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My name is Kathryn Flanagan and I am the Deputy
Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute.

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We have the privilege of providing the science
operations for the Hubble Space Telescope

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and we will operate both the science and mission
operations for the James Webb Space Telescope

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in 2018.

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By nature, I'm somewhat adaptable.

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My father was in the Army and I moved pretty
much every year until I got to college so

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I had 12 schools.

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After college, I decided to join the Peace
Corps which was one of my great dreams basically

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coming from the Kennedy Inaugural speech quite
frankly and I taught Math and Physics in the

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Republic of Zaire which is in Central Africa.

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There I became very aware that I believe in
the power of dreams that we should all have

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a dream, that we are inspired by dreams and
that dreams provide a richness to our life

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that material possessions cannot match.

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The privilege of being the Deputy Director
of an institution like this, to be able to

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operate NASA's missions and to produce excellent
science for the world is a dream.

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I feel you should do what you love.

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And you should not worry about whether or
not it's possible or not possible.

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You should start out assuming that's what
you're going to be doing because I'll bet

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even money that's what you will be doing.

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Do you what you love and love what you do.