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good morning everyone i'm roy malone the

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director of the michoud assembly

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facility

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and i will be your master of ceremonies

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for today's event

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thank you all for taking time out of

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your day to come and help us celebrate

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this milestone

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in our nation's space exploration

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program

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a special thanks goes to senator vitter

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congressman palazzo

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mayor landrieu and all our local state

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and government representatives and our

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local community leaders and especially

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our contractor and civil service team

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that help make today possible

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today's ribbing cutting on the vertical

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assembly center tool behind me

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signifies the final installation of all

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the major tools

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required to build the core stage of our

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nation's next great spaceship

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the space launch system we are now ready

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to begin welding the massive core stage

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putting it all together and testing it

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and getting it down to the cape

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in order to take our next step on our

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journey to mars

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it is an amazing piece of equipment and

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i'm proud to be here today

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to celeste break this milestone with all

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now will you please stand

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for the 2007 grammy award winner and

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four-time grammy nominee

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member of the louisiana music hall of

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fame

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who will be singing today's national

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anthem

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the sole queen of new orleans

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oh say can you see

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by the dawn's early light

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what so proudly we hail

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at the twilight's last gleaming

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whose broad stripes and bright stars

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through the

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perilous fight

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or the ramparts we watched were so

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gallantly streaming

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and the rockets red glare

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the bombs bursting in air

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gay proof

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through the night

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that our flag was still there

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oh say does that star-spangled

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and the home

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of the

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thank you so very much

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wow that was absolutely fantastic

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thank you miss thomas

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for that staggering and truly

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appropriate rendition

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now i'd like to take like to introduce

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you to the mayor of new orleans

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welcome sir

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appreciate it

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wow that's the first word

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that comes to mind as i stand in the

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shadow

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of this magnificent structure that is

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such an incredible symbol

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about who we are as a country and what

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we want to be as a people i want to

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help welcome

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u.s senator david vitter i know senator

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landrieu couldn't be here but her staff

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is with us

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representative palazzo thank you so much

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to general major bolden and to roy

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and to all of the dignitaries that are

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with us today

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irma thank you so much

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for that beautiful rendition of the

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star-spangled banner

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we take a moment to mourn

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the death of kasimo matasa

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who in the in the world of art and music

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was one of the best engineers

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of the sound that has produced the

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incredible culture of new orleans it has

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helped uh careers like irma thomas and

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so many other people

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part of the fabric of what makes new

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orleans such a great place art

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music

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engineering science all of those things

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fold together today

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as we step into the future and so i'm

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just so excited to be here nassau is

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such an important part

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of who we are as a nation and of course

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the nassau

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mission assembly facility in new orleans

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has been such an incredible part of our

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space exploration and what we do as a

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country the city of new orleans right

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now is this nation's most immediate

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laboratory for innovation and change and

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as we talk about manufacturing because

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we talk about science as we talk about

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space the city of new orleans in this

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facility and the people here and our

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partnership with all of the other fellow

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americans across the gulf coast and

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across the nation that have made this

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day possible

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we should all be very proud of the work

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that has been done by everybody as you

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stand behind us and look at this

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structure

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it is a skyscraper literally and it had

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to be designated as such this is going

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of course to be the tool that helps

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produce

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the parts that are necessary

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to take us to places that we have never

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been before and i can't think of a

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greater symbol

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for where the city of new orleans is

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in her history as we suffered

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from the devastation from 911 from

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katrina from rita from ike from gustav

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from the national oil spill uh to the

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national recession the people of new

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orleans said we were not going to quit

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and as we talked about re-engineering

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our lives we never built it back like it

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was with an eye towards the past we're

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beginning to build towards the future

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the way we should have always been and

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there's no greater symbol for our reach

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than this piece of equipment that stands

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behind us so as new orleans celebrates

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uh the investments that we made from the

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beginning of new orleans when andrew

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jackson uh won the battle of new orleans

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we built the higgins boats that helped

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win world war ii and right here we begin

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the march to the next great uh

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exploration in space which general i

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know will occur in 2018 which

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incidentally is a 300th anniversary of

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the great city of new orleans as we

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forge not only a great remembrance of

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our past but we begin to lay the

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foundation for our future and this is a

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wonderful symbol

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and a concrete example of how we are

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going to win this battle for the future

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so god bless you all thank you all so

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very much and we look forward to this

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thank you mary outlander

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now it is my honor to introduce our nasa

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administrator

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former astronaut

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thank you all very much

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senator

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merely andrew thanks so much for your

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remarks and for coming out senator

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vitter thanks to you for coming

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congressman palazzo this is a big day

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the vertical assembly center is the

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final major tool

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uh completed at michoud assembly

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facility and this state-of-the-art

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tooling will weld together the massive

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sls is a game changer you've heard

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you heard merely andrew talk about this

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is the beginning of the trip to mars and

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everything you've seen around here talks

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about that um i know there are at least

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two kids here

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um you know and they belong to patricia

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key who we recognized earlier today

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the boeing vehicle the boeing

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vehicle vertical assembly center project

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manager and she was recognized with a

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silver snoopy just earlier has her

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family here

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what we're talking about here is for

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those kids and we all need to remember

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that this is not for any of us sitting

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here today what we're doing and what

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we're about is for for the young people

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we're on our way to mars and i really

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mean that the state of louisiana the

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city of new orleans along with

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neighboring states

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are a key part of building sls

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the core stage is the heart of the space

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so new orleans michoud assembly facility

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is the lifeblood building the heart of

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america's next rocket

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to give you a sense of its size uh you

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200 feet long the core stage is 46 feet

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longer than the et so it's big

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it's a big day for us because just two

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rolled orion out and if you look at the

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big diagram over there orion's the

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little thing at the top that's where the

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astronauts are going to be mark geyer is

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um the neil armstrong operations in

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checkout building across the kennedy

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for its first flight in december this

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december not december next year december

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that's significant because it will be

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the first time in more than 40 years

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that this great nation of ours

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you know has ever built and launched a

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vehicle intended to carry humans beyond

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low earth orbit that's a big big deal

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and as i said earlier the people of new

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orleans and this vicinity you should

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stick your chest out

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every single time somebody says where do

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you live what's near you and say i'm the

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i'm from the machu community and we're

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building the rocket that's going to take

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humans to mars and that is a big big

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the core stage is the heart of sls

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and it's like i said just as new orleans

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and michoud are essential to achieving

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america's great giant next giant leap

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nasa just recently completed rigorous

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technical and programmatic review of the

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space launch system and it passed with

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flying colors in fact no other

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exploration class space vehicle has

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progressed as far as sls

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since we built the space shuttle that

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and earlier this week the launch

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facilities needed to get this rocket off

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the ground passed a similar rigorous

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review marking additional progress on

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these deep space exploration systems

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this rocket again is a game changer for

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deep space exploration and will launch

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to investigate asteroids and explore the

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surface of mars while opening new

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possibilities for science missions as

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primary structure as well was welded at

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that spacecraft will make its debut

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again in space this december on

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exploration flight test one the

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spacecraft's first flight to space

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astronauts eventually will travel in

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orion to an asteroid and then on to mars

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and it all begins

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right here at machu i see the mirror

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smiling down there and i'm glad to see

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the mirror smiling everybody else in

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this audience who's from this area ought

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to be smiling too it all begins right

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here now congressman palazzo and i have

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a we have an understanding nothing goes

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to space that doesn't go through

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mississippi

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because that's where all the engines get

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tested so i haven't forgotten marie

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all right semper fi

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together nasa and boeing and their

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supporting contractors are providing 600

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jobs in the construction of the core

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stage right here this facility's

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features

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also have attracted other federal

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agencies and private companies making

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michoud a multi-tenant campus that

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directly employs about 3 500 people i

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call this a federal city it's it's very

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similar to several other centers that we

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have and rory malone and his folk here i

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mean you know we're talking about the

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mayor

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of a federal city got a big job that he

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has to do

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that's the kind of real world impact we

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get from exploration in addition to the

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inspiration and hardware that's helping

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us craft our journey to mars

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i want to thank the workforce here i

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really really really want to thank the

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workforce here for their exceptional

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effort on this project and encourage

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everyone to follow the progress of sls

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it's going to be an exciting story

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i want to congratulate mayor landrieu

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again

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facility director roy malone and

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everyone who has helped us create this

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cutting edge tool and move us farther

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along in our journey

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today

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we witness a major milestone for the

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program and more proof that that the

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design of america's fir next great

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rocket is mature enough for production

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i want to acknowledge the bipartisan

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support that we've gotten from our

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congress

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that brought us here today that's no

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small feat

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in today's environment but we have

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continued to have bipartisan support on

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this and other space programs and i i

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really look forward to continuing that

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but it's going to take a lot of work on

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our part and a lot of work on the part

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of the congress so i look forward to

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continuing our work there

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now i'd like to introduce a person who's

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really been a friend of the space

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program for some time and that's senator

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david vitter who represents the great

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state of louisiana in the u.s senate

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thank you mr administrator

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well

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the mayor was certainly right wow

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but there's only one thing more

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impressive than this piece of equipment

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this structure

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and that's the team the human team

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that designed it and built it and will

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use it to work on

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and i'm so proud of that entire team

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i was a very small part of that team

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particularly when i was the top ranking

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republican on the space subcommittee we

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passed the last nasa reauthorization

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bill that that got us through that low

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point put us back on track toward this

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program

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uh but the rest of the team members are

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just outstanding of course it starts

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with nasa all of nasa so thank you mr

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administrator and patrick sherman and

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all of nasa here and around the country

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certainly involves the key contractors

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on this and other programs ginger barnes

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thank you and boeing and all of the

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contractors who make this possible this

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program this feat is only possible

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because of private industry as well it

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involves a lot of other political

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partners and stakeholders here thanks to

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all of you

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but really the members of the team i'm

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most proud of i'm maybe a little biased

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and parochial but it's the workforce

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that the administrator referenced right

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here at michoud and there isn't a better

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workforce at any nasa facility any

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i'll never forget visiting here soon

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after katrina hearing about all the

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members of the workforce who stayed here

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defended this campus and saved the

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taxpayer untold millions of fighting the

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flood event

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that day i was presented with a

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beautiful plaque that was made out of a

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tree that broke during katrina declaring

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this site fort missou it was during

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katrina

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and i still have that plaque display it

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proudly very very proudly in my office

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i'll never forget talking to so many of

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the workforce here particularly during

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the low point of the nasa program when

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we were full of uncertainty and concern

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quite frankly for the future but that

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workforce stuck it out and stayed here

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for the future and as we came out of

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that with the sls program i i visited

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then as well including the last time i

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was here was also with the administrator

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for an event here where we talked

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to the astronauts

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on the space station via his cell phone

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another wow moment who would have

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thought about that

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and certainly

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i look forward to the many

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further bright spots and important

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moments here to celebrate with the

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workforce thanks to all of you for

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everything

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you do

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you can absolutely hold your head proud

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and later on in life when kids or

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grandkids ask you know what did you do

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in your work life dad or grandpa

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you have a pretty darn good answer

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i helped build the biggest

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rocket in human history

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that took the longest flights in human

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history

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thank you senator federer

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i'd now like to introduce

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the chairman of the house science

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committee

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senator

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or correction

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yeah

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the honorable stephen palazzo

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roy i appreciate the promotion by the

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way but but we do have a senator in

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mississippi his name is thad cochran and

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he's also

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a huge supporter of america's space

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exploration program

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at a fundamental level

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space exploration the mission of nasa is

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about inspiration

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this inspiration fuels our desire to

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push the boundaries

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of the possible and reach beyond our own

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pale blue dot the space launch system

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will be the most powerful rocket ever

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built and will carry humanity into the

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next phase of the exploration of our

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solar system

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this critical asset is the essential

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component of our future deep space human

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exploration efforts

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the sls is not it's not just drawings on

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a sketch pad it is real

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you can see the hardware being built and

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the components being assembled

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the rs-25 engines that will be tested

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down the road at stennis space center

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and the core of the rocket that will be

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assembled here at michoud in the next

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couple of years represent the progress

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that is being made toward our goal of

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sending humans to mars

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we are working hard in congress to keep

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this program on schedule and on budget

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in tough times like these it is always a

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challenge but human space flight speaks

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of who we are as americans we are

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explorers

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as chairman of the space subcommittee i

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am committed to ensuring the sls gets

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the support it needs to be successful

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the hard-working men and women here at

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michoud and down the road at stennis are

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the embodiment of everything that space

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exploration represents they are nasa and

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they are the future of our exploration

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efforts

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i want to thank administrator bolden my

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good friend maureen semper fi thank you

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for mentioning stennis the path to space

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will go through

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mississippi

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uh for his visit here today and i look

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forward to continuing our work uh with

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you with the senator

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from louisiana to make sure nasa's human

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exploration program remains strong thank

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you for allowing me to be here thank you

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thank you congressman palazzo

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thank you gentlemen now it's my pleasure

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to introduce

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nasa astronaut patrick forrester

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who flew on the three space shuttle

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missions and has logged more than 950

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hours in space

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including four space walks totaling over

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25 hours of eva time

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well 32 days ago there were eight

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very excited young men and women

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standing right where you're sitting

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snapping pictures taking selfies with

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the bac and dreaming of going to space

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one day

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now those same eight astronaut

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candidates today find themselves out in

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the wilderness near lander wyoming

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as they're trekking through some pretty

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harsh terrain on the wind river mountain

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where nasa is testing their

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physical toughness their mental

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toughness their ability to work as a

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team

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their ability to explore and conquer

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that

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small area

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of wyoming

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and why are they doing that and so much

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more

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because one day they want to be on top

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of the sls hurtling into space

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and whether it's a trans lunar mission

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or an asteroid mission

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or perhaps even to mars

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it's why we do what we do

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and i have the privilege of representing

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those eight young people today as their

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supervisor and the person that takes

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them through

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as our administrator mentioned this is

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the first time in 40 years our nation

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has

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made this type of cost and schedule

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commitment to a heavy-lift vehicle

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and our administrator myself kent

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rominger maybe someone else in the room

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i've missed has had the opportunity

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to fly into space aboard that space

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shuttle that very space shuttle

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and we did some amazing things with it

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to include building our current

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international space station

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and we're getting some amazing science

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out of that but in the end as important

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as that science is it's not the main

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reason we go to exploit space we go to

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explore

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exploration is the expression of the

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human will beyond earth

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and it's really why we do what we do

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and so i'm here to thank everyone that

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has put their heart and soul

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into both this vac as we get ready to do

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00:25:16,149 --> 00:25:14,000
the ribbon cutting and into the sls to

569
00:25:17,190 --> 00:25:16,159
make that possible that we would once

570
00:25:20,470 --> 00:25:17,200
again

571
00:25:22,070 --> 00:25:20,480
go off uh beyond low earth orbit so

572
00:25:24,549 --> 00:25:22,080
thank you for all you do and for the

573
00:25:26,710 --> 00:25:24,559
opportunity to represent all of those in

574
00:25:36,310 --> 00:25:26,720
the astronaut corps that dream of going

575
00:25:40,149 --> 00:25:37,830
thank you patrick

576
00:25:42,870 --> 00:25:40,159
before i introduce our next speaker

577
00:25:45,190 --> 00:25:42,880
let's watch a short video of the amazing

578
00:25:46,149 --> 00:25:45,200
progress seen here over the last two

579
00:25:58,470 --> 00:25:46,159
years

580
00:26:02,070 --> 00:26:00,149
recently the space launch system

581
00:26:04,390 --> 00:26:02,080
received authorization from the agency

582
00:26:06,310 --> 00:26:04,400
to proceed into the implementation phase

583
00:26:09,430 --> 00:26:06,320
this means that the path for the future

584
00:26:11,590 --> 00:26:09,440
of sos has been paved so the sls is

585
00:26:13,190 --> 00:26:11,600
really excited about our core stage it

586
00:26:15,430 --> 00:26:13,200
is what's happening right now in our

587
00:26:17,350 --> 00:26:15,440
program the installation of the vehicle

588
00:26:19,350 --> 00:26:17,360
assembly center at map is an important

589
00:26:20,950 --> 00:26:19,360
part of our mission the focus here at

590
00:26:23,590 --> 00:26:20,960
the michoud assembly facility in new

591
00:26:25,430 --> 00:26:23,600
orleans louisiana is factory readiness

592
00:26:27,590 --> 00:26:25,440
we're looking at weld operations coming

593
00:26:30,310 --> 00:26:27,600
online construction of facilities still

594
00:26:32,310 --> 00:26:30,320
ongoing and bringing online the assembly

595
00:26:34,070 --> 00:26:32,320
and integration areas to put together

596
00:26:36,470 --> 00:26:34,080
the integrated core stage and later the

597
00:26:38,470 --> 00:26:36,480
upper stage the core stage is the

598
00:26:40,310 --> 00:26:38,480
backbone it's the heart of the vehicle

599
00:26:43,830 --> 00:26:40,320
everything else hangs off of it the

600
00:26:45,830 --> 00:26:43,840
boosters the rs25 engines the icps this

601
00:26:47,909 --> 00:26:45,840
core stage is the core stays of the

602
00:26:50,310 --> 00:26:47,919
future it's the core stage designed for

603
00:26:52,630 --> 00:26:50,320
mars the future is now the different

604
00:26:55,110 --> 00:26:52,640
areas of the factory were first the weld

605
00:26:56,950 --> 00:26:55,120
areas on one portion of the factory the

606
00:26:59,190 --> 00:26:56,960
middle section of the factory has to do

607
00:27:01,350 --> 00:26:59,200
with our tank processing

608
00:27:03,430 --> 00:27:01,360
proof testing the tank cleaning the tank

609
00:27:05,110 --> 00:27:03,440
putting the epoxy primer on the tank and

610
00:27:07,110 --> 00:27:05,120
finally the thermal protection system

611
00:27:08,789 --> 00:27:07,120
foams and then the final area of the

612
00:27:10,870 --> 00:27:08,799
factory has to do with the assembly and

613
00:27:12,710 --> 00:27:10,880
integration areas because we're building

614
00:27:14,710 --> 00:27:12,720
a rocket and not the external tank of

615
00:27:16,710 --> 00:27:14,720
yesteryear on the shuttle program we

616
00:27:18,950 --> 00:27:16,720
need to bring on engine integration and

617
00:27:20,950 --> 00:27:18,960
avionics that we didn't have in prior

618
00:27:23,110 --> 00:27:20,960
processing that gives us a much more

619
00:27:24,389 --> 00:27:23,120
complex factory but we're excited with

620
00:27:26,870 --> 00:27:24,399
the challenge

621
00:27:29,990 --> 00:27:26,880
when we've completed it this factory

622
00:27:31,590 --> 00:27:30,000
with its people and his facilities will

623
00:27:45,830 --> 00:27:31,600
put together the first stage of the

624
00:27:50,630 --> 00:27:48,549
absolutely amazing stuff

625
00:27:51,669 --> 00:27:50,640
please let me introduce the nasa program

626
00:28:00,310 --> 00:27:51,679
manager

627
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,990
thank you mayor roy

628
00:28:07,909 --> 00:28:06,310
uh a quick aside before i get going uh i

629
00:28:09,190 --> 00:28:07,919
want to say that whenever i come down

630
00:28:11,590 --> 00:28:09,200
here uh

631
00:28:13,590 --> 00:28:11,600
i always see roy and i see malcolm wood

632
00:28:15,029 --> 00:28:13,600
and the folks here at the team and and

633
00:28:16,389 --> 00:28:15,039
roy reminded me i was down here last

634
00:28:17,669 --> 00:28:16,399
week he said you came down here and you

635
00:28:19,590 --> 00:28:17,679
looked like a program manager you were

636
00:28:21,510 --> 00:28:19,600
kind of stern looking and serious and he

637
00:28:23,350 --> 00:28:21,520
says i always love it when you leave

638
00:28:25,190 --> 00:28:23,360
because you leave smiling

639
00:28:26,710 --> 00:28:25,200
and and it's true

640
00:28:28,870 --> 00:28:26,720
when you see something like this and you

641
00:28:30,950 --> 00:28:28,880
look up and and see the size of this

642
00:28:32,789 --> 00:28:30,960
thing you can't help but understand that

643
00:28:34,950 --> 00:28:32,799
this thing is real

644
00:28:36,870 --> 00:28:34,960
in two days we're going to celebrate the

645
00:28:39,990 --> 00:28:36,880
only the third anniversary of the

646
00:28:41,990 --> 00:28:40,000
kickoff of this program it was a concept

647
00:28:44,549 --> 00:28:42,000
at that point and now you're looking at

648
00:28:46,070 --> 00:28:44,559
a tool you see every bolt here every

649
00:28:48,470 --> 00:28:46,080
piece that came together to make this

650
00:28:50,789 --> 00:28:48,480
has happened in less than three years

651
00:28:52,470 --> 00:28:50,799
and we've got a nationwide team with

652
00:28:55,750 --> 00:28:52,480
with great partners

653
00:28:57,990 --> 00:28:55,760
boeing atk aerojet rocketdyne our sister

654
00:29:00,070 --> 00:28:58,000
programs the ground systems development

655
00:29:01,750 --> 00:29:00,080
office at kennedy space center and orion

656
00:29:04,149 --> 00:29:01,760
at johnson space center

657
00:29:06,710 --> 00:29:04,159
uh there's a whole bunch of people

658
00:29:09,669 --> 00:29:06,720
over 500 contractors in 42 states and

659
00:29:11,909 --> 00:29:09,679
sls alone working to pull this together

660
00:29:14,310 --> 00:29:11,919
and and stuff like this it doesn't build

661
00:29:17,029 --> 00:29:14,320
itself as everybody said before this is

662
00:29:19,350 --> 00:29:17,039
people these are individuals

663
00:29:20,710 --> 00:29:19,360
and uh and it's amazing to sit here and

664
00:29:22,950 --> 00:29:20,720
look at something like this if you're

665
00:29:24,310 --> 00:29:22,960
looking on tv you only see about a fifth

666
00:29:27,190 --> 00:29:24,320
of this tool

667
00:29:29,669 --> 00:29:27,200
if you're here in the room this tool

668
00:29:32,630 --> 00:29:29,679
uh from from about the weld head up to

669
00:29:35,029 --> 00:29:32,640
the top is one hydrogen tank of the core

670
00:29:37,350 --> 00:29:35,039
the core would stick 50 feet through the

671
00:29:39,590 --> 00:29:37,360
roof of this building then on top of

672
00:29:41,510 --> 00:29:39,600
that you have orion and its 100-foot

673
00:29:43,669 --> 00:29:41,520
stack and so it's great to come down

674
00:29:45,269 --> 00:29:43,679
here you actually get to see

675
00:29:47,510 --> 00:29:45,279
what this thing is going to be and how

676
00:29:48,870 --> 00:29:47,520
massive it is and it takes a massive

677
00:29:51,510 --> 00:29:48,880
tool to build a rocket that's going to

678
00:29:54,549 --> 00:29:51,520
take humans out beyond low-earth orbit

679
00:29:57,110 --> 00:29:54,559
and beyond the bounds that have held us

680
00:29:59,269 --> 00:29:57,120
for the last 40 years uh and and just

681
00:30:01,110 --> 00:29:59,279
one more little side story

682
00:30:02,870 --> 00:30:01,120
when i came down last week i saw one of

683
00:30:05,669 --> 00:30:02,880
the guys working on the tool and he had

684
00:30:07,190 --> 00:30:05,679
a he had a yellow jacket on and i looked

685
00:30:08,950 --> 00:30:07,200
around and so did everybody else and i

686
00:30:11,190 --> 00:30:08,960
said how do you guys tell who's bowing

687
00:30:13,110 --> 00:30:11,200
who's esab who's jacobs

688
00:30:15,110 --> 00:30:13,120
who's broadmoor and he said you know

689
00:30:16,630 --> 00:30:15,120
what i don't even know he said we're a

690
00:30:18,470 --> 00:30:16,640
team we get together every morning we

691
00:30:19,830 --> 00:30:18,480
have a safety meeting and we know what

692
00:30:20,630 --> 00:30:19,840
we have to do that day and we get it

693
00:30:23,110 --> 00:30:20,640
done

694
00:30:24,789 --> 00:30:23,120
and i will tell you that is a testament

695
00:30:25,909 --> 00:30:24,799
to a bunch of folks who have come

696
00:30:27,190 --> 00:30:25,919
together

697
00:30:28,630 --> 00:30:27,200
maybe from different places with

698
00:30:30,870 --> 00:30:28,640
different objectives but we're all

699
00:30:32,950 --> 00:30:30,880
working together towards one goal and so

700
00:30:35,269 --> 00:30:32,960
it's great to be here today the critical

701
00:30:37,269 --> 00:30:35,279
path of this rocket goes through this

702
00:30:39,190 --> 00:30:37,279
machine right here we passed our

703
00:30:41,909 --> 00:30:39,200
critical design review on the core

704
00:30:43,190 --> 00:30:41,919
there's 34 000 square feet of hardware

705
00:30:45,669 --> 00:30:43,200
sitting in the rest of this factory

706
00:30:47,110 --> 00:30:45,679
ready to come over here and be welded up

707
00:30:49,269 --> 00:30:47,120
i can tell you right now the team is

708
00:30:50,710 --> 00:30:49,279
really anxious for us to get done today

709
00:30:52,070 --> 00:30:50,720
and get out of here so they can get back

710
00:30:53,430 --> 00:30:52,080
on the tool and get it through its

711
00:30:55,510 --> 00:30:53,440
acceptance test and start putting

712
00:30:57,029 --> 00:30:55,520
hardware through it so good to be here

713
00:30:59,590 --> 00:30:57,039
today

714
00:31:01,190 --> 00:30:59,600
ready to have my partner ginger barnes

715
00:31:11,190 --> 00:31:01,200
and long-term friend come up and say a

716
00:31:16,310 --> 00:31:13,909
thank you todd it is so exciting to be

717
00:31:18,310 --> 00:31:16,320
here and i can feel the energy in this

718
00:31:20,310 --> 00:31:18,320
room can you can you sense the

719
00:31:21,830 --> 00:31:20,320
excitement about getting ready to go to

720
00:31:25,029 --> 00:31:21,840
mars

721
00:31:30,310 --> 00:31:27,830
the most exciting part of my job is

722
00:31:32,310 --> 00:31:30,320
representing the team that you see

723
00:31:34,710 --> 00:31:32,320
assembled here today and the ones we're

724
00:31:36,710 --> 00:31:34,720
representing who couldn't be here today

725
00:31:39,110 --> 00:31:36,720
and that's this incredible workforce

726
00:31:40,549 --> 00:31:39,120
that has made this possible many of you

727
00:31:42,149 --> 00:31:40,559
have talked about

728
00:31:43,590 --> 00:31:42,159
the people and the team that it takes to

729
00:31:45,590 --> 00:31:43,600
put this together

730
00:31:47,710 --> 00:31:45,600
and it is a team

731
00:31:51,029 --> 00:31:47,720
it's our state local and federal

732
00:31:52,870 --> 00:31:51,039
representatives it is our partners it's

733
00:31:55,190 --> 00:31:52,880
our customers

734
00:31:59,830 --> 00:31:55,200
it's the community all of that's

735
00:32:02,230 --> 00:31:59,840
important to building this big tool

736
00:32:03,909 --> 00:32:02,240
we're not only building we're not just

737
00:32:05,909 --> 00:32:03,919
making a rocket

738
00:32:08,630 --> 00:32:05,919
we're making history

739
00:32:11,669 --> 00:32:08,640
so this milestone of cutting the ribbon

740
00:32:14,710 --> 00:32:11,679
on the vertical assembly center is big

741
00:32:18,230 --> 00:32:14,720
the machine is big

742
00:32:20,389 --> 00:32:18,240
but it's so important we are also making

743
00:32:23,669 --> 00:32:20,399
history this is such a

744
00:32:26,549 --> 00:32:23,679
significant event because right now

745
00:32:29,029 --> 00:32:26,559
we are a hundred percent ready to build

746
00:32:31,509 --> 00:32:29,039
this rocket

747
00:32:43,669 --> 00:32:33,430
let's let's go do it

748
00:32:49,269 --> 00:32:46,630
thank you todd ginger

749
00:32:51,750 --> 00:32:49,279
it's now time to cut the ribbon on a

750
00:32:54,230 --> 00:32:51,760
truly modern marvel

751
00:32:56,389 --> 00:32:54,240
we're going to use this modern marvel to

752
00:32:58,789 --> 00:32:56,399
build another modern marvel

753
00:32:59,909 --> 00:32:58,799
the space launch system

754
00:33:01,269 --> 00:32:59,919
well those

755
00:33:04,710 --> 00:33:01,279
people that are participating in the

756
00:33:07,590 --> 00:33:04,720
cutting ceremony please come forward

757
00:33:29,509 --> 00:33:07,600
and help us prepare for the next step

758
00:33:29,519 --> 00:34:03,669
all right

759
00:34:07,029 --> 00:34:04,950
all together

760
00:34:07,990 --> 00:34:07,039
five four

761
00:34:09,030 --> 00:34:08,000
three

762
00:34:31,669 --> 00:34:09,040
two

763
00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:40,149
here we go

764
00:34:43,829 --> 00:34:42,790
t-minus 12 11

765
00:34:44,790 --> 00:34:43,839
10

766
00:34:45,829 --> 00:34:44,800
9

767
00:34:46,950 --> 00:34:45,839
8

768
00:34:47,909 --> 00:34:46,960
7

769
00:34:49,030 --> 00:34:47,919
six

770
00:34:50,149 --> 00:34:49,040
five

771
00:34:51,430 --> 00:34:50,159
four

772
00:34:52,389 --> 00:34:51,440
three

773
00:38:25,349 --> 00:34:52,399
two

774
00:38:25,359 --> 00:38:55,030
so

775
00:38:55,040 --> 00:39:07,430
do

776
00:39:55,589 --> 00:39:09,670
you're ready to fly that is the most

777
00:39:59,430 --> 00:39:57,670
would you start by explaining to us what

778
00:40:02,230 --> 00:39:59,440
you guys are doing down there today

779
00:40:30,309 --> 00:40:02,240
we're working on the technique and tool