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ladies and gentlemen thank you for

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joining us for the u.s astronaut hall of

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fame induction ceremony honoring our

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nation's space heroes

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please rise for the presentation of

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colors followed by the national anthem

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performed by susie cunningham of kennedy

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national airport

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say can you see

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by the dawn's early light

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what so proudly we hailed

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at the twilight's last gleaming

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whose broad stripes and bright stars

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were so

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and the rockets

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the bombs bursting

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gave proof

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through the night

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oh say does that star-spangled

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and the home

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ladies and gentlemen please welcome

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today's master of ceremonies former cnn

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correspondent and award-winning

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thank you

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titusville and susie susie just does a

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remarkable job every time susie

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really just terrific we love you susie

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how's everybody doing good

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good we have a great crowd i understand

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we had to add 150 extra seats in here

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today i think it's mostly duffy's family

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is what i'm on what i was told was

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here so um and the grandkids and all

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so uh welcome everyone it is so good to

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be here again as the master of

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ceremonies

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as two space shuttle heroes are inducted

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into the united states astronaut hall of

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fame

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both of our inductees flew aboard this

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magnificent machine

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which is overhead space shuttle atlantis

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and i know many of our other astronauts

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here have flown on atlantis as well

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there is no better place to host this

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occasion

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than right here with atlantis

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and now it is my privilege to introduce

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to you the attending members of the

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united states astronaut hall of fame

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now astronauts please stand turn and

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wave when i call your names al warden

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you've got that stand turn and wave

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that's three things i know

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he logged 143 hours in space

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as the lunar module pilot on apollo 13.

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later he helped characterize the space

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shuttle's flying qualities and

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performance during descent and landing

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as commander of one of the two-person

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crews who piloted the space shuttle

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approach and landing test flights fred

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command module pilot for apollo 15 and a

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nine-year nasa veteran he logged a

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38-minute spacewalk outside the

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endeavour command module to retrieve

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cameras he logged 295

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he was the lunar module pilot on apollo

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time of the flight he has logged 265

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this astronaut was the science pilot on

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his first flight sky lab 3. a decade

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demonstrating the shuttle's capability

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for advanced science research in earth

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orbit he has logged more than 1600

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he served as pilot for skylab 3 during

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which he worked in orbit for 59 days and

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spent 11 hours on two spacewalks outside

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the first u.s astronauts to meet in

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space with russian cosmonauts he went on

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to command sts-5 the first fully

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sts-35 the first shuttle mission

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this astronaut piloted colombia in 1981

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mission he went on to command three more

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satellite he later served as director of

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during his 19 years with the astronaut

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program he logged more than 386 hours in

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space and flew on three shuttle missions

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a three-space flight veteran he was on

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the first crew to fly an orbiter in

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satellite on sts-7 he then commanded

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a veteran of four space shuttle missions

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he piloted sts-8 the first mission with

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a night launch and landing he commanded

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piloted sts-9 and later commanded

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challenger tragedy leading the space

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distinguished himself as the pilot of

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veteran of four space shuttle flights he

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it is my pleasure to welcome the chief

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operating officer of kennedy space

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seen the lean on the podium and just

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kind of kick back he just does an

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amazing job good afternoon and welcome

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to today's ceremony we're here to

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welcome two space shuttle veterans into

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the u.s astronaut hall of fame's 15th

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class of shuttle astronaut inductees can

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to all of you that are gathered here

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and on on behalf of the 60 000 delaware

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north associates worldwide including the

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entire team here at the kennedy space

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center visitor complex thank you for

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it is our honor to host today's ceremony

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to welcome nasa astronauts brian duffy

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of space explorers and pioneers

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the most compelling and immersive way

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to truly understand the challenges the

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space flight as an insider soon those

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entirely new way the us astronaut hall

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guests will have the opportunity to

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virtually interact with our astronaut

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inductees and experience the thrills of

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our space program like never before

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heroes and legends will feature an

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omnidirectional 4d experience of earth

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and space as astronauts share their

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stories and adventures

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an interactive zone will allow guests to

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see priceless space artifacts

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come alive and exhibits up close and

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explore multimedia and interactive

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features

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and of course the newly designed u.s

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astronaut hall of fame will round out

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the experience leaving guests with a

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deeper understanding and appreciation

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for the challenges and accomplishments

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of the u.s space program

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just this spring we also launched cosmic

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quest a live interaction adventure based

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on real nasa missions offering a truly

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immersive experience guests can capture

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an asteroid launch a rocket create a

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habitat elmore on mars and even conduct

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research on the international space

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station on april 29th we also launched

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the all-new 3d imax film a beautiful

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planet narrated by jennifer lawrence and

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this document documentary features

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spectacular views of earth captured by

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astronauts living aboard the space

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station

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and then coming this summer guests will

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be able to take a holographic journey on

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the red planet in destination mars

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nasa and microsoft have joined forces to

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provide this guided tour of mars using a

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real imagery from the agency's curiosity

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mars rover and the microsoft hololens

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mixed reality headset astronauts

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excuse me astronaut legend buzz aldrin

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serves as the ultimate tour guide as

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guests set out on the adventure on

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martian soil

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there's even more innovations coming on

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the horizon we are so excited about the

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future of the complex

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today's children need to have fun

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learning about science technology

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engineering and math in order to become

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tomorrow's space explorers

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that's what every new exhibit or every

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hands-on experience is all about

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i'd like to recognize the astronaut

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scholarship foundation for doing such an

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amazing job their board of directors

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executive director tammy sutler and her

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staff and volunteers for their

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contributions to today's outstanding

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it's a true honor to work together with

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asf on behalf of kennedy space center

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visitor complex thank you for years of

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dedicated service

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and the incredible job you have done and

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we'll continue to do honoring our

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nation's astronauts and helping to pave

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the next generation road to the stars

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lastly and most importantly

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congratulations to this year's inductees

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brian duffy and scott paranzinski thank

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that wasn't bad theron

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but you know jay-z media shameless plug

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does offer media training

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so if you would like i'll be glad to do

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some coaching on the zarella format

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and now it is my pleasure to welcome to

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the podium hall of fame astronaut

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nasa administrator and my friend charlie

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that lies

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uh john thanks very much for your kind

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introduction and i have to say i'm i'm

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quite honored to be here with this great

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crowd today and to represent ksc senator

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director bob cabana

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in welcoming you to the incredible

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kennedy space center america's launch

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pad to the universe

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bob uh i think all of you know would

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would be here except some of you don't

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know he lost his mother this past

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week and and returned home to to be with

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the family so

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i would ask that all of you keep bob and

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his family and your thoughts and prayers

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i'd also like to join others in

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congratulating the scholars that's

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one of the big reasons we get together

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on this weekend so

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to the astronaut scholars

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past present and even some futures out

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there crime around

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congratulations

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you know if i think if bob were here

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he'd tell you how proud he is of his

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superb ksc team that's hard at work

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every day transitioning the kennedy

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space center to a 21st century

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multi-user spaceport

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from modernization of the critical

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ground systems such as a new mobile

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launcher to support the space launch

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system or sls heavy lift rocket

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uh in manufacture today to carry orion

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to and our astronaut crews to deep space

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destinations only dreamed of in the past

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then

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there are the game-changing improvements

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to launch complex 39b

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with its new all fiber communications

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and control systems

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or we can journey into the vastly

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improved operations in checkout our onc

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building now hosting assembly of the

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second orion crew module in preparation

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for the first flight of the integrated

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sls and orion system for em-1 or

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exploration mission one

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or we could go to the vab the vehicle

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assembly building being restructured to

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accommodate sls booster and core stage

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stacking

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as the host of commercial of our

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commercial partners

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we have handed over numerous facilities

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such as the new boeing cst-100 assembly

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facility formerly known as opf or

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orbiter processing facility 3

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or the spacex falcon heavy launch

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complex

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lc 39a

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from where armstrong aldrin and collins

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launched on the historic apollo 11

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mission to land on the moon

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there are more facilities scheduled for

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commercial transition and use

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our launch services program lsp

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is now more busy than ever with diverse

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missions and preparation under their

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watchful eye

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osiris-rex the origin spectral

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interpretation resource identification

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security and regolith explorer

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goals are geostationary operational

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environment satellite r series and

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cygnus

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those are all scheduled before the end

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of this calendar year

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and then joint polar satellite system or

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jpss-1

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the ionospheric connection explorer icon

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the transiting

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exoplanet survey satellite tests

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the tracking and data relay satellite m

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or tdrs m

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and uh ice cloud and land elevation

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satellite 2 or icesat-2 all scheduled

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for 2017

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the year in which we are still very

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hopeful to see the first commercial crew

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vehicles launch from right here on the

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space coast returning launch of our

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crews uh from america once again big

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deal for us

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and then theron's already mentioned it

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but coming later this year what we think

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will be the spectacular heroes and

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legends exhibit that will house the

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astronaut hall of fame and bring even

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more incredible exhibits uh for the for

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the public

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but to return to the occasion for today

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what an honor it is to be able to join

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my fellow astronaut hall of fame alums

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to welcome two wonderful wonderful

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people

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astronauts brian duffy and scott

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perezinski into the hall

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brian was on my crew for sts-45 in fact

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as my pilot

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brian ran my crew on sts-45 some of you

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who know me know how that happens

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we were aboard the space shuttle

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atlantis one of four missions that brian

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flew on the shuttle a test pilot by

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training brian had a distinguished

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career serving in the u.s air force

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thank you for your service colonel duffy

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while i never had the opportunity to fly

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with scott i have long admired his work

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as a veteran of five shuttle missions

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seven evas and equally amazing to me

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just his journey to summit mount everest

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today we at nasa are on a journey to

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mars that will take american astronauts

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to the asteroid to an asteroid next

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decade and to the red planet in the

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2030s

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when our astronauts put the first human

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footsteps on mars

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they will be walking in the footsteps of

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hall of famers like brian duffy and

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scott perezinski

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when our children's and grandchildren's

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children benefit from nasa-driven

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advances in medicine technology earth

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science

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they

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will have the legacy of hall of famers

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like brian and scott to thank

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whenever young americans stand out in

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areas like exploration innovation and

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cooperation they will be standing on the

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shoulders of hall of famers like brian

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and scott

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ralph waldo emerson once commented that

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and i quote

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if the stars should appear but one night

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every thousand years

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how man would marvel and stare end quote

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of course

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the stars come out a little more

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frequently than just once every thousand

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years

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their nightly appearances are just a

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part of life

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in a way

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the same can be said for all the

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progress we've made in space exploration

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the new heights we've reached thanks to

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astronauts like brian and scott

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have become so ingrained in our culture

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that we don't always think about just

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how incredible how absolutely incredible

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all that we have achieved actually is

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i like to call the young americans of

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today the space generation president

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obama calls them the mars generation

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because of the expansive way in which

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they look at our universe

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when i tell my three beautiful

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granddaughters for example that we're

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going to mars they ask me

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why stop there

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i tell them let me get to mars first

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the ability to skype

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with a friend halfway around the world

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or watch a movie that's reaching their

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living room via satellite is just

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routine for them

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anyone as a matter of fact who is age 15

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now soon age 16 or younger has not lived

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a single day of his or her life in fact

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not one single second of his or her life

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when human beings from different

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countries have not been living and

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working on the international space

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station together

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250 miles above our planet

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with this in mind

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one of the wonderful gifts of this hall

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of fame is that it gives an opportunity

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to hit the pause button for a moment to

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take a step back

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take a deep breath for a moment and

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reflect on just how far we really have

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come

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so i want to invite all of you as we

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celebrate brian and scott

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to think about just just just the

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monumental and impactful

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accomplishments of these two great

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americans truly are

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and what they mean for both our present

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00:28:30,710 --> 00:28:29,120
and our future

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00:28:33,149 --> 00:28:30,720
congratulations

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hall of famers brian duffy and

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congratulations hall of famer scott

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thank you mr bolden

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and now ladies and gentlemen it is my

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pleasure to welcome to the stage hall of

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fame astronaut and astronaut scholarship

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thank you john

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00:29:11,190 --> 00:29:09,039
and good afternoon everyone and thank

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00:29:13,190 --> 00:29:11,200
you all for being here with us today

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we're very pleased to welcome brian and

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scott into the u.s astronaut hall of

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fame

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as a chairman of the astronaut

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00:29:22,950 --> 00:29:20,640
scholarship foundation it gives me great

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00:29:25,190 --> 00:29:22,960
pride to look out across the faces of

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the my fellow astronauts and also the

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00:29:29,510 --> 00:29:26,880
guests here today

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00:29:31,029 --> 00:29:29,520
back in the 80s the original mercury

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seven astronauts

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decided that there should be a place to

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celebrate astronauts accomplishments

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that shares the side of human space

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flight in a unique and personal way

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their dream

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00:29:46,310 --> 00:29:43,600
of the us astronaut hall of fame came to

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reality in 1990

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00:29:50,149 --> 00:29:48,320
and now look how far we've come since

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then you heard theron talking about the

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new one going up right across the way

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here

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00:29:58,070 --> 00:29:56,159
the hall of fame hall of fame seeks to

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celebrate and inspire

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more than that the the goal of keeping

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00:30:03,350 --> 00:30:01,039
america

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uh on the leading edge of technology and

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innovation

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and that means encouraging students to

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aim high dream big

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and pursue their careers in science

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technology engineering and math

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that's where the astronaut scholarship

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foundation comes into play

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asf awards merit-based scholarships to

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the best and brightest students working

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toward careers in those fields

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the predict prestigious

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astronaut scholarship

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is known nationwide as one of the

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highest scholarships awarded to

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undergraduate stem students

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00:30:40,789 --> 00:30:39,679
since its inception asf has awarded over

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four million dollars worth of

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scholarships over 400

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now uh

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the last astronaut selection we were all

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very excited and thrilled in the

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00:30:55,029 --> 00:30:53,279
foundation

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because the first

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astronaut scholar alum

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christina koch was selected as a nasa

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astronaut to be again the training

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00:31:09,029 --> 00:31:06,080
program last night at the gala

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she shared some of her early childhood

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visions and inspirations and also shared

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with us what receiving the astronaut

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00:31:19,110 --> 00:31:16,799
astronaut scholarship

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00:31:20,470 --> 00:31:19,120
meant to her and the support and

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00:31:24,230 --> 00:31:20,480
inspiration

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00:31:26,389 --> 00:31:24,240
that the astronauts provided her as she

641
00:31:27,990 --> 00:31:26,399
went to her schooling and ultimately the

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00:31:28,950 --> 00:31:28,000
rest of her career that

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has

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00:31:33,909 --> 00:31:31,360
enabled her to arrive at the scholarship

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00:31:36,389 --> 00:31:33,919
program uh in

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in the audience with us today in fact uh

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there's a relatively large group of

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astronaut scholar recipients

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and so if the scholars would all stand

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00:31:55,909 --> 00:31:44,720
so everybody can recognize them they're

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00:31:59,509 --> 00:31:57,590
what they have done and accomplished is

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00:32:01,830 --> 00:31:59,519
really eye watering we have a technical

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00:32:02,710 --> 00:32:01,840
conference as part of this program this

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00:32:04,389 --> 00:32:02,720
morning

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00:32:06,149 --> 00:32:04,399
and uh

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we went in and sat and listened to these

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00:32:10,710 --> 00:32:08,480
folks tell us what they're working on

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00:32:11,990 --> 00:32:10,720
and it's truly mind-boggling in fact if

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00:32:13,750 --> 00:32:12,000
i had to repeat any of it i probably

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00:32:15,190 --> 00:32:13,760
couldn't because most of it went over my

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00:32:18,389 --> 00:32:15,200
head but

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00:32:20,470 --> 00:32:18,399
but they really do do a wonderful thing

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00:32:22,310 --> 00:32:20,480
well uh

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00:32:23,190 --> 00:32:22,320
now we can't we can't get this done

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00:32:25,350 --> 00:32:23,200
alone

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00:32:27,269 --> 00:32:25,360
we receive a lot of support

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00:32:29,750 --> 00:32:27,279
from all the astronauts

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00:32:31,430 --> 00:32:29,760
from friends of nasa and also at from

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00:32:33,509 --> 00:32:31,440
nasa with charlie bolden who you heard

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00:32:34,789 --> 00:32:33,519
earlier bob cabana who couldn't be with

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00:32:36,630 --> 00:32:34,799
us today

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00:32:38,149 --> 00:32:36,640
as well as uh theron prossie who you

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00:32:40,710 --> 00:32:38,159
also heard of from the kennedy space

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00:32:43,190 --> 00:32:40,720
center visitor complex and that support

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00:32:45,430 --> 00:32:43,200
is invaluable and their

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00:32:47,830 --> 00:32:45,440
achievement i mean their involvement is

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00:32:49,990 --> 00:32:47,840
truly appreciated

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00:32:51,830 --> 00:32:50,000
and now before we continue i want to pay

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00:32:53,590 --> 00:32:51,840
tribute to two astronauts who have

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00:32:55,190 --> 00:32:53,600
passed away since our last induction

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00:32:57,830 --> 00:32:55,200
ceremony

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00:32:59,990 --> 00:32:57,840
hall of fame astronaut apollo astronaut

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00:33:01,430 --> 00:33:00,000
edgar mitchell passed away he was on our

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00:33:02,950 --> 00:33:01,440
board of directors and was a strong

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00:33:04,070 --> 00:33:02,960
supporter of the foundation for many

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00:33:07,029 --> 00:33:04,080
years

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00:33:09,509 --> 00:33:07,039
also shuttle astronaut don williams who

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00:33:11,590 --> 00:33:09,519
also had supported us at this event many

689
00:33:13,430 --> 00:33:11,600
times during his life

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00:33:15,350 --> 00:33:13,440
they both had remarkable contributions

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00:33:17,509 --> 00:33:15,360
to the exploration of space

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00:33:22,950 --> 00:33:17,519
and their legacy lives on let's take a

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00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:32,950
thank you very much

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00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:39,509
thank you dan

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00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:43,110
are you ready

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00:33:47,669 --> 00:33:45,830
ladies and gentlemen now it's time for

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00:33:50,950 --> 00:33:47,679
what we came here for

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00:33:53,269 --> 00:33:50,960
to begin the induction of the 15th class

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00:33:57,110 --> 00:33:53,279
of space shuttle astronauts into the

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00:33:59,350 --> 00:33:57,120
united states astronaut hall of fame

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00:34:15,990 --> 00:33:59,360
our first inductee

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00:34:18,550 --> 00:34:17,669
three two

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one

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atlanta

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00:34:41,190 --> 00:34:39,589
and liftoff of the space shuttle

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endeavour on their first space ad

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00:35:01,349 --> 00:34:42,800
mission and the retrieval of the eureka

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00:35:01,359 --> 00:35:19,430
main gear touchdown

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00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:36,790
we knew the man would come through

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00:35:52,230 --> 00:35:39,349
of discovering making shuttle history

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00:36:08,390 --> 00:35:54,150
ellen here you can see us deploying the

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00:36:11,190 --> 00:36:09,750
happy wheel stop brian your great

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00:36:12,790 --> 00:36:11,200
landing today made everybody happy

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00:36:24,470 --> 00:36:12,800
welcome back to earth after a super

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00:36:30,470 --> 00:36:26,790
brian duffy was selected as a nasa

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00:36:32,790 --> 00:36:30,480
astronaut in june of 1985.

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00:36:35,270 --> 00:36:32,800
duffy kicked off his astronaut career as

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00:36:37,990 --> 00:36:35,280
a spaceflight communicator and helped

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00:36:40,310 --> 00:36:38,000
develop instrumentation displays

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00:36:43,109 --> 00:36:40,320
as well as procedures for shuttle crews

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00:36:45,349 --> 00:36:43,119
to use on later flights he flew in space

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00:36:47,109 --> 00:36:45,359
for the first time as the pilot on

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00:36:49,990 --> 00:36:47,119
sts-45

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00:36:53,589 --> 00:36:50,000
aboard space shuttle atlantis launched

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00:36:55,829 --> 00:36:53,599
march 24 1992 the flight was the first

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00:36:58,310 --> 00:36:55,839
of the atlas missions

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to explore the sun earth

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00:37:01,910 --> 00:36:59,760
connection

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00:37:05,750 --> 00:37:01,920
a year later duffy occupied the pilot's

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00:37:08,069 --> 00:37:05,760
seat again on sts 57 this time aboard

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00:37:11,190 --> 00:37:08,079
endeavour the 10-day mission launched

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00:37:13,349 --> 00:37:11,200
june 21st 1993

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and marked the first flight of the

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pressurized space ab science module

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00:37:22,950 --> 00:37:19,920
in january 1996 he stepped into the role

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of commander on sts-72

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leading the six-person crew of endeavor

738
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this nine-day flight included two

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00:37:33,030 --> 00:37:30,960
spacewalks to help nasa prepare for

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00:37:34,310 --> 00:37:33,040
assembly of the international space

741
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station

742
00:37:41,190 --> 00:37:36,640
next duffy commanded shuttle discovery

743
00:37:43,349 --> 00:37:41,200
on october of 2000 that flight sts 92

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00:37:47,589 --> 00:37:43,359
saw the installation of the station's

745
00:37:50,310 --> 00:37:47,599
first section of backbone the z1 truss

746
00:37:52,790 --> 00:37:50,320
and a series of four spacewalks to

747
00:37:55,030 --> 00:37:52,800
configure and activate it

748
00:37:59,829 --> 00:37:55,040
during his four space shuttle missions

749
00:38:02,069 --> 00:37:59,839
duffy logged more than 40 days in space

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00:38:05,430 --> 00:38:02,079
duffy retired from nasa and the united

751
00:38:07,109 --> 00:38:05,440
states air force in 2001

752
00:38:11,190 --> 00:38:07,119
but he didn't leave the aerospace

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00:38:14,069 --> 00:38:11,200
industry today he is orbital atk's vice

754
00:38:16,870 --> 00:38:14,079
president and program manager leading

755
00:38:19,750 --> 00:38:16,880
the company's human space exploration

756
00:38:22,310 --> 00:38:19,760
activities at the johnson space center

757
00:38:24,950 --> 00:38:22,320
and here at kennedy

758
00:38:41,510 --> 00:38:24,960
ladies and gentlemen astronaut brian

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00:38:45,190 --> 00:38:43,430
to present brian duffy for induction

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00:38:46,950 --> 00:38:45,200
into the united states astronaut hall of

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00:38:58,150 --> 00:38:46,960
fame please welcome hall of fame

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00:39:03,030 --> 00:38:59,670
thanks john

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00:39:04,390 --> 00:39:03,040
brian just told me be nice

764
00:39:06,790 --> 00:39:04,400
you know as you might imagine we all

765
00:39:09,349 --> 00:39:06,800
know too many stories about each other

766
00:39:11,349 --> 00:39:09,359
and uh my intention is to be today brian

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00:39:13,349 --> 00:39:11,359
um let me add my congratulations to

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00:39:15,270 --> 00:39:13,359
scott and he'll be coming up here soon

769
00:39:18,069 --> 00:39:15,280
to join but this is my one chance to

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00:39:20,230 --> 00:39:18,079
congratulate him in public and and brian

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00:39:22,710 --> 00:39:20,240
you too of course for this uh

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00:39:24,470 --> 00:39:22,720
well-deserved honor i want to also thank

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00:39:26,870 --> 00:39:24,480
the kennedy space center visitors center

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00:39:28,550 --> 00:39:26,880
for providing this marvelous venue and

775
00:39:31,109 --> 00:39:28,560
support this is my first time to see

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00:39:33,109 --> 00:39:31,119
atlantis since i saw her launch on her

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00:39:36,550 --> 00:39:33,119
her last flight from just outside the

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00:39:38,310 --> 00:39:36,560
doors at banana creek and i'm just blown

779
00:39:40,790 --> 00:39:38,320
away by this facility and it's so nice

780
00:39:41,750 --> 00:39:40,800
that we can have this special event here

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00:39:43,589 --> 00:39:41,760
today

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00:39:45,430 --> 00:39:43,599
and dan i want to thank you for your

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00:39:48,230 --> 00:39:45,440
leadership for the astronaut scholarship

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00:39:50,150 --> 00:39:48,240
foundation uh what a what a tremendous

785
00:39:52,390 --> 00:39:50,160
tremendous organization doing great

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00:39:54,550 --> 00:39:52,400
things for young people in our country

787
00:39:56,230 --> 00:39:54,560
that are going to pay back tenfold the

788
00:39:59,349 --> 00:39:56,240
investment we make into them so thank

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00:39:59,359 --> 00:40:02,630
mr duffy

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00:40:06,470 --> 00:40:03,750
brian duffy i don't know if you know

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00:40:08,309 --> 00:40:06,480
this but he's an irishman from boston

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00:40:10,630 --> 00:40:08,319
not only an irishman from boston an

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00:40:12,230 --> 00:40:10,640
irishman from south boston and if you

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00:40:15,190 --> 00:40:12,240
know the history of whitey bulger i need

795
00:40:18,069 --> 00:40:16,790
to tell you that brian grew up in a

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00:40:20,309 --> 00:40:18,079
tough neighborhood would be the

797
00:40:23,030 --> 00:40:20,319
understatement of the day here today

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00:40:23,910 --> 00:40:23,040
as a southie and uh you know he was a

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working

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00:40:31,349 --> 00:40:28,720
children growing up in in south boston

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00:40:33,510 --> 00:40:31,359
and brian knew his place in the family

802
00:40:35,030 --> 00:40:33,520
and worked very hard in school

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00:40:37,270 --> 00:40:35,040
and worked very hard at sport you know

804
00:40:39,190 --> 00:40:37,280
he grew up in the era when the red sox

805
00:40:40,790 --> 00:40:39,200
couldn't win a world series but

806
00:40:43,670 --> 00:40:40,800
my lakers couldn't beat the boston

807
00:40:45,910 --> 00:40:43,680
celtics so it was a marvelous time for a

808
00:40:48,150 --> 00:40:45,920
young man a young boy who maybe dreamed

809
00:40:49,750 --> 00:40:48,160
of playing baseball and basketball

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00:40:51,030 --> 00:40:49,760
and really never dreamed of flying in

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00:40:52,630 --> 00:40:51,040
space

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00:40:54,069 --> 00:40:52,640
ryan said you know i asked him did you

813
00:40:56,550 --> 00:40:54,079
always want to be an astronaut he said

814
00:40:58,230 --> 00:40:56,560
no you know i thought it was cool but

815
00:40:59,190 --> 00:40:58,240
it's nothing i could ever do certainly

816
00:41:01,670 --> 00:40:59,200
from my

817
00:41:03,270 --> 00:41:01,680
my upbringing and my background

818
00:41:05,030 --> 00:41:03,280
i asked him about joining the air force

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00:41:06,710 --> 00:41:05,040
how did you end up doing that and he

820
00:41:08,710 --> 00:41:06,720
said well he had a cousin who went to

821
00:41:11,109 --> 00:41:08,720
the air force academy but at the end of

822
00:41:13,270 --> 00:41:11,119
the day there was a lot of financial

823
00:41:14,630 --> 00:41:13,280
incentive to go to the air force academy

824
00:41:16,390 --> 00:41:14,640
and the free education when you come

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00:41:18,230 --> 00:41:16,400
from a family of five

826
00:41:21,190 --> 00:41:18,240
in that in the neighborhood that brian

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grew up in the prospect of playing

828
00:41:25,349 --> 00:41:23,520
baseball was also a good thing as well

829
00:41:27,349 --> 00:41:25,359
and although not recruited

830
00:41:29,030 --> 00:41:27,359
brian walked on to the varsity baseball

831
00:41:31,270 --> 00:41:29,040
team as a freshman at the air force

832
00:41:33,190 --> 00:41:31,280
academy and made the team

833
00:41:36,069 --> 00:41:33,200
so here he was in the united states air

834
00:41:38,309 --> 00:41:36,079
force studying mathematics playing

835
00:41:39,349 --> 00:41:38,319
baseball and kind of getting introduced

836
00:41:43,670 --> 00:41:39,359
to flight

837
00:41:45,589 --> 00:41:43,680
was on the airline flight from boston to

838
00:41:47,750 --> 00:41:45,599
colorado springs to attend the air force

839
00:41:49,349 --> 00:41:47,760
academy so he didn't go there thinking

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00:41:50,950 --> 00:41:49,359
he wanted to be a pilot he didn't know

841
00:41:52,150 --> 00:41:50,960
what that meant

842
00:41:54,150 --> 00:41:52,160
he didn't go there thinking he wanted to

843
00:41:56,150 --> 00:41:54,160
be an astronaut that was something that

844
00:41:57,670 --> 00:41:56,160
other people did

845
00:41:58,950 --> 00:41:57,680
his sophomore year he was offered an

846
00:42:00,790 --> 00:41:58,960
opportunity to try out for a

847
00:42:03,349 --> 00:42:00,800
professional baseball team and

848
00:42:05,270 --> 00:42:03,359
thankfully for all of us he declined the

849
00:42:07,030 --> 00:42:05,280
opportunity and elected to stay at the

850
00:42:08,710 --> 00:42:07,040
air force academy what a different

851
00:42:10,309 --> 00:42:08,720
career that could have been

852
00:42:12,790 --> 00:42:10,319
he majored in mathematics at the air

853
00:42:14,230 --> 00:42:12,800
force academy not choosing any simple

854
00:42:15,829 --> 00:42:14,240
subject to get through

855
00:42:17,510 --> 00:42:15,839
but i think one of the important things

856
00:42:20,550 --> 00:42:17,520
that happened there happened on the

857
00:42:22,470 --> 00:42:20,560
athletic fields in brian's senior year

858
00:42:24,710 --> 00:42:22,480
he was elected to be captain of the air

859
00:42:26,150 --> 00:42:24,720
force academy baseball team

860
00:42:28,069 --> 00:42:26,160
now a lot of folks may not think that's

861
00:42:29,109 --> 00:42:28,079
too big a deal i mean every team has a

862
00:42:30,470 --> 00:42:29,119
captain

863
00:42:33,109 --> 00:42:30,480
when i consider the fact that my

864
00:42:34,710 --> 00:42:33,119
classmate mark welsh was on that team

865
00:42:36,470 --> 00:42:34,720
mark welsh is currently a member of the

866
00:42:38,710 --> 00:42:36,480
joint chiefs of staff and is the chief

867
00:42:40,390 --> 00:42:38,720
of staff of the united states air force

868
00:42:41,990 --> 00:42:40,400
four star general

869
00:42:44,790 --> 00:42:42,000
being selected to be

870
00:42:47,270 --> 00:42:44,800
mark's captain is a big deal

871
00:42:49,349 --> 00:42:47,280
so brian's leadership skills he

872
00:42:50,870 --> 00:42:49,359
exemplified early very early even as a

873
00:42:53,030 --> 00:42:50,880
cadet at the air force academy he'll

874
00:42:55,109 --> 00:42:53,040
tell you he didn't have the best bat

875
00:42:56,710 --> 00:42:55,119
or the best arm on the team but it's

876
00:42:59,270 --> 00:42:56,720
clearly he was the best leader on the

877
00:43:00,950 --> 00:42:59,280
team you know

878
00:43:02,470 --> 00:43:00,960
but the singular most important thing

879
00:43:04,630 --> 00:43:02,480
that happened to brian at the air force

880
00:43:06,390 --> 00:43:04,640
academy had nothing to do with academics

881
00:43:07,670 --> 00:43:06,400
and had nothing to do with baseball and

882
00:43:09,910 --> 00:43:07,680
had nothing to do with fallen in love

883
00:43:12,470 --> 00:43:09,920
with flynns had to do with fallen in

884
00:43:15,510 --> 00:43:12,480
love with janet helms

885
00:43:16,950 --> 00:43:15,520
this blind date that he got set up on

886
00:43:18,630 --> 00:43:16,960
for the ring dance at the air force

887
00:43:20,630 --> 00:43:18,640
cabinet now the ring dance i'm told by

888
00:43:22,630 --> 00:43:20,640
the current cadets is the second most

889
00:43:24,829 --> 00:43:22,640
coveted ticket only behind the academy

890
00:43:27,030 --> 00:43:24,839
awards in in the united states of

891
00:43:28,550 --> 00:43:27,040
america of course those are air force

892
00:43:30,150 --> 00:43:28,560
academy cadets that tell me this you

893
00:43:31,589 --> 00:43:30,160
know and they're trying to get as good a

894
00:43:33,270 --> 00:43:31,599
looking date to come to this thing as

895
00:43:35,270 --> 00:43:33,280
they possibly can

896
00:43:37,589 --> 00:43:35,280
jan this was really no kidding a blind

897
00:43:41,270 --> 00:43:37,599
date for jan because they had been set

898
00:43:43,589 --> 00:43:41,280
up by a friend letters had exchanged

899
00:43:46,309 --> 00:43:43,599
jan had set brian a picture

900
00:43:48,630 --> 00:43:46,319
brian was smart he did not send jan a

901
00:43:50,390 --> 00:43:48,640
picture

902
00:43:52,150 --> 00:43:50,400
he wanted to make sure she got on that

903
00:43:53,589 --> 00:43:52,160
airplane

904
00:43:54,390 --> 00:43:53,599
and who was the last one off the

905
00:43:57,510 --> 00:43:54,400
airplane

906
00:43:59,270 --> 00:43:57,520
that day and at the denver airport

907
00:44:01,670 --> 00:43:59,280
coming off seeing this young man sitting

908
00:44:03,510 --> 00:44:01,680
there holding her photograph in hand was

909
00:44:05,750 --> 00:44:03,520
jan helms

910
00:44:08,150 --> 00:44:05,760
it was instant love in fact jan told me

911
00:44:09,430 --> 00:44:08,160
she extended her time on that stay to

912
00:44:11,670 --> 00:44:09,440
get to know this young man a little

913
00:44:13,190 --> 00:44:11,680
better and when brian graduated and had

914
00:44:15,829 --> 00:44:13,200
a chance to go to undergraduate pilot

915
00:44:16,630 --> 00:44:15,839
training he didn't try to go to the

916
00:44:18,790 --> 00:44:16,640
nice

917
00:44:20,710 --> 00:44:18,800
spa location that i went to in phoenix

918
00:44:22,950 --> 00:44:20,720
arizona he volunteered to go to columbus

919
00:44:25,270 --> 00:44:22,960
mississippi to be close to jan who was

920
00:44:26,710 --> 00:44:25,280
teaching school then down in florida and

921
00:44:29,430 --> 00:44:26,720
of course that led to a wonderful

922
00:44:31,030 --> 00:44:29,440
marriage and a wonderful family that i

923
00:44:32,390 --> 00:44:31,040
think was appropriately described

924
00:44:33,670 --> 00:44:32,400
earlier has taken up a good number of

925
00:44:35,589 --> 00:44:33,680
the seats here today and it's so

926
00:44:38,470 --> 00:44:35,599
wonderful to have the duffy and helms

927
00:44:40,550 --> 00:44:38,480
clan here to be part of this

928
00:44:41,990 --> 00:44:40,560
brian uh i know he did great in pilot

929
00:44:44,550 --> 00:44:42,000
training as a distinguished graduate and

930
00:44:46,790 --> 00:44:44,560
in 1975 when he went to pilot training

931
00:44:48,790 --> 00:44:46,800
graduating the next year the f-15 was

932
00:44:50,870 --> 00:44:48,800
the newest hottest jet in the united

933
00:44:52,390 --> 00:44:50,880
states air force and mostly only

934
00:44:54,309 --> 00:44:52,400
experienced people were given that

935
00:44:56,470 --> 00:44:54,319
airplane except they picked a few

936
00:44:58,150 --> 00:44:56,480
nuggets right out of pilot training who

937
00:44:59,910 --> 00:44:58,160
they thought had some potential and

938
00:45:01,750 --> 00:44:59,920
brian duffy was one of those very first

939
00:45:03,349 --> 00:45:01,760
second lieutenants selected by the

940
00:45:05,430 --> 00:45:03,359
united states air force to check out in

941
00:45:06,390 --> 00:45:05,440
the f-15 off to langley air force base

942
00:45:08,790 --> 00:45:06,400
he went

943
00:45:11,109 --> 00:45:08,800
and had a and did spectacular there was

944
00:45:12,550 --> 00:45:11,119
one of the bright up-and-coming stars

945
00:45:14,390 --> 00:45:12,560
went out of the blue one day someone

946
00:45:16,470 --> 00:45:14,400
handed him some orders that said you're

947
00:45:18,470 --> 00:45:16,480
going to go to kadena air base okinawa

948
00:45:20,630 --> 00:45:18,480
japan and you're going to be the wing

949
00:45:22,390 --> 00:45:20,640
safety officer there

950
00:45:24,230 --> 00:45:22,400
now in those days in the air force the

951
00:45:26,069 --> 00:45:24,240
wing safety officer was kind of the kiss

952
00:45:28,550 --> 00:45:26,079
of death to your career

953
00:45:30,230 --> 00:45:28,560
in fact five guys in front of brian had

954
00:45:32,309 --> 00:45:30,240
turned the assignment down and elected

955
00:45:34,069 --> 00:45:32,319
to get out of the air force and the only

956
00:45:35,510 --> 00:45:34,079
reason brian got the assignment is he

957
00:45:37,990 --> 00:45:35,520
still had a three-year commitment in the

958
00:45:41,190 --> 00:45:38,000
air force and he couldn't say no

959
00:45:42,710 --> 00:45:41,200
so you know any just being a logical guy

960
00:45:44,230 --> 00:45:42,720
brian figured well this is it for me i

961
00:45:46,069 --> 00:45:44,240
guess i'll go to kadena but while i'm

962
00:45:48,470 --> 00:45:46,079
there i better be thinking about my next

963
00:45:50,470 --> 00:45:48,480
career because clearly the air force has

964
00:45:52,550 --> 00:45:50,480
given up on me

965
00:45:54,630 --> 00:45:52,560
it's where brian and i met

966
00:45:56,630 --> 00:45:54,640
and brian became my instructor pilot now

967
00:45:57,990 --> 00:45:56,640
i knew none of these stories and i

968
00:45:59,670 --> 00:45:58,000
didn't understand what it meant to be

969
00:46:01,829 --> 00:45:59,680
the wing safety officer but i understood

970
00:46:03,510 --> 00:46:01,839
what it meant to be a good fighter pilot

971
00:46:05,030 --> 00:46:03,520
and i knew i had the best fighter pilot

972
00:46:07,589 --> 00:46:05,040
in the 18th deck fighter wing as my

973
00:46:10,230 --> 00:46:07,599
instructor pilot and brian duffy

974
00:46:12,550 --> 00:46:10,240
but i guess to put in a nasa term being

975
00:46:14,550 --> 00:46:12,560
assigned to the 18th tech fighter wing

976
00:46:15,990 --> 00:46:14,560
headquarters safety office was kind of

977
00:46:18,069 --> 00:46:16,000
like being assigned to building one at

978
00:46:19,910 --> 00:46:18,079
the johnson space center it was not

979
00:46:22,309 --> 00:46:19,920
something you desired to do

980
00:46:24,230 --> 00:46:22,319
or looked forward to do

981
00:46:25,910 --> 00:46:24,240
but duff you know is one of these guys

982
00:46:28,470 --> 00:46:25,920
that just he just doesn't complain he

983
00:46:30,150 --> 00:46:28,480
goes through life with a skip and a step

984
00:46:32,470 --> 00:46:30,160
and a smile on his face

985
00:46:35,270 --> 00:46:32,480
and just does his job and just does his

986
00:46:37,190 --> 00:46:35,280
job better than anybody around him

987
00:46:40,390 --> 00:46:37,200
and apparently he did it better than he

988
00:46:41,589 --> 00:46:40,400
even realized because eventually

989
00:46:42,470 --> 00:46:41,599
although he thought it was the end of

990
00:46:44,069 --> 00:46:42,480
his career

991
00:46:45,829 --> 00:46:44,079
some interesting things were happening

992
00:46:47,990 --> 00:46:45,839
behind the scenes

993
00:46:49,750 --> 00:46:48,000
of course he didn't know it so

994
00:46:51,270 --> 00:46:49,760
he executed his plan

995
00:46:52,950 --> 00:46:51,280
he thought maybe being a test pilot

996
00:46:54,829 --> 00:46:52,960
would be kind of interesting duty so he

997
00:46:58,390 --> 00:46:54,839
filled out an application to test pilot

998
00:47:00,309 --> 00:46:58,400
school he was not selected he was an

999
00:47:03,430 --> 00:47:00,319
alternate he found out

1000
00:47:09,990 --> 00:47:05,670
this is a strange one i guess i'll go be

1001
00:47:12,390 --> 00:47:11,030
don't know there may be a connection

1002
00:47:13,829 --> 00:47:12,400
back to southie there that i just

1003
00:47:15,990 --> 00:47:13,839
haven't heard the story about but you

1004
00:47:17,990 --> 00:47:16,000
know here we got a fighter pilot math

1005
00:47:20,630 --> 00:47:18,000
major wants to be a test pilot and his

1006
00:47:23,349 --> 00:47:20,640
bailout plan is to be a lawyer

1007
00:47:24,870 --> 00:47:23,359
so when he's on a temporary duty trip to

1008
00:47:27,670 --> 00:47:24,880
the united states of america for two

1009
00:47:29,589 --> 00:47:27,680
months at maxwell air force base alabama

1010
00:47:32,470 --> 00:47:29,599
he sneaks out juan rica and rents a car

1011
00:47:35,270 --> 00:47:32,480
drives to auburn takes the lsat and gets

1012
00:47:37,510 --> 00:47:35,280
accepted into two law schools

1013
00:47:39,190 --> 00:47:37,520
comes back to okinawa he's two weeks

1014
00:47:40,470 --> 00:47:39,200
away from dropping his letter to get out

1015
00:47:42,069 --> 00:47:40,480
of the air force saying thank you very

1016
00:47:44,069 --> 00:47:42,079
much for a wonderful career i'm off to

1017
00:47:45,990 --> 00:47:44,079
law school when the wing director of

1018
00:47:48,150 --> 00:47:46,000
operation of infamous fighter pilot

1019
00:47:49,829 --> 00:47:48,160
named moody suitor calls him into his

1020
00:47:50,870 --> 00:47:49,839
office and says brian you've done a

1021
00:47:52,950 --> 00:47:50,880
great job

1022
00:47:54,549 --> 00:47:52,960
as the head of flight safety here and i

1023
00:47:56,150 --> 00:47:54,559
want you to go to fighter weapons school

1024
00:47:58,309 --> 00:47:56,160
and be our representative for the 18th

1025
00:48:01,109 --> 00:47:58,319
tech fighter wing

1026
00:48:02,630 --> 00:48:01,119
now this is the most plum assignment any

1027
00:48:04,710 --> 00:48:02,640
fighter pilot could get in the united

1028
00:48:07,829 --> 00:48:04,720
states air force to go to this is the

1029
00:48:09,030 --> 00:48:07,839
navy top gun fighter weapon school

1030
00:48:10,950 --> 00:48:09,040
f-15

1031
00:48:13,190 --> 00:48:10,960
young captain

1032
00:48:17,990 --> 00:48:13,200
brian says well sir that's really not in

1033
00:48:21,270 --> 00:48:19,109
after being

1034
00:48:23,030 --> 00:48:21,280
less than unceremoniously thrown out of

1035
00:48:24,790 --> 00:48:23,040
moody's office literally thrown out of

1036
00:48:27,430 --> 00:48:24,800
moody's office brian went back and

1037
00:48:29,109 --> 00:48:27,440
thought what what is going on here

1038
00:48:31,270 --> 00:48:29,119
and fortunately

1039
00:48:33,750 --> 00:48:31,280
before that that his letter hit the desk

1040
00:48:35,829 --> 00:48:33,760
at the military personnel center

1041
00:48:38,309 --> 00:48:35,839
a slot opened up at air force test pilot

1042
00:48:39,510 --> 00:48:38,319
school and he got a cold call that said

1043
00:48:40,950 --> 00:48:39,520
how would you like to come out for a

1044
00:48:43,510 --> 00:48:40,960
five flight of bow

1045
00:48:46,150 --> 00:48:43,520
he said i think i'll try that and so

1046
00:48:48,390 --> 00:48:46,160
instead of law school brian ended up off

1047
00:48:50,549 --> 00:48:48,400
at air force test pilot school in the

1048
00:48:51,990 --> 00:48:50,559
year of 1982.

1049
00:48:54,230 --> 00:48:52,000
now

1050
00:48:56,230 --> 00:48:54,240
of course how did brian do a test pilot

1051
00:48:57,829 --> 00:48:56,240
school distinguished graduates out there

1052
00:49:00,069 --> 00:48:57,839
of course and from there he moved on to

1053
00:49:01,910 --> 00:49:00,079
eglin air force base where he excelled

1054
00:49:05,589 --> 00:49:01,920
as a test pilot

1055
00:49:07,109 --> 00:49:05,599
i followed brian not from kadena to

1056
00:49:09,430 --> 00:49:07,119
test pilot school and then i was

1057
00:49:10,790 --> 00:49:09,440
assigned to eglin and joined him down

1058
00:49:13,030 --> 00:49:10,800
there and i can tell you he was working

1059
00:49:14,470 --> 00:49:13,040
on a very critical and classified

1060
00:49:16,470 --> 00:49:14,480
program at the time that was very

1061
00:49:18,470 --> 00:49:16,480
important to our national defense

1062
00:49:20,710 --> 00:49:18,480
and just doing a bang-up job

1063
00:49:22,390 --> 00:49:20,720
but also remember that when he arrived

1064
00:49:24,470 --> 00:49:22,400
down there nasa was going to have a

1065
00:49:25,990 --> 00:49:24,480
selection for another astronaut class

1066
00:49:28,309 --> 00:49:26,000
1985

1067
00:49:30,230 --> 00:49:28,319
and every test pilot in in the wing down

1068
00:49:32,790 --> 00:49:30,240
there was applying to be an asset

1069
00:49:35,190 --> 00:49:32,800
astronaut except one

1070
00:49:36,230 --> 00:49:35,200
brian duffy

1071
00:49:38,069 --> 00:49:36,240
because

1072
00:49:39,349 --> 00:49:38,079
he just went to test pilot school and

1073
00:49:43,190 --> 00:49:39,359
thought that's what he was supposed to

1074
00:49:44,950 --> 00:49:43,200
be as a test pilot not an astronaut

1075
00:49:46,790 --> 00:49:44,960
he got another phone call from another

1076
00:49:49,190 --> 00:49:46,800
wing do this time a little kinder

1077
00:49:51,510 --> 00:49:49,200
colonel who called him in and said brian

1078
00:49:54,069 --> 00:49:51,520
i understand you're not applying to test

1079
00:49:56,470 --> 00:49:54,079
or to the nasa program and brian said no

1080
00:49:58,390 --> 00:49:56,480
i don't think i'm going to and he says

1081
00:50:00,069 --> 00:49:58,400
i think you should

1082
00:50:01,829 --> 00:50:00,079
and this time brian did follow the

1083
00:50:03,349 --> 00:50:01,839
advice of his colonel

1084
00:50:05,109 --> 00:50:03,359
he literally had filled out his

1085
00:50:07,510 --> 00:50:05,119
application finished filling it out on a

1086
00:50:09,510 --> 00:50:07,520
friday and a dear friend of ours steve

1087
00:50:11,510 --> 00:50:09,520
pattati checked out on f4 for the

1088
00:50:13,589 --> 00:50:11,520
weekend flew to randolph air force base

1089
00:50:15,270 --> 00:50:13,599
with brian's application so that the

1090
00:50:17,270 --> 00:50:15,280
board would have it on his de on their

1091
00:50:19,030 --> 00:50:17,280
desk on monday morning

1092
00:50:21,670 --> 00:50:19,040
and the only test pilot from eglin air

1093
00:50:23,750 --> 00:50:21,680
force base selected by nasa that year

1094
00:50:25,270 --> 00:50:23,760
was brian duffy

1095
00:50:27,030 --> 00:50:25,280
so you know if you if you're not a

1096
00:50:28,230 --> 00:50:27,040
believer in providence

1097
00:50:30,069 --> 00:50:28,240
you know there's there's too many

1098
00:50:32,309 --> 00:50:30,079
examples in this man's life where some

1099
00:50:33,349 --> 00:50:32,319
twists and turns have have have moved

1100
00:50:35,190 --> 00:50:33,359
along

1101
00:50:36,549 --> 00:50:35,200
but you know just because the air force

1102
00:50:37,670 --> 00:50:36,559
recommends you to nasa doesn't mean

1103
00:50:39,910 --> 00:50:37,680
you're in you've got to go through the

1104
00:50:41,349 --> 00:50:39,920
interview process and all that stuff and

1105
00:50:43,670 --> 00:50:41,359
there's a there's a great story from

1106
00:50:46,790 --> 00:50:43,680
brian's interview that i think is also

1107
00:50:49,030 --> 00:50:46,800
kind of captures his sense of humor and

1108
00:50:50,950 --> 00:50:49,040
a little bit of the steel in his spine

1109
00:50:52,470 --> 00:50:50,960
so the story goes brian is sitting there

1110
00:50:53,990 --> 00:50:52,480
at the at the interview table and of

1111
00:50:56,230 --> 00:50:54,000
course the head of the johnson or the

1112
00:50:57,829 --> 00:50:56,240
flight crew operations is chairing this

1113
00:50:59,750 --> 00:50:57,839
and there's different astronauts there

1114
00:51:02,230 --> 00:50:59,760
and personnel people and they're going

1115
00:51:04,309 --> 00:51:02,240
around asking them various questions and

1116
00:51:05,750 --> 00:51:04,319
one of the questions that was asked of

1117
00:51:07,510 --> 00:51:05,760
brian was

1118
00:51:09,109 --> 00:51:07,520
where he went to college now of course

1119
00:51:10,630 --> 00:51:09,119
they know this it's in the folder but

1120
00:51:12,390 --> 00:51:10,640
this part of the game

1121
00:51:14,150 --> 00:51:12,400
and brian said well i went to the

1122
00:51:16,150 --> 00:51:14,160
academy

1123
00:51:18,790 --> 00:51:16,160
and the man at the head of the table who

1124
00:51:20,950 --> 00:51:18,800
was a graduate of the of annapolis said

1125
00:51:22,870 --> 00:51:20,960
which academy

1126
00:51:28,790 --> 00:51:22,880
brian smiled and said

1127
00:51:31,910 --> 00:51:30,150
well that gentleman who was sitting at

1128
00:51:33,030 --> 00:51:31,920
the head of the table sent me a note the

1129
00:51:34,470 --> 00:51:33,040
other day

1130
00:51:36,710 --> 00:51:34,480
and i want to read it to you it's pretty

1131
00:51:39,750 --> 00:51:36,720
short so first he offers

1132
00:51:41,750 --> 00:51:39,760
his congratulations to you brian

1133
00:51:43,589 --> 00:51:41,760
and he says however

1134
00:51:45,109 --> 00:51:43,599
i'm a little concerned and this is just

1135
00:51:47,430 --> 00:51:45,119
to point out that there's always one

1136
00:51:48,870 --> 00:51:47,440
more chance to get even

1137
00:51:50,870 --> 00:51:48,880
i'm a little concerned that you are

1138
00:51:54,390 --> 00:51:50,880
honoring an individual who has acquired

1139
00:51:56,390 --> 00:51:54,400
a reputation for not paying off his bets

1140
00:51:59,510 --> 00:51:56,400
for you see brian is yet to pay off for

1141
00:52:01,510 --> 00:51:59,520
his unwise wager on an on air force when

1142
00:52:03,750 --> 00:52:01,520
they played navy during the 2015

1143
00:52:05,829 --> 00:52:03,760
football season

1144
00:52:07,910 --> 00:52:05,839
i would also note that it has taken the

1145
00:52:09,190 --> 00:52:07,920
astronaut hall of fame a long time to

1146
00:52:11,349 --> 00:52:09,200
honor brian

1147
00:52:13,589 --> 00:52:11,359
the irish after all recognized him for

1148
00:52:16,710 --> 00:52:13,599
his contributions and his virtues some

1149
00:52:18,710 --> 00:52:16,720
26 years ago when they made him the 1990

1150
00:52:20,710 --> 00:52:18,720
grand marshal of houston's st patrick's

1151
00:52:30,549 --> 00:52:20,720
day parade

1152
00:52:34,390 --> 00:52:32,470
asked uh brian's afghan years were

1153
00:52:37,510 --> 00:52:34,400
interrupted as the whole offices were by

1154
00:52:39,990 --> 00:52:37,520
the tragedy of the challenger accident

1155
00:52:41,910 --> 00:52:40,000
and brian told me you know one of the

1156
00:52:43,829 --> 00:52:41,920
neat things that he got to do and feels

1157
00:52:45,990 --> 00:52:43,839
very connected to was the ability to

1158
00:52:48,230 --> 00:52:46,000
participate even as a young new guy in

1159
00:52:50,549 --> 00:52:48,240
return to flight and he found himself in

1160
00:52:52,870 --> 00:52:50,559
short order assigned to the huntsville

1161
00:52:54,470 --> 00:52:52,880
working on issues associated with the

1162
00:52:55,589 --> 00:52:54,480
main engines and the solid rocket

1163
00:52:57,990 --> 00:52:55,599
boosters

1164
00:52:59,910 --> 00:52:58,000
and most flattering of all he said

1165
00:53:02,470 --> 00:52:59,920
was to be asked by rick hauck who's here

1166
00:53:04,950 --> 00:53:02,480
today and dick covey's who's here today

1167
00:53:06,870 --> 00:53:04,960
to be their family escorts for the

1168
00:53:07,750 --> 00:53:06,880
return to flight mission

1169
00:53:09,109 --> 00:53:07,760
um

1170
00:53:11,750 --> 00:53:09,119
for me

1171
00:53:15,589 --> 00:53:11,760
picking a family escort is a very very

1172
00:53:17,670 --> 00:53:15,599
personal moment and matter and

1173
00:53:21,510 --> 00:53:17,680
to know that these two gentlemen here

1174
00:53:24,790 --> 00:53:21,520
thought so highly of brian to do that

1175
00:53:26,710 --> 00:53:24,800
speaks volumes of brian duffy

1176
00:53:28,150 --> 00:53:26,720
well

1177
00:53:30,710 --> 00:53:28,160
brian had some good times too with other

1178
00:53:32,390 --> 00:53:30,720
additional duties in sale and capcom but

1179
00:53:34,549 --> 00:53:32,400
there's also that time in the barrel as

1180
00:53:37,430 --> 00:53:34,559
the navy folks say and he by and by

1181
00:53:39,190 --> 00:53:37,440
found himself back in building one as

1182
00:53:41,030 --> 00:53:39,200
both the bubba no good deed goes

1183
00:53:42,309 --> 00:53:41,040
unpublished punished there

1184
00:53:44,390 --> 00:53:42,319
and the assistant director of the

1185
00:53:46,790 --> 00:53:44,400
johnson space center and the acting

1186
00:53:48,870 --> 00:53:46,800
deputy director i can tell you that no

1187
00:53:50,069 --> 00:53:48,880
one in the astronaut office wanted these

1188
00:53:52,150 --> 00:53:50,079
jobs

1189
00:53:54,470 --> 00:53:52,160
no one again it was like being assigned

1190
00:53:56,470 --> 00:53:54,480
to headquarters and yet brian saluted

1191
00:53:58,150 --> 00:53:56,480
smartly and took them on and i can also

1192
00:54:00,230 --> 00:53:58,160
tell you every one of us in the

1193
00:54:03,510 --> 00:54:00,240
astronaut office at the time we're so

1194
00:54:05,190 --> 00:54:03,520
glad that brian did just that because he

1195
00:54:07,430 --> 00:54:05,200
brought an element of

1196
00:54:09,030 --> 00:54:07,440
of sanity we think i'd like to think but

1197
00:54:10,870 --> 00:54:09,040
also perspective from the astronaut

1198
00:54:12,710 --> 00:54:10,880
office perspective and we knew

1199
00:54:15,430 --> 00:54:12,720
that our voice was always going to be

1200
00:54:17,750 --> 00:54:15,440
heard through brian's quiet

1201
00:54:19,829 --> 00:54:17,760
dialogue in within the halls of power

1202
00:54:24,069 --> 00:54:19,839
and building one he was the right guy

1203
00:54:27,030 --> 00:54:25,190
you know

1204
00:54:29,109 --> 00:54:27,040
john has given us a great summary of

1205
00:54:31,030 --> 00:54:29,119
brian's flight flight experiences the

1206
00:54:32,870 --> 00:54:31,040
videos were fantastic

1207
00:54:34,950 --> 00:54:32,880
his first flight he was tutored by one

1208
00:54:38,309 --> 00:54:34,960
of the greats charlie bolden and brian

1209
00:54:40,230 --> 00:54:38,319
will has recognized him already on 57 he

1210
00:54:42,150 --> 00:54:40,240
did his first rendezvous with ron graby

1211
00:54:44,309 --> 00:54:42,160
and began to be schooled in that

1212
00:54:45,829 --> 00:54:44,319
on 72 he did another rendezvous but i

1213
00:54:47,030 --> 00:54:45,839
think something else stands out on that

1214
00:54:48,470 --> 00:54:47,040
flight

1215
00:54:49,270 --> 00:54:48,480
you know

1216
00:54:52,950 --> 00:54:49,280
it's

1217
00:54:55,270 --> 00:54:52,960
your crew in fact that's kind of

1218
00:54:57,190 --> 00:54:55,280
entertaining

1219
00:54:58,870 --> 00:54:57,200
having two rookies on your crew can be

1220
00:55:01,030 --> 00:54:58,880
pretty fun really because you can play

1221
00:55:02,950 --> 00:55:01,040
them off against each other

1222
00:55:05,190 --> 00:55:02,960
having three rookies on your crew i

1223
00:55:07,829 --> 00:55:05,200
would call challenging

1224
00:55:10,549 --> 00:55:07,839
having five rookies on your first flight

1225
00:55:12,710 --> 00:55:10,559
as a commander is terrifying

1226
00:55:14,710 --> 00:55:12,720
and that's what brian had here he was

1227
00:55:16,870 --> 00:55:14,720
his first command flight he had five

1228
00:55:18,789 --> 00:55:16,880
rookie astronauts who signed his flight

1229
00:55:21,510 --> 00:55:18,799
and his ms2 is the only one who had

1230
00:55:23,589 --> 00:55:21,520
flown before and he'd only flown once

1231
00:55:25,589 --> 00:55:23,599
that's the kind of trust in leadership

1232
00:55:27,750 --> 00:55:25,599
that the nasa leadership had in brian

1233
00:55:29,270 --> 00:55:27,760
duffy in his ability to do that mission

1234
00:55:31,030 --> 00:55:29,280
which they they completed very

1235
00:55:32,390 --> 00:55:31,040
successfully

1236
00:55:34,309 --> 00:55:32,400
i'll tell you those two round of view

1237
00:55:35,990 --> 00:55:34,319
missions though the skills he developed

1238
00:55:39,190 --> 00:55:36,000
in those flights really got put to the

1239
00:55:41,829 --> 00:55:39,200
test on his last flight sts-92 now 92 is

1240
00:55:43,190 --> 00:55:41,839
kind of an unsung flight

1241
00:55:44,870 --> 00:55:43,200
for the international space station you

1242
00:55:46,309 --> 00:55:44,880
know when you take up a module that

1243
00:55:47,750 --> 00:55:46,319
people you can open the hatch and go

1244
00:55:49,829 --> 00:55:47,760
inside and there's video down to the

1245
00:55:51,750 --> 00:55:49,839
ground that's that's really palpable for

1246
00:55:53,990 --> 00:55:51,760
the audiences to see on earth or if you

1247
00:55:55,990 --> 00:55:54,000
put up a 150-foot solar array that

1248
00:55:58,069 --> 00:55:56,000
deploys i mean that is cool

1249
00:55:59,750 --> 00:55:58,079
but you got this little box of a truss

1250
00:56:02,470 --> 00:55:59,760
with these black discs in it and you

1251
00:56:04,870 --> 00:56:02,480
can't get inside it and you're what is

1252
00:56:07,510 --> 00:56:04,880
this z1 trust anyway

1253
00:56:09,670 --> 00:56:07,520
well it's the brain of the international

1254
00:56:11,589 --> 00:56:09,680
space station it's the nervous system

1255
00:56:13,430 --> 00:56:11,599
it's the entire control system that

1256
00:56:15,910 --> 00:56:13,440
keeps it pointed in the direct direction

1257
00:56:17,670 --> 00:56:15,920
and all the communication systems go

1258
00:56:20,069 --> 00:56:17,680
through it so it's an incredibly

1259
00:56:22,470 --> 00:56:20,079
important element of the station but

1260
00:56:24,309 --> 00:56:22,480
brian was happy that to just you know

1261
00:56:25,589 --> 00:56:24,319
tell people about the z1 trust and leave

1262
00:56:27,109 --> 00:56:25,599
it at that

1263
00:56:29,109 --> 00:56:27,119
proud of his mission though and proud of

1264
00:56:31,589 --> 00:56:29,119
his crew

1265
00:56:32,870 --> 00:56:31,599
on his last training uh simulator before

1266
00:56:34,950 --> 00:56:32,880
that flight

1267
00:56:37,030 --> 00:56:34,960
uh brian they had the opportunity to do

1268
00:56:39,109 --> 00:56:37,040
one more run through the sim

1269
00:56:40,470 --> 00:56:39,119
and brian asked the

1270
00:56:41,990 --> 00:56:40,480
folks over at mission control if they

1271
00:56:45,270 --> 00:56:42,000
could do one more

1272
00:56:46,710 --> 00:56:45,280
radar fail rendezvous in the simulator

1273
00:56:48,230 --> 00:56:46,720
now mission control didn't like to do

1274
00:56:50,150 --> 00:56:48,240
those because with the radar fell they

1275
00:56:51,670 --> 00:56:50,160
had no information so it's like watching

1276
00:56:53,030 --> 00:56:51,680
paint dry for the last

1277
00:56:54,549 --> 00:56:53,040
50 minutes of the rendezvous and the

1278
00:56:56,630 --> 00:56:54,559
crew had all the data on board and

1279
00:56:58,069 --> 00:56:56,640
looked out the window to do it

1280
00:56:59,430 --> 00:56:58,079
but brian felt that he and the crew

1281
00:57:00,390 --> 00:56:59,440
needed just a little sharpening in that

1282
00:57:02,069 --> 00:57:00,400
area

1283
00:57:04,789 --> 00:57:02,079
again i think he was a little prescient

1284
00:57:06,390 --> 00:57:04,799
because sure enough on sts 92 during the

1285
00:57:09,510 --> 00:57:06,400
rendezvous with the international space

1286
00:57:11,750 --> 00:57:09,520
station carrying the z1 truss and pma3

1287
00:57:12,710 --> 00:57:11,760
two very critical payloads the radar

1288
00:57:15,670 --> 00:57:12,720
failed

1289
00:57:17,270 --> 00:57:15,680
and brian had to execute the first ever

1290
00:57:19,270 --> 00:57:17,280
non-radar rendezvous in the space

1291
00:57:21,510 --> 00:57:19,280
shuttle program

1292
00:57:23,030 --> 00:57:21,520
well they were trained right they had

1293
00:57:25,430 --> 00:57:23,040
sharpened their skills just before they

1294
00:57:27,829 --> 00:57:25,440
went up right so no problem of course

1295
00:57:30,309 --> 00:57:27,839
the ground is seeing nothing because the

1296
00:57:32,710 --> 00:57:30,319
radar turned off but brian's flying it

1297
00:57:33,990 --> 00:57:32,720
they do their burns and it's night and

1298
00:57:36,150 --> 00:57:34,000
they're coming into the portion of the

1299
00:57:37,109 --> 00:57:36,160
rendezvous where ryan floats back to the

1300
00:57:38,470 --> 00:57:37,119
back

1301
00:57:40,069 --> 00:57:38,480
station on the

1302
00:57:41,510 --> 00:57:40,079
shuttle flight deck and is looking

1303
00:57:43,670 --> 00:57:41,520
through the optical sight out the

1304
00:57:45,349 --> 00:57:43,680
overhead window as the sun rises

1305
00:57:48,150 --> 00:57:45,359
expecting to see the space station

1306
00:57:49,670 --> 00:57:48,160
somewhere in the vicinity of the site

1307
00:57:50,870 --> 00:57:49,680
not only is it nowhere in the vicinity

1308
00:57:52,630 --> 00:57:50,880
of the site

1309
00:57:53,829 --> 00:57:52,640
it's not even in the window

1310
00:57:55,030 --> 00:57:53,839
so you imagine you're looking up there

1311
00:57:56,309 --> 00:57:55,040
going

1312
00:57:57,990 --> 00:57:56,319
this isn't how it worked in the

1313
00:57:59,829 --> 00:57:58,000
simulator

1314
00:58:00,950 --> 00:57:59,839
and he told me he paused for a moment

1315
00:58:02,230 --> 00:58:00,960
like

1316
00:58:04,470 --> 00:58:02,240
where is it

1317
00:58:07,030 --> 00:58:04,480
and then someone said look and out

1318
00:58:09,750 --> 00:58:07,040
across the payload bale they behind the

1319
00:58:12,630 --> 00:58:09,760
tail of the shuttle just above the ompo

1320
00:58:14,470 --> 00:58:12,640
ohms pods was the space station

1321
00:58:17,109 --> 00:58:14,480
now there's no procedures to recover

1322
00:58:18,950 --> 00:58:17,119
from this position folks i mean there

1323
00:58:21,109 --> 00:58:18,960
you don't know exactly where you are at

1324
00:58:23,750 --> 00:58:21,119
this point or your trajectory

1325
00:58:25,510 --> 00:58:23,760
and brian duffy the best bfm pilot basic

1326
00:58:28,230 --> 00:58:25,520
fighter maneuver pilot i ever flew with

1327
00:58:30,069 --> 00:58:28,240
in the f-15 put all those skills and his

1328
00:58:32,069 --> 00:58:30,079
mathematic skills and his understanding

1329
00:58:34,069 --> 00:58:32,079
of orbital mechanics to use at that

1330
00:58:35,829 --> 00:58:34,079
moment i said what'd you do brian he

1331
00:58:39,109 --> 00:58:35,839
says i leaned on that translational hand

1332
00:58:40,470 --> 00:58:39,119
controller like you wouldn't believe it

1333
00:58:42,150 --> 00:58:40,480
he said mcdivot may have found the

1334
00:58:43,750 --> 00:58:42,160
mcdivit quadrant but i was going to test

1335
00:58:45,270 --> 00:58:43,760
it one more time

1336
00:58:46,870 --> 00:58:45,280
and he thrusted toward this thing all

1337
00:58:48,069 --> 00:58:46,880
the ground could see was the fuel going

1338
00:58:49,190 --> 00:58:48,079
away

1339
00:58:50,789 --> 00:58:49,200
that's all they could see they didn't

1340
00:58:52,309 --> 00:58:50,799
know where the station was and the

1341
00:58:54,470 --> 00:58:52,319
shuttle relative to it they were just

1342
00:58:56,630 --> 00:58:54,480
watching the gauges go down

1343
00:58:58,789 --> 00:58:56,640
but when the rendezvous was complete

1344
00:59:00,390 --> 00:58:58,799
it turned out brian had used exactly the

1345
00:59:03,109 --> 00:59:00,400
amount of fuel programmed because the

1346
00:59:05,109 --> 00:59:03,119
correction he put in put him in a final

1347
00:59:07,990 --> 00:59:05,119
terminal approach that required no fuel

1348
00:59:09,829 --> 00:59:08,000
at all to complete the rendezvous

1349
00:59:11,510 --> 00:59:09,839
this is kind of guy that brian is and

1350
00:59:13,109 --> 00:59:11,520
the reason you've never heard that story

1351
00:59:14,870 --> 00:59:13,119
is because brian doesn't tell stories

1352
00:59:18,390 --> 00:59:14,880
about himself

1353
00:59:20,630 --> 00:59:18,400
he's a quiet unassuming leader

1354
00:59:23,270 --> 00:59:20,640
who does exceptional at everything that

1355
00:59:26,069 --> 00:59:24,950
i call him an out of the limelight

1356
00:59:28,150 --> 00:59:26,079
leader

1357
00:59:29,910 --> 00:59:28,160
an out of the line like person who

1358
00:59:31,910 --> 00:59:29,920
pursues excellence

1359
00:59:34,549 --> 00:59:31,920
and out of the limelight person who does

1360
00:59:36,309 --> 00:59:34,559
nothing but his duty

1361
00:59:37,270 --> 00:59:36,319
which he can never ask be asked to do

1362
00:59:40,630 --> 00:59:37,280
more of

1363
00:59:42,470 --> 00:59:40,640
and always always with good humor

1364
00:59:45,030 --> 00:59:42,480
he was late to the space business he

1365
00:59:46,789 --> 00:59:45,040
didn't know it was his destiny

1366
00:59:49,030 --> 00:59:46,799
but he woke up one day and found himself

1367
00:59:51,270 --> 00:59:49,040
at nasa and he never left the space

1368
00:59:52,789 --> 00:59:51,280
business even after leaving nasa he

1369
00:59:54,390 --> 00:59:52,799
stayed actively involved in

1370
00:59:57,430 --> 00:59:54,400
participating with lockheed martin and

1371
01:00:00,069 --> 00:59:57,440
now orbital atk to make sure there is a

1372
01:00:01,990 --> 01:00:00,079
future for this country in human space

1373
01:00:04,470 --> 01:00:02,000
flight

1374
01:00:06,069 --> 01:00:04,480
ladies and gentlemen

1375
01:00:07,990 --> 01:00:06,079
it's good thing it's a good thing when

1376
01:00:09,589 --> 01:00:08,000
good things happen to good people and a

1377
01:00:10,549 --> 01:00:09,599
good thing is happening today to brian

1378
01:00:12,630 --> 01:00:10,559
duffy

1379
01:00:14,950 --> 01:00:12,640
it's my pleasure to present

1380
01:00:16,789 --> 01:00:14,960
colonel brian duffy for induction into

1381
01:00:54,829 --> 01:00:16,799
the air force hall of fame

1382
01:01:00,549 --> 01:00:56,390
wow

1383
01:01:00,559 --> 01:01:03,829
um

1384
01:01:07,270 --> 01:01:05,829
i've only had about six months to get

1385
01:01:09,990 --> 01:01:07,280
ready for this

1386
01:01:11,990 --> 01:01:10,000
today since i found out about

1387
01:01:14,630 --> 01:01:12,000
from a phone call from dan

1388
01:01:16,069 --> 01:01:14,640
um before christmas so it was like

1389
01:01:18,069 --> 01:01:16,079
kind of the nicest christmas present i

1390
01:01:20,789 --> 01:01:18,079
could have could have received

1391
01:01:21,990 --> 01:01:20,799
except it came with a sketch as all

1392
01:01:23,589 --> 01:01:22,000
things do and dan said well you can't

1393
01:01:26,630 --> 01:01:23,599
tell anybody

1394
01:01:29,270 --> 01:01:27,510
so

1395
01:01:30,950 --> 01:01:29,280
you know i'm used to uh on space

1396
01:01:31,910 --> 01:01:30,960
missions you usually you train for about

1397
01:01:34,150 --> 01:01:31,920
a year

1398
01:01:35,750 --> 01:01:34,160
before before you go fly when you're

1399
01:01:38,390 --> 01:01:35,760
with your crew

1400
01:01:40,630 --> 01:01:38,400
and um so i haven't had a year

1401
01:01:42,309 --> 01:01:40,640
to do this i'm not not quite as prepared

1402
01:01:43,030 --> 01:01:42,319
as maybe as i would be six months from

1403
01:01:45,430 --> 01:01:43,040
now

1404
01:01:52,470 --> 01:01:46,870
uh

1405
01:01:54,950 --> 01:01:52,480
characterized um

1406
01:01:56,950 --> 01:01:54,960
my growing up in my life thank you for

1407
01:01:57,829 --> 01:01:56,960
doing that chili that that was great i

1408
01:01:59,270 --> 01:01:57,839
know

1409
01:02:01,029 --> 01:01:59,280
for those of you that were at the gala

1410
01:02:02,230 --> 01:02:01,039
last night we talked a lot more about

1411
01:02:04,470 --> 01:02:02,240
family

1412
01:02:07,109 --> 01:02:04,480
there and kevin the connection that

1413
01:02:08,630 --> 01:02:07,119
kevin and my families have which is

1414
01:02:10,870 --> 01:02:08,640
very very strong and that's something

1415
01:02:12,470 --> 01:02:10,880
that we value very much kevin

1416
01:02:17,510 --> 01:02:12,480
so

1417
01:02:19,270 --> 01:02:17,520
it's truly an amazing day for uh

1418
01:02:21,109 --> 01:02:19,280
you know a young boy that's growing up

1419
01:02:22,309 --> 01:02:21,119
and actually the town that i grew up in

1420
01:02:24,710 --> 01:02:22,319
is called

1421
01:02:25,589 --> 01:02:24,720
rockland massachusetts

1422
01:02:31,589 --> 01:02:25,599
and

1423
01:02:33,750 --> 01:02:31,599
get away from some of the things that

1424
01:02:36,309 --> 01:02:33,760
kevin insinuated

1425
01:02:37,990 --> 01:02:36,319
they actually moved out into the burbs

1426
01:02:39,829 --> 01:02:38,000
in this little town of

1427
01:02:41,349 --> 01:02:39,839
rockland which

1428
01:02:42,870 --> 01:02:41,359
is pretty uh

1429
01:02:45,829 --> 01:02:42,880
it's pretty nice place i'll talk a

1430
01:02:49,910 --> 01:02:45,839
little bit more about it

1431
01:02:51,270 --> 01:02:49,920
but growing up in that town i was you

1432
01:02:53,190 --> 01:02:51,280
know

1433
01:02:55,109 --> 01:02:53,200
was makes this a day that i never would

1434
01:02:57,510 --> 01:02:55,119
have dreamed could have happened

1435
01:03:00,309 --> 01:02:57,520
here so

1436
01:03:03,510 --> 01:03:00,319
being here in being introduced by

1437
01:03:06,630 --> 01:03:03,520
a friend of over 35 years a good friend

1438
01:03:08,950 --> 01:03:06,640
um is this is a special event in my life

1439
01:03:10,710 --> 01:03:08,960
in in jan's life

1440
01:03:12,309 --> 01:03:10,720
here and um

1441
01:03:14,829 --> 01:03:12,319
thank you kevin for

1442
01:03:16,950 --> 01:03:14,839
um for being here thank you for for the

1443
01:03:18,390 --> 01:03:16,960
introduction uh when they asked me who

1444
01:03:20,230 --> 01:03:18,400
you'd like to in

1445
01:03:21,990 --> 01:03:20,240
who would you like to introduce you uh

1446
01:03:24,150 --> 01:03:22,000
it took about a a min you know about a

1447
01:03:25,750 --> 01:03:24,160
millisecond for me to say kevin chilton

1448
01:03:28,069 --> 01:03:25,760
to do that just because of our

1449
01:03:29,670 --> 01:03:28,079
friendship and our relationship uh thank

1450
01:03:31,430 --> 01:03:29,680
you for what you what you've done and

1451
01:03:32,870 --> 01:03:31,440
thank you for being here and kathy i

1452
01:03:34,789 --> 01:03:32,880
know you're here thank you for coming

1453
01:03:39,670 --> 01:03:34,799
too so but most of all thanks for your

1454
01:03:44,390 --> 01:03:42,230
uh this it's truly a humbling experience

1455
01:03:46,789 --> 01:03:44,400
uh to be there um

1456
01:03:49,190 --> 01:03:46,799
joining my heroes i'm looking at the the

1457
01:03:51,829 --> 01:03:49,200
front row here these are

1458
01:03:53,670 --> 01:03:51,839
these are the folks that that as i was

1459
01:03:55,589 --> 01:03:53,680
growing up i watched do all of the all

1460
01:03:57,270 --> 01:03:55,599
the great things and and i kind of

1461
01:03:59,109 --> 01:03:57,280
dreamed a little bit about what it might

1462
01:04:01,029 --> 01:03:59,119
be like but never thought i'd ever ever

1463
01:04:04,230 --> 01:04:01,039
have the chance

1464
01:04:05,430 --> 01:04:04,240
but joining you is a is a special treat

1465
01:04:08,470 --> 01:04:05,440
for me

1466
01:04:10,230 --> 01:04:08,480
and um and i'm really happy and proud to

1467
01:04:13,029 --> 01:04:10,240
be joining with

1468
01:04:15,270 --> 01:04:13,039
my my mate scott parazynski

1469
01:04:17,190 --> 01:04:15,280
the fearless astronaut and mountain

1470
01:04:19,589 --> 01:04:17,200
climber that you'll hear hear more about

1471
01:04:22,390 --> 01:04:19,599
here shortly

1472
01:04:23,270 --> 01:04:22,400
uh so scott and my our congratulations

1473
01:04:31,750 --> 01:04:23,280
to you

1474
01:04:34,470 --> 01:04:32,710
um

1475
01:04:36,630 --> 01:04:34,480
you know i want to i want to thank the

1476
01:04:38,829 --> 01:04:36,640
astronaut scholarship foundation and the

1477
01:04:40,630 --> 01:04:38,839
selection committee for

1478
01:04:42,710 --> 01:04:40,640
for uh

1479
01:04:45,029 --> 01:04:42,720
shining this light on us and and

1480
01:04:48,950 --> 01:04:45,039
inviting us to join this incredible um

1481
01:04:53,589 --> 01:04:51,910
it's a it's a genuine honor and it's

1482
01:04:55,750 --> 01:04:53,599
it's beyond a doubt

1483
01:04:58,150 --> 01:04:55,760
the greatest recognition

1484
01:05:00,069 --> 01:04:58,160
of my professional career

1485
01:05:00,950 --> 01:05:00,079
i can't imagine i can't imagine a better

1486
01:05:03,029 --> 01:05:00,960
one

1487
01:05:04,950 --> 01:05:03,039
and in this role i look forward to

1488
01:05:05,990 --> 01:05:04,960
helping forward

1489
01:05:10,150 --> 01:05:06,000
the

1490
01:05:10,870 --> 01:05:10,160
heard it mentioned already at least once

1491
01:05:17,589 --> 01:05:10,880
the

1492
01:05:20,470 --> 01:05:17,599
and

1493
01:05:21,829 --> 01:05:20,480
that role with

1494
01:05:25,589 --> 01:05:21,839
joining the other astronauts and

1495
01:05:29,109 --> 01:05:27,829
and i'd like to extend a big thank you

1496
01:05:31,109 --> 01:05:29,119
also to

1497
01:05:32,549 --> 01:05:31,119
tammy and the astronaut scholarship

1498
01:05:33,910 --> 01:05:32,559
foundation

1499
01:05:35,190 --> 01:05:33,920
her staff

1500
01:05:37,670 --> 01:05:35,200
that is

1501
01:05:39,430 --> 01:05:37,680
has put on not only uh last night's

1502
01:05:40,470 --> 01:05:39,440
event but has taken care of every single

1503
01:05:42,230 --> 01:05:40,480
detail

1504
01:05:45,829 --> 01:05:42,240
for us over the over the weekend which

1505
01:05:48,069 --> 01:05:45,839
is has been absolutely fabulous

1506
01:05:51,510 --> 01:05:48,079
like to thank darren who's here as well

1507
01:05:55,029 --> 01:05:51,520
because as has been mentioned

1508
01:05:56,390 --> 01:05:55,039
this venue is just awesome

1509
01:05:57,190 --> 01:05:56,400
what do folks think about it you like

1510
01:06:04,470 --> 01:05:57,200
this

1511
01:06:08,230 --> 01:06:05,990
so

1512
01:06:09,829 --> 01:06:08,240
every time i come here i like to i go up

1513
01:06:11,910 --> 01:06:09,839
on the top there and i look and hi folks

1514
01:06:13,589 --> 01:06:11,920
up there good good to see you

1515
01:06:15,029 --> 01:06:13,599
i go up there

1516
01:06:16,470 --> 01:06:15,039
from right about there you can see my

1517
01:06:18,309 --> 01:06:16,480
window

1518
01:06:19,829 --> 01:06:18,319
there so i always always like to go up

1519
01:06:22,789 --> 01:06:19,839
and look at my window

1520
01:06:25,109 --> 01:06:22,799
there which is where i looked out the

1521
01:06:26,470 --> 01:06:25,119
um but but this is an amazing

1522
01:06:28,789 --> 01:06:26,480
educational

1523
01:06:29,750 --> 01:06:28,799
event a great place to bring children to

1524
01:06:32,470 --> 01:06:29,760
and

1525
01:06:33,670 --> 01:06:32,480
for all of the folks that are here that

1526
01:06:35,510 --> 01:06:33,680
have brought children thank you for

1527
01:06:37,349 --> 01:06:35,520
doing that because you never know when

1528
01:06:38,309 --> 01:06:37,359
you bring a child to an educational

1529
01:06:40,230 --> 01:06:38,319
venue

1530
01:06:41,430 --> 01:06:40,240
uh where you might expose them to

1531
01:06:43,270 --> 01:06:41,440
something

1532
01:06:44,309 --> 01:06:43,280
that is going to change their life

1533
01:06:45,829 --> 01:06:44,319
forever

1534
01:06:49,670 --> 01:06:45,839
there so thank you for bringing all the

1535
01:06:51,510 --> 01:06:49,680
all the youngsters the future generation

1536
01:06:53,510 --> 01:06:51,520
um and and i

1537
01:06:55,510 --> 01:06:53,520
i love the way you tell the story of

1538
01:06:57,510 --> 01:06:55,520
space exploration here

1539
01:06:59,190 --> 01:06:57,520
you look you look backwards and you look

1540
01:07:00,710 --> 01:06:59,200
forward as well

1541
01:07:02,390 --> 01:07:00,720
there and

1542
01:07:04,309 --> 01:07:02,400
that's an important message so that when

1543
01:07:07,510 --> 01:07:04,319
people from all over the world

1544
01:07:09,910 --> 01:07:07,520
come here to um to to learn about space

1545
01:07:12,789 --> 01:07:09,920
which is what they do

1546
01:07:15,109 --> 01:07:12,799
they leave much smarter and much more

1547
01:07:17,910 --> 01:07:15,119
knowledgeable about it because of the

1548
01:07:27,990 --> 01:07:17,920
way that you're able to tell our story

1549
01:07:31,670 --> 01:07:30,309
so those of you that uh that know me you

1550
01:07:33,029 --> 01:07:31,680
heard kevin talk a little bit about some

1551
01:07:34,870 --> 01:07:33,039
baseball

1552
01:07:36,069 --> 01:07:34,880
uh that are played

1553
01:07:37,990 --> 01:07:36,079
those of you that know me know that i've

1554
01:07:39,910 --> 01:07:38,000
been a lifelong

1555
01:07:42,549 --> 01:07:39,920
baseball fan

1556
01:07:44,309 --> 01:07:42,559
uh growing up i was either playing it or

1557
01:07:45,910 --> 01:07:44,319
practicing you know i was in a game or

1558
01:07:47,829 --> 01:07:45,920
practicing for a game

1559
01:07:50,710 --> 01:07:47,839
something something i loved

1560
01:07:53,109 --> 01:07:50,720
as a child i followed the red sox very

1561
01:07:55,270 --> 01:07:53,119
very carefully some summers i actually

1562
01:07:57,510 --> 01:07:55,280
scored listened on on the transistor

1563
01:07:59,190 --> 01:07:57,520
radio i had

1564
01:08:00,710 --> 01:07:59,200
actually scored every single game for an

1565
01:08:04,309 --> 01:08:00,720
entire summer

1566
01:08:07,670 --> 01:08:05,990
and when the red sox played the yankees

1567
01:08:09,510 --> 01:08:07,680
i really paid attention to it because

1568
01:08:12,950 --> 01:08:09,520
they're just because of the

1569
01:08:14,390 --> 01:08:12,960
because of the rivalry that's there

1570
01:08:16,390 --> 01:08:14,400
so one of the most one of the most

1571
01:08:19,189 --> 01:08:16,400
colorful characters to ever play the

1572
01:08:20,070 --> 01:08:19,199
game was a very famous yankee catcher

1573
01:08:22,630 --> 01:08:20,080
named

1574
01:08:25,749 --> 01:08:22,640
yogi bearer

1575
01:08:28,390 --> 01:08:25,759
and at his 1972

1576
01:08:29,990 --> 01:08:28,400
induction speech at the baseball hall of

1577
01:08:32,070 --> 01:08:30,000
fame

1578
01:08:33,829 --> 01:08:32,080
the very first thing he said in his

1579
01:08:36,390 --> 01:08:33,839
speech was

1580
01:08:38,550 --> 01:08:36,400
i guess the first thing i should do

1581
01:08:47,910 --> 01:08:38,560
is thank everybody who made this day

1582
01:08:51,269 --> 01:08:49,910
yep we lost yogi fairly recently but

1583
01:08:53,910 --> 01:08:51,279
we're going to keep his quotes around

1584
01:08:55,030 --> 01:08:53,920
because they're they'll last forever

1585
01:08:57,990 --> 01:08:55,040
so

1586
01:08:59,910 --> 01:08:58,000
i i would like to do the same

1587
01:09:03,349 --> 01:08:59,920
i would like to thank everyone who made

1588
01:09:07,349 --> 01:09:05,430
you know without putting any words in

1589
01:09:09,669 --> 01:09:07,359
yogi's mouth i think what he was saying

1590
01:09:12,390 --> 01:09:09,679
was that we're all shaped by the people

1591
01:09:13,829 --> 01:09:12,400
who touch us and touch our lives

1592
01:09:15,269 --> 01:09:13,839
and

1593
01:09:17,430 --> 01:09:15,279
certainly no one has

1594
01:09:28,630 --> 01:09:17,440
shaped my life and touched my life more

1595
01:09:31,510 --> 01:09:29,590
so

1596
01:09:33,430 --> 01:09:31,520
she let me drag her all around the world

1597
01:09:35,110 --> 01:09:33,440
you heard chile did a pretty good career

1598
01:09:37,430 --> 01:09:35,120
synopsis there but

1599
01:09:38,470 --> 01:09:37,440
um we moved eight times in the first 10

1600
01:09:40,550 --> 01:09:38,480
years

1601
01:09:41,910 --> 01:09:40,560
that we were married some of it to over

1602
01:09:42,950 --> 01:09:41,920
overseas

1603
01:09:44,789 --> 01:09:42,960
but

1604
01:09:45,910 --> 01:09:44,799
you know she let me chase my dreams to

1605
01:09:47,430 --> 01:09:45,920
fly

1606
01:09:49,030 --> 01:09:47,440
f-15s

1607
01:09:50,149 --> 01:09:49,040
which was a

1608
01:09:52,390 --> 01:09:50,159
hoot

1609
01:09:56,470 --> 01:09:54,310
the um

1610
01:09:57,590 --> 01:09:56,480
and then when the opportunity came up to

1611
01:09:59,590 --> 01:09:57,600
become a

1612
01:10:01,590 --> 01:09:59,600
space shuttle astronaut

1613
01:10:03,189 --> 01:10:01,600
she she fully supported it i told a

1614
01:10:05,510 --> 01:10:03,199
story last night

1615
01:10:08,229 --> 01:10:05,520
about how when when i got the call

1616
01:10:09,830 --> 01:10:08,239
um i called back uh called jan at home

1617
01:10:11,430 --> 01:10:09,840
and our and our children at the time

1618
01:10:12,310 --> 01:10:11,440
sean and shannon were two and four and

1619
01:10:15,750 --> 01:10:12,320
they were

1620
01:10:17,270 --> 01:10:15,760
jan had him on the counter

1621
01:10:25,910 --> 01:10:17,280
and

1622
01:10:27,189 --> 01:10:25,920
to be an astronaut daddy's going to be

1623
01:10:30,630 --> 01:10:27,199
an astronaut

1624
01:10:32,550 --> 01:10:30,640
and the kids got excited along with her

1625
01:10:34,709 --> 01:10:32,560
and then after a couple of cycles of

1626
01:10:40,790 --> 01:10:34,719
that sean goes

1627
01:10:45,189 --> 01:10:42,950
but with all the support i've gotten so

1628
01:10:47,910 --> 01:10:45,199
so jan says she was happy that i got the

1629
01:10:50,149 --> 01:10:47,920
chance to again chase chase a dream and

1630
01:10:51,510 --> 01:10:50,159
and have it come true

1631
01:10:54,550 --> 01:10:51,520
and

1632
01:10:56,790 --> 01:10:54,560
it was just an amazing thing to have the

1633
01:10:58,390 --> 01:10:56,800
best seat in the house

1634
01:10:59,830 --> 01:10:58,400
riding on a space shuttle

1635
01:11:00,790 --> 01:10:59,840
while she had the worst seat in the

1636
01:11:03,110 --> 01:11:00,800
house

1637
01:11:04,870 --> 01:11:03,120
standing three miles away

1638
01:11:06,630 --> 01:11:04,880
uh on the roof of the launch control

1639
01:11:09,350 --> 01:11:06,640
center watching us leave town on a

1640
01:11:11,110 --> 01:11:09,360
thousand feet of fire

1641
01:11:14,229 --> 01:11:11,120
so but thank you honey i can't thank you

1642
01:11:18,070 --> 01:11:16,229
let's see sean and shannon i want to

1643
01:11:19,110 --> 01:11:18,080
thank you as well

1644
01:11:20,390 --> 01:11:19,120
um

1645
01:11:22,790 --> 01:11:20,400
for

1646
01:11:23,990 --> 01:11:22,800
putting up with my absences when we were

1647
01:11:26,070 --> 01:11:24,000
gone and

1648
01:11:27,110 --> 01:11:26,080
thanks for giving mom and me the support

1649
01:11:28,550 --> 01:11:27,120
that you did

1650
01:11:29,910 --> 01:11:28,560
throughout the years

1651
01:11:32,229 --> 01:11:29,920
when it was kind of funny we were on the

1652
01:11:34,709 --> 01:11:32,239
bus driving out here today and sean and

1653
01:11:36,149 --> 01:11:34,719
i were sitting in the back

1654
01:11:38,229 --> 01:11:36,159
and he goes you know this is kind of

1655
01:11:40,550 --> 01:11:38,239
different

1656
01:11:43,669 --> 01:11:40,560
we're we're driving out to the kennedy

1657
01:11:50,870 --> 01:11:43,679
space center on a on a bus

1658
01:11:55,430 --> 01:11:52,470
so

1659
01:11:57,590 --> 01:11:55,440
i wasn't exactly known for going on time

1660
01:11:58,470 --> 01:11:57,600
every time in fact on my last flight we

1661
01:12:01,189 --> 01:11:58,480
tried

1662
01:12:03,510 --> 01:12:01,199
um my pilot is here by the way pam pam

1663
01:12:07,110 --> 01:12:03,520
how many times did we try

1664
01:12:08,550 --> 01:12:07,120
five three we we loaded up three times

1665
01:12:11,110 --> 01:12:08,560
yeah

1666
01:12:13,270 --> 01:12:11,120
so any let's let's just call it a

1667
01:12:14,310 --> 01:12:13,280
handful of times that we that we were

1668
01:12:17,590 --> 01:12:14,320
trying to go

1669
01:12:30,149 --> 01:12:17,600
uh it took it took long enough

1670
01:12:34,149 --> 01:12:32,390
and now she and shannon and husband

1671
01:12:35,510 --> 01:12:34,159
thomas and i don't know if they're where

1672
01:12:37,110 --> 01:12:35,520
they are they

1673
01:12:38,390 --> 01:12:37,120
are they're right they're here i just

1674
01:12:40,550 --> 01:12:38,400
saw him earlier but they've given us

1675
01:12:42,550 --> 01:12:40,560
three beautiful grandchildren

1676
01:12:43,669 --> 01:12:42,560
who are roaming around here

1677
01:12:46,070 --> 01:12:43,679
um

1678
01:12:48,310 --> 01:12:46,080
little scarlet little audrey and ten

1679
01:12:49,189 --> 01:12:48,320
month old nolan

1680
01:12:50,790 --> 01:12:49,199
so

1681
01:12:51,910 --> 01:12:50,800
nothing more important to me than my

1682
01:12:53,350 --> 01:12:51,920
family

1683
01:12:54,709 --> 01:12:53,360
and

1684
01:12:59,270 --> 01:12:54,719
you know i can't thank you all for the

1685
01:13:02,550 --> 01:13:00,950
um you know i feel so blessed to have

1686
01:13:04,709 --> 01:13:02,560
been born

1687
01:13:07,350 --> 01:13:04,719
when and where i was

1688
01:13:08,630 --> 01:13:07,360
uh i was born into a large and loving

1689
01:13:12,149 --> 01:13:08,640
family

1690
01:13:14,149 --> 01:13:12,159
and grew up in what turned out to be a

1691
01:13:15,430 --> 01:13:14,159
friendly a child-friendly

1692
01:13:17,270 --> 01:13:15,440
and generous

1693
01:13:19,990 --> 01:13:17,280
small town

1694
01:13:22,470 --> 01:13:20,000
my parents are no longer here

1695
01:13:24,790 --> 01:13:22,480
but the love and the lessons that they

1696
01:13:27,030 --> 01:13:24,800
they taught to um

1697
01:13:27,990 --> 01:13:27,040
me my sisters diane and claire who are

1698
01:13:36,870 --> 01:13:28,000
here

1699
01:13:38,229 --> 01:13:36,880
the lessons that we learned um

1700
01:13:40,709 --> 01:13:38,239
you know we

1701
01:13:42,870 --> 01:13:40,719
still have so while we remember mom and

1702
01:13:44,390 --> 01:13:42,880
dad for everything they gave us

1703
01:13:48,149 --> 01:13:44,400
and we're happy for the lessons that

1704
01:13:52,950 --> 01:13:50,470
i learned about hard work and

1705
01:13:55,910 --> 01:13:52,960
caring for a family by watching my dad

1706
01:13:58,630 --> 01:13:55,920
work two and sometimes three jobs

1707
01:14:01,350 --> 01:13:58,640
to provide the best that he could for us

1708
01:14:02,550 --> 01:14:01,360
my older brother dan was a was a down

1709
01:14:05,910 --> 01:14:02,560
syndrome

1710
01:14:05,920 --> 01:14:10,470
and the jobs that my father was working

1711
01:14:14,149 --> 01:14:12,470
provided dan with the level of care that

1712
01:14:18,630 --> 01:14:14,159
the wealthiest families in the country

1713
01:14:22,790 --> 01:14:20,630
so we weren't wealthy but we didn't know

1714
01:14:24,229 --> 01:14:22,800
it

1715
01:14:27,750 --> 01:14:24,239
didn't matter to tell you the truth

1716
01:14:29,830 --> 01:14:27,760
because we were raised in a very loving

1717
01:14:32,229 --> 01:14:29,840
environment

1718
01:14:35,750 --> 01:14:33,590
we didn't need we had everything we

1719
01:14:37,910 --> 01:14:35,760
needed we didn't need anything more than

1720
01:14:40,310 --> 01:14:37,920
that

1721
01:14:43,990 --> 01:14:40,320
my mom was the the glue for the family

1722
01:14:45,990 --> 01:14:44,000
as a lot of irish mothers are

1723
01:14:49,110 --> 01:14:46,000
she lovingly

1724
01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:54,070
and made sure that we followed them

1725
01:14:59,350 --> 01:14:56,390
she also encouraged us to uh strive to

1726
01:15:00,950 --> 01:14:59,360
do our best with our god-given talents

1727
01:15:04,470 --> 01:15:00,960
and abilities so that was a lesson that

1728
01:15:09,510 --> 01:15:06,390
so thank you mom and dad

1729
01:15:11,669 --> 01:15:09,520
for all that you did for

1730
01:15:13,590 --> 01:15:11,679
uh us family's been important to us as

1731
01:15:16,390 --> 01:15:13,600
well and and they're they're they are

1732
01:15:18,310 --> 01:15:16,400
here today uh her dad jack helms and pat

1733
01:15:20,070 --> 01:15:18,320
there jack sitting over here next to my

1734
01:15:21,669 --> 01:15:20,080
my brother tim standing

1735
01:15:24,149 --> 01:15:21,679
standing and

1736
01:15:25,669 --> 01:15:24,159
uh jack and his wife patty are here and

1737
01:15:27,189 --> 01:15:25,679
jack i can't thank you enough either

1738
01:15:29,510 --> 01:15:27,199
over the years you've given me some

1739
01:15:32,149 --> 01:15:29,520
fabulous advice and counsel

1740
01:15:34,070 --> 01:15:32,159
um you've helped us a lot it's helped

1741
01:15:36,870 --> 01:15:34,080
it's paid off and so thank you thank you

1742
01:15:38,630 --> 01:15:36,880
very much and as far as like the golf

1743
01:15:41,189 --> 01:15:38,640
swing tips go

1744
01:15:43,830 --> 01:15:41,199
i i need a few more so keep them keep

1745
01:15:45,669 --> 01:15:43,840
them coming my game's falling apart

1746
01:15:48,950 --> 01:15:45,679
um

1747
01:15:50,310 --> 01:15:48,960
chance sisters are here as well judy

1748
01:15:53,030 --> 01:15:50,320
joni and jackie and i don't know where

1749
01:15:54,550 --> 01:15:53,040
they're sitting but they're nearby so

1750
01:15:56,950 --> 01:15:54,560
um they're they're here they're here

1751
01:15:59,350 --> 01:15:56,960
they're right in front of me um

1752
01:16:01,910 --> 01:15:59,360
and and their husbands and friends and

1753
01:16:03,830 --> 01:16:01,920
family are all here as well and they've

1754
01:16:05,750 --> 01:16:03,840
been done nothing but supportive to jan

1755
01:16:07,910 --> 01:16:05,760
and me and our family over the years and

1756
01:16:10,310 --> 01:16:07,920
we thank thank you for that we love all

1757
01:16:11,830 --> 01:16:10,320
you guys

1758
01:16:13,990 --> 01:16:11,840
so growing up in that small town in

1759
01:16:16,149 --> 01:16:14,000
rockland massachusetts was actually a

1760
01:16:18,870 --> 01:16:16,159
pretty lucky thing although what it

1761
01:16:20,550 --> 01:16:18,880
meant was the space program was was a

1762
01:16:21,990 --> 01:16:20,560
long way away it was a thousand miles

1763
01:16:24,229 --> 01:16:22,000
away but the best thing that was going

1764
01:16:25,510 --> 01:16:24,239
on in those days the early days of the

1765
01:16:27,910 --> 01:16:25,520
space program was they covered those

1766
01:16:30,550 --> 01:16:27,920
missions on television really well

1767
01:16:31,590 --> 01:16:30,560
so i was able to watch every launch that

1768
01:16:33,270 --> 01:16:31,600
i could

1769
01:16:34,390 --> 01:16:33,280
and um

1770
01:16:37,189 --> 01:16:34,400
and

1771
01:16:39,189 --> 01:16:37,199
was very interested in what was going on

1772
01:16:44,390 --> 01:16:39,199
but as kevin mentioned uh you know i

1773
01:16:51,590 --> 01:16:48,790
i like fact i clearly remember my first

1774
01:16:54,149 --> 01:16:51,600
experience with space is i was a paper

1775
01:16:56,550 --> 01:16:54,159
boy most of my young

1776
01:16:59,590 --> 01:16:56,560
young growing up days where i delivered

1777
01:17:02,149 --> 01:16:59,600
daily papers there and i remember

1778
01:17:02,950 --> 01:17:02,159
a cold winter day

1779
01:17:05,189 --> 01:17:02,960
right

1780
01:17:07,510 --> 01:17:05,199
after sunset

1781
01:17:09,510 --> 01:17:07,520
very it was a very clear sky

1782
01:17:12,229 --> 01:17:09,520
and i looked up and i saw my first

1783
01:17:13,910 --> 01:17:12,239
satellite a polar satellite going from

1784
01:17:15,189 --> 01:17:13,920
north to south right

1785
01:17:16,630 --> 01:17:15,199
from where i was standing it was going

1786
01:17:18,950 --> 01:17:16,640
from right to left

1787
01:17:20,790 --> 01:17:18,960
big bright shiny

1788
01:17:23,030 --> 01:17:20,800
object that was that i knew i didn't

1789
01:17:25,189 --> 01:17:23,040
know if it was russian or american

1790
01:17:26,709 --> 01:17:25,199
but i knew it was not an airliner and i

1791
01:17:28,870 --> 01:17:26,719
knew it was in space because of the

1792
01:17:31,350 --> 01:17:28,880
speed at which it was moving and so that

1793
01:17:33,270 --> 01:17:31,360
was the first time where

1794
01:17:35,030 --> 01:17:33,280
seeing space and thinking well you can

1795
01:17:36,950 --> 01:17:35,040
put things in space and do things with

1796
01:17:39,510 --> 01:17:36,960
it that's the first time it hit me

1797
01:17:41,830 --> 01:17:39,520
as a as a child to do that so

1798
01:17:47,350 --> 01:17:41,840
so i remember very clearly

1799
01:17:50,390 --> 01:17:49,030
another lucky thing about growing up in

1800
01:17:52,310 --> 01:17:50,400
that town

1801
01:17:55,270 --> 01:17:52,320
was that the people were really generous

1802
01:17:56,470 --> 01:17:55,280
in fact they went and hired a calculus

1803
01:17:58,470 --> 01:17:56,480
teacher

1804
01:18:00,149 --> 01:17:58,480
to come teach the class to three

1805
01:18:01,910 --> 01:18:00,159
students

1806
01:18:03,590 --> 01:18:01,920
they're at rockland high school how many

1807
01:18:05,830 --> 01:18:03,600
schools would do that nowadays you know

1808
01:18:08,070 --> 01:18:05,840
so they hired a teacher to teach this

1809
01:18:09,030 --> 01:18:08,080
a course to three students

1810
01:18:11,430 --> 01:18:09,040
and

1811
01:18:12,390 --> 01:18:11,440
i attribute that um

1812
01:18:14,709 --> 01:18:12,400
to

1813
01:18:16,550 --> 01:18:14,719
uh why i majored in mathematics at the

1814
01:18:17,910 --> 01:18:16,560
air force academy and then having

1815
01:18:20,070 --> 01:18:17,920
majored in that

1816
01:18:22,149 --> 01:18:20,080
that subject enabled a lot of the other

1817
01:18:25,110 --> 01:18:22,159
things that happened in my career so so

1818
01:18:27,990 --> 01:18:25,120
if you go from a to z um

1819
01:18:28,870 --> 01:18:28,000
you know a good way to attribute that is

1820
01:18:31,110 --> 01:18:28,880
to

1821
01:18:33,110 --> 01:18:31,120
uh the people of rockland massachusetts

1822
01:18:35,669 --> 01:18:33,120
and the fact that they were willing to

1823
01:18:37,669 --> 01:18:35,679
to do that so i'm i'm very thankful to

1824
01:18:40,229 --> 01:18:37,679
the to the town that did that in those

1825
01:18:41,750 --> 01:18:40,239
days

1826
01:18:43,270 --> 01:18:41,760
so the human space program has always

1827
01:18:44,709 --> 01:18:43,280
been kind of on my radar i've been

1828
01:18:48,350 --> 01:18:44,719
watching it

1829
01:18:51,510 --> 01:18:48,360
jan and i in the summer of uh

1830
01:18:53,030 --> 01:18:51,520
1975 came over to watch the apollo soyuz

1831
01:18:54,790 --> 01:18:53,040
test project launch and vance was

1832
01:18:56,790 --> 01:18:54,800
sitting right here in front of me

1833
01:18:58,630 --> 01:18:56,800
and we were on the causeway out here

1834
01:19:00,709 --> 01:18:58,640
sitting sitting there watching looking

1835
01:19:02,229 --> 01:19:00,719
across the water at the saturn vehicle

1836
01:19:03,990 --> 01:19:02,239
that was on the pad

1837
01:19:05,750 --> 01:19:04,000
out there we were wondering

1838
01:19:07,430 --> 01:19:05,760
what was going on through your mind

1839
01:19:08,630 --> 01:19:07,440
there is the we heard the crew getting

1840
01:19:09,990 --> 01:19:08,640
loaded in

1841
01:19:11,590 --> 01:19:10,000
and and

1842
01:19:12,950 --> 01:19:11,600
and jan and i talked about

1843
01:19:15,030 --> 01:19:12,960
you know what are they thinking what are

1844
01:19:17,110 --> 01:19:15,040
they feeling out there well little did

1845
01:19:20,550 --> 01:19:17,120
we know that years later and not many

1846
01:19:24,870 --> 01:19:22,870
vance and bev would be good friends of

1847
01:19:26,550 --> 01:19:24,880
ours would live in the same neighborhood

1848
01:19:29,110 --> 01:19:26,560
uh bev would be

1849
01:19:31,750 --> 01:19:29,120
sean's cub scout den mother

1850
01:19:33,430 --> 01:19:31,760
and um and their son eric would be

1851
01:19:38,310 --> 01:19:33,440
sean's good buddy

1852
01:19:42,630 --> 01:19:40,229
you know i know that the successes that

1853
01:19:43,910 --> 01:19:42,640
i was able to experience

1854
01:19:46,070 --> 01:19:43,920
in the shuttle program would not have

1855
01:19:48,070 --> 01:19:46,080
happened without the

1856
01:19:49,750 --> 01:19:48,080
you know the absolute commitment of tens

1857
01:19:54,950 --> 01:19:49,760
of thousands of people

1858
01:19:59,189 --> 01:19:56,310
you know those put those people

1859
01:20:00,950 --> 01:19:59,199
somewhere in dc inside the beltway doing

1860
01:20:02,950 --> 01:20:00,960
the things that you have to do

1861
01:20:04,630 --> 01:20:02,960
inside the beltway to make sure that the

1862
01:20:05,750 --> 01:20:04,640
workforce has the resources that it

1863
01:20:07,189 --> 01:20:05,760
needs

1864
01:20:09,270 --> 01:20:07,199
some of the people were in project

1865
01:20:11,430 --> 01:20:09,280
offices and program offices

1866
01:20:12,870 --> 01:20:11,440
spread around the country

1867
01:20:14,550 --> 01:20:12,880
some were building

1868
01:20:16,390 --> 01:20:14,560
you know flight hardware

1869
01:20:21,110 --> 01:20:16,400
for us

1870
01:20:24,229 --> 01:20:21,120
the training crew in houston was getting

1871
01:20:26,870 --> 01:20:24,239
both the astronaut crew and the ops team

1872
01:20:28,790 --> 01:20:26,880
ready to ready to go

1873
01:20:31,030 --> 01:20:28,800
but at least from my perspective all of

1874
01:20:34,070 --> 01:20:31,040
that comes together and came together

1875
01:20:35,750 --> 01:20:34,080
right here at the kennedy space center

1876
01:20:38,390 --> 01:20:35,760
and by spending a lot of time here over

1877
01:20:40,870 --> 01:20:38,400
the years i've learned just how proud

1878
01:20:45,030 --> 01:20:40,880
the ksc workforce was of their orbiter

1879
01:20:50,709 --> 01:20:46,870
also how much of their lives they

1880
01:20:52,629 --> 01:20:50,719
dedicated uh to to those orbiters and

1881
01:20:55,189 --> 01:20:52,639
and as astronauts we actually felt that

1882
01:20:57,270 --> 01:20:55,199
when we when we flew the missions

1883
01:20:58,870 --> 01:20:57,280
um we were just being loaned though

1884
01:21:00,870 --> 01:20:58,880
orbiters

1885
01:21:02,390 --> 01:21:00,880
and um

1886
01:21:05,110 --> 01:21:02,400
we were supposed to bring it back in

1887
01:21:06,629 --> 01:21:05,120
really good shape or else

1888
01:21:09,030 --> 01:21:06,639
and

1889
01:21:11,990 --> 01:21:09,040
um so it was in a way when they let us

1890
01:21:14,550 --> 01:21:12,000
go fly these beautiful machines

1891
01:21:19,189 --> 01:21:14,560
uh it was rather like a father

1892
01:21:22,070 --> 01:21:20,550
um

1893
01:21:24,070 --> 01:21:22,080
and you know over the course of a

1894
01:21:26,070 --> 01:21:24,080
two-week mission and i remember

1895
01:21:27,590 --> 01:21:26,080
charlie saying saying okay we're going

1896
01:21:28,629 --> 01:21:27,600
to clean this thing up before we bring

1897
01:21:30,070 --> 01:21:28,639
her home

1898
01:21:31,669 --> 01:21:30,080
the over the course of a two-week

1899
01:21:33,030 --> 01:21:31,679
mission the inside of the vehicle with

1900
01:21:34,390 --> 01:21:33,040
seven people living in it will get a

1901
01:21:36,550 --> 01:21:34,400
little bit dirty

1902
01:21:38,390 --> 01:21:36,560
there's you know food particles escape

1903
01:21:41,430 --> 01:21:38,400
sometimes and they're stick to the wall

1904
01:21:44,149 --> 01:21:41,440
and uh the occasional drop of a drink

1905
01:21:45,910 --> 01:21:44,159
that has has escaped from a straw

1906
01:21:47,030 --> 01:21:45,920
and then there's every once in a while

1907
01:21:50,709 --> 01:21:47,040
there's a

1908
01:21:53,030 --> 01:21:50,719
fruit punch explosion

1909
01:21:54,070 --> 01:21:53,040
and trying to clean up a big red mess is

1910
01:21:56,550 --> 01:21:54,080
uh

1911
01:21:59,110 --> 01:21:56,560
takes a lot of towels but usually on the

1912
01:22:00,950 --> 01:21:59,120
day before entry we would uh we would

1913
01:22:03,590 --> 01:22:00,960
grab a wet towel everybody would take a

1914
01:22:05,430 --> 01:22:03,600
wall or ceiling and we would just wipe

1915
01:22:07,750 --> 01:22:05,440
that orbiter as clean as we could get it

1916
01:22:09,910 --> 01:22:07,760
to try to bring it back because

1917
01:22:12,950 --> 01:22:09,920
the ksc folks have given us this perfect

1918
01:22:14,470 --> 01:22:12,960
clean beautiful machine and we didn't

1919
01:22:22,550 --> 01:22:14,480
want them to think that we had really

1920
01:22:27,350 --> 01:22:25,430
so i'd like to thank the um the

1921
01:22:30,070 --> 01:22:27,360
the astronauts who went before us that's

1922
01:22:32,390 --> 01:22:30,080
that set us set the bar so high for us

1923
01:22:33,030 --> 01:22:32,400
to to try to achieve try to try to reach

1924
01:22:37,669 --> 01:22:33,040
it

1925
01:22:40,229 --> 01:22:37,679
and my other uh shuttle colleagues

1926
01:22:43,990 --> 01:22:40,239
for all of all they did for all of their

1927
01:22:45,990 --> 01:22:44,000
help and teaching and guidance that

1928
01:22:47,510 --> 01:22:46,000
you know you guys all set the set the

1929
01:22:49,669 --> 01:22:47,520
standard for us to try to watch and

1930
01:22:50,870 --> 01:22:49,679
learn from you so i thank you for doing

1931
01:22:53,350 --> 01:22:50,880
that

1932
01:22:55,510 --> 01:22:53,360
so for me this is a day of thanks

1933
01:22:57,990 --> 01:22:55,520
to all who've helped me um but it's also

1934
01:23:00,310 --> 01:22:58,000
a promise of what's to come

1935
01:23:01,830 --> 01:23:00,320
i was the child of what i consider the

1936
01:23:03,430 --> 01:23:01,840
moon generation

1937
01:23:05,510 --> 01:23:03,440
uh many of us

1938
01:23:07,189 --> 01:23:05,520
have and are helping uh lay the

1939
01:23:09,350 --> 01:23:07,199
foundation on the trip to mars that

1940
01:23:11,590 --> 01:23:09,360
charlie talked about

1941
01:23:13,910 --> 01:23:11,600
when i talk with youngsters i i tell

1942
01:23:16,470 --> 01:23:13,920
them that they are part of the mars

1943
01:23:19,990 --> 01:23:16,480
generation they will see it happen and

1944
01:23:21,590 --> 01:23:20,000
if they want they can be a part of it

1945
01:23:23,430 --> 01:23:21,600
the orion spacecraft the vehicle that

1946
01:23:25,189 --> 01:23:23,440
will carry the humans farther than

1947
01:23:26,950 --> 01:23:25,199
they've ever gone before

1948
01:23:29,110 --> 01:23:26,960
has already had an extremely successful

1949
01:23:30,709 --> 01:23:29,120
test flight the second vehicle is being

1950
01:23:31,590 --> 01:23:30,719
built right now in the kennedy space

1951
01:23:33,830 --> 01:23:31,600
center

1952
01:23:36,709 --> 01:23:33,840
and it will launch in about two years on

1953
01:23:38,629 --> 01:23:36,719
this on the space launch system

1954
01:23:41,030 --> 01:23:38,639
that's going to be the nation's

1955
01:23:42,629 --> 01:23:41,040
new heavy lift rocket

1956
01:23:44,070 --> 01:23:42,639
and it's going to take orion and

1957
01:23:46,950 --> 01:23:44,080
astronauts to

1958
01:23:49,270 --> 01:23:46,960
to where they've never been before

1959
01:23:51,990 --> 01:23:49,280
so we're well down the path to um

1960
01:23:53,350 --> 01:23:52,000
continuing human space exploration and

1961
01:23:55,830 --> 01:23:53,360
it's all going to happen right right

1962
01:23:58,070 --> 01:23:55,840
here at the kennedy space center

1963
01:24:00,310 --> 01:23:58,080
to the scholars that are here today

1964
01:24:02,229 --> 01:24:00,320
and those of the future

1965
01:24:03,189 --> 01:24:02,239
human space exploration is alive and

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01:24:04,149 --> 01:24:03,199
well

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01:24:07,189 --> 01:24:04,159
and

1968
01:24:08,229 --> 01:24:07,199
your dreams

1969
01:24:13,590 --> 01:24:08,239
maybe

1970
01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:16,709
um

1971
01:24:20,310 --> 01:24:17,750
you know your

1972
01:24:22,470 --> 01:24:20,320
the scholars as was was um mentioned are

1973
01:24:23,830 --> 01:24:22,480
just an incredible talent an incredibly

1974
01:24:26,470 --> 01:24:23,840
talented group

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01:24:28,229 --> 01:24:26,480
uh and we're actually very happy to hand

1976
01:24:31,189 --> 01:24:28,239
the baton to you

1977
01:24:33,750 --> 01:24:31,199
for you to carry to help make the marsh

1978
01:24:35,350 --> 01:24:33,760
generation successful

1979
01:24:38,149 --> 01:24:35,360
so i guess in wrapping up here i'd like

1980
01:24:39,030 --> 01:24:38,159
to use one more yogism

1981
01:24:41,590 --> 01:24:39,040
and

1982
01:24:46,390 --> 01:24:41,600
he was he said

1983
01:24:49,830 --> 01:24:48,550
i agree

1984
01:24:51,830 --> 01:24:49,840
things are really looking up for the

1985
01:24:53,830 --> 01:24:51,840
space program and for our country and i

1986
01:24:55,430 --> 01:24:53,840
know the astronaut scholars will be

1987
01:24:57,030 --> 01:24:55,440
among the leadership team that will take

1988
01:24:59,510 --> 01:24:57,040
us to mars

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01:25:00,629 --> 01:24:59,520
so thank you so much for being here

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01:25:24,310 --> 01:25:00,639
today

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01:25:28,629 --> 01:25:26,310
congratulations brian and welcome to the

1992
01:25:30,229 --> 01:25:28,639
united states astronaut hall of fame i

1993
01:25:31,669 --> 01:25:30,239
have a question now you guys down in the

1994
01:25:33,189 --> 01:25:31,679
front well you heard what he said didn't

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01:25:34,870 --> 01:25:33,199
you he said that

1996
01:25:37,510 --> 01:25:34,880
he grew up

1997
01:25:42,310 --> 01:25:37,520
watching and admiring you guys

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01:25:48,470 --> 01:25:43,910
say what what was that

1999
01:25:55,110 --> 01:25:50,470
okay he didn't say it to those guys and

2000
01:26:00,550 --> 01:25:58,310
he will i heard you said

2001
01:26:20,790 --> 01:26:00,560
our next inductee

2002
01:26:20,800 --> 01:26:31,430
mr

2003
01:26:31,440 --> 01:26:41,590
did a great job with the deployment

2004
01:26:41,600 --> 01:26:51,750
and liftoff

2005
01:27:01,830 --> 01:26:53,590
deploying the hand controller for the

2006
01:27:05,990 --> 01:27:03,990
booster ignition and liftoff of

2007
01:27:20,390 --> 01:27:06,000
discovery with a crew of six astronaut

2008
01:27:26,149 --> 01:27:21,990
houston discover got a good grapple

2009
01:27:46,470 --> 01:27:27,910
and liftoff of the space shuttle

2010
01:27:46,480 --> 01:28:02,950
ignition and liftoff of discovery

2011
01:28:08,629 --> 01:28:06,390
luke i'm your father use the horse luke

2012
01:28:11,189 --> 01:28:08,639
that's music for my son luke and uh be

2013
01:28:18,229 --> 01:28:11,199
thinking about him today

2014
01:28:35,830 --> 01:28:20,629
main gear touchdown

2015
01:28:40,830 --> 01:28:38,390
dr scott perezinski was selected as a

2016
01:28:43,750 --> 01:28:40,840
nasa astronaut in march

2017
01:28:46,310 --> 01:28:43,760
1992 and was qualified as a mission

2018
01:28:48,550 --> 01:28:46,320
specialist after training he's a veteran

2019
01:28:52,149 --> 01:28:48,560
of five space flights and racked up

2020
01:28:55,270 --> 01:28:52,159
nearly 1400 hours in space

2021
01:28:58,390 --> 01:28:55,280
he spent 47 of those hours working

2022
01:28:59,669 --> 01:28:58,400
outside the spacecraft during seven

2023
01:29:03,110 --> 01:28:59,679
space walks

2024
01:29:05,750 --> 01:29:03,120
perezinski's first flight was sts-66

2025
01:29:08,149 --> 01:29:05,760
aboard space shuttle atlantis launched

2026
01:29:09,990 --> 01:29:08,159
november 3rd 1994

2027
01:29:12,390 --> 01:29:10,000
the flight included the atlas iii

2028
01:29:14,790 --> 01:29:12,400
payload to further study the interaction

2029
01:29:17,590 --> 01:29:14,800
between earth and the sun

2030
01:29:20,790 --> 01:29:17,600
as well as the space lab pallet

2031
01:29:23,270 --> 01:29:20,800
he flew aboard atlantis again on sts-86

2032
01:29:25,110 --> 01:29:23,280
in september of 1997.

2033
01:29:27,510 --> 01:29:25,120
the mission marked the seventh docking

2034
01:29:29,590 --> 01:29:27,520
with the russian space station mir

2035
01:29:32,709 --> 01:29:29,600
perezinski served as the flight engineer

2036
01:29:34,709 --> 01:29:32,719
on that mission as well as the navigator

2037
01:29:37,189 --> 01:29:34,719
during the mere rendezvous and

2038
01:29:39,590 --> 01:29:37,199
participated in the first u.s and

2039
01:29:40,709 --> 01:29:39,600
russian spacewalk during a shuttle

2040
01:29:43,830 --> 01:29:40,719
mission

2041
01:29:47,350 --> 01:29:43,840
next parazinsky flew on sts 95 in

2042
01:29:49,510 --> 01:29:47,360
october of 1998 alongside an american

2043
01:29:51,510 --> 01:29:49,520
icon john glenn

2044
01:29:53,750 --> 01:29:51,520
as flight engineer perezinski operated

2045
01:29:56,229 --> 01:29:53,760
the shuttle's robotic arm and monitored

2046
01:29:58,870 --> 01:29:56,239
several life science investigations

2047
01:30:00,149 --> 01:29:58,880
including those involving his famous

2048
01:30:03,590 --> 01:30:00,159
crewmate

2049
01:30:06,950 --> 01:30:03,600
he returned to space on sts-100 in april

2050
01:30:09,990 --> 01:30:06,960
of 2001 this time aboard space shuttle

2051
01:30:12,390 --> 01:30:10,000
endeavour parazynski took part in two

2052
01:30:14,790 --> 01:30:12,400
spacewalks playing a key role in the

2053
01:30:18,550 --> 01:30:14,800
configuration of the space station's

2054
01:30:20,790 --> 01:30:18,560
robotic arm canadarm2

2055
01:30:24,070 --> 01:30:20,800
on his final flutter shuttle flight

2056
01:30:27,270 --> 01:30:24,080
sts-120 perezinski ventured outside the

2057
01:30:29,110 --> 01:30:27,280
shuttle space station complex four times

2058
01:30:31,750 --> 01:30:29,120
including an ambitious unplanned

2059
01:30:34,790 --> 01:30:31,760
spacewalk to inspect and repair the

2060
01:30:37,189 --> 01:30:34,800
station's p6 solar array

2061
01:30:38,870 --> 01:30:37,199
perezinski retired from nasa in march of

2062
01:30:40,790 --> 01:30:38,880
1999

2063
01:30:43,990 --> 01:30:40,800
not just to work in privacy and private

2064
01:30:47,030 --> 01:30:44,000
industry but to pursue other exploration

2065
01:30:50,870 --> 01:30:47,040
goals he summited mount everest in may

2066
01:30:51,669 --> 01:30:50,880
of 2009 and became the first person to

2067
01:30:53,270 --> 01:30:51,679
both

2068
01:30:55,830 --> 01:30:53,280
orbit the world

2069
01:30:57,990 --> 01:30:55,840
and stand on top of it

2070
01:31:15,750 --> 01:30:58,000
ladies and gentlemen astronaut scott

2071
01:31:19,110 --> 01:31:17,669
to present scott perezinski for

2072
01:31:21,350 --> 01:31:19,120
induction into the united states

2073
01:31:31,910 --> 01:31:21,360
astronaut hall of fame please welcome

2074
01:31:36,149 --> 01:31:33,830
well thank you it's an honor to be here

2075
01:31:38,709 --> 01:31:36,159
today with two of my favorite people on

2076
01:31:40,950 --> 01:31:38,719
the planet uh on the stage with me

2077
01:31:42,709 --> 01:31:40,960
and now before i get started i just want

2078
01:31:44,390 --> 01:31:42,719
to acknowledge scott's family that's

2079
01:31:46,470 --> 01:31:44,400
here i've gotten to spend some time with

2080
01:31:48,390 --> 01:31:46,480
him his mother and father this weekend

2081
01:31:50,629 --> 01:31:48,400
it's been very special

2082
01:31:53,590 --> 01:31:50,639
it now helps put things in perspective

2083
01:31:56,790 --> 01:31:53,600
kind of on why scott the way he he is

2084
01:32:01,350 --> 01:31:58,870
but his beautiful talented wife minnie

2085
01:32:03,189 --> 01:32:01,360
and then luke uh the skywalker his son

2086
01:32:05,270 --> 01:32:03,199
is here as well and by the way the last

2087
01:32:07,189 --> 01:32:05,280
time i saw luke well he was three and a

2088
01:32:11,350 --> 01:32:07,199
half years old and about this tall

2089
01:32:12,709 --> 01:32:11,360
and today's he's taller than scott

2090
01:32:15,669 --> 01:32:12,719
but

2091
01:32:18,390 --> 01:32:15,679
uh i first met scott in 1992

2092
01:32:20,229 --> 01:32:18,400
we both showed up at nasa a class of 25

2093
01:32:22,149 --> 01:32:20,239
astronaut candidates

2094
01:32:24,149 --> 01:32:22,159
and immediately when you show up in the

2095
01:32:25,430 --> 01:32:24,159
class you start looking around you get

2096
01:32:28,390 --> 01:32:25,440
to meet people

2097
01:32:30,709 --> 01:32:28,400
you make first impressions

2098
01:32:31,590 --> 01:32:30,719
and my first impression with scott was

2099
01:32:33,350 --> 01:32:31,600
wow

2100
01:32:34,470 --> 01:32:33,360
this guy is driven

2101
01:32:35,910 --> 01:32:34,480
capable

2102
01:32:38,550 --> 01:32:35,920
hard-working

2103
01:32:40,229 --> 01:32:38,560
very intelligent

2104
01:32:42,070 --> 01:32:40,239
you know what he's the all-american

2105
01:32:43,750 --> 01:32:42,080
golden boy

2106
01:32:46,070 --> 01:32:43,760
where's kim

2107
01:32:48,470 --> 01:32:46,080
and so the key word there is boy right

2108
01:32:50,390 --> 01:32:48,480
because although he was 32

2109
01:32:52,390 --> 01:32:50,400
he looked like he was half that age

2110
01:32:54,790 --> 01:32:52,400
barely a teenager

2111
01:32:56,870 --> 01:32:54,800
and so also knowing that he was a doctor

2112
01:32:58,950 --> 01:32:56,880
and being a navy fighter pilot we figure

2113
01:33:01,350 --> 01:32:58,960
out how to pick on people

2114
01:33:06,709 --> 01:33:01,360
i immediately dawned on me there was a

2115
01:33:10,790 --> 01:33:08,709
so immediately

2116
01:33:14,149 --> 01:33:10,800
scott became doogie howser and that was

2117
01:33:16,310 --> 01:33:14,159
kind of i was very proud of that

2118
01:33:17,590 --> 01:33:16,320
especially when it turned out because he

2119
01:33:19,750 --> 01:33:17,600
hadn't been around a lot of fighter

2120
01:33:21,669 --> 01:33:19,760
pilots yet in his career he didn't know

2121
01:33:23,350 --> 01:33:21,679
how to take this being called doogie

2122
01:33:24,950 --> 01:33:23,360
hauser and people started shorting it to

2123
01:33:25,910 --> 01:33:24,960
doogie it was just a little bit easier

2124
01:33:28,070 --> 01:33:25,920
to say

2125
01:33:29,669 --> 01:33:28,080
and the fact he was unsure and i don't

2126
01:33:31,830 --> 01:33:29,679
think really particularly like it it

2127
01:33:34,149 --> 01:33:31,840
stuck and uh

2128
01:33:36,870 --> 01:33:34,159
yes but so in our class in our class he

2129
01:33:38,709 --> 01:33:36,880
became doogie

2130
01:33:39,910 --> 01:33:38,719
and i mentioned all-american but if you

2131
01:33:41,990 --> 01:33:39,920
learn a little bit more about his

2132
01:33:44,629 --> 01:33:42,000
background when he was 11

2133
01:33:46,950 --> 01:33:44,639
his folks his father worked for boeing

2134
01:33:48,229 --> 01:33:46,960
decided to travel the world compliments

2135
01:33:49,030 --> 01:33:48,239
of boeing

2136
01:33:51,030 --> 01:33:49,040
so

2137
01:33:54,070 --> 01:33:51,040
scott from the time he was 11 until he

2138
01:33:57,669 --> 01:33:54,080
came back to the u.s to go to college

2139
01:33:59,830 --> 01:33:57,679
went to school in dakar senegal

2140
01:34:01,669 --> 01:33:59,840
beirut lebanon

2141
01:34:05,110 --> 01:34:01,679
athens greece

2142
01:34:07,990 --> 01:34:05,120
and tehran iran and then he came back

2143
01:34:10,310 --> 01:34:08,000
and got accepted into stanford and i'm

2144
01:34:11,990 --> 01:34:10,320
thinking now how does that happen

2145
01:34:14,070 --> 01:34:12,000
think about it you just

2146
01:34:16,149 --> 01:34:14,080
middle school through high school you

2147
01:34:17,750 --> 01:34:16,159
went to school and all these places

2148
01:34:19,910 --> 01:34:17,760
stanford is kind of tough to get in to

2149
01:34:22,310 --> 01:34:19,920
begin with much less coming out of the

2150
01:34:23,990 --> 01:34:22,320
the schools halfway around the world

2151
01:34:25,669 --> 01:34:24,000
that scott did

2152
01:34:27,189 --> 01:34:25,679
so right away knew there was something

2153
01:34:28,870 --> 01:34:27,199
very very special

2154
01:34:31,030 --> 01:34:28,880
with scott

2155
01:34:33,830 --> 01:34:31,040
well so we came in in 92 the way it

2156
01:34:35,669 --> 01:34:33,840
works at nasa as an astronaut candidate

2157
01:34:37,350 --> 01:34:35,679
you have one full year of generic

2158
01:34:38,790 --> 01:34:37,360
astronaut training which is actually a

2159
01:34:41,350 --> 01:34:38,800
lot of fun you get to know each other

2160
01:34:43,109 --> 01:34:41,360
you tour the centers but you get to

2161
01:34:44,950 --> 01:34:43,119
learn about the space shuttle you know

2162
01:34:47,270 --> 01:34:44,960
so you come out of this year

2163
01:34:48,470 --> 01:34:47,280
qualified on the space shuttle and then

2164
01:34:50,470 --> 01:34:48,480
you're hoping to get assigned to a

2165
01:34:51,990 --> 01:34:50,480
flight it takes a year

2166
01:34:53,510 --> 01:34:52,000
of training before you actually get a

2167
01:34:56,470 --> 01:34:53,520
fly on that flight

2168
01:34:57,830 --> 01:34:56,480
well by the time we finished our year of

2169
01:35:00,470 --> 01:34:57,840
candidacy

2170
01:35:03,109 --> 01:35:00,480
doogie was assigned to space flight

2171
01:35:05,669 --> 01:35:03,119
and it's no surprise at all that so in

2172
01:35:07,990 --> 01:35:05,679
1994 he flew his first flight only two

2173
01:35:08,790 --> 01:35:08,000
years only one year after had gotten

2174
01:35:11,669 --> 01:35:08,800
there

2175
01:35:13,990 --> 01:35:11,679
as a class and so so that is very

2176
01:35:17,510 --> 01:35:14,000
telling the other thing you're going to

2177
01:35:19,830 --> 01:35:17,520
come to lo know and love about doogie is

2178
01:35:21,910 --> 01:35:19,840
there is no opportunity particularly if

2179
01:35:23,830 --> 01:35:21,920
it's an adventure that he is going to

2180
01:35:26,470 --> 01:35:23,840
pass up correct

2181
01:35:28,310 --> 01:35:26,480
if there is an opportunity his arm is

2182
01:35:30,709 --> 01:35:28,320
higher than everybody's he's the first

2183
01:35:31,590 --> 01:35:30,719
of the line and he is there

2184
01:35:34,629 --> 01:35:31,600
well

2185
01:35:36,550 --> 01:35:34,639
in 1993 the international space station

2186
01:35:37,990 --> 01:35:36,560
came along and we immediately started

2187
01:35:39,590 --> 01:35:38,000
working with the russians the soviet

2188
01:35:42,470 --> 01:35:39,600
mirror program and

2189
01:35:44,310 --> 01:35:42,480
fly on u.s astronauts long duration on

2190
01:35:45,830 --> 01:35:44,320
space station mirror

2191
01:35:47,030 --> 01:35:45,840
well guess who's at the front of that

2192
01:35:49,590 --> 01:35:47,040
line

2193
01:35:52,310 --> 01:35:49,600
yes it was doogie uh he's at the front

2194
01:35:54,149 --> 01:35:52,320
of that line goes over to russia spends

2195
01:35:55,990 --> 01:35:54,159
five months and

2196
01:35:57,590 --> 01:35:56,000
you know i'm not sure why it took the

2197
01:35:58,709 --> 01:35:57,600
russians five months but they figured

2198
01:36:00,629 --> 01:35:58,719
out you know

2199
01:36:04,149 --> 01:36:00,639
he's a little too tall

2200
01:36:05,750 --> 01:36:04,159
he does not fit in the soyuz capsule

2201
01:36:07,510 --> 01:36:05,760
so he got sent home

2202
01:36:09,030 --> 01:36:07,520
and and i was a little disappointed

2203
01:36:10,550 --> 01:36:09,040
because now he had another call sign

2204
01:36:13,750 --> 01:36:10,560
that kind of was sticking more than

2205
01:36:16,390 --> 01:36:13,760
doogie so now he became too tall and uh

2206
01:36:18,390 --> 01:36:16,400
so he came back and it actually in my

2207
01:36:20,629 --> 01:36:18,400
mind was a real blessing he came back

2208
01:36:22,550 --> 01:36:20,639
and flourished uh started flying the

2209
01:36:24,149 --> 01:36:22,560
space shuttle you saw here from the

2210
01:36:25,990 --> 01:36:24,159
flights and they mentioned i don't know

2211
01:36:27,430 --> 01:36:26,000
if you picked it up but he flew as the

2212
01:36:29,910 --> 01:36:27,440
mission specialist to the flight

2213
01:36:31,510 --> 01:36:29,920
engineer so very involved with the crew

2214
01:36:33,590 --> 01:36:31,520
safely getting the space shuttle into

2215
01:36:36,310 --> 01:36:33,600
orbit and back home from orbit

2216
01:36:38,629 --> 01:36:36,320
but on sts-100 i had the pleasure of

2217
01:36:40,709 --> 01:36:38,639
getting to fly with scott

2218
01:36:42,470 --> 01:36:40,719
and one of the roles of the commander of

2219
01:36:45,510 --> 01:36:42,480
which i was the commander

2220
01:36:47,590 --> 01:36:45,520
is you assign the duties to the crew

2221
01:36:49,590 --> 01:36:47,600
and so on my crew we had three rookies

2222
01:36:50,950 --> 01:36:49,600
and so as chile describes it hey there's

2223
01:36:53,350 --> 01:36:50,960
there's a handful of work there in the

2224
01:36:54,790 --> 01:36:53,360
rookies but the four i had that had

2225
01:36:57,350 --> 01:36:54,800
flown

2226
01:37:00,070 --> 01:36:57,360
were all very experienced gifted

2227
01:37:01,270 --> 01:37:00,080
astronauts of which scott absolutely was

2228
01:37:02,870 --> 01:37:01,280
one of those

2229
01:37:05,669 --> 01:37:02,880
and as the commander i decided well my

2230
01:37:07,669 --> 01:37:05,679
three rookies i need to give them the

2231
01:37:10,310 --> 01:37:07,679
best experience they can have so that

2232
01:37:11,750 --> 01:37:10,320
they can bring that back to nasa part of

2233
01:37:12,790 --> 01:37:11,760
that experience is flying on the flight

2234
01:37:14,470 --> 01:37:12,800
deck

2235
01:37:16,470 --> 01:37:14,480
so you have the pilot commander take up

2236
01:37:17,510 --> 01:37:16,480
two of the seats those are not for

2237
01:37:19,430 --> 01:37:17,520
barter

2238
01:37:21,350 --> 01:37:19,440
but then you have the flight engineer

2239
01:37:23,910 --> 01:37:21,360
and the mission specialist one seat so i

2240
01:37:24,790 --> 01:37:23,920
have two seats three rookies i go okay

2241
01:37:26,709 --> 01:37:24,800
one of them will be the mission

2242
01:37:28,629 --> 01:37:26,719
specialist too the other two rookies

2243
01:37:30,229 --> 01:37:28,639
will split the other seat one of them

2244
01:37:31,189 --> 01:37:30,239
gets to fly it up the other gets to fly

2245
01:37:33,030 --> 01:37:31,199
them down

2246
01:37:34,229 --> 01:37:33,040
everybody gets to see what it's like

2247
01:37:36,870 --> 01:37:34,239
being on the flight deck from the

2248
01:37:39,189 --> 01:37:36,880
shuttle except for one

2249
01:37:41,669 --> 01:37:39,199
out of a crew of seven one is gonna get

2250
01:37:43,430 --> 01:37:41,679
the special job of being on the middeck

2251
01:37:45,189 --> 01:37:43,440
the entire time

2252
01:37:47,830 --> 01:37:45,199
and as i thought through it

2253
01:37:50,870 --> 01:37:47,840
it was dooky and i'm thinking wow too

2254
01:37:51,910 --> 01:37:50,880
tall how it too tall yeah oh

2255
01:37:55,350 --> 01:37:51,920
thank you

2256
01:37:58,790 --> 01:37:56,629
so i thought

2257
01:38:00,790 --> 01:37:58,800
do you who by the way has been a mission

2258
01:38:02,950 --> 01:38:00,800
specialist too on two of his flights

2259
01:38:04,470 --> 01:38:02,960
which is a very demanding role he not

2260
01:38:06,870 --> 01:38:04,480
only was a flight engineer on previous

2261
01:38:08,950 --> 01:38:06,880
flights he did that and did spacewalk

2262
01:38:10,950 --> 01:38:08,960
typically you don't do that to a crew

2263
01:38:13,270 --> 01:38:10,960
because the training is intense on both

2264
01:38:15,510 --> 01:38:13,280
of those and you'll split those those

2265
01:38:16,790 --> 01:38:15,520
duties among other mission specialists

2266
01:38:18,950 --> 01:38:16,800
that's so

2267
01:38:20,870 --> 01:38:18,960
i when i sat down with scott to say hey

2268
01:38:22,070 --> 01:38:20,880
here's what i've got in mind for you to

2269
01:38:24,070 --> 01:38:22,080
do on the crew

2270
01:38:25,990 --> 01:38:24,080
i was actually kind of worried because

2271
01:38:27,910 --> 01:38:26,000
here you know my guess is it was the

2272
01:38:29,750 --> 01:38:27,920
first time in his life somebody was

2273
01:38:31,750 --> 01:38:29,760
sitting him down and going you know i'm

2274
01:38:33,350 --> 01:38:31,760
i'm giving you a bad deal and even

2275
01:38:35,189 --> 01:38:33,360
though you're really talented we're not

2276
01:38:36,310 --> 01:38:35,199
going to capitalize on your strengths on

2277
01:38:39,669 --> 01:38:36,320
this

2278
01:38:41,830 --> 01:38:39,679
so we sat down i went through my logic

2279
01:38:43,030 --> 01:38:41,840
with with doogie here's why we're going

2280
01:38:45,590 --> 01:38:43,040
to do this

2281
01:38:47,430 --> 01:38:45,600
and uh and he said okay you know and we

2282
01:38:48,709 --> 01:38:47,440
left this was in the afternoon and the

2283
01:38:50,870 --> 01:38:48,719
next morning

2284
01:38:52,790 --> 01:38:50,880
come back in and doogie's in the office

2285
01:38:54,950 --> 01:38:52,800
and he said hey you hey rommel by the

2286
01:38:56,830 --> 01:38:54,960
way my nickname's ronald robel

2287
01:38:59,270 --> 01:38:56,840
can we talk about those screw

2288
01:39:00,950 --> 01:38:59,280
assignments and i said sure

2289
01:39:04,550 --> 01:39:00,960
and at the time i was seeing shirts they

2290
01:39:07,030 --> 01:39:04,560
can go oh boy here we go right

2291
01:39:08,990 --> 01:39:07,040
and we sat down and he pulled out a

2292
01:39:11,510 --> 01:39:09,000
couple pieces of paper these

2293
01:39:12,950 --> 01:39:11,520
multi-colored faceted printouts that

2294
01:39:14,070 --> 01:39:12,960
were really

2295
01:39:15,590 --> 01:39:14,080
thorough

2296
01:39:17,510 --> 01:39:15,600
and they had to do with what you do when

2297
01:39:19,350 --> 01:39:17,520
you first get onto orbit post insertion

2298
01:39:21,109 --> 01:39:19,360
and then what you do when you first come

2299
01:39:23,189 --> 01:39:21,119
home deorbit prep

2300
01:39:25,270 --> 01:39:23,199
both very very difficult tasks to do

2301
01:39:27,350 --> 01:39:25,280
well both if you don't do them right the

2302
01:39:29,189 --> 01:39:27,360
whole crew gets behind and that day

2303
01:39:31,830 --> 01:39:29,199
becomes a nightmare

2304
01:39:34,629 --> 01:39:31,840
and both very undesirable tasks right

2305
01:39:35,830 --> 01:39:34,639
nobody wants to lead those missions but

2306
01:39:37,350 --> 01:39:35,840
but dougie

2307
01:39:39,590 --> 01:39:37,360
had thought about it because he was on

2308
01:39:41,030 --> 01:39:39,600
the mid-deck both going and coming

2309
01:39:43,109 --> 01:39:41,040
he approached me and said hey look at

2310
01:39:45,270 --> 01:39:43,119
this look at these plans

2311
01:39:47,350 --> 01:39:45,280
that i can do for us

2312
01:39:49,750 --> 01:39:47,360
if i run post insertion and if i run the

2313
01:39:52,629 --> 01:39:49,760
over prep what do you think and i always

2314
01:39:54,629 --> 01:39:52,639
i was elated i go i love it and he said

2315
01:39:56,870 --> 01:39:54,639
hey and by the way do you think i could

2316
01:39:58,070 --> 01:39:56,880
be the mid-deck commander and i said

2317
01:40:00,709 --> 01:39:58,080
absolutely

2318
01:40:06,709 --> 01:40:03,669
so here i was afraid that uh i was going

2319
01:40:08,629 --> 01:40:06,719
to offend doogie no no no

2320
01:40:10,229 --> 01:40:08,639
he's an opportunist he says hey here's

2321
01:40:11,990 --> 01:40:10,239
an opportunity

2322
01:40:14,470 --> 01:40:12,000
for me to a be a midnight commander not

2323
01:40:16,229 --> 01:40:14,480
sure we've had one of those before

2324
01:40:21,590 --> 01:40:16,239
and b

2325
01:40:24,629 --> 01:40:22,629
well i don't know if you're starting to

2326
01:40:27,350 --> 01:40:24,639
get the picture of the trend here but

2327
01:40:28,550 --> 01:40:27,360
but scott he does he wants to do

2328
01:40:31,510 --> 01:40:28,560
everything

2329
01:40:32,870 --> 01:40:31,520
uh he's always first in line he's very

2330
01:40:35,030 --> 01:40:32,880
adventurous

2331
01:40:36,390 --> 01:40:35,040
but he's committed right a lot of people

2332
01:40:37,669 --> 01:40:36,400
want to do everything and you know hey

2333
01:40:40,229 --> 01:40:37,679
there's no way they can come close to

2334
01:40:41,990 --> 01:40:40,239
doing it scott when he tells you he's

2335
01:40:44,550 --> 01:40:42,000
going to do something

2336
01:40:45,910 --> 01:40:44,560
he is a hundred percent committed he is

2337
01:40:48,310 --> 01:40:45,920
all in

2338
01:40:50,070 --> 01:40:48,320
and uh let's look back in his history to

2339
01:40:52,470 --> 01:40:50,080
look for some examples of this and i'm

2340
01:40:55,030 --> 01:40:52,480
going back before i knew him

2341
01:40:57,990 --> 01:40:55,040
and and by the way if you go through his

2342
01:40:59,590 --> 01:40:58,000
his bio online bios everything he's done

2343
01:41:01,669 --> 01:40:59,600
it's exhausting

2344
01:41:03,350 --> 01:41:01,679
i i get exhausted just reading through

2345
01:41:04,950 --> 01:41:03,360
this going wow right because i know him

2346
01:41:06,229 --> 01:41:04,960
and i know how much energy he puts into

2347
01:41:09,830 --> 01:41:06,239
everything

2348
01:41:12,070 --> 01:41:09,840
but he was a rhodes scholars finalist

2349
01:41:13,830 --> 01:41:12,080
he received academic awards in every

2350
01:41:16,790 --> 01:41:13,840
school he was ever in and by the way

2351
01:41:19,510 --> 01:41:16,800
those schools include stanford harvard

2352
01:41:22,149 --> 01:41:19,520
medical schools he's a pilot you know

2353
01:41:23,830 --> 01:41:22,159
i'm a professional pilot but you know

2354
01:41:25,750 --> 01:41:23,840
he decided he was going to be a pilot so

2355
01:41:27,510 --> 01:41:25,760
not just a private pilot commercial

2356
01:41:29,189 --> 01:41:27,520
pilot instrument rated pilot

2357
01:41:32,390 --> 01:41:29,199
multi-engine pilot

2358
01:41:34,950 --> 01:41:32,400
seaplane rated pilot uh yeah so you're

2359
01:41:36,709 --> 01:41:34,960
getting the picture here

2360
01:41:38,790 --> 01:41:36,719
scuba diver

2361
01:41:40,470 --> 01:41:38,800
so he wanted to scuba dive from the time

2362
01:41:42,470 --> 01:41:40,480
he was young this is one area where his

2363
01:41:45,990 --> 01:41:42,480
parents held him back

2364
01:41:48,070 --> 01:41:46,000
i believe were you in dakar at the time

2365
01:41:50,709 --> 01:41:48,080
and the the bay in dakar is not very

2366
01:41:52,709 --> 01:41:50,719
clean water fact that is that's code for

2367
01:41:55,350 --> 01:41:52,719
the sewer uh

2368
01:41:57,350 --> 01:41:55,360
in that part of the world and so he was

2369
01:41:58,709 --> 01:41:57,360
you know pestering his folks hey please

2370
01:42:00,310 --> 01:41:58,719
let me scuba dive and they're like no

2371
01:42:03,109 --> 01:42:00,320
we're not letting you spend that much

2372
01:42:04,470 --> 01:42:03,119
time in that water that is not safe

2373
01:42:06,629 --> 01:42:04,480
but later they found themselves in

2374
01:42:07,910 --> 01:42:06,639
athens so he makes another run on his

2375
01:42:09,910 --> 01:42:07,920
folks please please plea you know he

2376
01:42:11,270 --> 01:42:09,920
found this scuba diving course that's

2377
01:42:13,270 --> 01:42:11,280
the good news the bad news is it was

2378
01:42:15,590 --> 01:42:13,280
like two hours away logistically a

2379
01:42:17,510 --> 01:42:15,600
nightmare for his folks to figure out

2380
01:42:20,709 --> 01:42:17,520
how to get him who was in a driving

2381
01:42:23,510 --> 01:42:20,719
egypt to and from there to scuba dive

2382
01:42:25,189 --> 01:42:23,520
and so his mother said well scott i tell

2383
01:42:26,310 --> 01:42:25,199
you what if you can find three other

2384
01:42:28,790 --> 01:42:26,320
friends

2385
01:42:31,510 --> 01:42:28,800
and their parents agreed to share the

2386
01:42:33,189 --> 01:42:31,520
logistics so we split this up on how we

2387
01:42:34,790 --> 01:42:33,199
get you to your scuba diving class and

2388
01:42:36,390 --> 01:42:34,800
get you back

2389
01:42:38,550 --> 01:42:36,400
then okay

2390
01:42:40,310 --> 01:42:38,560
he shot out the door that afternoon he

2391
01:42:42,310 --> 01:42:40,320
showed back up with three guys standing

2392
01:42:44,310 --> 01:42:42,320
there saying yes we'll do it our parents

2393
01:42:45,830 --> 01:42:44,320
will do it

2394
01:42:47,669 --> 01:42:45,840
to the students his parents had never

2395
01:42:52,390 --> 01:42:47,679
seen before they weren't sure scott had

2396
01:42:57,350 --> 01:42:54,870
but yes very innovative and driven when

2397
01:42:59,830 --> 01:42:57,360
he wants to accomplish something

2398
01:43:01,750 --> 01:42:59,840
there are many eagle scouts

2399
01:43:03,910 --> 01:43:01,760
in the astronaut corps which is a very

2400
01:43:05,030 --> 01:43:03,920
impressive thing

2401
01:43:06,229 --> 01:43:05,040
but

2402
01:43:08,310 --> 01:43:06,239
i don't know how many have gotten the

2403
01:43:10,950 --> 01:43:08,320
outstanding eagle award but you're

2404
01:43:12,870 --> 01:43:10,960
looking at one here

2405
01:43:14,550 --> 01:43:12,880
another thing that's pretty cool

2406
01:43:17,990 --> 01:43:14,560
about scott

2407
01:43:20,870 --> 01:43:18,000
is he's a top 10 competitor in the 1988

2408
01:43:22,310 --> 01:43:20,880
us olympic luge trials

2409
01:43:24,629 --> 01:43:22,320
and you're thinking wow top ten in the

2410
01:43:27,350 --> 01:43:24,639
world olympian and

2411
01:43:28,870 --> 01:43:27,360
now keep in mind he's going to school

2412
01:43:30,790 --> 01:43:28,880
in stanford and i'm trying to think

2413
01:43:34,070 --> 01:43:30,800
there aren't that many luge tracks that

2414
01:43:35,990 --> 01:43:34,080
close to palo alto california

2415
01:43:37,189 --> 01:43:36,000
so in figuring out how to make this work

2416
01:43:38,629 --> 01:43:37,199
scott figured out you know i'm just

2417
01:43:39,669 --> 01:43:38,639
going to have to take winter semester

2418
01:43:41,510 --> 01:43:39,679
off

2419
01:43:43,430 --> 01:43:41,520
find a track somewhere to practice my

2420
01:43:46,229 --> 01:43:43,440
lose turns out those happen to be in

2421
01:43:48,550 --> 01:43:46,239
europe then yugoslavia and germany i

2422
01:43:51,189 --> 01:43:48,560
believe are the tracks

2423
01:43:54,629 --> 01:43:51,199
to to follow that passion and endeavor

2424
01:43:56,470 --> 01:43:54,639
and wind up being world class

2425
01:43:59,430 --> 01:43:56,480
as well as you might imagine

2426
01:44:00,709 --> 01:43:59,440
he's won multiple awards and medals from

2427
01:44:02,709 --> 01:44:00,719
nasa

2428
01:44:05,109 --> 01:44:02,719
for his stellar performance that he's

2429
01:44:06,709 --> 01:44:05,119
always done on his flights

2430
01:44:09,510 --> 01:44:06,719
including the space shuttle missions and

2431
01:44:12,390 --> 01:44:09,520
the evas including the one unplanned eva

2432
01:44:14,790 --> 01:44:12,400
that was very risky to repair a sole

2433
01:44:16,950 --> 01:44:14,800
torn solar array you have to be really

2434
01:44:18,709 --> 01:44:16,960
careful with the amount of voltage and

2435
01:44:20,550 --> 01:44:18,719
wattage amperage that are in those

2436
01:44:21,830 --> 01:44:20,560
arrays if you do the wrong thing it's a

2437
01:44:25,030 --> 01:44:21,840
bad day

2438
01:44:27,510 --> 01:44:25,040
you you're not going to be around

2439
01:44:30,709 --> 01:44:28,550
so

2440
01:44:33,430 --> 01:44:30,719
as we look at

2441
01:44:36,790 --> 01:44:33,440
doogie hauser too tall scott parazinsky

2442
01:44:38,629 --> 01:44:36,800
here how would we classify him

2443
01:44:40,070 --> 01:44:38,639
thrill seeker

2444
01:44:41,990 --> 01:44:40,080
well you know although he's done a lot

2445
01:44:44,149 --> 01:44:42,000
of thrilling things

2446
01:44:45,910 --> 01:44:44,159
probably not there there are some that

2447
01:44:47,430 --> 01:44:45,920
are adrenaline judges unfortunately i

2448
01:44:49,189 --> 01:44:47,440
fall into that category that would maybe

2449
01:44:52,229 --> 01:44:49,199
be closer to that but but the real

2450
01:44:55,430 --> 01:44:52,239
secret no i would not classify scout as

2451
01:44:56,470 --> 01:44:55,440
a thrill seeker risk taker

2452
01:44:59,590 --> 01:44:56,480
well

2453
01:45:02,229 --> 01:44:59,600
he has done a lot of risky things

2454
01:45:04,790 --> 01:45:02,239
but he's not really a risk taker he

2455
01:45:07,189 --> 01:45:04,800
mitigates those risks and plans them

2456
01:45:09,350 --> 01:45:07,199
thoroughly and executes him so they're

2457
01:45:11,590 --> 01:45:09,360
no more risky than absolutely

2458
01:45:13,109 --> 01:45:11,600
possible

2459
01:45:14,070 --> 01:45:13,119
adventure seeker

2460
01:45:17,590 --> 01:45:14,080
yeah

2461
01:45:19,750 --> 01:45:17,600
never seen a

2462
01:45:21,430 --> 01:45:19,760
a more vigorous adventure seeker than

2463
01:45:23,510 --> 01:45:21,440
scott perezinski

2464
01:45:25,350 --> 01:45:23,520
and so when i look at him amongst all

2465
01:45:29,590 --> 01:45:25,360
the astronauts i've been around

2466
01:45:31,830 --> 01:45:29,600
he truly represents an explorer

2467
01:45:33,270 --> 01:45:31,840
space explorer yes

2468
01:45:35,590 --> 01:45:33,280
he's done a lot of that with his five

2469
01:45:37,669 --> 01:45:35,600
missions mountaineering we've heard

2470
01:45:40,310 --> 01:45:37,679
something about mountaineering the other

2471
01:45:42,310 --> 01:45:40,320
thing that i'm sure is not a coincidence

2472
01:45:44,390 --> 01:45:42,320
uh when he did his residency he wound up

2473
01:45:47,189 --> 01:45:44,400
doing it in colorado at university

2474
01:45:50,390 --> 01:45:47,199
hospital i think the fact there are 59

2475
01:45:51,590 --> 01:45:50,400
14 000 foot peaks mountains in the state

2476
01:45:54,149 --> 01:45:51,600
of colorado

2477
01:45:56,149 --> 01:45:54,159
had something to do that to do with that

2478
01:45:59,510 --> 01:45:56,159
he set his goal on climbing every one of

2479
01:46:01,910 --> 01:45:59,520
them he did that's impressive mount

2480
01:46:03,990 --> 01:46:01,920
everest i mean i'm so proud when i talk

2481
01:46:06,550 --> 01:46:04,000
about scott when i'm talking about our

2482
01:46:09,189 --> 01:46:06,560
mission you know he is the only human on

2483
01:46:11,430 --> 01:46:09,199
the planet that's done both as

2484
01:46:13,350 --> 01:46:11,440
john articularly says

2485
01:46:15,669 --> 01:46:13,360
has seen the world from orbit and stood

2486
01:46:18,629 --> 01:46:15,679
on top of it

2487
01:46:21,189 --> 01:46:18,639
but it doesn't end there he he does he's

2488
01:46:23,109 --> 01:46:21,199
spent time in antarctica he's applied

2489
01:46:24,870 --> 01:46:23,119
his medical skills there he's been to

2490
01:46:26,950 --> 01:46:24,880
the south pole

2491
01:46:28,470 --> 01:46:26,960
and interestingly this week

2492
01:46:29,990 --> 01:46:28,480
this had nothing to do with this event

2493
01:46:31,350 --> 01:46:30,000
coming up i'm going through my news on

2494
01:46:33,510 --> 01:46:31,360
my computer

2495
01:46:34,709 --> 01:46:33,520
and here something pops up project

2496
01:46:36,629 --> 01:46:34,719
poseidon

2497
01:46:38,229 --> 01:46:36,639
record-breaking 100-day undersea

2498
01:46:42,790 --> 01:46:38,239
expedition

2499
01:46:47,430 --> 01:46:44,790
scott perezinski

2500
01:46:50,229 --> 01:46:47,440
so so you name it he's been a lot closer

2501
01:46:53,109 --> 01:46:50,239
to volcanoes than i ever want to be uh

2502
01:46:55,510 --> 01:46:53,119
he is absolutely an explorer

2503
01:46:58,950 --> 01:46:55,520
and uh but but one of the things that

2504
01:47:01,270 --> 01:46:58,960
i'm most impressed with with scott

2505
01:47:04,229 --> 01:47:01,280
is he applies himself

2506
01:47:07,030 --> 01:47:04,239
but even scott realizes hey there are so

2507
01:47:10,070 --> 01:47:07,040
only so many hours in the day even scott

2508
01:47:11,510 --> 01:47:10,080
the ultimate energizer bunny only has so

2509
01:47:13,990 --> 01:47:11,520
much energy

2510
01:47:16,229 --> 01:47:14,000
so he actually is fairly calculating on

2511
01:47:18,390 --> 01:47:16,239
how he's going to apply

2512
01:47:19,669 --> 01:47:18,400
uh apply himself

2513
01:47:21,830 --> 01:47:19,679
and we've heard a lot about the great

2514
01:47:24,790 --> 01:47:21,840
accomplishments what you haven't heard

2515
01:47:27,030 --> 01:47:24,800
about is he does phenomenal things

2516
01:47:28,310 --> 01:47:27,040
uh you know one of the things he does

2517
01:47:30,950 --> 01:47:28,320
and i'm looking at this forever

2518
01:47:33,669 --> 01:47:30,960
remembered if you get a chance it's a

2519
01:47:36,390 --> 01:47:33,679
phenomenal display

2520
01:47:39,109 --> 01:47:36,400
to honor our challenger crew and our

2521
01:47:41,350 --> 01:47:39,119
columbia crew scott has been very very

2522
01:47:42,950 --> 01:47:41,360
involved in both those crews after the

2523
01:47:45,030 --> 01:47:42,960
fact

2524
01:47:46,590 --> 01:47:45,040
in one of those areas

2525
01:47:49,109 --> 01:47:46,600
was on

2526
01:47:52,149 --> 01:47:49,119
sts-107 after we lost that crew of

2527
01:47:54,470 --> 01:47:52,159
colombia and obviously columbia

2528
01:47:57,510 --> 01:47:54,480
because of his mountaineering skills

2529
01:47:58,470 --> 01:47:57,520
scott was instrumental in getting a peek

2530
01:48:00,709 --> 01:47:58,480
one of the

2531
01:48:02,550 --> 01:48:00,719
14 thousand footers kit carson has two

2532
01:48:04,310 --> 01:48:02,560
sub-peaks one was already named

2533
01:48:05,669 --> 01:48:04,320
challenger point in honor of the

2534
01:48:09,350 --> 01:48:05,679
challenger crew

2535
01:48:12,629 --> 01:48:09,360
scott worked to get the other subpeak

2536
01:48:15,109 --> 01:48:12,639
designated columbia point

2537
01:48:17,270 --> 01:48:15,119
for this not only did he do that did

2538
01:48:19,750 --> 01:48:17,280
everything got it benchmarked

2539
01:48:22,390 --> 01:48:19,760
he arranged and organized orchestrated

2540
01:48:23,669 --> 01:48:22,400
getting the families all the families to

2541
01:48:26,950 --> 01:48:23,679
colombia

2542
01:48:29,750 --> 01:48:26,960
and in addition we had a four f-16 flyby

2543
01:48:31,910 --> 01:48:29,760
to commemorate that dedication and so

2544
01:48:35,270 --> 01:48:31,920
he put a huge amount of work and energy

2545
01:48:37,109 --> 01:48:35,280
into something that he believed in and

2546
01:48:39,830 --> 01:48:37,119
thank you scott the uh

2547
01:48:42,229 --> 01:48:39,840
that that was huge

2548
01:48:44,790 --> 01:48:42,239
i mentioned challenger this is another

2549
01:48:47,030 --> 01:48:44,800
area where scott perezinski

2550
01:48:49,109 --> 01:48:47,040
obviously decided you know this is an

2551
01:48:51,189 --> 01:48:49,119
area where maybe i can help

2552
01:48:53,510 --> 01:48:51,199
he was asked to be on the challenger

2553
01:48:55,990 --> 01:48:53,520
center board of directors and

2554
01:48:57,990 --> 01:48:56,000
as most enterprises go through cycles

2555
01:49:00,550 --> 01:48:58,000
ups and downs challenger by the way is a

2556
01:49:02,870 --> 01:49:00,560
phenomenal organization it was started

2557
01:49:05,669 --> 01:49:02,880
only three months after we lost space

2558
01:49:08,709 --> 01:49:05,679
shuttle challenger and her crew

2559
01:49:10,229 --> 01:49:08,719
in june scoby now june scobee rogers

2560
01:49:11,590 --> 01:49:10,239
started that organization it's

2561
01:49:13,750 --> 01:49:11,600
phenomenal

2562
01:49:15,270 --> 01:49:13,760
there were over 40 challenger centers

2563
01:49:17,750 --> 01:49:15,280
around the nation three of them are

2564
01:49:18,709 --> 01:49:17,760
international and they're growing

2565
01:49:21,109 --> 01:49:18,719
but

2566
01:49:23,189 --> 01:49:21,119
a half a dozen years ago we weren't

2567
01:49:25,189 --> 01:49:23,199
growing in challenger center

2568
01:49:26,709 --> 01:49:25,199
a couple of key board members stepped up

2569
01:49:28,470 --> 01:49:26,719
and turned that around one was bill

2570
01:49:30,870 --> 01:49:28,480
reedy but the other one very

2571
01:49:32,470 --> 01:49:30,880
instrumental was scott perezinski scott

2572
01:49:35,669 --> 01:49:32,480
became the became the chairman of the

2573
01:49:38,070 --> 01:49:35,679
board and put a huge amount of energy it

2574
01:49:39,830 --> 01:49:38,080
was almost a full-time job to wind up

2575
01:49:41,189 --> 01:49:39,840
turning around challenger center and we

2576
01:49:43,669 --> 01:49:41,199
all benefit today because that

2577
01:49:46,149 --> 01:49:43,679
organization is very healthy and on the

2578
01:49:49,589 --> 01:49:46,159
right upward ramp i know scott thank you

2579
01:49:53,750 --> 01:49:50,629
you know

2580
01:49:56,470 --> 01:49:53,760
when you stand up here you always try to

2581
01:49:58,790 --> 01:49:56,480
tell stories that are funny typically

2582
01:50:01,030 --> 01:49:58,800
that's code for something embarrassing

2583
01:50:02,629 --> 01:50:01,040
for the astronaut sitting up here

2584
01:50:04,550 --> 01:50:02,639
and uh

2585
01:50:06,229 --> 01:50:04,560
so i started thinking about it and i'm

2586
01:50:08,229 --> 01:50:06,239
stumped

2587
01:50:10,229 --> 01:50:08,239
so i reached out to a friend of ours

2588
01:50:11,990 --> 01:50:10,239
that scott and i flew with on sts-100

2589
01:50:13,589 --> 01:50:12,000
jeff ashbry a

2590
01:50:16,390 --> 01:50:13,599
fun guy

2591
01:50:17,589 --> 01:50:16,400
and uh so uh call sign bones i said

2592
01:50:19,030 --> 01:50:17,599
bones

2593
01:50:20,870 --> 01:50:19,040
do you have any dirt

2594
01:50:22,310 --> 01:50:20,880
on too tall

2595
01:50:25,430 --> 01:50:22,320
or should i call you doogie i forget

2596
01:50:27,910 --> 01:50:25,440
which one you like okay okay

2597
01:50:30,310 --> 01:50:27,920
and uh ashby goes well you know why he

2598
01:50:32,390 --> 01:50:30,320
goes i actually do talk about too tall

2599
01:50:34,629 --> 01:50:32,400
in some of my presentations and

2600
01:50:36,310 --> 01:50:34,639
jeff said i went to a school

2601
01:50:38,870 --> 01:50:36,320
uh middle school talked to the students

2602
01:50:39,910 --> 01:50:38,880
and before i went the teacher tasked the

2603
01:50:42,950 --> 01:50:39,920
students

2604
01:50:44,470 --> 01:50:42,960
okay student your job is when on the day

2605
01:50:46,629 --> 01:50:44,480
jeff comes to speak to you about his

2606
01:50:49,669 --> 01:50:46,639
astronaut career

2607
01:50:51,510 --> 01:50:49,679
you write down what it is you most are

2608
01:50:54,709 --> 01:50:51,520
looking forward to learning from

2609
01:50:57,510 --> 01:50:54,719
astronaut captain jeff ashby

2610
01:50:59,750 --> 01:50:57,520
about flying in space

2611
01:51:02,070 --> 01:50:59,760
one of the students wrote nothing

2612
01:51:11,030 --> 01:51:02,080
because i'm a pen pal with astronaut dr

2613
01:51:14,550 --> 01:51:13,030
you know i can go on and on with stories

2614
01:51:17,830 --> 01:51:14,560
uh

2615
01:51:20,070 --> 01:51:17,840
in true perezinski style one last story

2616
01:51:21,109 --> 01:51:20,080
is my mother was sick

2617
01:51:25,270 --> 01:51:21,119
and

2618
01:51:27,350 --> 01:51:25,280
out of the seizure she was confused she

2619
01:51:29,189 --> 01:51:27,360
didn't even recognize me it was shortly

2620
01:51:31,669 --> 01:51:29,199
after one of my flights i grew up in

2621
01:51:34,070 --> 01:51:31,679
rural colorado i get in there quick and

2622
01:51:36,310 --> 01:51:34,080
mom doesn't hardly know who i am and

2623
01:51:39,189 --> 01:51:36,320
it's a very small town 1400 people i'm

2624
01:51:40,790 --> 01:51:39,199
talking to the doctor and i said well

2625
01:51:42,629 --> 01:51:40,800
shouldn't we try to get my mother to

2626
01:51:45,270 --> 01:51:42,639
denver to hospitals where we can run

2627
01:51:47,669 --> 01:51:45,280
more tests and the doc's like now you

2628
01:51:49,109 --> 01:51:47,679
know it's okay she's improving we drew

2629
01:51:50,390 --> 01:51:49,119
some blood

2630
01:51:52,950 --> 01:51:50,400
i'm thinking well this doesn't sound

2631
01:51:54,629 --> 01:51:52,960
right i call i call scott say hey scott

2632
01:51:56,229 --> 01:51:54,639
here's what's going on

2633
01:51:58,470 --> 01:51:56,239
what do you think he says do you have

2634
01:52:00,790 --> 01:51:58,480
the doctor's phone number i said i do

2635
01:52:01,589 --> 01:52:00,800
and by the way i've been pushing on this

2636
01:52:03,270 --> 01:52:01,599
doc

2637
01:52:04,870 --> 01:52:03,280
several different times where i felt

2638
01:52:06,470 --> 01:52:04,880
like i'm sure he thought i was being

2639
01:52:07,990 --> 01:52:06,480
pretty obnoxious right i was even

2640
01:52:10,070 --> 01:52:08,000
throwing the astronaut car down hey i'm

2641
01:52:12,870 --> 01:52:10,080
an astronaut yeah you know

2642
01:52:14,629 --> 01:52:12,880
to know to no avail

2643
01:52:16,870 --> 01:52:14,639
i give scott the phone call and i'm

2644
01:52:18,790 --> 01:52:16,880
sitting in the room man all of a sudden

2645
01:52:20,950 --> 01:52:18,800
it was like a code blue in the hospital

2646
01:52:22,629 --> 01:52:20,960
people come running in they go hey

2647
01:52:24,950 --> 01:52:22,639
your mother's being life flighted out of

2648
01:52:26,870 --> 01:52:24,960
here you get this we got to get her to

2649
01:52:28,950 --> 01:52:26,880
the airport i was like wow right the

2650
01:52:31,910 --> 01:52:28,960
doctor for me wouldn't do anything

2651
01:52:33,750 --> 01:52:31,920
whatever it is scott did thank you and

2652
01:52:36,950 --> 01:52:33,760
uh i don't know that we really needed a

2653
01:52:37,830 --> 01:52:36,960
life fighter uh to denver

2654
01:52:39,510 --> 01:52:37,840
so

2655
01:52:41,109 --> 01:52:39,520
but by the time she got there she was

2656
01:52:44,070 --> 01:52:41,119
actually back to being pretty coherent

2657
01:52:47,030 --> 01:52:44,080
knew who i was

2658
01:52:49,350 --> 01:52:47,040
but by god we got her there so uh

2659
01:52:52,310 --> 01:52:49,360
no you know what the it really is an

2660
01:52:54,550 --> 01:52:52,320
honor for me today uh to be on the stage

2661
01:52:56,310 --> 01:52:54,560
with both these guys brian duffy to one

2662
01:52:58,629 --> 01:52:56,320
of my favorite guys

2663
01:53:00,790 --> 01:52:58,639
and uh chile mentioned it but there

2664
01:53:02,470 --> 01:53:00,800
there was no secret duff is an extremely

2665
01:53:04,149 --> 01:53:02,480
gifted fighter pilot

2666
01:53:05,510 --> 01:53:04,159
uh i i just tell you a little bit of a

2667
01:53:06,950 --> 01:53:05,520
story though

2668
01:53:08,470 --> 01:53:06,960
kevin chilton

2669
01:53:10,390 --> 01:53:08,480
kind of set the standard here you know

2670
01:53:12,790 --> 01:53:10,400
when we launch from florida they want

2671
01:53:14,229 --> 01:53:12,800
you to come back to florida unless

2672
01:53:17,109 --> 01:53:14,239
they're going to rework the vehicle but

2673
01:53:18,870 --> 01:53:17,119
in chile's case he launched from florida

2674
01:53:21,270 --> 01:53:18,880
he didn't come back to florida right he

2675
01:53:22,709 --> 01:53:21,280
diverted into california that's kind of

2676
01:53:25,350 --> 01:53:22,719
where the air force test pilot school is

2677
01:53:29,669 --> 01:53:25,360
i always wondered but then we went

2678
01:53:33,030 --> 01:53:29,679
we went from sts-76 to sts-92

2679
01:53:34,470 --> 01:53:33,040
you know years without messing that up i

2680
01:53:37,030 --> 01:53:34,480
happen to be doing flying the lining

2681
01:53:39,510 --> 01:53:37,040
weather at edwards when sts-92 was up

2682
01:53:42,709 --> 01:53:39,520
duff followed suit he was the only one

2683
01:53:44,470 --> 01:53:42,719
other than chile from sts 76 to 92 that

2684
01:53:46,629 --> 01:53:44,480
messed that up he couldn't come back

2685
01:53:48,790 --> 01:53:46,639
into florida he went back into

2686
01:53:49,990 --> 01:53:48,800
california but

2687
01:53:51,750 --> 01:53:50,000
but actually

2688
01:53:54,629 --> 01:53:51,760
i am really honored

2689
01:53:56,870 --> 01:53:54,639
to be on stage with both you guys this

2690
01:53:58,550 --> 01:53:56,880
is really good

2691
01:54:00,709 --> 01:53:58,560
you know in summary

2692
01:54:02,950 --> 01:54:00,719
talking about scott

2693
01:54:04,629 --> 01:54:02,960
extremely capable

2694
01:54:05,830 --> 01:54:04,639
intelligent

2695
01:54:06,790 --> 01:54:05,840
driven

2696
01:54:09,990 --> 01:54:06,800
karen

2697
01:54:12,790 --> 01:54:10,000
he's very caring individual but but he

2698
01:54:15,510 --> 01:54:12,800
is truly an explorer at heart

2699
01:54:18,229 --> 01:54:15,520
he's trying to do his part to make this

2700
01:54:19,669 --> 01:54:18,239
planet a better place for all of us

2701
01:54:22,790 --> 01:54:19,679
and i can't think of anyone more

2702
01:54:24,310 --> 01:54:22,800
deserving than dr scott

2703
01:54:27,030 --> 01:54:24,320
doogie hauser

2704
01:55:05,830 --> 01:54:27,040
too tall parazinsky to be inducted into

2705
01:55:10,950 --> 01:55:09,030
wow this is uh certainly

2706
01:55:13,109 --> 01:55:10,960
one of the most exciting and proudest

2707
01:55:15,589 --> 01:55:13,119
days of my life and and i'm just so

2708
01:55:17,830 --> 01:55:15,599
thrilled to have so many of you close

2709
01:55:19,510 --> 01:55:17,840
friends and and co-workers from the many

2710
01:55:21,990 --> 01:55:19,520
chapters of my life here to share in

2711
01:55:24,310 --> 01:55:22,000
this extraordinary day and it was really

2712
01:55:26,229 --> 01:55:24,320
fantastic uh to be on stage here with

2713
01:55:28,390 --> 01:55:26,239
brian who's been a close

2714
01:55:30,310 --> 01:55:28,400
friend but but also kind of a role model

2715
01:55:32,149 --> 01:55:30,320
he's one of those exceptional leaders

2716
01:55:34,629 --> 01:55:32,159
that that everyone in the office looked

2717
01:55:37,589 --> 01:55:34,639
up to and so it was really exciting for

2718
01:55:39,669 --> 01:55:37,599
me to get the nod with brian

2719
01:55:41,990 --> 01:55:39,679
um and like uh like you started out

2720
01:55:43,109 --> 01:55:42,000
saying uh it was really the most

2721
01:55:45,270 --> 01:55:43,119
incredible

2722
01:55:46,790 --> 01:55:45,280
call of my life i think to get that you

2723
01:55:49,189 --> 01:55:46,800
know surprise call on christmas eve and

2724
01:55:51,109 --> 01:55:49,199
be told that i was going to be here uh

2725
01:55:53,830 --> 01:55:51,119
for this great induction so

2726
01:55:56,310 --> 01:55:53,840
um wonderful to be part of the astronaut

2727
01:55:59,189 --> 01:55:56,320
scholarship foundation family and to be

2728
01:56:01,430 --> 01:55:59,199
inducted with all these great legends

2729
01:56:03,510 --> 01:56:01,440
and i just have to say rommel that was

2730
01:56:05,109 --> 01:56:03,520
you know you 95 percent of what you said

2731
01:56:07,109 --> 01:56:05,119
there you really tugged at my heart

2732
01:56:08,709 --> 01:56:07,119
strings i'm gonna get back to that last

2733
01:56:10,229 --> 01:56:08,719
five percent in here just a minute but

2734
01:56:11,669 --> 01:56:10,239
uh um

2735
01:56:13,750 --> 01:56:11,679
you know you've been a very good friend

2736
01:56:16,229 --> 01:56:13,760
for the whole you know from from almost

2737
01:56:18,629 --> 01:56:16,239
day one you know we really clicked as a

2738
01:56:21,910 --> 01:56:18,639
class and as personal friends

2739
01:56:24,709 --> 01:56:21,920
um you were a classmate a friend um

2740
01:56:25,990 --> 01:56:24,719
you're my fearless commander on sts-100

2741
01:56:28,790 --> 01:56:26,000
and i was part of his

2742
01:56:30,550 --> 01:56:28,800
very fearful crew um

2743
01:56:31,910 --> 01:56:30,560
and we i the stories that i could tell

2744
01:56:33,189 --> 01:56:31,920
about rommel i mean we'd be here well

2745
01:56:35,270 --> 01:56:33,199
into the evening and i wouldn't even

2746
01:56:36,790 --> 01:56:35,280
have to embellish very much to make them

2747
01:56:37,589 --> 01:56:36,800
sound unbelievable and you know that's

2748
01:56:40,470 --> 01:56:37,599
right

2749
01:56:43,189 --> 01:56:40,480
um but i think what i admire the most

2750
01:56:45,189 --> 01:56:43,199
about rommel is his leadership i think

2751
01:56:47,109 --> 01:56:45,199
he's the most extraordinary leader that

2752
01:56:49,350 --> 01:56:47,119
i have ever known and i've taken so many

2753
01:56:51,750 --> 01:56:49,360
lessons into my own personal life and in

2754
01:56:53,830 --> 01:56:51,760
my leadership style just watching his

2755
01:56:56,870 --> 01:56:53,840
his grace and and

2756
01:56:58,870 --> 01:56:56,880
command under under pressure he was

2757
01:57:01,990 --> 01:56:58,880
chief of the astronaut office during our

2758
01:57:04,550 --> 01:57:02,000
darkest hours during the aftermath of

2759
01:57:06,470 --> 01:57:04,560
the space shuttle columbia tragedy and

2760
01:57:09,189 --> 01:57:06,480
our whole agency our whole nation the

2761
01:57:11,830 --> 01:57:09,199
whole world needed to heal and his his

2762
01:57:13,830 --> 01:57:11,840
steady hand the way he he managed

2763
01:57:16,149 --> 01:57:13,840
expectations his resolve

2764
01:57:18,950 --> 01:57:16,159
um you know really carried carried all

2765
01:57:21,270 --> 01:57:18,960
of us forward i was a

2766
01:57:23,189 --> 01:57:21,280
a family escort and a

2767
01:57:25,669 --> 01:57:23,199
a casualty uh

2768
01:57:27,270 --> 01:57:25,679
basically an escort for the uh

2769
01:57:28,629 --> 01:57:27,280
my good friend rick husband in the

2770
01:57:30,950 --> 01:57:28,639
aftermath of that

2771
01:57:33,589 --> 01:57:30,960
terrible tragedy and and uh

2772
01:57:34,310 --> 01:57:33,599
they were very difficult days for all of

2773
01:57:36,070 --> 01:57:34,320
us

2774
01:57:39,350 --> 01:57:36,080
but i think it galvanized the whole

2775
01:57:41,030 --> 01:57:39,360
agency to figure out what had happened

2776
01:57:42,070 --> 01:57:41,040
and make sure that it could never happen

2777
01:57:43,830 --> 01:57:42,080
again

2778
01:57:45,589 --> 01:57:43,840
but oh by the way since it's nasa we

2779
01:57:47,430 --> 01:57:45,599
have to develop tools and techniques to

2780
01:57:49,350 --> 01:57:47,440
make sure that if it did happen just in

2781
01:57:50,950 --> 01:57:49,360
case we would have a fighting chance to

2782
01:57:52,950 --> 01:57:50,960
to do that and so

2783
01:57:54,470 --> 01:57:52,960
i was part of

2784
01:57:56,870 --> 01:57:54,480
a team to help develop tools and

2785
01:57:58,310 --> 01:57:56,880
techniques to repair shuttles on orbit

2786
01:58:00,070 --> 01:57:58,320
and help us have a fighting chance to

2787
01:58:01,589 --> 01:58:00,080
come home and should that ever happen in

2788
01:58:03,430 --> 01:58:01,599
the future but

2789
01:58:05,750 --> 01:58:03,440
there's so many

2790
01:58:08,310 --> 01:58:05,760
wonderful stories of of how people came

2791
01:58:09,990 --> 01:58:08,320
together in that very trying time but

2792
01:58:12,629 --> 01:58:10,000
i don't want to have my all my

2793
01:58:14,709 --> 01:58:12,639
commentary uh be on that note and so i i

2794
01:58:17,109 --> 01:58:14,719
want to get uh uh back to that five

2795
01:58:18,830 --> 01:58:17,119
percent let's let's talk about doogie

2796
01:58:22,310 --> 01:58:18,840
for a little bit okay

2797
01:58:23,990 --> 01:58:22,320
so first of all there's so many

2798
01:58:26,070 --> 01:58:24,000
emotions that flood through you as you

2799
01:58:28,229 --> 01:58:26,080
stand here on a day like today you know

2800
01:58:30,709 --> 01:58:28,239
it's you know i'm standing in front of

2801
01:58:32,550 --> 01:58:30,719
uh men and women who have been my

2802
01:58:34,550 --> 01:58:32,560
inspiration you know since i was a

2803
01:58:36,470 --> 01:58:34,560
little kid and i'm looking at you young

2804
01:58:38,470 --> 01:58:36,480
shuttle folks too okay just so you know

2805
01:58:41,990 --> 01:58:38,480
that

2806
01:58:46,229 --> 01:58:44,550
it was uh it was a really interesting

2807
01:58:47,589 --> 01:58:46,239
time when i first arrived at nasa i

2808
01:58:49,350 --> 01:58:47,599
think rommel was a little bit generous

2809
01:58:51,510 --> 01:58:49,360
in terms of my appearance when i first

2810
01:58:54,229 --> 01:58:51,520
got here i think i actually looked about

2811
01:58:55,750 --> 01:58:54,239
12 when i first arrived at nasa but only

2812
01:58:57,589 --> 01:58:55,760
if i hadn't shaved for like three weeks

2813
01:58:59,350 --> 01:58:57,599
if i was clean shaven i was a six foot

2814
01:59:00,709 --> 01:58:59,360
three kindergartner so this is really

2815
01:59:02,790 --> 01:59:00,719
what i was dealing with

2816
01:59:04,790 --> 01:59:02,800
and uh and so i could only imagine that

2817
01:59:06,790 --> 01:59:04,800
the conversations in the corner office

2818
01:59:08,229 --> 01:59:06,800
where dan sat at the time where they're

2819
01:59:09,830 --> 01:59:08,239
making those coveted flight crew

2820
01:59:11,750 --> 01:59:09,840
assignments hey what do you think about

2821
01:59:13,430 --> 01:59:11,760
that parazinsky kid you know he seems he

2822
01:59:15,270 --> 01:59:13,440
seems pretty sharp

2823
01:59:17,109 --> 01:59:15,280
nah stick him back in the incubator that

2824
01:59:20,390 --> 01:59:17,119
was my uh my

2825
01:59:21,750 --> 01:59:20,400
imaginary voices in my head uh uh

2826
01:59:22,950 --> 01:59:21,760
thinking that uh you know there's no way

2827
01:59:24,709 --> 01:59:22,960
that they're gonna take me seriously

2828
01:59:26,709 --> 01:59:24,719
give me a flight assignment but actually

2829
01:59:27,830 --> 01:59:26,719
turned out to be quite a great motivator

2830
01:59:29,189 --> 01:59:27,840
for me

2831
01:59:31,669 --> 01:59:29,199
to be as well prepared as i could

2832
01:59:33,589 --> 01:59:31,679
possibly be uh

2833
01:59:35,589 --> 01:59:33,599
going into my simulations and things

2834
01:59:38,629 --> 01:59:35,599
turned out okay for me i guess but

2835
01:59:40,310 --> 01:59:38,639
um in any event uh my very clever

2836
01:59:42,390 --> 01:59:40,320
classmate rommel came up with the name

2837
01:59:45,669 --> 01:59:42,400
yes dougie hauser md after neil patrick

2838
01:59:48,149 --> 01:59:45,679
harris's character on this the like uh

2839
01:59:51,109 --> 01:59:48,159
named tv show or nph from harold and

2840
01:59:54,870 --> 01:59:51,119
kumar any harold and kumar fans here

2841
01:59:56,950 --> 01:59:54,880
two of you that's it oh come on that's

2842
01:59:58,470 --> 01:59:56,960
need to get out more but

2843
01:59:59,350 --> 01:59:58,480
in any event uh

2844
02:00:00,629 --> 01:59:59,360
uh

2845
02:00:01,430 --> 02:00:00,639
it was really interesting when folks

2846
02:00:03,270 --> 02:00:01,440
would

2847
02:00:04,950 --> 02:00:03,280
uh you know come up to greet me they'd

2848
02:00:07,430 --> 02:00:04,960
say hey dukey how's it going man there

2849
02:00:09,830 --> 02:00:07,440
was a like a three second delay 1001

2850
02:00:11,430 --> 02:00:09,840
1002 1003.

2851
02:00:14,310 --> 02:00:11,440
what

2852
02:00:16,470 --> 02:00:14,320
that was very loud sorry

2853
02:00:19,109 --> 02:00:16,480
and so as you might imagine i i didn't

2854
02:00:21,510 --> 02:00:19,119
disguise my disdain for this call sign

2855
02:00:23,750 --> 02:00:21,520
very well and it immediately stuck and

2856
02:00:25,350 --> 02:00:23,760
so this is a this is a teaching moment

2857
02:00:27,109 --> 02:00:25,360
there are a lot of young people here a

2858
02:00:29,270 --> 02:00:27,119
lot of future astronauts are astronaut

2859
02:00:32,470 --> 02:00:29,280
scholars i hope we'll we'll follow in

2860
02:00:35,350 --> 02:00:32,480
the footsteps of christina uh coke who

2861
02:00:37,350 --> 02:00:35,360
spoke beautifully last night but

2862
02:00:39,030 --> 02:00:37,360
what you need to do if you suddenly find

2863
02:00:40,870 --> 02:00:39,040
yourself plunked down in the middle of a

2864
02:00:42,709 --> 02:00:40,880
military aviation squadron which is

2865
02:00:44,629 --> 02:00:42,719
basically the astronaut office

2866
02:00:46,310 --> 02:00:44,639
what you need to do when they give you

2867
02:00:47,510 --> 02:00:46,320
that first call sign which i guarantee

2868
02:00:49,430 --> 02:00:47,520
you'll hate

2869
02:00:50,870 --> 02:00:49,440
is pretend that you love it

2870
02:00:52,709 --> 02:00:50,880
put it on your business card put it on

2871
02:00:54,470 --> 02:00:52,719
the sign outside your door

2872
02:00:56,790 --> 02:00:54,480
refer to yourself in the third person as

2873
02:00:57,990 --> 02:00:56,800
the dukester whatever it takes to make

2874
02:00:59,750 --> 02:00:58,000
sure that people understand that you

2875
02:01:01,750 --> 02:00:59,760
want that on your tombstone and if you

2876
02:01:03,510 --> 02:01:01,760
do that i guarantee

2877
02:01:04,629 --> 02:01:03,520
you'll get another call sign

2878
02:01:07,430 --> 02:01:04,639
okay

2879
02:01:11,109 --> 02:01:09,109
in any event um

2880
02:01:13,270 --> 02:01:11,119
for no for those of you who know me very

2881
02:01:15,189 --> 02:01:13,280
well and i have a huge gathering of

2882
02:01:17,109 --> 02:01:15,199
folks here i mean it's amazing people

2883
02:01:19,350 --> 02:01:17,119
from all over the world have converged

2884
02:01:21,109 --> 02:01:19,360
on the kennedy space center here and it

2885
02:01:23,910 --> 02:01:21,119
means the world to me to have have you

2886
02:01:25,750 --> 02:01:23,920
here family friends co-workers i have

2887
02:01:27,830 --> 02:01:25,760
many many crew mates

2888
02:01:29,350 --> 02:01:27,840
that i'm going to brag about and flight

2889
02:01:31,430 --> 02:01:29,360
controllers that i'm going to brag about

2890
02:01:32,550 --> 02:01:31,440
nbl divers that i'm going to brag about

2891
02:01:35,350 --> 02:01:32,560
that are here

2892
02:01:37,910 --> 02:01:35,360
and or here in spirit and

2893
02:01:39,350 --> 02:01:37,920
and so for those of you who know me

2894
02:01:40,470 --> 02:01:39,360
really really well

2895
02:01:43,430 --> 02:01:40,480
um

2896
02:01:45,270 --> 02:01:43,440
you know that i i actively seek to avoid

2897
02:01:47,109 --> 02:01:45,280
uh the spotlight i would much rather

2898
02:01:50,149 --> 02:01:47,119
talk about you

2899
02:01:51,990 --> 02:01:50,159
i can talk your ears off about my kids

2900
02:01:53,589 --> 02:01:52,000
technology politics the weather i'll

2901
02:01:55,990 --> 02:01:53,599
even talk about the kardashians you know

2902
02:01:58,229 --> 02:01:56,000
what what whatever it takes but i i

2903
02:02:00,470 --> 02:01:58,239
recognize that here and now today the

2904
02:02:03,189 --> 02:02:00,480
spotlight is is beating down

2905
02:02:05,189 --> 02:02:03,199
on my good friend and very deserving

2906
02:02:07,589 --> 02:02:05,199
friend brian duffy's highly reflective

2907
02:02:09,430 --> 02:02:07,599
forehead and also mine

2908
02:02:10,310 --> 02:02:09,440
sorry

2909
02:02:12,390 --> 02:02:10,320
um

2910
02:02:14,709 --> 02:02:12,400
and so

2911
02:02:15,830 --> 02:02:14,719
sorry

2912
02:02:17,669 --> 02:02:15,840
no i'm not

2913
02:02:18,870 --> 02:02:17,679
okay i had a shot and i had to take it

2914
02:02:24,310 --> 02:02:18,880
so

2915
02:02:26,550 --> 02:02:24,320
uh and humbled to be here today as a

2916
02:02:28,790 --> 02:02:26,560
standing standing in front of you

2917
02:02:30,950 --> 02:02:28,800
to receive this great recognition

2918
02:02:34,629 --> 02:02:30,960
not as an individual but on behalf of

2919
02:02:38,470 --> 02:02:36,709
i'm sorry

2920
02:02:40,229 --> 02:02:38,480
getting choked up

2921
02:02:43,189 --> 02:02:40,239
but literally the thousands of people

2922
02:02:44,629 --> 02:02:43,199
who've touched my my professional career

2923
02:02:47,430 --> 02:02:44,639
brilliant resourceful creative

2924
02:02:50,550 --> 02:02:47,440
passionate people professionals

2925
02:02:52,709 --> 02:02:50,560
nasa contractor women and men american

2926
02:02:56,390 --> 02:02:52,719
and international partner who prepared

2927
02:02:58,310 --> 02:02:56,400
our spacecraft prepared our payloads

2928
02:03:00,310 --> 02:02:58,320
trained us for audacious missions up

2929
02:03:02,310 --> 02:03:00,320
into space launched us here from the

2930
02:03:03,589 --> 02:03:02,320
kennedy space center operated those

2931
02:03:05,910 --> 02:03:03,599
missions led those missions from the

2932
02:03:07,350 --> 02:03:05,920
mission control center in houston

2933
02:03:09,990 --> 02:03:07,360
and then safely brought us back to

2934
02:03:11,990 --> 02:03:10,000
planet earth and uh you know what what

2935
02:03:13,830 --> 02:03:12,000
an incredible uh

2936
02:03:15,910 --> 02:03:13,840
charmed life i've i've lived to have

2937
02:03:17,750 --> 02:03:15,920
this opportunity to live out my boyhood

2938
02:03:19,589 --> 02:03:17,760
dreams um

2939
02:03:22,709 --> 02:03:19,599
it's it's really quite extraordinary to

2940
02:03:25,990 --> 02:03:22,719
be an american to uh be able to

2941
02:03:27,830 --> 02:03:26,000
uh grow up in an environment where

2942
02:03:29,350 --> 02:03:27,840
your country drake dreams big but then

2943
02:03:32,390 --> 02:03:29,360
has to resolve to

2944
02:03:34,550 --> 02:03:32,400
fulfill those those challenges and i i

2945
02:03:36,629 --> 02:03:34,560
like uh brian and others have said i

2946
02:03:38,709 --> 02:03:36,639
think the future is is indeed extremely

2947
02:03:39,589 --> 02:03:38,719
bright and uh you know for the young

2948
02:03:41,350 --> 02:03:39,599
people

2949
02:03:43,669 --> 02:03:41,360
our your future in spaces is

2950
02:03:46,229 --> 02:03:43,679
extraordinary as well

2951
02:03:50,870 --> 02:03:48,629
so uh you know i've worked with so many

2952
02:03:52,790 --> 02:03:50,880
extraordinary people flight directors

2953
02:03:55,030 --> 02:03:52,800
many fellow crew members are here here

2954
02:03:56,870 --> 02:03:55,040
today uh including members of the hall

2955
02:03:58,950 --> 02:03:56,880
of fame but i have my

2956
02:04:00,310 --> 02:03:58,960
uh commander for my last mission pam

2957
02:04:01,910 --> 02:04:00,320
melroy in the back

2958
02:04:02,950 --> 02:04:01,920
a wonderful leader and she trained

2959
02:04:05,430 --> 02:04:02,960
underneath

2960
02:04:07,510 --> 02:04:05,440
none other than brian duffy and the the

2961
02:04:09,350 --> 02:04:07,520
skill set passed directly to you it was

2962
02:04:11,669 --> 02:04:09,360
amazing and i understand it your skill

2963
02:04:14,149 --> 02:04:11,679
set transitioned from charlie bolden so

2964
02:04:16,310 --> 02:04:14,159
there's the there's the lineage

2965
02:04:17,910 --> 02:04:16,320
dantani was uh

2966
02:04:19,589 --> 02:04:17,920
on our crew as well

2967
02:04:22,310 --> 02:04:19,599
did a space walk with him on my last

2968
02:04:24,790 --> 02:04:22,320
flight sts-120 and he was a robotics

2969
02:04:27,030 --> 02:04:24,800
guru along with stephanie wilson and

2970
02:04:28,390 --> 02:04:27,040
then my very good friend one of my best

2971
02:04:31,030 --> 02:04:28,400
friends in the known universe doug

2972
02:04:33,030 --> 02:04:31,040
wheelock is here and uh

2973
02:04:34,709 --> 02:04:33,040
just thank the the world of him and i'm

2974
02:04:37,189 --> 02:04:34,719
gonna brag about these guys a little bit

2975
02:04:39,510 --> 02:04:37,199
long later in my commentary

2976
02:04:40,950 --> 02:04:39,520
and uh and then we have dina contella

2977
02:04:43,109 --> 02:04:40,960
who is uh

2978
02:04:44,550 --> 02:04:43,119
our lead eva flight controller she's in

2979
02:04:46,470 --> 02:04:44,560
the back she's hiding but i'm gonna have

2980
02:04:48,870 --> 02:04:46,480
her stand up later she's very shy not

2981
02:04:50,149 --> 02:04:48,880
really but um but i'm gonna brag about

2982
02:04:52,149 --> 02:04:50,159
her as well

2983
02:04:54,470 --> 02:04:52,159
and i think i have some of my nbl dive

2984
02:04:56,149 --> 02:04:54,480
team buddies here uh who

2985
02:04:56,950 --> 02:04:56,159
and all the spacewalks that i did i did

2986
02:04:59,189 --> 02:04:56,960
seven

2987
02:05:01,030 --> 02:04:59,199
trips outside i always felt like they

2988
02:05:04,069 --> 02:05:01,040
were right over my shoulder

2989
02:05:06,069 --> 02:05:04,079
there to help me help to help guide me

2990
02:05:07,910 --> 02:05:06,079
coax that last bolt in hand me the tool

2991
02:05:09,669 --> 02:05:07,920
that i'm going to need next make me

2992
02:05:10,629 --> 02:05:09,679
think through the next procedure and and

2993
02:05:15,189 --> 02:05:10,639
so

2994
02:05:17,910 --> 02:05:15,199
i want to salute those guys especially

2995
02:05:20,149 --> 02:05:17,920
i think i need to embarrass my home team

2996
02:05:22,629 --> 02:05:20,159
who are right over here in the third row

2997
02:05:25,030 --> 02:05:22,639
uh and i'll start with my folks uh

2998
02:05:26,709 --> 02:05:25,040
because they're my dad is uh at the edge

2999
02:05:28,629 --> 02:05:26,719
there and my mom uh ed and linda

3000
02:05:30,550 --> 02:05:28,639
parazynski i embarrassed them a little

3001
02:05:33,030 --> 02:05:30,560
bit last night we're at the saturn five

3002
02:05:35,910 --> 02:05:33,040
center it was really a poignant place to

3003
02:05:37,030 --> 02:05:35,920
to talk about the impact that

3004
02:05:39,589 --> 02:05:37,040
they had in my life they're very

3005
02:05:42,390 --> 02:05:39,599
adventurous folks as well it didn't fall

3006
02:05:44,310 --> 02:05:42,400
you know far from the tree but

3007
02:05:46,149 --> 02:05:44,320
they traveled extensively even before i

3008
02:05:47,669 --> 02:05:46,159
was born i think i took my first flight

3009
02:05:50,069 --> 02:05:47,679
when my mom was six months pregnant they

3010
02:05:53,109 --> 02:05:50,079
went to south america and so i actually

3011
02:05:53,910 --> 02:05:53,119
logged some hours uh um even before uh

3012
02:05:55,270 --> 02:05:53,920
uh

3013
02:05:57,830 --> 02:05:55,280
being born but

3014
02:06:00,310 --> 02:05:57,840
you know had a travel bug and a sense of

3015
02:06:01,270 --> 02:06:00,320
curiosity about the world and and never

3016
02:06:03,910 --> 02:06:01,280
any

3017
02:06:05,350 --> 02:06:03,920
hard limits on what i could try and

3018
02:06:08,550 --> 02:06:05,360
challenge myself

3019
02:06:11,510 --> 02:06:08,560
they might have asked questions and and

3020
02:06:13,270 --> 02:06:11,520
tried to steer me in other more safe uh

3021
02:06:15,350 --> 02:06:13,280
directions but they never held me back

3022
02:06:17,990 --> 02:06:15,360
and and so i certainly attribute a lot

3023
02:06:19,350 --> 02:06:18,000
of what uh became of my life to my my

3024
02:06:21,910 --> 02:06:19,360
wonderful parents

3025
02:06:23,510 --> 02:06:21,920
um and so underneath the uh the saturn v

3026
02:06:25,589 --> 02:06:23,520
last night was really really kind of

3027
02:06:27,030 --> 02:06:25,599
neat so this is the largest rocket ever

3028
02:06:29,109 --> 02:06:27,040
built uh

3029
02:06:31,750 --> 02:06:29,119
up to this point and uh you know at the

3030
02:06:32,950 --> 02:06:31,760
very tail end of that ship are five f1

3031
02:06:35,510 --> 02:06:32,960
engines that

3032
02:06:37,990 --> 02:06:35,520
propelled that saturn v stack off to the

3033
02:06:38,950 --> 02:06:38,000
moon and my dad was an engineer on the

3034
02:06:41,270 --> 02:06:38,960
program

3035
02:06:42,790 --> 02:06:41,280
and uh did a lot of work in the design

3036
02:06:45,189 --> 02:06:42,800
and test of that vehicle so it was

3037
02:06:48,390 --> 02:06:45,199
really really special to be there my son

3038
02:06:51,270 --> 02:06:48,400
luke is here as well and uh i try not to

3039
02:06:53,510 --> 02:06:51,280
embarrass him it's pretty easy to do but

3040
02:06:56,550 --> 02:06:53,520
he's he's a fantastic kid he's just

3041
02:06:58,870 --> 02:06:56,560
finished his freshman year at baylor

3042
02:07:00,310 --> 02:06:58,880
a real scholar but he's also very social

3043
02:07:02,550 --> 02:07:00,320
he's a wonderful

3044
02:07:05,189 --> 02:07:02,560
empathetic person he's a great big

3045
02:07:07,030 --> 02:07:05,199
brother to his sister jenna and uh can't

3046
02:07:07,990 --> 02:07:07,040
think yeah i can't say

3047
02:07:10,069 --> 02:07:08,000
uh

3048
02:07:12,229 --> 02:07:10,079
you know enough wonderful things about

3049
02:07:16,149 --> 02:07:12,239
the young man that he's becoming so i

3050
02:07:22,069 --> 02:07:18,950
and uh i did not bring my my younger

3051
02:07:23,910 --> 02:07:22,079
daughter jenna with me she's 16 but she

3052
02:07:25,510 --> 02:07:23,920
is autistic and quite honestly you guys

3053
02:07:27,109 --> 02:07:25,520
are a little bit too rowdy i think the

3054
02:07:29,030 --> 02:07:27,119
noise in this room this cavernous room

3055
02:07:29,830 --> 02:07:29,040
would be a little bit distracting to her

3056
02:07:31,510 --> 02:07:29,840
but

3057
02:07:34,229 --> 02:07:31,520
she stayed home

3058
02:07:34,950 --> 02:07:34,239
but she's certainly the apple of my eye

3059
02:07:37,750 --> 02:07:34,960
and

3060
02:07:39,750 --> 02:07:37,760
you know a wonderful

3061
02:07:42,709 --> 02:07:39,760
gift in our in our lives and then

3062
02:07:45,510 --> 02:07:42,719
finally uh the love of my life uh mina

3063
02:07:47,510 --> 02:07:45,520
mini wadwa is with me here today uh

3064
02:07:49,990 --> 02:07:47,520
she's you know breathtaking

3065
02:07:50,709 --> 02:07:50,000
beautiful she's uh she's brilliant she's

3066
02:07:53,589 --> 02:07:50,719
uh

3067
02:07:54,390 --> 02:07:53,599
one of the world's leaders in her field

3068
02:07:56,390 --> 02:07:54,400
but

3069
02:07:58,149 --> 02:07:56,400
she's also just the most

3070
02:08:00,229 --> 02:07:58,159
wonderful loving passionate

3071
02:08:02,870 --> 02:08:00,239
person i've ever met and

3072
02:08:04,629 --> 02:08:02,880
you know i can't imagine you know

3073
02:08:06,830 --> 02:08:04,639
going through this life with without

3074
02:08:12,550 --> 02:08:06,840
without many with me

3075
02:08:15,830 --> 02:08:14,310
so as i was starting to say a little bit

3076
02:08:17,109 --> 02:08:15,840
earlier i was i was very fortunate to

3077
02:08:19,270 --> 02:08:17,119
work with some of the world's best and

3078
02:08:20,870 --> 02:08:19,280
brightest on my my five spatial

3079
02:08:22,310 --> 02:08:20,880
emissions and i wish i could brag on

3080
02:08:23,510 --> 02:08:22,320
every single one of the people that i

3081
02:08:25,830 --> 02:08:23,520
worked with but obviously we don't have

3082
02:08:28,390 --> 02:08:25,840
time to do that here today but space

3083
02:08:31,589 --> 02:08:28,400
exploration is very much a team sport

3084
02:08:33,109 --> 02:08:31,599
and nasa is is a champion it's just

3085
02:08:35,510 --> 02:08:33,119
remarkable what

3086
02:08:37,270 --> 02:08:35,520
what this organization does and and i

3087
02:08:38,870 --> 02:08:37,280
feel so gifted to have been a part of

3088
02:08:42,390 --> 02:08:38,880
the grander vision the common

3089
02:08:44,550 --> 02:08:42,400
denominator at nasa in my uh my mind is

3090
02:08:45,830 --> 02:08:44,560
a shared sense of a higher purpose

3091
02:08:48,790 --> 02:08:45,840
you're working to explore for the

3092
02:08:51,830 --> 02:08:48,800
betterment of humanity

3093
02:08:53,589 --> 02:08:51,840
so i'll just very briefly talk uh about

3094
02:08:56,149 --> 02:08:53,599
some of my flight history but i i was

3095
02:08:58,709 --> 02:08:56,159
very lucky to fly with ellen ochoa who i

3096
02:09:00,470 --> 02:08:58,719
believe is some some there's alan here

3097
02:09:01,189 --> 02:09:00,480
yeah so on my first flight i flew with

3098
02:09:07,109 --> 02:09:01,199
uh

3099
02:09:09,109 --> 02:09:07,119
that lucky flight sts-66 and actually

3100
02:09:11,430 --> 02:09:09,119
ellen was my my mentor in that flight

3101
02:09:13,109 --> 02:09:11,440
she was the veteran

3102
02:09:15,589 --> 02:09:13,119
astronaut mission specialist who had

3103
02:09:17,350 --> 02:09:15,599
done a similar flight

3104
02:09:19,109 --> 02:09:17,360
on her first mission and

3105
02:09:21,750 --> 02:09:19,119
i continue to learn from her today she's

3106
02:09:23,750 --> 02:09:21,760
just an amazing person

3107
02:09:25,109 --> 02:09:23,760
when i got back from that flight you

3108
02:09:26,870 --> 02:09:25,119
know it was such an overwhelming

3109
02:09:28,390 --> 02:09:26,880
exciting experience the first thing i

3110
02:09:30,870 --> 02:09:28,400
wanted to do is you know get back in

3111
02:09:32,870 --> 02:09:30,880
line and go again and uh

3112
02:09:35,430 --> 02:09:32,880
and so uh they were actually looking for

3113
02:09:37,510 --> 02:09:35,440
volunteers to go to the russian space

3114
02:09:39,030 --> 02:09:37,520
station mirror and there didn't seem to

3115
02:09:42,069 --> 02:09:39,040
be all that many volunteers for poor

3116
02:09:43,910 --> 02:09:42,079
hoot and uh so i went over to the hoots

3117
02:09:46,950 --> 02:09:43,920
office and uh said hey coach you know

3118
02:09:49,030 --> 02:09:46,960
put me in and he was very excited to uh

3119
02:09:51,589 --> 02:09:49,040
to get me in training

3120
02:09:54,790 --> 02:09:51,599
for a couple of reasons i think

3121
02:09:56,470 --> 02:09:54,800
one is because i'm a big goon and so

3122
02:09:58,950 --> 02:09:56,480
being a big goon i was sort of a test

3123
02:10:00,950 --> 02:09:58,960
case for what we could fit into the

3124
02:10:03,189 --> 02:10:00,960
soyuz capsule in the future we needed to

3125
02:10:05,750 --> 02:10:03,199
we needed to use that spacecraft to

3126
02:10:07,589 --> 02:10:05,760
evacuate the international space station

3127
02:10:10,470 --> 02:10:07,599
once we started to build it uh in a few

3128
02:10:12,149 --> 02:10:10,480
years hence and so i was sort of a test

3129
02:10:14,629 --> 02:10:12,159
case and

3130
02:10:15,990 --> 02:10:14,639
as rommel talked about i i turned out to

3131
02:10:17,750 --> 02:10:16,000
fail that test

3132
02:10:19,750 --> 02:10:17,760
and i got a better call sign to tal

3133
02:10:21,430 --> 02:10:19,760
perzinski which i i still try and hold

3134
02:10:23,990 --> 02:10:21,440
on to but you know what's interesting

3135
02:10:25,750 --> 02:10:24,000
now rommel i actually really like people

3136
02:10:27,270 --> 02:10:25,760
calling me doogie right now you know i

3137
02:10:28,870 --> 02:10:27,280
can't pull it off quite as well i got a

3138
02:10:30,390 --> 02:10:28,880
little bit of gray going on here but

3139
02:10:32,069 --> 02:10:30,400
it's still every once in a while people

3140
02:10:34,229 --> 02:10:32,079
do come up to me and call me doogie and

3141
02:10:35,350 --> 02:10:34,239
you can call me doogee if you'd like

3142
02:10:36,470 --> 02:10:35,360
any time

3143
02:10:39,510 --> 02:10:36,480
um

3144
02:10:42,950 --> 02:10:39,520
but in an event uh i ended up

3145
02:10:46,229 --> 02:10:42,960
returning to planet earth

3146
02:10:49,669 --> 02:10:46,239
after a great mission on sts-86 with wex

3147
02:10:51,350 --> 02:10:49,679
wex is my commander and uh did a uh

3148
02:10:53,189 --> 02:10:51,360
an incredible five-day dock mission to

3149
02:10:55,350 --> 02:10:53,199
the russian space station mirror i went

3150
02:10:57,750 --> 02:10:55,360
out with one of the the most experienced

3151
02:10:59,350 --> 02:10:57,760
cosmonauts in the world velodya titov he

3152
02:11:01,589 --> 02:10:59,360
was the very first human to spend a

3153
02:11:03,589 --> 02:11:01,599
consecutive year off of the planet

3154
02:11:05,910 --> 02:11:03,599
i got a chance to to lead a spacewalk

3155
02:11:09,189 --> 02:11:05,920
with him on his space stations which i

3156
02:11:11,669 --> 02:11:09,199
thought was was really extraordinary

3157
02:11:13,030 --> 02:11:11,679
sooner after landing actually i

3158
02:11:14,870 --> 02:11:13,040
i was at a monday morning meeting i

3159
02:11:16,149 --> 02:11:14,880
think and uh

3160
02:11:18,229 --> 02:11:16,159
the head of the office i think it was

3161
02:11:20,629 --> 02:11:18,239
ken cockrell taco at the time

3162
02:11:22,709 --> 02:11:20,639
he said uh hey doogie no i think he

3163
02:11:25,189 --> 02:11:22,719
might have called me too tall um at that

3164
02:11:26,550 --> 02:11:25,199
point uh hey hey too tall can you stop

3165
02:11:28,550 --> 02:11:26,560
by my office after the meeting and i

3166
02:11:30,709 --> 02:11:28,560
thought uh oh i'm in trouble you know i

3167
02:11:31,750 --> 02:11:30,719
just landed from sda's 86 a couple

3168
02:11:33,270 --> 02:11:31,760
months ago

3169
02:11:34,310 --> 02:11:33,280
or thereabouts

3170
02:11:36,229 --> 02:11:34,320
and i'm getting called into the

3171
02:11:37,750 --> 02:11:36,239
principal's office

3172
02:11:39,990 --> 02:11:37,760
not a good sign you know i i was

3173
02:11:43,910 --> 02:11:40,000
thinking myself okay what did i do now

3174
02:11:45,589 --> 02:11:43,920
uh but uh as i walked in he said hey uh

3175
02:11:46,870 --> 02:11:45,599
how'd you like to go fly with senator

3176
02:11:49,030 --> 02:11:46,880
john glenn

3177
02:11:50,470 --> 02:11:49,040
and my jaw dropped you know thinking my

3178
02:11:52,629 --> 02:11:50,480
god i'm gonna get a chance to fly with

3179
02:11:55,350 --> 02:11:52,639
my boyhood hero and it was such an

3180
02:11:56,229 --> 02:11:55,360
extraordinary experience to fly

3181
02:11:58,390 --> 02:11:56,239
with

3182
02:12:00,390 --> 02:11:58,400
not just a legend but a great human

3183
02:12:02,470 --> 02:12:00,400
being and to get to know his wife annie

3184
02:12:04,069 --> 02:12:02,480
and the rest of his family

3185
02:12:06,390 --> 02:12:04,079
what an extraordinary life experience

3186
02:12:08,310 --> 02:12:06,400
and i just one story from that

3187
02:12:09,830 --> 02:12:08,320
time but

3188
02:12:11,750 --> 02:12:09,840
i remember when he walked into our crew

3189
02:12:13,750 --> 02:12:11,760
office the very first day

3190
02:12:15,589 --> 02:12:13,760
he said if any of you guys even think

3191
02:12:17,510 --> 02:12:15,599
about calling me senator glenn i'm going

3192
02:12:19,430 --> 02:12:17,520
to ignore you i'm just payload

3193
02:12:22,470 --> 02:12:19,440
specialist number two or you can call me

3194
02:12:23,990 --> 02:12:22,480
john but nothing else and he insisted on

3195
02:12:27,189 --> 02:12:24,000
just being one of the guys even though

3196
02:12:29,030 --> 02:12:27,199
we were obviously in reverence uh to him

3197
02:12:30,790 --> 02:12:29,040
it's sort of uh what we would call a

3198
02:12:32,550 --> 02:12:30,800
high pucker factor assignment for me

3199
02:12:34,950 --> 02:12:32,560
because you know i was the

3200
02:12:36,470 --> 02:12:34,960
the flight surgeon the the guy

3201
02:12:38,229 --> 02:12:36,480
responsible for taking care of john on

3202
02:12:40,790 --> 02:12:38,239
the flight and if something happened to

3203
02:12:43,189 --> 02:12:40,800
77 year old american hero legend john

3204
02:12:43,990 --> 02:12:43,199
glenn i might as well not come back home

3205
02:12:45,589 --> 02:12:44,000
so

3206
02:12:48,709 --> 02:12:45,599
but things went great he was in super

3207
02:12:51,350 --> 02:12:48,719
shape and we had an amazing mission

3208
02:12:53,270 --> 02:12:51,360
then i got to fly with rommel here and

3209
02:12:56,069 --> 02:12:53,280
my buddy chris hadfield and jeff ashby

3210
02:12:57,430 --> 02:12:56,079
and we just had a a great great crew

3211
02:12:59,109 --> 02:12:57,440
great camaraderie

3212
02:13:00,950 --> 02:12:59,119
jokes all the time but when it really

3213
02:13:03,510 --> 02:13:00,960
counted we got the work done

3214
02:13:06,069 --> 02:13:03,520
and i told the story a fun story last

3215
02:13:08,149 --> 02:13:06,079
night from that mission but

3216
02:13:10,149 --> 02:13:08,159
our lives changed forever with the loss

3217
02:13:11,350 --> 02:13:10,159
of our columbia crew and sts-107 of

3218
02:13:14,149 --> 02:13:11,360
course

3219
02:13:15,430 --> 02:13:14,159
rick willey dave kulpner mike laurel

3220
02:13:17,430 --> 02:13:15,440
elon

3221
02:13:20,550 --> 02:13:17,440
i can't ever you know forget their their

3222
02:13:22,310 --> 02:13:20,560
brave sacrifice we can't ever take uh

3223
02:13:24,870 --> 02:13:22,320
take space flight for granted you know

3224
02:13:26,629 --> 02:13:24,880
it's it's it still takes a lot of force

3225
02:13:28,709 --> 02:13:26,639
to get to break the surly bonds of earth

3226
02:13:30,709 --> 02:13:28,719
and to get up into space so even though

3227
02:13:32,470 --> 02:13:30,719
we're at this new forefront of uh

3228
02:13:34,470 --> 02:13:32,480
commercial space flight and we're gonna

3229
02:13:36,310 --> 02:13:34,480
see you know greater frequency of space

3230
02:13:38,470 --> 02:13:36,320
flight operations we can't ever let our

3231
02:13:42,629 --> 02:13:38,480
guard down this is an industry that does

3232
02:13:45,030 --> 02:13:42,639
not allow for any any error

3233
02:13:46,550 --> 02:13:45,040
so at that point uh i honestly

3234
02:13:48,470 --> 02:13:46,560
uh when we lost the career i honestly

3235
02:13:50,629 --> 02:13:48,480
considered hanging up my spacesuit you

3236
02:13:51,830 --> 02:13:50,639
know i had two wonderful kids at home

3237
02:13:54,069 --> 02:13:51,840
and i didn't

3238
02:13:56,390 --> 02:13:54,079
know if it was right for me to continue

3239
02:13:59,189 --> 02:13:56,400
uh taking those risks but being as close

3240
02:14:01,510 --> 02:13:59,199
as i was to that crew and with the the

3241
02:14:02,629 --> 02:14:01,520
energy that was building around the

3242
02:14:05,990 --> 02:14:02,639
agency

3243
02:14:07,430 --> 02:14:06,000
it was just uh nasa's added at its

3244
02:14:09,830 --> 02:14:07,440
finest

3245
02:14:11,990 --> 02:14:09,840
the whole agency came together to

3246
02:14:14,310 --> 02:14:12,000
develop methods and and procedures to

3247
02:14:16,870 --> 02:14:14,320
get us back to flight as quickly as we

3248
02:14:18,470 --> 02:14:16,880
could and i had the great opportunity to

3249
02:14:19,750 --> 02:14:18,480
fly one more time

3250
02:14:22,229 --> 02:14:19,760
but i would just say that you know when

3251
02:14:24,149 --> 02:14:22,239
when the chips are town are down nasa

3252
02:14:28,310 --> 02:14:24,159
rises to the occasion

3253
02:14:31,350 --> 02:14:28,320
and um and uh soon uh uh thereafter i

3254
02:14:34,629 --> 02:14:31,360
was assigned to what i would consider my

3255
02:14:37,030 --> 02:14:34,639
my most amazing uh flight experience uh

3256
02:14:39,030 --> 02:14:37,040
and uh just an extraordinary crew led by

3257
02:14:41,430 --> 02:14:39,040
pambo sts-120

3258
02:14:43,189 --> 02:14:41,440
and it was an extremely complex space

3259
02:14:44,870 --> 02:14:43,199
station assembly flight we had to

3260
02:14:46,550 --> 02:14:44,880
install a new module called harmony it

3261
02:14:48,229 --> 02:14:46,560
was an interconnecting node that had

3262
02:14:51,030 --> 02:14:48,239
these different serial radial ports that

3263
02:14:53,350 --> 02:14:51,040
would allow us to plug in

3264
02:14:55,350 --> 02:14:53,360
european and japanese modules

3265
02:14:57,910 --> 02:14:55,360
and then we had to relocate this

3266
02:15:00,149 --> 02:14:57,920
p6 truss a solar ray truss from the top

3267
02:15:02,629 --> 02:15:00,159
of the space station and plug it in at

3268
02:15:04,629 --> 02:15:02,639
the very tip of the space station

3269
02:15:07,109 --> 02:15:04,639
using robotics and lots and lots of

3270
02:15:09,109 --> 02:15:07,119
space walking and then extend these

3271
02:15:10,870 --> 02:15:09,119
solar panels so that we could power

3272
02:15:11,990 --> 02:15:10,880
those european and japanese modules in

3273
02:15:14,629 --> 02:15:12,000
the future

3274
02:15:16,310 --> 02:15:14,639
and uh it was really

3275
02:15:18,390 --> 02:15:16,320
a spacewalker's dream to be assigned to

3276
02:15:20,950 --> 02:15:18,400
that flight and also to be on our crew

3277
02:15:24,069 --> 02:15:20,960
we had a wonderful crew led by pambo but

3278
02:15:25,510 --> 02:15:24,079
george zamka was our our pilot uh zambo

3279
02:15:26,709 --> 02:15:25,520
pambo and zambo so we became the

3280
02:15:28,790 --> 02:15:26,719
rambonauts

3281
02:15:30,629 --> 02:15:28,800
uh of course and i became longbow i got

3282
02:15:34,629 --> 02:15:30,639
another call sign out of that that mix

3283
02:15:37,189 --> 02:15:34,639
which is great uh wheels got a flambeau

3284
02:15:38,709 --> 02:15:37,199
because of his pyrotechnic skills

3285
02:15:41,990 --> 02:15:38,719
and then we had

3286
02:15:44,870 --> 02:15:42,000
dantani who became boichi

3287
02:15:47,669 --> 02:15:44,880
and stephanie wilson who was our flight

3288
02:15:50,229 --> 02:15:47,679
engineer and robotics guru he became

3289
02:15:53,510 --> 02:15:50,239
i'm sorry she became robo and then paulo

3290
02:15:55,669 --> 02:15:53,520
naspoli who was uh kind of a jack of all

3291
02:15:57,669 --> 02:15:55,679
trades uh and then also the eva

3292
02:15:59,830 --> 02:15:57,679
quarterback we didn't really have a cool

3293
02:16:02,870 --> 02:15:59,840
bow name for him so he became the

3294
02:16:05,350 --> 02:16:02,880
italian stallion you know for the uh

3295
02:16:07,910 --> 02:16:05,360
for the same theme but uh

3296
02:16:09,830 --> 02:16:07,920
but anyway i just wanted to uh to talk

3297
02:16:12,069 --> 02:16:09,840
briefly about the solar ray repair that

3298
02:16:14,390 --> 02:16:12,079
we did which i consider to be among

3299
02:16:15,430 --> 02:16:14,400
nasa's finest hours nasa's had so many

3300
02:16:18,149 --> 02:16:15,440
incredible

3301
02:16:19,589 --> 02:16:18,159
uh winds uh overcoming adversity but

3302
02:16:22,069 --> 02:16:19,599
this certainly has to be one of the most

3303
02:16:23,589 --> 02:16:22,079
extraordinary things that nasa's ever

3304
02:16:24,870 --> 02:16:23,599
done and certainly in the shuttle

3305
02:16:27,350 --> 02:16:24,880
station era

3306
02:16:29,109 --> 02:16:27,360
but as this solar panel was being

3307
02:16:30,629 --> 02:16:29,119
extended out at the very tip of the

3308
02:16:32,469 --> 02:16:30,639
space station

3309
02:16:34,230 --> 02:16:32,479
this guide wire that had become frayed

3310
02:16:35,429 --> 02:16:34,240
began to rip apart the panel in a couple

3311
02:16:36,389 --> 02:16:35,439
of spots

3312
02:16:38,309 --> 02:16:36,399
and so

3313
02:16:41,270 --> 02:16:38,319
the crew actually inside it was pambo

3314
02:16:42,950 --> 02:16:41,280
and our space station commander steph um

3315
02:16:44,950 --> 02:16:42,960
peggy will

3316
02:16:47,349 --> 02:16:44,960
peggy whitson excuse me

3317
02:16:48,549 --> 02:16:47,359
were hawking this very closely

3318
02:16:50,230 --> 02:16:48,559
they didn't have the greatest camera

3319
02:16:51,750 --> 02:16:50,240
views but they saw that something was

3320
02:16:53,270 --> 02:16:51,760
wrong the dynamics were all wrong they

3321
02:16:54,950 --> 02:16:53,280
stopped it immediately

3322
02:16:56,950 --> 02:16:54,960
and we had a big problem on our hands

3323
02:17:00,709 --> 02:16:56,960
you know we have basically a limp noodle

3324
02:17:02,709 --> 02:17:00,719
out there and uh you know what do you do

3325
02:17:04,230 --> 02:17:02,719
we couldn't retract it at that point we

3326
02:17:05,030 --> 02:17:04,240
couldn't extend it

3327
02:17:06,150 --> 02:17:05,040
and

3328
02:17:08,309 --> 02:17:06,160
we didn't even have really good

3329
02:17:10,709 --> 02:17:08,319
visibility to what the problem was

3330
02:17:13,110 --> 02:17:10,719
and what i love about nasa is when the

3331
02:17:14,469 --> 02:17:13,120
the chips are at their lowest they they

3332
02:17:16,469 --> 02:17:14,479
regroup they get their best and

3333
02:17:17,830 --> 02:17:16,479
brightest together around the table and

3334
02:17:19,830 --> 02:17:17,840
they come up with a brilliant plan and

3335
02:17:22,150 --> 02:17:19,840
that's exactly what they did people work

3336
02:17:24,629 --> 02:17:22,160
around the clock for 72 hours

3337
02:17:25,429 --> 02:17:24,639
i'm sure lots of uh

3338
02:17:27,910 --> 02:17:25,439
you know

3339
02:17:29,509 --> 02:17:27,920
pizza and caffeine were involved but

3340
02:17:31,190 --> 02:17:29,519
working around the clock developed an

3341
02:17:33,110 --> 02:17:31,200
extraordinary

3342
02:17:34,389 --> 02:17:33,120
multi-faceted approach to get a space

3343
02:17:35,830 --> 02:17:34,399
walker out to the very tip of the space

3344
02:17:37,669 --> 02:17:35,840
station further than we'd ever meant

3345
02:17:39,190 --> 02:17:37,679
were ever meant to go

3346
02:17:41,110 --> 02:17:39,200
using tools that had never been built

3347
02:17:43,270 --> 02:17:41,120
before using a coupled together robotic

3348
02:17:44,469 --> 02:17:43,280
system that was never imagined before

3349
02:17:48,389 --> 02:17:44,479
and uh

3350
02:17:50,150 --> 02:17:48,399
did something that we didn't really know

3351
02:17:52,549 --> 02:17:50,160
if we were going to be successful at and

3352
02:17:55,190 --> 02:17:52,559
uh but we we knew that

3353
02:17:57,270 --> 02:17:55,200
dina and derek hospin who unfortunately

3354
02:17:59,110 --> 02:17:57,280
couldn't be here today he was our

3355
02:18:01,349 --> 02:17:59,120
lead iss flight director he's going to

3356
02:18:05,669 --> 02:18:01,359
come but he had a conflict at the last

3357
02:18:06,870 --> 02:18:05,679
minute but other people like sarmad aziz

3358
02:18:07,990 --> 02:18:06,880
and others that i'm going to mention in

3359
02:18:09,589 --> 02:18:08,000
a second

3360
02:18:11,990 --> 02:18:09,599
were right there looking over our

3361
02:18:14,549 --> 02:18:12,000
shoulders and we felt confident that if

3362
02:18:16,070 --> 02:18:14,559
we didn't fix the problem that day

3363
02:18:17,990 --> 02:18:16,080
there would be a plan b or there would

3364
02:18:21,190 --> 02:18:18,000
be a plan c and we would get to that as

3365
02:18:23,110 --> 02:18:21,200
well but it it all worked extremely well

3366
02:18:24,629 --> 02:18:23,120
and i'm so proud to have been a part of

3367
02:18:25,990 --> 02:18:24,639
that and so one of the things i'd like

3368
02:18:27,910 --> 02:18:26,000
to do

3369
02:18:30,629 --> 02:18:27,920
if you can indulge me is i'd like to

3370
02:18:32,790 --> 02:18:30,639
just mention some names of people that

3371
02:18:35,270 --> 02:18:32,800
really contributed to this some are well

3372
02:18:37,190 --> 02:18:35,280
known names many are have probably never

3373
02:18:38,790 --> 02:18:37,200
been uttered in public before

3374
02:18:40,629 --> 02:18:38,800
certainly all these people are unsung

3375
02:18:43,190 --> 02:18:40,639
heroes for this effort but i just wanted

3376
02:18:45,509 --> 02:18:43,200
to mention them because they've done

3377
02:18:48,469 --> 02:18:45,519
extraordinary work first off i want to

3378
02:18:50,549 --> 02:18:48,479
mention the late great kevin pair who

3379
02:18:52,950 --> 02:18:50,559
passed very shortly after

3380
02:18:55,589 --> 02:18:52,960
sts-120 but he was kind of the the

3381
02:18:57,429 --> 02:18:55,599
godfather of of the cufflink that was

3382
02:18:59,669 --> 02:18:57,439
actually the technique that we used to

3383
02:19:01,910 --> 02:18:59,679
repair the solar panel

3384
02:19:03,270 --> 02:19:01,920
and uh i had the great good fortune to

3385
02:19:04,950 --> 02:19:03,280
go to his home

3386
02:19:06,870 --> 02:19:04,960
right after the mission i presented him

3387
02:19:09,270 --> 02:19:06,880
the astronaut's highest award the silver

3388
02:19:11,910 --> 02:19:09,280
snoopy along with the whole solar ray

3389
02:19:14,469 --> 02:19:11,920
team in the whole sts-120 team

3390
02:19:17,589 --> 02:19:14,479
and uh it was just a great celebration

3391
02:19:18,549 --> 02:19:17,599
of his life and and uh such a great

3392
02:19:21,190 --> 02:19:18,559
moment

3393
02:19:22,629 --> 02:19:21,200
for all of us to share with him

3394
02:19:24,309 --> 02:19:22,639
other members that i i'm just going to

3395
02:19:26,870 --> 02:19:24,319
run through their names again but derek

3396
02:19:28,469 --> 02:19:26,880
hossman dina catella

3397
02:19:31,190 --> 02:19:28,479
sarmad aziz

3398
02:19:33,830 --> 02:19:31,200
allison chica bollinger

3399
02:19:36,150 --> 02:19:33,840
my crew of course uh pam melroy george

3400
02:19:39,589 --> 02:19:36,160
zamka doug wheelock d'antoni stephanie

3401
02:19:41,669 --> 02:19:39,599
wilson pelonis polly peggy woodson

3402
02:19:43,509 --> 02:19:41,679
and then we also had clay anderson and

3403
02:19:44,790 --> 02:19:43,519
yuri melinchenko who were basically

3404
02:19:46,389 --> 02:19:44,800
attending the shop and the rest of the

3405
02:19:47,669 --> 02:19:46,399
station while all this work was taking

3406
02:19:50,870 --> 02:19:47,679
place

3407
02:19:53,830 --> 02:19:50,880
john ray glenda laws mike steele andrew

3408
02:19:55,190 --> 02:19:53,840
clem dina smith robert pickle

3409
02:19:56,710 --> 02:19:55,200
vincent lacourt

3410
02:19:59,910 --> 02:19:56,720
causer intiaz

3411
02:20:02,150 --> 02:19:59,920
dave mcconne scott keepers and then the

3412
02:20:04,230 --> 02:20:02,160
whole nbl dive team i think i see

3413
02:20:06,070 --> 02:20:04,240
sherwin wade right up here in the front

3414
02:20:09,270 --> 02:20:06,080
uh great friend

3415
02:20:11,270 --> 02:20:09,280
and many others and then we had

3416
02:20:13,030 --> 02:20:11,280
our capcoms and other astronauts that

3417
02:20:15,270 --> 02:20:13,040
were supporting this effort steve

3418
02:20:17,750 --> 02:20:15,280
swanson kevin ford and joe tanner and

3419
02:20:20,070 --> 02:20:17,760
then finally the vr lab dave holman and

3420
02:20:27,750 --> 02:20:20,080
evelyn morales so if you wouldn't mind

3421
02:20:31,030 --> 02:20:29,510
thank you

3422
02:20:33,910 --> 02:20:31,040
i really appreciate that

3423
02:20:35,429 --> 02:20:33,920
um i think uh what i'll do now is just

3424
02:20:37,349 --> 02:20:35,439
kind of reflect on

3425
02:20:39,670 --> 02:20:37,359
um probably what i'm most proud of for

3426
02:20:41,670 --> 02:20:39,680
my nasa years uh and it has nothing to

3427
02:20:43,429 --> 02:20:41,680
do with that a particular mission that i

3428
02:20:46,309 --> 02:20:43,439
flew and in fact it's it's more about

3429
02:20:49,590 --> 02:20:46,319
something that had longer reaching

3430
02:20:51,190 --> 02:20:49,600
uh benefits to our space program and uh

3431
02:20:52,630 --> 02:20:51,200
um you know

3432
02:20:54,150 --> 02:20:52,640
you may or may not realize this but most

3433
02:20:55,830 --> 02:20:54,160
of an astronaut's time is spent on the

3434
02:20:56,950 --> 02:20:55,840
ground unless you're scott kelly of

3435
02:20:57,670 --> 02:20:56,960
course and then

3436
02:20:59,270 --> 02:20:57,680
the

3437
02:21:00,870 --> 02:20:59,280
ratio is flipped but

3438
02:21:02,950 --> 02:21:00,880
for me i spent most of my career my

3439
02:21:04,870 --> 02:21:02,960
17-year career on the ground working in

3440
02:21:06,070 --> 02:21:04,880
support of others other missions other

3441
02:21:07,830 --> 02:21:06,080
other crews

3442
02:21:09,510 --> 02:21:07,840
other activities and so

3443
02:21:11,349 --> 02:21:09,520
um actually was working with charlie

3444
02:21:13,510 --> 02:21:11,359
precourt at the time

3445
02:21:14,870 --> 02:21:13,520
and i think i was deputy of the eva

3446
02:21:17,590 --> 02:21:14,880
branch at the time

3447
02:21:19,270 --> 02:21:17,600
and he lamented to me at this point that

3448
02:21:20,469 --> 02:21:19,280
we really didn't have enough space

3449
02:21:21,830 --> 02:21:20,479
walking astronauts to build the

3450
02:21:23,990 --> 02:21:21,840
international space station we had this

3451
02:21:25,270 --> 02:21:24,000
huge wall of eva

3452
02:21:27,030 --> 02:21:25,280
which basically meant that we had to do

3453
02:21:29,190 --> 02:21:27,040
dozens and dozens of spacewalks every

3454
02:21:31,510 --> 02:21:29,200
year many more than we had ever done

3455
02:21:32,870 --> 02:21:31,520
over the whole history of the the the

3456
02:21:36,070 --> 02:21:32,880
space program

3457
02:21:37,349 --> 02:21:36,080
and uh he basically just had 12 people

3458
02:21:39,510 --> 02:21:37,359
who were

3459
02:21:41,429 --> 02:21:39,520
qualified uh through the traditional

3460
02:21:43,910 --> 02:21:41,439
methods of getting trained and qualified

3461
02:21:46,550 --> 02:21:43,920
which basically consisted of four runs

3462
02:21:48,389 --> 02:21:46,560
wherein you had to learn that the skills

3463
02:21:49,750 --> 02:21:48,399
of spacewalking and then by the end of

3464
02:21:51,510 --> 02:21:49,760
it you needed to demonstrate that you

3465
02:21:54,389 --> 02:21:51,520
were really good or you were off the

3466
02:21:56,790 --> 02:21:54,399
list you were not qualified and uh and

3467
02:21:57,830 --> 02:21:56,800
so charlie said to me hey we need to fix

3468
02:22:00,469 --> 02:21:57,840
this

3469
02:22:01,590 --> 02:22:00,479
and uh so i went and i found the

3470
02:22:05,270 --> 02:22:01,600
cleverest

3471
02:22:07,750 --> 02:22:05,280
folks that i knew and a good friend

3472
02:22:10,230 --> 02:22:07,760
zane nay from the mission operations

3473
02:22:13,910 --> 02:22:10,240
directorate he's an eva instructor

3474
02:22:16,389 --> 02:22:13,920
and very very creative mind and he and i

3475
02:22:18,230 --> 02:22:16,399
set out to define

3476
02:22:19,910 --> 02:22:18,240
exactly what the gold standard of

3477
02:22:21,110 --> 02:22:19,920
spacewalking performance was all the

3478
02:22:23,110 --> 02:22:21,120
things that we do getting in foot

3479
02:22:25,429 --> 02:22:23,120
restraints going in and out of airlocks

3480
02:22:27,110 --> 02:22:25,439
operating power tools the communications

3481
02:22:29,910 --> 02:22:27,120
uh the crew coordination the many things

3482
02:22:32,070 --> 02:22:29,920
that go into a very complex spacewalk

3483
02:22:34,950 --> 02:22:32,080
and we we pulled in two other people

3484
02:22:37,190 --> 02:22:34,960
rich gavrow and chris looper and uh and

3485
02:22:39,190 --> 02:22:37,200
we created this program where

3486
02:22:41,030 --> 02:22:39,200
the entire office could kind of come

3487
02:22:42,630 --> 02:22:41,040
back in and say hey you know

3488
02:22:44,230 --> 02:22:42,640
where are your strengths where are your

3489
02:22:46,550 --> 02:22:44,240
weaknesses let's let's train to those

3490
02:22:48,150 --> 02:22:46,560
weaknesses let's get you up to that gold

3491
02:22:49,590 --> 02:22:48,160
standard level or to a point where we

3492
02:22:51,990 --> 02:22:49,600
can qualify you

3493
02:22:53,510 --> 02:22:52,000
and i'm so proud to say that you know we

3494
02:22:55,429 --> 02:22:53,520
were able to build the international

3495
02:22:57,429 --> 02:22:55,439
space station and i think in in

3496
02:22:59,030 --> 02:22:57,439
considerable part because we had the

3497
02:23:01,750 --> 02:22:59,040
skills program that

3498
02:23:03,990 --> 02:23:01,760
gave us a full complement of very highly

3499
02:23:06,469 --> 02:23:04,000
qualified space walkers i i can't even

3500
02:23:07,429 --> 02:23:06,479
imagine going out on my very first space

3501
02:23:09,190 --> 02:23:07,439
mission

3502
02:23:10,389 --> 02:23:09,200
and doing what doug wheelock did you

3503
02:23:12,550 --> 02:23:10,399
know the three

3504
02:23:15,030 --> 02:23:12,560
incredibly difficult complex audacious

3505
02:23:17,429 --> 02:23:15,040
space walks uh with four training runs

3506
02:23:19,110 --> 02:23:17,439
and a limited qual

3507
02:23:21,590 --> 02:23:19,120
so you know i think it's a real

3508
02:23:23,510 --> 02:23:21,600
testament um to

3509
02:23:25,349 --> 02:23:23,520
to doug and uh to the others who

3510
02:23:27,429 --> 02:23:25,359
followed in this program to

3511
02:23:31,190 --> 02:23:27,439
to uh to build this international space

3512
02:23:36,469 --> 02:23:34,309
um so again i just wanted to salute uh

3513
02:23:39,510 --> 02:23:36,479
uh some wonderful people and unsung

3514
02:23:41,349 --> 02:23:39,520
heroes zane rich and chris

3515
02:23:43,510 --> 02:23:41,359
and then finally uh i wanted to point

3516
02:23:44,950 --> 02:23:43,520
out that the astronaut hall of fame

3517
02:23:46,469 --> 02:23:44,960
really has nothing to do with brian or

3518
02:23:48,070 --> 02:23:46,479
myself here today

3519
02:23:49,270 --> 02:23:48,080
or even the space pioneers in front of

3520
02:23:52,150 --> 02:23:49,280
me

3521
02:23:54,230 --> 02:23:52,160
created

3522
02:23:56,950 --> 02:23:54,240
by the mercury seven astronauts to use

3523
02:23:59,429 --> 02:23:56,960
their notoriety uh to help inspire and

3524
02:24:01,750 --> 02:23:59,439
support financially our our best and

3525
02:24:04,950 --> 02:24:01,760
brightest in stem fields and and so i'm

3526
02:24:06,710 --> 02:24:04,960
so honored and excited to support uh the

3527
02:24:09,270 --> 02:24:06,720
astronaut scholarship foundation going

3528
02:24:10,950 --> 02:24:09,280
forward i think it's a brilliant program

3529
02:24:12,469 --> 02:24:10,960
and

3530
02:24:14,070 --> 02:24:12,479
i also wanted to thank the astronaut

3531
02:24:16,870 --> 02:24:14,080
scholarship foundation for arranging

3532
02:24:20,950 --> 02:24:16,880
this incredible incredible event tammy

3533
02:24:25,110 --> 02:24:22,870
and so as you leave this place i just

3534
02:24:26,389 --> 02:24:25,120
wanted to put in one shameless plug but

3535
02:24:27,830 --> 02:24:26,399
please consider

3536
02:24:29,670 --> 02:24:27,840
opening up your hearts and also your

3537
02:24:31,110 --> 02:24:29,680
checkbooks and writing a big check to

3538
02:24:33,190 --> 02:24:31,120
the astronaut scholarship foundation as

3539
02:24:35,349 --> 02:24:33,200
you leave this place um

3540
02:24:36,790 --> 02:24:35,359
so in closing i just wanted to uh

3541
02:24:38,790 --> 02:24:36,800
congratulate all of the brilliant

3542
02:24:40,870 --> 02:24:38,800
astronaut scholars who were here today i

3543
02:24:43,990 --> 02:24:40,880
wanted to congratulate and apologize to

3544
02:24:48,150 --> 02:24:46,309
for this well-deserved honor and my

3545
02:24:50,389 --> 02:24:48,160
thanks to the astronaut hall of fame

3546
02:24:52,389 --> 02:24:50,399
members who inspired and guided me

3547
02:24:53,510 --> 02:24:52,399
and also selected me

3548
02:24:54,870 --> 02:24:53,520
and

3549
02:24:55,750 --> 02:24:54,880
my thanks to all of you who have touched

3550
02:24:57,349 --> 02:24:55,760
my life

3551
02:25:04,710 --> 02:24:57,359
in such profound ways

3552
02:25:04,720 --> 02:25:22,790
live long and prosper

3553
02:25:26,389 --> 02:25:24,790
congratulations scott parazynski and

3554
02:25:28,950 --> 02:25:26,399
welcome to the united states astronaut

3555
02:25:30,469 --> 02:25:28,960
hall of fame

3556
02:25:33,590 --> 02:25:30,479
he's another one that said he grew up

3557
02:25:37,910 --> 02:25:35,990
and them too

3558
02:25:43,349 --> 02:25:37,920
then he called you pioneers like covered

3559
02:25:47,910 --> 02:25:46,230
the 2016 inductees were selected by a

3560
02:25:50,150 --> 02:25:47,920
committee of current hall of fame

3561
02:25:52,790 --> 02:25:50,160
astronauts former nasa officials

3562
02:25:54,630 --> 02:25:52,800
historians and journalists the process

3563
02:25:57,830 --> 02:25:54,640
is administered by the astronaut

3564
02:25:59,910 --> 02:25:57,840
scholarship foundation to be eligible an

3565
02:26:03,750 --> 02:25:59,920
astronaut must have made his or her

3566
02:26:06,389 --> 02:26:03,760
first flight at least 17 years before

3567
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the induction year and must be retired

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at least five years from nasa the nasa

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astronaut corps candidates must be a u.s

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citizen nasa trained commander pilot or

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mission specialist and must have orbited

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the earth at least once and made

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significant contributions to the study

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of space now before we let you go we

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have a special sneak peek in store for

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all of you today we're going to unveil

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our new inductees displays that will be

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housed in the new united states

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astronaut hall of fame

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later this year

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do you guys do the honors

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ladies and gentlemen i'm proud to

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present to you the united states

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astronaut class of 2016 brian duffy and

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and all the members of the united states

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astronaut hall of fame please join us

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it has been my pleasure to be with you

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today on behalf of the kennedy space

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center visitor complex and the astronaut

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scholarship foundation

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thank you for joining us for this

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uh