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The heroic women of NASA continually inspire
girls to enter the space program.

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So I’m so thankful for engineers like Charlie
Blackwell-Thompson who will be the first women

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to oversee a NASA liftoff and launch team.

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Being a launch director for this inaugural
launch is pretty exciting.

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We’re going to have a vehicle that is over
300 feet tall, at liftoff over 8 million pounds

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of thrust.

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I can’t wait to see that.

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It’s going to be amazing.

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When you couple that with a state of the art
spacecraft, Orion, the destinations and the

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capabilities that these two bring our agency
is something amazing.

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Being in charge of the launch team on EM-1
launch day is something that I very much look

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forward to.

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I look forward to seeing our team in action.

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I look forward to looking out the window and
gazing at that vehicle as it stands ready

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to launch.