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>> Good morning, thank you for being here
with us today and to those watching on NASA

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TV, welcome to our home.
My name is Maria Santos and I am the chair

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of the Hispanic outreach alliance, also known
as hola here at NASA headquarters.

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Our vision is to serve as a resource for NASA
employees and agency leaders.

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And to build cross‑cultural awareness in
an inclusive environment for all employees.

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I was recently asked why do I continue to
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I do it because I believe in the power of
diversity and inclusion.

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Diversity in ideas, race, ethnicity, background,
and experience.

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And NASA knows a ltal bit about doing just
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It is actually at the heart of our mission.
Diversity is basically accepting and acknowledging

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differences, um, it builds an opportunity
for dialogue, and inclusion, well, to be including

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basically means to be part of a community,
to belong, to feel that you exist, to feel

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that you are seen, that you are part of something
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We should not only experience this in our
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in our work place.
Hispanics call this to be with family.

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Today you will hear Diana TRUJILLO and Jose
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We decided to call our program ASPIRA Kohn
NASA, aspire with NASA.

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But tha that was only after we realized the
power of their stories. Two individuals born

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in two different countries with different
back grnlds and journeys but with the same

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dream.
I would like to introduce you first to Mrs.\hKrista

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PAQUIN.
She is responsible for the integration of

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agency‑wide mission support, NASA headquarters
operations, Nassau partnerships among other

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things. Basically she's kind of a big deal.
She spent four years in the private sector

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and prior to that 22 year t our Goddard space
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We call her our champion.
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and advises us but also encourages us and
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dpi diversity, development, engagement, also
special programming like the one here today.

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She's quick to ask me how can I help, do you
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As busy as she is helping to run an agency
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busy or that she can't meet with me.
I am grateful for her leadership, friendship,

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and support.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, please help me

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in welcoming NASA's associate administrator
for mission support, KRISTA\hPAQUIN.

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>> I don't think I need this stool, but I'll
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Good morning, everybody, thank you so, so
much for joining us and welcome.

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I want to especially welcome the students,
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to join us today.
I hope they feel comfortable coming on in

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when they arrive.
We hope today's students will threeive here

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with a dream to reach new heights.
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in the fact that they liewg look to us.
And the success of our program is dependent

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on leveraging the talents and diversity of
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So I hope that the students of today see themselves
in our future and they're part of awr team

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that will put boots on Mars.
It's an exciting future and we hope you aspire

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to be a part of it.
His Hispanic community is the fastest\h‑

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‑\hcome on in, join us.
Is the fastest growing majority in the United

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States.
We need our Hispanic youth to be part of our

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program for us to succeed in our mission.
After all, NASA has been the best place to

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work in government for the last four years
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If you don't know that, it's very important
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We're here ie today because we're committed
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all of us to succeed.
The group has put together an outstanding

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program, I want to thank mu Maria for their
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They understand community serve owbs and their
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they've been out working in the communities,
they've been painting schools, they've been

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meeting with other federal leaders in the
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community.
That take as lot of energy, these are other

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duties that are assigned and they do with
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I think is a model for many of us. Rn if any
of you in the room have not been able to find

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time for the group, I encourage you to carve
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My belief in community service, service to
others is the rent you pay for the space you

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live in on this earth, Muhammad Ali.
So we have an obligation to engage.

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We are very fortunate to be a part of this
country and so service to each other, service

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to NASA, service to our community is vital
and thank you for the work that you do.

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I'm going to quickly review the agenda today.
We have a very, very exciting program.

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I'm excited to hear from our speakers.
First we're going to hear before speakers

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come up, we're going to hear a brief video
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And then we'll hear from Diana TRUJILLO and
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stories.
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And then we're going to hear from Donald James
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that we have available.
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yous at the end of the program and again I
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I would like to take a moment to briefly introduce
our NASA administrateor JPL does not run NASA.

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It is Charlie Bolden and we call him the administrator,
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Major general Charles frank Bolden junior,
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our administrator now for over seven years.
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He is the longest‑serve owg Obama appointee
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He retired from the Marine Corps after 34
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crew.
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space shuttle, two as commander f two missions
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His flights included deployment of the Hubbell
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shuttle mission which feature ad cosmonaut
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He was inducted into the astronaut hall of
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He came from a very modest background.
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hard, studied hard, and made his way to receive
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get a BA in electrical science, commissioned
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he flew more than 100 combat missions in north
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Stem education, science and math, very important
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Go,, stem.
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him what it takes to be an astronaut.
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and background.
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today.
She reached out in her leadership role and

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her confidence in her leadership role to Charlie
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all in a video.
At this point, I'd like to introduce the video.

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Thank you.
>> Good morning and welcome to NASA headquarters.

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I'm sorry I can't join you today since I'm
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But I know you'll have a wonderful gathering.
Today we're here to honor the distinct tapestry

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that is the Hispanic community and to acknowledge
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important part of our work force across all
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will continue to rely on them and their contributions
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journey to Mars, and make cutting edge breakthroughs
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Today you're in for a real treat.
You'll get to hear from two outstanding individuals,

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Diana TRUJILLO, and Jose Hernandez.
They are examples of the amazing talent that

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fuels this agency.
Diana TRUJILLO's story is one of dedication,

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perseverance and drive.
She was born and raised in Columbia and moved

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to the U.S. to study aerospace mechanics.
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She and her family moved to California where
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She is now the mission lead for our Mars curiosity
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This mission has inspired millions of stoornts
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and is helping pave for way for humans to
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>> Jose Hernandez's story is one of hope,
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He was born in California, the son of migrant
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the radio that NASA had selected its first
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That was the moment he decided he, too, wanted
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Jose would go on to study electrical and computer
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the livermore national laboratory before joining
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He was admitted into the astronaut candidate
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his dream of Geeing to space.
Allowing NASA to go farther, reach new heights,

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and in future reach Mars and beyond.
Diversity is essential to our success.

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Diversity in background, experiences, and
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and innovation is central to NASA.
I want to thank our Hispanic outreach and

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leadership alliance, hola, for developing
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The equal opportunity and diversity management
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of hola.
Now, please welcome and show some real love

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to Diana and Jose.
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>> All right, so let's...
Okay, perfect.

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Okay, buenos TARDES\hMI\hNOMBRE es Diana TRUJILLO.
Find out if there was ever any life of the

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surface of this planet.
I have the honor of working as the mission

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lead for the Mars curiosity rover, a driven
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this planet.
As a mission lead I have the honor of working

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with an international team of scientists and
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People from different countries, people from
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a background from el Salvador, from Columbia,
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As a team, we try to figure out what we're
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What is actually the goal of the mission of
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Where are we going to explore, where are we
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to take, what pictures are we going to bring
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And it's interesting to me to know that after
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worked approximately 7 years now on Mars curiosity
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My team and I are amongst the first humans
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basis.
I go to work at 8:00\ha.m. in the morning

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and at 8:15\ha.m. I looking at picture of
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That to me feels like I am sitting in the
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I feel like I'm sitting in the Enterprise
in a huge ship with lots of tif people with

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different backgrounds, different ideas, but
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explore the unknown.
But missions like this don't get built in

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a week.
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bold decision making.
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People spot that this mission was so crazy
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In fact, I was in college when this mission
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about the concept and I thought that's crazy
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In a way you can say the same thing about
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I was born and raised in Columbia abeautiful
country full of delicious food, great people,

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awesome music but it's not a country that
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Columbia pft NASA equivalent, we don't have
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So, as a child, to me it was very hard because
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violence and for me words like hope and dream
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to get to school safe.
It was interesting to me because when I wanted

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to really do was to escape all the terrible
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was space exploration.
I just wanted to dream bigger and dream beyond

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what anyone else had told me I could do.
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my first step, let me find a female Columbian,
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different city, but still in my country so
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How did you manage to do the dream job that
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What should I do?
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find her we searched but unfortunately I couldn't
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was I found comfort on TV.
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It is kind of funny and at the same time sad
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to figure out what it was like to work for
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He would get out of his car, walk to his building
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see his desk and for me it was like I'm there.
I know what a NASA person does.

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It's interesting because at home at home I
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With I was at home, that actually made my
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My parents thought that I was setting myself
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They didn't know an aerospace engineer, they
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When I told them that I wanted to build rockets
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me he was concerned because maybe what I was
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become a car mechanic and that was my best
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Although my dad had a different perspective
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first step.
My dad thought it was good idea for me to

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come to the U.S. disp learn English.
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I love, and pursue my dream.
I got 300 bucks in my pocket, hopped on a

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plane to Miami, and then the first challenge
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How do I speak the language, where do I want
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I got enrolled into a community college for
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three jobs to be able to pay for my school.
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to think maybe my parents were rith. I was
feeling home sick I want ta go back home,

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I want to eat some EMPENADAS and I thought
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across something that changed what I was thinking.
It gave me actually hope.

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It was an old magazine published by NASA which
only featured female astronauts. They told

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me where they were from, who were they, what
college they went to, what major they registered

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on, what job they had, and what mission they
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It also told me what they did on the mission.
To me this was the magazine that gave me all

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those role models that I was so desperately
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I took this magazine and I traced my path
with the magazine who was doing what, what

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years they were, what college.
This magazine made me feel way more com rtable

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about my dream.
It actually made me recognize that hey, there's

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other women doing this and hey I look like
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do this.
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about my dream, I started to share it with
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Okay.
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All right, we switch mics.
Okay, so the NASA u cad em, uh, is\h‑ ‑\hso

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it lead to the NASA academy.
I applied to the NASA academy which was a

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leadership program that was designed to groom
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it was a very competitive program.
Thousands of people will apply, 18 people

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got selected to the main campus which was
Goddard and out of those 18 in the 2006 class,

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I was the only Hispanic.
In that class we got to see it all, I felt

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like we got to meet multiple dreblghters,
CEO's of companies that will come talk to

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you, sit down on the floor and tell you how
they actually made it happen.

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We got to see a space shuttle launch.
All of that in a course of 10, 11 weeks.

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By the end of this prog program I realize
that there were so many things out there that

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I could do.
The program showed me all the possibilities

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that I had.
N and in fact, I felt thriek program changed

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my perspective from an immigrant that had
limited paws possibilities to a person that

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had infinite opportunities.
This gave me the to after I finished the program

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I actually had the luck to work with a company
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My first job out of college was to work for
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station.
After that I was able to work for the constellation

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program which vision was to put humans to
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After that I also worked on the deep space
network which is those big antennas around

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the world that communicate with deep space
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I feel very fortunate to work for NASA and
I feel like for the people in this room, if

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you are or are not part of NASA you should
feel very excited about it and try to work

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with us because there are so many cool things
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In fact these are exciting times right now.
The government recognizing we could come together

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and explore space and do more than any of
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Trying to do a space exploration is extremely
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The differ difference is if we take these
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pieces and have people from different countries,
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together to achieve I would like to see people
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Let's talk about what has happened so far?
Current missions and missions that have already

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completed are helping us understand Mars even
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How are our experiments actually behaving?
What are the options we have and then we have

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an issue, how do we trouble shoot it, how
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Things we need to think about as a team, and
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we can actually take people in the future
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working as a test platform for us to test
new technology technology that needs to help

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us figure out how are we going to survive
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sleep, do all those other things just to give
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sur sphs of the was able to demonstrate that
Mars had suitable environment to support life

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at some point.
That was one of our main mission objectives,

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and we hit it within the first year of being
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You can think about what can we actually do
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We know how to do it.
If we could send more, we could learn more

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at a much faster rate.
And we're not only doing excellent on the

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surface of Mars, we're also dominating the
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By the end of 2016, we would have three more
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Plus Odyssey and MRO which are already there.
All of those space crafts that we need so

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that we can communicate back to earth and
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figure out where we want to go, and what do
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And how about the guts of the planet?
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By November\h20 cean 18 we would have put
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and that will be inciter are to help us understand
how this rocky planet was actually formed.

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And then we take the next step mars 2020.
It the next step on our search to help us

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find out if there are any clues of any Mike
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Technology, development, and testing, help
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the atmosphere of Mars.
Going to take a sample and encapsulate it

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and get it ready for the next mission.
Our next mission which is sample return.

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Sample return is a mission that is very important
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Very important to the scientist because it's
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that you need to do from the mission constraints.
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can do all sorts of analysis that you want.
Power and data and time of day.

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Or how many orbits do we have with the orbiters
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You can do a couple of things from the mission
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to do.
You can get a lot more out of it.

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And all of that is actually to help us to
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One thing that I did wanted to mission about
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mission will have to demonstrate technology
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Such as lawrning ot launching out of the surface
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You might actually have to do orbit operations
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back to earth, and land safely.
All of that technology that we actually need

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for humans to learn.
I to want to say, though, that robotic operations

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are paving the way. Robotic operations have
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Mars in a way that we never imagined.
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we can do dozen of experienced on a single
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you can do it very early at any time you can
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a series of several thousands of commands
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analysis.
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from Viking to Curiosity we have encountered
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I have to ask myself\h‑ ‑\hpossibilities
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We could have.
We're not there yet, though.

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We're not there yet, but the good thing is
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The good thing is that I can show you guys
the slides with this possible mission and

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it's getsing closer.
We're talking about we're having that discussion

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now.
While some people will actually be busy exploring

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Mars, some other people will be busy exploring
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Some people will be busy exploring Europa.
So we have lots of thing going on in NASA.

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Buts I wanted to leave you guys with this.
All of the things that I have shown you guys

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today and you have heard about it before are
all worth doing.

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These are challenges that we can achieve.
Our team, our NASA team is an incredible,

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incredible team that has actually excelled
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The only thing is that we're not very diverse.
Science has actually shown us that diverse

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backgrounds, people with different backgrounds
can bring different creativities, different

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ideas, different approach to solving a problem.
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do, problems that are really tough.
Having people from differing backgrounds helping

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us think outside the box is to our benefit.
So I just want to\h‑ ‑\hI want to leave

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you guys today with the idea or the thought
that we should are work all together to open

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the NASA door, to include individuals to come
to our agency and help us together explore

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space, push the boundary,.
Thank you very much.

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>> Another round of applause, please for our
amazing colleague here, Diana TRUJILLO.

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Now it's my pleasure to invite our next speaker
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Mr.\hJose hur Hernandez.
>> Thank you, Maria, for inviting me here

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and I'd like to thank hola as well for, uh,
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It's a great pleasure to be back here.
I say back because I did spend a year here

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out of the office of legislative and international
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[APPLAUSE]
>> So a shout out to my coworkers over here.

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I want to quickly start my talk because if
anything I want to lead you guys with the

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feeling that anything is possible in this
planet and don't be afraid to dream the impossible,

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especially with our students that are here
with us today.

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I think you will be able to r relate to my
story and hopefully after hearing my story

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you'll walk away on cloud 9 saying hey, I
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My story starts not here, it starts in Mexico.
It starts in Mexico with my father and my

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mother.
Both my parents are from MICHOACAN, Mexico.

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My father started coming to this country at
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Just like many folks looking for the American
dream, he searched for a better life so he

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started a lifestyle called becoming\ha migrant
farm worker.

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He spent nine months in California, and then
go back home for three months.

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He started hat when he was 15, when he was
18, he met my father\h‑ ‑\hmet my mother

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and they got married when he was 19.
It's real cute because when my mom hears this

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story that I tell it because it's factual
she says MIJO, tell them I was 15.

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Like that's going to make it\h‑ ‑\hI said
mom, still, it's bad.

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Anyway, they get married and my mom gets incorporated
into what a call the California circuit, where

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my dad would spend two months in California,
harvest of the crop, strawberries, moving

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to central California, the lettuce and sugar
beats beets for another two muj months and

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then five months in northern California.
Then they would go back.

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The family came along and we were born, there's
four of us, they say what mouth we were born

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in.
I was born in August, so, uh, you know, that's

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in the, uh, harvest time 
right where I have a brother who was worn

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in September, he, too, was born in Stockton.
I have a brother and sister born in November

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and December, guess where they were born?
They were born in Mexico.

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As we grew, that was the lifestyle I grew
in.

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It was going to three different school districts.
And then missing three months of school although

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we did get homework from our teachers we went
to Mexico and did our homework every day in

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my grandma's kitchen table with a cup of hot
chocolate, piece of French bread and 8:00\ha.m.

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to 12:00\hp.m. Monday through Friday we did
our homework.

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That owz was our sell schooling.
It wasn't home schooling because my parents

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only had a third grade education, so they
couldn't help us much.

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Things did not change for the better until
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In the second grade I had a teacher, her name
was Miss Young.

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Miss Young was a young Chinese American, beautiful
teacher, fresh out of college.

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Did I say she was beautiful?
Second grade, your first crush, I'm guilty,

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guilty, guilty.
So anyway, my dad gets up one November he

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would make a bilge u nosment say kids, we're
going to Mexico next week get three months

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worth of homework from your teacher so there
I go running to school about a mile and a

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half.
Nowadays we make you guys walk to school a

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mile and a half we get arrested for child
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Those days it was okay.
I get to school and tell miz Young.

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I said we're going to Mexico, can you give
me three months worth of homework.

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She just rolled her eyes\h‑ ‑\hyou gotta
understand her frustration she has been through

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that process with my three older siblings.
I guess fourth time was a charm.

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She says you tell your parent I'm going to
come home to your house and talk to them.

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The teacher never comes to ows house.
There I go running back to tell the teacher,\h‑

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‑\hto tell my parents.
The first one I run into is my dad, wouldn't

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you know.
And my dad's a stern, serious guy. Trrn if

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you're doing something bad all he has to do
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My dad just got out of work, kind of tired
and grumpy.

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So I get in the living room and I said hey,
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He said yes, son?
I said the teacher's coming over she wants

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to talk to you.
Man, I did not finish that sentence with he's

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already taking off his belt.
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judicial system.
He likes to apply the punishment first, and

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then ask what happed.
Get the facts later, you know?

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I don't know how I convinced him that it wasn't
related to my behavior but rather our upcoming

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trip to Mexico.
He said you'd better be right because it's

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going to go twice as bad if it's a complaint.
Then I go to the kitchen to my mom.

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My mom is so nurturing, and caring, fl she
is making tortillas and rice and beans for

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us to make dinner.
Dwr say mommy,.

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SI\hMIJITO.
Id the teacher's coming over.

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You guys ever see the movie home alone?
That was her reaction.

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Teacher's coming?
We gotta clean the house, we gotta sweep,

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mop, thighed broken dish ware and get out
the new one and make dinner.

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It was great because we even had meat on the
table, rice, beans and salsa and tortillas,

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this time there was meat on the table.
It was a banquet for me.

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If you could image an table, this is a second
grader a table with the family he loves and

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Ms.\hYoung sitting next to me she's my teacher.
We got this great meal in front of us.

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You ever have visitors and have conversations
and get this awkward sigh lns you want to\h‑

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‑\hsilence you want to jump start the conversation?
I said I'm going to jump start the conversation,

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and I get this bright idea I gotta say something
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I figure there's my fa family, there's the
food, there's miss young, perfect for a second

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grader.
I said Ms.\hYoung.

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She said yes, Jose?
I said you gotta come over more often.

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I wish you came every day we're going to eat
meat.

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Everybody laughed except my dad.
My dad gave me what we call the look, the

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MIRAD a\h‑ ‑\h.
The look, he doesn't hesitate to slp, but

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when you have guests they hold back.
They do the next best thing, wait they look

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at you wait until she leaves, you and I are
going to talk.

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Anyway, we eat, have a great dinner, and then
we go and sit in the living room and I get

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invited because my parents can't speak English.
Ms.\hYoung can't speak Spanish.

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So what little English I knew, I was the official
translator.

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And Ms.\hYoung sits down she says thank you
for the dinner I really didn't come here for

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dinner, I came here to talk about your kid's
education.

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And my dad, uh, immediately gets in his defensive
posture.

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He thinks the worse?
Are they mis behaving?

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What are they doing.
Ms.\hYoung says no, no, on the contrary I've

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had all of your poor kids in my class because
we made the same stops each year, and right

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now I have your youngest, Jose, and they all
have a lot of potential.

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But this NOMADIC life sciel of moving school
district to school district and missing three

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months of school really hurts them.
My dad says what do you mean?

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Even though I een only have a third grade
education, I believe in education and Monday

400
00:41:24,509 --> 00:41:29,940
through Friday they're in school.
Saturday and Sunday, sure, they're working

401
00:41:29,940 --> 00:41:33,609
in the fields along side me and seven days
a week during the summer they work along side

402
00:41:33,609 --> 00:41:40,109
the family.
Yes, but you move three different school districts.

403
00:41:40,109 --> 00:41:42,880
Uh, but they're in school.
>> Yes, but you go three months to Mexico.

404
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:49,910
>> Uh, but they take homework.
In his eyes he was meeting the obligation

405
00:41:49,910 --> 00:41:58,130
of giving an edgation to his ked kids. Ms.\hYoung
was clearly flustered and, uh, so she said

406
00:41:58,130 --> 00:42:00,829
well, let me give you an example, maybe this
will help you.

407
00:42:00,829 --> 00:42:05,089
I gotta hand it to Ms.\hYoung, she came up
with a brilliant example.

408
00:42:05,089 --> 00:42:11,160
She says to my dad you who have worked in
agricultural all your life, surely you're

409
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:17,769
an expert in these type of topics and these
things my dad immediately says I'm not sure

410
00:42:17,769 --> 00:42:22,650
I'm an expert but yeah,...
She says I'm going to give you a problem and

411
00:42:22,650 --> 00:42:30,819
I know you're going to be able to help me
answer this question.

412
00:42:30,819 --> 00:42:35,599
My dad says I will try, Ms.\hYoung.
Imagine, Mr.\hHernandez, that I give you four

413
00:42:35,599 --> 00:42:41,190
fruit tree, small fruit trees in pots.
My dad th yes.

414
00:42:41,190 --> 00:42:48,040
Id I want you to find the most fertile ground,
and I want you to dig four holes and I want

415
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:54,089
you to plant those trees. Make sure you water
them and fertilize them, make sure they have

416
00:42:54,089 --> 00:42:57,029
everything they need.
My dad said yes.

417
00:42:57,029 --> 00:43:01,739
Three months from now, I want you to dig four
new holes, same fertile ground.

418
00:43:01,739 --> 00:43:09,960
I want you to transplant those trees.
My dad said yes, wondering where's this going.

419
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,799
And then she said three months from then,
I want you to keep doing the same thing.

420
00:43:13,799 --> 00:43:17,640
As a matter of fact, every three months I
want you to transplant those trees into a

421
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:22,029
new set of holes and make sure you water them,
fertilize them.

422
00:43:22,029 --> 00:43:26,289
Make sure they have everything.
You're an expert in agricultural.

423
00:43:26,289 --> 00:43:34,369
Tell me, what happens to those four trees?
My dad started thinking he said well, Ms.\hYoung

424
00:43:34,369 --> 00:43:40,619
the trees aren't going to die but I will tell
you this, their roots never grow deep.

425
00:43:40,619 --> 00:43:45,940
So you're going to stunt their growth.
And if they're fruit tree, they probably won't

426
00:43:45,940 --> 00:43:51,319
even bare fruit.
Then you can count the seconds, 1,001, 1,002,\h‑

427
00:43:51,319 --> 00:43:55,680
‑\hand you see his facial expression change.
He got it.

428
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:58,849
He got the message.
Those four trees represent his four kids.

429
00:43:58,849 --> 00:44:06,880
He said OH, is that what you meant?
And to his credit he accept that.

430
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:11,469
So thank you, Ms.\hYoung.
That year we still went to Mexico but a funny

431
00:44:11,469 --> 00:44:16,829
thing happened on the way back.
As we drove back, we didn't stop in Southern

432
00:44:16,829 --> 00:44:21,519
California.
We didn't stop in central California, we went

433
00:44:21,519 --> 00:44:27,489
straight to our last stop, northern California.
Stockton, California.

434
00:44:27,489 --> 00:44:32,029
And that's where we started to, uh, get traction
with our education.

435
00:44:32,029 --> 00:44:37,170
Because now our trips to Mexico from then
on, just one stop in California, our trips

436
00:44:37,170 --> 00:44:41,059
to Mexico were now three weeks centered round
Christmas vacation.

437
00:44:41,059 --> 00:44:49,190
Our education started to get traction.
Still, I was still a farm worker, family of

438
00:44:49,190 --> 00:44:52,219
a farm worker.
The question that beg to be asked how in the

439
00:44:52,219 --> 00:44:59,351
heck does a farm worker kid even dare to dream
to want to be an astro not?

440
00:44:59,351 --> 00:45:07,099
That dream was born that dream was born when
I was all of ten years old.

441
00:45:07,099 --> 00:45:13,019
1972, Apollo.
I'm 54 so you don't have to do the math.

442
00:45:13,019 --> 00:45:23,289
I was 10 years old in 1952.
If you could picture a kid watching an old

443
00:45:23,289 --> 00:45:30,769
ab black and white technology vacuum TV with
rabbit ears on top, watching the very last

444
00:45:30,769 --> 00:45:35,240
Apollo mission.
Apollo 17, still remember the astronaut .

445
00:45:35,240 --> 00:45:44,170
Gene walking on the surface of the moon.
As a 10 year old holding the antenna to improve

446
00:45:44,170 --> 00:45:49,099
reception.
There I am listening to the reporter, narrating

447
00:45:49,099 --> 00:45:56,420
it. Rn then I would go outside moon was o
almost food full.

448
00:45:56,420 --> 00:46:05,109
Keep watching and say wow, that's where I
want to be.

449
00:46:05,109 --> 00:46:11,299
I want to be an astronaut.
The best thing I could have done that day

450
00:46:11,299 --> 00:46:18,150
was I shared that with my dad.
While we were walking to go to the bedroom,

451
00:46:18,150 --> 00:46:21,609
my dad was in front of me, I was behind him
and I said hey, dad, all excited.

452
00:46:21,609 --> 00:46:27,809
He said yes, son I said I know what I want
to be when I grow up.

453
00:46:27,809 --> 00:46:32,950
I want to be an astronaut.
He almost trips, he stops dead in his tracks,

454
00:46:32,950 --> 00:46:39,200
puts his hand on his waste, challenging tone.
You want to be what?

455
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:47,309
I was so excited I wasn't about to back down.
I want to be an astronaut.

456
00:46:47,309 --> 00:46:54,319
He said son, let's go to the kitchen.
Only three things happened in the kitchen.

457
00:46:54,319 --> 00:46:57,739
That's where we do our homework every day
after school, my mom sits us down.

458
00:46:57,739 --> 00:47:03,619
You know, makes us our tortillas or beans
and rice and we eat and we do our homework.

459
00:47:03,619 --> 00:47:09,480
Number two.
That's where we eat dinner at as a family.

460
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:15,869
Both those things were done.
Number three, that's where they apply punishment.

461
00:47:15,869 --> 00:47:20,510
So now you know why my eyes got that big.
So anyway, he sits me down, same chair where

462
00:47:20,510 --> 00:47:25,869
I do my homework and she says tell me, why
do you want to be an astronaut?

463
00:47:25,869 --> 00:47:31,479
Of course, I was fresh from listening to Walker
CRONCHITE so I had the all the facts and figures.

464
00:47:31,479 --> 00:47:39,619
I said dad, I can't that we as humans can
take a person to the surface of the moon,

465
00:47:39,619 --> 00:47:46,739
a quarter million miles away and bring him
back home safe and sound. I want to be a part

466
00:47:46,739 --> 00:47:50,510
of that.
He looked at me and he must have saw the determination

467
00:47:50,510 --> 00:47:58,230
of a 10 year old boy because what he told
me afterwards is what really surprised me.

468
00:47:58,230 --> 00:48:07,599
He looked at me and he says son, I think you
can do it.

469
00:48:07,599 --> 00:48:18,729
More importantly, he said, if you want to
do it, you need to follow five simple steps.

470
00:48:18,729 --> 00:48:24,630
That point I become a sponge, absorbing everything
he's going to say.

471
00:48:24,630 --> 00:48:30,039
I say what are they, dad?
He said first, decide what you want to be

472
00:48:30,039 --> 00:48:34,569
in life.
What does Jose want to be when he grows up.

473
00:48:34,569 --> 00:48:40,009
I want to be an astronaut.
Second, recognize how far you are from that

474
00:48:40,009 --> 00:48:43,980
goal.
I looked at our two‑bedroom rented DILAPIDATED

475
00:48:43,980 --> 00:48:49,869
house, I said dad, we can't be any farther
than this.

476
00:48:49,869 --> 00:48:54,019
He laughed and said good, I'm glad you recognize
it.

477
00:48:54,019 --> 00:48:59,240
And third, you need to draw yourself a road
map from where you know where you're at, even

478
00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:02,549
by your smart remarks you do, to where you
want to go.

479
00:49:02,549 --> 00:49:09,440
That's going to guide you in life.
I said what's the fourth, dad?

480
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:14,949
Education.
There's no substitute for a good education.

481
00:49:14,949 --> 00:49:19,259
No shortcuts.
Finally, he said, you know that work ethic

482
00:49:19,259 --> 00:49:26,670
you put out on weekends, in the fields picking
cucumbers, cherries, tomatoes, grapes, peaches,

483
00:49:26,670 --> 00:49:29,670
PEARS and 7 days a week in the summer?
I said yeah.

484
00:49:29,670 --> 00:49:34,760
It's the same work ethic.
Pointed to my books, you put it here.

485
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:44,380
Then he says when you graduate and you get
a job you put it in your job.

486
00:49:44,380 --> 00:49:49,939
Always give more of what people ask for.
I remember going to sleep that day because

487
00:49:49,939 --> 00:49:53,920
I said wow.
My parents think I could be an astronaut,

488
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:58,559
ERGO I'm going to one.
I never looked back since.

489
00:49:58,559 --> 00:50:09,829
As soon as I could, start putting in my application.
I would add one other ingredient to that recipe,

490
00:50:09,829 --> 00:50:16,699
and that's the sixth greed ynt, that's perseverance.
Never giving up.

491
00:50:16,699 --> 00:50:25,549
I'm here to tell you NASA rejected me not
once, not twice, not even four or five times.

492
00:50:25,549 --> 00:50:27,960
It was 11 times.
It wasn't until my 12th attempt that I got

493
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:36,979
accepted to the 19th class of ras o notes.
So you can't give up.

494
00:50:36,979 --> 00:50:40,949
During those attempts I found out there's
three stages to reaching a goal.

495
00:50:40,949 --> 00:50:46,160
First is minimum requirements. If you want
to be a doctor, you know you gotta go to med

496
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:55,259
school, lawyer pass the bar, astronaut, advanced
degree, get, peerns, start applying.

497
00:50:55,259 --> 00:50:59,869
Then I found out that after six rejections
I was doing something wrong.

498
00:50:59,869 --> 00:51:04,999
I had to find out what I was doing wrong.
So I compared myself with the astronauts at

499
00:51:04,999 --> 00:51:08,509
the second stage, compare yourself to what
you want to be like.

500
00:51:08,509 --> 00:51:11,300
I found out that they were all pilots.
I wasn't a pilot.

501
00:51:11,300 --> 00:51:14,941
So guess what?
I learned how to fly. Return another year

502
00:51:14,941 --> 00:51:23,619
they were all scuba diverrers. Guess what,
I basic advanced scuba rescue, master scuba,

503
00:51:23,619 --> 00:51:28,940
I wanted to make sure NASA knew I knew how
to scuba dive.

504
00:51:28,940 --> 00:51:34,479
Third year, third time that's when I discovered
the third stage is you gotta do something

505
00:51:34,479 --> 00:51:40,900
that distinguishes you from the competition.
So what I was working at a lab when a job

506
00:51:40,900 --> 00:51:46,900
came to work in Russia no one wanted to do
it because it was tough duty going to Siberia,

507
00:51:46,900 --> 00:51:50,410
I said put me in, coach, I'll go.
Why?

508
00:51:50,410 --> 00:51:56,449
Not because I wanted to get to know Siberia
in the middle of winter, but I had read that

509
00:51:56,449 --> 00:52:01,029
the U.S. and Russia had signed an agreement
to build what was going to be the international

510
00:52:01,029 --> 00:52:04,499
space station.
And I put one in one together it doesn't take

511
00:52:04,499 --> 00:52:08,549
a rocket scientist to figure that one out,
even n though I am one.

512
00:52:08,549 --> 00:52:12,529
I said we're going to be working with the
Russianings in the future.

513
00:52:12,529 --> 00:52:19,950
It behooves me to get experience working en
Russia, go to my boss and say can I have a

514
00:52:19,950 --> 00:52:27,839
Russian language instructor.
I know enough Russian to get drunk, guess.

515
00:52:27,839 --> 00:52:32,979
I know enough Russian.
Anyway, these are the things that you gotta

516
00:52:32,979 --> 00:52:40,019
do in life to pursue your passion, your dream,
and that's what I did.

517
00:52:40,019 --> 00:52:45,400
And I'm here to tell you that 6‑ingredient
recipe plus the flea stages I just gave you

518
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:52,069
really do work.
I got selected in 2004.

519
00:52:52,069 --> 00:52:57,900
Train for two years got our wings in 2006,
got assigned to a mission in 2007, and we

520
00:52:57,900 --> 00:53:04,119
flew it in 2009.
I was the flight engineer for STS‑128 aresupply

521
00:53:04,119 --> 00:53:10,369
mission to the international space station.
I'd like to show you a short, 5‑minute video

522
00:53:10,369 --> 00:53:16,769
that summarizes that mission.
We launched in the middle of the night, almost

523
00:53:16,769 --> 00:53:23,259
midnight, it only takes 8 and a half minutes
to get into space, you go from 0 to 17,000‑miles

524
00:53:23,259 --> 00:53:29,009
per hour.
That's our mission patch.

525
00:53:29,009 --> 00:53:53,079
Three engines light up first, and then of
course the rocket booster aboard space shuttle

526
00:53:53,079 --> 00:54:06,759
Discovery.
They pop off into the ocean with parachutes

527
00:54:06,759 --> 00:54:27,719
and are recovered because they're reusable.
8 and a half minutes, you see me giving a

528
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:32,660
thumbs up because I consider myself no a BONAFIDE
astronaut.

529
00:54:32,660 --> 00:54:38,299
Our crew was an international crew.
Opening up the pay load bay doors to initiate

530
00:54:38,299 --> 00:54:45,529
cooling.
Raid radiator cooling so we can cool our electronics.

531
00:54:45,529 --> 00:54:50,150
There's yours truly putting together the portable
on board computer systems that are going to

532
00:54:50,150 --> 00:54:57,729
help us talk to the international space station
while other people put this together so we

533
00:54:57,729 --> 00:54:59,900
can exercise our legs. Our crew was a mix
td crew.

534
00:54:59,900 --> 00:55:04,920
This is my colleague Nicole, female engineer.
Looking into the binoculars of what's going

535
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:10,179
to be her home for the next three months.
Wn of our objectivesis tiek to take her there

536
00:55:10,179 --> 00:55:13,660
and leave her there and take someone who has
been there for three months.

537
00:55:13,660 --> 00:55:22,710
Our second objective is to deliver more than
seven tons of equipment and supplies to the

538
00:55:22,710 --> 00:55:28,141
international space station.
Woe did that via the module Leonardo which

539
00:55:28,141 --> 00:55:43,869
is what you see there in the pay load door.
Our third objective was to conduct three space

540
00:55:43,869 --> 00:55:50,349
walks.
[APPLAUSE]

541
00:55:50,349 --> 00:55:54,230
There we are celebrating after successfully
talking to the international space station

542
00:55:54,230 --> 00:56:02,140
that allows us to open up the access hatch
and the station folks.

543
00:56:02,140 --> 00:56:07,910
Woe got this neat little tunnel that transfers
us from the the shuttle to the international

544
00:56:07,910 --> 00:56:13,979
space station.
The other side, the commander six astronauts

545
00:56:13,979 --> 00:56:27,710
waiting for us.
They've been up for months they know we have

546
00:56:27,710 --> 00:56:34,190
fresh fruit and vegetables.
As flight engineer I was one of the two principle

547
00:56:34,190 --> 00:56:39,509
robotic arm operators u Lang with Kevin Ford
there, our pilot.

548
00:56:39,509 --> 00:56:46,670
We dare you see us grapple the MPLM.
Put it on a docking port.

549
00:56:46,670 --> 00:56:54,450
While we're putting everything together from
the equipment, and installing inside the nation,

550
00:56:54,450 --> 00:57:01,269
other astronauts are conducting space walks.
We conducted three space walk, one of the

551
00:57:01,269 --> 00:57:11,289
big items there, we installed for radiator
cooling and installed a spare one as well.

552
00:57:11,289 --> 00:57:21,130
I was operating the robotic arm at that period.
After about, uh, 12 of the 14 days up there

553
00:57:21,130 --> 00:57:30,269
we 
do a rotation maneuver and then head home.

554
00:57:30,269 --> 00:57:36,430
You can see as you enter the atmosphere, gravity
starts taking hold little by little.

555
00:57:36,430 --> 00:57:42,380
The shuttle is a pretty versatile piece of
machinery, it takes off as rocket, and enters

556
00:57:42,380 --> 00:57:52,720
as an airplane.
We only have one clans at landing. The weather

557
00:57:52,720 --> 00:58:00,619
was bad in California soarks headed to south
east Florida.

558
00:58:00,619 --> 00:58:13,420
As I tell our pilot, Kevin Ford, very import
tonight put the wheels down...

559
00:58:13,420 --> 00:58:23,489
And this was better than my landing over here
at DULLES airport yesterday.

560
00:58:23,489 --> 00:58:29,450
There it is.
And that's a typical 14‑day mission to the

561
00:58:29,450 --> 00:58:36,749
international space station. One of the things
I want to leave you with I think it's very

562
00:58:36,749 --> 00:58:42,940
important is just to go over the recipe, especially
the students and the three stages to reaching

563
00:58:42,940 --> 00:58:47,829
a goal.
I think it's very simple.

564
00:58:47,829 --> 00:58:53,609
You gotta decide what it it is you want to
do in life, identify that, recognize how far

565
00:58:53,609 --> 00:59:02,319
you are from that goal.
How to get there.

566
00:59:02,319 --> 00:59:08,729
You gotta study and prepare.
No substitution for an education and you gotta

567
00:59:08,729 --> 00:59:15,210
develop it, work hard for it, if you really
want it you gotta work hard.

568
00:59:15,210 --> 00:59:19,269
And then the sixth ingredient that I added
is perseverance.

569
00:59:19,269 --> 00:59:26,989
Never, never give up on yourself.
And then follow the three stages of reaching

570
00:59:26,989 --> 00:59:32,250
that goal is recognize what are the requirements
to get there.

571
00:59:32,250 --> 00:59:37,650
And then study people that are there already
and then find out what quality they have and

572
00:59:37,650 --> 00:59:42,499
start acquiring them I knew they were pilots
y became one. I knew they were scuba divers,

573
00:59:42,499 --> 00:59:50,109
I became one. Return another thing, start
doing things that will distinguish you from

574
00:59:50,109 --> 00:59:55,009
the competition.
Rise to the top.

575
00:59:55,009 --> 00:59:59,920
And take advantage of opportunities that's
going to make you, uh, distinguish yourself,

576
00:59:59,920 --> 01:00:05,569
take risks, calculated risks.
If you use that, mix it up just like my father

577
01:00:05,569 --> 01:00:13,559
told a 10 year old awhile back, you follow
that recipe, I guarantee you guys can reach

578
01:00:13,559 --> 01:00:18,010
for your own stars.
Thank you very much.

579
01:00:18,010 --> 01:00:28,130
Please feel free to follow me I got twitter.
I also have a book called reaching for the

580
01:00:28,130 --> 01:00:32,569
star, wouldn't you know it.
But I encourage you all to read it because

581
01:00:32,569 --> 01:00:53,219
it's the how‑to there.
Thank you very much, appreciate it.

582
01:00:53,219 --> 01:01:07,239
[APPLAUSE]
>> Can I get another round of applause, please,

583
01:01:07,239 --> 01:01:09,910
and for Diana.
I can honestly say this is one of the many

584
01:01:09,910 --> 01:01:11,769
reasons why I love my job.
Hear that?

585
01:01:11,769 --> 01:01:15,489
I tell everyone I love my job.
We're going to go u hoed and transition over

586
01:01:15,489 --> 01:01:20,579
to Q & A, question and answer portion of the
program and we will be taking questions from

587
01:01:20,579 --> 01:01:24,650
the audience so feel free to, you know, ask
any questions of both our speakers.

588
01:01:24,650 --> 01:01:45,839
If I could have both of our speakers, please,
um, join me on stage, that would be wonderful.

589
01:01:45,839 --> 01:01:51,480
We do have some people in the audience with
mics.

590
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:57,739
Can I see the people with the mics?
So if you have a question, please feel free

591
01:01:57,739 --> 01:02:00,589
to raise your hand and one of them will come
and get you.

592
01:02:00,589 --> 01:02:08,450
We'll go ahead and open the floor up.
I see a question back there.

593
01:02:08,450 --> 01:02:37,989
>> Don't be shy.
>> Okay, right here.

594
01:02:37,989 --> 01:02:44,209
I want to know what personally is a way that
you can advocate, you can push for diversity

595
01:02:44,209 --> 01:02:53,740
in your work place.
And, well, that's it for now.

596
01:02:53,740 --> 01:03:06,459
I think the best thing in terms of pushing,
uh, for diversity in the work place first

597
01:03:06,459 --> 01:03:14,109
of all, um, we gotta lead by example and one
of the first things I always say is first

598
01:03:14,109 --> 01:03:21,640
things first is my job I'm going to make sure
I do a great job at what I do, be an example.

599
01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:26,969
Uh, lead by example.
Second thing is get involved in organizations

600
01:03:26,969 --> 01:03:37,779
like hola that actually promote diversity.
But, you know, the first thing is you gotta

601
01:03:37,779 --> 01:03:52,589
take care of yourself first and then go out
and help others.

602
01:03:52,589 --> 01:04:00,349
>> I will agree with that.
I think that from my perspective I think that

603
01:04:00,349 --> 01:04:01,839
one of the things that is important for us
is to think about the families themselves

604
01:04:01,839 --> 01:04:04,239
like in your case and in my case as well,
everything went back home what do I want to

605
01:04:04,239 --> 01:04:08,460
do, where do I want to go, what job do I want
to do?

606
01:04:08,460 --> 01:04:11,549
I think that I want to throw out with the
families even though the possibilities weren't

607
01:04:11,549 --> 01:04:15,000
there for them, the possibilities are there
for this generation and the next one.

608
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:21,400
We live in a country now where anyone can
achieve anything that they want.

609
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:27,799
I mean, your story's amazing and mine as well
when I come back from not even knowing how

610
01:04:27,799 --> 01:04:33,869
to speak English; right?
And so I think that the parents play an amazing

611
01:04:33,869 --> 01:04:39,599
role into trying to push the kids forward.
The kids also play an amazing role trying

612
01:04:39,599 --> 01:04:46,470
to talk back to the parents, wait a minute
maybe that's not what I want to do.

613
01:04:46,470 --> 01:04:48,710
Maybe I do want to do this.
I think it's a back and forth, but it's more

614
01:04:48,710 --> 01:04:56,929
of a don't feel embarrassed you don't want
to do something maybe people around you don't.

615
01:04:56,929 --> 01:05:03,759
>> I have a question right here on the front.
>> Thank you so Mitch for wonderful talk.

616
01:05:03,759 --> 01:05:09,179
We have students here from Virginia, middle
schools and high school.

617
01:05:09,179 --> 01:05:13,279
Do you have any words for the kids that are
not interested in stem?

618
01:05:13,279 --> 01:05:18,120
Here at NASA we are all about Stem.
There are still kids that say, you know, it's

619
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:22,900
too hard or they're not interested they might
not care.

620
01:05:22,900 --> 01:05:28,249
What words do you have for nem?
>> Well, I think, um, I don't think a lot

621
01:05:28,249 --> 01:05:33,809
of times it's just the interest the students
have it's not that it's hard for them, it's

622
01:05:33,809 --> 01:05:37,059
just that that's not what they're into.
And that's okay.

623
01:05:37,059 --> 01:05:45,109
The beauty of what I just told with respect
to the recipe can apply to any major, to any

624
01:05:45,109 --> 01:05:48,940
field of interest.
The one thing I will tell the kids is be true

625
01:05:48,940 --> 01:05:56,829
to yourselves. Don't be what your parents
want you to be, be what you want to be.

626
01:05:56,829 --> 01:06:09,200
It's okay if it's not stem, though, you know,
I hope it's Stem because we need a lot of

627
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:15,380
scientists and engineers.
That's what make our industry so competitive,

628
01:06:15,380 --> 01:06:20,199
but it doesn't have to be stem, and it ror
kay.

629
01:06:20,199 --> 01:06:27,130
>> I think from my perspective we need all
classes, backgrounds, and interests.

630
01:06:27,130 --> 01:06:32,809
You look at the NASA logo and it look pretty
cool.

631
01:06:32,809 --> 01:06:36,400
I don't think an engineer would have come
up with it.

632
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:39,749
I don't think I would have designed something
like that.

633
01:06:39,749 --> 01:06:43,029
You need teep people that like all kinds of
stuff.

634
01:06:43,029 --> 01:06:46,709
You need designers, you need people to think
about human factors.

635
01:06:46,709 --> 01:06:53,739
For example, if you're in space or if you're
operating a robot from earth, and you're in

636
01:06:53,739 --> 01:06:59,739
the robot is on Mars you need to think about
how to actually send those commands in a way

637
01:06:59,739 --> 01:07:03,039
that it's intuitive.
The robotic arm is here, and I can see it

638
01:07:03,039 --> 01:07:09,150
in my mind or how to wear DONGLES that will
use those images and project to you as though

639
01:07:09,150 --> 01:07:17,089
you're sitting on the surface of Mars. You
need also people that advocate for most of

640
01:07:17,089 --> 01:07:22,750
the work that NASA does.
People that work on the education system.

641
01:07:22,750 --> 01:07:29,109
You don't necessarily need to actually have
a math or engineering background to help with

642
01:07:29,109 --> 01:07:32,459
the cause for us to get to Mar or to travel
and explore space.

643
01:07:32,459 --> 01:07:41,949
>> Wonderful, thank you.
I have a question I'm sorry we'll take a question

644
01:07:41,949 --> 01:07:44,890
from the back and then I will come back to
you.

645
01:07:44,890 --> 01:07:51,189
>> What are the usual\h‑ ‑\hwhat's the
usual lifespan of a Rover and what materials

646
01:07:51,189 --> 01:07:55,520
do you use to make the Rover?
>> That's a good question.

647
01:07:55,520 --> 01:08:02,390
There's a lot of constraints that we need
to evaluate to determine how long will the

648
01:08:02,390 --> 01:08:05,959
mission actually last.
Some missions are very short, some missions

649
01:08:05,959 --> 01:08:09,199
are very long.
For example, for the Curiosity Rover, that

650
01:08:09,199 --> 01:08:12,969
mission is a long mission because we have
a nuclear power robot.

651
01:08:12,969 --> 01:08:21,420
So it was at the start designed to be a 1
to 2 years mission we can last as long as

652
01:08:21,420 --> 01:08:28,249
we stay there.
They had been there or one of them is still

653
01:08:28,249 --> 01:08:35,650
there currently operating at a very low power.
To answer your questions exactly, it all boil

654
01:08:35,650 --> 01:08:40,710
down to can you talk to the Rover?
Is there a way that you can power on the Rover,

655
01:08:40,710 --> 01:08:45,779
even at the bare minimum to still communicate
to it and then bring the data back?

656
01:08:45,779 --> 01:09:01,259
With respect to the material material is durable
and not too heavy you still have an objective

657
01:09:01,259 --> 01:09:08,520
with that mission.
The wheels of itself of the rover are made

658
01:09:08,520 --> 01:09:10,989
of aluminum.
Material that would be durable but at the

659
01:09:10,989 --> 01:09:16,889
same time light.
We try to squeeze every single piece of juice

660
01:09:16,889 --> 01:09:25,500
we can get out of the ron eiver, eeb fn you
can turn it on, power it off immediately,

661
01:09:25,500 --> 01:09:29,630
that's still sting you can get science out
of.

662
01:09:29,630 --> 01:09:35,049
>> Thank you.
>> Hi, so it's really wonderful to hear stories

663
01:09:35,049 --> 01:09:40,619
from Jose, wonderful of you to take us on
journey to the space station.

664
01:09:40,619 --> 01:09:50,109
And Diane u, all the thing you showed especially
the TV images, the places where we feel like

665
01:09:50,109 --> 01:09:53,299
maybe that could be me.
I was an I dream of jeany person, too, and

666
01:09:53,299 --> 01:10:02,510
it wasn't about the jeany.
I'd like to ask you for something a little

667
01:10:02,510 --> 01:10:08,800
more subtle.
It's easy to be seen, but also not quite to

668
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:12,570
be seen.
People think they know who they see, but there's

669
01:10:12,570 --> 01:10:18,570
more there than often they can really get
to unless you bring it to them.

670
01:10:18,570 --> 01:10:26,400
You know, in a meeting when you feel like
people aren't really understanding what you

671
01:10:26,400 --> 01:10:31,389
might bring.
Or you see someone at the taibl that you realize

672
01:10:31,389 --> 01:10:39,889
people are nlt seeing them.
Can you give us practical recipes or bullets

673
01:10:39,889 --> 01:10:45,989
for those things?
>> Well y think the first thing is that you

674
01:10:45,989 --> 01:10:55,739
as an individual are in a work place and you
say I really want to sort of not just blend

675
01:10:55,739 --> 01:11:04,480
in and not get if you will get rek recognized,
get picked up by somebody or take under somebody's

676
01:11:04,480 --> 01:11:10,429
arm.
The fist thing I would do is if I see an individual

677
01:11:10,429 --> 01:11:17,300
who has that promise, start the mentd oring
program with myself or with somebody else

678
01:11:17,300 --> 01:11:25,159
that's in a closer, uh, age group or area
of interest and set up that mentoring so that

679
01:11:25,159 --> 01:11:35,370
person starts expanding it's really easy to
be in a big organization and you fall into

680
01:11:35,370 --> 01:11:40,590
a narrow cubical and then all of a sudden
you get lost in the hustle and bustle.

681
01:11:40,590 --> 01:11:48,510
But expand the horizons in that sense and
as managers our job is to identify this talent

682
01:11:48,510 --> 01:11:54,550
and to nurn nurture it and help it grow.
As individuals our job is to say how can I

683
01:11:54,550 --> 01:12:00,150
grow and start adopting those measures and
how can I network and start networking so

684
01:12:00,150 --> 01:12:08,809
you get out and expand your little circle
of comfort to make it here.

685
01:12:08,809 --> 01:12:18,309
>> From my perspective as an individual I
think from recognizing in my mind we have

686
01:12:18,309 --> 01:12:33,730
different backgrounds or cultures that actually
is beneficial we're not the same, I look different.

687
01:12:33,730 --> 01:12:39,150
What I focus on the fact focus on the fact
that when you bring something to the table,

688
01:12:39,150 --> 01:12:47,739
when you have to figure out to bring food
home or how many jobs you need to work through

689
01:12:47,739 --> 01:12:53,449
education, you start developing that mentality
of how do I get to my goal on the most efficient

690
01:12:53,449 --> 01:13:01,770
way fast enough and that doesn't cost a lot.
That stort of plentality you start creating

691
01:13:01,770 --> 01:13:07,510
and cultivating in a meeting where you're
talking about we need to deploy the arm and

692
01:13:07,510 --> 01:13:11,440
take three pictures and put it back inside
where do we park?

693
01:13:11,440 --> 01:13:18,219
It just comes to you, like, wait a second,
I think we can do it this other way because

694
01:13:18,219 --> 01:13:25,780
it's something that you have everyone has
different struggles and all the struggles

695
01:13:25,780 --> 01:13:30,750
can come together in a single moment no now
when you are in meetings, I um completely

696
01:13:30,750 --> 01:13:37,889
agree with you it's about the mentoring.
Everyone has their talent and their brilliance,

697
01:13:37,889 --> 01:13:42,000
they're working for NASA, that's why they're
a part of the team.

698
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:49,639
It's more of a not everyone will be as talkative
or they don't come forward that often.

699
01:13:49,639 --> 01:13:55,520
It's also talking to them, getting mentoring
go, making sure that they understand how to

700
01:13:55,520 --> 01:14:00,280
develop themselves on the job.
Sometimes I think that at least for me it

701
01:14:00,280 --> 01:14:08,820
was a so excited I'm part of this team y don't
want to mess up.

702
01:14:08,820 --> 01:14:26,280
I don't know what to say, what not to say,
how to navigate the objective was to get to

703
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:39,020
NASA, now I'm part of NASA.
>> Which part of the international space station

704
01:14:39,020 --> 01:14:52,320
do you usually fix the most?
>> Sometimes you've got these false signals

705
01:14:52,320 --> 01:15:00,059
for air leaks so you've got to work the protocol
whenever you get an alarm system and a big

706
01:15:00,059 --> 01:15:06,360
alarm that says hey, you got a leak.
That's usually one of the ones.

707
01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:15,320
The recycling of all the moisture the international
space station collects sometimes it breaks

708
01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:19,389
down so they have to fix it.
Those are the things that usually the things

709
01:15:19,389 --> 01:15:24,429
that are use on a continuous basis.
>> Yes.

710
01:15:24,429 --> 01:15:30,120
Go ahead.
>> How many times did you went to space?

711
01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:34,179
>> You know, unfortunately I only went once
in 2009.

712
01:15:34,179 --> 01:15:42,750
When I got back, I got the news that NASA
was going to retire the shuttle fleet and

713
01:15:42,750 --> 01:15:46,969
there were four more missions to fly after
our mission and was it.

714
01:15:46,969 --> 01:15:53,139
They already had astronaut applying to that
position. I knew I wasn't going to fly again.

715
01:15:53,139 --> 01:15:57,050
I'm a big believer of history that history
repeats itself.

716
01:15:57,050 --> 01:16:05,400
I said hm, when's the last time we retire
ad vehicle and put a new one in line?

717
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:12,030
It was when I was 10 years old, Apollo 17,
1972, and it wasn't until nine years later

718
01:16:12,030 --> 01:16:14,900
in 1981 that we had the maiden flight for
the space shuttle.

719
01:16:14,900 --> 01:16:23,920
So I did math in my mind and I odz kay, they're
going to retire in 2011, 2012, 9 years that's

720
01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:25,289
2020.
I'm going to be how old?

721
01:16:25,289 --> 01:16:30,389
So I said you know what, I'm going to get
out while the getting's good and leaving on

722
01:16:30,389 --> 01:16:40,909
a high note and go on to other challenges.
>> Okay, um, go ahead.

723
01:16:40,909 --> 01:16:47,590
>> Around how long did it how much time in
college did you spend to be able to become

724
01:16:47,590 --> 01:16:51,679
an astronaut?
>> Well, first of all, you need a technical

725
01:16:51,679 --> 01:16:59,050
degree, whether it's science, engineering,
medicine, whatever, under graduate.

726
01:16:59,050 --> 01:17:04,140
It's good to have a graduate degree, masters.
And it's great to have a PhD.

727
01:17:04,140 --> 01:17:14,070
So then you want to work in an area like NASA
or a contractor that works in the space industry

728
01:17:14,070 --> 01:17:17,300
so you can get the experience, and then you
start applying.

729
01:17:17,300 --> 01:17:22,820
It's a very competitive process.
I think this go around more than 18,000 folk

730
01:17:22,820 --> 01:17:30,440
that meet the minimum requirements are applying.
So you just gotta be patient, keep trying

731
01:17:30,440 --> 01:17:33,840
and follow my recipe and I'm sure you'll get
there.

732
01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:39,790
>> It take as few years but they fly by.
>> Exactly.

733
01:17:39,790 --> 01:17:49,109
>> Do you ever get scared, like, in general
about what you're doing?

734
01:17:49,109 --> 01:17:56,820
>> I do.
I do because you have a lot of responsibility.

735
01:17:56,820 --> 01:18:02,960
In my specific case of mission lead we're
making decisions as to where are we going

736
01:18:02,960 --> 01:18:11,559
to drive, where are we going to instill the
arm, what rocks are we going to touch, is

737
01:18:11,559 --> 01:18:15,820
the vehicle stable.
We wanted to make sure that everything we

738
01:18:15,820 --> 01:18:27,200
do with the rover we can be safe you cr unstow
the arm think you're okay, and then something

739
01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:40,260
else happens.
So I do but the good news about it is that

740
01:18:40,260 --> 01:18:45,619
we are trained to do the job that we are doing
at that moment.

741
01:18:45,619 --> 01:18:50,420
So we're doing the best that we can, assessing
the situation, making the right decisions

742
01:18:50,420 --> 01:18:54,230
and at that point give it all and everything
you know to the best of your abilities. So

743
01:18:54,230 --> 01:18:59,449
you have to trust that things are going to
be okay.

744
01:18:59,449 --> 01:19:05,840
The next day the first thing I do is check
that it actually did go well.

745
01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:14,390
>> You know, human space flight, it's challenging.
It's certainly not routine.

746
01:19:14,390 --> 01:19:21,989
I know when I finished my basing training
my technical assignment was to work as a caped

747
01:19:21,989 --> 01:19:29,860
crusader which meant I was part of a 4‑astronaut
team that went one week before the launch,

748
01:19:29,860 --> 01:19:35,840
and we basically lived inside the shuttle,
calibrating, setting up the equipment, setting

749
01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:39,840
everything up, and my biggest concern was
bt for me, it was actually for my crew mates

750
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:44,960
in a sense that, you know, unfortunately my
face was the last one they saw before we closed

751
01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:47,840
the hatch.
But more importantly was the fact that did

752
01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:50,619
I put the switch in the right position?
Did I do this, did I do that?

753
01:19:50,619 --> 01:19:55,870
Thing that can affect the outcome of the mission,
and several lives on board.

754
01:19:55,870 --> 01:20:02,300
That's what scared me the most is I'd better
not make a mistake. The enly other team time

755
01:20:02,300 --> 01:20:06,909
I could remember and say yeah, maybe I was
little scared was when we were getting ready

756
01:20:06,909 --> 01:20:11,050
for launch and if I can just walk you through
tha t.

757
01:20:11,050 --> 01:20:18,360
You're sitting back on your back, and you
reach down, countdown to 0, the three engines

758
01:20:18,360 --> 01:20:25,330
start, you hear them, you feel a gentle vibration
and you say okay, we're getting ready to go.

759
01:20:25,330 --> 01:20:27,260
And then, like, two seconds later the solid
rocket boosters turn on.

760
01:20:27,260 --> 01:20:31,559
Man, all of a sud thn noise level goes up
an order of magnitude, the vibration, a violent

761
01:20:31,559 --> 01:20:38,261
vibration, and then just as you think this
whole thing's going to fall apart, uh, it

762
01:20:38,261 --> 01:20:43,720
leans a little bit and you feel the push and
you're off to the races.

763
01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:54,079
I think at that point when it leaned like
that, Id what the heck's happening.

764
01:20:54,079 --> 01:20:59,869
I came back and libbed to tell about it.
>> I think we have time for one more question.

765
01:20:59,869 --> 01:21:03,690
Or one or two.
>> Um.

766
01:21:03,690 --> 01:21:07,520
Gentlemen in the back?
Yes.

767
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:15,190
>> My name is William, I have one question
I got for y'all is what are the different

768
01:21:15,190 --> 01:21:22,019
internships or opportunities that you have
for kids our age to follow stem careers or

769
01:21:22,019 --> 01:21:29,449
how can you find those opportunities.
>> Okay, well, for NASA, uh, I mean, there's

770
01:21:29,449 --> 01:21:34,143
lot of opportunities.
We've got the associate director here, Don

771
01:21:34,143 --> 01:21:43,469
James of education if you just log on to NASA.gov,
you'll see there's internships, fellowships

772
01:21:43,469 --> 01:21:51,619
a burn of programs out there that NASA has
that gives opportunity all the way from high

773
01:21:51,619 --> 01:21:59,230
school to post‑opportunities for the kids
and I encourage you to look at that website.

774
01:21:59,230 --> 01:22:05,040
There's ways ta sign up for it and fight r
fill out applications.

775
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:07,440
So visit NASA.gov.
>> Absolutely.

776
01:22:07,440 --> 01:22:19,340
And you wouldn't believe how many there are
I work at summer, and when the summer I work

777
01:22:19,340 --> 01:22:27,550
at JPL, in some cases they're asking us to
work for home so the interns can actually

778
01:22:27,550 --> 01:22:32,780
come to campus and do their thing.
I think that what I'm trying to tell you is

779
01:22:32,780 --> 01:22:41,130
that when I was on your shoes I will be thinking
well, there's internship, but maybe not enough.

780
01:22:41,130 --> 01:22:45,909
And yes, you have to be talented and bright,
but there's so many.

781
01:22:45,909 --> 01:22:54,829
There are an incredible amount and pretty
soon you'll be hearing from Mr.\hDonald James.

782
01:22:54,829 --> 01:23:02,210
We wanted you to get an understand offing
the opportunities that are out there and the

783
01:23:02,210 --> 01:23:05,959
future opportunities as well.
>> Young lady right here, please proceed.

784
01:23:05,959 --> 01:23:20,170
>> When you were in the middle of pursuing
your dream, were there people being negative

785
01:23:20,170 --> 01:23:27,849
saying you couldn't do it?
And if th there were, how did you get through

786
01:23:27,849 --> 01:23:28,849
it?
>> Great question.

787
01:23:28,849 --> 01:23:29,849
>> Absolutely.
There's always the nay sayers.

788
01:23:29,849 --> 01:23:34,719
People would also tell me.
Wow died didn't you get frustrated rejected

789
01:23:34,719 --> 01:23:41,380
11 times?
I looked at it\h‑ ‑\hyou know y looked

790
01:23:41,380 --> 01:23:46,110
at the glass not half empty but half full
because I would look at it I would say you

791
01:23:46,110 --> 01:23:51,469
know, what's the worst that could happen if
cr don't get selected?

792
01:23:51,469 --> 01:24:00,059
Well, because I shot so high to be an astronaut,
that forced me to go to college, get an engineering

793
01:24:00,059 --> 01:24:02,929
degree.
It forced nee to go to graduate school.

794
01:24:02,929 --> 01:24:10,420
It forced me to work at the international
lab where I was having a great career.

795
01:24:10,420 --> 01:24:16,469
So the consolation prize was I want to be
a great engineer.

796
01:24:16,469 --> 01:24:24,540
Not too bad of a consolation prize.
The moral of that story is it's not the best\h‑

797
01:24:24,540 --> 01:24:27,650
‑\hmake sure you're going to enjoy that
journey.

798
01:24:27,650 --> 01:24:33,570
Because that's where you're going to spend
95% of your time.

799
01:24:33,570 --> 01:24:38,699
Soy enjoy the journey.
>> From my perspective, yes, there was\h‑

800
01:24:38,699 --> 01:24:42,320
‑\hthere.
You will find people that will probably think

801
01:24:42,320 --> 01:24:45,199
you will not be able to do what you want to
do.

802
01:24:45,199 --> 01:24:50,020
The thing that you have to recognize is probably
because you are shooting for something that

803
01:24:50,020 --> 01:24:53,519
people round you didn't think was possible
for them.

804
01:24:53,519 --> 01:24:58,790
When you're going for something people think
is im possible, they're probably going to

805
01:24:58,790 --> 01:25:03,720
say you're not going to get that done, or
probably not going to get there.

806
01:25:03,720 --> 01:25:10,050
Just to tell you a story about mine, when
I was going to u fly NASA, I called my pairnghts

807
01:25:10,050 --> 01:25:15,179
and I told my dad I'm going to apply for NASA
and he couldn't believe it.

808
01:25:15,179 --> 01:25:21,539
He actually was concerned that are you sure
you want to apply for it?

809
01:25:21,539 --> 01:25:23,869
Because you're going to get rejected and probably
this is not a good fit for you.

810
01:25:23,869 --> 01:25:32,820
I think that my advice to you would be to
believe in what you want to do.

811
01:25:32,820 --> 01:25:39,489
If you have a clear understanding of this
is who I want to be if you know who you want

812
01:25:39,489 --> 01:25:45,060
too to be\h‑ ‑\hmaybe you haven't figured
out how to get there, but find the path and

813
01:25:45,060 --> 01:25:48,209
it doesn't matter what's going on around you.
You will find a way.

814
01:25:48,209 --> 01:25:51,780
There's lots of people around me that helped
me lots of people I talked to that I mentioned

815
01:25:51,780 --> 01:25:54,699
what I want to do.
They were the one whose said do this, try

816
01:25:54,699 --> 01:25:59,570
this, don't do that.
You will find people that want to help you

817
01:25:59,570 --> 01:26:02,059
but you have to believe in what we want to
do.

818
01:26:02,059 --> 01:26:07,849
>> Can I add a little something?
I think you hit the nail on the head.

819
01:26:07,849 --> 01:26:15,850
Also I think importance of meantership and
finding people that believe in you is also

820
01:26:15,850 --> 01:26:20,469
very important.
I feel like especially Hispanics or Latinos,

821
01:26:20,469 --> 01:26:25,199
you don't necessarily have, you know, people
to go to like Diana mentioned people that

822
01:26:25,199 --> 01:26:33,260
look like you or that can relate to you.
So I think it's very important to try to find

823
01:26:33,260 --> 01:26:35,699
mentors or people that actually believe in
you.

824
01:26:35,699 --> 01:26:43,230
Sometimes people believe in you more than
you believe in yourself, am I right?

825
01:26:43,230 --> 01:26:47,090
>> And don't wait for the mentor to come to
you.

826
01:26:47,090 --> 01:26:53,219
You have to reach out to them.
There's so many times that I've gone to the

827
01:26:53,219 --> 01:26:56,530
person and said hey, I want to do your job
in a few years from now or many years from

828
01:26:56,530 --> 01:27:01,780
now.
Can you please sit down with me and currently

829
01:27:01,780 --> 01:27:05,860
I have five mentors and all of them I talk
to about different things.

830
01:27:05,860 --> 01:27:10,409
Don't think you have to limit the amount offal
that you have to talk to, and don't expect

831
01:27:10,409 --> 01:27:13,050
them to come to you.
Feel free to go to them.

832
01:27:13,050 --> 01:27:15,300
You wouldn't believe how excited they actually
get.

833
01:27:15,300 --> 01:27:22,019
Ti they tell you I did this, do that, don't
do this\h‑ ‑\h.

834
01:27:22,019 --> 01:27:27,650
>> I was notified that apparently there is
a few questions but I'll go ahead and open

835
01:27:27,650 --> 01:27:31,219
it up to maybe two more.
Proceed.

836
01:27:31,219 --> 01:27:41,599
>> Hi, my name is Chris.
In terms of work ethic what do you think getting

837
01:27:41,599 --> 01:27:52,730
y fish leent and correctly?
>> How to get the taivelg how to get the task

838
01:27:52,730 --> 01:27:55,210
done?
I think the important thing is before you

839
01:27:55,210 --> 01:28:00,900
even start working on it is you develop a
strategy.

840
01:28:00,900 --> 01:28:07,690
Some times the most important part is before
you even start work, working on a task.

841
01:28:07,690 --> 01:28:11,110
It's the planning of it, how you're going
to execute it.

842
01:28:11,110 --> 01:28:16,659
Lots of times we're eager beavers and we want
to jump right in and start working on it without

843
01:28:16,659 --> 01:28:21,469
having a strategy.
You feel like you're going to get delayed

844
01:28:21,469 --> 01:28:26,700
by doing this planning at the front end, but
believe me you'll be finishing a lot quicker

845
01:28:26,700 --> 01:28:31,510
than the person who didn't do the pre‑planning.
I think pre‑planning before execution is

846
01:28:31,510 --> 01:28:36,010
the smart sest way to go.
>> I think so, too.

847
01:28:36,010 --> 01:28:44,329
I think it's interesting because I have a
team of at least 5 to 8 different systems

848
01:28:44,329 --> 01:28:49,960
engineers that work on the mission and they're
the ones the tactical lead personnel.

849
01:28:49,960 --> 01:28:53,230
The average age of my team is in between\h‑
‑\his approximately 22 years old.

850
01:28:53,230 --> 01:29:02,780
One of the things that I look about it the
most is that, um, the plan.

851
01:29:02,780 --> 01:29:08,920
I talk to them and ask them to please do something,
I think that what it mattersis for them or

852
01:29:08,920 --> 01:29:11,869
in this case for you to understand what is
the final goal.

853
01:29:11,869 --> 01:29:14,449
And then think about how you're going to get
there.

854
01:29:14,449 --> 01:29:18,570
And then talk to the person that is asking
you to do the tarveg or in this case if it's

855
01:29:18,570 --> 01:29:24,340
a project of yours at school go back to your
teach or professor say you asked me to do

856
01:29:24,340 --> 01:29:28,110
this.
This is the goal and this is what I think

857
01:29:28,110 --> 01:29:35,329
I should do to get there.
It will save you a lot of time.

858
01:29:35,329 --> 01:29:40,789
Professors respect from their perspective
it's another chance for them to either correct

859
01:29:40,789 --> 01:29:44,559
or redirect or help even more and give you
more resources.

860
01:29:44,559 --> 01:29:53,820
So I think I know where your coming from.
You're so eager to demonstrate that you can

861
01:29:53,820 --> 01:29:58,640
add value so you want to jump the gun and
start running it.

862
01:29:58,640 --> 01:30:04,240
But, um, I think that it's more valuable to
demonstrate that you can think about the plan

863
01:30:04,240 --> 01:30:09,269
and you have a goal to get to it, and then
get the back up for it.

864
01:30:09,269 --> 01:30:16,239
>> Hi, my name is Lucy MACIAS.
We run a youth development program at north

865
01:30:16,239 --> 01:30:23,460
western high school.
The youth that we work with comes from limited

866
01:30:23,460 --> 01:30:28,750
resources their families try to stup support
them but maybe just cannot.

867
01:30:28,750 --> 01:30:35,800
Our job is to try to motivate them.
To continue getting an education or just believing

868
01:30:35,800 --> 01:30:41,539
in themselves.
But a lot of times we have a lot of obstacles

869
01:30:41,539 --> 01:30:48,000
that prevent us from keeping them motivated.
What was a way that mentors were effective

870
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:54,710
to you and how do you care is a good way to
reach youth that have a lot of, um, obstacles

871
01:30:54,710 --> 01:31:02,579
in their way?
>> I think in my particular case, even though

872
01:31:02,579 --> 01:31:09,770
my parents only had a third grade education,
they provided an environment that basically

873
01:31:09,770 --> 01:31:23,810
gave me the license to dream, dream big, and
my dad gave me a recipe to provide gave me

874
01:31:23,810 --> 01:31:31,079
the tools to put that dream into reality.
Along the way I had teachers like miss young

875
01:31:31,079 --> 01:31:47,309
who helped great mentors in math and science.
I think it's great.

876
01:31:47,309 --> 01:31:53,760
I don't think it just has to be the parents.
You know y was lucky that my parents were

877
01:31:53,760 --> 01:31:58,110
very engaged.
I understand other parents rnts as engaged.

878
01:31:58,110 --> 01:32:05,100
You become the substitute.
You empower them stoo believe in themselves

879
01:32:05,100 --> 01:32:15,690
you empower the persons to believe that they
cu cheeive anything and doing so you provide

880
01:32:15,690 --> 01:32:20,500
the role that my parents provided.
Are I y think the economic disadvantage was

881
01:32:20,500 --> 01:32:27,219
the secondary issue.
The fist was believing that I could do that.

882
01:32:27,219 --> 01:32:33,019
The second is how am I going to pay for this.
That's when you start working two jobs and

883
01:32:33,019 --> 01:32:36,090
take out student leet loans, but there's an
answer to all that.

884
01:32:36,090 --> 01:32:56,159
The great thing, let's get them there first.
I think you providing that mentor role

885
01:32:56,159 --> 01:32:58,440
and giving them that life\h‑ ‑\hgiving
them that license to dream, that's the best

886
01:32:58,440 --> 01:33:05,369
thing to do.
>> Um, I think that for me there were two

887
01:33:05,369 --> 01:33:14,840
things and maybe I would recommend.
I had a professor, actually, a teacher in

888
01:33:14,840 --> 01:33:22,949
my high school in my chemistry teacher who
I will do my homework very quick learly or

889
01:33:22,949 --> 01:33:29,500
do my test very quickly and I would feel bad
because I wasn't sure if I did it right because

890
01:33:29,500 --> 01:33:38,030
I did it so quickly and he would give me extra
problems.

891
01:33:38,030 --> 01:33:45,309
That made me feel unique.
It made me feel like you actually believe

892
01:33:45,309 --> 01:33:54,650
in me.
You're asking me to push the boundary it's

893
01:33:54,650 --> 01:34:05,540
not wrong that I need more.
I feel like he trusted me, he believed in

894
01:34:05,540 --> 01:34:17,780
me, and sometimes it's the heart of the student,
I loved chemistry but I was really bad at

895
01:34:17,780 --> 01:34:19,270
physics.
I hated physics.

896
01:34:19,270 --> 01:34:25,400
But my professor actually was my teacher was
very involved with me in help ming understand

897
01:34:25,400 --> 01:34:32,369
how to take the teachers made nee feel like
I could do something.

898
01:34:32,369 --> 01:34:41,070
But I need ad little bit more.
I needed somebody who was actually doing it.

899
01:34:41,070 --> 01:34:49,960
That relationship between understanding.
Does that person even exist?

900
01:34:49,960 --> 01:34:55,499
Do they look like me?
I think I will recommend having probably is

901
01:34:55,499 --> 01:35:00,489
having guest speakers come to class and have
them tell the story.

902
01:35:00,489 --> 01:35:06,100
And then have the opportunity for them to
ask questions of what did you do, or questions

903
01:35:06,100 --> 01:35:07,570
that the students are asking us today.
Did you feel scared?

904
01:35:07,570 --> 01:35:10,100
Did you have any concerns?
How did you manage to do those things?

905
01:35:10,100 --> 01:35:19,050
>> I would just like to say, you know, thank
you for the work that you're doing.

906
01:35:19,050 --> 01:35:24,519
I think it's amazing. For me, personally,
I'm, like, the youngest of eight kids and

907
01:35:24,519 --> 01:35:29,389
second to go to college.
So I actually never even thought about going

908
01:35:29,389 --> 01:35:33,429
to college.
It was because of people like you who actually

909
01:35:33,429 --> 01:35:38,179
taught me to believe in myself and think about
the possibles that I'm here today.

910
01:35:38,179 --> 01:35:39,659
So the words\h‑ ‑\hthe work that you guys
are doing is amazing.

911
01:35:39,659 --> 01:35:45,179
So thank you for being here. Um, I think I
have room for Nguyen more. Crrn I take one

912
01:35:45,179 --> 01:35:47,589
more question?
>> Absolutely.

913
01:35:47,589 --> 01:35:53,230
>> All right.
Who gets the last question?

914
01:35:53,230 --> 01:35:57,260
This gentleman right there.
Yes.

915
01:35:57,260 --> 01:36:07,969
>> How did you get to Mars?
>> How will we get to Mars? We first need

916
01:36:07,969 --> 01:36:14,030
to come up with a lot of technology that we
could develop.

917
01:36:14,030 --> 01:36:15,389
That will actually take people safely to Mars.
It's very important to get to Mars but it's

918
01:36:15,389 --> 01:36:24,099
more important that we can get there and come
back. The thing that we have to do is a series

919
01:36:24,099 --> 01:36:31,850
of missions that demonstrate that we can survive
on Mars, that we have the technology that

920
01:36:31,850 --> 01:36:35,769
will keep us alive.
The technology that brings us back.

921
01:36:35,769 --> 01:36:36,769
And then at the same time, think about the
crew.

922
01:36:36,769 --> 01:36:40,030
Right, the most important thing is that although
we're exploring we're going there as a united

923
01:36:40,030 --> 01:36:43,710
team.
We all have to figure out how to work together,

924
01:36:43,710 --> 01:36:48,769
how to live together, a long journey probably
eight to nine\h‑ ‑\h.

925
01:36:48,769 --> 01:36:53,769
So I think that NASA itself and other companies
are working to get us there.

926
01:36:53,769 --> 01:36:57,709
And we can find a path as long as we work
together and don't forget what the goals are.

927
01:36:57,709 --> 01:37:08,909
>> Does that path take us through the moon?
>> That will not be up to me to decide fl.

928
01:37:08,909 --> 01:37:15,920
>> On that note, um, why don't we give our,
um, speakers here a round of applause.

929
01:37:15,920 --> 01:37:22,929
And thank them for being here with us today.
Taking your questions.

930
01:37:22,929 --> 01:37:25,840
I would now like to ask if they could take
their seats and I would like to now transition

931
01:37:25,840 --> 01:37:32,820
over and welcome our, um, associate administrator
for education, Mr.\hDonald, uh, James he will

932
01:37:32,820 --> 01:37:39,090
be able to answer any and all questions you
have in term of resources and where NASA is

933
01:37:39,090 --> 01:37:53,419
in term of our education plalt form.
Thank you.

934
01:37:53,419 --> 01:38:01,019
>> I don't think I need the platform.
I'm really glad to see you.

935
01:38:01,019 --> 01:38:08,630
I'm really glad to see the students much of
what I'm going to say is directed that students

936
01:38:08,630 --> 01:38:13,290
but wasn't that just a cool way to start the
day, with Diana and Jose?

937
01:38:13,290 --> 01:38:24,369
I don't know u about you, but that was amazing.
It's always gratifying to me to find connections

938
01:38:24,369 --> 01:38:31,780
to people and, uh, Jose and I discovered that,
you know, we came from the same area in California,

939
01:38:31,780 --> 01:38:35,599
Stockton.
My father moved thereafter he finished law

940
01:38:35,599 --> 01:38:40,980
school, he wanted to be a civil rights attorney.
In stock thrn there were many brown people

941
01:38:40,980 --> 01:38:46,619
and black people who had civil rights issues
and I remember as a little kid him talking

942
01:38:46,619 --> 01:38:51,750
about the struggles of the farm workers and
defending people who didn't have money and

943
01:38:51,750 --> 01:38:54,690
resources.
So that was really my first introduction to

944
01:38:54,690 --> 01:38:59,249
people who were not like me, and people who
were like me.

945
01:38:59,249 --> 01:39:04,949
So it's really great to have an AMIGO from
Stockton, California.

946
01:39:04,949 --> 01:39:09,139
I actually spent most of my up bringing in
Sacremento.

947
01:39:09,139 --> 01:39:13,710
I'm really glad to have the students here,
is this the first time you've been to NASA

948
01:39:13,710 --> 01:39:17,090
before, raise your hands.
Wow.

949
01:39:17,090 --> 01:39:20,590
Did you guys know that NASA headquarters was
here in Washington D.C.?

950
01:39:20,590 --> 01:39:28,739
A lot of times I ask people that question
they think it's in Houston. I don't know why...:

951
01:39:28,739 --> 01:39:33,960
You know, we call the students who are out
the Mars generation.

952
01:39:33,960 --> 01:39:40,300
We say that because, um, we actually have
plans to send humans to Mars and actually

953
01:39:40,300 --> 01:39:47,360
bring them back in about 20 or 30 years ch
If you add your age to 20 or 30 years you're

954
01:39:47,360 --> 01:39:51,760
the perfect age.
Who would actually like to personally go on

955
01:39:51,760 --> 01:40:01,719
a rocket and go to Mars?
I see people in the front and in the back.

956
01:40:01,719 --> 01:40:06,760
The person you're sitting next to you're willing
to be in a space craft for about five or six

957
01:40:06,760 --> 01:40:11,330
months.
Yes, and then you have to work on Mars for

958
01:40:11,330 --> 01:40:14,690
about a year, then you come back.
So you're going to be gone a long time.

959
01:40:14,690 --> 01:40:20,210
If you're still willing to do that, then we
have plans for you.

960
01:40:20,210 --> 01:40:27,090
The whole point of the work that we do in
NASA education is to insure that thlt things

961
01:40:27,090 --> 01:40:33,789
that NASA wants to do in 10, twents, 30 years
from now that was can accomplish by having

962
01:40:33,789 --> 01:40:39,130
the right people to do it.
And it really is all about the people.

963
01:40:39,130 --> 01:40:44,790
There's no machine that's going to do everything
for us because somebody had to program the

964
01:40:44,790 --> 01:40:48,300
machine, someone had to fabricate it, someone
had to design it.

965
01:40:48,300 --> 01:40:54,140
If we don't have capable people like yourselves
to do the kinds of exciting things that we

966
01:40:54,140 --> 01:40:57,579
envision doing then we're not going to be
able to do it.

967
01:40:57,579 --> 01:41:12,340
I don't know about you, but I just think.
How many people think there are planets out

968
01:41:12,340 --> 01:41:20,460
there just like earth.
That may mean that there's life on those planets.

969
01:41:20,460 --> 01:41:25,579
How many of you thij that we're eventually
going to find out that there's life somewhere

970
01:41:25,579 --> 01:41:29,530
in the universe other than on earth?
I believe that.

971
01:41:29,530 --> 01:41:34,639
And I mean, can you imagine one day if we
actually figured that out.

972
01:41:34,639 --> 01:41:39,849
One of the reasons we're on Harsis because
we found out there was water o n Mars and

973
01:41:39,849 --> 01:41:44,480
then it went away.
Maybe Mars had life at one point and maybe

974
01:41:44,480 --> 01:41:48,920
it's going to have life again. Rsh maybe that's
what's going to happen with earth.

975
01:41:48,920 --> 01:41:55,380
That's why they call it Rover Curiosity because
we're curious about all these things.

976
01:41:55,380 --> 01:42:02,340
I just want to let you know that we are here
to help you realize whatever dream that you

977
01:42:02,340 --> 01:42:07,829
have.
I want to talk to people who might not be

978
01:42:07,829 --> 01:42:15,619
interested in this notion 
of stem.

979
01:42:15,619 --> 01:42:18,480
It stands for science, technology, engineering,
and math.

980
01:42:18,480 --> 01:42:25,309
As you know, there are many science disciplines
rsh technology is about how you do things.

981
01:42:25,309 --> 01:42:29,039
Engineering, there's many disciplines, and
in maths we have a lot of disciplines.

982
01:42:29,039 --> 01:42:32,010
I want to let you know that it's not all about
Stem.

983
01:42:32,010 --> 01:42:36,809
For those of you who think those disciplines
are uninteresting.

984
01:42:36,809 --> 01:42:40,849
NASA hires about two or three hundred peoplal
every year.

985
01:42:40,849 --> 01:42:47,429
Most of those jobs are not, quote, stem jobs.
My message to you is if you're sitting out

986
01:42:47,429 --> 01:42:53,510
there and thinking I'm not going to able to
do NASA because I'm not a stem person.

987
01:42:53,510 --> 01:43:00,300
Then I want you to think that again because
we need accountants, we need writers, we need

988
01:43:00,300 --> 01:43:08,050
people who can speak, we need people who can
do art, we people who can buy things.

989
01:43:08,050 --> 01:43:10,210
There's a lot of different things that you
could do.

990
01:43:10,210 --> 01:43:20,390
The question is what is going to be your part
in our journey to Mars. I lover astronauts.

991
01:43:20,390 --> 01:43:23,540
Some astronauts are some of my best friends
but you know what?

992
01:43:23,540 --> 01:43:27,599
They sit at the top of a pyramid of a lot
of people.

993
01:43:27,599 --> 01:43:33,310
There are so many people that it took to get
Mr.\hHernandez into space that if they didn't

994
01:43:33,310 --> 01:43:38,190
have if he didn't have those people he would
be sitting here still dreaming about going

995
01:43:38,190 --> 01:43:41,380
to space.
Yes, he's rn an unusual person and he did

996
01:43:41,380 --> 01:43:48,079
an unusual thing, but it takes thens of thousands
of people in oorder to enable that.

997
01:43:48,079 --> 01:43:53,410
So maybe you can be a part of the journey
as well.

998
01:43:53,410 --> 01:43:58,340
I want to tell you a brief story about, uh,
and I want some things up here to share with

999
01:43:58,340 --> 01:44:07,260
you.
I was recently in GUADALARA Mexico.

1000
01:44:07,260 --> 01:44:15,330
Called the international astronautical congress.
Maybe one day one of the students would be

1001
01:44:15,330 --> 01:44:21,310
able to go there and the first thing, so this
is in a different country and even though

1002
01:44:21,310 --> 01:44:25,090
I've been to Mexico before I hadn't really
been to this part of the country.

1003
01:44:25,090 --> 01:44:36,530
The very first things I noted ows sd you have
to have a badge to get into this conference.

1004
01:44:36,530 --> 01:44:44,239
The first thing I noticed when I got our badge
is I don't know if you can see it, but there's

1005
01:44:44,239 --> 01:44:52,780
this beautiful colored laniard that was hand‑made
by somebody in Mexico for the thousands of

1006
01:44:52,780 --> 01:44:57,340
people that came.
And I just stared, I said that is just the

1007
01:44:57,340 --> 01:45:01,410
coolest thing.
And what it did for me is that it reminded

1008
01:45:01,410 --> 01:45:06,440
me in our humanity, there's people doing their
part.

1009
01:45:06,440 --> 01:45:13,090
I don't know who made this laniard for all
the people but somebody put this together

1010
01:45:13,090 --> 01:45:19,610
and they were doing their part to help all
of us who were at this congress feel special

1011
01:45:19,610 --> 01:45:26,780
I just thought this was really great.
And the other thing they had these backpacks.

1012
01:45:26,780 --> 01:45:32,199
Ordinarily you go to conferences you get a
standard backpack that has these logos of

1013
01:45:32,199 --> 01:45:35,449
all the companies that donated money and things
like that.

1014
01:45:35,449 --> 01:45:40,369
I thought this is just really cool.
Someone probably made that.

1015
01:45:40,369 --> 01:45:44,840
I went up and I said I would thriek have one
of these backpacks.

1016
01:45:44,840 --> 01:45:50,449
They said these are gist for the students,
not for the delegates.

1017
01:45:50,449 --> 01:45:57,280
I said I really want a backpack.
So just like Mr.\hHernandez says, perseverance

1018
01:45:57,280 --> 01:46:03,860
is really important.
I said I'm a student because I'm always learning,

1019
01:46:03,860 --> 01:46:08,000
nice try.
So I was standing in front of a group of student

1020
01:46:08,000 --> 01:46:16,190
and Id I want un one of these backpacks. You
have something that I really want.

1021
01:46:16,190 --> 01:46:18,949
You have a backpack.
And I think I have something that you really

1022
01:46:18,949 --> 01:46:26,260
want, I have money.
So maybe we can work something out.

1023
01:46:26,260 --> 01:46:31,510
It turns out I actually had some cool NASA
stuff.

1024
01:46:31,510 --> 01:46:37,580
So they really wanted some cool NASA stuff.
So I got a backpack.

1025
01:46:37,580 --> 01:46:39,699
So I have a question to any of the students
out there.

1026
01:46:39,699 --> 01:46:46,159
By any chance did anybody have a birthday
last Saturday, October\h1?

1027
01:46:46,159 --> 01:46:53,630
What about close?
When's your birthday, shout it out?

1028
01:46:53,630 --> 01:46:56,410
The what?
September\h30?

1029
01:46:56,410 --> 01:46:58,800
One day, all the.
All right.

1030
01:46:58,800 --> 01:47:05,449
Well, guess what, that's the day before October\h1,
which is actually NASA's birthday, and so

1031
01:47:05,449 --> 01:47:11,590
NASA turned 58 years old last Saturday which
means that you were born one day before NASA

1032
01:47:11,590 --> 01:47:15,429
so Congratulations.
When this is over you can have my backpack

1033
01:47:15,429 --> 01:47:30,150
from Mexico as my gift to you.
Let's talk about how you doo you get to NASA.

1034
01:47:30,150 --> 01:47:39,570
Intern.NASA.gov on the internet.
We mostly bring interns when you go to college

1035
01:47:39,570 --> 01:47:43,409
and graduate school.
Sometimes we do it for high school students.

1036
01:47:43,409 --> 01:47:49,460
But intern.NASA dot gov, that's how you can
lurp about getting internships.

1037
01:47:49,460 --> 01:47:55,210
We also do fellowships and scholarships when
you get up in age.

1038
01:47:55,210 --> 01:48:01,530
We do other programs and activities for those
of you that might be interested in going to

1039
01:48:01,530 --> 01:48:08,639
an Hispanic serving institution.
Simply defined as any institution of higher

1040
01:48:08,639 --> 01:48:14,480
education that has 25% of people of Hispanic
back grnd.

1041
01:48:14,480 --> 01:48:21,760
So NASA has special programs where we invest
in those universities, uh, to support, uh,

1042
01:48:21,760 --> 01:48:30,139
that activity.
So I want to close by telling you that if

1043
01:48:30,139 --> 01:48:36,320
you are interested in anything that we are
doing, we are here to help you do that.

1044
01:48:36,320 --> 01:48:42,860
You just need to ask the question, and ask
people how can I accomplish this.

1045
01:48:42,860 --> 01:48:45,420
This somewhat I'm interested in and how can
I accomplish this?

1046
01:48:45,420 --> 01:48:50,850
If they don't give you a good answer, come
to somebody else.

1047
01:48:50,850 --> 01:48:55,630
Hurry up, I'm getting old, one day I'm going
to leave.

1048
01:48:55,630 --> 01:49:00,590
That's why we need you because a lot of us
are getting old at NASA. If you look at the

1049
01:49:00,590 --> 01:49:05,840
average age of NASA during the height of the
Apollo program we were about 25 to 27.

1050
01:49:05,840 --> 01:49:11,989
Right now it's about 52.
So this bow wave of people that are flowing

1051
01:49:11,989 --> 01:49:17,420
through NASA and eventually we're all going
to end up in rocking chairs and we need somebody

1052
01:49:17,420 --> 01:49:22,760
to build the rockets to get us to go to Mars.
I'd actually like to see that before, what

1053
01:49:22,760 --> 01:49:26,440
did you say as you go to bed?
I like that.

1054
01:49:26,440 --> 01:49:30,039
When you don't ever wake up.
You know.

1055
01:49:30,039 --> 01:49:37,349
So, um,.
We really are about trying to insure this

1056
01:49:37,349 --> 01:49:47,989
country, this world can include people from
all walks of life to participate in this great

1057
01:49:47,989 --> 01:49:58,820
adventure we call space exploration.
The question is what role are you going to

1058
01:49:58,820 --> 01:50:06,260
play you don't have to be an astro noted you
don't have to be an engineer.

1059
01:50:06,260 --> 01:50:11,570
Back in the Apollo days if you were to walk
the halls of NASA and ask the person who was

1060
01:50:11,570 --> 01:50:16,980
the janitor what his or her job was they would
say ymple working to get a man to the moon

1061
01:50:16,980 --> 01:50:23,999
and bring him back safely.
That's what we're all about is a team on that.

1062
01:50:23,999 --> 01:50:30,840
I want to say a couple of things you've heard
today that I've thought about a lot this notion

1063
01:50:30,840 --> 01:50:35,020
of working hard and what does that actually
mean?

1064
01:50:35,020 --> 01:50:46,179
Sometimes what does it actually mean.
I would like to give you a suggestion.

1065
01:50:46,179 --> 01:50:51,260
I have a formula too.
Jose has formulas. We think in formulas at

1066
01:50:51,260 --> 01:50:54,719
NASA.
To me it really means what are the trade offs

1067
01:50:54,719 --> 01:51:00,150
you're willing to make in order for you to
get the thing that you want.

1068
01:51:00,150 --> 01:51:06,309
Because every minute, every day, you are making
choices. You chose to get up this morning,

1069
01:51:06,309 --> 01:51:09,690
you chose to go to school.
You chose to be here.

1070
01:51:09,690 --> 01:51:14,539
You may not think you had a choice, but you
really did have a choice.

1071
01:51:14,539 --> 01:51:22,179
Sometimes you make choices and there's consequences
for those choices so in many ways I think

1072
01:51:22,179 --> 01:51:27,019
when you talk about working hard, it's really
about what what sacrifices you're willing

1073
01:51:27,019 --> 01:51:35,560
to make.
Somebody says we're having a pool party and

1074
01:51:35,560 --> 01:51:42,539
you're thinking I didn't quite get that last
algebra problem, but that pool party sure

1075
01:51:42,539 --> 01:51:45,880
soinds really great.
Well, you have a choice.

1076
01:51:45,880 --> 01:51:50,090
Do you want to go to the pool party or do
you want to work on your algebra?

1077
01:51:50,090 --> 01:51:54,719
It's up to you decide at any given moment
what's really important for us\h‑ ‑\hfor

1078
01:51:54,719 --> 01:51:58,469
you.
I think in term of what sacrifices and trades

1079
01:51:58,469 --> 01:52:03,869
there are.
I'm really glad at the students that are here

1080
01:52:03,869 --> 01:52:11,230
and I hope that you really got a lot out of
our speakers and I thank you for being here.

1081
01:52:11,230 --> 01:52:15,599
NASA is here we have a model we're with you
when you learn.

1082
01:52:15,599 --> 01:52:22,550
Let us help you learn, and let us help you
grow, and be a part of our agency.

1083
01:52:22,550 --> 01:52:37,360
Thank you very much.
>> Thank you, Mr.\hJames.

1084
01:52:37,360 --> 01:52:41,059
Hello, everyone, I'm the Hispanic outreach
and leadership alliance coach here at NASA

1085
01:52:41,059 --> 01:52:45,780
headquarters and I want to thank everyone
for participating today.

1086
01:52:45,780 --> 01:52:50,409
Hispanic community is a very diverse, growing,
and proud community, and today we are very

1087
01:52:50,409 --> 01:52:54,750
proud of our two speakers, Diana and Jose
for everything you've accomplished and for

1088
01:52:54,750 --> 01:53:01,559
representing our community so very well.
We would like to present you with some gifts

1089
01:53:01,559 --> 01:53:15,829
to express our gratitude today.
For Ms.\hDiana the plaque reads for your exceptional

1090
01:53:15,829 --> 01:53:21,619
contribution to the participation in the Hispanic
outreach and leadership alliance, hola, celebration

1091
01:53:21,619 --> 01:53:29,340
of Hispanic heritage month at NASA headquarters,
October\h4.

1092
01:53:29,340 --> 01:53:48,829
Thank you so much.
And for Jose as well.

1093
01:53:48,829 --> 01:53:53,920
Same thing for your exceptional contribution
to and the participation in the Hispanic outreach

1094
01:53:53,920 --> 01:54:20,449
and leadership alliance celebration today.
>> The Hispanic community contributes to many

1095
01:54:20,449 --> 01:54:25,869
aspects of our daily lives and as you've learned
today our community has contributed greatly

1096
01:54:25,869 --> 01:54:31,829
to science exploration.
We are astronauts, doctors, program mission

1097
01:54:31,829 --> 01:54:38,510
leads, judges, attorneys, doctors, surgeons,
and we all contribute to this great nation

1098
01:54:38,510 --> 01:54:49,269
in a variety of different ways. The theme
of today was the ASPIRA with NASA and to reach

1099
01:54:49,269 --> 01:54:55,020
a little bit beyond NASA lks.
Today we're happy to have north western high

1100
01:54:55,020 --> 01:54:58,869
school and GRUNTSTON middle school here with
us today.

1101
01:54:58,869 --> 01:55:04,789
[APPLAUSE]
Make some noise.

1102
01:55:04,789 --> 01:55:07,719
Did you guys enjoy the program?
>> Yeah.

1103
01:55:07,719 --> 01:55:11,570
>> Are you ready to knock out them straight
A's?

1104
01:55:11,570 --> 01:55:20,840
>> Yes all right, the enthusiasm.
Preparation meets opportunity.

1105
01:55:20,840 --> 01:55:27,260
It remind us that in order for you to achieve
success you need to be prepared for those

1106
01:55:27,260 --> 01:55:31,420
opportunity that come your way.
And the way you can all start preparing right

1107
01:55:31,420 --> 01:55:36,570
now is by making sure you're working on all
your class work, studying hard and, and making

1108
01:55:36,570 --> 01:55:40,889
sure you're taking your education seriously.
We encourage you and challenge you to make

1109
01:55:40,889 --> 01:55:52,829
sure you're doing all those thing.
Dream big, stay foik focused we'd like to

1110
01:55:52,829 --> 01:55:59,040
thank several of our administration staff.
Mr.\hBolden for hi support, KRISTA Paquin,

1111
01:55:59,040 --> 01:56:09,520
Donald James, Cindy OLIVARES, the 
graphics team, NASA TV, HQ audio‑visual

1112
01:56:09,520 --> 01:56:16,659
team r the office of communications, and the
hola leadership board and all of the volunteers

1113
01:56:16,659 --> 01:56:24,559
that help put this program together.
So thank you so much for everyone today.

1114
01:56:24,559 --> 01:56:32,520
And on a personal side note you guys had a
lot of tremendous questions.

1115
01:56:32,520 --> 01:56:38,000
I've been in internal with the agency since
high school.

1116
01:56:38,000 --> 01:56:44,949
I went through college, finished college,
and I encourage you to go out there, do that

1117
01:56:44,949 --> 01:56:51,120
research, get that GPA polished, keep it at
least a 3, shoot for a 4, make sure you focus.