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station this is houston are you ready

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houston station i am ready for the event

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hi kate this is ellen ochoa and it's my

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pleasure to

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welcome some special guests here today

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in mission control

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we have patients families and staff from

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md anderson children's cancer hospital

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and as you know this is part of a

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partnership between nasa md anderson and

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ilc dover the spacesuit developer

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to both raise awareness of childhood

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cancer and provide inspiration by

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linking the arts and sciences and

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especially space

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so i'm going to turn it over to nicole

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retired astronaut and one of the leaders

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thank you so much alan and hello nicole

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hello kate it is so great to see you up

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there um as i was driving in today i

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think uh

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i was thinking about our

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emails and conversations about this

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the one way that was really coming to

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video today that

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we here are all experiencing our first

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absolutely and it's some amazing art

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made by some really fantastic young

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yes i i would agree and uh we have three

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of those beautiful people here today on

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the floor of mcc uh with a couple

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questions for you

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and i know they're very excited to ask

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those um again thank you so much for

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your participation

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david is uh is one of our artists here

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today and if you remember you and david

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were the first two people to paint on

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hey david

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hey kate how you doing

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good it is so great to see you and i

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wanted to let you know that i found the

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spot that we both painted and you can

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see it's orbiting the planet

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at 17 500 miles an hour right now

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i know i said i was gonna paint you the

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little martian on the right side of your

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suit but uh

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some stuff happened which is fine but i

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was a lot of fun to actually paint it

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absolutely and do you have some

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what inspired you to become an astronaut

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so i wanted to be an astronaut ever

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since i was a little kid my list was

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always astronaut biologist and geologist

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and uh i've been really lucky that i've

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gotten to do a lot of those things

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but it's something that always struck me

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as uh dreaming about space and so i hope

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that as you guys were painting you were

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thinking about space and you were

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thinking about orbiting the planet and i

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can tell you that your spacesuit has

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found a wonderful home up here on the

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that's wonderful kate

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thank you so much and it's good talking

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it is great to see you

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and and kate yeah there is a lot of

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excitement down here um

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and our next our next artist is tatiana

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and i believe you might have met tatiana

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when we painted that day

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she's a beautiful young lady and she has

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hey tatiana hello from the international

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hello from you hello to you too

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astronaut and so one of the things that

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about flying

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mechanical work that we do up on the

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learn so many new things but that's also

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kind of the exciting thing

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so it's really enjoyable and really fun

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that sounds like a great project and

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very cool too i'm going to look forward

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to seeing some of your animations when i

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get back to the planet okay

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that was awesome yeah we're hoping that

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tatiana will help us animate some of the

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the floor um our next artist is jacob

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uh is the the founder of our signature

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very good and i'm looking forward to

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question um so i've been really excited

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about nasa and space exploration but so

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attributes for an astronaut to have and

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really important for an astronaut to be

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curious you just have to be curious and

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motivated for discovery and for research

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there's so much to explore up here

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you can see the planet every day and

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it's beautiful and if you're curious

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of the planet

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interested in the research it's an

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was an amazing opportunity to get a

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chance to paint with you guys i remember

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when it was just a blank canvas and all

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of you guys painted on it and i thought

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dragon when we were unpacking all the

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cargo i said let's look out for this

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spacesuit this is so important and all

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other people who are here on the floor

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cases here on the floor today and we're

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future work with him on this as we tie

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the wonderful research that's going on

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to help improve life here on earth to

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help us explore further

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man in command who made so much of this

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all of the wonderful people at ilc dover

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like that and they will be helping us to

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build um the third suit unity that we

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the world to gather artwork from

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children at hospitals in some of the iss

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headquarters partner cities and really

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beautiful work that we brought back that

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greg johnson and to cases and say thank

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you for the amazing amount of work that

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to say hello and thank you to ilc dover

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you guys build an incredibly reliable

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thank you for the work that you've done

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to stitch together and to build these

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the the inspiration that comes from this

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um gordo is up in the control room again

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hiding and not down here but of course

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cannot say thanks enough for

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all of us to come together working in

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this partnership that we have and i look

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forward to even more beautiful things

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good to see you and thank you to md

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anderson you guys are incredible it was

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facility and really amazing to see what

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to ellen and to thank her and to thank

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the the space station program and gordo

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made this possible it's been a fantastic

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opportunity i think for these kids to

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thank you kate and i think we're going

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as september is childhood cancer

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awareness month this couldn't have

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happened at a better time i know we have

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individuals and people from different

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organizations here that are represented

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as part of this project but it is a much

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bigger thing than any one of us or the

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people that are here today and again

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very thankful for your participation and

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to see you up there

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displaying this beautiful artwork in

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what i believe is a very beautiful

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thank you so much nicole and i want to

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painted on this suit you guys are

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you're awesome and you're inspiring to

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thank you md anderson center and

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participants station please stand by