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These, these women, they transcended.

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Their genius transcended race and gender and

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they were able to achieve the

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extraordinary not just alone but with a

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unified front with a shared humanity

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with everyone at NASA. You know there

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were white women and men, everyone

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coming together to get our first

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Americans into space and finally, we're

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able to celebrate them and and we're

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going to see these nuanced brilliant

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minded women on screen and and no other

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young girl will not know about these young

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these women these extraordinarily gifted women.

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You know honestly when I started working on

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this book

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six years ago I had no idea that this is

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what it would turn into, but you know

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the excitement, all the people, there you know

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families of the women here tonight.

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So it's an amazing experience and super

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thrilled to be here.

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I have never, in all of the time that we've explored anything

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about the space race we've only seen

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footage or heard of the contributions

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made by men and so it was a little

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disheartening at first but then you know

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the light came on and we realized that

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we have the opportunity to be part of

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something greater than ourselves just

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like these women.

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It's again one of these things where a legacy was

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generated and now is coming to let

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everyone see the works of Katherine

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Johnson and the team and NASA Langley.

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I had the fortune of working there with

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her and it was just an incredible

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journey of grit, determination and

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perseverance to get us to the moon and

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back and when you think about those types of

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things we can do with our brains to let

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other kids see these types of things can

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be done by anyone.

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It's great! It's been a story that we felt for a while but we're

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celebrating our women pioneers, our

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African-American computers

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couldn't be happier.

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Yeah, It's so important for the country

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that we know the truth that all of us

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have always been amazing forever and the

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NASA team is of course made up of men

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and women people from across our country

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all parts, all geographies, all races. You

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know we got talent everywhere.

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One of the most crucial points of this story

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that I hope everyone takes away is the

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culmination of events and people that

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have to come together to do something as

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amazing as sending John Glenn into orbit,

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is the lesson I think to take forward in

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our own lives now in that you know when

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we don't let certain societal norms or

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barrier stand in the way of who we join

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with to work on certain things together

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the results can truly be

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out-of-this-world.

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And to be a part of re-implementing this back into our

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history is very important

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I think we all felt a sense of

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responsibility to get it right.

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You're talking about heroes and