emotional

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to have this vehicle behind us and thank

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all of you for all you've done for so

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many years and decades

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for all of you

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this is truly an historic day

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for the first crew that flewer

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for everybody that worked on the space

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and thank you all for being here today

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atlantis stands as a symbol of

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inspiration for people around the world

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it inspired us all in a launch pad

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it inspired us in space

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and it will inspire us again today as it

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starts a new journey

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thanks to nasa the public will

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experience atlantis dramatically

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flying in space as chris ferguson said

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in a new 100 million exhibit

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just over the way at the kennedy space

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center visitor complex

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millions of visitors will come to find

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the 60 interactive displays about the

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including its key roles with the

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the kennedy space center visitor complex

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is really the only place in the world to

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see space flown artifacts from all four

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man's space programs and the rockets

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those amazing astronauts and crew into

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humble opinion but the visitor complex

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is unquestionably the best place to

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experience and learn and be inspired

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about mankind's journey into space

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on behalf of delaware north companies i

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want to thank nasa administrator charlie

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kennedy space center director bob cabana

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for entrusting us to take care of this

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vehicle behind us we are absolutely

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thrilled to become stewards

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we all look forward to july of 2013. i'm

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now i'd like to introduce to you our

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a veteran of four space shuttle missions

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thanks cheryl uh thanks to all of you

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uh i first saw the wings of the space

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shuttle atlantis

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on the floor of grumman's facility in

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bethpage new york on long island when i

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was a young test pilot in the early 80s

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in 1985 when bo and his crew were flying

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atlantis i watched closely as a new

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astronaut candidate seeing what the

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future might hold for me

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in

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i watched with great pride alongside our

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administrator charlie bolden as fergie

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and his crew brought atlantis home for

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the very last time

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it's something that we can all be

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extremely proud of

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today marks the end

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of a phenomenal 30-year program for the

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space shuttle

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it was very

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sad but

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you know it's okay this morning when we

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watched atlantis roll out of the vab for

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the very last time

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because although it's the end of

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atlantis flying in space

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it's not the end it's not the end for

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ksc we're charging into the future

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preparing for

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commercial operations to low earth orbit

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for exploration once again beyond our

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home planet continuing to meet nasa's

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science missions with our expandable

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rockets to get our science missions to

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mars and further

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and it's not the end for atlantis

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because atlantis now takes on a mission

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of inspiration to future generations

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when i was five years old

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we took a trip to visit my aunt from

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minneapolis and baltimore maryland and i

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distinctly remember going to the

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smithsonian and looking up and seeing

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the right flyer in the spirit of st

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louis hanging from the ceiling

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and that sparked in me a desire to fly

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and i it is my sincere hope

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that one day

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some young boy or girl is going to look

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at atlantis and it's going to spark that

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dream of exploration in space exploring

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beyond our home planet and building on

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all the wonderful things this team has

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accomplished in the last 30 years and is

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going to continue to do

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so

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from me to all of you

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my heartfelt thanks

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for your dedication your drive your hard

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work your spirit of discovery that has

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made all of this possible

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and continues to make ksc and nasa the

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great place that it is to work as we

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now it's my pleasure

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to introduce our administrator charlie

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bolden the honorable charlie bolton okay

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now a lot of folks would think that's

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pretty cool

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but

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charlie more importantly is one of the

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outstanding commanders of atlantis

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i was telling chris ferguson when he sat

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down i said it's not fair and i was

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asking him if it was because he's from

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philadelphia or what uh you know i've

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i've been with chris and the crew

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boy throughout

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the final flight and the landing and

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everything else and i'm always impressed

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by by the four of them and the way that

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they have

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carried this uh it's not a burden but

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it's it's an it's an awesome

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responsibility

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to be the representatives of the space

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program as the final crew to fly a

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vehicle in a program and they have done

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it incredibly well and chris is always

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so eloquent when he talks

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and then i come up here with notes

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but i have to because i'm not quite as

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suave and debonair as are they

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i do want to thank the merritt island uh

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high school color guard

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and the uh

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the band and others over there and

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sierra

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you were awesome um let me tell you uh

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the national anthem is hard

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uh most professionals who try it really

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mess it up

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you were beautiful today and and i thank

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you so much for for honoring us by

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singing that

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um

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bob thanks very much for the

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introduction and thanks for letting me

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be a part of this program it's it's just

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wonderful to be back here at at ksc and

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to be with the ksc workforce

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and as i look out and as i had an

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opportunity to talk to a lot of you this

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morning because we were out here like

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six o'clock they were doing a brief and

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then rolling out at 6 30.

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um it's really special here with you and

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with my old friend atlantis i notice i

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know there's dave lee i was trying to my

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eyes aren't as good as they used to be

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even with my glasses and i know dave

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leesma is over there uh and i'm not

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calling names but i was looking for my

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crew members who were with me on

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atlantis and there's somebody back there

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and all that but it's great to be here

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um dave and i were we were among the

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crew and the backups

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who had the privilege of celebrating the

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anniversary of the 20th anniversary of

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sts-45 which was my single flight on

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atlantis and we were in brussels belgium

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and and atlantis was the focus of space

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week in belgium

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i tell you that only because i want you

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to recognize the significance that the

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shuttle program has had and will

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continue to have and that was not about

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history

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that program was about the future in in

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belgium in another country

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uh where they they see what we started

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with shuttle and they're just hopeful

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that we won't give up and that will

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continue

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bo i want to thank you for being here

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chris i've already said how much i

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appreciate your being here

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um i want to let everybody know

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something you know today is a historic

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day it's a it's an incredibly historic

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day

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but

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that's in the history business that's

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not what nasa does we're not a history

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organization we're in the business of

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creating the future

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and we're in the business of taking

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science fiction and turning it into

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science fact and i think most of you

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here realize that that's what we do

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we take things that people say are

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impossible and we make them possible

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we dazzle people at the way we do it

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it's always fun to come down here

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because this is one place in the world

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where uh you guys and girls take

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something

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people say it cannot be done

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and you just go do it

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and the problem with you

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is you make it look too easy

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you know you just make it look too easy

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what we do is not easy what we do is

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incredibly difficult and you should be

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very proud about what we have done

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through the incredible 30 years of the

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shuttle program

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it's also difficult to make a transition

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really difficult to make a transition i

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i you know beau was there i was there

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there are some of us who were there

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between apollo and shuttle or if you

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want to really get to it between apollo

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sius and shuttle or between skylab and

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shuttle there was a break

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and it was a painful break particularly

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for people who had been

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a part of the apollo program there's

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some people who still don't want to let

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it go

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but you know

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that happens that's life

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you have to just sometimes say okay we

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did great things and now we're on to

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greater things

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this magnificent ship behind me

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is tangible representation of of a great

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nation our hopes and dreams

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we couldn't be where we are poised for

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tomorrow's progress

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without the space shuttle

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and there are more exciting things

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happening right now here at ksc as well

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as around the agency

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a little over a year after the shuttle

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retired

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just this week

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we completed the first commercial

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resupply mission to the international

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space station

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little company called spacex launched

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dragon

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from right over there at cape canaveral

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it's the first of many such launches and

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we're well on track to once again launch

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american astronauts from u.s soil in the

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next few years right here from the

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kennedy space center i see mark

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sarangelo there chris ferguson now

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represents boeing uh you know

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these are companies that believe in the

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future and they believe they can make

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that happen and i think it's

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all we can do is trust them

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the way that we have trusted american

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industry from the beginning of time

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they'll get it done i'm excited about it

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the passion and the dedication of the

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ksc workforce all of you out here

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you you allowed us to proudly operate

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shuttle for an absolutely incredible

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three decades

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that same pride and dedication in

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today's ksc workforce

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will send us to new destinations like an

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asteroid mars

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once again launching from right here at

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the kennedy space center in cape

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canaveral

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with your exceptional support we'll

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restore those awe-inspiring moments of

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human space flight for the next

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generation of explorers

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those students some of them probably

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over there in that band

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or maybe even sierra

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those students who are studying right

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now

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to lead us in exploration

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of the most most incredible exploration

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era ever

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it's now nasa's honor to permanently

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house this magnificent spacecraft right

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here where she rose to the skies 33

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times carrying 156

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men and women

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she's truly a testament to american

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ingenuity

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to the dedication and passion of this

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workforce and of our nation to reach

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higher than ever and do what has not

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been done before

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the space shuttle program has been a

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proud achievement for our nation

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with 30 years of missions launching

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satellites like magellan and galileo

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aboard atlantis

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expanding our international partnerships

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with visits to mir

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and flying crew members from around the

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world

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building the international space station

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and demonstrating that america indeed

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the world

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had a new home and has a new home in low

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earth orbit

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those of us who flew atlantis will never

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forget the experience as

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chris talked about

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for those who made that possible here at

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the kennedy at kennedy by processing

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this amazing vehicle time and time again

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to those who watched in awe

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as she launched and maneuvered in space

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and did incredible things those memories

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the inspiration

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that passion is still yours

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america still leads the world in

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exploration and we're building on the

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many fine accomplishments

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of the space shuttle program to take us

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where we've not gone before

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to places where our imagination and our

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aspiration tells us we can go

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if we channel the passions that built

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and launched atlantis and create a new

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day

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atlantis final mission may have closed

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out the space shuttle program

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but the spirit that created that program

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and built her

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is very much alive as we develop the

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technologies and systems not only for

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private companies to serve our needs in

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low earth orbit but to but to keep us on

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the road to an asteroid to mars and

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places beyond

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i want to thank all the crews

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here today who flew atlantis in space

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i want to thank the workforce that sent

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her successfully to orbit again and

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again

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and also want to thank the american

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public at large

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for making this impo this incredible

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dream and achievement

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possible that we all share today

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our best days are ahead of us

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with the shuttle as our tailwind

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godspeed atlantis

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on your next mission of inspiration and

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motivation

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and now i'd like to ask bob cabana bo

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chris bill and cheryl to join me up here

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on the stage while we do what we came up

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um

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foreign

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i'm crying

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your signature may get bad enough you

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could write a prescription i know i

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you guys come on up

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it

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maybe we should

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a copy to each one of the one command

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post

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and you'll have an easel where you can

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go take a photo of one of these if you'd

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like at the command post and then for

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got a visitor

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we'll have one up here also in the easel

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if you want to get close-up photos of

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the

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title transfers

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so this concludes our ceremony ladies

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and gentlemen please stay as long as you

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would like to

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view atlantis as she continues on her

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journey thank you for coming and enjoy

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and so with that the title of ov 104

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space shuttle atlantis has been assigned

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from

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nasa to the kennedy space center for

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permanent display at the kennedy space

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in a document

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signed four times by nasa administrator

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charlie bolden

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and kennedy space center director bob

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cabana

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it's official

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atlantis is retired and