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i am delighted to be here

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and i'm particularly delighted to be

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why choose this as our government

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and they may well ask

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why climb the highest level

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five 35 years ago

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we choose to go to the moon

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and measure the best

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of our energies and skills

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because that challenge is one that we're

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willing to accept

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one we are willing to postpone

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oh

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can you see

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my dawn's

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early light

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what so

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proudly we

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hailed at the twilight's

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gleaming who's brought stripes and

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through the

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is we watched

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were so gallantly

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i'd like to welcome the elected

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officials and their representatives in

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the audience today

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as well as our distinguished guests

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nasa administrator charlie bolden

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members of the apollo 11 crew

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lunar module pilot buzz aldrin command

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module pilot michael collins and backup

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commander jim lovell

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we're also privileged to have members of

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the armstrong family with us today and

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please welcome

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mrs janet armstrong

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mark armstrong their youngest son

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rick armstrong their oldest son

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and rick's children lily and bryce

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today we honor an american hero

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an astronaut

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a father and a friend

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in 1966

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neil was the command pilot

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of the gemini 8 mission

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during which he performed the first

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successful successful docking of two

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this was an amazing accomplishment

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but it would be another first one small

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that would earn him instant recognition

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for generations to come

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as the commander of apollo 11

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neil's step onto the moon's surface

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not only fulfilled the national goal set

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by president kennedy

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but established america as the space

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neil was one of the finest gentlemen

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i loved talking to him about flying

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i think more than an astronaut

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i remember one time at dinner we were

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talking about lifting bodies in the new

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and neil talked about his experience

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in a meeting that he participated in out

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where the decision was made to go with a

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it was a faster way of having success to

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kennedy space center was proud to launch

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the building also contains the astronaut

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crew quarters where crews stay prior to

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it's our home away from home and the

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staff there was like family

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astronauts before they embarked on their

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45 years later neil's spirit lives on in

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words cannot express how honored i am to

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be part of this historic moment today

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and now it's my privilege to introduce

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introduction and thanks for your great

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remarks and um i want to echo bob's

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thanks to all the members of the nasa

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family and the ksc community who are

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mercury seven and continuing through

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these storied shores

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for 30 years the unprecedented success

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center so today

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we have come home to commemorate what is

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the history of human exploration

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us two of the members of that historic

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mission buzz aldrin and mike collins

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as well as backup commander jim lovell

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with the renaming of the operating

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checkout building for their father

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as bob we are ready for the event

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see there's a center patrol houston as

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special place in nasa history

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it served as the cool quarters for

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millions of people around the world have

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been riveted by those iconic pictures of

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astronauts in their flight suits walking

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out of this very building on their way

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walls in preparation for its first test

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first human to set foot on the moon

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test pilot and university professor and

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he constantly challenged all of us to

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expand the boundaries of the possible

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he along with his crewmates buzz aldrin

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michael collins are a bridge

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i'd like to present to bob cabana a

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unique symbol of that bridge

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i didn't know about this until recently

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neil buzz and michael signed and

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presented a special patch that flew on

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their apollo 11 mission to then nasa

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administrator james c fletcher

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mementos and keepsakes

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that accompany just about every mission

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but what is unique about this patch is

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its inscription that reads

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and it's signed by neil

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michael collins so 27 years ago the men

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who accomplished what many believed was

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next giant leap a human mission to mars

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and they had no doubt we would succeed

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let me tell you neither do i and neither

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well we present that patch to bob for

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safe keeping because it's here at the

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kennedy space center where the mars one

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crew will lift off on america's next

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going farther into space than ever

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we salute neil armstrong and his

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crewmates for blazing a path that is

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leading us all on the way from the first

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footprints on the moon to very soon the

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first footprints on mars and so now i'm

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because we have some other friends who

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would like to talk to you all and i'm

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stay up here sir i think we got some

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station this is a kennedy space center

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we have you loud and clear hey swanny

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he's going to talk to you too mr cabana

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mr cabana no

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hey so what do you think uh you know

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what it what did the apollo program mean

295
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inspiration for me it's one of the

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reasons why i'm here right now i mean it

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was amazing thing to see

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and

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it gave me so much

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hope that i could do the same thing i'm

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just wonderful you

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well swanny i wasn't alive when apollo

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11 stepped foot on the moon

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but as a child growing up by every every

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summer we went on vacation to ocean city

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maryland and that's where my parents

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watched uh

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watch neil make those first footprints

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on the moon and they used to tell me

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this story every single summer so i grew

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up with this in my mind all the time so

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like you said it was huge inspiration

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for me

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hey swanny i got a big question for you

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because i think i i know you taught me

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how to fly the shuttle because many

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people may not know this but steve

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swanson was once a flight what we call a

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flight simulation in engineering fse

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sitting in the center seat probably

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scared to death watching us try to land

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but he taught me how to fly shuttle and

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so

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in your wildest imagination

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did you ever envision you would be where

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you are today and what advice do you

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have to some some kids that are sitting

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it was a dream you know you don't ever

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think it's really going to come true

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just work hard at it and that's exactly

331
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what you do just persevere work hard

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enjoy life and maybe your dreams will

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so uh i don't know if you heard but

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charlie presented me with a patch that

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the apollo 11 crew took to the moon and

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signed and it was signed to the next

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nasa crew that goes to mars so what do

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you think about the iss as a as a test

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bed as a learning place for

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well bob if you're talking about long

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duration which a trip to mars is the

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epitome of long duration then this is

343
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where we start right here we have a

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regenerative environmental control

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system that's processing urine into

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water we're making our own oxygen

347
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we pretty much we're getting very close

348
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to a closed-loop system so

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this to me this and reliability of the

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spacecraft that's kind of the backbone

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of this mission that we have coming up

352
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and it all starts right here on the iss

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what about exercise and physical fitness

354
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how much you guys got to exercise up

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definitely that's another good point you

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know we've got to go to mars again a

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long duration we have to stay in shape

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ourselves and be ready to function when

359
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we get there and that's what we do we

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work out two hours every day about an

361
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hour of cardio and an hour of lifting

362
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weights and it works out well for us and

363
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i believe that with that kind of regime

364
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you could do well when you land on mars

365
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hey reid since you're the baby

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and you weren't alive you know do you

367
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have a message that you would like to

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give to the to the three apollo crew

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members that we have here uh we've got

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since you can't see us

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but we've got buzz aldrin and mike

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collins and and then jim lovell who was

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a backup mission commander what's your

374
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my message is simple these are heroes

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that i've had my entire life

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known

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lived and so i just want to say an

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enormous thank you thank you for putting

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our country on this path that we remain

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on today and without you gentlemen i

381
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wouldn't be up here with uh swany and my

382
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other crewmates today and so my dreams

383
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now um

384
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i don't know about bob bob probably

385
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dreamed of becoming the ksc

386
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director

387
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uh i thought i would be off somewhere

388
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making money by now so

389
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one of you will probably be in one of

390
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these two positions someday

391
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you know really seriously now that

392
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you've seen what you've seen

393
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tell me where you envision will be 45

394
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well

395
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i i hope much i hope

396
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he'll still be alive

397
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as bob cabana told me when i just

398
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started this path at nasa he told all of

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us uh

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it's better to have a mission ahead of

401
00:18:42,390 --> 00:18:40,640
you than a mission behind you and i hope

402
00:18:44,710 --> 00:18:42,400
people are lining up not for the mars

403
00:18:46,470 --> 00:18:44,720
one patch but for the mars 20 and who

404
00:18:48,070 --> 00:18:46,480
knows maybe uh heading out towards

405
00:18:49,510 --> 00:18:48,080
saturn or something crazy that we

406
00:18:51,990 --> 00:18:49,520
haven't even thought about yet so i

407
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think the future's bright

408
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yeah i'm with you reid i i think we have

409
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an outstanding future in front of us and

410
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part of it's sitting right behind us

411
00:19:01,430 --> 00:18:58,799
here in this orion spacecraft that's

412
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going to fly in in december we've got a

413
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so you guys have been great

414
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in allowing us to come aboard and spend

415
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some time with you i know you've got

416
00:19:14,310 --> 00:19:12,640
four other crew members who are back

417
00:19:15,669 --> 00:19:14,320
there kind of backing you up and wishing

418
00:19:18,470 --> 00:19:15,679
they could be where you are so please

419
00:19:20,310 --> 00:19:18,480
tell them we said hello uh thanks for

420
00:19:21,830 --> 00:19:20,320
everything that you do and reid you're

421
00:19:25,510 --> 00:19:21,840
you know you're you're becoming a rock

422
00:19:29,190 --> 00:19:25,520
star with all your tweets and twits and

423
00:19:30,789 --> 00:19:29,200
instagram and all that other stuff so uh

424
00:19:33,110 --> 00:19:30,799
and it's good to see both of your hair

425
00:19:34,710 --> 00:19:33,120
growing back

426
00:19:37,990 --> 00:19:34,720
steve don't worry you're not a rock star

427
00:19:41,350 --> 00:19:39,909
was great talking to you guys any final

428
00:19:46,630 --> 00:19:41,360
remarks that you'd like to make before

429
00:19:52,070 --> 00:19:49,909
just again thanks and to repeat what uh

430
00:19:54,390 --> 00:19:52,080
reid said is thank you all who came

431
00:19:57,110 --> 00:19:54,400
before us you inspired us and you led

432
00:19:59,110 --> 00:19:57,120
the way for us we really appreciate it

433
00:20:15,110 --> 00:19:59,120
you guys just keep doing a great job up

434
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i forgot we're supposed to introduce the

435
00:20:21,190 --> 00:20:18,799
next person so it's my honor to

436
00:20:23,350 --> 00:20:21,200
introduce rick armstrong who's uh then

437
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gonna give us some remarks from the

438
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first set of remarks from the armstrong

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it occurred to me that if one gets and

440
00:20:42,070 --> 00:20:39,760
gets their name on a building

441
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it's not too much of a stretch

442
00:20:45,830 --> 00:20:43,760
to suppose that one could also be in

443
00:20:48,870 --> 00:20:45,840
charge of that building

444
00:20:50,870 --> 00:20:48,880
i started to think about what having dad

445
00:20:52,549 --> 00:20:50,880
in charge of this building would mean to

446
00:20:54,630 --> 00:20:52,559
those of you who worked here

447
00:20:57,350 --> 00:20:54,640
if he were here manning the

448
00:20:59,590 --> 00:20:57,360
manning his office and roaming the halls

449
00:21:01,590 --> 00:20:59,600
with that scenario in mind

450
00:21:04,630 --> 00:21:01,600
here are a few things you might find

451
00:21:08,630 --> 00:21:06,549
he will expect you to be honest and

452
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forthright at all times

453
00:21:12,710 --> 00:21:10,480
and he will be fair

454
00:21:14,390 --> 00:21:12,720
almost to a fault

455
00:21:17,430 --> 00:21:14,400
for example when he was a professor at

456
00:21:20,470 --> 00:21:17,440
the university of cincinnati

457
00:21:23,669 --> 00:21:20,480
he once wrote on a student's paper

458
00:21:28,230 --> 00:21:23,679
did you turn this in late

459
00:21:32,070 --> 00:21:30,470
i don't know actually what happened next

460
00:21:35,110 --> 00:21:32,080
in this case but i'm willing to bet that

461
00:21:39,430 --> 00:21:36,710
if he asked you about something and

462
00:21:42,630 --> 00:21:39,440
you're not prepared and should have been

463
00:21:44,390 --> 00:21:42,640
your best bet might be to stall

464
00:21:47,510 --> 00:21:44,400
my first suggestion is to ask him

465
00:21:49,909 --> 00:21:47,520
something about airplanes

466
00:21:52,230 --> 00:21:49,919
any airplane will do

467
00:21:53,990 --> 00:21:52,240
you might get lucky and get him off on a

468
00:21:55,350 --> 00:21:54,000
tangent so that he forgets his original

469
00:21:56,830 --> 00:21:55,360
question

470
00:21:58,950 --> 00:21:56,840
for a little while

471
00:22:00,789 --> 00:21:58,960
anyway if you've already used the

472
00:22:03,669 --> 00:22:00,799
airplane gambit

473
00:22:05,669 --> 00:22:03,679
you might try something like

474
00:22:08,390 --> 00:22:05,679
can you show me how to do inverse logs

475
00:22:09,909 --> 00:22:08,400
with a slide rule

476
00:22:11,830 --> 00:22:09,919
that should be good for a couple hours

477
00:22:14,470 --> 00:22:11,840
at least

478
00:22:16,630 --> 00:22:14,480
whatever you do don't try to bluff your

479
00:22:20,310 --> 00:22:16,640
way through the issue with him

480
00:22:24,870 --> 00:22:22,789
he will not tell you how to do your job

481
00:22:26,390 --> 00:22:24,880
he won't micromanage you

482
00:22:27,270 --> 00:22:26,400
it will certainly help you if you ask

483
00:22:30,310 --> 00:22:27,280
for it

484
00:22:32,390 --> 00:22:30,320
he won't do your work for you

485
00:22:34,310 --> 00:22:32,400
one possible exception to this

486
00:22:36,070 --> 00:22:34,320
feel free to ask him for help with your

487
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math problems

488
00:22:39,669 --> 00:22:37,679
seriously not only will he explain the

489
00:22:41,110 --> 00:22:39,679
specifics of the problem

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00:22:43,190 --> 00:22:41,120
you are working but he will also make

491
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sure you understand all the underlying

492
00:22:47,110 --> 00:22:45,360
concepts even ones you didn't know

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00:22:48,789 --> 00:22:47,120
applied

494
00:22:51,190 --> 00:22:48,799
i i probably should have mentioned this

495
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as another stall tactic

496
00:22:56,230 --> 00:22:53,760
he won't pretend to know something

497
00:22:58,710 --> 00:22:56,240
about a subject he doesn't and he has no

498
00:23:00,710 --> 00:22:58,720
problem saying i don't know

499
00:23:02,390 --> 00:23:00,720
don't expect that situation to last very

500
00:23:04,710 --> 00:23:02,400
long

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he is a bit of a stickler for accuracy

502
00:23:08,549 --> 00:23:06,320
and precision

503
00:23:10,230 --> 00:23:08,559
so make sure that you are too

504
00:23:11,990 --> 00:23:10,240
although if you're working in this

505
00:23:15,110 --> 00:23:12,000
building i'm pretty sure you've probably

506
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got that concept covered already

507
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having been on the beneficiary of

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superlative work by so many on the

509
00:23:23,990 --> 00:23:21,679
ground in the past he knows how mission

510
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critical that is going forward

511
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and i'm quite sure he would have loved

512
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to have been a part of that for orion

513
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i know we're all very much looking

514
00:23:35,350 --> 00:23:33,280
forward to seeing how that all unfolds

515
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now i'd like to ask my brother mark to

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on behalf of the armstrong family i'd

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like to thank you for this tremendous

518
00:24:00,870 --> 00:23:57,760
honor

519
00:24:02,549 --> 00:24:00,880
this orion vehicle behind us is

520
00:24:04,549 --> 00:24:02,559
truly impressive

521
00:24:06,070 --> 00:24:04,559
and it is our hope

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that the new name that graces this

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00:24:09,590 --> 00:24:07,520
facility

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will inspire us that will inspire those

525
00:24:15,590 --> 00:24:11,520
to work here that work here

526
00:24:19,830 --> 00:24:17,510
on a beautiful florida morning in the

527
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late 1960s

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my father and one of his buddies

529
00:24:26,470 --> 00:24:24,080
one pete conrad

530
00:24:28,070 --> 00:24:26,480
found themselves here at the cape with a

531
00:24:31,510 --> 00:24:28,080
rare opening

532
00:24:33,269 --> 00:24:31,520
in their normally busy schedules

533
00:24:34,710 --> 00:24:33,279
the two of them decided to go water

534
00:24:36,470 --> 00:24:34,720
skiing

535
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and somehow acquired a boat on the

536
00:24:43,990 --> 00:24:41,669
at some point during their adventure

537
00:24:46,870 --> 00:24:44,000
pete was driving

538
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and dad was skiing behind

539
00:24:50,470 --> 00:24:49,279
and i should point out

540
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that

541
00:24:53,909 --> 00:24:53,039
in such a circumstance when you've got

542
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two

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00:24:59,830 --> 00:24:57,360
athletic guys engaged in some sort of

544
00:25:01,830 --> 00:24:59,840
sporting activity

545
00:25:03,669 --> 00:25:01,840
it's perfectly natural and nearly

546
00:25:05,269 --> 00:25:03,679
unavoidable

547
00:25:07,990 --> 00:25:05,279
that a little friendly competition

548
00:25:11,350 --> 00:25:10,070
now it's no secret that pete liked to go

549
00:25:12,950 --> 00:25:11,360
fast

550
00:25:15,190 --> 00:25:12,960
and i suspect that

551
00:25:16,950 --> 00:25:15,200
in a good natured attempt to dump dad in

552
00:25:18,950 --> 00:25:16,960
the river

553
00:25:20,630 --> 00:25:18,960
he was doing his best to both maximize

554
00:25:23,430 --> 00:25:20,640
his velocity

555
00:25:26,789 --> 00:25:23,440
and to maneuver the boat in such a way

556
00:25:28,870 --> 00:25:26,799
as to force dad to jump the wake

557
00:25:33,909 --> 00:25:28,880
and he was most assuredly looking behind

558
00:25:33,919 --> 00:25:43,669
sort of like this

559
00:25:50,950 --> 00:25:47,029
and that is the precise moment

560
00:25:54,870 --> 00:25:51,909
well

561
00:25:56,310 --> 00:25:54,880
word got out that the incident occurred

562
00:25:59,190 --> 00:25:56,320
and some of the guys probably

563
00:26:01,190 --> 00:25:59,200
spearheaded by uh well-known jokester

564
00:26:02,870 --> 00:26:01,200
wali shara

565
00:26:05,830 --> 00:26:02,880
wanted to make sure that

566
00:26:09,029 --> 00:26:05,840
the incident was not forgotten

567
00:26:11,350 --> 00:26:09,039
that it was forever memorialized

568
00:26:13,350 --> 00:26:11,360
and that it had it had happened under

569
00:26:15,750 --> 00:26:13,360
the expertly trained

570
00:26:17,430 --> 00:26:15,760
manual control

571
00:26:19,830 --> 00:26:17,440
of one of the world's most accomplished

572
00:26:21,430 --> 00:26:19,840
pilots

573
00:26:26,950 --> 00:26:21,440
as a result

574
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,310
that's a cue

575
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:39,110
can we get that on the big screen

576
00:26:42,950 --> 00:26:40,870
this painting was commissioned capturing

577
00:26:47,350 --> 00:26:42,960
that the boat was unquestionably run

578
00:26:50,390 --> 00:26:49,029
so to do our part

579
00:26:52,950 --> 00:26:50,400
to honor wally's wishes of

580
00:26:54,789 --> 00:26:52,960
memorialization

581
00:26:57,029 --> 00:26:54,799
we've had this painting restored and

582
00:26:58,710 --> 00:26:57,039
reproduced in jacly

583
00:27:00,470 --> 00:26:58,720
and with light hearts

584
00:27:03,190 --> 00:27:00,480
we hereby give this artist proof to

585
00:27:17,190 --> 00:27:03,200
kennedy space center for permanent safe

586
00:27:20,789 --> 00:27:19,190
the next speaker was a great friend and

587
00:27:22,870 --> 00:27:20,799
colleague of my father's

588
00:27:25,750 --> 00:27:22,880
a fellow naval aviator

589
00:27:27,830 --> 00:27:25,760
and the backup commander for apollo 11.

590
00:27:29,669 --> 00:27:27,840
and i am fortunate enough

591
00:27:30,630 --> 00:27:29,679
to have him as a

592
00:27:33,029 --> 00:27:30,640
friend

593
00:27:35,350 --> 00:27:33,039
and a trusted advisor

594
00:27:38,789 --> 00:27:35,360
a stalwart of gemini and apollo

595
00:27:41,430 --> 00:27:38,799
he flew four times on germany 7 and 12

596
00:27:43,350 --> 00:27:41,440
and apollo 8 and 13.

597
00:27:45,909 --> 00:27:43,360
it is well chronicled that

598
00:27:48,789 --> 00:27:45,919
during apollo 13

599
00:27:50,149 --> 00:27:48,799
he used a mirror to look out the window

600
00:27:52,149 --> 00:27:50,159
and behind

601
00:27:55,669 --> 00:27:52,159
to observe evidence

602
00:27:57,990 --> 00:27:55,679
of an oxygen tank explosion

603
00:27:59,830 --> 00:27:58,000
a mirror that is now permanently affixed

604
00:28:01,909 --> 00:27:59,840
above the water fountain

605
00:28:05,269 --> 00:28:01,919
in the old mission control room at

606
00:28:10,950 --> 00:28:07,990
fortunately for all of us

607
00:28:12,950 --> 00:28:10,960
pete conrad used no such device

608
00:28:14,310 --> 00:28:12,960
to look behind him so many years ago on

609
00:28:15,990 --> 00:28:14,320
the banana river

610
00:28:18,070 --> 00:28:16,000
or we would have had no story to share

611
00:28:30,149 --> 00:28:18,080
this morning

612
00:28:35,350 --> 00:28:32,470
thanks mark i'm going to hire him to be

613
00:28:37,430 --> 00:28:35,360
my pr agent here

614
00:28:39,350 --> 00:28:37,440
neil armstrong was a

615
00:28:42,549 --> 00:28:39,360
close friend

616
00:28:46,230 --> 00:28:42,559
and an icon that i think represented

617
00:28:51,590 --> 00:28:49,669
i first met neil 52 years ago

618
00:28:54,310 --> 00:28:51,600
we were the second group

619
00:28:57,110 --> 00:28:54,320
of nine astronauts that met secretly

620
00:29:01,909 --> 00:28:57,120
under the name of max peck

621
00:29:03,990 --> 00:29:01,919
at the rice hotel in houston in 1962.

622
00:29:07,750 --> 00:29:04,000
now when the rest of us discovered that

623
00:29:09,430 --> 00:29:07,760
neil was already a nasa employee

624
00:29:11,669 --> 00:29:09,440
we knew there was going to be tough

625
00:29:13,110 --> 00:29:11,679
competition ahead

626
00:29:15,110 --> 00:29:13,120
but

627
00:29:17,750 --> 00:29:15,120
neil was a team player

628
00:29:20,149 --> 00:29:17,760
and over the years his engineering

629
00:29:21,830 --> 00:29:20,159
expertise contributed much

630
00:29:24,389 --> 00:29:21,840
to the success

631
00:29:26,389 --> 00:29:24,399
of our space program

632
00:29:29,510 --> 00:29:26,399
neil and i spent a week together in

633
00:29:32,070 --> 00:29:29,520
pensacola learned to fly helicopters

634
00:29:34,310 --> 00:29:32,080
i suspected that he had some previous

635
00:29:35,909 --> 00:29:34,320
experience and he only kind of laughed

636
00:29:39,190 --> 00:29:35,919
when it took me some time to figure out

637
00:29:41,750 --> 00:29:39,200
how to control that machine

638
00:29:43,430 --> 00:29:41,760
on our way home

639
00:29:44,710 --> 00:29:43,440
we learned that president kennedy was

640
00:29:47,269 --> 00:29:44,720
killed

641
00:29:51,110 --> 00:29:47,279
and we wondered at that time

642
00:29:53,269 --> 00:29:51,120
what that would do to our program

643
00:29:54,950 --> 00:29:53,279
i was one of the capsule communicators

644
00:29:57,669 --> 00:29:54,960
when neil and dave scott sailed

645
00:29:59,190 --> 00:29:57,679
peacefully out of radio range on apollo

646
00:30:02,870 --> 00:29:59,200
8

647
00:30:04,950 --> 00:30:02,880
only to return in deep trouble

648
00:30:07,430 --> 00:30:04,960
and i was assigned to neil's apollo 11

649
00:30:08,710 --> 00:30:07,440
flight until i replaced mike collins on

650
00:30:10,789 --> 00:30:08,720
apollo 8

651
00:30:13,430 --> 00:30:10,799
and then i became neil's backup

652
00:30:17,669 --> 00:30:16,149
in the later years our association

653
00:30:20,710 --> 00:30:17,679
grew closer

654
00:30:24,470 --> 00:30:20,720
when neal and gene cernan and i visited

655
00:30:27,029 --> 00:30:24,480
the troops in iraq and afghanistan

656
00:30:29,350 --> 00:30:27,039
and he didn't hesitate to speak up

657
00:30:32,389 --> 00:30:29,360
when he felt the space program was

658
00:30:35,269 --> 00:30:32,399
headed in the wrong direction

659
00:30:37,029 --> 00:30:35,279
neal never capitalized on a celebrity

660
00:30:38,710 --> 00:30:37,039
he always felt

661
00:30:41,269 --> 00:30:38,720
that he was part of the team of

662
00:30:42,470 --> 00:30:41,279
thousands of people working together

663
00:30:45,029 --> 00:30:42,480
to honor

664
00:30:46,950 --> 00:30:45,039
president kennedy's commitment

665
00:30:48,389 --> 00:30:46,960
so i also think it's

666
00:30:50,230 --> 00:30:48,399
very fitting

667
00:30:53,669 --> 00:30:50,240
that this operations and checkout

668
00:31:09,909 --> 00:30:53,679
building be named in the honor of neil

669
00:31:09,919 --> 00:31:13,590
just hold on

670
00:31:18,710 --> 00:31:15,990
you're gonna do it

671
00:31:21,190 --> 00:31:18,720
that was my job to introduce

672
00:31:23,110 --> 00:31:21,200
mr buzz aldrin who he and i flew

673
00:31:24,950 --> 00:31:23,120
together on germany 12

674
00:31:27,830 --> 00:31:24,960
and was very comfortable of course and

675
00:31:40,070 --> 00:31:27,840
everybody knows him on apollo 11. buzz

676
00:31:44,070 --> 00:31:42,389
my first memory

677
00:31:47,509 --> 00:31:44,080
of neil

678
00:31:50,549 --> 00:31:47,519
was shortly after i

679
00:31:51,669 --> 00:31:50,559
moved down to houston and i was visiting

680
00:31:54,149 --> 00:31:51,679
my uh

681
00:31:56,230 --> 00:31:54,159
good friend from west point ed white

682
00:31:59,590 --> 00:31:56,240
over at his house

683
00:32:02,710 --> 00:31:59,600
which was right next door to niels

684
00:32:04,470 --> 00:32:02,720
and and i saw this guy roller skating

685
00:32:07,669 --> 00:32:04,480
around

686
00:32:12,549 --> 00:32:07,679
in the driveway and i said who's that

687
00:32:20,470 --> 00:32:15,590
you can never tell what neil is going to

688
00:32:25,029 --> 00:32:20,480
do he's very surprising he's right there

689
00:32:31,509 --> 00:32:29,509
he and i worked together so closely on

690
00:32:35,430 --> 00:32:31,519
the backup crew

691
00:32:41,029 --> 00:32:38,230
and in

692
00:32:42,630 --> 00:32:41,039
some ways i was backing up

693
00:32:44,789 --> 00:32:42,640
jim

694
00:32:47,509 --> 00:32:44,799
on apollo 8 whether

695
00:32:48,789 --> 00:32:47,519
he remembered it or not

696
00:32:51,190 --> 00:32:48,799
of course

697
00:32:54,389 --> 00:32:51,200
he had

698
00:32:58,950 --> 00:32:54,399
put me through the paces on

699
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,710
it was

700
00:33:06,870 --> 00:33:04,870
a great

701
00:33:10,630 --> 00:33:06,880
pleasure for

702
00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:10,640
me to learn many years after

703
00:33:13,909 --> 00:33:12,000
that

704
00:33:16,470 --> 00:33:13,919
the commander of

705
00:33:17,509 --> 00:33:16,480
apollo 8 had been offered

706
00:33:18,950 --> 00:33:17,519
the

707
00:33:20,549 --> 00:33:18,960
commander

708
00:33:24,789 --> 00:33:20,559
position on

709
00:33:27,029 --> 00:33:24,799
apollo 8 apollo 11 the first landing

710
00:33:32,870 --> 00:33:27,039
he turned it down

711
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,909
i don't think

712
00:33:42,549 --> 00:33:38,870
bill anders and

713
00:33:46,149 --> 00:33:42,559
jim really appreciated that

714
00:33:49,430 --> 00:33:46,159
it was only recently that i learned that

715
00:33:52,950 --> 00:33:49,440
apollo 11 probably was not

716
00:33:55,990 --> 00:33:52,960
going to be the first landing the lem 5

717
00:33:56,789 --> 00:33:56,000
that we flew was overweight

718
00:33:59,430 --> 00:33:56,799
and

719
00:34:01,190 --> 00:33:59,440
in the 6 70s

720
00:34:08,230 --> 00:34:01,200
and

721
00:34:11,669 --> 00:34:08,240
mid-october

722
00:34:13,349 --> 00:34:11,679
of 69 and lem 6

723
00:34:14,950 --> 00:34:13,359
was going to do it and the cruise

724
00:34:17,030 --> 00:34:14,960
probably would have

725
00:34:19,030 --> 00:34:17,040
ended up the same and it would have been

726
00:34:20,710 --> 00:34:19,040
pete conrad

727
00:34:23,510 --> 00:34:20,720
instead of neil

728
00:34:28,069 --> 00:34:25,750
i've been known to have been in the

729
00:34:32,470 --> 00:34:28,079
right place

730
00:34:35,270 --> 00:34:33,829
and having

731
00:34:38,550 --> 00:34:35,280
neil

732
00:34:40,470 --> 00:34:38,560
after apollo 8 specifically

733
00:34:42,149 --> 00:34:40,480
when questioned

734
00:34:45,510 --> 00:34:42,159
asked

735
00:34:48,710 --> 00:34:45,520
if he wanted me to go with him

736
00:34:51,030 --> 00:34:48,720
and he said yes and i will be ever ever

737
00:34:54,389 --> 00:34:51,040
grateful

738
00:34:55,990 --> 00:34:54,399
i didn't know much about test pilot

739
00:34:58,950 --> 00:34:56,000
training because i hadn't been through a

740
00:35:00,950 --> 00:34:58,960
test pilot training before

741
00:35:03,430 --> 00:35:00,960
i was selected

742
00:35:05,589 --> 00:35:03,440
but then i commanded the test pilot

743
00:35:08,470 --> 00:35:05,599
school afterward not exactly what i

744
00:35:11,670 --> 00:35:08,480
wanted but i learned what test pilots

745
00:35:13,990 --> 00:35:11,680
were all about

746
00:35:17,990 --> 00:35:14,000
and that man

747
00:35:21,510 --> 00:35:18,000
without a doubt was one of the best

748
00:35:22,550 --> 00:35:21,520
certainly the best test pilot i feel

749
00:35:24,310 --> 00:35:22,560
that was

750
00:35:27,589 --> 00:35:24,320
selected for

751
00:35:28,870 --> 00:35:27,599
the nasa program

752
00:35:31,030 --> 00:35:28,880
i always

753
00:35:33,670 --> 00:35:31,040
i hate to always point things that are

754
00:35:39,750 --> 00:35:33,680
wrong but in your program it says

755
00:35:41,510 --> 00:35:39,760
my name is edwin quote buzz aldrin jr

756
00:35:47,109 --> 00:35:41,520
in 1903

757
00:35:50,470 --> 00:35:48,470
and i've been

758
00:35:54,550 --> 00:35:50,480
thinking of

759
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,470
light year

760
00:36:02,870 --> 00:36:00,870
the guy

761
00:36:06,950 --> 00:36:02,880
who

762
00:36:09,030 --> 00:36:06,960
brought us there and brought us back

763
00:36:22,390 --> 00:36:09,040
i'm very pleased to

764
00:36:26,950 --> 00:36:24,230
thank thank you

765
00:36:29,270 --> 00:36:26,960
charlie bolden and bob cabana

766
00:36:30,550 --> 00:36:29,280
i wish i could have snuck aboard uh one

767
00:36:32,870 --> 00:36:30,560
of your

768
00:36:36,550 --> 00:36:32,880
shuttle flights but all i could do was

769
00:36:38,069 --> 00:36:36,560
watch and admire the majesty of that

770
00:36:40,230 --> 00:36:38,079
great machine

771
00:36:42,310 --> 00:36:40,240
and the knowledge and the dedication

772
00:36:44,390 --> 00:36:42,320
with which you folks here

773
00:36:48,950 --> 00:36:44,400
prepared it for flight

774
00:36:55,990 --> 00:36:52,310
thank all of you for working here i uh

775
00:36:57,589 --> 00:36:56,000
i see a few old friends out there

776
00:37:00,710 --> 00:36:57,599
and uh

777
00:37:04,710 --> 00:37:00,720
if i know you you must really be old

778
00:37:10,790 --> 00:37:09,270
janet not you ever young

779
00:37:13,030 --> 00:37:10,800
also thank you

780
00:37:15,030 --> 00:37:13,040
for putting me last in this sequence of

781
00:37:17,589 --> 00:37:15,040
speakers

782
00:37:20,870 --> 00:37:17,599
not that i would ever make fun

783
00:37:22,550 --> 00:37:20,880
of jim or buzz but if i should slip

784
00:37:25,670 --> 00:37:22,560
they'll have no chance

785
00:37:28,390 --> 00:37:25,680
for rebuttal today

786
00:37:31,510 --> 00:37:28,400
you know lovell and aldr and i

787
00:37:32,950 --> 00:37:31,520
i always remember them as the gemini 12

788
00:37:35,510 --> 00:37:32,960
crew

789
00:37:38,550 --> 00:37:35,520
the capstone of that little gem of a

790
00:37:43,349 --> 00:37:38,560
program that you guys ran out on uh pad

791
00:37:47,910 --> 00:37:45,829
germany the successful bridge between

792
00:37:52,310 --> 00:37:47,920
mercury and apollo

793
00:37:54,470 --> 00:37:52,320
ah yes and jim and buzz germany 12 what

794
00:37:56,470 --> 00:37:54,480
memories

795
00:37:59,750 --> 00:37:56,480
i can't remember whether either of them

796
00:38:01,109 --> 00:37:59,760
ever went on to apollo

797
00:38:05,190 --> 00:38:01,119
but

798
00:38:09,670 --> 00:38:07,750
jim served his

799
00:38:16,470 --> 00:38:09,680
back up on the

800
00:38:34,550 --> 00:38:20,390
and

801
00:38:37,109 --> 00:38:34,560
he wants everyone in the world to get on

802
00:38:39,190 --> 00:38:37,119
the internet and explain to him

803
00:38:40,230 --> 00:38:39,200
what happened that day

804
00:38:44,390 --> 00:38:40,240
i've

805
00:38:45,510 --> 00:38:44,400
no luck i can't remember where i was

806
00:38:47,910 --> 00:38:45,520
that day

807
00:38:53,430 --> 00:38:51,190
but neil in the uh

808
00:38:55,030 --> 00:38:53,440
in the early 60s i was

809
00:38:57,670 --> 00:38:55,040
in the air force

810
00:38:59,030 --> 00:38:57,680
assigned to fighter test out at

811
00:39:01,030 --> 00:38:59,040
edwards

812
00:39:03,430 --> 00:39:01,040
while neil was at the other end of the

813
00:39:06,790 --> 00:39:03,440
flight line in what was then called the

814
00:39:08,390 --> 00:39:06,800
nasa flight research center

815
00:39:09,990 --> 00:39:08,400
now known as the

816
00:39:11,829 --> 00:39:10,000
guess what

817
00:39:14,630 --> 00:39:11,839
uh

818
00:39:16,150 --> 00:39:14,640
neil was one of the x-15 pilots a small

819
00:39:18,390 --> 00:39:16,160
elite group which

820
00:39:21,589 --> 00:39:18,400
flew the rocket ship to

821
00:39:23,829 --> 00:39:21,599
mach 5 or 6 and several hundred

822
00:39:25,910 --> 00:39:23,839
thousand feet

823
00:39:28,790 --> 00:39:25,920
even in this tight group i thought neal

824
00:39:30,630 --> 00:39:28,800
stood out he had the reputation

825
00:39:33,030 --> 00:39:30,640
of being the one

826
00:39:34,470 --> 00:39:33,040
with the deepest and best understanding

827
00:39:35,829 --> 00:39:34,480
of that machine

828
00:39:39,270 --> 00:39:35,839
its design

829
00:39:43,750 --> 00:39:39,280
and how it should be tested

830
00:39:45,829 --> 00:39:43,760
as a kid neil built model airplanes

831
00:39:48,870 --> 00:39:45,839
like a lot of us did

832
00:39:51,589 --> 00:39:48,880
but he took it a step further

833
00:39:53,750 --> 00:39:51,599
and built a wind tunnel

834
00:39:55,430 --> 00:39:53,760
a wind tunnel to measure and improve his

835
00:39:58,790 --> 00:39:55,440
designs he later

836
00:40:02,069 --> 00:39:58,800
applied that powerful combination

837
00:40:05,349 --> 00:40:02,079
of curiosity and intelligence to his

838
00:40:07,910 --> 00:40:05,359
work as an experimental test pilot

839
00:40:09,109 --> 00:40:07,920
flying new jet fighters

840
00:40:12,550 --> 00:40:09,119
gemini

841
00:40:14,230 --> 00:40:12,560
the lltv you remember the lunar landing

842
00:40:17,750 --> 00:40:14,240
test vehicle

843
00:40:23,349 --> 00:40:20,230
i think we all remember neil's one small

844
00:40:27,589 --> 00:40:25,510
but i don't think that really explains

845
00:40:30,470 --> 00:40:27,599
the man sure he um

846
00:40:33,829 --> 00:40:30,480
a few model airplanes but he also built

847
00:40:37,910 --> 00:40:33,839
a wind tunnel how many kids do that

848
00:40:41,750 --> 00:40:37,920
he he took the process one step further

849
00:40:45,030 --> 00:40:41,760
again that powerful powerful combination

850
00:40:47,030 --> 00:40:45,040
of curiosity and intelligence

851
00:40:49,750 --> 00:40:47,040
propelled him to the top of his

852
00:40:55,670 --> 00:40:53,030
over and over again he took it one step

853
00:40:57,750 --> 00:40:55,680
further and that eventually brought him

854
00:40:59,910 --> 00:40:57,760
to the last rung on the ladder of the

855
00:41:02,390 --> 00:40:59,920
apollo 11 limb

856
00:41:03,910 --> 00:41:02,400
okay if you prefer call it one small

857
00:41:07,430 --> 00:41:03,920
step but add

858
00:41:09,030 --> 00:41:07,440
one step further because that was neil's

859
00:41:10,069 --> 00:41:09,040
way

860
00:41:14,630 --> 00:41:10,079
if

861
00:41:16,950 --> 00:41:14,640
would enjoy

862
00:41:19,670 --> 00:41:16,960
prowling around this building every

863
00:41:22,790 --> 00:41:19,680
every nook and cranny

864
00:41:25,910 --> 00:41:22,800
more than anyone else i have known i

865
00:41:28,470 --> 00:41:25,920
felt he had an intuitive grasp of flight

866
00:41:31,190 --> 00:41:28,480
machinery and its complexity

867
00:41:32,950 --> 00:41:31,200
and of the intricate knowledge required

868
00:41:36,870 --> 00:41:32,960
by you

869
00:41:49,510 --> 00:41:36,880
in the jobs that you perform here daily

870
00:41:55,190 --> 00:41:52,470
he probably liked hangers

871
00:41:57,829 --> 00:41:55,200
better than office buildings but he was

872
00:41:59,670 --> 00:41:57,839
certainly good in either venue

873
00:42:02,150 --> 00:41:59,680
he wasn't out on the rubber chicken

874
00:42:03,270 --> 00:42:02,160
circuit as frequently as some wanted him

875
00:42:04,950 --> 00:42:03,280
to be

876
00:42:07,030 --> 00:42:04,960
but get him airborne in one of your

877
00:42:08,630 --> 00:42:07,040
machines and he was in a class by

878
00:42:11,670 --> 00:42:08,640
himself

879
00:42:14,309 --> 00:42:11,680
i very much like the fact that his name

880
00:42:16,870 --> 00:42:14,319
will be on this building

881
00:42:19,349 --> 00:42:16,880
he would not have sought this honor that

882
00:42:22,950 --> 00:42:19,359
was not his style but i think he would

883
00:42:28,630 --> 00:42:25,670
so closely associated with this the

884
00:42:30,950 --> 00:42:28,640
heart and the soul of the space business

885
00:42:31,910 --> 00:42:30,960
on neal's behalf

886
00:42:53,750 --> 00:42:31,920
thank you

887
00:42:56,230 --> 00:42:53,760
jim buzz mike

888
00:42:58,870 --> 00:42:56,240
rick and mark for being part of this i i

889
00:43:00,550 --> 00:42:58,880
really appreciate you coming out uh it

890
00:43:02,710 --> 00:43:00,560
is a special place it's a special

891
00:43:04,309 --> 00:43:02,720
building and i uh i can't think of

892
00:43:06,630 --> 00:43:04,319
anybody better

893
00:43:09,670 --> 00:43:06,640
whose name could be on it than than neil

894
00:43:11,910 --> 00:43:09,680
armstrong he was quite an individual and

895
00:43:15,030 --> 00:43:11,920
i just i'm really pleased to be a part

896
00:43:17,589 --> 00:43:15,040
of this today this concludes our event