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hello i'm nasa administrator charlie

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every day nasa is advancing aeronautics

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and space technology development

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transforming the ways we get to low

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earth orbit and setting our sights on

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farther destinations

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we're working with small business around

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the nation to meet these challenges

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during small business week we have an

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opportunity to recognize how much this

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work means to all of us

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i want to recognize our fiscal year 12

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agency small business prime contractor

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of the year

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a2 research and our small business

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subcontractor of the year tri-models

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their work is helping keep america the

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world leader in space exploration

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in fiscal year 2014 nasa will continue

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its breakthrough work in science

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technology and exploration

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we'll embrace new challenges such as a

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mission to capture and redirect an

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asteroid closer to earth so astronauts

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can visit it

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we'll continue to drive commercial

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partnerships to resupply the

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international space station with cargo

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and eventually to transport crews from

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american soil once again

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we'll keep developing the space launch

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system in the orion multi-purpose crew

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vehicle so astronauts can reach an

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asteroid and ultimately mars

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even as spacecraft speed to jupiter and

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pluto

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and other destinations in our solar

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system will prepare the james webb space

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telescope for its 2018 launch as the

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successor to hubble

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small business is integral to everything

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we do

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it's involved in every aspect of nasa

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and it's helping america lead the world

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in exploration

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small businesses and entrepreneurs

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employ half of america's workers and

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create two out of every three jobs

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they're an essential part of our

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economic engine

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i'm pleased to report that for fiscal

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year 2013 nasa is exceeding by 2.91

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percent its goal that 17.2 percent of

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our contracts go to small businesses

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we're always trying to do better and our

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small business improvement program is

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working to develop measurable objectives

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that can help us become even stronger

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i want to thank the small business

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community for your continued hard work

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your contributions are one of nasa's

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most valuable assets and each day you're

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helping us to create the world's

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strongest space program for that i

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sincerely thank you and the nasa

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workforce with which you partner to make

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it happen now