1 00:00:06,005 --> 00:00:10,510 >>> OKAY, FIRE FLY, ROLL CAMERA. 2 00:00:10,510 --> 00:00:16,182 THIS IS V-LOG ENTRY 184 AT IN 3 00:00:16,182 --> 00:00:18,218 ADDITION MISSION ELAPSED TIME. 4 00:00:18,218 --> 00:00:22,856 IN THREE, TWO, ONE. 5 00:00:22,856 --> 00:00:24,791 GREETINGS TO EVERYONE BACK ON 6 00:00:24,791 --> 00:00:27,460 EARTH, MARS, AND LUNAR BASE 7 00:00:27,460 --> 00:00:27,694 ALDRIN. 8 00:00:27,694 --> 00:00:31,197 WE'RE 30 DAYS OUT FROM OUR 9 00:00:31,197 --> 00:00:33,299 PRIMARY OBJECTIVE, SATURN'S ICY 10 00:00:33,299 --> 00:00:34,601 MOON AND THE VIEW IS -- WELL, 11 00:00:34,601 --> 00:00:35,869 THE VIEW IS INCREDIBLE. 12 00:00:35,869 --> 00:00:40,507 TAKE A LOOK. 13 00:00:40,507 --> 00:00:42,275 I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU. 14 00:00:42,275 --> 00:00:44,344 IT WAS A LONG 712 DAYS AGO WHEN 15 00:00:44,344 --> 00:00:46,780 OUR CREW BEGAN THIS VOYAGE TO 16 00:00:46,780 --> 00:00:47,647 ANOTHER WORLD. 17 00:00:47,647 --> 00:00:52,385 WE FIRST TOOK SPACE ELEVATOR 18 00:00:52,385 --> 00:00:54,254 ASMA UP PAST THE MOON TO OUR 19 00:00:54,254 --> 00:00:55,155 SHIP, SATURN 1. 20 00:00:55,155 --> 00:00:57,023 FROM THERE, WE LEFT ON A 21 00:00:57,023 --> 00:00:58,625 TWO-YEAR JOURNEY TO WHAT I THINK 22 00:00:58,625 --> 00:01:02,462 IS THE COOLEST PLANET IN OUR 23 00:01:02,462 --> 00:01:03,596 SOLAR SYSTEM. 24 00:01:03,596 --> 00:01:06,366 152 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, 25 00:01:06,366 --> 00:01:09,035 RUSSIAN YURI BECAME THE FIRST 26 00:01:09,035 --> 00:01:10,837 HUMAN TO ORBIT THE EARTH, 27 00:01:10,837 --> 00:01:13,006 FOLLOWED SOON BY AMERICA'S 28 00:01:13,006 --> 00:01:18,378 MERCURY ASTRONAUTS IN THE EARLY 29 00:01:18,378 --> 00:01:19,412 1960s. 30 00:01:19,412 --> 00:01:21,848 ARMSTRONG, ALDRIN, AND TEN 31 00:01:21,848 --> 00:01:23,616 OTHERS STEPPED ON TO THE LUNAR 32 00:01:23,616 --> 00:01:24,317 SURFACE. 33 00:01:24,317 --> 00:01:27,454 SINCE THOSE EARLY DAYS, SPACE 34 00:01:27,454 --> 00:01:29,189 TRAVEL HAS BECOME TRULY 35 00:01:29,189 --> 00:01:29,622 INTERNATIONAL, BEGINNING WITH 36 00:01:29,622 --> 00:01:31,224 THE SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM IN THE 37 00:01:31,224 --> 00:01:32,158 1980s. 38 00:01:32,158 --> 00:01:34,527 FOR NEARLY FOUR DECADES, THE 39 00:01:34,527 --> 00:01:35,995 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION WAS 40 00:01:35,995 --> 00:01:38,531 OCCUPIED BY CREWS FROM AROUND 41 00:01:38,531 --> 00:01:39,299 THE WORLD. 42 00:01:39,299 --> 00:01:42,669 IN THE 2020s, WE AGAIN VENTURED 43 00:01:42,669 --> 00:01:44,771 BEYOND LOW EARTH ORBIT, FIRST 44 00:01:44,771 --> 00:01:48,775 BACK TO THE MOON THEN TO MARS. 45 00:01:48,775 --> 00:01:50,877 WE CONTINUED TO SEND BOTH 46 00:01:50,877 --> 00:01:54,080 ROBOTIC AND CREWED FLIGHTS, EVEN 47 00:01:54,080 --> 00:02:01,955 FARTHER INTO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. 48 00:02:01,955 --> 00:02:09,696 ♪♪ 49 00:02:09,696 --> 00:02:12,866 AS WE WAIT FOR THE DOWN LINK 50 00:02:12,866 --> 00:02:14,968 FROM THE CELEDUS, LET'S TAKE A 51 00:02:14,968 --> 00:02:16,469 LOOK AT THE GRAVITY ASSIST 52 00:02:16,469 --> 00:02:18,705 SLINGSHOT THAT BOOSTED CURRENT 53 00:02:18,705 --> 00:02:20,607 1'S SPEED ON ITS JUPITER FLY BY. 54 00:02:20,607 --> 00:02:22,275 BY THE TIME YOU SEE THIS, THE 55 00:02:22,275 --> 00:02:24,410 CREW OF THE SATURN 1 LANDER WILL 56 00:02:24,410 --> 00:02:29,749 BE MAKING THEIR FINAL DESCENT TO 57 00:02:29,749 --> 00:02:31,417 THE SURFACE. 58 00:02:31,417 --> 00:02:32,185 THIS IS IT. 59 00:02:32,185 --> 00:02:35,054 WHAT WILL WE FIND WHEN THE CREW 60 00:02:35,054 --> 00:02:35,388 LANDS? 61 00:02:35,388 --> 00:02:39,025 WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT FROM THE 62 00:02:39,025 --> 00:02:39,859 CREW'S FIRST STEPS ON TO THE 63 00:02:39,859 --> 00:02:41,394 SURFACE WILL COME SPECTACULAR 64 00:02:41,394 --> 00:02:44,631 IMAGES, UNEXPECTED ANSWERS, AND 65 00:02:44,631 --> 00:02:46,199 INFINITE QUESTIONS SPARKED BY 66 00:02:46,199 --> 00:02:47,100 THE UNQUENCHABLE HUMAN THIRST TO 67 00:02:47,100 --> 00:03:00,013 EXPLORE. 68 00:03:00,013 --> 00:03:02,382 >>> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE 69 00:03:02,382 --> 00:03:03,349 WELCOME THE CHAIRMAN OF THE 70 00:03:03,349 --> 00:03:05,485 RNASA FOUNDATION, MR. RODOLFO 71 00:03:05,485 --> 00:03:08,855 GONZALEZ. 72 00:03:08,855 --> 00:03:10,690 >> GOOD EVENING, LADIES AND 73 00:03:10,690 --> 00:03:10,990 GENTLEMEN. 74 00:03:10,990 --> 00:03:13,459 ON BEHALF OF THE ROTARY 75 00:03:13,459 --> 00:03:14,494 INTERNATIONAL SPACE CENTER 76 00:03:14,494 --> 00:03:16,129 ROTARY CLUB AND THE ROTARY 77 00:03:16,129 --> 00:03:17,330 NATIONAL AWARD FOR SPACE 78 00:03:17,330 --> 00:03:18,531 ACHIEVEMENT FOUNDATION, IT IS MY 79 00:03:18,531 --> 00:03:20,300 GREAT PLEASURE TO WELCOME YOU TO 80 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:25,705 OUR 31st ANNUAL SPACE AWARDS 81 00:03:25,705 --> 00:03:27,440 GALA. 82 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:28,074 AT THIS MOMENT, I'D LIKE TO TAKE 83 00:03:28,074 --> 00:03:29,876 A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FRIENDS 84 00:03:29,876 --> 00:03:31,177 AT THE SPACE FOUNDATION FOR THAT 85 00:03:31,177 --> 00:03:32,312 EXCITING TRAILER THAT YOU JUST 86 00:03:32,312 --> 00:03:35,114 SAW BY OUR VERY OWN SPACE CITY 87 00:03:35,114 --> 00:03:36,015 FILMS. 88 00:03:36,015 --> 00:03:40,253 [ APPLAUSE ] 89 00:03:40,253 --> 00:03:41,721 THAT COMING ATTRACTIONS TRAILER 90 00:03:41,721 --> 00:03:44,724 IS FOR AN UPCOMING GIANT SCREEN 91 00:03:44,724 --> 00:03:46,326 FORMAT FILM, VOYAGE TO ANOTHER 92 00:03:46,326 --> 00:03:48,294 WORLD, NOW IN PREPRODUCTION. 93 00:03:48,294 --> 00:03:50,129 THIS YEAR, WE CELEBRATE TO HONOR 94 00:03:50,129 --> 00:03:53,933 THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF DR. JOHN 95 00:03:53,933 --> 00:03:56,235 MACE GRUNSFELD, ROB NAVIAS, AND 96 00:03:56,235 --> 00:03:58,972 ALL THE 2017 STELLARS. 97 00:03:58,972 --> 00:04:01,274 THE RNASA FOUNDATION RECOGNIZES 98 00:04:01,274 --> 00:04:03,042 ACHIEVEMENTS OF SPACE ACROSS THE 99 00:04:03,042 --> 00:04:04,911 ENTIRE NATION AND ACROSS ALL 100 00:04:04,911 --> 00:04:06,245 SECTORS AND WE ARE INCREDIBLY 101 00:04:06,245 --> 00:04:07,847 HONORED TO HAVE SO MANY VISITORS 102 00:04:07,847 --> 00:04:08,915 FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY HERE 103 00:04:08,915 --> 00:04:10,850 WITH US TONIGHT. 104 00:04:10,850 --> 00:04:13,252 NOW, I'D LIKE TO ASK EVERYONE TO 105 00:04:13,252 --> 00:04:16,255 PLEASE RISE AND RECEIVE THE 106 00:04:16,255 --> 00:04:17,357 CLEAR BROOK HIGH SCHOOL ARMY 107 00:04:17,357 --> 00:04:21,027 JUNIOR ROTC COLOR GUARD, 108 00:04:21,027 --> 00:04:27,634 FOLLOWED BY ERIN BURTON, EVA CUR 109 00:04:27,634 --> 00:04:31,471 CHON, MATILDA AND TALIA WITH THE 110 00:04:31,471 --> 00:04:34,040 PERFORMING VISUAL ARTS GIRLS 111 00:04:34,040 --> 00:05:16,749 CHORUS WITH THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. 112 00:05:16,749 --> 00:05:19,052 ♪ O SAY CAN YOU SEE BY THE 113 00:05:19,052 --> 00:05:20,920 DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT ♪ 114 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:24,691 ♪ WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILED AT 115 00:05:24,691 --> 00:05:31,230 THE TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING ♪ 116 00:05:31,230 --> 00:05:35,435 ♪ WHOSE BROAD STRIPES AND BRIGHT 117 00:05:35,435 --> 00:05:42,642 STARS THROUGH THE PERILOUS FIGHT 118 00:05:42,642 --> 00:05:45,078 O'ER THE RAM PARTS WE WATCHED 119 00:05:45,078 --> 00:05:50,149 WERE SO GALLANTLY STREAMING ♪ 120 00:05:50,149 --> 00:05:52,518 ♪ AND THE ROCKET'S RED GLARE, 121 00:05:52,518 --> 00:06:00,226 THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR GAVE 122 00:06:00,226 --> 00:06:01,561 PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHT THAT OUR 123 00:06:01,561 --> 00:06:08,434 FLAG WAS STILL THERE ♪ 124 00:06:08,434 --> 00:06:14,373 ♪ O SAY, DOES THAT STAR SPANGLED 125 00:06:14,373 --> 00:06:22,782 BANNER YET WAVE O'ER THE LAND OF 126 00:06:22,782 --> 00:06:31,390 THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE 127 00:06:31,390 --> 00:06:33,760 BRAVE ♪♪ 128 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:58,818 [ APPLAUSE ] 129 00:06:58,818 --> 00:07:00,753 >> WONDERFUL JOB, LADIES. 130 00:07:00,753 --> 00:07:02,221 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 131 00:07:02,221 --> 00:07:06,092 PLEASE BE SEATED. 132 00:07:06,092 --> 00:07:08,194 I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO 133 00:07:08,194 --> 00:07:09,962 RECOGNIZE A FEW PEOPLE IN THE 134 00:07:09,962 --> 00:07:12,698 AUDIENCE, STARTING WITH THE 135 00:07:12,698 --> 00:07:14,133 PREVIOUS NATIONAL SPACE TROPHY 136 00:07:14,133 --> 00:07:14,300 WINNERS. 137 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:15,968 YOU'LL FIND A COMPLETE LISTING 138 00:07:15,968 --> 00:07:19,372 OF THEM IN YOUR PROGRAM BOOK. 139 00:07:19,372 --> 00:07:20,039 IF I COULD HAVE THE HOUSE 140 00:07:20,039 --> 00:07:21,474 LIGHTS, PLEASE, MARCUS. 141 00:07:21,474 --> 00:07:24,911 AS I CALL OUT THE PREVIOUS 142 00:07:24,911 --> 00:07:25,478 NATIONAL SPACE TROPHY WINNERS 143 00:07:25,478 --> 00:07:27,113 HERE TONIGHT, I ASK THAT THEY 144 00:07:27,113 --> 00:07:31,851 PLEASE RISE AND REMAIN STANDING 145 00:07:31,851 --> 00:07:32,718 WHILE THEY ARE ACKNOWLEDGED. 146 00:07:32,718 --> 00:07:37,590 PLEASE HELP ME WELCOME FROM 2015 147 00:07:37,590 --> 00:07:40,459 COLONEL ROBERT CABANA. 148 00:07:40,459 --> 00:07:46,899 2009, DR. MICHAEL GRIFFIN. 149 00:07:46,899 --> 00:07:50,570 2006, COLONEL EILEEN COLLINS. 150 00:07:50,570 --> 00:07:56,175 2005, DR. GLENN LUNNY. 151 00:07:56,175 --> 00:07:56,909 2001, MR. TOMMY HOLLOWAY. 152 00:07:56,909 --> 00:07:58,377 AND FROM 1993, LIEUTENANT 153 00:07:58,377 --> 00:08:10,756 GENERAL THOMAS STAFFORD. 154 00:08:10,756 --> 00:08:12,592 NOW, I WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE 155 00:08:12,592 --> 00:08:17,230 ALL THE BOARD OF ADVISORS. 156 00:08:17,230 --> 00:08:17,697 SPACE INDUSTRY FROM ACROSS THE 157 00:08:17,697 --> 00:08:19,465 COUNTRY THAT VOTE ANNUALLY ON 158 00:08:19,465 --> 00:08:20,466 THE NATIONAL SPACE TROPHY 159 00:08:20,466 --> 00:08:20,633 WINNER. 160 00:08:20,633 --> 00:08:22,268 A COMPLETE LISTING OF THEM CAN 161 00:08:22,268 --> 00:08:24,937 ALSO BE SEEN IN YOUR PROGRAM 162 00:08:24,937 --> 00:08:26,172 BOOK, AND YOU MIGHT NOTICE THEM 163 00:08:26,172 --> 00:08:28,174 WEARING A RED RIBBON TONIGHT. 164 00:08:28,174 --> 00:08:30,743 PREVIOUS NATIONAL SPACE TROPHY 165 00:08:30,743 --> 00:08:35,281 WINNERS JOIN THIS ILLUSTRIOUS 166 00:08:35,281 --> 00:08:36,649 GROUP OF PEOPLE AND WE'RE VERY 167 00:08:36,649 --> 00:08:38,150 GRATEFUL TO HAVE THEM HERE 168 00:08:38,150 --> 00:08:38,451 TONIGHT. 169 00:08:38,451 --> 00:08:40,186 I'D LIKE TO ASK ALL OUR ADVISORY 170 00:08:40,186 --> 00:08:40,386 MEMBERS TO KINDLY STAND AND BE 171 00:08:40,386 --> 00:08:44,257 RECOGNIZED. 172 00:08:44,257 --> 00:08:57,336 [ APPLAUSE ] 173 00:08:57,336 --> 00:08:58,371 THE RNASA FOUNDATION WAS 174 00:08:58,371 --> 00:09:00,039 ESTABLISHED BY THE SPACE CENTER 175 00:09:00,039 --> 00:09:04,143 ROTARY CLUB IN 1985. 176 00:09:04,143 --> 00:09:06,579 HOLDING ITS FIRST GALA IN 1987. 177 00:09:06,579 --> 00:09:08,547 WITH THIS YEAR MARKING OUR 31st 178 00:09:08,547 --> 00:09:10,049 ANNUAL EVENT. 179 00:09:10,049 --> 00:09:11,550 WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF OUR 180 00:09:11,550 --> 00:09:13,152 SPONSORS, THIS EVENT CONTINUES 181 00:09:13,152 --> 00:09:17,723 TO BE COORDINATED LARGELY BY 182 00:09:17,723 --> 00:09:18,057 ROETARIANS. 183 00:09:18,057 --> 00:09:19,191 THE SPACE CENTER ROTARY CLUB IS 184 00:09:19,191 --> 00:09:21,427 ONE OF MANY ROTARY CLUBS IN 185 00:09:21,427 --> 00:09:23,162 DISTRICT 5890 AND TONIGHT WE'RE 186 00:09:23,162 --> 00:09:25,097 VERY PLEASED TO BE JOINED BY THE 187 00:09:25,097 --> 00:09:27,333 ROTARY DISTRICT GOVERNOR, DR. 188 00:09:27,333 --> 00:09:36,108 ERIC LIU. 189 00:09:36,108 --> 00:09:38,110 OUR GOAL HERE, REALLY, IS THAT 190 00:09:38,110 --> 00:09:40,079 EVERYONE HERE FEELS LIKE A 191 00:09:40,079 --> 00:09:41,013 DISTINGUISHED GUEST AND THE 192 00:09:41,013 --> 00:09:43,382 FOUNDATION WHOLEHEARTEDLY 193 00:09:43,382 --> 00:09:44,083 WELCOMES YOU. 194 00:09:44,083 --> 00:09:46,419 AND SINCERELY HOPES YOU ENJOY 195 00:09:46,419 --> 00:09:48,487 THIS VERY SPECIAL EVENING. 196 00:09:48,487 --> 00:09:49,689 NOW, REVERENT MADELLA WILLIAMS, 197 00:09:49,689 --> 00:09:53,559 SENIOR PASTOR OF THE TAYLOR LAKE 198 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:57,330 CHRISTIAN CHURCH, WILL GIVE THE 199 00:09:57,330 --> 00:10:02,368 INVOCATION. 200 00:10:02,368 --> 00:10:03,102 >> WILL YOU PLEASE BOW YOUR 201 00:10:03,102 --> 00:10:06,372 HEADS WITH ME. 202 00:10:06,372 --> 00:10:10,543 LET US PRAY SILENTLY TOGETHER, 203 00:10:10,543 --> 00:10:13,079 EACH OF US ACCORDING TO OUR 204 00:10:13,079 --> 00:10:14,280 INDIVIDUAL BELIEFS. 205 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:15,815 CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, 206 00:10:15,815 --> 00:10:19,518 ALMIGHTY AND AWESOME GOD, 207 00:10:19,518 --> 00:10:22,188 ADONAI, ALLAH, ARCHITECT OF 208 00:10:22,188 --> 00:10:23,756 BEING, IN THIS CIRCLE OF 209 00:10:23,756 --> 00:10:26,659 FRIENDS, WE ARE BLESSED BY YOUR 210 00:10:26,659 --> 00:10:29,061 PRESENCE, GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF 211 00:10:29,061 --> 00:10:31,130 YOUR GIFTS TO US AS WE GATHER 212 00:10:31,130 --> 00:10:32,698 HERE THIS EVENING. 213 00:10:32,698 --> 00:10:34,667 LET US GIVE GRATITUDE FOR OUR 214 00:10:34,667 --> 00:10:36,669 OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE ROTARY SO 215 00:10:36,669 --> 00:10:38,904 WE MIGHT BE A GIFT TO THE WORLD 216 00:10:38,904 --> 00:10:40,673 SERVING HUMANITY. 217 00:10:40,673 --> 00:10:43,943 LET US BE A SOURCE OF HOPE FOR 218 00:10:43,943 --> 00:10:45,077 THOSE IN NEED. 219 00:10:45,077 --> 00:10:47,179 WITH OUR FRIENDS BESIDE US AND 220 00:10:47,179 --> 00:10:49,782 THE BONDS OF ROTARY BETWEEN US, 221 00:10:49,782 --> 00:10:52,284 WITH OUR GOALS BEFORE US AND OUR 222 00:10:52,284 --> 00:10:55,321 DREAMS AHEAD OF US, MAY THE 223 00:10:55,321 --> 00:10:57,089 FEELINGS OF LOVE, KINDNESS, AND 224 00:10:57,089 --> 00:11:00,459 A WELL-DIRECTED GENTLE SPIRIT 225 00:11:00,459 --> 00:11:03,496 ALWAYS BE REFLECTED IN OUR 226 00:11:03,496 --> 00:11:03,863 ACTIONS. 227 00:11:03,863 --> 00:11:04,997 FOR THE FELLOWSHIP AND 228 00:11:04,997 --> 00:11:07,099 FRIENDSHIP THAT FEEDS OUR SOULS 229 00:11:07,099 --> 00:11:08,501 AND FOR THE MEAL THAT WE ARE 230 00:11:08,501 --> 00:11:10,436 ABOUT TO SHARE THAT NOURISHES 231 00:11:10,436 --> 00:11:11,871 OUR BODIES, WE GIVE THANKS. 232 00:11:14,106 --> 00:11:12,838 AMEN. 233 00:11:14,106 --> 00:11:19,845 THANK YOU, MADELLA. 234 00:11:19,845 --> 00:11:21,080 WELL, I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT 235 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:21,480 TONIGHT'S PROGRAM. 236 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,518 I'M EXCITED ABOUT HONORING DR. 237 00:11:25,518 --> 00:11:28,287 GRUNSFELD, MR. NAVIAS, THE 238 00:11:28,287 --> 00:11:28,421 STELLAR HONOREES. 239 00:11:28,421 --> 00:11:29,488 I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE WONDERFUL 240 00:11:29,488 --> 00:11:32,124 PEOPLE HERE TO PRESENT THOSE 241 00:11:32,124 --> 00:11:35,828 AWARDS AND WE'RE PLEASED TO 242 00:11:35,828 --> 00:11:36,228 WELCOME BACK MILES O'BRIEN AS 243 00:11:36,228 --> 00:11:37,630 OUR MASTER OF CEREMONIES. 244 00:11:37,630 --> 00:11:38,964 TONIGHT'S EVENT IS BEING 245 00:11:38,964 --> 00:11:41,500 RECORDED LIVE AND WILL BE 246 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:42,101 BROADCAST NEXT WEEK. 247 00:11:42,101 --> 00:11:43,269 THE PROGRAM WILL AIR ON TUESDAY 248 00:11:43,269 --> 00:11:46,005 MAY 2 AT 3:00 P.M. AND 7:00 P.M. 249 00:11:46,005 --> 00:11:47,606 CENTRAL, SO BE SURE TO TELL YOUR 250 00:11:47,606 --> 00:11:49,341 FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND COWORKERS 251 00:11:49,341 --> 00:11:53,479 AND REMEMBER TO SET THE DVRs. 252 00:11:53,479 --> 00:11:55,347 THE RNASA FOUNDATION'S MISSION 253 00:11:55,347 --> 00:12:00,119 IS TO ENCOURAGE, RECOGNIZE, 254 00:12:00,119 --> 00:12:02,388 HONOR, AND CELEBRATE U.S. SPACE 255 00:12:02,388 --> 00:12:02,588 ACHIEVEMENT. 256 00:12:02,588 --> 00:12:04,690 AND THE MEMBERS OF THE 257 00:12:04,690 --> 00:12:06,492 FOUNDATION TRULY APPRECIATE THE 258 00:12:06,492 --> 00:12:07,760 ENORMITY OF WORK THAT TONIGHT'S 259 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:09,261 AUDIENCE REPRESENTS. 260 00:12:09,261 --> 00:12:11,931 SO, LET ME LEAVE YOU WITH MY 261 00:12:11,931 --> 00:12:13,599 SINCEREST WISH TO PLEASE ENJOY 262 00:12:13,599 --> 00:12:18,170 YOUR EVENING, ENJOY YOUR MEAL, 263 00:12:18,170 --> 00:12:21,307 ENJOY YOUR COMPANY. 264 00:12:21,307 --> 00:12:27,213 CHEERS. 265 00:12:27,213 --> 00:12:28,247 >> WITH THE INVENTION OF THE 266 00:12:28,247 --> 00:12:29,548 TELESCOPE IN THE 17th CENTURY, 267 00:12:29,548 --> 00:12:30,749 HUMANS WERE FINALLY ABLE TO SEE 268 00:12:30,749 --> 00:12:33,486 A MAGNIFIED VIEW OF THE INFINITE 269 00:12:33,486 --> 00:12:35,421 SPACE ABOVE OUR PLANET. 270 00:12:35,421 --> 00:12:38,257 IN THAT SPACE, WE SAW THE 271 00:12:38,257 --> 00:12:39,792 COLOSSAL PLANETS AND MOONS OF 272 00:12:39,792 --> 00:12:42,027 OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. 273 00:12:42,027 --> 00:12:44,897 THE DAZZLING PALETTES OF NEBULA 274 00:12:44,897 --> 00:12:46,899 AND DISTANT GALAXIES AND THE 275 00:12:46,899 --> 00:12:49,068 DARKNESS OF THE UNKNOWN. 276 00:12:49,068 --> 00:12:52,037 BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE SAW 277 00:12:52,037 --> 00:12:58,244 POTENTIAL. 278 00:12:58,244 --> 00:13:00,045 AS OUR FIRST AND ONLY TRUE HOME 279 00:13:00,045 --> 00:13:03,048 AWAY FROM HOME, THE 280 00:13:03,048 --> 00:13:04,250 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AS 281 00:13:04,250 --> 00:13:07,286 BECOME THE ESSENTIAL HUB FOR 282 00:13:07,286 --> 00:13:08,521 MULTIDISCIPLINE SCIENTIFIC 283 00:13:08,521 --> 00:13:10,890 RESEARCH IN SPACE. 284 00:13:10,890 --> 00:13:11,657 TO FURTHER OUR UNDERSTANDING OF 285 00:13:11,657 --> 00:13:14,226 THE EFFECTS OF LONG DURATION 286 00:13:14,226 --> 00:13:16,996 SPACE FLIGHT ON THE HUMAN BODY, 287 00:13:16,996 --> 00:13:28,807 ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY AND 288 00:13:28,807 --> 00:13:33,546 COSMONAU T MIKAIL SPENT TIME ON 289 00:13:33,546 --> 00:13:34,380 THE SPACE STATION. 290 00:13:34,380 --> 00:13:37,483 THE ISS IS CONTINUOUSLY OCCUPIED 291 00:13:37,483 --> 00:13:40,152 BY AN ALTERNATING INTERNATIONAL 292 00:13:40,152 --> 00:13:42,121 TEAM OF PILOTS, COMMANDERS AND 293 00:13:42,121 --> 00:13:43,589 SPECIALISTS WHOSE WORK ON 294 00:13:43,589 --> 00:13:45,724 STATION THIS YEAR INCLUDED THE 295 00:13:45,724 --> 00:13:47,393 SEQUENCING OF MORE THAN 1 296 00:13:47,393 --> 00:13:50,563 BILLION BASE PAIRS OF DNA, 297 00:13:50,563 --> 00:13:52,631 ADVANCED FIRE SUPPRESSION 298 00:13:52,631 --> 00:13:53,399 EXPERIMENTATION, AND SEVERAL 299 00:13:53,399 --> 00:13:55,000 HARDWARE UPGRADES. 300 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,203 ONE SUCH UPGRADE WAS THE 301 00:13:57,203 --> 00:13:58,671 INTERNATIONAL DOCKING ADAPTER, 302 00:13:58,671 --> 00:14:01,173 WHICH ENABLES FUTURE CREWS TO 303 00:14:01,173 --> 00:14:05,144 ARRIVE VIA BOEING CST 1000 304 00:14:05,144 --> 00:14:07,780 STARLIGHTER AND SPACEX'S CREWED 305 00:14:07,780 --> 00:14:09,949 DRAGON SPACECRAFT. 306 00:14:09,949 --> 00:14:12,218 AS AMERICAN COMMERCIAL CREW 307 00:14:12,218 --> 00:14:13,152 SPACECRAFTS CONTINUE DEVELOPMENT 308 00:14:13,152 --> 00:14:17,790 AND GROW EVER CLOSER TO 309 00:14:17,790 --> 00:14:19,458 READINESS, SO YOU REMAINS THE 310 00:14:19,458 --> 00:14:20,960 SINGULAR METHOD FOR EXPEDITION 311 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:21,927 CREW CHANGE. 312 00:14:21,927 --> 00:14:23,963 IN ADDITION TO SIX CREWED 313 00:14:23,963 --> 00:14:26,065 ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES, SEVERAL 314 00:14:26,065 --> 00:14:26,832 UNCREWED AGENCY AND COMMERCIAL 315 00:14:26,832 --> 00:14:29,868 FLIGHTS DELIVERED AND RETURNED 316 00:14:29,868 --> 00:14:31,270 CARGO, SUPPLIES, AND EXPERIMENTS 317 00:14:31,270 --> 00:14:32,905 TO THE STATION THROUGHOUT THE 318 00:14:32,905 --> 00:14:33,405 YEAR. 319 00:14:33,405 --> 00:14:36,709 THE JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION 320 00:14:36,709 --> 00:14:41,513 AGENCY OR JAXA SUCCESSFULLY 321 00:14:41,513 --> 00:14:43,616 DELIVERED SIX TONS OF CARGO WITH 322 00:14:43,616 --> 00:14:45,818 THE H2 TRANSFER VEHICLE. 323 00:14:45,818 --> 00:14:48,854 SPACEX DRAGON CAPSULE DELIVERED 324 00:14:48,854 --> 00:14:51,257 THE BIGELOW EXPANDABLE MODULE IN 325 00:14:51,257 --> 00:14:53,392 APRIL WHICH WAS SUBSEQUENTLY 326 00:14:53,392 --> 00:14:57,630 INSTALLED AND INFLATED. 327 00:14:57,630 --> 00:14:59,832 BEAM IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING AIR 328 00:14:59,832 --> 00:15:01,834 QUALITY CHECKS, TESTING AND 329 00:15:01,834 --> 00:15:02,101 MONITORING. 330 00:15:02,101 --> 00:15:04,470 IN A HALLMARK RETURN TO FLIGHT, 331 00:15:04,470 --> 00:15:08,474 ORBITAL ATK ONCE AGAIN LAUNCHED 332 00:15:08,474 --> 00:15:12,544 THE CAPSULE ATOP THE ANTARES 333 00:15:12,544 --> 00:15:13,712 ROCKET, CARRYING SUPPLIES AND 334 00:15:13,712 --> 00:15:16,849 EXPERIMENTS TO THE ISS. 335 00:15:16,849 --> 00:15:19,351 SPACEX'S DRAGON CARGO CAPSULE 336 00:15:19,351 --> 00:15:21,120 VISITED THE STATION THREE MORE 337 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,422 TIMES, ALSO DELIVERING NECESSARY 338 00:15:23,422 --> 00:15:26,558 SUPPLIES AND EXPERIMENTS. 339 00:15:26,558 --> 00:15:28,994 ADDITIONALLY, THE FALCON 9 FIRST 340 00:15:28,994 --> 00:15:29,962 STAGE ACHIEVED ITS FIRST EVER 341 00:15:29,962 --> 00:15:33,165 LANDING OF A DRONE SHIP TS I 342 00:15:33,165 --> 00:15:34,767 STILL LOVE YOU IN APRIL, 343 00:15:34,767 --> 00:15:36,902 FOLLOWED BY FIVE ADDITIONAL 344 00:15:36,902 --> 00:15:38,871 SUCCESSFUL LANDINGS. 345 00:15:38,871 --> 00:15:41,307 ONE OF THOSE ADDITIONAL LANDINGS 346 00:15:41,307 --> 00:15:42,841 ACHIEVED ANOTHER MILESTONE WHEN 347 00:15:42,841 --> 00:15:44,910 THE FIRST STAGE WAS REUSED TO 348 00:15:44,910 --> 00:15:46,178 LAUNCH A COMMUNICATIONS 349 00:15:46,178 --> 00:15:49,081 SATELLITE IN MARCH. 350 00:15:49,081 --> 00:15:51,850 BLUE ORIGIN'S NEW SHEPARD CAP 351 00:15:51,850 --> 00:15:55,454 SHUL ACED ITS FIRST INFLIGHT 352 00:15:55,454 --> 00:15:57,723 ESCAPE TEST, VERIFYING EARLIER 353 00:15:57,723 --> 00:15:58,691 FLIGHT TESTS. 354 00:15:58,691 --> 00:16:01,694 THE SAME TEST SAW THE FIFTH 355 00:16:01,694 --> 00:16:02,861 AUTONOMOUS VERTICAL LANDING OF 356 00:16:02,861 --> 00:16:09,001 THE NEW SHEPARD FIRST STAGE 357 00:16:09,001 --> 00:16:09,435 BOOSTER. 358 00:16:09,435 --> 00:16:11,303 BURTON GALACTIC SPACESHIP TWO 359 00:16:11,303 --> 00:16:12,638 RETURNED IN DECEMBER, AS 360 00:16:12,638 --> 00:16:13,772 PREPARATION FOR FURTHER POWERED 361 00:16:13,772 --> 00:16:15,607 FLIGHTS LATER THIS YEAR. 362 00:16:15,607 --> 00:16:20,346 ♪♪ 363 00:16:20,346 --> 00:16:22,848 THE ORION PROGRAM CONTINUED 364 00:16:22,848 --> 00:16:24,783 DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEXT 365 00:16:24,783 --> 00:16:26,719 GENERATION HUMAN EXPLORATION 366 00:16:26,719 --> 00:16:27,453 SPACECRAFT. 367 00:16:27,453 --> 00:16:29,822 SURPASSING MULTIPLE SPLASHDOWN, 368 00:16:29,822 --> 00:16:31,256 PARACHUTE, AND PACIFIC OCEAN 369 00:16:31,256 --> 00:16:34,193 RECOVERY TESTS. 370 00:16:34,193 --> 00:16:35,627 ORION'S COMPLETED HEAT SHIELD 371 00:16:35,627 --> 00:16:37,496 ARRIVED AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER 372 00:16:37,496 --> 00:16:39,465 IN FLORIDA, ARE READY FOR 373 00:16:39,465 --> 00:16:44,436 INTEGRATION WITH THE CAPSULE FOR 374 00:16:44,436 --> 00:16:46,405 2018'S EXPLORATION MISSION ONE. 375 00:16:46,405 --> 00:16:48,273 CORE STAGE FUEL TANK WELDING WAS 376 00:16:48,273 --> 00:16:50,476 COMPLETED FOR NASA'S NEW HEAVY 377 00:16:50,476 --> 00:16:53,512 LEFT VEHICLE, THE SPACE LUNCH 378 00:16:53,512 --> 00:16:53,645 SYSTEM. 379 00:16:53,645 --> 00:16:57,015 ADDITIONALLY, THE SLS PROGRAM 380 00:16:57,015 --> 00:16:58,217 MANAGERS COMPLETED SUCCESSFUL 381 00:16:58,217 --> 00:17:00,052 TESTING OF THE SOLID ROCKET 382 00:17:00,052 --> 00:17:01,754 BOOSTERS AND RS 25 ENGINES THAT 383 00:17:01,754 --> 00:17:03,989 WILL POWER ITS FLIGHT. 384 00:17:03,989 --> 00:17:07,326 TO PREPARE SLS AND ORION FOR 385 00:17:07,326 --> 00:17:09,995 FLIGHT, THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER 386 00:17:09,995 --> 00:17:10,496 UNDERWENT A COMPREHENSIVE 387 00:17:10,496 --> 00:17:14,099 MODERNIZATION RE OF UPGRADED 388 00:17:14,099 --> 00:17:16,835 LAUNCH PAD SYSTEMS AND NEW 389 00:17:16,835 --> 00:17:20,339 PLATFORMS IN THE VAB. 390 00:17:20,339 --> 00:17:21,540 THE CURIOSITY ROVER FOUND 391 00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:23,409 CHEMICALS AND MARTIAN ROCKS THAT 392 00:17:23,409 --> 00:17:24,810 SUGGESTED MARS HAD MORE OXYGEN 393 00:17:24,810 --> 00:17:26,245 IN ITS ATMOSPHERE. 394 00:17:26,245 --> 00:17:27,913 CURIOSITY ALSO CONDUCTED AN IN 395 00:17:27,913 --> 00:17:29,715 PLACE STUDY OF ACTIVE SAND 396 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:31,116 DUNES, CHOSE ITS OWN ROCK 397 00:17:31,116 --> 00:17:34,086 TARGETS FOR LASER SPECTROMETRY 398 00:17:34,086 --> 00:17:35,754 AND SENT BACK STUNNING PHOTOS OF 399 00:17:35,754 --> 00:17:39,591 THE MARTIAN LANDSCAPE AND THE 400 00:17:39,591 --> 00:17:40,359 ODDITIES WITHIN. 401 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:42,561 THE NEW HORIZONS MISSION SENT 402 00:17:42,561 --> 00:17:48,200 THE LAST BITS OF SCIENCE DATA 403 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:48,634 FROM PLUTO AND WILL NOW 404 00:17:48,634 --> 00:17:50,135 RENDEZVOUS WITH AN OBJECT DEEPER 405 00:17:50,135 --> 00:17:50,569 WITHIN THE BELT. 406 00:17:50,569 --> 00:17:52,671 THE STUNNING IMAGES AND 407 00:17:52,671 --> 00:17:54,339 IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC DATA SENT 408 00:17:54,339 --> 00:17:56,375 TO US BY NEW HORIZONS HAS 409 00:17:56,375 --> 00:17:58,076 FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED THE WAY WE 410 00:17:58,076 --> 00:18:01,847 VIEW THE ICE DWARF AND ITS NEWLY 411 00:18:01,847 --> 00:18:03,549 DISCOVERED MOONS. 412 00:18:03,549 --> 00:18:07,352 IN SEPTEMBER, NASA LAUNCHED THE 413 00:18:07,352 --> 00:18:09,254 OSIRUS REX SAMPLING SPACECRAFT 414 00:18:09,254 --> 00:18:10,789 THAT WILL RENDEZVOUS WITH THE 415 00:18:10,789 --> 00:18:14,526 ASTEROID AND RETURN A SAMPLE IN 416 00:18:14,526 --> 00:18:14,693 2023. 417 00:18:14,693 --> 00:18:16,862 NASA ALSO APPROVED THE ASTEROID 418 00:18:16,862 --> 00:18:19,231 REDIRECT MISSION'S NEXT PHASE OF 419 00:18:19,231 --> 00:18:23,735 ROBOTIC DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT. 420 00:18:23,735 --> 00:18:26,205 LAUNCHED IN 2011, THE JUNO 421 00:18:26,205 --> 00:18:27,306 SPACECRAFT ARRIVED AT JUPITER ON 422 00:18:27,306 --> 00:18:30,008 THE 4th OF JULY TO STUDY THE 423 00:18:30,008 --> 00:18:33,912 ORIGINS OF THE GAS GIANT. 424 00:18:33,912 --> 00:18:35,514 JUNO WILL MEASURE JUPITER'S 425 00:18:35,514 --> 00:18:37,382 ATMOSPHERE, MAP ITS MAGNETIC AND 426 00:18:37,382 --> 00:18:41,887 GRAVITY FIELDS AND STUDY THE 427 00:18:41,887 --> 00:18:44,223 MAGNET O SPHERE NEAR JUPITER'S 428 00:18:44,223 --> 00:18:46,925 POLES AND FINALLY THE KEPLER 429 00:18:46,925 --> 00:18:48,594 MISSION HAS VERIFIED THOUSANDS 430 00:18:48,594 --> 00:18:50,262 OF ADDITIONAL NEW EXOPLANETS, 431 00:18:50,262 --> 00:18:50,496 MANY OF WHICH ARE CONSIDERED 432 00:18:50,496 --> 00:18:54,833 EARTH-LIKE. 433 00:18:54,833 --> 00:18:56,935 TONIGHT, AS ROBOTIC EXPLORERS 434 00:18:56,935 --> 00:18:58,303 ROAM THE SURFACE OF A 435 00:18:58,303 --> 00:18:59,805 NEIGHBORING PLANET AND PROBE THE 436 00:18:59,805 --> 00:19:02,241 OUTER REACHES OF OUR SOLAR 437 00:19:02,241 --> 00:19:04,142 SYSTEM, AND HUMAN EXPLORERS 438 00:19:04,142 --> 00:19:05,244 CONTINUE RESEARCH AND SCIENCE 439 00:19:05,244 --> 00:19:06,645 JUST 300 MILES ABOVE THE SURFACE 440 00:19:06,645 --> 00:19:10,649 OF OUR PLANET, WE PAUSE TO 441 00:19:10,649 --> 00:19:12,918 RECOGNIZE AND HONOR A VISIONARY 442 00:19:12,918 --> 00:19:14,586 ASTRONAUT FOR HIS COURAGE AND 443 00:19:14,586 --> 00:19:17,589 COMMITMENT TO REACHING OUR GOALS 444 00:19:17,589 --> 00:19:18,423 IN SPACE. 445 00:19:18,423 --> 00:19:20,926 JOHN GRUNSFELD'S FIVE SHUTTLE 446 00:19:20,926 --> 00:19:22,928 FLIGHTS INCLUDED WORK WITH THE 447 00:19:22,928 --> 00:19:24,930 ULTRAVIOLET TELESCOPES OF THE 448 00:19:24,930 --> 00:19:27,065 ASTRAL OBSERVATORY AND SERVICING 449 00:19:27,065 --> 00:19:29,434 MISSIONS TO THE HUBBLE SPACE 450 00:19:29,434 --> 00:19:30,903 TELESCOPE, TRULY REALIZING THE 451 00:19:30,903 --> 00:19:33,772 POTENTIAL OF MANKIND'S INVENTION 452 00:19:33,772 --> 00:19:37,276 OF THE TELESCOPE. 453 00:19:37,276 --> 00:19:37,376 WE ALSO CELEBRATE THE 454 00:19:37,376 --> 00:19:38,410 ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THOSE 455 00:19:38,410 --> 00:19:39,611 DEDICATED MEN AND WOMEN WHO 456 00:19:39,611 --> 00:19:42,481 DARED TO PUSH THE BOUNDARIES OF 457 00:19:42,481 --> 00:19:44,550 SPACE EXPLORATION, WHOSE 458 00:19:44,550 --> 00:19:45,484 CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE PAVED THE WAY 459 00:19:45,484 --> 00:19:48,453 FOR THE GENERATIONS TO FOLLOW, 460 00:19:48,453 --> 00:19:52,057 TURNING OUR DREAMS TO DESTINY. 461 00:19:52,057 --> 00:19:52,858 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE 462 00:19:52,858 --> 00:19:55,427 WELCOME YOUR MASTER OF 463 00:19:55,427 --> 00:20:03,268 CEREMONIES, MR. MILES O'BRIEN. 464 00:20:03,268 --> 00:20:05,304 >> HELLO, HOUSTON. 465 00:20:05,304 --> 00:20:10,108 IT IS GOOD TO BE BACK AGAIN AND 466 00:20:10,108 --> 00:20:11,243 AGAIN AND AGAIN. 467 00:20:11,243 --> 00:20:12,811 YOU AREN'T SICK OF ME YET, HUH? 468 00:20:12,811 --> 00:20:14,479 ONE OF US NEEDS TO GET A NEW 469 00:20:14,479 --> 00:20:18,050 AGENT, BECAUSE HERE I AM ON MY 470 00:20:18,050 --> 00:20:18,550 NINTH AND RECORD-SETTING MC FOR 471 00:20:18,550 --> 00:20:19,451 THIS EVENT. 472 00:20:19,451 --> 00:20:20,819 I GUESS YOU COULD CALL ME -- 473 00:20:23,055 --> 00:20:21,720 THANK YOU. 474 00:20:23,055 --> 00:20:25,657 I AM THE -- I'M THE PEGGY WITSON 475 00:20:25,657 --> 00:20:27,593 OF MCs HERE. 476 00:20:27,593 --> 00:20:29,661 I'VE BEEN DOING THIS EVENT SINCE 477 00:20:29,661 --> 00:20:31,129 WE BEGAN AT THE WAFFLE HOUSE IN 478 00:20:31,129 --> 00:20:34,499 WEBSTER AS YOU MAY RECALL. 479 00:20:34,499 --> 00:20:36,602 IT'S BEEN SO LONG, IT'S ONE ARM 480 00:20:36,602 --> 00:20:39,571 AGO FOR ME. 481 00:20:39,571 --> 00:20:40,138 TOO SOON? 482 00:20:40,138 --> 00:20:43,208 IS IT STILL TOO SOON FOR THAT? 483 00:20:43,208 --> 00:20:44,643 ACTUALLY, WHEN I STARTED DOING 484 00:20:44,643 --> 00:20:45,811 THIS, BILL SHEPARD WAS STILL 485 00:20:45,811 --> 00:20:47,913 LEARNING HOW TO KILL A MAN WITH 486 00:20:47,913 --> 00:20:51,249 HIS BARE HANDS 16 DIFFERENT 487 00:20:51,249 --> 00:20:51,383 WAYS. 488 00:20:51,383 --> 00:20:53,251 LELAND MELVIN WAS NURSING A 489 00:20:53,251 --> 00:20:54,586 TENDER HAMSTRING WHILE HE WAS 490 00:20:54,586 --> 00:20:56,788 TRYING OUT FOR THE COWBOYS. 491 00:20:56,788 --> 00:20:57,856 SCOTT WAS SHOPPING FOR A 492 00:20:57,856 --> 00:20:59,858 SURGEON, SEEKING A HEIGHT 493 00:20:59,858 --> 00:21:01,093 REDUCTION SO HE COULD SQUEEZE 494 00:21:01,093 --> 00:21:03,128 INTO A SOYU SEAT. 495 00:21:03,128 --> 00:21:05,831 WENDY LAWRENCE WAS TRYING TO 496 00:21:05,831 --> 00:21:08,100 STRUGGLE IN A DOCTORED TAPE 497 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:08,967 MEASURER SO HE COULD FIT IN. 498 00:21:08,967 --> 00:21:11,670 SHE NEEDED AN EXTRA HALF INCH. 499 00:21:11,670 --> 00:21:13,405 IN THOSE DAYS, WOODPECKERS 500 00:21:13,405 --> 00:21:16,008 SEEMED TO LOVE THE SPACE SHUTTLE 501 00:21:16,008 --> 00:21:16,875 AS MUCH AS ALL OF US IN THE 502 00:21:16,875 --> 00:21:17,142 ROOM. 503 00:21:17,142 --> 00:21:19,044 STEVE HOLLY HAD TO SHOW UP WITH 504 00:21:19,044 --> 00:21:20,479 A BAG OVER HIS HEAD FOR FEAR 505 00:21:20,479 --> 00:21:22,180 THAT HIS EPIC LAUNCH SCRUB HEX 506 00:21:22,180 --> 00:21:23,148 WOULD CONTINUE. 507 00:21:23,148 --> 00:21:26,351 UP IN SPACE, THE SPACE STATION 508 00:21:26,351 --> 00:21:29,054 MIR WAS TUMBLING, BURNING, 509 00:21:29,054 --> 00:21:30,656 LEAKING AND BRIMMING WITH JUNK 510 00:21:30,656 --> 00:21:33,558 AS WELL AS CO2 AND I WAS 511 00:21:33,558 --> 00:21:35,560 GRILLING POOR FRANK CULLERSON ON 512 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:36,862 A DAILY BASIS ON CNN. 513 00:21:36,862 --> 00:21:38,263 HE STILL HAS SCARS AND A TWITCH 514 00:21:38,263 --> 00:21:44,202 OVER THE WHOLE THING. 515 00:21:44,202 --> 00:21:48,807 NOREN WAS UP THERE ON AN 516 00:21:48,807 --> 00:21:51,443 INVOLUNTARY HUNGER STRIKE WHILE 517 00:21:51,443 --> 00:21:53,879 HE WAITED FOR HIS SPICY SHRIMP 518 00:21:53,879 --> 00:21:54,379 COCKTAIL. 519 00:21:54,379 --> 00:21:55,480 IT WAS SAID AT THE TIME THAT A 520 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,049 SHUTTLE WOULD ONLY BE CLEARED TO 521 00:21:57,049 --> 00:21:58,250 LAUNCH WHEN THE STACK OF PAPER 522 00:21:58,250 --> 00:21:59,484 EQUALLED OR SURPASSED THE HEIGHT 523 00:21:59,484 --> 00:22:02,020 OF THE STACK ITSELF DOCUMENTING 524 00:22:02,020 --> 00:22:04,756 THE MILLION STEPS IN THE SHUTTLE 525 00:22:04,756 --> 00:22:05,057 FLOW. 526 00:22:05,057 --> 00:22:06,858 IN FACT, I KNOW THIS FOR A FACT, 527 00:22:06,858 --> 00:22:09,928 THE ONLY STACK BIGGER SAT ON ROB 528 00:22:09,928 --> 00:22:13,465 NAVIAS'S CONSOLE IN MISSION 529 00:22:13,465 --> 00:22:13,699 CONTROL. 530 00:22:13,699 --> 00:22:15,100 SOME THINGS DON'T CHANGE. 531 00:22:15,100 --> 00:22:18,570 IN THOSE DAYS, JOHN GRUNSFELD 532 00:22:18,570 --> 00:22:21,339 WAS IN RUSSIA THINKING ABOUT 533 00:22:21,339 --> 00:22:22,908 FLYING TO THE STATION. 534 00:22:22,908 --> 00:22:25,510 WHEN HE CAME HOME TO HOUSTON, HE 535 00:22:25,510 --> 00:22:28,246 PACKED EMPTY CANS AND BOTTLES IN 536 00:22:28,246 --> 00:22:28,714 HIS SUITCASES SO HE COULD 537 00:22:28,714 --> 00:22:29,214 RECYCLE THEM. 538 00:22:29,214 --> 00:22:30,649 THAT'S NOT A JOKE. 539 00:22:30,649 --> 00:22:32,084 THAT'S TRUE. 540 00:22:32,084 --> 00:22:33,318 ANYWAY, GRUNSFELD EVENTUALLY 541 00:22:33,318 --> 00:22:35,187 SAID NYET TO RUSSIAN, OR MAYBE 542 00:22:35,187 --> 00:22:36,354 IT WAS THE OTHER WAY AROUND, AND 543 00:22:36,354 --> 00:22:37,756 THE REST IS HISTORY. 544 00:22:37,756 --> 00:22:40,292 HE CAME BACK TO BECOME THE WORLD 545 00:22:40,292 --> 00:22:43,328 FAMOUS HUBBLE REPAIRMAN. 546 00:22:43,328 --> 00:22:45,030 SO, WHAT NEXT, COLUMBUS? 547 00:22:45,030 --> 00:22:46,498 HOW DO YOU WRITE A NEW CHAPTER 548 00:22:46,498 --> 00:22:48,767 AFTER THAT ONE? 549 00:22:48,767 --> 00:22:51,303 JOHN HAS BEEN TIRELESSLY DRIVING 550 00:22:51,303 --> 00:22:53,505 HIS PRIUS AROUND THE COUNTRY 551 00:22:53,505 --> 00:22:55,073 WELL BELOW THE SPEED LIMIT SO 552 00:22:55,073 --> 00:22:57,109 THE ENGINE NEVER KICKS IN, 553 00:22:57,109 --> 00:22:59,211 TRYING TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION. 554 00:22:59,211 --> 00:23:01,379 IT'S A LONG WAY FROM THE 555 00:23:01,379 --> 00:23:04,149 CORVETTE DAYS OF "THE RIGHT 556 00:23:04,149 --> 00:23:04,916 STUFF," RIGHT? 557 00:23:04,916 --> 00:23:06,351 HE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT DAY WHEN 558 00:23:06,351 --> 00:23:07,819 HE WAS AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND 559 00:23:07,819 --> 00:23:09,254 PRESIDENT OBAMA TOLD THE CROWD 560 00:23:09,254 --> 00:23:12,390 NOT TO CONFUSE HIM WITH THE 561 00:23:12,390 --> 00:23:13,492 MAYTAG REPAIRMAN. 562 00:23:13,492 --> 00:23:14,626 NOW, JOHN MISUNDERSTOOD THAT. 563 00:23:14,626 --> 00:23:16,661 HE THOUGHT THAT WAS AN ORDER 564 00:23:16,661 --> 00:23:17,195 FROM THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. 565 00:23:17,195 --> 00:23:18,697 HE TRIED IT FOR A WHILE, BUT THE 566 00:23:18,697 --> 00:23:19,931 PROBLEM WAS HE GOT FIRED BECAUSE 567 00:23:19,931 --> 00:23:23,201 HE INSISTED ON REPAIRING THE 568 00:23:23,201 --> 00:23:25,403 APPLIANCES IN A SWIMMING POOL 569 00:23:25,403 --> 00:23:25,871 UNDER WATER. 570 00:23:25,871 --> 00:23:27,038 DIDN'T GO WELL. 571 00:23:27,038 --> 00:23:29,574 SO, HE MOVED ON TO BEING AN 572 00:23:29,574 --> 00:23:30,408 AUTO MECHANIC. 573 00:23:30,408 --> 00:23:32,878 HE TRIED HIS HANDS AT THAT BUT 574 00:23:32,878 --> 00:23:34,446 HE KEPT WORKING ON ENGINES THAT 575 00:23:34,446 --> 00:23:38,183 WORKED REALLY WELL, FULL BLAST, 576 00:23:38,183 --> 00:23:38,517 FOR 8 AND A HALF MINUTES, AND 577 00:23:38,517 --> 00:23:40,085 THEN THEY'D SHUT OFF. 578 00:23:40,085 --> 00:23:41,319 PEOPLE APPARENTLY DID NOT LIKE 579 00:23:41,319 --> 00:23:43,155 THE MEKO FEATURE WHEN HE WAS 580 00:23:43,155 --> 00:23:44,890 TRYING TO PATENT. 581 00:23:44,890 --> 00:23:46,458 SO HE REMEMBERED HOW MUCH HE 582 00:23:46,458 --> 00:23:47,692 ENJOYED THE VIEW ON HIS WORK 583 00:23:47,692 --> 00:23:48,994 SITE IN ORBIT. 584 00:23:48,994 --> 00:23:51,496 HE TOOK A JOB WASHING WINDOWS AT 585 00:23:51,496 --> 00:23:54,499 TRUMP TOWER IN MIDTOWN 586 00:23:54,499 --> 00:23:54,633 MANHATTAN. 587 00:23:54,633 --> 00:23:55,634 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE HEARD, 588 00:23:55,634 --> 00:24:00,005 BUT IT'S HUGE. 589 00:24:00,005 --> 00:24:01,173 AFTER THE ELECTION, 590 00:24:01,173 --> 00:24:02,874 UNFORTUNATELY, HE WAS FORCED TO 591 00:24:02,874 --> 00:24:04,810 TENDER HIS RESIGNATION, HAVING 592 00:24:04,810 --> 00:24:07,279 BEEN AT THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE AT 593 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:07,846 ALL. 594 00:24:11,216 --> 00:24:08,446 SAD. 595 00:24:11,216 --> 00:24:12,751 SO, HE HAD ANOTHER IDEA. 596 00:24:12,751 --> 00:24:14,886 GET A LITTLE CLOSER TO HIS 597 00:24:14,886 --> 00:24:16,354 ASTROPHYSICS ROOTS, HE WENT TO A 598 00:24:16,354 --> 00:24:19,758 HOBBY SHOP AND TRIED HIS JOB -- 599 00:24:19,758 --> 00:24:24,362 TRIED HIS HAND AT SELLING 600 00:24:24,362 --> 00:24:25,931 CELESTRON TELESCOPES BUT THAT 601 00:24:25,931 --> 00:24:27,365 DIDN'T WORK OUT EITHER BECAUSE 602 00:24:27,365 --> 00:24:28,433 HE KEPT TRYING TO CONVINCE 603 00:24:28,433 --> 00:24:29,534 PEOPLE LIKE THAT TO BUY A 604 00:24:29,534 --> 00:24:30,602 PACKAGE OF HOME SERVICING 605 00:24:30,602 --> 00:24:32,771 MISSIONS AND PEOPLE GOT A LITTLE 606 00:24:32,771 --> 00:24:34,439 CREEPED OUT BY IT. 607 00:24:34,439 --> 00:24:36,274 ALL OF THIS LED HIM TO THE BRINK 608 00:24:36,274 --> 00:24:39,344 OF DESPAIR AND ULTIMATELY A 609 00:24:39,344 --> 00:24:40,111 DESPERATION MOVE. 610 00:24:40,111 --> 00:24:43,114 MY SOURCES AT THE GODDARD SPACE 611 00:24:43,114 --> 00:24:44,216 FLIGHT CENTER SENT ME THESE 612 00:24:44,216 --> 00:24:45,917 SECURITY CAMERA IMAGES AT THE 613 00:24:45,917 --> 00:24:49,020 JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE. 614 00:24:49,020 --> 00:24:50,388 THE STOW AWAY TEAM WAS FOILED, 615 00:24:50,388 --> 00:24:51,089 FORTUNATELY. 616 00:24:51,089 --> 00:24:53,892 THE JUDGE SENTENCED HIM TO LIFE 617 00:24:53,892 --> 00:24:57,195 SENTENCE OF HARD TIME IN 1 G, 618 00:24:57,195 --> 00:25:00,665 FORCING HIM TO ABIDE BY NEWTON'S 619 00:25:00,665 --> 00:25:01,900 LAWS HERE FORTH. 620 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:03,001 OF COURSE THE TRUTH IS, THE 621 00:25:03,001 --> 00:25:04,436 HONEST TO GOODNESS TRUTH IS JOHN 622 00:25:04,436 --> 00:25:05,737 IS A NATIONAL TREASURE WHO 623 00:25:05,737 --> 00:25:08,607 HELPED MAKE THIS COUNTRY GREAT 624 00:25:08,607 --> 00:25:10,242 LONG BEFORE THAT WAS A CAMPAIGN 625 00:25:10,242 --> 00:25:13,245 SLOGAN, AND WE THANK HIM FOR 626 00:25:13,245 --> 00:25:15,680 THAT, AND I AM PROUD THAT I GOT 627 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,749 GIVE HIM ONE OF MANY ROUNDS OF 628 00:25:17,749 --> 00:25:18,383 APPLAUSE WE GIVE HIM TONIGHT FOR 629 00:25:18,383 --> 00:25:24,489 HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS. 630 00:25:24,489 --> 00:25:27,192 AND NOW TONIGHT, WE HONOR JOHN 631 00:25:27,192 --> 00:25:28,693 AS WELL AS MANY INDIVIDUALS WHO 632 00:25:28,693 --> 00:25:30,128 HAVE MADE OUTSTANDING 633 00:25:30,128 --> 00:25:31,863 CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR SPACE 634 00:25:31,863 --> 00:25:32,130 PROGRAM. 635 00:25:32,130 --> 00:25:35,233 OUR STELLAR AWARDS GO TO 25 636 00:25:35,233 --> 00:25:36,635 INDIVIDUALS IN SEVEN TEAMS, ALL 637 00:25:36,635 --> 00:25:38,603 THE STELLAR NOMINEES ARE LISTED 638 00:25:38,603 --> 00:25:39,304 IN YOUR PROGRAM. 639 00:25:39,304 --> 00:25:41,172 IF YOU SEE THEM, CONGRATULATE 640 00:25:41,172 --> 00:25:41,306 THEM. 641 00:25:41,306 --> 00:25:44,743 I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT JOHN 642 00:25:44,743 --> 00:25:46,978 GRUNSFELD IS THE 31st WINNER OF 643 00:25:46,978 --> 00:25:48,747 THE SPACE TROPHY. 644 00:25:48,747 --> 00:25:52,050 OUR SPACE COMMUNICATOR AWARD EE 645 00:25:52,050 --> 00:25:53,318 IS ONLY THE 11th RECIPIENT. 646 00:25:53,318 --> 00:25:56,922 SO I ASK YOU, WHICH AWARD IS 647 00:25:56,922 --> 00:25:58,290 MORE PRESTIGIOUS? 648 00:25:58,290 --> 00:25:59,591 JUST THROWING THAT OUT THERE. 649 00:25:59,591 --> 00:26:02,827 THE IDEA WAS HATCHED BY A MAN 650 00:26:02,827 --> 00:26:04,362 WHO YOU'RE ABOUT TO HEAR FROM. 651 00:26:04,362 --> 00:26:07,565 HIS DAD AND HIS SKY LAB CREW 652 00:26:07,565 --> 00:26:09,834 MATES ONCE HELD THE ENDURANCE 653 00:26:09,834 --> 00:26:11,603 RECORD THAT PEGGY WITSON JUST 654 00:26:11,603 --> 00:26:11,736 GRABBED. 655 00:26:11,736 --> 00:26:15,040 FOR THEM, IT WAS 81 DAYS BUT 656 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,042 THEIR DRIED POOP, STILL STORED 657 00:26:17,042 --> 00:26:20,011 IN HOUSTON NEAR THE MOON ROCKS 658 00:26:20,011 --> 00:26:20,111 HAS SET SOME OTHER KIND OF 659 00:26:20,111 --> 00:26:20,378 RECORD. 660 00:26:20,378 --> 00:26:21,313 I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, BUT 661 00:26:21,313 --> 00:26:22,814 IT'S STILL THERE. 662 00:26:22,814 --> 00:26:24,082 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, A GREAT 663 00:26:24,082 --> 00:26:24,449 SPACE COMMUNICATOR HIMSELF, JEFF 664 00:26:24,449 --> 00:26:32,590 CARR. 665 00:26:32,590 --> 00:26:39,197 ♪♪ 666 00:26:39,197 --> 00:26:42,968 >> SO, THANKS, MILES, I THINK. 667 00:26:42,968 --> 00:26:46,071 I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW PLEASED I 668 00:26:46,071 --> 00:26:48,106 AM THAT CHRIS HADFIELD COULDN'T 669 00:26:48,106 --> 00:26:49,374 BE HERE TONIGHT. 670 00:26:49,374 --> 00:26:51,509 I LIKE CHRIS, BUT OTHERWISE, I 671 00:26:51,509 --> 00:26:54,379 WOULD NOT HAVE HAD THE HONOR OF 672 00:26:54,379 --> 00:26:55,747 INTRODUCING THE SPACE 673 00:26:55,747 --> 00:26:59,351 COMMUNICATOR WINNER THIS 674 00:26:59,351 --> 00:26:59,918 EVENING. 675 00:26:59,918 --> 00:27:00,618 WHERE'S FLOYD? 676 00:27:00,618 --> 00:27:04,089 FLOYD, BACK IN 1996, AND '97, 677 00:27:04,089 --> 00:27:06,191 WHEN WE WERE FIRST CONTEMPLATING 678 00:27:06,191 --> 00:27:07,859 THIS AWARD, IN MEMORY OF STEVEN 679 00:27:07,859 --> 00:27:09,461 GILVAIN, THE PERSON THAT WE'RE 680 00:27:09,461 --> 00:27:12,897 HONORING TONIGHT CROSSED MY MIND 681 00:27:12,897 --> 00:27:15,433 SEVERAL TIMES AS WE WERE WORKING 682 00:27:15,433 --> 00:27:17,068 THROUGH THE QUALIFICATIONS AND 683 00:27:17,068 --> 00:27:19,304 THE QUALITIES OF CANDIDATES FOR 684 00:27:19,304 --> 00:27:21,339 THIS HIGH LEVEL OF RECOGNITION. 685 00:27:21,339 --> 00:27:23,074 AND I REALLY, TRULY HOPED THAT 686 00:27:23,074 --> 00:27:27,545 MANY OF YOU WHO HAVE, YOU KNOW, 687 00:27:27,545 --> 00:27:28,313 BEEN A VETERAN ATTENDEES OF THIS 688 00:27:28,313 --> 00:27:30,749 EVENT HAVE APPRECIATED THE 689 00:27:30,749 --> 00:27:31,716 QUALITY OF WINNERS THAT WE HAVE 690 00:27:31,716 --> 00:27:33,718 BROUGHT TO THIS PROGRAM OVER THE 691 00:27:33,718 --> 00:27:35,553 PAST 20 YEARS, INCLUDING 692 00:27:35,553 --> 00:27:39,090 HOUSEHOLD NAMES LIKE MILES 693 00:27:39,090 --> 00:27:42,027 O'BRIEN, LIKE NEIL DeGRASSE 694 00:27:42,027 --> 00:27:45,196 TYSON, BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY. 695 00:27:45,196 --> 00:27:45,330 WE'VE ALSO RECOGNIZED LEADERS 696 00:27:45,330 --> 00:27:47,265 AND INNOVATORS FROM NASA AND 697 00:27:47,265 --> 00:27:53,238 INDUSTRY LIKE ELLIOT PULLHAN AND 698 00:27:53,238 --> 00:27:55,840 VERONICA McGREGOR, MEDIA 699 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,343 STANDOUTS AND OF COURSE OUR 700 00:27:58,343 --> 00:28:01,212 ASTRONAUT POST HIMSELF, CHRIS 701 00:28:01,212 --> 00:28:02,347 HADFIELD, WHO WON THIS AWARD TWO 702 00:28:02,347 --> 00:28:04,549 YEARS AGO AND NOMINATED OUR 703 00:28:04,549 --> 00:28:08,053 WINNER THIS EVENING. 704 00:28:08,053 --> 00:28:11,322 TONIGHT'S HONOREE, ROB NAVIAS, 705 00:28:11,322 --> 00:28:14,059 FITS THIS AWARD TO A TEE. 706 00:28:14,059 --> 00:28:15,026 THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER AS A 707 00:28:15,026 --> 00:28:17,996 JOURNALIST AND AS A PROFESSIONAL 708 00:28:17,996 --> 00:28:20,165 SPOKESPERSON, ROB HAS FOUND 709 00:28:20,165 --> 00:28:21,299 HIMSELF IN FRONT ROW SEATS TO 710 00:28:21,299 --> 00:28:23,134 SOME OF THE MOST DRAMATIC, 711 00:28:23,134 --> 00:28:24,469 IMPACTFUL STORIES OF OUR TIMES. 712 00:28:24,469 --> 00:28:27,305 AND FROM HIS BEGINNING AS A CUB 713 00:28:27,305 --> 00:28:29,574 REPORTER, HE RECOGNIZED AND 714 00:28:29,574 --> 00:28:31,276 READILY ACCEPTED THE 715 00:28:31,276 --> 00:28:32,343 RESPONSIBILITY TO CONNECT OTHERS 716 00:28:32,343 --> 00:28:35,413 WITH THESE KEY MOMENTS IN TIME, 717 00:28:35,413 --> 00:28:37,315 ACCURATELY, HONESTLY, AND WITH 718 00:28:37,315 --> 00:28:38,149 INTEGRITY. 719 00:28:38,149 --> 00:28:41,586 AND OVER THE YEARS, ROB HAS 720 00:28:41,586 --> 00:28:44,055 DEVELOPED A RICH TALENT FOR 721 00:28:44,055 --> 00:28:45,490 TELLING A STORY AND VERY 722 00:28:45,490 --> 00:28:47,392 COMPELLING BUT CONCISE TERMS AND 723 00:28:47,392 --> 00:28:48,493 I THINK THAT'S REALLY ROB'S 724 00:28:48,493 --> 00:28:52,564 CALLING CARD, HIS TRADEMARK. 725 00:28:52,564 --> 00:28:53,631 YOU KNOW, WHEN I HAD THE 726 00:28:53,631 --> 00:28:55,667 OPPORTUNITY TO HIRE ROB BACK IN, 727 00:28:55,667 --> 00:28:58,069 WAS IT '93? 728 00:28:58,069 --> 00:28:58,636 YEAH. 729 00:28:58,636 --> 00:29:00,505 WE WERE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO 730 00:29:00,505 --> 00:29:01,706 IMPROVE THE STORY TELLING 731 00:29:01,706 --> 00:29:03,408 QUALITY OF COMMENTARY. 732 00:29:03,408 --> 00:29:05,877 AND OTHER WAYS TO BETTER CONNECT 733 00:29:05,877 --> 00:29:07,412 WITH THE PUBLIC. 734 00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:09,114 THINGS LIKE BROADCAST 735 00:29:09,114 --> 00:29:10,682 INNOVATIONS WITH NASA 736 00:29:10,682 --> 00:29:11,716 TELEVISION, EDUCATIONAL 737 00:29:11,716 --> 00:29:13,151 PROGRAMS, AND WE REALLY, REALLY 738 00:29:13,151 --> 00:29:14,686 NEEDED TO SHAKE THINGS UP. 739 00:29:14,686 --> 00:29:18,890 WE REALLY NEEDED TO SET THE BAR 740 00:29:18,890 --> 00:29:20,658 HIGHER, AND ROB WAS THE GUY. 741 00:29:20,658 --> 00:29:23,161 ROB WAS THE GUY WE NEEDED. 742 00:29:23,161 --> 00:29:25,897 AND HE WAS -- HE WAS INTERESTED 743 00:29:25,897 --> 00:29:27,499 AND, YOU KNOW, WE TOOK THE 744 00:29:27,499 --> 00:29:28,933 OPPORTUNITY TO BRING HIM ON 745 00:29:28,933 --> 00:29:29,100 BOARD. 746 00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:30,735 I HAVE TO SAY, THOUGH, THAT IT 747 00:29:30,735 --> 00:29:35,707 WAS NOT A POPULAR PICK WITH 748 00:29:35,707 --> 00:29:37,575 EVERYONE. 749 00:29:37,575 --> 00:29:39,444 YOU KNOW, I STILL STAND ACCUSED 750 00:29:39,444 --> 00:29:41,279 BY SOME TODAY, PROBABLY IN THIS 751 00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:44,115 ROOM, OF HIRING ROB AS A RINGER 752 00:29:44,115 --> 00:29:47,619 FOR THE CHILI COOKOFF TRIVIA 753 00:29:47,619 --> 00:29:47,752 TEAM. 754 00:29:47,752 --> 00:29:49,487 AND THAT'S TRUE, ROB. 755 00:29:49,487 --> 00:29:52,724 I'M SORRY. 756 00:29:52,724 --> 00:29:53,358 BUT OBVIOUSLY, THAT WASN'T THE 757 00:29:53,358 --> 00:29:53,825 ONLY REASON. 758 00:29:53,825 --> 00:29:55,326 YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF 759 00:29:55,326 --> 00:29:56,861 US WHO HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE 760 00:29:56,861 --> 00:30:07,105 AND THE HONOR OF SERVING AS 761 00:30:07,105 --> 00:30:08,873 COMMENTATORS IN MISSION CONTROL 762 00:30:08,873 --> 00:30:10,241 OVER THE YEARS BUT VERY FEW OF 763 00:30:10,241 --> 00:30:12,277 US HAVE EARNED THE ICONIC STATUS 764 00:30:12,277 --> 00:30:13,945 OF THE VOICE OF MISSION CONTROL. 765 00:30:13,945 --> 00:30:15,513 THERE WERE THOSE DISTINCTIVE AND 766 00:30:15,513 --> 00:30:16,581 MEMORABLE VOICES FROM THE PAST 767 00:30:16,581 --> 00:30:21,085 LIKE SHORTY POWERS, JACK KING, 768 00:30:21,085 --> 00:30:24,055 JOHN McLEASH, JACK RILEY, DOUG 769 00:30:24,055 --> 00:30:25,056 WARD AND OTHERS THAT FOLLOWED 770 00:30:25,056 --> 00:30:26,257 THROUGHOUT THE SHUTTLE PROGRAM, 771 00:30:26,257 --> 00:30:27,492 INCLUDING MYSELF, WHO ALL 772 00:30:27,492 --> 00:30:30,461 CONTRIBUTED UNIQUELY TO THIS 773 00:30:30,461 --> 00:30:33,698 PROCESS OF STORY TELLING AND 774 00:30:33,698 --> 00:30:34,866 SHARING HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT WITH 775 00:30:34,866 --> 00:30:35,300 THE PUBLIC. 776 00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:38,303 BUT IF YOU EVER LISTEN TO ROB 777 00:30:38,303 --> 00:30:41,406 CALL A LAUNCH OR A LANDING, IT'S 778 00:30:41,406 --> 00:30:43,408 NOT JUST THE VOICE YOU'LL 779 00:30:43,408 --> 00:30:43,541 REMEMBER. 780 00:30:43,541 --> 00:30:45,677 YOU WILL REMEMBER THE VOICE. 781 00:30:45,677 --> 00:30:49,080 I PROMISE YOU THAT. 782 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,916 BUT YOU'LL ALSO REMEMBER THE 783 00:30:51,916 --> 00:30:52,350 MISSION. 784 00:30:52,350 --> 00:30:54,586 YOU'LL ALSO REMEMBER THE CREW, 785 00:30:54,586 --> 00:30:56,054 AND YOU MIGHT REMEMBER MOST OF 786 00:30:56,054 --> 00:30:57,422 THINGS THAT OCCURRED ON THE WAY 787 00:30:57,422 --> 00:31:02,594 UPHILL OR ON THE WAY BACK. 788 00:31:02,594 --> 00:31:05,897 BECAUSE ROB -- ROB WAS A STORY 789 00:31:05,897 --> 00:31:08,233 TELLER, AND HE SHARED THIS 790 00:31:08,233 --> 00:31:09,667 PROGRAM IN TERMS THAT PEOPLE 791 00:31:09,667 --> 00:31:11,236 COULD EMBRACE. 792 00:31:11,236 --> 00:31:15,173 HIS PASSION, HIS PRECISION, AND 793 00:31:15,173 --> 00:31:17,442 HIS GIFT FOR SHARING THE HUMAN 794 00:31:17,442 --> 00:31:18,843 SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE ARE 795 00:31:18,843 --> 00:31:20,578 ABSOLUTELY SECOND TO NONE. 796 00:31:20,578 --> 00:31:22,347 HIS IMPACT ON PUBLIC AWARENESS 797 00:31:22,347 --> 00:31:24,782 AND UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN SPACE 798 00:31:24,782 --> 00:31:25,049 FLIGHT ARE IMMEASURABLE. 799 00:31:25,049 --> 00:31:28,686 LET'S TAKE A LOOK. 800 00:31:50,975 --> 00:31:46,070 ♪♪ 801 00:31:50,975 --> 00:31:53,144 >> THIS IS MISSION CONTROL 802 00:31:53,144 --> 00:31:53,278 HOUSTON. 803 00:31:53,278 --> 00:31:56,047 IT HAS BEEN JUST OVER AN HOUR 804 00:31:56,047 --> 00:31:58,816 SINCE ATLANTIS'S LANDING AT THE 805 00:31:58,816 --> 00:31:59,617 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. 806 00:31:59,617 --> 00:32:01,319 FOR THE LAST TIME IN THIS ROOM, 807 00:32:01,319 --> 00:32:02,353 THIS IS MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON. 808 00:32:02,353 --> 00:32:12,196 ♪♪ 809 00:32:12,196 --> 00:32:19,404 [ APPLAUSE ] 810 00:32:19,404 --> 00:32:22,940 >> AND WITH THE FIRST PICK IN 811 00:32:22,940 --> 00:32:25,543 THE NEXT ROUND OF THE SPACE 812 00:32:25,543 --> 00:32:26,678 COMMUNICATOR AWARD, OUR NASA 813 00:32:26,678 --> 00:32:57,608 SELECTS ROB NAVIAS. 814 00:32:57,608 --> 00:33:18,363 [ APPLAUSE ] 815 00:33:18,363 --> 00:33:23,101 >> HOW IS EVERYONE? 816 00:33:23,101 --> 00:33:25,036 WHAT A NIGHT. 817 00:33:25,036 --> 00:33:26,437 NEVER THOUGHT I'D EVER FOLLOW 818 00:33:26,437 --> 00:33:28,740 JEFF CARR AND SPACE POOP AT THE 819 00:33:28,740 --> 00:33:30,575 SAME TIME, BUT I FINALLY MADE IT 820 00:33:30,575 --> 00:33:33,511 TO THE BIG LEAGUES, RIGHT? 821 00:33:33,511 --> 00:33:34,445 MEMBERS OF THE RNASA FOUNDATION, 822 00:33:34,445 --> 00:33:36,180 THE ROTARY CLUB, DISTINGUISHED 823 00:33:36,180 --> 00:33:39,851 GUESTS, COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS, 824 00:33:39,851 --> 00:33:41,919 56 YEARS AGO, A KID GROWING UP 825 00:33:41,919 --> 00:33:44,122 IN THE BRONX IN NEW YORK WENT 826 00:33:44,122 --> 00:33:45,757 SHOPPING WITH HIS FATHER TO A 827 00:33:45,757 --> 00:33:46,491 RADIO SHACK STORE. 828 00:33:46,491 --> 00:33:47,992 THAT KID RECEIVED A GIFT OF A 829 00:33:47,992 --> 00:33:51,095 SMALL TOSHIBA TRANSISTOR RADIO 830 00:33:51,095 --> 00:33:52,764 NO BIGGER THAN THE HOLSTER THAT 831 00:33:52,764 --> 00:33:54,732 HOLDS YOUR SMARTPHONE TODAY. 832 00:33:54,732 --> 00:33:57,034 THAT KID WAS ME. 833 00:33:57,034 --> 00:33:58,870 A MONTH AFTER JOHN F. KENNEDY 834 00:33:58,870 --> 00:34:01,105 WAS INAUGURATED PRESIDENT. 835 00:34:01,105 --> 00:34:02,106 THREE MONTHS LATER ON THE NIGHT 836 00:34:02,106 --> 00:34:06,577 OF APRIL 12, 1981 -- 1961, MY 837 00:34:06,577 --> 00:34:07,779 DAD, MY MOTHER AND I SAT AROUND 838 00:34:07,779 --> 00:34:09,847 THE KITCHEN TABLE IN OUR 839 00:34:09,847 --> 00:34:11,149 APARTMENT IN THE BRONX LISTENING 840 00:34:11,149 --> 00:34:15,019 TO THAT RADIO OVER DINNER AS THE 841 00:34:15,019 --> 00:34:15,753 LEGENDRY LOWELL THOMAS ANNOUNCED 842 00:34:15,753 --> 00:34:18,890 ON THE CBS RADIO NETWORK EVENING 843 00:34:18,890 --> 00:34:23,461 NEWS THAT YURI GOGARIN HAS 844 00:34:23,461 --> 00:34:24,796 LAUNCHED AS THE FIRST HUMAN IN 845 00:34:24,796 --> 00:34:25,096 SPACE. 846 00:34:25,096 --> 00:34:26,464 EVEN AT THE AGE OF 12, I 847 00:34:26,464 --> 00:34:27,165 RECOGNIZED THE POWER AND THE 848 00:34:27,165 --> 00:34:30,768 IMPACT OF THAT MOMENT. 849 00:34:30,768 --> 00:34:33,171 PARTLY THROUGH MY INSTINCTS AND 850 00:34:33,171 --> 00:34:36,407 MY LOVE FOR CURRENT EVENTS, 851 00:34:36,407 --> 00:34:37,575 PARTLY THROUGH THE WONDER OF 852 00:34:37,575 --> 00:34:38,476 RADIO, THROUGH THE WONDER OF THE 853 00:34:38,476 --> 00:34:39,076 SPOKEN WORD. 854 00:34:39,076 --> 00:34:41,345 THREE WEEKS LATER, I TOOK THAT 855 00:34:41,345 --> 00:34:43,848 TRANSISTOR RADIO TO CLASS AT PS 856 00:34:43,848 --> 00:34:45,383 86 IN THE BRONX ON A FRIDAY 857 00:34:45,383 --> 00:34:47,485 MORNING AND SAT IN THE BACK OF 858 00:34:47,485 --> 00:34:49,821 THE ROOM LISTENING TO CBS 859 00:34:49,821 --> 00:34:53,524 RADIO'S COVERAGE OF ALLAN 860 00:34:53,524 --> 00:34:54,192 SHEPARD'S RIDE ABOARD FREEDOM 7 861 00:34:54,192 --> 00:34:55,726 TO BECOME THE FIRST AMERICAN TO 862 00:34:55,726 --> 00:34:56,894 FLY IN SPACE. 863 00:34:56,894 --> 00:34:58,429 IT WAS ONLY A MONTH INTO A 864 00:34:58,429 --> 00:35:00,465 BASEBALL SEASON LIKE NO OTHER IN 865 00:35:00,465 --> 00:35:05,136 WHICH ROGER MARRIS AND MICKEY 866 00:35:05,136 --> 00:35:06,637 MANTLE BEGAN THEIR PURSUIT OF 867 00:35:06,637 --> 00:35:10,942 BABE RUTH'S HOME RUN RECORD. 868 00:35:10,942 --> 00:35:13,344 MARRIS AND MANTLE, THAT WAS THE 869 00:35:13,344 --> 00:35:13,511 DUO. 870 00:35:13,511 --> 00:35:18,516 BUT THE DERRING DO OF SHEPARD 871 00:35:18,516 --> 00:35:19,050 WAS SOMETHING ELSE. 872 00:35:19,050 --> 00:35:21,319 I WAS HOOKED ON SPACE AS IF IT 873 00:35:21,319 --> 00:35:22,920 WAS SOME EXOTIC NARCOTIC. 874 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,756 I WAS JEALOUS THAT I HAD TO WAIT 875 00:35:25,756 --> 00:35:27,892 FOR WALTER CRONKITE TO REPORT 876 00:35:27,892 --> 00:35:29,360 THE NEWS EVERY NIGHT, THAT HE 877 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,329 KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE 878 00:35:31,329 --> 00:35:32,163 WORLD BEFORE I DID. 879 00:35:32,163 --> 00:35:33,598 THAT WAS THE EXOTIC NARCOTIC OF 880 00:35:33,598 --> 00:35:35,566 NEWS, JOURNALISM AND 881 00:35:35,566 --> 00:35:37,034 BROADCASTING THAT LURED ME INTO 882 00:35:37,034 --> 00:35:40,171 A CAREER I COULD HAVE NEVER 883 00:35:40,171 --> 00:35:40,972 IMAGINED POSSIBLE. 884 00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:43,541 COVERING THE PATTY HAERS 885 00:35:43,541 --> 00:35:45,076 KIDNAPPING, THE PEOPLE'S TEMPLE 886 00:35:45,076 --> 00:35:47,111 MASS SUICIDES, SAN FRANCISCO 887 00:35:47,111 --> 00:35:50,948 CITY HALL ASSASSINATIONS, FOUR 888 00:35:50,948 --> 00:35:52,650 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS, SUPER 889 00:35:52,650 --> 00:35:54,485 BOWLS, THE SUMMER OF 1984, 890 00:35:54,485 --> 00:35:55,553 NATURAL DISASTERS, AND SPACE, 891 00:35:55,553 --> 00:35:57,255 THOSE WERE THE PUNCTUATION MARKS 892 00:35:57,255 --> 00:35:59,790 OF MY CAREER IN BROADCASTING AND 893 00:35:59,790 --> 00:36:01,225 TO ULTIMATELY BE INVOLVED IN 894 00:36:01,225 --> 00:36:03,528 COVERAGE OF THE SPACE PROGRAM 895 00:36:03,528 --> 00:36:09,166 FOR NASA, OH, FROM THE BRONX TO 896 00:36:09,166 --> 00:36:16,807 BICONOR FROM KFC TO KHAZAKSTAN, 897 00:36:16,807 --> 00:36:17,341 IT IS BETTER TO BE LUCKY THAN IT 898 00:36:17,341 --> 00:36:19,176 IS TO BE GOOD. 899 00:36:19,176 --> 00:36:20,311 INCREDIBLY, MY CAREER HAS 900 00:36:20,311 --> 00:36:21,379 SPANNED THE HEIGHTS OF HUMAN 901 00:36:21,379 --> 00:36:22,647 TRIUMPH AND THE DEPTHS OF HUMAN 902 00:36:22,647 --> 00:36:23,681 FAILURE, THE CHEERS AND THE 903 00:36:23,681 --> 00:36:25,349 TEARS OF HUMAN ENDEAVOR. 904 00:36:25,349 --> 00:36:26,784 IT IS CALLED THE SUBLIME 905 00:36:26,784 --> 00:36:29,854 SYMMETRY OF HISTORY BUT WHETHER 906 00:36:29,854 --> 00:36:31,322 TRIUMPH OR TRAGEDY, IT ALL CAME 907 00:36:31,322 --> 00:36:33,057 DOWN TO COMMUNICATING THE NEWS, 908 00:36:33,057 --> 00:36:34,392 RELAYING THE INFORMATION TO THE 909 00:36:34,392 --> 00:36:37,061 MEDIA AND TO THE PUBLIC IN VERY 910 00:36:37,061 --> 00:36:39,664 CLEAR, UNAMBIGUOUS WORDS. 911 00:36:39,664 --> 00:36:41,632 COMING FROM A WIRE SERVICE RADIO 912 00:36:41,632 --> 00:36:43,000 NETWORK BACKGROUND, YOU LEARN 913 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,002 VERY QUICKLY THAT YOU, NO ONE 914 00:36:45,002 --> 00:36:48,172 ELSE BUT YOU, WERE THE SINGULAR 915 00:36:48,172 --> 00:36:50,474 AUTHORITY FOR THE DISSEMINATION 916 00:36:50,474 --> 00:36:51,309 OF INFORMATION. 917 00:36:51,309 --> 00:36:54,512 YOU HAD TO BE CORRECT. 918 00:36:54,512 --> 00:36:55,079 ALL THE TIME. 919 00:36:55,079 --> 00:36:57,315 YOU HAD TO REPORT THE FACTS AND 920 00:36:57,315 --> 00:36:59,517 LET THE PUBLIC DECIDE FOR ITSELF 921 00:36:59,517 --> 00:37:02,086 HOW TO INTERPRET THAT 922 00:37:02,086 --> 00:37:02,186 INFORMATION. 923 00:37:02,186 --> 00:37:04,822 AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, YOU COULD 924 00:37:04,822 --> 00:37:08,359 NEVER, EVER BE WRONG. 925 00:37:08,359 --> 00:37:10,061 EVEN TODAY, A HALF CENTURY AFTER 926 00:37:10,061 --> 00:37:11,896 I BEGAN MY CAREER AT A SMALL 927 00:37:11,896 --> 00:37:15,566 RADIO STATION IN BRIDGE PORT, 928 00:37:15,566 --> 00:37:16,534 RESPONSIBILITY TO REPORT 929 00:37:16,534 --> 00:37:18,603 ACCURATELY EVERY SINGLE TIME 930 00:37:18,603 --> 00:37:21,939 FOLLOWS ME AS MY BIBLE OF 931 00:37:21,939 --> 00:37:22,239 BROADCASTING. 932 00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,508 IN AN ERA WHERE COMMUNICATIONS 933 00:37:24,508 --> 00:37:26,110 HAS BECOME SOMEWHAT IMPERSONAL, 934 00:37:26,110 --> 00:37:28,813 THE ART OF BROADCASTING AND THE 935 00:37:28,813 --> 00:37:30,748 TABLETS OF JOURNALISM ARE 936 00:37:30,748 --> 00:37:31,782 THREATENED LIKE NEVER BEFORE. 937 00:37:31,782 --> 00:37:34,251 READING A BOOK IS PASSE. 938 00:37:34,251 --> 00:37:36,087 THE SKILLS REQUIRED TO HOLD A 939 00:37:36,087 --> 00:37:37,655 CONVERSATION WITH ANOTHER PERSON 940 00:37:37,655 --> 00:37:40,257 ARE BECOMING EXTINCT. 941 00:37:40,257 --> 00:37:43,160 WRITING IS FAST BECOMING A LOST 942 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:43,294 ART. 943 00:37:43,294 --> 00:37:46,564 YET WE HAVE SO MANY MORE 944 00:37:46,564 --> 00:37:47,465 ADVENTURES TO TELL IN 945 00:37:47,465 --> 00:37:48,699 HUMANKIND'S ENDLESS JOURNEY TO 946 00:37:48,699 --> 00:37:50,501 THE STARS. 947 00:37:50,501 --> 00:37:52,770 TODAY, NO MORE AND NO LESS THAN 948 00:37:52,770 --> 00:37:53,938 THE SOLEMN RESPONSIBILITY I HAD 949 00:37:53,938 --> 00:37:56,073 MORE THAN A HALF CENTURY AGO TO 950 00:37:56,073 --> 00:37:57,942 TELL OTHER STORIES OF CONQUEST, 951 00:37:57,942 --> 00:38:00,111 TRIUMPH, AND TRAGEDY, WE ARE 952 00:38:00,111 --> 00:38:03,080 STILL THE STEWARDS OF THE SAME 953 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:04,615 RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT WE 954 00:38:04,615 --> 00:38:07,385 COMMUNICATE CLEARLY AND 955 00:38:07,385 --> 00:38:08,619 UNAMBIGUOUSLY, ARMED WITH AN 956 00:38:08,619 --> 00:38:09,887 ARSENAL OF INFORMATION WITH 957 00:38:09,887 --> 00:38:12,189 WHICH TO PROVIDE CONTEXT AND 958 00:38:12,189 --> 00:38:16,060 MEANING TO A WHOLE NEW WORLDWIDE 959 00:38:16,060 --> 00:38:18,863 WAY, HAS THE SAME THIRST FOR 960 00:38:18,863 --> 00:38:20,131 SPACE EXPLORATION AS I DID SO 961 00:38:20,131 --> 00:38:23,401 MANY DECADES AGO. 962 00:38:23,401 --> 00:38:25,736 WHEN ATLANTIS LANDED AT THE 963 00:38:25,736 --> 00:38:26,537 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER ALMOST SIX 964 00:38:26,537 --> 00:38:28,739 YEARS AGO, CLOSING OUT THE 965 00:38:28,739 --> 00:38:29,640 ICONIC SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM, I 966 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,308 WAS PRIVILEGED TO HAVE HAD THE 967 00:38:31,308 --> 00:38:33,144 HONOR TO REPORT TO THE WORLD 968 00:38:33,144 --> 00:38:35,746 THAT SPACE SHUTTLE HAD FIRED THE 969 00:38:35,746 --> 00:38:38,516 IMAGINATION OF A GENERATION. 970 00:38:38,516 --> 00:38:40,217 DEAR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES, 971 00:38:40,217 --> 00:38:42,353 IT'S TIME TO LIGHT THAT FIRE 972 00:38:42,353 --> 00:38:44,722 AGAIN THROUGH WORDS THAT MATTER. 973 00:38:44,722 --> 00:38:47,692 TO CLEAR UNAMBIGUOUS 974 00:38:47,692 --> 00:38:48,459 COMMUNICATIONS, WE CANNOT ONLY 975 00:38:48,459 --> 00:38:50,294 LIGHT THAT FIRE BUT STOKE IT 976 00:38:50,294 --> 00:38:53,431 INTO A WILD FIRE OF WONDERMENT. 977 00:38:53,431 --> 00:38:55,533 JOHN F. KENNEDY TOLD US IN HIS 978 00:38:55,533 --> 00:38:57,835 INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN 1961 THAT 979 00:38:57,835 --> 00:39:00,905 THE TORCH HAS BEEN PASSED TO A 980 00:39:00,905 --> 00:39:01,405 NEW GENERATION. 981 00:39:01,405 --> 00:39:02,740 WELL, IT'S TIME TO USE THAT 982 00:39:02,740 --> 00:39:05,042 TORCH TO REIGNITE THAT FIRE FOR 983 00:39:05,042 --> 00:39:09,146 YET ANOTHER NEW GENERATION AS WE 984 00:39:09,146 --> 00:39:09,914 PUNCH THROUGH THE VEIL OF LOW 985 00:39:09,914 --> 00:39:11,682 EARTH ORBIT AND IN DOING SO, WE 986 00:39:11,682 --> 00:39:13,150 CAN TELL THE WORLD OF OUR NEW 987 00:39:13,150 --> 00:39:15,653 JOURNEY TO THE STARS. 988 00:39:15,653 --> 00:39:18,022 BUT WE MUST DO SO WITH WORDS 989 00:39:18,022 --> 00:39:20,825 THAT MATTER, CLEARLY AND 990 00:39:20,825 --> 00:39:21,158 UNAMBIGUOUSLY. 991 00:39:21,158 --> 00:39:22,993 THAT'S THE TOUCH STONE OF MY 992 00:39:22,993 --> 00:39:25,629 CAREER, THE TOUCH STONE OF SO 993 00:39:25,629 --> 00:39:28,466 MANY JOURNALISTS WHO PRECEDED ME 994 00:39:28,466 --> 00:39:30,468 AND WHO LAID THE GROUND WORK FOR 995 00:39:30,468 --> 00:39:32,403 OUR ABILITY TO USE THE FIRST 996 00:39:32,403 --> 00:39:33,237 AMENDMENT TO INFORM AND EDUCATE 997 00:39:33,237 --> 00:39:34,004 THE WORLD. 998 00:39:34,004 --> 00:39:35,439 FOR ALL THE MILES I HAVE 999 00:39:35,439 --> 00:39:36,807 TRAVELED IN THE PURSUIT OF 1000 00:39:36,807 --> 00:39:38,509 REPORTING, THERE ARE MANY, MANY 1001 00:39:38,509 --> 00:39:40,811 MORE MILES TO GO. 1002 00:39:40,811 --> 00:39:43,581 NEVER FORGET, DEAR FRIENDS, THAT 1003 00:39:43,581 --> 00:39:45,182 THE POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD 1004 00:39:45,182 --> 00:39:46,450 THAT MOVED ME SO MUCH ON THE 1005 00:39:46,450 --> 00:39:49,920 NIGHT OF APRIL 12, 1961, REMAINS 1006 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,857 THE LIFE BLOOD, THE EPICENTER OF 1007 00:39:52,857 --> 00:39:53,824 COMMUNICATIONS, WHICH IS SO 1008 00:39:53,824 --> 00:39:56,427 VERY, VERY CRUCIAL IN ALL OF OUR 1009 00:39:56,427 --> 00:39:56,560 LIVES. 1010 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,497 IT MOVED ME, AND IT CAN MOVE ALL 1011 00:39:59,497 --> 00:40:01,832 OF US IN THE DAYS AND THE 1012 00:40:01,832 --> 00:40:03,768 DECADES TO COME, TO VENTURE 1013 00:40:03,768 --> 00:40:04,835 FORTH AND EXPLORE NEW WORLDS 1014 00:40:04,835 --> 00:40:06,070 THAT WE ONCE ONLY READ ABOUT IN 1015 00:40:06,070 --> 00:40:07,872 THE HISTORY BOOKS. 1016 00:40:07,872 --> 00:40:10,207 NOW, WE CAN WRITE NEW HISTORY 1017 00:40:10,207 --> 00:40:14,145 BOOKS AND ONCE AGAIN PASS THE 1018 00:40:14,145 --> 00:40:15,412 TORCH. 1019 00:40:15,412 --> 00:40:21,352 INCREDIBLE HONOR. 1020 00:40:21,352 --> 00:40:29,693 I WILL CHERISH IT FOREVER. 1021 00:40:29,693 --> 00:40:37,001 THANK YOU. 1022 00:40:37,001 --> 00:40:38,302 >> WOW. 1023 00:40:41,739 --> 00:40:40,738 WOW. 1024 00:40:41,739 --> 00:40:42,239 GEEZ. 1025 00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:43,707 ROB. 1026 00:40:43,707 --> 00:40:44,308 WHAT DO I SAY? 1027 00:40:44,308 --> 00:40:47,878 YOU KNOW, ROB IS -- ROB IS A MAN 1028 00:40:47,878 --> 00:40:48,512 OF MANY WORDS. 1029 00:40:48,512 --> 00:40:50,014 THERE ARE SO MANY WORDS AND SO 1030 00:40:50,014 --> 00:40:51,182 LITTLE TIME WHEN IT COMES TO 1031 00:40:51,182 --> 00:40:51,916 ROB, REALLY, WHEN YOU THINK 1032 00:40:51,916 --> 00:40:52,583 ABOUT IT. 1033 00:40:52,583 --> 00:40:54,518 WHEN I WAS COVERING LAUNCHES FOR 1034 00:40:54,518 --> 00:40:55,686 CNN, THAT WAS -- THOSE REMARKS 1035 00:40:55,686 --> 00:40:56,320 WERE BEAUTIFUL. 1036 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,389 WHEN I WAS COVERING LAUNCHES FOR 1037 00:40:58,389 --> 00:41:02,159 CNN, THE PRODUCERS INSISTED THAT 1038 00:41:02,159 --> 00:41:04,795 I WEIGH IN AND SAY SOMETHING 1039 00:41:04,795 --> 00:41:07,097 WHENEVER THE PALN CONSOLE WOULD 1040 00:41:07,097 --> 00:41:09,633 TAKE A PAUSE OR A BREAK. 1041 00:41:09,633 --> 00:41:11,602 THE PROBLEM WITH NAVY, OF 1042 00:41:11,602 --> 00:41:12,503 COURSE, IS THAT NEVER HAPPENED 1043 00:41:12,503 --> 00:41:15,372 SO I JUST EVENTUALLY JUST GAVE 1044 00:41:15,372 --> 00:41:18,609 JUST A VIEWER LIKE ALL OF YOU, 1045 00:41:18,609 --> 00:41:21,278 AND BUT SERIOUSLY, THIS MAN IS 1046 00:41:21,278 --> 00:41:21,545 POETIC. 1047 00:41:21,545 --> 00:41:23,614 I PULLED ONE LITTLE PIECE -- 1048 00:41:23,614 --> 00:41:25,683 THIS IS FROM STS 121. 1049 00:41:25,683 --> 00:41:27,484 I CAN'T DO THE FULL ROB NAVIAS. 1050 00:41:27,484 --> 00:41:29,253 WE CAN PROBABLY BRING HIM BACK 1051 00:41:29,253 --> 00:41:30,321 UP HERE FOR THIS. 1052 00:41:30,321 --> 00:41:33,524 DISCOVERY NOW FLYING ON THE 1053 00:41:33,524 --> 00:41:34,625 SINGULAR POWER OF ITS THREE 1054 00:41:34,625 --> 00:41:35,759 LIQUID FUEL MAIN ENGINES 1055 00:41:35,759 --> 00:41:37,461 DRAINING HALF A TON OF FUEL PER 1056 00:41:37,461 --> 00:41:38,262 SECOND FROM ITS FUEL TANK, ALL 1057 00:41:38,262 --> 00:41:39,997 THREE ENGINES ARE HUMMING ALONG 1058 00:41:39,997 --> 00:41:41,799 WITH THE THREE POWER-PRODUCING 1059 00:41:41,799 --> 00:41:43,167 FUEL CELLS. 1060 00:41:43,167 --> 00:41:44,535 DISCOVERY STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW, 1061 00:41:44,535 --> 00:41:46,470 SPEEDING TO A DATE WITH THE 1062 00:41:46,470 --> 00:41:48,239 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ON 1063 00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:49,707 THURSDAY. 1064 00:41:49,707 --> 00:41:51,508 THAT IS FRIGGING POETRY, ROB 1065 00:41:51,508 --> 00:41:51,942 NAVIAS. 1066 00:41:51,942 --> 00:41:53,744 THAT IS FRIGGING POETRY. 1067 00:41:53,744 --> 00:41:55,479 IT JUST COMES OUT. 1068 00:41:55,479 --> 00:41:57,748 IT JUST -- IT'S JUST THERE. 1069 00:41:57,748 --> 00:41:58,649 IT'S THERE. 1070 00:41:58,649 --> 00:41:59,350 HE'S GOT MORE. 1071 00:41:59,350 --> 00:42:03,454 HE CAN DO IT ALL NIGHT LONG. 1072 00:42:03,454 --> 00:42:05,089 HE ONCE DESCRIBED THE EXTERNAL 1073 00:42:05,089 --> 00:42:07,124 FUEL TANK AS BUTTER SCOTCH 1074 00:42:07,124 --> 00:42:07,524 COLORED. 1075 00:42:07,524 --> 00:42:10,160 SO NOT ONLY COULD I NOT GET A 1076 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,497 WORD IN EDGEWISE, I WAS HUNGRY. 1077 00:42:13,497 --> 00:42:14,932 BUT OF ALL THE THINGS THAT ROB 1078 00:42:14,932 --> 00:42:17,868 NAVIAS HAS SAID IN HIS ROLE AS 1079 00:42:17,868 --> 00:42:20,104 PAO AT NASA AND LORD KNOWS HE'S 1080 00:42:20,104 --> 00:42:21,505 SAID A LOT OF THINGS, WE ALL 1081 00:42:21,505 --> 00:42:23,674 KNOW HIS ALL-TIME FAVORITE LINE 1082 00:42:23,674 --> 00:42:26,677 IS PROBABLY YOURS AS WELL. 1083 00:42:26,677 --> 00:42:32,716 HOUSTON IS NOW IN CONTROL. 1084 00:42:32,716 --> 00:42:34,752 SO, WELCOME, ROB NAVIAS, TO OUR 1085 00:42:34,752 --> 00:42:35,953 ELITE BAND OF COMMUNICATORS. 1086 00:42:35,953 --> 00:42:37,721 WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE YOU IN THE 1087 00:42:37,721 --> 00:42:38,355 CLUB. 1088 00:42:38,355 --> 00:42:39,990 SECRET HANDSHAKE LESSONS OVER A 1089 00:42:39,990 --> 00:42:41,592 SINGLE MALT LATER. 1090 00:42:41,592 --> 00:42:43,260 THANK YOU, AND CONGRATULATIONS 1091 00:42:43,260 --> 00:42:43,827 TO YOU. 1092 00:42:43,827 --> 00:42:46,263 LET'S MOVE ON TO THE STELLAR 1093 00:42:46,263 --> 00:42:47,331 AWARDS, SHALL WE? 1094 00:42:47,331 --> 00:42:49,466 THE STELLAR AWARDS RECOGNIZE 1095 00:42:49,466 --> 00:42:50,601 PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE 1096 00:42:50,601 --> 00:42:51,535 SPACE PROGRAM WHO ARE MAKING 1097 00:42:51,535 --> 00:42:52,970 OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO ITS 1098 00:42:52,970 --> 00:42:54,738 SUCCESS AND WHO ARE VITAL TO THE 1099 00:42:54,738 --> 00:42:56,440 FUTURE OF THE NATION'S SPACE 1100 00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:57,074 EFFORT. 1101 00:42:57,074 --> 00:43:00,277 THIS YEAR, THERE WERE 114 1102 00:43:00,277 --> 00:43:01,779 INDIVIDUALS, 34 TEAMS FOR A 1103 00:43:01,779 --> 00:43:04,615 TOTAL OF 148 NOMINATIONS AND 23 1104 00:43:04,615 --> 00:43:06,116 DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS FROM 1105 00:43:06,116 --> 00:43:07,017 ACROSS INDUSTRY, NASA, AND THE 1106 00:43:07,017 --> 00:43:08,385 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. 1107 00:43:08,385 --> 00:43:10,487 WE'D LIKE TO THANK OUR STELLAR 1108 00:43:10,487 --> 00:43:13,490 RANKING TEAM OF DR. GLEN LUNNY, 1109 00:43:13,490 --> 00:43:16,994 ERNIE ALDRICH, COLONEL EILEEN 1110 00:43:16,994 --> 00:43:18,862 COLLINS, CAPTAIN MIKE COATS FOR 1111 00:43:18,862 --> 00:43:23,701 THE LABORIOUS AND DIFFICULT TASK 1112 00:43:23,701 --> 00:43:24,535 OF RANKING CANDIDATES. 1113 00:43:24,535 --> 00:43:26,904 IT ALWAYS HAPPENS RIGHT AROUND 1114 00:43:26,904 --> 00:43:27,738 TAX TIME AND IT'S REALLY A PAIN 1115 00:43:27,738 --> 00:43:28,973 IN THE BUTT BUT ONLY A FEW CAN 1116 00:43:28,973 --> 00:43:30,307 BE WINNERS TONIGHT BUT THEY 1117 00:43:30,307 --> 00:43:31,675 REALLY SHOULD ALL BE 1118 00:43:31,675 --> 00:43:31,842 CONGRATULATED. 1119 00:43:31,842 --> 00:43:32,977 DO THEY HAVE RIBBONS OR 1120 00:43:32,977 --> 00:43:33,811 SOMETHING ON THEM? 1121 00:43:33,811 --> 00:43:35,145 WHATEVER IT IS, GIVE THEM A HUG 1122 00:43:35,145 --> 00:43:38,215 OR SOMETHING. 1123 00:43:38,215 --> 00:43:40,851 DO THAT. 1124 00:43:40,851 --> 00:43:41,485 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I'M 1125 00:43:41,485 --> 00:43:44,888 HONORED TO INVITE TWO OF OUR 1126 00:43:44,888 --> 00:43:45,990 NATION'S ASTRONAUTS TO THE 1127 00:43:45,990 --> 00:43:48,359 PODIUM TO PRESENT THE STELLAR 1128 00:43:48,359 --> 00:43:49,193 AWARDS. 1129 00:43:49,193 --> 00:43:51,595 WE ARE JOINED BY A CREW SURGEON, 1130 00:43:51,595 --> 00:43:52,696 FLIGHT ENGINEER, MISSION 1131 00:43:52,696 --> 00:43:53,897 SPECIALIST, SPACE WALKER, 1132 00:43:53,897 --> 00:43:56,300 VETERAN OF THE EXPEDITION 44 AND 1133 00:43:56,300 --> 00:43:59,103 45 WITH 141 DAYS OF SPACE, HE IS 1134 00:43:59,103 --> 00:44:02,639 THE ONLY MAN TO PLAY BAG PIPES 1135 00:44:02,639 --> 00:44:04,341 IN SPACE. 1136 00:44:04,341 --> 00:44:05,943 WE ARE TOLD, AFTER THE 1137 00:44:05,943 --> 00:44:07,745 PERFORMANCE, HIS CREW MATES 1138 00:44:07,745 --> 00:44:08,746 VOTED EITHER HE OR THE 1139 00:44:08,746 --> 00:44:12,583 INSTRUMENT HAD TO GO OUT THE AIR 1140 00:44:12,583 --> 00:44:12,616 LOCK. 1141 00:44:12,616 --> 00:44:14,218 HE IS JOINED BY A SPACE WALKER 1142 00:44:14,218 --> 00:44:17,221 AND A VETERAN OF EXPEDITION 48, 1143 00:44:17,221 --> 00:44:20,657 49, 115 DAYS IN SPACE, AND 30 1144 00:44:20,657 --> 00:44:23,994 HUGE MINUTES IN THE OVAL OFFICE. 1145 00:44:23,994 --> 00:44:29,533 PLEASE WELCOME KJELL LINDGREN 1146 00:44:29,533 --> 00:44:39,376 AND KATE RUBINS TO THE STAGE. 1147 00:44:39,376 --> 00:44:42,813 ♪♪ 1148 00:44:42,813 --> 00:44:44,415 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 1149 00:44:44,415 --> 00:44:47,684 YOU KNOW, MY LOVELY WIFE, 1150 00:44:47,684 --> 00:44:51,655 CHRISTY, IS A VIOLINIST AND 1151 00:44:51,655 --> 00:44:53,891 EARLY ON, SHE SHARED WITH ME A 1152 00:44:53,891 --> 00:44:54,892 PERFORMANCE SECRET AND SAID, 1153 00:44:54,892 --> 00:44:56,827 NEVER FOLLOW A BAN JO. 1154 00:44:56,827 --> 00:44:58,462 SO WE ARE FOLLOWING ROB NAVIAS 1155 00:44:58,462 --> 00:45:04,101 AND MIELS O'BRIEN, SO I THINK 1156 00:45:04,101 --> 00:45:04,368 WE'VE JUST BEEN BANJOED. 1157 00:45:04,368 --> 00:45:05,969 THIS IS REALLY FANCY. 1158 00:45:05,969 --> 00:45:07,271 IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE ACADEMY 1159 00:45:07,271 --> 00:45:09,106 AWARDS OF THE SPACE INDUSTRY. 1160 00:45:09,106 --> 00:45:10,240 AND YOU LOOK VERY NICE, KATE. 1161 00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:11,608 >> WELL, THANK YOU. 1162 00:45:11,608 --> 00:45:13,110 >> AND I THINK I'M SUPPOSED TO 1163 00:45:13,110 --> 00:45:14,178 ASK WHO ARE YOU WEARING TONIGHT? 1164 00:45:14,178 --> 00:45:17,081 >> OH, YOU KNOW, THIS OLD THING. 1165 00:45:17,081 --> 00:45:19,817 I ACTUALLY PREFER TO WEAR AISLE 1166 00:45:19,817 --> 00:45:24,288 SEAT OVER, SAY AN E.M.U. 1167 00:45:24,288 --> 00:45:26,290 YOU DON'T LOOK SO HALF BAD 1168 00:45:26,290 --> 00:45:29,726 YOURSELF. 1169 00:45:29,726 --> 00:45:30,494 WHEN'S THE LAST TIME YOU WORE A 1170 00:45:30,494 --> 00:45:30,694 TUX? 1171 00:45:30,694 --> 00:45:32,229 >> I COULDN'T TELL YOU ALTHOUGH 1172 00:45:32,229 --> 00:45:33,831 THE LAST TIME I WENT TO A FORMAL 1173 00:45:33,831 --> 00:45:35,632 EVENT, I WORE A KILT SO FOR 1174 00:45:35,632 --> 00:45:35,799 THOSE OF YOU IN THE FRONT ROW, 1175 00:45:35,799 --> 00:45:40,170 YOU'RE WELCOME. 1176 00:45:40,170 --> 00:45:41,505 >> WELL, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 1177 00:45:41,505 --> 00:45:43,140 IT IS INDEED AN HONOR FOR BOTH 1178 00:45:43,140 --> 00:45:44,808 OF US TO BE HERE TONIGHT TO HELP 1179 00:45:44,808 --> 00:45:47,311 PRESENT THE STELLAR AWARDS. 1180 00:45:47,311 --> 00:45:50,514 >> AND KATE'S A SPECIAL HONOR TO 1181 00:45:50,514 --> 00:45:53,250 SHARE THE STAGE WITH YOU SINCE 1182 00:45:53,250 --> 00:45:55,619 WE ARE CLASSMATES OF THE 1183 00:45:55,619 --> 00:45:57,321 ASTRONAUT CLASS OF 2009, 1184 00:45:57,321 --> 00:45:59,256 AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS THE 1185 00:45:59,256 --> 00:45:59,556 CHUMPS. 1186 00:45:59,556 --> 00:46:03,961 AND AS ASTRONAUTS, WE KNOW 1187 00:46:03,961 --> 00:46:04,761 FIRSTHAND THAT MISSION SAFETY 1188 00:46:04,761 --> 00:46:06,263 AND SUCCESS ARE DUE TO THE 1189 00:46:06,263 --> 00:46:07,631 EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE WHO GO ABOVE 1190 00:46:07,631 --> 00:46:08,432 AND BEYOND TODAY. 1191 00:46:08,432 --> 00:46:10,968 THE STELLAR NOMINEES HERE 1192 00:46:10,968 --> 00:46:12,436 TONIGHT TRULY REPRESENT THE BEST 1193 00:46:12,436 --> 00:46:17,040 IN OUR SPACE PROGRAM. 1194 00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:17,741 >> THE STELLAR AWARDS ARE 1195 00:46:17,741 --> 00:46:18,842 IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY RECOGNIZE 1196 00:46:18,842 --> 00:46:20,611 PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES. 1197 00:46:20,611 --> 00:46:22,713 A PANEL OF EXPERTS REVIEWED ALL 1198 00:46:22,713 --> 00:46:24,848 THE NOMINEES' BACKGROUNDS AND 1199 00:46:24,848 --> 00:46:25,749 ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO DETERMINE THE 1200 00:46:25,749 --> 00:46:26,583 SIGNIFICANCE OF THEIR 1201 00:46:26,583 --> 00:46:28,952 CONTRIBUTION TO OUR SPACE 1202 00:46:28,952 --> 00:46:30,020 PROGRAM. 1203 00:46:30,020 --> 00:46:35,325 THE BREADTH AND THE SCOPE OF THE 1204 00:46:35,325 --> 00:46:35,792 WORK IS AMAZING AND PROOF 1205 00:46:35,792 --> 00:46:37,227 POSITIVE THAT WE HAVE A WEALTH 1206 00:46:37,227 --> 00:46:38,462 OF UNUSUALLY BRIGHT AND TALENTED 1207 00:46:38,462 --> 00:46:40,397 PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING TO MAKE 1208 00:46:40,397 --> 00:46:42,366 SURE THE SPACE PROGRAM HAS A 1209 00:46:42,366 --> 00:46:43,300 VERY PROMISING FUTURE. 1210 00:46:43,300 --> 00:46:44,501 >> IT TAKES THE DEDICATION AND 1211 00:46:44,501 --> 00:46:45,669 EFFORT OF THOUSANDS TO GET US 1212 00:46:45,669 --> 00:46:47,871 INTO SPACE AND TONIGHT'S 1213 00:46:47,871 --> 00:46:48,705 NOMINEES REPRESENT THE BEST OF 1214 00:46:48,705 --> 00:46:50,140 OUR BEST. 1215 00:46:50,140 --> 00:46:51,975 THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ALL THE 1216 00:46:51,975 --> 00:46:53,610 FOLKS INVOLVED IN THE SPACE 1217 00:46:53,610 --> 00:46:55,145 PROGRAM AND PARTICULARLY THE 1218 00:46:55,145 --> 00:46:57,214 STELLAR NOMINEES WE HONOR 1219 00:46:57,214 --> 00:46:58,482 TONIGHT HAVE CREATED AND 1220 00:46:58,482 --> 00:47:00,317 SUSTAINED THE CAPABILITY AND 1221 00:47:00,317 --> 00:47:01,685 LEADERSHIP IN SPACE THAT OUR 1222 00:47:01,685 --> 00:47:03,220 NATION RELIES ON. 1223 00:47:03,220 --> 00:47:04,955 >> AT THIS TIME, WE'D LIKE TO 1224 00:47:04,955 --> 00:47:08,125 RECOGNIZE THE STELLAR AWARD 1225 00:47:08,125 --> 00:47:08,725 NOMINEES BY ASKING ALL OF THEM 1226 00:47:08,725 --> 00:47:09,393 TO STAND. 1227 00:47:09,393 --> 00:47:10,994 PLEASE JOIN US IN CONGRATULATING 1228 00:47:10,994 --> 00:47:16,066 ALL OF THE NOMINEES WITH A 1229 00:47:16,066 --> 00:47:26,643 HEARTY ROUND OF APPLAUSE. 1230 00:47:26,643 --> 00:47:32,082 [ APPLAUSE ] 1231 00:47:32,082 --> 00:47:33,917 >> NOW, IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T 1232 00:47:33,917 --> 00:47:35,152 NOTICED, ALL THE STELLAR AWARD 1233 00:47:35,152 --> 00:47:36,253 NOMINEES ARE WEARING BLUE 1234 00:47:36,253 --> 00:47:37,154 RIBBONS THIS EVENING SO THEY CAN 1235 00:47:37,154 --> 00:47:37,688 BE RECOGNIZED. 1236 00:47:37,688 --> 00:47:39,122 >> SO WE'RE GOING TO PRESENT THE 1237 00:47:39,122 --> 00:47:40,524 AWARDS IN FOUR CATEGORIES, AND 1238 00:47:40,524 --> 00:47:41,825 WE'LL ASK ALL THE WINNERS IN 1239 00:47:41,825 --> 00:47:43,393 EACH CATEGORY TO COME TO THE 1240 00:47:43,393 --> 00:47:45,195 STAGE TOGETHER TO RECEIVE THEIR 1241 00:47:45,195 --> 00:47:47,364 AWARDS AND NAMES ARE GOING TO BE 1242 00:47:47,364 --> 00:47:49,066 CALLED IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER. 1243 00:47:49,066 --> 00:47:50,801 >> WE ARE PRESENTING AWARDS IN 1244 00:47:50,801 --> 00:47:52,970 EARLY CAREER, MID CAREER, LATE 1245 00:47:52,970 --> 00:47:54,738 CAREER, AND TEAM CATEGORIES. 1246 00:47:54,738 --> 00:47:56,273 AND WITHIN EACH OF THESE GROUPS, 1247 00:47:56,273 --> 00:47:57,541 NOMINATIONS WERE SOLICITED FROM 1248 00:47:57,541 --> 00:48:00,611 ACROSS THE SPACE INDUSTRY. 1249 00:48:00,611 --> 00:48:01,979 NOMINEES INVOLVED IN GOVERNMENT 1250 00:48:01,979 --> 00:48:02,946 AND CORPORATE PROGRAMS AS WELL 1251 00:48:02,946 --> 00:48:05,649 AS THOSE INVOLVED IN HUMAN AND 1252 00:48:05,649 --> 00:48:07,184 UNMANNED SPACE FLIGHT 1253 00:48:07,184 --> 00:48:07,484 ACTIVITIES. 1254 00:48:07,484 --> 00:48:08,719 >> AND AS MUCH AS WE'D LIKE TO, 1255 00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:09,920 WE ARE SORRY TO SAY WE DON'T 1256 00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,589 HAVE ENOUGH TIME FOR EACH WINNER 1257 00:48:12,589 --> 00:48:13,890 TO MAKE REMARKS SO YOU'RE JUST 1258 00:48:13,890 --> 00:48:15,225 GOING TO HAVE TO LISTEN TO US. 1259 00:48:15,225 --> 00:48:15,959 SORRY ABOUT THAT. 1260 00:48:15,959 --> 00:48:18,729 SHALL WE GET STARTED. 1261 00:48:18,729 --> 00:48:20,330 >> OKAY. 1262 00:48:20,330 --> 00:48:21,632 SO, OUR FIRST STELLAR AWARDS 1263 00:48:21,632 --> 00:48:22,666 WILL GO TO THOSE WHO WERE IN THE 1264 00:48:22,666 --> 00:48:25,969 EARLY STAGES OF THEIR CAREERS. 1265 00:48:25,969 --> 00:48:26,703 THERE ARE SEVEN WINNERS IN THIS 1266 00:48:26,703 --> 00:48:30,340 CATEGORY SELECTED FROM A FIELD 1267 00:48:30,340 --> 00:48:31,441 OF 31 CANDIDATES. 1268 00:48:31,441 --> 00:48:33,277 AS I CALL THE NAMES OF THE 1269 00:48:33,277 --> 00:48:34,945 WINNERS, I'D LIKE THEM TO JOIN 1270 00:48:34,945 --> 00:48:36,947 US AT THE FOOT OF THE STAGE AND 1271 00:48:36,947 --> 00:48:37,948 PLEASE HOLD YOUR APPLAUSE UNTIL 1272 00:48:37,948 --> 00:48:39,049 ALL OF THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN 1273 00:48:39,049 --> 00:48:39,182 ANNOUNCED. 1274 00:48:39,182 --> 00:48:42,252 SO THE WINNER IN THE EARLY 1275 00:48:42,252 --> 00:48:46,590 CAREER CATEGORY IS "LA LA LAND." 1276 00:48:46,590 --> 00:48:49,693 ALL RIGHT. 1277 00:48:49,693 --> 00:48:49,826 OH. 1278 00:48:49,826 --> 00:48:50,961 SORRY. 1279 00:48:50,961 --> 00:48:51,762 WRONG ENVELOPE. 1280 00:48:51,762 --> 00:48:51,928 SORRY. 1281 00:48:51,928 --> 00:48:52,863 SORRY ABOUT THAT. 1282 00:48:52,863 --> 00:48:56,199 I'M SO EMBARRASSED. 1283 00:48:56,199 --> 00:48:56,600 THE WINNERS IN THE EARLY CAREER 1284 00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:00,237 CATEGORY ARE CHELSEA SHEPARD OF 1285 00:49:00,237 --> 00:49:05,942 SGT, JOEY EDGAR OF OCEANEERING 1286 00:49:05,942 --> 00:49:08,812 SPACE SYSTEMS. 1287 00:49:08,812 --> 00:49:12,382 RUSSELL, PETER MASSEY OF JACOBS, 1288 00:49:12,382 --> 00:49:14,785 SARAH WALLACE OF NASA'S JOHNSON 1289 00:49:14,785 --> 00:49:17,921 SPACE CENTER, CHRIS IBEE OF 1290 00:49:17,921 --> 00:49:20,857 SPACEX, AND JASON SHAPIRO OF 1291 00:49:20,857 --> 00:49:26,496 AEROJET ROCKETDYNE. 1292 00:49:26,496 --> 00:49:34,771 PLEASE COME AND JOIN US AT THE 1293 00:49:34,771 --> 00:49:47,684 BASE OF THE STAIRS. 1294 00:49:47,684 --> 00:49:49,653 >> THE FIRST AWARD GOES TO 1295 00:49:49,653 --> 00:49:50,487 CHELSEA SHEPHERD FOR HER 1296 00:49:50,487 --> 00:49:52,055 OUTSTANDING DEDICATION, 1297 00:49:52,055 --> 00:49:53,523 LEADERSHIP, AND SUPPORT TO 1298 00:49:53,523 --> 00:49:56,493 ASSEMBLY AND MAINTENANCE 1299 00:49:56,493 --> 00:50:00,297 OPERATIONS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL 1300 00:50:00,297 --> 00:50:05,635 SPACE STATION. 1301 00:50:05,635 --> 00:50:10,474 JOEY EDGAR OF OCEAN NEERAING 1302 00:50:10,474 --> 00:50:15,712 SPACE SYSTEMS IS RECOGNIZED FOR 1303 00:50:15,712 --> 00:50:16,913 UNWAVERING ATTENTION TO DETAIL 1304 00:50:16,913 --> 00:50:20,083 AND EXEMPLARY WORK ETHIC.EERING SPACE 1305 00:50:20,083 --> 00:50:22,119 SYSTEMS IS RECOGNIZED FOR 1306 00:50:22,119 --> 00:50:24,488 UNWAVERING ATTENTION TO DETAIL 1307 00:50:24,488 --> 00:50:28,792 AND EXEMPLARY WORK ETHIC. 1308 00:50:28,792 --> 00:50:30,627 RUSSELL VILA OF THE U.S. AIR 1309 00:50:30,627 --> 00:50:32,796 FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY IS 1310 00:50:32,796 --> 00:50:34,331 RECOGNIZED FOR EXCEPTIONAL 1311 00:50:34,331 --> 00:50:36,400 TECHNICAL EXPERTISE IN SOLVING 1312 00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:37,934 SIGNIFICANT RADAR ENGINEERING 1313 00:50:37,934 --> 00:50:40,170 CHALLENGES TO SUPPORT SPACE 1314 00:50:40,170 --> 00:50:43,173 VEHICLE DESIGN IN MAJOR 1315 00:50:43,173 --> 00:50:46,743 GROUND-BASED RADIO TELESCOPE 1316 00:50:46,743 --> 00:50:51,248 UPGRADES. 1317 00:50:51,248 --> 00:50:53,216 PETER MASI OF JACOBS IS 1318 00:50:53,216 --> 00:50:54,951 RECOGNIZED FOR EXCEPTIONAL 1319 00:50:54,951 --> 00:50:57,354 CONTRIBUTIONS WHICH ENABLE OR 1320 00:50:57,354 --> 00:50:58,822 CONTINUOUS PRESENCE IN LOW EARTH 1321 00:50:58,822 --> 00:51:00,590 ORBIT ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL 1322 00:51:00,590 --> 00:51:03,126 SPACE STATION AND ARE SHAPING 1323 00:51:03,126 --> 00:51:04,928 OUR ABILITY TO EXTEND HUMAN 1324 00:51:04,928 --> 00:51:11,368 EXPLORATION TO MARS AND BEYOND. 1325 00:51:11,368 --> 00:51:13,203 SARAH WALLACE OF NASA'S JOHNSON 1326 00:51:13,203 --> 00:51:15,305 SPACE CENTER IS RECOGNIZED FOR 1327 00:51:15,305 --> 00:51:18,742 CHAMPIONING A GAME-CHANGING 1328 00:51:18,742 --> 00:51:24,214 BIOMOLECULE SEQUENCER THAT WAS 1329 00:51:24,214 --> 00:51:26,416 SUCCESSFULLY DEMONSTRATED AS A 1330 00:51:26,416 --> 00:51:29,719 SCIENTIFIC TOOL ON BOARD THE 1331 00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:30,687 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 1332 00:51:30,687 --> 00:51:33,123 CHRIS EBY OF SPACEX IS 1333 00:51:33,123 --> 00:51:33,723 RECOGNIZED FOR OUTSTANDING 1334 00:51:33,723 --> 00:51:34,858 TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND 1335 00:51:34,858 --> 00:51:37,561 LEADERSHIP OVERSEEING THE 1336 00:51:37,561 --> 00:51:38,261 COMMERCIAL CREW SPACE SUIT 1337 00:51:38,261 --> 00:51:48,305 QUALIFICATION MILESTONE. 1338 00:51:48,305 --> 00:51:49,906 AND THE FINAL EARLY CAREER AWARD 1339 00:51:49,906 --> 00:51:52,976 GOES TO JASON SHAPIRO OF AEROJET 1340 00:51:52,976 --> 00:51:54,077 ROCKETDYNE FOR OUTSTANDING 1341 00:51:54,077 --> 00:51:56,079 LEADERSHIP IN TESTING OF LARGE 1342 00:51:56,079 --> 00:52:04,921 ROCKETS FROM THE ANTARES AJ 26 1343 00:52:04,921 --> 00:52:07,290 TO THE ORION JETTISON MOTOR. 1344 00:52:07,290 --> 00:52:08,091 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE 1345 00:52:08,091 --> 00:52:09,326 JOIN US IN CONGRATULATES ALL OF 1346 00:52:09,326 --> 00:52:09,993 THE STELLAR AWARD WINNERS IN THE 1347 00:52:09,993 --> 00:52:18,101 EARLY CAREER CATEGORY. 1348 00:52:18,101 --> 00:52:21,204 [ APPLAUSE ] 1349 00:52:52,168 --> 00:52:39,623 ♪♪ 1350 00:52:52,168 --> 00:52:54,137 >> CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE 1351 00:52:54,137 --> 00:52:55,372 EARLY CAREER AWARD WINNERS. 1352 00:52:55,372 --> 00:52:57,374 WE HAVE NINE WINNERS IN THE MID 1353 00:52:57,374 --> 00:52:58,742 CAREER CATEGORY SELECTED FROM A 1354 00:52:58,742 --> 00:53:00,010 FIELD OF 43 CANDIDATES. 1355 00:53:00,010 --> 00:53:01,945 I'D LIKE TO INVITE TO THE FOOT 1356 00:53:01,945 --> 00:53:06,316 OF THE STAIRS KENNETH ANDERLY OF 1357 00:53:06,316 --> 00:53:07,517 JACOBS, LIEUTENANT COLONEL RICH 1358 00:53:07,517 --> 00:53:09,219 BECKMAN OF THE UNITED STATES AIR 1359 00:53:09,219 --> 00:53:14,491 FORCE, NICK UTLEY OF THE BOEING 1360 00:53:14,491 --> 00:53:18,194 COMPANY, BOB MASSEY OF NASA JET 1361 00:53:18,194 --> 00:53:21,665 PROPULSION LABORATORY, CAROLYN 1362 00:53:21,665 --> 00:53:27,270 OVERMYER OF LOCKHEED MARTIN, 1363 00:53:27,270 --> 00:53:31,741 RONNIE BACCUS AND GARY LAI OF 1364 00:53:31,741 --> 00:53:50,293 BLUE ORIGIN. 1365 00:53:50,293 --> 00:53:59,803 ♪♪ 1366 00:53:59,803 --> 00:54:01,671 KENNETH ANDERLE OF JAY COBS IS 1367 00:54:01,671 --> 00:54:03,440 RECOGNIZED FOR KPEFRM LARY 1368 00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,775 SERVICE TO JSC AND THE JAMES 1369 00:54:05,775 --> 00:54:07,177 WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE AND 1370 00:54:07,177 --> 00:54:08,178 PROMOTING THE ADVANCEMENT OF 1371 00:54:08,178 --> 00:54:18,021 SPACE EXPLORATION. 1372 00:54:18,021 --> 00:54:19,956 LIEUTENANT COLONEL RICH BECKMAN 1373 00:54:19,956 --> 00:54:20,523 OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE 1374 00:54:20,523 --> 00:54:22,659 IS RECOGNIZED FOR EXCEPTIONAL 1375 00:54:22,659 --> 00:54:24,361 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND TECHNICAL 1376 00:54:24,361 --> 00:54:26,262 AND PROGRAMMATIC PROBLEM SOLVING 1377 00:54:26,262 --> 00:54:28,131 LEADING TO NUMEROUS SUCCESSFUL 1378 00:54:28,131 --> 00:54:29,532 CLASSIFIED MILITARY OPERATIONS 1379 00:54:29,532 --> 00:54:32,135 AND GPS CAPABILITIES FOR 1 1380 00:54:32,135 --> 00:54:41,277 BILLION USERS WORLDWIDE. 1381 00:54:41,277 --> 00:54:43,346 NICK UTLEY OF THE BOEING COMPANY 1382 00:54:43,346 --> 00:54:46,016 IS RECOGNIZED FOR SUSTAINED 1383 00:54:46,016 --> 00:54:46,950 SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE IN 1384 00:54:46,950 --> 00:54:48,852 ELECTRICAL WIRING DESIGN AND 1385 00:54:48,852 --> 00:54:49,552 WIRING INSTALLATION FOR HUMAN 1386 00:54:49,552 --> 00:55:01,865 SPACE FLIGHT APPLICATIONS. 1387 00:55:01,865 --> 00:55:04,534 JEFF OF ORBITAL ATK IS 1388 00:55:04,534 --> 00:55:05,568 RECOGNIZED FOR OUTSTANDING 1389 00:55:05,568 --> 00:55:07,470 LEADERSHIP OF THE ORION LAUNCH 1390 00:55:07,470 --> 00:55:08,938 ABORT ATTITUDE CONTROL MOTOR AND 1391 00:55:08,938 --> 00:55:10,974 RECONSTITUTING THE TEAM AND 1392 00:55:10,974 --> 00:55:11,841 GUIDING IT THROUGH SUCCESSFUL 1393 00:55:11,841 --> 00:55:23,386 CRITICAL DESIGN REVIEWS. 1394 00:55:23,386 --> 00:55:26,656 BOB MASE IS RECOGNIZED FOR 1395 00:55:26,656 --> 00:55:27,991 OUTSTANDING MANAGEMENTS OF 1396 00:55:27,991 --> 00:55:31,127 EXCEPTIONALLY SUCCESSFUL 1397 00:55:31,127 --> 00:55:34,664 PROJECTS EXPLORING THE SOLAR 1398 00:55:34,664 --> 00:55:39,736 SYSTEM. 1399 00:55:39,736 --> 00:55:41,071 CAROLLING OVERMYER OF LOCKHEED 1400 00:55:41,071 --> 00:55:43,740 MARTIN IS RECOGNIZED FOR 1401 00:55:43,740 --> 00:55:44,841 TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE IN MANAGING 1402 00:55:44,841 --> 00:55:45,875 THE DESIGN AND THE DEVELOPMENT 1403 00:55:45,875 --> 00:56:00,690 OF THE ORION SERVICE MODULE. 1404 00:56:00,690 --> 00:56:02,726 WHICH YOU CAN FIELD IS 1405 00:56:02,726 --> 00:56:05,061 RECOGNIZED FOR INVALUABLE 1406 00:56:05,061 --> 00:56:06,763 CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD THE MISSION 1407 00:56:06,763 --> 00:56:08,998 SUCCESS OF THE DELTA VEHICLE AND 1408 00:56:08,998 --> 00:56:10,500 THE ROCKET ENGINES THROUGH 1409 00:56:10,500 --> 00:56:13,236 LEADERSHIP, MENTORSHIP, 1410 00:56:13,236 --> 00:56:16,206 TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE, AND 1411 00:56:16,206 --> 00:56:21,111 INNOVATION. 1412 00:56:21,111 --> 00:56:24,347 RONNIE BACCUS OF NASA JOHNSON 1413 00:56:24,347 --> 00:56:26,015 SPACE CENTER IS RECOGNIZED FOR 1414 00:56:26,015 --> 00:56:27,283 OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP OF THE 1415 00:56:27,283 --> 00:56:27,917 ORION HEAT SHIELD BLOCK BOND 1416 00:56:27,917 --> 00:56:37,460 VERIFICATION EFFORTS. 1417 00:56:37,460 --> 00:56:40,196 AND FINALLY, GARY LAI OF BLUE 1418 00:56:40,196 --> 00:56:41,531 ORIGIN FOR OUTSTANDING 1419 00:56:41,531 --> 00:56:43,032 LEADERSHIP OF THE NEW SHEPARD 1420 00:56:43,032 --> 00:56:45,335 TECHNICAL TEAM, WHICH PERFORMED 1421 00:56:45,335 --> 00:56:47,137 FIVE LAUNCHES AND LANDINGS OF 1422 00:56:47,137 --> 00:56:59,516 THE SAME BOOSTER IN ONE YEAR. 1423 00:56:59,516 --> 00:57:00,383 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE 1424 00:57:00,383 --> 00:57:00,817 CONGRATULATE ALL OF THE WINNERS 1425 00:57:00,817 --> 00:57:34,017 IN THE MID CAREER CATEGORY. 1426 00:57:34,017 --> 00:57:44,093 [ APPLAUSE ] 1427 00:57:44,093 --> 00:57:46,863 >> THE FINAL INDIVIDUAL AWARD 1428 00:57:46,863 --> 00:57:48,097 THIS EVENING GO TO THOSE IN THE 1429 00:57:48,097 --> 00:57:49,098 LATE CAREER CATEGORY. 1430 00:57:49,098 --> 00:57:50,300 OF THE 41 NOMINATIONS RECEIVED 1431 00:57:50,300 --> 00:57:52,836 IN THIS CATEGORY, WE HAVE 9 1432 00:57:52,836 --> 00:57:53,636 WINNERS AND I WOULD LIKE TO 1433 00:57:53,636 --> 00:57:55,371 INVITE ALL OF THEM TO THE FOOT 1434 00:57:55,371 --> 00:57:57,540 OF THE STAGE AS THEIR NAMES ARE 1435 00:57:57,540 --> 00:57:57,674 CALLED. 1436 00:57:57,674 --> 00:57:59,409 THEY ARE MARK FERGUSON OF 1437 00:57:59,409 --> 00:58:01,377 ORBITAL ATK. 1438 00:58:01,377 --> 00:58:04,013 KENNY TODD OF NASA JOHNSON SPACE 1439 00:58:04,013 --> 00:58:04,814 CENTER. 1440 00:58:04,814 --> 00:58:08,051 JOHN VOLLMER OF THE BOEING 1441 00:58:08,051 --> 00:58:08,484 COMPANY. 1442 00:58:08,484 --> 00:58:12,021 DR. JEFF DAVIS OF NASA'S JOHNSON 1443 00:58:12,021 --> 00:58:15,558 SPACE CENTER. 1444 00:58:15,558 --> 00:58:19,462 MICHAEL MELGARES OF JACOBS. 1445 00:58:19,462 --> 00:58:20,330 DALE CLOUD. 1446 00:58:20,330 --> 00:58:24,601 CAM GHAFFARIAN OF SGT. 1447 00:58:24,601 --> 00:58:26,336 MARK RAYMOND OF NASA'S JET 1448 00:58:26,336 --> 00:58:27,237 PROPULSION LABORATORY. 1449 00:58:27,237 --> 00:58:27,570 AND SCOTT McINTYRE OF THE BOEING 1450 00:58:27,570 --> 00:58:52,528 COMPANY. 1451 00:58:52,528 --> 00:58:55,164 MARK FERGUSON OF ORBITAL ATK IS 1452 00:58:55,164 --> 00:58:56,499 RECOGNIZED FOR EXCEPTIONAL 1453 00:58:56,499 --> 00:58:57,901 TECHNICAL AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT 1454 00:58:57,901 --> 00:59:01,371 OF THE PRESSURIZED CARGO MODULE 1455 00:59:01,371 --> 00:59:09,612 OF SIGNUS. 1456 00:59:09,612 --> 00:59:11,481 KENNY TODD OF NASA'S JOHNSON 1457 00:59:11,481 --> 00:59:13,283 SPACE CENTER IS RECOGNIZED FOR 1458 00:59:13,283 --> 00:59:14,851 EXCEPTIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 1459 00:59:14,851 --> 00:59:19,022 EXPERTLY AND SUCCESSFULLY 1460 00:59:19,022 --> 00:59:23,660 LEADING DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS 1461 00:59:23,660 --> 00:59:32,769 FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STATION. 1462 00:59:32,769 --> 00:59:34,070 JOHN VOLLMER OF THE BOEING 1463 00:59:34,070 --> 00:59:35,138 COMPANY IS RECOGNIZED FOR 1464 00:59:35,138 --> 00:59:37,407 OUTSTANDING DEDICATION AND 1465 00:59:37,407 --> 00:59:37,907 LEADERSHIP ON THE INTERNATIONAL 1466 00:59:37,907 --> 00:59:39,609 SPACE STATION, SUPPORTING NASA'S 1467 00:59:39,609 --> 00:59:40,710 MISSION TO EXPLORE SPACE AND 1468 00:59:40,710 --> 00:59:52,655 EXPAND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. 1469 00:59:52,655 --> 00:59:54,624 DR. JEFF DAVIS OF NASA'S JOHNSON 1470 00:59:54,624 --> 00:59:55,992 SPACE CENTER IS RECOGNIZED FOR 1471 00:59:55,992 --> 00:59:57,393 EXCEPTIONAL CAREER INNOVATIONS 1472 00:59:57,393 --> 00:59:58,761 AND COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP AS 1473 00:59:58,761 --> 01:00:00,730 DIRECTOR OF NASA'S HUMAN HEALTH 1474 01:00:00,730 --> 01:00:03,066 AND PERFORMANCE DIRECTORATE, 1475 01:00:03,066 --> 01:00:03,566 GREATLY IMPACTING AGENCY'S 1476 01:00:03,566 --> 01:00:17,213 STRATEGIC GOALS. 1477 01:00:17,213 --> 01:00:19,082 MICHAEL MELGARES IS RECOGNIZED 1478 01:00:19,082 --> 01:00:21,484 FOR AN ACCOMPLISHED CAREER FROM 1479 01:00:21,484 --> 01:00:23,186 APOLLO TO MULTIPURPOSE CREW 1480 01:00:23,186 --> 01:00:32,428 VEHICLE ORION. 1481 01:00:32,428 --> 01:00:34,230 DALE CLOUD OF UTC AEROSPACE 1482 01:00:34,230 --> 01:00:36,032 SYSTEMS IS RECOGNIZED FOR 1483 01:00:36,032 --> 01:00:38,167 EXCEPTIONAL TECHNICAL SKILL AND 1484 01:00:38,167 --> 01:00:39,235 LEADERSHIP IN ENGINEERING FOR 1485 01:00:39,235 --> 01:00:40,903 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEMS AND 1486 01:00:40,903 --> 01:00:41,738 COMPONENTS FOR BOTH HUMAN AND 1487 01:00:41,738 --> 01:00:53,149 UNMANNED SPACE. 1488 01:00:53,149 --> 01:00:54,384 KAM GHAFFARIAN OF STINGER 1489 01:00:54,384 --> 01:00:55,818 GHAFFARIAN TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 1490 01:00:55,818 --> 01:00:58,321 IS RECOGNIZED FOR BEING A 1491 01:00:58,321 --> 01:00:59,222 VISIONARY SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR 1492 01:00:59,222 --> 01:01:01,357 DEDICATED TO CREATING COMPANIES 1493 01:01:01,357 --> 01:01:03,926 THAT OPERATE WITH THE HIGHEST 1494 01:01:03,926 --> 01:01:04,360 LEVEL OF INTEGRITY, PROMOTE 1495 01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,529 EMPLOYEE WELL BEING AND DELIVER 1496 01:01:06,529 --> 01:01:07,263 THE BEST TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS TO 1497 01:01:07,263 --> 01:01:16,739 THEIR CUSTOMERS. 1498 01:01:16,739 --> 01:01:18,875 MARK RAYMOND OF NASA'S JET 1499 01:01:18,875 --> 01:01:21,811 PROPULSION LABORATORY IS 1500 01:01:21,811 --> 01:01:23,012 RECOGNIZED FOR EXTRAORDINARILY 1501 01:01:23,012 --> 01:01:24,414 AND UNIQUELY CREATIVE WORK TO 1502 01:01:24,414 --> 01:01:25,648 EXPLORE THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND TO 1503 01:01:25,648 --> 01:01:28,885 OPEN THE FRONTIERS OF SPACE TO 1504 01:01:28,885 --> 01:01:29,886 EVEN MORE AMBITIOUS MISSIONS TO 1505 01:01:29,886 --> 01:01:36,993 FOLLOW. 1506 01:01:36,993 --> 01:01:38,628 THE FINAL LATE CAREER AWARD GOES 1507 01:01:38,628 --> 01:01:40,196 TO SCOTT McINTYRE OF THE BOEING 1508 01:01:40,196 --> 01:01:41,631 COMPANY FOR EXCEPTIONAL 1509 01:01:41,631 --> 01:01:42,832 LEADERSHIP, SUSTAINED EXCELLENT 1510 01:01:42,832 --> 01:01:44,600 PERFORMANCE, AND DEDICATION TO 1511 01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:45,902 THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN SPACE 1512 01:01:45,902 --> 01:01:54,811 FLIGHT PROGRAMS. 1513 01:01:54,811 --> 01:01:56,712 PLEASE JOIN ME IN CONGRATULATING 1514 01:01:56,712 --> 01:01:57,013 ALL THE WINNERS IN THE LATE 1515 01:01:57,013 --> 01:01:58,514 CAREER CATEGORY. 1516 01:02:48,631 --> 01:02:17,733 ♪♪ 1517 01:02:48,631 --> 01:02:50,133 >> THE FINAL STELLAR AWARD 1518 01:02:50,133 --> 01:02:51,100 CATEGORY IS THE TEAM AWARDS. 1519 01:02:51,100 --> 01:02:52,902 THIS YEAR, THE FOUNDATION 1520 01:02:52,902 --> 01:02:55,037 RECEIVED 34 NOMINATIONS IN THIS 1521 01:02:55,037 --> 01:02:55,671 CATEGORY. 1522 01:02:55,671 --> 01:02:56,372 SEVEN WINNERS WERE SELECT FROM 1523 01:02:56,372 --> 01:02:57,974 THE THIS VERY HIGH QUALITY LIST. 1524 01:02:57,974 --> 01:02:59,242 I'D LIKE TO ASK THE TEAM 1525 01:02:59,242 --> 01:03:00,143 REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE FOLLOWING 1526 01:03:00,143 --> 01:03:03,012 TEAMS TO COME FORWARD AND BE 1527 01:03:03,012 --> 01:03:03,346 RECOGNIZED. 1528 01:03:03,346 --> 01:03:09,485 NEW SHEPARD TEAM OF BLUE ORIGIN. 1529 01:03:09,485 --> 01:03:10,553 DAWN FLIGHT TEAM OF NASA JET 1530 01:03:10,553 --> 01:03:16,859 PROPULSION LABORATORY. 1531 01:03:16,859 --> 01:03:20,096 FALCON 9 TEAM OF SPACEX. 1532 01:03:20,096 --> 01:03:23,399 EVA 35 RECOVERY TEAM FROM UTC 1533 01:03:23,399 --> 01:03:24,967 AEROSPACE SYSTEMS. 1534 01:03:24,967 --> 01:03:25,768 GLOBAL POSITIONING 2 F SYSTEM OF 1535 01:03:25,768 --> 01:03:33,242 THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE. 1536 01:03:33,242 --> 01:03:39,682 ISS OXYGEN RECOVERY OF THE 1537 01:03:39,682 --> 01:03:43,419 BOEING COMPANY AND NEXT 1538 01:03:43,419 --> 01:03:44,253 GENERATION DESIGN TEAM OF 1539 01:03:44,253 --> 01:03:54,997 ORBITAL ATK. 1540 01:03:54,997 --> 01:04:06,342 ♪♪ 1541 01:04:06,342 --> 01:04:07,743 >> THE NEW SHEPARD TEAM OF BLUE 1542 01:04:07,743 --> 01:04:09,412 ORIGIN IS RECOGNIZED FOR THE 1543 01:04:09,412 --> 01:04:10,780 OUTSTANDING ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 1544 01:04:10,780 --> 01:04:11,847 PERFORMING THE FIRST LANDING OF 1545 01:04:11,847 --> 01:04:14,083 A VERTICAL LAUNCH ROCKET IN 1546 01:04:14,083 --> 01:04:14,283 HISTORY. 1547 01:04:14,283 --> 01:04:15,251 AND THEN FOUR SUBSEQUENT 1548 01:04:15,251 --> 01:04:18,154 LAUNCHES AND LANDINGS IN 2016. 1549 01:04:18,154 --> 01:04:26,662 ACCEPTING FOR THE TEAM IS ROB 1550 01:04:26,662 --> 01:04:30,132 MEYERSON. 1551 01:04:30,132 --> 01:04:32,835 THE DAWN FLIGHT TEAM OF NASA JET 1552 01:04:32,835 --> 01:04:34,537 PROPULSION LABORATORY IS 1553 01:04:34,537 --> 01:04:38,074 RECOGNIZED FOR EXEMPLARY 1554 01:04:38,074 --> 01:04:39,375 ACHIEVEMENT IN EXPLORING SOME OF 1555 01:04:39,375 --> 01:04:41,344 THE LAST UNCHARTED WORLDS IN THE 1556 01:04:41,344 --> 01:04:43,913 INNER SOLAR SYSTEM IN A UNIQUE 1557 01:04:43,913 --> 01:04:46,415 MISSION THAT REVEALS NEW 1558 01:04:46,415 --> 01:04:47,850 INSIGHTS ABOUT THE DAWN OF THE 1559 01:04:47,850 --> 01:04:48,618 SOLAR SYSTEM. 1560 01:04:48,618 --> 01:04:48,784 ACCEPTING FOR THE TEAM IS MARC 1561 01:04:48,784 --> 01:04:56,626 RAYMAN. 1562 01:04:56,626 --> 01:04:57,827 THE FALCON 9 TEAM OF STATE OF 1563 01:04:57,827 --> 01:04:59,595 TEXAS IS RECOGNIZED FOR AN 1564 01:04:59,595 --> 01:05:00,529 EXCEPTIONAL HISTORY OF 1565 01:05:00,529 --> 01:05:02,198 INNOVATIVE AND HIGH QUALITY 1566 01:05:02,198 --> 01:05:03,899 SPACECRAFT LAUNCH AND VEHICLE 1567 01:05:03,899 --> 01:05:06,502 DESIGNS FOR NASA, INDUSTRY, AND 1568 01:05:06,502 --> 01:05:07,436 OTHER GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS. 1569 01:05:07,436 --> 01:05:07,737 ACCEPTING FOR THE TEAM IS JOHN 1570 01:05:07,737 --> 01:05:17,880 EDWARDS. 1571 01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:21,951 THE EVA 35 RECOVERY TEAM OF UTC 1572 01:05:21,951 --> 01:05:23,452 AEROSPACE SYSTEMS IS RECOGNIZED 1573 01:05:23,452 --> 01:05:24,820 FOR OUTSTANDING RAPID 1574 01:05:24,820 --> 01:05:26,656 PERFORMANCE TO RECOVER EVA 1575 01:05:26,656 --> 01:05:30,159 CAPABILITY ON ISS AFTER U.S. 1576 01:05:30,159 --> 01:05:31,727 E.V.A. 35 WATER IN THE HELMET 1577 01:05:31,727 --> 01:05:31,861 INCIDENT. 1578 01:05:31,861 --> 01:05:42,204 ACCEPTING FOR THE TEAM IS ROBERT 1579 01:05:42,204 --> 01:05:42,338 ROSADO. 1580 01:05:42,338 --> 01:05:46,909 THE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM 2F 1581 01:05:46,909 --> 01:05:47,877 TEAM OF THE UNITED STATES AIR 1582 01:05:47,877 --> 01:05:49,312 FORCE IS RECOGNIZED FOR 1583 01:05:49,312 --> 01:05:50,079 SUCCESSFUL ACQUISITION, 1584 01:05:50,079 --> 01:05:53,683 DEVELOPMENT, AND DELIVERY OF 12 1585 01:05:53,683 --> 01:05:54,884 GPS-BASED SATELLITES TO ORBIT, 1586 01:05:54,884 --> 01:05:55,918 ENSURING GOLD STANDARD 1587 01:05:55,918 --> 01:05:57,053 POSITIONING, NAVIGATION, AND 1588 01:05:57,053 --> 01:06:00,556 TIMING CAPABILITIES TO OVER 1589 01:06:00,556 --> 01:06:01,424 2.7 MILLION MILITARY PERSONNEL. 1590 01:06:01,424 --> 01:06:03,626 ONE OF A BILLION CIVILIAN USERS 1591 01:06:03,626 --> 01:06:06,162 AND 57 ALLIED NATIONS WORLDWIDE. 1592 01:06:06,162 --> 01:06:09,465 ACCEPTING FOR THE TEAM IS 1593 01:06:09,465 --> 01:06:17,440 LIEUTENANT COLONEL BRIAN VESSEE. 1594 01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:19,375 THE ISS OXYGEN GENERATOR 1595 01:06:19,375 --> 01:06:22,678 ASSEMBLY RECOVERY TEAM OF THE 1596 01:06:22,678 --> 01:06:24,080 BOEING COMPANY IS RECOGNIZED FOR 1597 01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:26,682 SUCCESSFUL RESOLUTION OF COMPLEX 1598 01:06:26,682 --> 01:06:28,184 AND EMERGING ISSUES RESULTING 1599 01:06:28,184 --> 01:06:29,885 FROM THE OXYGEN GENERATOR 1600 01:06:29,885 --> 01:06:32,722 ASSEMBLY RECOVERY THAT 1601 01:06:32,722 --> 01:06:33,556 THREATENED OXYGEN GENERATION 1602 01:06:33,556 --> 01:06:36,859 CAPABILITY AND POTENTIAL ISSD 1603 01:06:36,859 --> 01:06:40,096 CREW DUE TO DEPLETED OXYGEN 1604 01:06:40,096 --> 01:06:40,763 SUPPLIES. 1605 01:06:40,763 --> 01:06:49,238 ACCEPTING FOR THE TEAM IS STEVE 1606 01:06:49,238 --> 01:06:50,873 VAN KEERN. 1607 01:06:50,873 --> 01:06:52,141 AND THE EVENING'S FINAL TEAM 1608 01:06:52,141 --> 01:06:54,143 AWARD RECOGNIZES THE NEXT 1609 01:06:54,143 --> 01:06:55,544 GENERATION CYGNUS DESIGN TEAM OF 1610 01:06:55,544 --> 01:06:57,880 ORBITAL ATK FOR OUTSTANDING 1611 01:06:57,880 --> 01:06:59,181 TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP AND TEAM 1612 01:06:59,181 --> 01:07:01,050 WORK IN THE DESIGN AND 1613 01:07:01,050 --> 01:07:02,318 MANUFACTURING OF THE NEXT 1614 01:07:02,318 --> 01:07:03,686 GENERATION CYGNUS SPACECRAFT, 1615 01:07:03,686 --> 01:07:05,554 RESULTING IN INCREASED 1616 01:07:05,554 --> 01:07:07,456 CAPABILITY, RELIABILITY, AND 1617 01:07:07,456 --> 01:07:09,091 SCIENCE AND UTILIZATION FOR THE 1618 01:07:09,091 --> 01:07:09,225 ISS. 1619 01:07:09,225 --> 01:07:11,627 ACCEPTING FOR THE TEAM IS KEITH 1620 01:07:11,627 --> 01:07:21,303 DAVIES. 1621 01:07:21,303 --> 01:07:22,571 PLEASE JOIN US AS WE 1622 01:07:22,571 --> 01:07:24,373 CONGRATULATE ALL OF THE WINNERS 1623 01:07:24,373 --> 01:07:26,041 IN THE TEAM CATEGORY. 1624 01:08:01,677 --> 01:07:45,594 ♪♪ 1625 01:08:01,677 --> 01:08:06,348 [ APPLAUSE ] 1626 01:08:06,348 --> 01:08:09,552 ♪♪ 1627 01:08:09,552 --> 01:08:10,319 >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I THINK 1628 01:08:10,319 --> 01:08:12,121 YOU'RE ALL GOING TO AGREE THAT 1629 01:08:12,121 --> 01:08:13,656 TONIGHT'S STELLAR AWARD WINNERS 1630 01:08:13,656 --> 01:08:15,758 REPRESENT THE VERY BEST OF THE 1631 01:08:15,758 --> 01:08:17,126 THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WORKING IN 1632 01:08:17,126 --> 01:08:17,960 OUR SPACE PROGRAMS. 1633 01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:19,195 >> WE COULD TRULY BE PROUD OF 1634 01:08:19,195 --> 01:08:20,663 ALL THE STELLAR AWARD NOMINEES 1635 01:08:20,663 --> 01:08:21,831 FOR THEY ARE ALL WINNERS AND 1636 01:08:21,831 --> 01:08:21,864 GIVE US HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. 1637 01:08:21,864 --> 01:08:33,409 THANK YOU. 1638 01:08:33,409 --> 01:08:36,078 >> WHAT, NO BAGPIPES? 1639 01:08:36,078 --> 01:08:37,880 WE COULDN'T GET A LITTLE 1640 01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:38,147 CONCERT? 1641 01:08:38,147 --> 01:08:39,281 ALL RIGHT, LET'S GET TO THE MAIN 1642 01:08:39,281 --> 01:08:39,448 EVENT. 1643 01:08:39,448 --> 01:08:41,183 YOU KNOW, THE WORLD IS FILLED 1644 01:08:41,183 --> 01:08:41,650 WITH AWARDS. 1645 01:08:41,650 --> 01:08:45,087 WE'VE GOT OSCARS, WE'VE GOT 1646 01:08:45,087 --> 01:08:46,121 EMMYS, GRAMMYS, GOLDEN GLOBES, 1647 01:08:46,121 --> 01:08:48,958 COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION, 1648 01:08:48,958 --> 01:08:50,359 NOBEL, VIDEO MUSIC, PEOPLE'S 1649 01:08:50,359 --> 01:08:51,894 CHOICE, TEEN CHOICE, MISS 1650 01:08:51,894 --> 01:08:52,895 AMERICA, FOOD PHOTOGRAPHER OF 1651 01:08:52,895 --> 01:08:53,362 THE YEAR. 1652 01:08:53,362 --> 01:08:54,864 YOU KNEW ABOUT THAT ONE? 1653 01:08:54,864 --> 01:08:56,265 WORLD BEER CUP. 1654 01:08:56,265 --> 01:08:58,267 AND THE BIG ONE, THE REGIONAL 1655 01:08:58,267 --> 01:08:58,934 RAILROAD OF THE YEAR. 1656 01:08:58,934 --> 01:09:00,302 YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT ONE? 1657 01:09:00,302 --> 01:09:01,971 THAT'S JUST TO NAME A FEW. 1658 01:09:01,971 --> 01:09:03,439 I'M NOT EVEN MENTIONING SPORTS. 1659 01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:04,740 SHOULD I DO THAT SFWHUN LET'S 1660 01:09:04,740 --> 01:09:05,674 NOT DO THAT. 1661 01:09:05,674 --> 01:09:07,576 SUFFICE TO SAY THERE IS NOTHING 1662 01:09:07,576 --> 01:09:11,814 QUITE LIKE THIS AWARD, THE SPACE 1663 01:09:11,814 --> 01:09:11,881 TROPHY. 1664 01:09:11,881 --> 01:09:14,450 BUT SHOULDN'T WE GIVE IT A NAME? 1665 01:09:14,450 --> 01:09:16,685 HOW ABOUT SPACEY? 1666 01:09:16,685 --> 01:09:18,153 NO, DOESN'T WORK. 1667 01:09:18,153 --> 01:09:19,522 ACTUALLY, IF I HAD TO VOTE ON 1668 01:09:19,522 --> 01:09:21,190 THIS, IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, I 1669 01:09:21,190 --> 01:09:22,525 WOULD CALL IT MAX. 1670 01:09:22,525 --> 01:09:24,059 NOT JUST BECAUSE SPACE TAKES 1671 01:09:24,059 --> 01:09:26,328 THINGS TO THE MAX OR MAX Q, BUT 1672 01:09:26,328 --> 01:09:29,031 ALSO IN HONOR OF ITS FIRST 1673 01:09:29,031 --> 01:09:30,699 RECIPIENT, THE LATE, GREAT 1674 01:09:30,699 --> 01:09:32,368 MAXINE FAGER. 1675 01:09:32,368 --> 01:09:35,771 HE WON IN 1987. 1676 01:09:35,771 --> 01:09:37,573 AND AS I SAID BEFORE, IT'S BEEN 1677 01:09:37,573 --> 01:09:39,308 DOWNHILL EVER SINCE. 1678 01:09:39,308 --> 01:09:41,777 NOT TRUE, OF COURSE. 1679 01:09:41,777 --> 01:09:43,546 BUT AN ILLUSTRIOUS GROUP HAS 1680 01:09:43,546 --> 01:09:44,880 FOLLOWED AND TONIGHT IS THE 31st 1681 01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:46,448 PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD. 1682 01:09:46,448 --> 01:09:48,684 THE TROPHY IS PRESENTED EACH 1683 01:09:48,684 --> 01:09:51,487 YEAR TO THE PERSON WHO IS JUDGED 1684 01:09:51,487 --> 01:09:53,188 BY HIS OR HER PEERS TO HAVE MADE 1685 01:09:53,188 --> 01:09:54,390 THE MOST SIGNIFICANT 1686 01:09:54,390 --> 01:09:56,926 CONTRIBUTION IN THE U.S. SPACE 1687 01:09:56,926 --> 01:09:57,493 PROGRAM. 1688 01:09:57,493 --> 01:09:59,728 ONLY U.S. CITIZENS CAN RECEIVE 1689 01:09:59,728 --> 01:10:01,830 THIS AWARD. 1690 01:10:01,830 --> 01:10:02,898 WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY OUR 1691 01:10:02,898 --> 01:10:04,433 FRIENDS AT I.C.E. THAT DUE TO 1692 01:10:04,433 --> 01:10:05,868 INCREASED IMMIGRATION 1693 01:10:05,868 --> 01:10:07,303 ENFORCEMENT, THERE WILL BE A 1694 01:10:07,303 --> 01:10:08,103 THOROUGH CHECK OF 1695 01:10:08,103 --> 01:10:10,739 MR. GRUNSFELD'S PAPERS, HIS 1696 01:10:10,739 --> 01:10:12,007 COMINGS, HIS GOINGS, HIS CELL 1697 01:10:12,007 --> 01:10:15,978 PHONE CALLS, AND HIS BROWSER 1698 01:10:15,978 --> 01:10:16,011 HISTORY. 1699 01:10:16,011 --> 01:10:17,713 IF ANYTHING COMES UP FISHY, WE 1700 01:10:17,713 --> 01:10:20,449 HAVE SOME MEMBERS OF THE CHICAGO 1701 01:10:20,449 --> 01:10:22,217 AVIATION POLICE DEPARTMENT HERE 1702 01:10:22,217 --> 01:10:27,022 TO DRAG YOUR SORRY [ MUTED ] OUT 1703 01:10:27,022 --> 01:10:28,524 OF HIS SEAT AND GET HIM OUT INTO 1704 01:10:28,524 --> 01:10:29,625 THE HALLWAY. 1705 01:10:29,625 --> 01:10:31,994 THE RECIPIENT IS SELECTED BY A 1706 01:10:31,994 --> 01:10:33,462 VOTE OF THE FOUNDATION'S BOARD 1707 01:10:33,462 --> 01:10:34,396 OF ADVISORS. 1708 01:10:34,396 --> 01:10:37,333 THE VOTES ARE TABULATED BY AN 1709 01:10:37,333 --> 01:10:37,766 INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTING FIRM AND 1710 01:10:37,766 --> 01:10:40,169 WE HAVE BEEN ASSURED THAT THE 1711 01:10:40,169 --> 01:10:41,537 ENVELOPE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IS 1712 01:10:41,537 --> 01:10:45,608 SUPERIOR TO THOSE AT THE OSCARS. 1713 01:10:45,608 --> 01:10:48,544 NOW, JUST BEFORE I CAME ON 1714 01:10:48,544 --> 01:10:49,445 STANL, OUR PRODUCER TOLD ME WE 1715 01:10:49,445 --> 01:10:50,779 HAVE A SPECIAL LITTLE SOMETHING 1716 01:10:50,779 --> 01:10:50,913 TO SHARE WITH EVERYONE. 1717 01:10:50,913 --> 01:10:54,083 LET'S ROLL THE VIDEO. 1718 01:10:54,083 --> 01:10:56,185 >> GREETINGS TO EVERYONE AT THE 1719 01:10:56,185 --> 01:10:57,286 RNASA GALA. 1720 01:10:57,286 --> 01:10:58,320 HEY, JOHN. 1721 01:10:58,320 --> 01:10:59,655 CONGRATULATIONS ON RECEIVING THE 1722 01:10:59,655 --> 01:11:00,956 NATIONAL SPACE TROPHY. 1723 01:11:00,956 --> 01:11:02,658 WHAT A GREAT HONOR. 1724 01:11:02,658 --> 01:11:04,627 YOUR DEDICATION TO SCIENTIFIC 1725 01:11:04,627 --> 01:11:05,661 ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH YOUR CAREER 1726 01:11:05,661 --> 01:11:07,930 HAS RESULTED IN AMAZING 1727 01:11:07,930 --> 01:11:09,732 DISCOVERIES THAT EVERYONE AT 1728 01:11:09,732 --> 01:11:10,666 NASA CAN BE PROUD OF. 1729 01:11:10,666 --> 01:11:15,170 AS AN ASTROPHYSICIST, AN 1730 01:11:15,170 --> 01:11:15,904 ASTRONAUT AND A SENIOR LEADER, 1731 01:11:15,904 --> 01:11:19,408 YOU HELPED UNLOCK THE MYSTERIES 1732 01:11:19,408 --> 01:11:20,376 OF SPACE AND CHAMPIONED THE BEST 1733 01:11:20,376 --> 01:11:21,810 THAT SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 1734 01:11:21,810 --> 01:11:23,312 WORKING TOGETHER CAN ACHIEVE. 1735 01:11:23,312 --> 01:11:24,847 JOHN, YOU AND YOUR HUBBLE CREW 1736 01:11:24,847 --> 01:11:26,715 MATES FLEW HIGHER THAN ANYONE 1737 01:11:26,715 --> 01:11:28,450 SINCE APOLLO SO YOU KNOW HOW 1738 01:11:28,450 --> 01:11:30,519 GREAT THE VIEW IS FROM UP HERE. 1739 01:11:30,519 --> 01:11:33,155 WE SEE ALL THOSE ALL MOUNTAINS 1740 01:11:33,155 --> 01:11:34,056 YOU LOVE TO CLIMB. 1741 01:11:34,056 --> 01:11:35,424 WE WOULD WAVE IF WE WERE PASSING 1742 01:11:35,424 --> 01:11:36,925 OVER HOUSTON BUT INSTEAD, WOOELG 1743 01:11:36,925 --> 01:11:39,294 JUST SAY GOOD NIGHT, AND HAVE 1744 01:11:39,294 --> 01:11:39,928 FUN. 1745 01:11:39,928 --> 01:11:41,196 >> ALL RIGHT. 1746 01:11:41,196 --> 01:11:45,234 GIVE IT UP FOR PEGGY. 1747 01:11:45,234 --> 01:11:45,834 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE'RE 1748 01:11:45,834 --> 01:11:47,703 HONORED TO HAVE AMONG US AN 1749 01:11:47,703 --> 01:11:49,138 ENGINEER, A PHYSICIST, A PRIVATE 1750 01:11:49,138 --> 01:11:50,639 PILOT AND A FORMER NASA 1751 01:11:50,639 --> 01:11:51,807 ADMINISTRATOR WITH SEVEN 1752 01:11:51,807 --> 01:11:53,609 ADVANCED DEGREES, WHICH IS EQUAL 1753 01:11:53,609 --> 01:11:56,779 TO THE SET OF UNDERWEAR I OWN. 1754 01:11:56,779 --> 01:11:58,814 LABELED BY THE DAYS OF THE WEEK, 1755 01:11:58,814 --> 01:11:59,148 BY THE WAY. 1756 01:11:59,148 --> 01:12:00,549 HE ONCE TOLD A REPORTER, WHO 1757 01:12:00,549 --> 01:12:02,584 ASKED HIM A STUPID QUESTION, I 1758 01:12:02,584 --> 01:12:04,687 CAN EXPLAIN IT TO YOU, BUT I 1759 01:12:04,687 --> 01:12:09,158 CANNOT UNDERSTAND IT FOR YOU. 1760 01:12:09,158 --> 01:12:10,192 AND THAT WAS NOT ME. 1761 01:12:10,192 --> 01:12:11,994 IT WAS NOT ME. 1762 01:12:11,994 --> 01:12:12,928 I SWEAR. 1763 01:12:12,928 --> 01:12:17,499 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GIVE IT UP 1764 01:12:17,499 --> 01:12:22,337 FOR THE GREAT MIKE GRIFFIN. 1765 01:12:22,337 --> 01:12:38,654 ♪♪ 1766 01:12:38,654 --> 01:12:39,188 >> NOW, MILES, YOU HAVE TO 1767 01:12:39,188 --> 01:12:41,890 ADMIT, IT COULD HAVE BEEN YOU. 1768 01:12:41,890 --> 01:12:43,092 I MEAN, IT COULD VERY EASILY 1769 01:12:43,092 --> 01:12:44,159 HAVE BEEN YOU. 1770 01:12:44,159 --> 01:12:45,394 YOU WERE -- YOU WERE ONE 1771 01:12:45,394 --> 01:12:52,367 QUESTION AWAY FROM IT BEING YOU. 1772 01:12:52,367 --> 01:12:53,736 I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE ALL GIVE 1773 01:12:53,736 --> 01:12:57,272 MILES A HAND FOR HIS PERFORMANCE 1774 01:12:57,272 --> 01:13:00,609 TONIGHT, BUT THAT WOULD ALMOST 1775 01:13:00,609 --> 01:13:05,380 BE TACKY. 1776 01:13:05,380 --> 01:13:11,153 MORE SERIOUSLY, I WANT TO THANK 1777 01:13:11,153 --> 01:13:12,921 RNASA AND ESPECIALLY JOHN 1778 01:13:12,921 --> 01:13:16,892 GRUNSFELD FOR ASKING ME TO 1779 01:13:16,892 --> 01:13:17,960 INTRODUCE HIM HERE TONIGHT, AND 1780 01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:19,928 FOR HAVING ME HERE. 1781 01:13:19,928 --> 01:13:22,965 I'VE HAD A LONG AND VERY, VERY 1782 01:13:22,965 --> 01:13:25,567 LUCKY CAREER IN THE SPACE 1783 01:13:25,567 --> 01:13:27,202 BUSINESS, BUT HOUSTON HAS ALWAYS 1784 01:13:27,202 --> 01:13:30,005 BEEN THE MOST SPECIAL PLACE FOR 1785 01:13:30,005 --> 01:13:30,272 ME. 1786 01:13:30,272 --> 01:13:34,042 BEING THE HOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO 1787 01:13:34,042 --> 01:13:35,778 ENABLE SPACE EXPLORATION, HUMAN 1788 01:13:35,778 --> 01:13:37,813 SPACE EXPLORATION, TO TAKE 1789 01:13:37,813 --> 01:13:37,913 PLACE. 1790 01:13:37,913 --> 01:13:38,847 I THINK THAT IF I TOOK 1791 01:13:38,847 --> 01:13:40,849 EVERYTHING OUT OF MY CAREER 1792 01:13:40,849 --> 01:13:42,084 EXCEPT MY EXPERIENCES WORKING 1793 01:13:42,084 --> 01:13:44,753 WITH PEOPLE FROM THE HOUSTON 1794 01:13:44,753 --> 01:13:45,754 SPACE COMMUNITY, I WOULD STILL 1795 01:13:45,754 --> 01:13:48,223 HAVE A VERY, VERY, VERY 1796 01:13:48,223 --> 01:13:48,257 FORTUNATE CAREER. 1797 01:13:48,257 --> 01:13:58,500 SO, THANK YOU ALL. 1798 01:13:58,500 --> 01:13:59,635 BUT IT'S NOW MY PLEASURE TO 1799 01:13:59,635 --> 01:14:01,770 SPEND A FEW MINUTES TALKING 1800 01:14:01,770 --> 01:14:04,072 ABOUT JOHN GRUNSFELD. 1801 01:14:04,072 --> 01:14:05,107 THAT'S EASY TO DO. 1802 01:14:05,107 --> 01:14:06,775 THE TROUBLE IS THE DIFFICULTY IS 1803 01:14:06,775 --> 01:14:09,144 TO KEEP IT IN THE FIVE TO SEVEN 1804 01:14:09,144 --> 01:14:12,881 MINUTES THAT THEY ALLOTTED ME TO 1805 01:14:12,881 --> 01:14:13,482 DO THAT. 1806 01:14:13,482 --> 01:14:17,386 LET ME START BY SAYING WHAT A 1807 01:14:17,386 --> 01:14:20,055 UNIQUE ROLE THAT I THINK JOHN 1808 01:14:20,055 --> 01:14:23,926 HAS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE YEARS 1809 01:14:23,926 --> 01:14:24,359 THAT HE HAS BEEN AT NASA AND THE 1810 01:14:24,359 --> 01:14:26,829 YEARS THAT I HAVE KNOWN HIM. 1811 01:14:26,829 --> 01:14:28,263 WE HAVE HEARD, SINCE THE DAWN OF 1812 01:14:28,263 --> 01:14:31,400 THE SPACE PROGRAM, ABOUT 1813 01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:34,703 CONTROVERSIES BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO 1814 01:14:34,703 --> 01:14:38,874 WANT OUR NATION'S TAX DOLLARS TO 1815 01:14:38,874 --> 01:14:41,977 BE SPENT PROSECUTING SCIENTIFIC 1816 01:14:41,977 --> 01:14:43,779 DISCOVERY, UNMANNED SPACE 1817 01:14:43,779 --> 01:14:46,315 FLIGHT, IT USED TO BE CALLED, AS 1818 01:14:46,315 --> 01:14:48,483 LESS ENLIGHTENED TIMES, AND THEN 1819 01:14:48,483 --> 01:14:49,685 WE'VE HAD ANOTHER CONTINGENT 1820 01:14:49,685 --> 01:14:51,386 THAT BELIEVES THAT HUMAN 1821 01:14:51,386 --> 01:14:54,990 EXPLORATION OF THE NEW FRONTIER, 1822 01:14:54,990 --> 01:14:56,491 STILL A NEW FRONTIER, IS THE 1823 01:14:56,491 --> 01:14:58,560 MOST IMPORTANT THING TO BE DOING 1824 01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:00,195 WITH MONEY THAT WE, AS A NATION, 1825 01:15:00,195 --> 01:15:03,966 CAN AFFORD TO SPEND ON SPACE. 1826 01:15:03,966 --> 01:15:08,770 AND THERE HAS BEEN, THAT I CAN 1827 01:15:08,770 --> 01:15:10,572 REMEMBER, 60 YEARS OF ARGUING 1828 01:15:10,572 --> 01:15:13,442 BETWEEN THESE TWO CAMPS. 1829 01:15:13,442 --> 01:15:15,410 JOHN GRUNSFELD IS A PERSON WHO 1830 01:15:15,410 --> 01:15:17,779 MARRIES THOSE TWO CAMPS, AND HE 1831 01:15:17,779 --> 01:15:20,749 DOES IT ELEGANTLY AND HE DOES IT 1832 01:15:20,749 --> 01:15:23,018 PROFESSIONALLY, AND HE DOES IT 1833 01:15:23,018 --> 01:15:27,656 WITH EXPERTISE, WHICH IS BEYOND 1834 01:15:27,656 --> 01:15:28,023 SUPERLATIVE. 1835 01:15:28,023 --> 01:15:30,492 A TRULY VETERAN ASTRONAUT OF 1836 01:15:30,492 --> 01:15:32,361 FIVE SPACE FLIGHTS AND A TRUE 1837 01:15:32,361 --> 01:15:34,696 BELIEVER IN THE VALUE AND 1838 01:15:34,696 --> 01:15:37,165 IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN SPACE 1839 01:15:37,165 --> 01:15:39,368 EXPLORATION, JOHN IS ALSO A 1840 01:15:39,368 --> 01:15:43,238 PERSON WHO HAS BEEN A CHIEF 1841 01:15:43,238 --> 01:15:46,441 SCIENTIST AT NASA, THE HEAD OF 1842 01:15:46,441 --> 01:15:47,442 NASA'S SCIENCE PROGRAM IN A 1843 01:15:47,442 --> 01:15:50,445 SEPARATE INCARNATION AS 1844 01:15:50,445 --> 01:15:51,513 ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR FOR 1845 01:15:51,513 --> 01:15:52,614 SPACE SCIENCE OR THE SCIENCE 1846 01:15:52,614 --> 01:15:54,783 MISSION DIRECTOR AT NASA, AND 1847 01:15:54,783 --> 01:15:56,752 HE'S BEEN THE DEPUTY AT THE 1848 01:15:56,752 --> 01:15:59,254 SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE 1849 01:15:59,254 --> 01:15:59,955 INSTITUTE. 1850 01:15:59,955 --> 01:16:01,990 THREE OF HIS SPACE FLIGHTS HAVE 1851 01:16:01,990 --> 01:16:04,760 INVOLVED REPAIRING THE HUBBLE 1852 01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:06,995 SPACE TELESCOPE, SOMETHING WHICH 1853 01:16:06,995 --> 01:16:09,031 HOLDS A PARTICULAR AFFINITY FOR 1854 01:16:09,031 --> 01:16:12,000 ME, BECAUSE BACK WHEN I USED TO 1855 01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:13,702 DO USEFUL WORK, I ONCE WORKED ON 1856 01:16:13,702 --> 01:16:16,305 THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE. 1857 01:16:16,305 --> 01:16:17,839 AND IT IS -- IT IS, TODAY, ONE 1858 01:16:17,839 --> 01:16:20,909 OF MY OWN MOST HONORED 1859 01:16:20,909 --> 01:16:22,344 ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO HAVE BEEN 1860 01:16:22,344 --> 01:16:25,147 PART OF PRODUCING THE HUBBLE. 1861 01:16:25,147 --> 01:16:28,016 JOHN WAS PART OF MAKING THE 1862 01:16:28,016 --> 01:16:32,154 HUBBLE BETTER, NOT ONCE, BUT 1863 01:16:32,154 --> 01:16:32,554 THREE TIMES. 1864 01:16:32,554 --> 01:16:37,392 MANY YEARS AGO, IN TESTIMONY 1865 01:16:37,392 --> 01:16:39,561 SUPPORTING THE BUILDING OF THE 1866 01:16:39,561 --> 01:16:43,298 SUPER CONDUCTOR SUPER COLLIDER, 1867 01:16:43,298 --> 01:16:46,535 WHICH REGRETTABLY DID NOT OCCUR, 1868 01:16:46,535 --> 01:16:48,103 LEON LETTERMAN TESTIFIED ON ITS 1869 01:16:48,103 --> 01:16:49,771 BEHALF TO THE CONGRESS OF THE 1870 01:16:49,771 --> 01:16:52,174 UNITED STATES, AND DR. 1871 01:16:52,174 --> 01:16:53,875 LETTERMAN, WHEN ASKED IF THE 1872 01:16:53,875 --> 01:17:02,250 SUPER CONDUCTOR -- CONDUCTING 1873 01:17:02,250 --> 01:17:03,819 SUPER COLLIDER WOULD DO ANYTHING 1874 01:17:03,819 --> 01:17:06,455 FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE UNITED 1875 01:17:06,455 --> 01:17:07,723 STATES, DR. LETTERMAN RESPONDED, 1876 01:17:07,723 --> 01:17:08,790 NO, IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 1877 01:17:08,790 --> 01:17:10,192 MAKE IT WORTH DEFENDING. 1878 01:17:10,192 --> 01:17:12,027 I THINK THOSE OF US HERE WOULD 1879 01:17:12,027 --> 01:17:17,733 RECOGNIZE THE CORE TRUTH OF THAT 1880 01:17:17,733 --> 01:17:19,901 IN JOHN'S CAREER HE HAD DONE 1881 01:17:19,901 --> 01:17:22,104 NOTHING BUT SUCCOR THE HUBBLE 1882 01:17:22,104 --> 01:17:23,805 SPACE TELESCOPE IN ITS MANY 1883 01:17:23,805 --> 01:17:25,640 HOURS OF NEED, HE WOULD STILL BE 1884 01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:27,576 WORTHY OF TONIGHT'S RECOGNITION, 1885 01:17:27,576 --> 01:17:29,244 BUT HE HAS DONE SO MUCH MORE. 1886 01:17:29,244 --> 01:17:30,312 I THINK IT IS SAFE TO SAY YOU 1887 01:17:30,312 --> 01:17:33,281 WOULD NOT HAVE A FUTURE MARS 1888 01:17:33,281 --> 01:17:34,349 PROGRAM TODAY WITHOUT JOHN'S 1889 01:17:34,349 --> 01:17:36,418 EFFORTS AS HEAD OF THE SCIENCE 1890 01:17:36,418 --> 01:17:40,222 MISSION DIRECTORATE. 1891 01:17:40,222 --> 01:17:42,858 THE OTHER THING THAT I MUST SAY 1892 01:17:42,858 --> 01:17:44,292 TONIGHT IS THAT JOHN HAS DONE 1893 01:17:44,292 --> 01:17:48,296 ALL OF THIS WITH A SURPASSING 1894 01:17:48,296 --> 01:17:49,464 MODESTY AND DEGREE OF 1895 01:17:49,464 --> 01:17:50,399 SELF-EFFACEMENT. 1896 01:17:50,399 --> 01:17:53,368 HE'S ONE OF THE MOST CAPABLE 1897 01:17:53,368 --> 01:17:55,670 PEOPLE THAT I KNOW IN ARENAS 1898 01:17:55,670 --> 01:17:58,273 RANGING FROM MUSIC TO MOUNTAIN 1899 01:17:58,273 --> 01:18:01,109 CLIMBING TO FLYING AIRPLANES TO, 1900 01:18:01,109 --> 01:18:03,812 OH, NEVER MIND, BEING AN 1901 01:18:03,812 --> 01:18:05,914 ASTRONOMER AND AN ASTRONAUT AND 1902 01:18:05,914 --> 01:18:08,650 A MANAGER OF A MAJOR PIECE OF 1903 01:18:08,650 --> 01:18:08,884 NASA. 1904 01:18:08,884 --> 01:18:11,420 BUT YOU WOULD NEVER HEAR ABOUT 1905 01:18:11,420 --> 01:18:13,388 ANY OF THESE ACCOMPLISHMENTS 1906 01:18:13,388 --> 01:18:14,156 FROM HIM. 1907 01:18:14,156 --> 01:18:17,592 YOU HAVE TO HEAR ABOUT THEM FROM 1908 01:18:17,592 --> 01:18:18,660 OTHER PEOPLE. 1909 01:18:18,660 --> 01:18:19,895 YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO PROBE A 1910 01:18:19,895 --> 01:18:21,596 LITTLE BIT TO FIND OUT ALL OF 1911 01:18:21,596 --> 01:18:25,067 THE THINGS THAT HE'S DONE. 1912 01:18:25,067 --> 01:18:29,137 NO ONE HAS YET RECEIVED THE 1913 01:18:29,137 --> 01:18:32,274 RNASA AWARD TWICE IN HIS OR HER 1914 01:18:32,274 --> 01:18:32,407 CAREER. 1915 01:18:32,407 --> 01:18:34,443 SO I'M GOING TO CONCLUDE BY 1916 01:18:34,443 --> 01:18:35,343 SUGGESTING THAT I SUSPECT THE 1917 01:18:35,343 --> 01:18:38,613 FIRST PERSON TO DO SO WILL BE 1918 01:18:38,613 --> 01:18:41,683 JOHN AFTER HIS TENURE AS NASA 1919 01:18:41,683 --> 01:18:42,417 ADMINISTRATOR, WHICH LIES STILL 1920 01:18:42,417 --> 01:18:46,021 IN HIS FUTURE. 1921 01:18:46,021 --> 01:18:48,156 THANK YOU ALL FOR HAVING ME HERE 1922 01:18:48,156 --> 01:18:48,423 TONIGHT. 1923 01:18:48,423 --> 01:18:50,525 JOHN, THANK YOU FOR ASKING ME TO 1924 01:18:50,525 --> 01:18:54,329 SPEAK ON YOUR BEHALF, AND WITH 1925 01:18:54,329 --> 01:18:55,497 THAT, I THINK JOHN, CAN YOU STEP 1926 01:18:55,497 --> 01:19:14,349 FORWARD, PLEASE? 1927 01:20:02,931 --> 01:19:25,260 ♪♪ 1928 01:20:36,431 --> 01:20:24,019 [ APPLAUSE ] 1929 01:20:36,431 --> 01:20:37,933 >> I MAY HAVE GOTTEN A LITTLE 1930 01:20:37,933 --> 01:20:39,534 OUT OF SEQUENCE, NOT UNUSUAL FOR 1931 01:20:39,534 --> 01:20:43,872 ME, BUT JOHN, WE STILL WANT YOU 1932 01:20:43,872 --> 01:20:45,440 UP HERE. 1933 01:20:45,440 --> 01:20:49,177 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, JOHN 1934 01:20:49,177 --> 01:20:52,447 GRUNSFELD. 1935 01:20:52,447 --> 01:20:53,181 >> WOW. 1936 01:20:53,181 --> 01:20:55,350 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MICHAEL. 1937 01:20:55,350 --> 01:20:57,185 THANK YOU, RNASA FOUNDATION, THE 1938 01:20:57,185 --> 01:20:58,920 STAFF, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 1939 01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:00,088 AND THE MANY GENEROUS SPONSORS 1940 01:21:00,088 --> 01:21:01,389 AND CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE 1941 01:21:01,389 --> 01:21:03,692 OTHER AWARD WINNERS TONIGHT. 1942 01:21:03,692 --> 01:21:06,995 THIS REALLY IS A STELLAR 1943 01:21:06,995 --> 01:21:08,296 EVENING. 1944 01:21:08,296 --> 01:21:09,431 MICHAEL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR 1945 01:21:09,431 --> 01:21:10,432 THE KIND INTRODUCTION. 1946 01:21:10,432 --> 01:21:12,500 YOU HAVE BEEN A FRIEND, A 1947 01:21:12,500 --> 01:21:16,238 COLLEAGUE, AN INSPIRATION, AND 1948 01:21:16,238 --> 01:21:17,639 HOPEFULLY YOU DOOMED MY CAREER 1949 01:21:17,639 --> 01:21:21,776 AS FUTURE NASA ADMINISTRATOR. 1950 01:21:21,776 --> 01:21:23,445 BECAUSE I DO REMEMBER YOU HAVE 1951 01:21:23,445 --> 01:21:24,579 BLACK HAIR AND YOU HAD HAIR 1952 01:21:24,579 --> 01:21:25,447 BEFORE YOU WERE NASA 1953 01:21:25,447 --> 01:21:27,182 ADMINISTRATOR. 1954 01:21:27,182 --> 01:21:28,383 A LITTLE TOO LATE FOR ME. 1955 01:21:28,383 --> 01:21:29,718 THANK YOU, MILES O'BRIEN, AND 1956 01:21:29,718 --> 01:21:32,554 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DNA 1957 01:21:32,554 --> 01:21:36,091 WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MILES O'BRIEN 1958 01:21:36,091 --> 01:21:37,058 IS THAT HE HAS UNDERWEAR 1959 01:21:37,058 --> 01:21:39,728 IDENTIFIED BY THE DAY. 1960 01:21:39,728 --> 01:21:41,696 BUT THERE IS SOMETHING THAT -- 1961 01:21:41,696 --> 01:21:45,567 MOST OF YOU, I HOPE, KNOW ABOUT 1962 01:21:45,567 --> 01:21:46,635 MILES O'BRIEN IS THAT MILES 1963 01:21:46,635 --> 01:21:47,936 HELPED US LEARN HOW TO REPAIR 1964 01:21:47,936 --> 01:21:49,404 THE ADVANCE CAMERA FOR SURVEYS 1965 01:21:49,404 --> 01:21:51,740 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE IN 1966 01:21:51,740 --> 01:21:54,442 2008 AS HE'S THE ONLY REPORTER 1967 01:21:54,442 --> 01:21:56,678 EVER TO DIVE IN THE NEUTRAL 1968 01:21:56,678 --> 01:21:57,946 BUOYANCY LABORATORY AND WORK ON 1969 01:21:57,946 --> 01:21:59,714 THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE. 1970 01:21:59,714 --> 01:22:01,516 AND THANK YOU, MILES, FOR, YOU 1971 01:22:01,516 --> 01:22:02,651 KNOW, ALL OF YOUR WONDERFUL 1972 01:22:02,651 --> 01:22:04,052 REPORTING AND YOUR SUPPORT AND 1973 01:22:04,052 --> 01:22:11,426 COMMUNICATION. 1974 01:22:11,426 --> 01:22:12,661 I ALSO WANT TO THANK ROB NAVIAS, 1975 01:22:12,661 --> 01:22:14,562 AND I'M GOING TO GO OFF SCRIPT, 1976 01:22:14,562 --> 01:22:16,398 WHICH IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS, BUT 1977 01:22:16,398 --> 01:22:18,833 ROB AND I HAVE A SPECIAL BOND. 1978 01:22:18,833 --> 01:22:21,403 NOT JUST BECAUSE HE WAS THE 1979 01:22:21,403 --> 01:22:25,006 VOICE OF NASA FOR MY MISSIONS, 1980 01:22:25,006 --> 01:22:26,308 AND THE GOOD NEWS IS I WAS ON 1981 01:22:26,308 --> 01:22:29,411 BOARD, I DIDN'T HAVE TO LISTEN. 1982 01:22:29,411 --> 01:22:30,845 BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, A PROJECT 1983 01:22:30,845 --> 01:22:32,781 THAT WE DID ON MY SECOND SPACE 1984 01:22:32,781 --> 01:22:36,685 FLIGHT, STS 81, WHICH I'M 1985 01:22:36,685 --> 01:22:38,520 REMEMBERED AS THE HUBBLE 1986 01:22:38,520 --> 01:22:39,754 REPAIRMAN, AND IT IS A TRUE 1987 01:22:39,754 --> 01:22:40,989 STORY THAT IN A CONVERSATION 1988 01:22:40,989 --> 01:22:45,960 WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA, FROM 600 1989 01:22:45,960 --> 01:22:46,394 KILOMETERS, 350 MILES ABOVE 1990 01:22:46,394 --> 01:22:49,364 EARTH, TRAVELING 17,500 MILES AN 1991 01:22:49,364 --> 01:22:51,366 HOUR, SOME FOLKS IN THE ROOM 1992 01:22:51,366 --> 01:22:53,501 WERE THERE, WE TALKED TO THE 1993 01:22:53,501 --> 01:22:55,203 PRESIDENT, SCOTT AHLMANN AND 1994 01:22:55,203 --> 01:22:56,604 MYSELF, AND THE FIRST THING HE 1995 01:22:56,604 --> 01:23:00,141 ASKED IS, CAN YOU SEE CHICAGO? 1996 01:23:00,141 --> 01:23:01,209 AND WE SAID, YES. 1997 01:23:01,209 --> 01:23:02,877 AND HE SAID, WOULD YOU PLEASE 1998 01:23:02,877 --> 01:23:05,647 CHECK ON MY LAWN. 1999 01:23:05,647 --> 01:23:07,916 WHICH SCOTT ALTMAN SAID, OKAY, 2000 01:23:07,916 --> 01:23:09,017 WE'LL DO THAT. 2001 01:23:09,017 --> 01:23:10,618 AND HE TURNED TO ME AND SAID, 2002 01:23:10,618 --> 01:23:12,120 ARE WE TALKING TO JOHN 2003 01:23:12,120 --> 01:23:12,287 GRUNSFELD? 2004 01:23:12,287 --> 01:23:13,121 AND I SAID, YES. 2005 01:23:13,121 --> 01:23:14,389 AND I SAID, OH. 2006 01:23:14,389 --> 01:23:15,824 YOU'RE THE HUBBLE REPAIRMAN. 2007 01:23:15,824 --> 01:23:17,692 AND SUDDENLY, I FELT LIKE WE'D 2008 01:23:17,692 --> 01:23:20,662 RISEN A FEW KILOMETERS UP IN THE 2009 01:23:20,662 --> 01:23:22,464 EARTH'S ORBIT. 2010 01:23:22,464 --> 01:23:24,699 AND AFTER HIS CLASSIC PREGNANT 2011 01:23:24,699 --> 01:23:25,967 PAUSE, THE PRESIDENT SAID, NOT 2012 01:23:25,967 --> 01:23:34,309 TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE MAY 2013 01:23:34,309 --> 01:23:35,510 TAG 2014 01:23:35,510 --> 01:23:35,777 REPAIRMAN. 2015 01:23:35,777 --> 01:23:37,612 FORTUNATELY THAT DID GIVE ME 2016 01:23:37,612 --> 01:23:38,880 ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT ANOTHER 2017 01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:39,280 CAREER. 2018 01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:40,281 ROB NAVIAS AND I ACTUALLY 2019 01:23:40,281 --> 01:23:41,716 SPARRED A LITTLE BIT BEFORE THE 2020 01:23:41,716 --> 01:23:42,016 FLIGHT. 2021 01:23:42,016 --> 01:23:43,284 THIS WAS A FLIGHT TO THE MIR 2022 01:23:43,284 --> 01:23:44,619 SPACE STATION, THE FIFTH FLIGHT 2023 01:23:44,619 --> 01:23:46,755 AND WE WERE TAKING JERRY UP AND 2024 01:23:46,755 --> 01:23:48,590 RETURNING JOHN. 2025 01:23:48,590 --> 01:23:51,393 AND I HAD THIS SORT OF CRAZY 2026 01:23:51,393 --> 01:23:54,896 IDEA, IT WAS CRAZY AT THE TIME, 2027 01:23:54,896 --> 01:23:57,899 TO CALL "CAR TALK" FROM SPACE. 2028 01:23:57,899 --> 01:24:00,168 WELL, NASA AT THE TIME WAS VERY 2029 01:24:00,168 --> 01:24:01,403 RETICENT TO BE INVOLVED IN 2030 01:24:01,403 --> 01:24:02,604 ANYTHING HAVING TO DO WITH 2031 01:24:02,604 --> 01:24:06,641 HUMOR. 2032 01:24:06,641 --> 01:24:09,010 IT'S RISKY. 2033 01:24:09,010 --> 01:24:10,712 I MEAN, SPACE FLIGHT WASN'T THAT 2034 01:24:10,712 --> 01:24:13,081 RISKY, BUT TALKING TO A COUPLE 2035 01:24:13,081 --> 01:24:15,617 OF COMEDIANS WAS RISKY. 2036 01:24:15,617 --> 01:24:17,185 BUT THEY'RE BOTH M.I.T. GRADS 2037 01:24:17,185 --> 01:24:19,554 AND I'M AN M.I.T. ALUM AND I DID 2038 01:24:19,554 --> 01:24:20,655 WORK IN THEIR GARAGE WHEN I WAS 2039 01:24:20,655 --> 01:24:21,523 A COLLEGE STUDENT. 2040 01:24:21,523 --> 01:24:23,458 THEY WEREN'T FAMOUS THEN. 2041 01:24:23,458 --> 01:24:24,993 I WASN'T FAMOUS THEN. 2042 01:24:24,993 --> 01:24:27,128 YOU KNOW, I WASN'T FAMOUS WHEN I 2043 01:24:27,128 --> 01:24:30,265 FLEW ON STS 81 AND I'M NOT THAT 2044 01:24:30,265 --> 01:24:32,567 FAMOUS NOW, BUT I DID WORK IN 2045 01:24:32,567 --> 01:24:33,701 THEIR GARAGE AND I HAD INVITED 2046 01:24:33,701 --> 01:24:35,136 THEM TO THE LAUNCH, AND THEIR 2047 01:24:35,136 --> 01:24:36,104 PRODUCER CALLED AND SAID, SORRY, 2048 01:24:36,104 --> 01:24:37,572 THEY DON'T LIKE TO TRAVEL. 2049 01:24:37,572 --> 01:24:38,873 AND I JUST THOUGHT THAT WAS VERY 2050 01:24:38,873 --> 01:24:39,007 ODD. 2051 01:24:39,007 --> 01:24:40,842 BUT WE GOT INTO A NICE 2052 01:24:40,842 --> 01:24:42,076 CONVERSATION, AND ANYWAY, ROB 2053 01:24:42,076 --> 01:24:43,945 WAS A PARTNER WITH US ON THAT 2054 01:24:43,945 --> 01:24:47,048 JOURNEY TO STS 81, AND WE DID 2055 01:24:47,048 --> 01:24:48,483 CALL "CAR TALK" FROM SPACE AND 2056 01:24:48,483 --> 01:24:49,684 THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT I'M BEST 2057 01:24:49,684 --> 01:24:52,620 KNOWN FOR IS CALLING "CAR TALK" 2058 01:24:52,620 --> 01:24:54,022 FROM THE SPACE SHUTTLE BUT THE 2059 01:24:54,022 --> 01:24:55,590 IMPORTANT PART OF THIS LONG 2060 01:24:55,590 --> 01:24:57,792 STORY IS THAT AFTERWARDS WE DID 2061 01:24:57,792 --> 01:24:59,594 OUR CREW BRIEF AND TO SENIOR 2062 01:24:59,594 --> 01:25:01,896 STAFF, GEORGE ABBEY WAS THE 2063 01:25:01,896 --> 01:25:02,831 CENTER DIRECTOR AT THE TIME AND 2064 01:25:02,831 --> 01:25:04,165 ROB WAS THERE AT THE TABLE AND 2065 01:25:04,165 --> 01:25:07,469 MIKE BAKER AND BRENT AND 2066 01:25:07,469 --> 01:25:10,271 MARSHALL IVANS AND MYSELF AND WE 2067 01:25:10,271 --> 01:25:11,539 HAD VIEW GRAPHS BACK THEN AND I 2068 01:25:11,539 --> 01:25:13,041 WAS THE VIEW GRAPH FLIPPER AND 2069 01:25:13,041 --> 01:25:14,209 IT WAS A QUICK BRIEF AND 2070 01:25:14,209 --> 01:25:16,344 AFTERWARDS, GEORGE ABBEY SAID -- 2071 01:25:16,344 --> 01:25:19,714 MR. ABBEY SAID, DOES ANYBODY 2072 01:25:19,714 --> 01:25:20,448 HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? 2073 01:25:20,448 --> 01:25:21,649 OF COURSE NOBODY HAD ANYTHING 2074 01:25:21,649 --> 01:25:22,317 ELSE. 2075 01:25:22,317 --> 01:25:24,586 IT WAS A GOOD FLIGHT AND HE 2076 01:25:24,586 --> 01:25:25,753 PULLED OUT A LITTLE TAPE 2077 01:25:25,753 --> 01:25:27,255 RECORDER AND PUSHED PLAY, A 2078 01:25:27,255 --> 01:25:29,491 CASSETTE RECORDER AND I ACTUALLY 2079 01:25:29,491 --> 01:25:34,596 KNOW BECAUSE I HAD ONE, AN OLD 2080 01:25:34,596 --> 01:25:37,165 BELL AND HOWE AND HE PLAYED THE 2081 01:25:37,165 --> 01:25:38,366 WHOLE INTERVIEW AND HE TURNED TO 2082 01:25:38,366 --> 01:25:39,634 ROB NAVIAS, AND HE SAID, GOOD 2083 01:25:39,634 --> 01:25:39,767 JOB. 2084 01:25:39,767 --> 01:25:41,469 BUT THAT'S NOT THE INTERESTING 2085 01:25:41,469 --> 01:25:43,471 PART OF THE STORY. 2086 01:25:43,471 --> 01:25:45,773 AS WE'RE WALKING OUT -- AND HOW 2087 01:25:45,773 --> 01:25:46,808 MANY OF YOU KNOW GEORGE ABBEY? 2088 01:25:46,808 --> 01:25:47,976 I THOUGHT SO. 2089 01:25:47,976 --> 01:25:49,511 AS WE'RE WALKING OUT, YOU KNOW, 2090 01:25:49,511 --> 01:25:51,546 ONE BY ONE, HE'S SHAKING HANDS 2091 01:25:51,546 --> 01:25:54,949 WITH US, HE LEANS INTO ME AND HE 2092 01:25:54,949 --> 01:25:56,117 SAYS, NEXT TIME, LET'S DO "CAR 2093 01:25:56,117 --> 01:26:00,321 TALK." 2094 01:26:00,321 --> 01:26:02,991 I WAS ELATED. 2095 01:26:02,991 --> 01:26:05,260 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW GEORGE 2096 01:26:05,260 --> 01:26:06,294 ABBEY, I SAID, THERE'S GOING TO 2097 01:26:06,294 --> 01:26:08,463 BE A NEXT TIME. 2098 01:26:08,463 --> 01:26:12,166 SO, THANK YOU ROB NAVIAS, AND 2099 01:26:12,166 --> 01:26:18,373 CONGRATULATIONS. 2100 01:26:18,373 --> 01:26:19,741 I WANT TO THANK MY FAMILY, MOST 2101 01:26:19,741 --> 01:26:26,247 OF ALL, AND CAROL GRUNSFELD IS 2102 01:26:26,247 --> 01:26:27,181 HERE IN THE AUDIENCE ASK MY 2103 01:26:27,181 --> 01:26:29,284 DAUGHTER IS IN SCHOOL, WHICH IS 2104 01:26:29,284 --> 01:26:30,652 WHERE SHE SHOULD BE, MY PARENTS 2105 01:26:30,652 --> 01:26:32,353 ARE NO LONGER WITH US, MY SISTER 2106 01:26:32,353 --> 01:26:33,821 MARCIA, YOU KNOW, I WAS INSPIRED 2107 01:26:33,821 --> 01:26:35,723 BY SO MANY PEOPLE, MANY OF WHOM 2108 01:26:35,723 --> 01:26:38,760 ARE IN THE ROOM, MANY OF WHOM 2109 01:26:38,760 --> 01:26:42,096 ARE NASA AWARDEES, JOHN YOUNG, 2110 01:26:42,096 --> 01:26:43,031 IN PARTICULAR, WHEN I WAS IN 2111 01:26:43,031 --> 01:26:45,266 GRADE SCHOOL, I CARRIED A LITTLE 2112 01:26:45,266 --> 01:26:46,501 GEMINI LUNCHBOX TO SCHOOL. 2113 01:26:46,501 --> 01:26:48,269 I HAD ABOUT THAT TIME DECLARED 2114 01:26:48,269 --> 01:26:49,871 TO MY MOTHER THAT I WANTED TO BE 2115 01:26:49,871 --> 01:26:51,072 AN ASTRONAUT AND SHE THOUGHT 2116 01:26:51,072 --> 01:26:51,806 THAT WAS GREAT. 2117 01:26:51,806 --> 01:26:54,042 IT MEANT I WOULD STUDY SCIENCE 2118 01:26:54,042 --> 01:26:55,043 AND MATH AND THERE WAS 2119 01:26:55,043 --> 01:26:56,244 ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE I WOULD 2120 01:26:56,244 --> 01:26:58,313 EVER BECOME AN ASTRONAUT, AND SO 2121 01:26:58,313 --> 01:27:00,381 IT WAS THAT INSPIRATION VALUE 2122 01:27:00,381 --> 01:27:04,719 AND I CERTAINLY SHOWED HER. 2123 01:27:04,719 --> 01:27:06,754 I WAS KIND OF A PICKY EATER AS A 2124 01:27:06,754 --> 01:27:08,022 KID, AND SHE SAID, WELL, WHEN 2125 01:27:08,022 --> 01:27:09,791 YOU'RE IN SPACE, WHAT WILL YOU 2126 01:27:09,791 --> 01:27:10,224 EAT? 2127 01:27:10,224 --> 01:27:13,595 AND I SAID, CAPTAIN CRUNCH. 2128 01:27:13,595 --> 01:27:15,563 FOR FIVE SPACE SHUTTLE FLIGHTS 2129 01:27:15,563 --> 01:27:19,767 BEFORE LAUNCH, I ATE CAPTAIN 2130 01:27:19,767 --> 01:27:22,503 CRUNCH EVERY TIME FOR BREAKFAST. 2131 01:27:22,503 --> 01:27:23,871 BY THE WAY, I HAD A SIMILAR 2132 01:27:23,871 --> 01:27:25,006 CONVERSATION WITH MY WIFE 30 2133 01:27:25,006 --> 01:27:27,108 YEARS AGO WHEN WE FIRST STARTED 2134 01:27:27,108 --> 01:27:29,310 DATING, AND SHE SAID, WELL, WHAT 2135 01:27:29,310 --> 01:27:30,044 DO YOU WANT TO DO WHEN YOU GROW 2136 01:27:30,044 --> 01:27:31,446 UP AND I SAID I WANT TO BE AN 2137 01:27:31,446 --> 01:27:32,080 ASTRONAUT. 2138 01:27:32,080 --> 01:27:33,948 I DON'T THINK SHE BELIEVED ME 2139 01:27:33,948 --> 01:27:34,115 EITHER. 2140 01:27:34,115 --> 01:27:36,851 IT'S BEEN LIVING HELL EVER 2141 01:27:36,851 --> 01:27:37,018 SINCE. 2142 01:27:37,018 --> 01:27:38,686 I WANT TO THANK MY FRIENDS AND 2143 01:27:38,686 --> 01:27:39,587 COLLEAGUES IN A PARTICULAR 2144 01:27:39,587 --> 01:27:41,589 MOUNTAIN OF THE SPACE TELESCOPE 2145 01:27:41,589 --> 01:27:44,626 SCIENCE INSTITUTE. 2146 01:27:44,626 --> 01:27:45,860 A DEAR FRIEND AND A GREAT 2147 01:27:45,860 --> 01:27:48,196 SCHOLAR, GREAT LEADER AND HE 2148 01:27:48,196 --> 01:27:50,531 COULDN'T BE HERE TONIGHT, BUT 2149 01:27:50,531 --> 01:27:51,099 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 2150 01:27:51,099 --> 01:27:53,067 EARLIER, WE HAD SOME STELLAR 2151 01:27:53,067 --> 01:27:54,369 AWARDS AND TEAM AWARDS AND 2152 01:27:54,369 --> 01:27:56,871 THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT THAT 2153 01:27:56,871 --> 01:27:57,972 YOU KNOW, I'M TOUCHED BY THIS 2154 01:27:57,972 --> 01:28:00,174 AWARD BUT IT IS A TEAM AWARD. 2155 01:28:00,174 --> 01:28:01,943 AND THE TEAM IS THE INCREDIBLE 2156 01:28:01,943 --> 01:28:03,611 NASA TEAM, THE FLIGHT CONTROL 2157 01:28:03,611 --> 01:28:05,046 TEAM, THE ENGINEERING TEAM, THE 2158 01:28:05,046 --> 01:28:07,482 HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE TEAM, OUR 2159 01:28:07,482 --> 01:28:09,250 CONTRACTORS, OUR PARTNERS IN 2160 01:28:09,250 --> 01:28:10,952 ACADEMIA, BUT THERE'S A SPECIAL 2161 01:28:10,952 --> 01:28:12,053 BOND THAT ASTRONAUTS HAVE WITH 2162 01:28:12,053 --> 01:28:13,788 THEIR CREW MATES AND I WOULD 2163 01:28:13,788 --> 01:28:16,424 JUST LIKE THE CREW MATES WHO ARE 2164 01:28:16,424 --> 01:28:17,925 HERE, I KNOW MIKE GOOD IS HERE, 2165 01:28:17,925 --> 01:28:19,861 MARCIA IVANS IS HERE, GREG 2166 01:28:19,861 --> 01:28:20,528 JOHNSON IS HERE. 2167 01:28:20,528 --> 01:28:21,562 IF YOU'D JUST STAND UP FOR A 2168 01:28:21,562 --> 01:28:23,564 MOMENT SO I COULD THANK YOU. 2169 01:28:23,564 --> 01:28:23,865 AND IF ANYBODY ELSE THAT I 2170 01:28:23,865 --> 01:28:27,402 MISSED IS HERE. 2171 01:28:27,402 --> 01:28:30,938 MEAGAN McARTHUR IS HERE. 2172 01:28:30,938 --> 01:28:31,506 MEAGAN, I DIDN'T SEE YOU. 2173 01:28:31,506 --> 01:28:36,511 I NEED A HUG. 2174 01:28:36,511 --> 01:28:39,414 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 2175 01:28:39,414 --> 01:28:40,515 I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE 2176 01:28:40,515 --> 01:28:41,149 AMERICAN PEOPLE. 2177 01:28:41,149 --> 01:28:42,517 I MEAN, HOW INCREDIBLE IS IT 2178 01:28:42,517 --> 01:28:45,887 THAT WE GET TO DO WHAT WE DO ON 2179 01:28:45,887 --> 01:28:47,789 BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 2180 01:28:47,789 --> 01:28:49,223 THAT WE GET TO EXPLORE SPACE, 2181 01:28:49,223 --> 01:28:51,292 THAT WE GET TO UNRAVEL THE 2182 01:28:51,292 --> 01:28:52,126 MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE, AND 2183 01:28:52,126 --> 01:28:53,594 WE GET TO SHARE THAT KNOWLEDGE, 2184 01:28:53,594 --> 01:28:55,196 NOT WITH JUST THE REST OF THE 2185 01:28:55,196 --> 01:28:59,100 COUNTRY BUT EVERYONE ON PLANET 2186 01:28:59,100 --> 01:28:59,434 EARTH. 2187 01:28:59,434 --> 01:29:02,603 I VIEW OUR SPACE EXPLORATIONS 2188 01:29:02,603 --> 01:29:04,739 AND OUR GOALS AT NASA TO 2189 01:29:04,739 --> 01:29:07,508 INNOVATE, EXPLORE, DISCOVER, AND 2190 01:29:07,508 --> 01:29:07,742 INSPIRE. 2191 01:29:07,742 --> 01:29:10,111 AND WE DO THAT TO ANSWER SOME 2192 01:29:10,111 --> 01:29:11,813 FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS ABOUT 2193 01:29:11,813 --> 01:29:13,414 OURSELVES, ABOUT OUR UNIVERSE, 2194 01:29:13,414 --> 01:29:14,682 WHERE DID WE COME FROM, WHERE 2195 01:29:14,682 --> 01:29:16,517 DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM. 2196 01:29:16,517 --> 01:29:18,252 WHERE DID THE ATOMS THAT WE'RE 2197 01:29:18,252 --> 01:29:19,654 MADE OUT OF COME FROM, AND WE 2198 01:29:19,654 --> 01:29:20,755 ARE LEARNING THOSE STORIES. 2199 01:29:20,755 --> 01:29:21,422 IT IS A STORY. 2200 01:29:21,422 --> 01:29:23,725 HOW DID THE SOLAR SYSTEM FORM. 2201 01:29:23,725 --> 01:29:26,761 HOW DID LIFE FORM ON EARTH. 2202 01:29:26,761 --> 01:29:28,963 WHERE ARE WE GOING? 2203 01:29:28,963 --> 01:29:30,832 WHAT'S THE TRAJECTORY OF PLANET 2204 01:29:30,832 --> 01:29:32,266 EARTH IN THE FUTURE? 2205 01:29:32,266 --> 01:29:33,501 NOT JUST THE DISTANT FUTURE BUT 2206 01:29:33,501 --> 01:29:34,969 THE NEAR FUTURE. 2207 01:29:34,969 --> 01:29:36,671 PRETTY IMPORTANT QUESTION. 2208 01:29:36,671 --> 01:29:40,875 WHAT'S THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE? 2209 01:29:40,875 --> 01:29:41,876 AND WHERE ARE WE AS THE HUMAN 2210 01:29:41,876 --> 01:29:42,543 SPECIES GOING? 2211 01:29:42,543 --> 01:29:44,045 ARE WE JUST GOING STAY HERE ON 2212 01:29:44,045 --> 01:29:46,013 EARTH, OR ARE WE GOING TO REACH 2213 01:29:46,013 --> 01:29:47,181 OUT, ARE WE GOING TO EXPLORE. 2214 01:29:47,181 --> 01:29:49,517 THE ANSWER IS YES, WE ARE. 2215 01:29:49,517 --> 01:29:50,585 AND THE QUESTION THAT'S 2216 01:29:50,585 --> 01:29:51,953 FASCINATING ME MOST OF LATE IS 2217 01:29:51,953 --> 01:29:54,655 THE QUESTION OF, ARE WE ALONE? 2218 01:29:54,655 --> 01:29:56,190 IS THERE LIFE BEYOND EARTH? 2219 01:29:56,190 --> 01:29:58,693 AND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IN THE 2220 01:29:58,693 --> 01:29:58,860 UNIVERSE. 2221 01:29:58,860 --> 01:30:00,895 AND I'LL TAKE A QUICK POLL 2222 01:30:00,895 --> 01:30:01,796 BECAUSE IT'S FUN AND I'M NOT 2223 01:30:01,796 --> 01:30:02,997 GOING TO ASK HOW MANY OF YOU 2224 01:30:02,997 --> 01:30:04,532 THINK WE'RE ALONE IN THE 2225 01:30:04,532 --> 01:30:05,600 UNIVERSE, BUT A COMPOUND 2226 01:30:05,600 --> 01:30:06,501 QUESTION. 2227 01:30:06,501 --> 01:30:07,668 HOW MANY OF YOU THINK WE'RE NOT 2228 01:30:07,668 --> 01:30:08,469 ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE AND THAT 2229 01:30:08,469 --> 01:30:09,470 WE WILL FIND OUT IN THE NEXT 20 2230 01:30:09,470 --> 01:30:15,877 YEARS? 2231 01:30:15,877 --> 01:30:19,413 ALL OF SPACE IS A HUMAN 2232 01:30:19,413 --> 01:30:21,415 ENDEAVOR. 2233 01:30:21,415 --> 01:30:22,083 OUR ROBOTIC EXPLORERS, CURIOSITY 2234 01:30:22,083 --> 01:30:24,485 ON MARS, CURIOSITY HAS A TWITTER 2235 01:30:24,485 --> 01:30:24,685 ACCOUNT. 2236 01:30:24,685 --> 01:30:25,853 CURIOSITY IS A SHE. 2237 01:30:25,853 --> 01:30:28,422 A LOT OF US FOLLOW HER. 2238 01:30:28,422 --> 01:30:30,691 THE DAWN SPACECRAFT. 2239 01:30:30,691 --> 01:30:31,859 THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE. 2240 01:30:31,859 --> 01:30:33,694 I MEAN, YOU NAME IT. 2241 01:30:33,694 --> 01:30:38,599 ALL OF THOSE OBSERVATORIES DON'T 2242 01:30:38,599 --> 01:30:40,568 DISCOVER ANYTHING. 2243 01:30:40,568 --> 01:30:42,003 PLUTO NEW HORIZONS DIDN'T 2244 01:30:42,003 --> 01:30:42,703 DISCOVER ANYTHING. 2245 01:30:42,703 --> 01:30:45,273 PEOPLE HERE ON EARTH DISCOVER 2246 01:30:45,273 --> 01:30:46,741 THINGS USING THOSE ROBOTIC 2247 01:30:46,741 --> 01:30:47,041 TOOLS. 2248 01:30:47,041 --> 01:30:47,942 IT'S A HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT. 2249 01:30:47,942 --> 01:30:49,377 WE ARE VERY GOOD AT CREATING 2250 01:30:49,377 --> 01:30:52,680 THESE INNOVATIVE MISSIONS THAT 2251 01:30:52,680 --> 01:30:55,082 EXPLORE, DISCOVER. 2252 01:30:55,082 --> 01:30:58,886 WE'RE NOT SO GOOD AT CELEBRATING 2253 01:30:58,886 --> 01:31:00,421 THESE ACHIEVEMENTS AND I WANT TO 2254 01:31:00,421 --> 01:31:03,724 THANK RNASA FOR WORKING SO HARD 2255 01:31:03,724 --> 01:31:04,192 TO RECOGNIZE, HONOR, AND 2256 01:31:04,192 --> 01:31:05,626 CELEBRATE THESE ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2257 01:31:05,626 --> 01:31:07,695 SPACE, NOT THOSE FEW THINGS I'VE 2258 01:31:07,695 --> 01:31:09,230 DONE BUT THE FEW THINGS -- THE 2259 01:31:09,230 --> 01:31:10,765 MANY THINGS THAT WE ALL DO AND 2260 01:31:10,765 --> 01:31:13,367 THE OTHER AWARDEES. 2261 01:31:13,367 --> 01:31:16,037 THESE EFFORTS OCCUR BECAUSE OF 2262 01:31:16,037 --> 01:31:18,039 THE INCREDIBLE SKILLS OF A VERY 2263 01:31:18,039 --> 01:31:20,174 LARGE GROUP OF DEDICATED PEOPLE 2264 01:31:20,174 --> 01:31:24,412 IN THE NASA FAMILY. 2265 01:31:24,412 --> 01:31:25,546 I'VE COME TO CONCLUDE THAT NASA 2266 01:31:25,546 --> 01:31:34,555 IS REALLY A CULT. 2267 01:31:34,555 --> 01:31:35,323 THE CALL TO EXPLORE SPACE DRAWS 2268 01:31:35,323 --> 01:31:35,957 PEOPLE IN. 2269 01:31:35,957 --> 01:31:38,326 IT INCITES THEM TO WORK LONG 2270 01:31:38,326 --> 01:31:40,428 HOURS, INSANELY LONG HOURS, AND 2271 01:31:40,428 --> 01:31:42,029 MAKE SACRIFICES THAT AT TIMES 2272 01:31:42,029 --> 01:31:43,097 SEEMS WELL OVER THE TOP. 2273 01:31:43,097 --> 01:31:44,899 ANYBODY EXPERIENCE THAT? 2274 01:31:44,899 --> 01:31:45,733 ANY OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS HERE 2275 01:31:45,733 --> 01:31:48,002 THINK THAT? 2276 01:31:48,002 --> 01:31:48,970 WHY DO WE DO THESE MIGHTY 2277 01:31:48,970 --> 01:31:52,673 THINGS? 2278 01:31:52,673 --> 01:31:54,508 BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT. 2279 01:31:54,508 --> 01:31:57,278 BECAUSE IT'S ABOUT HUMANITY'S 2280 01:31:57,278 --> 01:31:57,411 FUTURE. 2281 01:31:57,411 --> 01:31:59,347 BECAUSE IT IS ESSENTIAL TO OUR 2282 01:31:59,347 --> 01:32:02,149 ECONOMY, HUMAN HEALTH, NATIONAL 2283 01:32:02,149 --> 01:32:05,953 DEFENSE, AND INSPIRING A NATION. 2284 01:32:05,953 --> 01:32:09,757 BECAUSE THE INSPIRATION, THE 2285 01:32:09,757 --> 01:32:11,659 WONDER AND AWE THAT NASA 2286 01:32:11,659 --> 01:32:12,860 MISSIONS GENERATE IS WHAT DRIVES 2287 01:32:12,860 --> 01:32:18,466 US ALL. 2288 01:32:18,466 --> 01:32:20,835 55 YEARS AGO, NOT FAR FROM WHERE 2289 01:32:20,835 --> 01:32:22,069 WE ARE TONIGHT, PRESIDENT JOHN 2290 01:32:22,069 --> 01:32:24,972 F. KENNEDY SPOKE THESE WORDS, 2291 01:32:24,972 --> 01:32:26,040 ALL TOO FAMOUS WORDS, AND I KNOW 2292 01:32:26,040 --> 01:32:27,208 YOU'VE HEARD THIS OVER AND OVER 2293 01:32:27,208 --> 01:32:30,044 AGAIN, BUT I COULDN'T HELP 2294 01:32:30,044 --> 01:32:31,879 MYSELF. 2295 01:32:31,879 --> 01:32:34,782 "WE CHOOSE TO GO TO THE MOON. 2296 01:32:34,782 --> 01:32:37,318 WE CHOOSE TO GO TO THE MOON IN 2297 01:32:37,318 --> 01:32:40,688 THIS DECADE AND DO THE OTHER 2298 01:32:40,688 --> 01:32:42,356 THINGS NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE EASY 2299 01:32:42,356 --> 01:32:44,659 BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD. 2300 01:32:44,659 --> 01:32:48,930 BECAUSE THAT GOAL WILL SERVE TO 2301 01:32:48,930 --> 01:32:50,364 ORGANIZE AND MEASURE THE BEST OF 2302 01:32:50,364 --> 01:32:51,299 OUR ENERGIES AND SKILLS. 2303 01:32:51,299 --> 01:32:54,335 BECAUSE THAT CHALLENGE IS ONE WE 2304 01:32:54,335 --> 01:32:55,336 ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT AND ONE WE 2305 01:32:55,336 --> 01:32:57,705 ARE UNWILLING TO POSTPONE. 2306 01:32:57,705 --> 01:32:59,874 AND ONE WHICH WE INTEND TO WIN. 2307 01:32:59,874 --> 01:33:02,543 AND WE HAVE BEEN WINNING EVER 2308 01:33:02,543 --> 01:33:02,877 SINCE." 2309 01:33:02,877 --> 01:33:05,780 WE LEAD THE WORLD IN SPACE AND 2310 01:33:05,780 --> 01:33:06,414 EARTH SCIENCE. 2311 01:33:06,414 --> 01:33:10,318 WE LEAD THE WORLD IN HUMAN 2312 01:33:10,318 --> 01:33:10,584 EXPLORATION. 2313 01:33:10,584 --> 01:33:13,788 WE GOT OUR START WITH APOLLO AND 2314 01:33:13,788 --> 01:33:16,157 OUR INCREDIBLE LUNAR MISSIONS. 2315 01:33:16,157 --> 01:33:19,193 OUR AMAZING SPACE SHUTTLE 2316 01:33:19,193 --> 01:33:21,128 POWERED US TOWARDS TO HONE OUR 2317 01:33:21,128 --> 01:33:23,664 SKILLS IN SPACE WITH RELIABLE, 2318 01:33:23,664 --> 01:33:25,533 REUSABLE SPACE SYSTEMS. 2319 01:33:25,533 --> 01:33:29,503 WE PERFECTED SPACE ROBOTICS. 2320 01:33:29,503 --> 01:33:31,138 WE REFINED SPACE WALKING TO A 2321 01:33:31,138 --> 01:33:32,840 FINE ART AND I THINK WITH 2322 01:33:32,840 --> 01:33:35,343 HUBBLE, TO, YOU KNOW, INCREDIBLE 2323 01:33:35,343 --> 01:33:37,979 STATE WHERE WE WERE -- WE'RE 2324 01:33:37,979 --> 01:33:39,914 MOVING TINY SCREWS AND PULLING 2325 01:33:39,914 --> 01:33:41,782 CIRCUIT BOARDS IN SPACE. 2326 01:33:41,782 --> 01:33:43,150 WITH OUR SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCE 2327 01:33:43,150 --> 01:33:44,719 PROGRAM, WE HAVE UNRAVELLED THE 2328 01:33:44,719 --> 01:33:45,920 MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE, 2329 01:33:45,920 --> 01:33:47,388 UNDERSTANDING OUR SUN IN GREATER 2330 01:33:47,388 --> 01:33:50,858 DETAIL, MERCURY, VENUS, MUCH 2331 01:33:50,858 --> 01:33:52,893 ABOUT THE EARTH, SOME OF WHICH 2332 01:33:52,893 --> 01:33:53,794 IS VERY DISTURBING. 2333 01:33:53,794 --> 01:33:56,130 OUR MOON, MARS, YOU KNOW, ON OUT 2334 01:33:56,130 --> 01:34:00,034 INTO THE SOLAR SYSTEM WITH JUNO 2335 01:34:00,034 --> 01:34:03,637 AND JUPITER NOW CASINI DOING 2336 01:34:03,637 --> 01:34:06,674 SOME INCREDIBLE GYMNASTICS AT 2337 01:34:06,674 --> 01:34:07,174 THE END OF ITS REMARKABLE 2338 01:34:07,174 --> 01:34:09,143 MISSION AND OF COURSE NEW 2339 01:34:09,143 --> 01:34:11,045 HORIZONS AND BEYOND. 2340 01:34:11,045 --> 01:34:12,880 THE MOST POWERFUL SCIENTIFIC 2341 01:34:12,880 --> 01:34:14,115 INSTRUMENT EVER CREATED BY 2342 01:34:14,115 --> 01:34:15,616 HUMANS AND WE'RE JUST GETTING 2343 01:34:15,616 --> 01:34:15,883 STARTED. 2344 01:34:15,883 --> 01:34:17,852 IN FACT, THIS WEEK IS HUBBLE'S 2345 01:34:17,852 --> 01:34:19,487 27th ANNIVERSARY IN SPACE. 2346 01:34:19,487 --> 01:34:31,098 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HUBBLE. 2347 01:34:31,098 --> 01:34:31,599 ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 2348 01:34:31,599 --> 01:34:34,201 STATION, WE HAVE NOT ONLY SHOWN 2349 01:34:34,201 --> 01:34:35,736 THAT IT SERVES TO ORGANIZE AND 2350 01:34:35,736 --> 01:34:38,039 MEASURE THE BEST OF OUR ENERGIES 2351 01:34:38,039 --> 01:34:39,607 BUT TO BRING TOGETHER THE BEST 2352 01:34:39,607 --> 01:34:42,576 EFFORTS OF NATIONS AROUND THE 2353 01:34:42,576 --> 01:34:42,743 WORLD. 2354 01:34:42,743 --> 01:34:43,677 OF COURSE THERE IS STILL MUCH 2355 01:34:43,677 --> 01:34:44,779 WORK TO BE DONE AND CHALLENGES 2356 01:34:44,779 --> 01:34:46,814 AHEAD OF US IN THE EXPLORATION 2357 01:34:46,814 --> 01:34:47,281 OF SPACE. 2358 01:34:47,281 --> 01:34:48,716 BUT I REALLY DO BELIEVE THE 2359 01:34:48,716 --> 01:34:51,585 PROSPECTS ARE INCREDIBLY BRIGHT. 2360 01:34:51,585 --> 01:34:53,187 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HUMAN 2361 01:34:53,187 --> 01:34:54,755 HISTORY, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF NEW 2362 01:34:54,755 --> 01:34:57,591 CAPABILITIES COMING ONLINE FOR 2363 01:34:57,591 --> 01:34:58,893 EXPLORATION, THE SPACE LAUNCH 2364 01:34:58,893 --> 01:35:00,528 SYSTEM TO TAKE US FURTHER OUT 2365 01:35:00,528 --> 01:35:03,130 INTO THE SOLAR SYSTEM WITH HUMAN 2366 01:35:03,130 --> 01:35:04,965 EXPLORERS, SCIENTISTS, AND 2367 01:35:04,965 --> 01:35:05,399 ENGINEERS. 2368 01:35:05,399 --> 01:35:07,401 WE WILL SOON HAVE THE CAPABILITY 2369 01:35:07,401 --> 01:35:10,638 TO SEND PLANETARY SCIENTISTS AND 2370 01:35:10,638 --> 01:35:11,839 ASTROBIOLOGISTS TO THE SURFACE 2371 01:35:11,839 --> 01:35:13,507 OF MARS. 2372 01:35:13,507 --> 01:35:15,876 AND THE CURIOSITY LANDER -- 2373 01:35:15,876 --> 01:35:18,712 ROVER HAS SHOWN US THAT MARS WAS 2374 01:35:18,712 --> 01:35:20,214 ONCE HABITABLE AND THAT IT'S ALL 2375 01:35:20,214 --> 01:35:22,149 THE INGREDIENTS OF LIFE, THAT IT 2376 01:35:22,149 --> 01:35:23,050 HAD THE CHEMISTRY THAT COULD 2377 01:35:23,050 --> 01:35:24,585 HAVE ENABLED LIFE AND WE'RE 2378 01:35:24,585 --> 01:35:26,620 SEEING SIGNS OF ORGANICS AND 2379 01:35:26,620 --> 01:35:29,523 SIGNATURES THAT LOOK VERY 2380 01:35:29,523 --> 01:35:30,958 CONFUSING TO US THAT COULD BE 2381 01:35:30,958 --> 01:35:32,760 EVEN FOSSIL EVIDENCE OF PAST 2382 01:35:32,760 --> 01:35:32,793 LIFE. 2383 01:35:32,793 --> 01:35:34,995 AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE MARS 2020 2384 01:35:34,995 --> 01:35:37,598 AND FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS, BUT 2385 01:35:37,598 --> 01:35:38,299 I THINK HUMAN EXPLORERS IS WHEN 2386 01:35:38,299 --> 01:35:40,134 WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THE MOST 2387 01:35:40,134 --> 01:35:40,935 PROGRESS. 2388 01:35:40,935 --> 01:35:44,405 WE HAVE THE ORION SPACECRAFT. 2389 01:35:44,405 --> 01:35:45,940 WE HAVE COMMERCIAL CREW 2390 01:35:45,940 --> 01:35:46,407 TRANSPORTATION. 2391 01:35:46,407 --> 01:35:48,943 WE HAVE NEW HEAVY LIFT VEHICLES 2392 01:35:48,943 --> 01:35:50,945 SUCH AS THE BLUE ORIGIN COMING 2393 01:35:50,945 --> 01:35:53,380 ONLINE AND THAT ADDS TO WHAT IS 2394 01:35:53,380 --> 01:35:54,715 A REMARKABLY RELIABLE STABLE OF 2395 01:35:54,715 --> 01:35:57,618 LAUNCH VEHICLES, THE ATLAS 5 AND 2396 01:35:57,618 --> 01:35:58,419 DELTA 4. 2397 01:35:58,419 --> 01:35:59,854 THERE'S SOME DEVELOPMENTS YOU 2398 01:35:59,854 --> 01:36:00,921 PROBABLY DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT, 2399 01:36:00,921 --> 01:36:02,623 THINGS LIKE THE VENTURE CLASS 2400 01:36:02,623 --> 01:36:04,458 LAUNCH SYSTEM, A NEW SMALL CLASS 2401 01:36:04,458 --> 01:36:06,627 OF LAUNCHERS THAT'S GOING TO 2402 01:36:06,627 --> 01:36:09,096 ENABLE A WHOLE NEW GENERATION OF 2403 01:36:09,096 --> 01:36:10,898 SCIENCE CAPABILITIES IN LOW 2404 01:36:10,898 --> 01:36:11,732 EARTH ORBIT AND MAYBE EVEN TO 2405 01:36:11,732 --> 01:36:12,433 THE MOON. 2406 01:36:12,433 --> 01:36:14,635 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HUMAN 2407 01:36:14,635 --> 01:36:15,769 HISTORY, WE HAVE EFFORTS AND 2408 01:36:15,769 --> 01:36:17,872 WORK TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION, 2409 01:36:17,872 --> 01:36:20,174 ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE. 2410 01:36:20,174 --> 01:36:21,742 PERHAPS THE JAMES WEBB SPACE 2411 01:36:21,742 --> 01:36:24,111 TELESCOPE WILL GET US A LITTLE 2412 01:36:24,111 --> 01:36:24,912 BIT FURTHER, LOOKING AT THE 2413 01:36:24,912 --> 01:36:26,413 ATMOSPHERES OF PLANETS AROUND 2414 01:36:26,413 --> 01:36:30,718 NEARBY STARS, LAUNCHING OCTOBER 2415 01:36:30,718 --> 01:36:30,851 2018. 2416 01:36:30,851 --> 01:36:34,155 THE MARS 2020 ROVER IS GOING TO 2417 01:36:34,155 --> 01:36:34,288 CACHE SAMPLES FOR RETURN TO 2418 01:36:34,288 --> 01:36:36,423 EARTH THAT, WHO KNOWS, COULD 2419 01:36:36,423 --> 01:36:37,958 CONTAIN INCLUSIONS INSIDE OF 2420 01:36:37,958 --> 01:36:39,293 THOSE ROCKS THAT WILL TELL US 2421 01:36:39,293 --> 01:36:43,130 THAT LIFE DID EXIST ON MARS 2422 01:36:43,130 --> 01:36:43,898 ABOUT THE SAME TIME LIFE STARTED 2423 01:36:43,898 --> 01:36:44,465 ON EARTH. 2424 01:36:44,465 --> 01:36:46,834 THE EUROPA CLIPPER WILL SAIL 2425 01:36:46,834 --> 01:36:50,771 THROUGH PLUMES OF WATER FROM AN 2426 01:36:50,771 --> 01:36:51,939 UNDER ICE OCEAN THAT HAS BEEN 2427 01:36:51,939 --> 01:36:53,741 SITTING THERE PERCOLATING, A 2428 01:36:53,741 --> 01:36:54,942 WARM SALTY OCEAN WITH ORGANICS 2429 01:36:54,942 --> 01:36:57,811 AND CONNECTIONS TO UNDERSEA 2430 01:36:57,811 --> 01:36:58,946 VENTS FOR 4.5 BILLION YEARS. 2431 01:36:58,946 --> 01:37:00,881 IF LIFE ISN'T THAT HARD TO GET 2432 01:37:00,881 --> 01:37:01,715 STARTED, THERE'S PROBABLY LIFE 2433 01:37:01,715 --> 01:37:03,317 THERE AND WE'RE GOING TO SAIL 2434 01:37:03,317 --> 01:37:06,220 THROUGH THOSE PLAUMZ AND SEE IF 2435 01:37:06,220 --> 01:37:07,721 WE CAN DETECT THOSE SIGNS OF 2436 01:37:07,721 --> 01:37:08,088 LIFE. 2437 01:37:08,088 --> 01:37:10,391 A LANDER ON EUROPA IS JUST 2438 01:37:10,391 --> 01:37:11,926 GETTING STARTED. 2439 01:37:11,926 --> 01:37:17,031 IN 2018, THE SURVEY SATELLITE IS 2440 01:37:17,031 --> 01:37:19,066 GOING TO LAUNCH AND TELL US 2441 01:37:19,066 --> 01:37:20,701 WHERE OUR NEAR NEIGHBOR PLANETS 2442 01:37:20,701 --> 01:37:21,869 ARE THAT ARE EARTH SIZED WITH 2443 01:37:21,869 --> 01:37:23,304 ATMOSPHERES AND WE KNOW HOW TO 2444 01:37:23,304 --> 01:37:25,773 BUILD A NEW TELESCOPE BEYOND 2445 01:37:25,773 --> 01:37:27,541 JAMES WEBB THAT REALLY WOULD 2446 01:37:27,541 --> 01:37:29,276 HAVE THE CAPABILITIES TO ANALYZE 2447 01:37:29,276 --> 01:37:32,346 THE ATMOSPHERES OF PLANETS -- 2448 01:37:32,346 --> 01:37:35,783 EARTH-LIKE PLANETS AROUND NEARBY 2449 01:37:35,783 --> 01:37:37,418 STARS AND SEE SIGNS OF LIFE IF 2450 01:37:37,418 --> 01:37:38,185 THEY EXIST AND I THINK WE'RE 2451 01:37:38,185 --> 01:37:39,486 GOING TO HAVE HUMANS BUILDING 2452 01:37:39,486 --> 01:37:41,956 THOSE TELESCOPES. 2453 01:37:41,956 --> 01:37:42,890 THIS BRIGHT FUTURE IS NOT 2454 01:37:42,890 --> 01:37:44,391 WITHOUT CHALLENGES. 2455 01:37:44,391 --> 01:37:46,827 TO CREATE THAT FUTURE, WE NEED 2456 01:37:46,827 --> 01:37:48,796 TO DARE MIGHTY THINGS. 2457 01:37:48,796 --> 01:37:51,465 TO UNDERTAKE HIGH PERFORMANCE 2458 01:37:51,465 --> 01:37:51,999 CHALLENGES. 2459 01:37:51,999 --> 01:37:54,635 WE NEED TO BE BOLD AND 2460 01:37:54,635 --> 01:37:55,803 AUDACIOUS, NOT INCREMENTAL. 2461 01:37:55,803 --> 01:37:57,304 WE NEED STRONG AND TECHNICALLY 2462 01:37:57,304 --> 01:37:58,639 CAPABLE LEADERSHIP, AND WE NEED 2463 01:37:58,639 --> 01:38:00,774 TO BE WILLING TO MAKE BIG 2464 01:38:00,774 --> 01:38:05,312 DECISIONS AND TO TAKE RISKS. 2465 01:38:05,312 --> 01:38:08,315 I PERSONALLY BELIEVE OUR NEXT 2466 01:38:08,315 --> 01:38:10,484 FRONTIER FOR EXPLORATION IS THE 2467 01:38:10,484 --> 01:38:11,085 EXPLORATION OF MARS. 2468 01:38:11,085 --> 01:38:12,319 WE HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE, THE 2469 01:38:12,319 --> 01:38:13,954 CAPABILITY, THE RESOURCES, THE 2470 01:38:13,954 --> 01:38:16,056 VEHICLES TO EMBARK ON THIS NEXT 2471 01:38:16,056 --> 01:38:17,391 GRAND ADVENTURE, BUT PERHAPS THE 2472 01:38:17,391 --> 01:38:19,026 MOST IMPORTANT CHALLENGE OF ALL 2473 01:38:19,026 --> 01:38:22,296 THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS FOR 2474 01:38:22,296 --> 01:38:24,465 SPACE EXPLORATION IS ALL OTHER 2475 01:38:24,465 --> 01:38:25,699 PROGRESS IN THIS COUNTRY IS TO 2476 01:38:25,699 --> 01:38:28,602 SUPPORT AND IMPROVE OUR NATION'S 2477 01:38:28,602 --> 01:38:32,406 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING 2478 01:38:32,406 --> 01:38:33,340 AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION 2479 01:38:33,340 --> 01:38:33,474 EFFORTS. 2480 01:38:33,474 --> 01:38:34,908 IN THE END, THIS MAY BE THE MOST 2481 01:38:34,908 --> 01:38:36,677 IMPORTANT CHALLENGE OF ALL. 2482 01:38:36,677 --> 01:38:38,078 I'M OPTIMISTIC AND EXCITED ABOUT 2483 01:38:38,078 --> 01:38:39,513 OUR FUTURE IN SPACE AND ON 2484 01:38:39,513 --> 01:38:39,647 EARTH. 2485 01:38:39,647 --> 01:38:41,048 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION. 2486 01:38:41,048 --> 01:38:42,683 THANK YOU FOR AWARDING ME THE 2487 01:38:42,683 --> 01:38:44,451 ROTARY NATIONAL AWARD FOR SPACE 2488 01:38:44,451 --> 01:38:44,585 ACHIEVEMENT. 2489 01:38:44,585 --> 01:38:45,319 I'M TRULY HONORED AND HUMBLED. 2490 01:38:45,319 --> 01:39:09,977 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 2491 01:39:09,977 --> 01:39:20,521 ♪♪ 2492 01:39:20,521 --> 01:39:22,022 >> JUST GOING TO LEAVE THAT 2493 01:39:22,022 --> 01:39:24,725 TROPHY BEHIND. 2494 01:39:24,725 --> 01:39:26,994 YOU KNOW, ONE THING I'D LIKE TO 2495 01:39:26,994 --> 01:39:28,829 ADD ABOUT THAT -- THAT TRIP INTO 2496 01:39:28,829 --> 01:39:35,636 THE MBL, THE NEUTRAL BUOYANCY 2497 01:39:35,636 --> 01:39:35,769 LABORATORY. 2498 01:39:35,769 --> 01:39:36,870 IF YOU'LL RECALL, WHEN I DID 2499 01:39:36,870 --> 01:39:38,305 THAT, I WAS WORKING FOR CNN, AND 2500 01:39:38,305 --> 01:39:40,040 THEN THAT MISSION GOT DELAYED BY 2501 01:39:40,040 --> 01:39:42,076 QUITE SOME TIME. 2502 01:39:42,076 --> 01:39:44,044 BY THE TIME THE MISSION FLEW, I 2503 01:39:44,044 --> 01:39:46,513 WAS NO LONGER WITH CNN. 2504 01:39:46,513 --> 01:39:49,350 I HAD BEEN DUMPED. 2505 01:39:49,350 --> 01:39:51,118 SO, IN FACT, THE ENTIRE SCIENCE 2506 01:39:51,118 --> 01:39:52,553 AND TECHNOLOGY UNIT GOT DUMPED 2507 01:39:52,553 --> 01:39:53,220 BECAUSE WE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT 2508 01:39:53,220 --> 01:39:56,056 THE KARDASHIANS. 2509 01:39:56,056 --> 01:39:57,658 AND I FELT A LITTLE BIT BAD 2510 01:39:57,658 --> 01:39:59,793 ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE ALL THAT 2511 01:39:59,793 --> 01:40:01,662 MATERIAL THAT I SHOT OF ME DOING 2512 01:40:01,662 --> 01:40:02,696 LAPS IN THE POOL AND ALL THE 2513 01:40:02,696 --> 01:40:04,732 THINGS YOU GOT TO DO WAS NO 2514 01:40:04,732 --> 01:40:07,267 LONGER MY PROPERTY. 2515 01:40:07,267 --> 01:40:08,936 HOWEVER, EVERYTHING SHOT 2516 01:40:08,936 --> 01:40:11,004 UNDERWATER WAS PUBLIC DOMAIN 2517 01:40:11,004 --> 01:40:13,173 NASA FOOTAGE SO I DID PUT 2518 01:40:13,173 --> 01:40:16,410 TOGETHER A LITTLE PIECE. 2519 01:40:16,410 --> 01:40:18,712 IT, OF ME DOING THE PGT WITH HIM 2520 01:40:18,712 --> 01:40:19,780 AND IN THE HUBBLE. 2521 01:40:19,780 --> 01:40:20,647 IT WAS PRETTY AWESOME. 2522 01:40:20,647 --> 01:40:22,516 AND THE REASON I BRING THIS UP, 2523 01:40:22,516 --> 01:40:24,418 NOT JUST TO BRAG, BUT THAT WAS A 2524 01:40:24,418 --> 01:40:27,454 GOOD BRAG, ACTUALLY, BUT IS 2525 01:40:27,454 --> 01:40:30,357 THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER, JOHN HAS 2526 01:40:30,357 --> 01:40:34,795 ALWAYS GONE OUT OF HIS WAY TO DO 2527 01:40:34,795 --> 01:40:36,363 WHAT HE CAN TO COMMUNICATE THE 2528 01:40:36,363 --> 01:40:38,198 WONDERMENT OF WHAT YOU ALL DO IN 2529 01:40:38,198 --> 01:40:38,732 SPACE. 2530 01:40:38,732 --> 01:40:40,534 AND IT'S HARD SOMETIMES TO COME 2531 01:40:40,534 --> 01:40:43,804 UP WITH WORDS THAT WORK. 2532 01:40:43,804 --> 01:40:45,839 YOU KNOW, WE TRY AS JOURNALISTS, 2533 01:40:45,839 --> 01:40:48,409 AS YOU HEARD ROB TRYING TO TELL 2534 01:40:48,409 --> 01:40:50,177 THE STORY, BUT THESE ARE THE 2535 01:40:50,177 --> 01:40:52,379 GUYS -- THERE AREN'T MANY BEATS 2536 01:40:52,379 --> 01:40:53,180 YOU COVER WHERE YOU CAN'T GO TO 2537 01:40:53,180 --> 01:40:53,614 THE LOCATION. 2538 01:40:53,614 --> 01:40:54,648 THIS IS ONE OF THEM. 2539 01:40:54,648 --> 01:40:56,049 AND HE'S ALWAYS DONE A GREAT JOB 2540 01:40:56,049 --> 01:40:57,718 IN TRYING TO SHARE IT WITH 2541 01:40:57,718 --> 01:41:01,021 OTHERS AND FOR THAT, I COMMEND 2542 01:41:01,021 --> 01:41:01,388 HIM. 2543 01:41:01,388 --> 01:41:01,622 LET'S GIVE HIM ANOTHER ROUND OF 2544 01:41:01,622 --> 01:41:08,028 APPLAUSE FOR THAT. 2545 01:41:08,028 --> 01:41:10,397 SO, IT HAS NOW BEEN 60 YEARS 2546 01:41:10,397 --> 01:41:14,234 SINCE OMEGA ROLLED OUT ITS 2547 01:41:14,234 --> 01:41:15,936 VENERABLE SPEED MASTER WATCH. 2548 01:41:15,936 --> 01:41:17,271 THIS IS LIKE THE HOME SHOPPING 2549 01:41:17,271 --> 01:41:18,605 CHANNEL RIGHT NOW. 2550 01:41:18,605 --> 01:41:22,776 AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, IN 1963, IT 2551 01:41:22,776 --> 01:41:24,678 BECAME THE FIRST WATCH TO PASS 2552 01:41:24,678 --> 01:41:26,246 NASA'S RIGOROUS TESTING FOR 2553 01:41:26,246 --> 01:41:27,581 FLIGHT QUALIFICATION, AND SOME 2554 01:41:27,581 --> 01:41:29,216 GUY JUST WENT TO A JEWELRY PLACE 2555 01:41:29,216 --> 01:41:32,786 IN HOUSTON, BOUGHT SOME WATCHES, 2556 01:41:32,786 --> 01:41:34,788 AND THAT WAS THE ONE THAT 2557 01:41:34,788 --> 01:41:34,922 PASSED. 2558 01:41:34,922 --> 01:41:36,523 OUR NEXT SPEAKER FLEW IN SPACE 2559 01:41:36,523 --> 01:41:43,297 JUST A FEW YEARS LATER, GEMINI 2560 01:41:43,297 --> 01:41:43,497 6A. 2561 01:41:43,497 --> 01:41:44,865 WHAT DO YOU DO? 2562 01:41:44,865 --> 01:41:46,099 HE WOULD KNOW. 2563 01:41:46,099 --> 01:41:47,568 PLEASE GIVE A WARM WELCOME TO 2564 01:41:47,568 --> 01:41:49,236 ONE OF THE GREAT PRIDES OF 2565 01:41:49,236 --> 01:41:50,938 OKLAHOMA, ONE OF THE ALL-TIME 2566 01:41:50,938 --> 01:41:53,006 GREATEST AVIATORS EVER, AND A 2567 01:41:53,006 --> 01:41:55,609 GENERALLY AWESOME GUY, HE HAS A 2568 01:41:55,609 --> 01:41:57,344 LITTLE SURPRISE FROM OMEGA FOR 2569 01:41:57,344 --> 01:41:58,278 OUR HONOREE TONIGHT. 2570 01:41:58,278 --> 01:42:00,447 I DON'T WANT TO SURPRISE IT AND 2571 01:42:00,447 --> 01:42:02,449 RUIN THE SURPRISE, AND SPOIL IT 2572 01:42:02,449 --> 01:42:04,017 BUT HE DOES HAVE A SURPRISE. 2573 01:42:04,017 --> 01:42:04,852 GIVE IT UP FOR LIEUTENANT 2574 01:42:04,852 --> 01:42:07,321 GENERAL THOMAS P. STAFFORD. 2575 01:42:07,321 --> 01:42:21,668 ♪♪ 2576 01:42:21,668 --> 01:42:25,239 >> THANK YOU, MILES, AND AGAIN, 2577 01:42:25,239 --> 01:42:28,442 IT'S THE REAL HONOR FOR THE 2578 01:42:28,442 --> 01:42:29,710 OMEGA WATCH CORPORATION TO 2579 01:42:29,710 --> 01:42:33,313 SUPPORT RNASA AND TO PRESENT 2580 01:42:33,313 --> 01:42:36,416 THIS PROFESSIONAL SPEED MASTER 2581 01:42:36,416 --> 01:42:38,719 TO JOHN GRUNSFELD. 2582 01:42:38,719 --> 01:42:40,053 CONGRATULATIONS ON AN ACTUAL 2583 01:42:40,053 --> 01:42:41,021 SPACE AWARD, JOHN. 2584 01:42:41,021 --> 01:42:42,289 OUTSTANDING CAREER AS AN 2585 01:42:42,289 --> 01:42:44,424 ASTRONAUT AND THEN LATER ON 2586 01:42:44,424 --> 01:42:46,994 ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA 2587 01:42:46,994 --> 01:42:49,630 AND YOU'VE DONE SO MUCH TO HELP. 2588 01:42:49,630 --> 01:42:51,298 I'D LIKE TO MAKE A COUPLE 2589 01:42:51,298 --> 01:42:51,431 OBSERVATIONS. 2590 01:42:51,431 --> 01:42:54,368 AS WE LOOKED AT THE STELLAR 2591 01:42:54,368 --> 01:42:57,504 AWARD WINNERS AND ALL THE PEOPLE 2592 01:42:57,504 --> 01:42:59,306 HERE, WE HAVE SO MUCH TALENT IN 2593 01:42:59,306 --> 01:43:00,541 THIS COUNTRY. 2594 01:43:00,541 --> 01:43:04,378 YET, AT TIMES, WE TAKE DIPS, AND 2595 01:43:04,378 --> 01:43:07,047 AS MIKE GRIFFIN FOUND OUT AS 2596 01:43:07,047 --> 01:43:08,048 NASA ADMINISTRATOR AND I'M SURE 2597 01:43:08,048 --> 01:43:10,117 YOU HAVE FOUND AS THE ASSOCIATE 2598 01:43:10,117 --> 01:43:12,519 ADMINISTRATOR FOR SCIENCE, THAT 2599 01:43:12,519 --> 01:43:15,689 WITH POLITICAL UPS AND DOWNS, IT 2600 01:43:15,689 --> 01:43:18,225 DOES -- IT MAKES IT GO SLOWER 2601 01:43:18,225 --> 01:43:20,294 AND WE COULD HAVE BEEN A LOT 2602 01:43:20,294 --> 01:43:22,729 FARTHER BUT WE'VE HAD SOME MAJOR 2603 01:43:22,729 --> 01:43:24,965 SETBACKS AND MOST OF IT IS 2604 01:43:24,965 --> 01:43:27,334 POLITICAL AND THEN ALSO MAYBE A 2605 01:43:27,334 --> 01:43:33,874 FEW IDEAS BY PEOPLE WHO WERE 2606 01:43:33,874 --> 01:43:35,275 ONB, WHAT WE HAVE TO DO, BUT 2607 01:43:35,275 --> 01:43:38,445 THIS -- I GAVE CONGRESSIONAL 2608 01:43:38,445 --> 01:43:39,947 TESTIMONY TO THE HOUSE SCIENCE 2609 01:43:39,947 --> 01:43:42,749 SPACE AND TECH COMMITTEE IN 2610 01:43:42,749 --> 01:43:43,417 FEBRUARY IN THEIR OPENING 2611 01:43:43,417 --> 01:43:45,552 HEARING SESSION, AND MY MAIN 2612 01:43:45,552 --> 01:43:48,755 PLEA WAS, LET'S HAVE SOME 2613 01:43:48,755 --> 01:43:50,390 CONSISTENCY IN THIS AND 2614 01:43:50,390 --> 01:43:51,792 CONTINUAL SUPPORT AND NOT UP AND 2615 01:43:51,792 --> 01:44:01,802 DOWN. 2616 01:44:01,802 --> 01:44:04,838 WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY IN THIS 2617 01:44:04,838 --> 01:44:07,274 PERIOD OF TIME, BUT THINK HOW 2618 01:44:07,274 --> 01:44:08,976 MUCH FARTHER WE COULD BE OR HOW 2619 01:44:08,976 --> 01:44:11,378 MUCH FARTHER WE COULD GO IF WE 2620 01:44:11,378 --> 01:44:13,947 HAVE CONSISTENT SUPPORT. 2621 01:44:13,947 --> 01:44:18,385 AND THIS IS THE MAIN PLEA, BUT 2622 01:44:18,385 --> 01:44:19,786 WE HAVE GREAT PEOPLE, AND JOHN, 2623 01:44:19,786 --> 01:44:22,990 YOU HAVE EXEMPLIFIED ON THE 2624 01:44:22,990 --> 01:44:25,659 HUBBLE TELESCOPE, AND THOSE 2625 01:44:25,659 --> 01:44:27,127 REPAIRS, AND THE -- AND YOUR JOB 2626 01:44:27,127 --> 01:44:29,196 THERE AS ASSOCIATE 2627 01:44:29,196 --> 01:44:30,297 ADMINISTRATOR, THE HUBBLE 2628 01:44:30,297 --> 01:44:32,232 TELESCOPE HAS A SPECIAL MEANING 2629 01:44:32,232 --> 01:44:33,333 FOR ME TOO. 2630 01:44:33,333 --> 01:44:36,770 MY FIRST, QUOTE, VOLUNTEER JOB, 2631 01:44:36,770 --> 01:44:38,772 THAT DAN GOLDEN HIT ME UP FOR 2632 01:44:38,772 --> 01:44:41,074 WAS TO CHAIR THE OVERSIGHT 2633 01:44:41,074 --> 01:44:42,209 COMMITTEE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL 2634 01:44:42,209 --> 01:44:44,845 SPACE STATION, AND MY EXECUTIVE 2635 01:44:44,845 --> 01:44:48,415 SECRETARY WAS BILL VAN DINE HERE 2636 01:44:48,415 --> 01:44:50,217 AND THE MAIN THING WAS NOT 2637 01:44:50,217 --> 01:44:50,283 TECHNICAL. 2638 01:44:50,283 --> 01:44:52,219 WE HAD TO DO SOME REAL HEAD 2639 01:44:52,219 --> 01:44:53,920 KNOCKING IN MANAGEMENT. 2640 01:44:53,920 --> 01:44:56,957 BUT WE GOT IT DONE, AND IN FACT, 2641 01:44:56,957 --> 01:45:00,327 I HAD TO GIVE TESTIMONY BECAUSE, 2642 01:45:00,327 --> 01:45:02,229 AGAIN, THE SCIENCE COMMITTEE 2643 01:45:02,229 --> 01:45:04,498 DOUBTED THAT WE COULD REPAIR 2644 01:45:04,498 --> 01:45:06,333 THAT TELESCOPE, WHICH IS ONE OF 2645 01:45:06,333 --> 01:45:09,870 THE GREATEST INSTRUMENTS EVER 2646 01:45:09,870 --> 01:45:10,170 INVENTED. 2647 01:45:10,170 --> 01:45:14,741 BUT I THOUGHT IT WOULD CARRY OUT 2648 01:45:14,741 --> 01:45:15,208 95% OF THE PRIMARY AND PROBABLY 2649 01:45:15,208 --> 01:45:16,943 80% TO 85% OF THE SECONDARY. 2650 01:45:16,943 --> 01:45:19,513 WE DID 100% OF THE PRIMARY AND 2651 01:45:19,513 --> 01:45:21,515 PROBABLY 110% OF THE 2652 01:45:21,515 --> 01:45:21,748 SECONDARIES. 2653 01:45:21,748 --> 01:45:23,450 AND IT CONTINUED ON THROUGH 2654 01:45:23,450 --> 01:45:24,451 THOSE SERVICING MISSIONS, AND 2655 01:45:24,451 --> 01:45:27,120 YOU DID A SUPER JOB. 2656 01:45:27,120 --> 01:45:28,355 WE'RE SO PROUD OF YOU. 2657 01:45:28,355 --> 01:45:30,991 AND SO, CONGRATULATIONS, AND 2658 01:45:30,991 --> 01:45:32,225 AGAIN, OUR MARKETING PEOPLE MADE 2659 01:45:32,225 --> 01:45:45,706 A BIG BOX FOR A SMALL WATCH. 2660 01:45:45,706 --> 01:45:47,708 >> THANK YOU. 2661 01:45:47,708 --> 01:45:48,775 >> MILES MENTIONED IT WAS 60 2662 01:45:48,775 --> 01:45:50,410 YEARS AGO THIS YEAR THAT THE 2663 01:45:50,410 --> 01:45:53,447 PROFESSIONAL SPEED MASTER WAS 2664 01:45:53,447 --> 01:45:55,449 PERFECTED, AND NOW FIVE YEARS 2665 01:45:55,449 --> 01:45:59,186 LATER, WALLY WORE IT AND ALL THE 2666 01:45:59,186 --> 01:46:02,889 WAY THROUGH GEMINI, APOLLO, SKY 2667 01:46:02,889 --> 01:46:04,124 LAB AND THE FIRST SERIES OF 2668 01:46:04,124 --> 01:46:05,892 SHUTTLE FLIGHTS. 2669 01:46:05,892 --> 01:46:09,629 SO, IT'S A GREAT WATCH. 2670 01:46:09,629 --> 01:46:10,864 AND IT'S STILL -- IT'S NOW AN 2671 01:46:10,864 --> 01:46:14,468 ANTIQUE, BUT IT WORKS REAL WELL. 2672 01:46:14,468 --> 01:46:16,369 BUT IT WILL KEEP GREAT TIME FOR 2673 01:46:16,369 --> 01:46:17,404 YOU, JOHN. 2674 01:46:17,404 --> 01:46:17,571 BUT REMEMBER, WIND IT EVERY 2675 01:46:17,571 --> 01:46:18,839 MORNING. 2676 01:46:18,839 --> 01:46:21,441 CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN. 2677 01:46:21,441 --> 01:46:23,944 WELL DESERVED. 2678 01:46:23,944 --> 01:46:34,321 ♪♪ 2679 01:46:34,321 --> 01:46:36,323 >> GENERAL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 2680 01:46:36,323 --> 01:46:36,990 THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY 2681 01:46:36,990 --> 01:46:38,024 USEFUL, ACTUALLY, IN THE SPACE 2682 01:46:38,024 --> 01:46:40,260 WALKS BECAUSE I HAD A TENDENCY 2683 01:46:40,260 --> 01:46:46,833 TO GO A LITTLE LONG. 2684 01:46:46,833 --> 01:46:48,535 OLDER I GET, THE MORE I NEED TO 2685 01:46:48,535 --> 01:46:49,936 GET WOUND IN THE MORNING TOO. 2686 01:46:49,936 --> 01:46:51,171 SO, I'M FEELING A LITTLE ANTIQUE 2687 01:46:51,171 --> 01:46:51,471 TOO. 2688 01:46:51,471 --> 01:46:53,473 NOW FOR A FEW -- BY THE WAY, I 2689 01:46:53,473 --> 01:46:56,810 THINK YOU SETTLED IT. 2690 01:46:56,810 --> 01:46:57,410 GEMINI. 2691 01:46:57,410 --> 01:46:59,312 WE'RE GOING WITH GEMINI, FOLKS. 2692 01:46:59,312 --> 01:47:01,615 NOW SOME WORDS FROM OUR 2693 01:47:01,615 --> 01:47:02,182 SPONSORS. 2694 01:47:02,182 --> 01:47:07,854 I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE TASK FOR 2695 01:47:07,854 --> 01:47:09,322 SPONSORING THE PORTRAIT OF JOHN 2696 01:47:09,322 --> 01:47:09,456 GRUNSFELD. 2697 01:47:09,456 --> 01:47:11,024 THE ORIGINAL IS OUT IN THE 2698 01:47:11,024 --> 01:47:11,691 HALLWAY. 2699 01:47:11,691 --> 01:47:14,694 IT WILL RESIDE WITH THE SIX-FOOT 2700 01:47:14,694 --> 01:47:16,329 SPACE TROPHY AT THE SPACE CENTER 2701 01:47:16,329 --> 01:47:17,397 HOUSTON FOR THE NEXT YEAR. 2702 01:47:17,397 --> 01:47:18,965 LET US ACKNOWLEDGE ALL THE 2703 01:47:18,965 --> 01:47:20,534 SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS WHO 2704 01:47:20,534 --> 01:47:21,935 PROVIDED SPECIAL SUPPORT FOR 2705 01:47:21,935 --> 01:47:22,803 TONIGHT'S DINNER. 2706 01:47:22,803 --> 01:47:24,905 THESE ORGANIZATIONS WILL BE 2707 01:47:24,905 --> 01:47:26,373 DISPLAYED ON THE SCREEN. 2708 01:47:26,373 --> 01:47:27,174 WHEREVER YOU CAN SUPPORT THEM, 2709 01:47:27,174 --> 01:47:27,607 PLEASE DO. 2710 01:47:27,607 --> 01:47:30,010 BUY A ROCKET FROM THEM OR 2711 01:47:30,010 --> 01:47:30,210 SOMETHING. 2712 01:47:30,210 --> 01:47:31,611 ANYWAY, HAVE A GREAT EVENING. 2713 01:47:31,611 --> 01:47:32,546 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 2714 01:47:32,546 --> 01:47:34,147 WE ENJOYED YOU BEING HERE, AND 2715 01:47:34,147 --> 01:47:37,884 WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT YEAR. 2716 01:47:37,884 --> 01:47:40,487 ♪♪ 2717 01:47:40,487 --> 01:47:46,092 CLEAR LEER 2718 01:47:54,067 --> 01:47:47,160 ♪♪ 2719 01:47:54,067 --> 01:47:55,302 >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ON 2720 01:47:55,302 --> 01:47:58,839 BEHALF OF THE ROTARY NATIONAL 2721 01:47:58,839 --> 01:47:59,806 AWARD FOR SPACE ACHIEVEMENT 2722 01:47:59,806 --> 01:48:01,808 FOUNDATION, I EXTEND OUR 2723 01:48:01,808 --> 01:48:03,310 SINCEREST CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2724 01:48:03,310 --> 01:48:05,478 HONOREES, ALL OF YOU DESERVE OUR 2725 01:48:05,478 --> 01:48:07,414 ADMIRATION AND OUR GRATITUDE. 2726 01:48:07,414 --> 01:48:08,348 AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO TAKE 2727 01:48:08,348 --> 01:48:09,883 THE OPPORTUNITY TO THANK MILES 2728 01:48:09,883 --> 01:48:13,086 O'BRIEN FOR DOING A GREAT JOB AS 2729 01:48:13,086 --> 01:48:13,653 EMCEE AGAIN THIS YEAR. 2730 01:48:13,653 --> 01:48:18,358 LET'S HEAR IT FOR MILES, PLEASE. 2731 01:48:18,358 --> 01:48:20,460 AND AS A REMINDER, NASA TV WILL 2732 01:48:20,460 --> 01:48:22,162 AIR TONIGHT'S EVENT AT 3:00 P.M. 2733 01:48:22,162 --> 01:48:24,464 AND 7:00 P.M. CENTRAL NEXT 2734 01:48:24,464 --> 01:48:25,432 TUESDAY, MAY 2. 2735 01:48:25,432 --> 01:48:27,601 AND FINALLY, THE FOUNDATION 2736 01:48:27,601 --> 01:48:30,537 WOULD LIKE TO GIVE A SPECIAL 2737 01:48:30,537 --> 01:48:32,839 THANKS TO OMEGA WATCH, THE 2738 01:48:32,839 --> 01:48:34,741 FISHER SPACE FOR THEIR IN KIND 2739 01:48:34,741 --> 01:48:36,376 DONATION, TASK FOR THE PORTRAIT, 2740 01:48:36,376 --> 01:48:40,380 ORBITAL ATK FOR THE STELLAR 2741 01:48:40,380 --> 01:48:41,781 AWARDS, AND TRULY RNASA IS 2742 01:48:41,781 --> 01:48:44,784 GRATEFUL TO ALL OUR SPONSORS 2743 01:48:44,784 --> 01:48:46,519 WHOSE SUPPORT AND ACHIEVEMENTS 2744 01:48:46,519 --> 01:48:48,555 MAKE THIS EVENT POSSIBLE, AND 2745 01:48:48,555 --> 01:48:51,558 GIVE US SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE. 2746 01:48:51,558 --> 01:48:53,560 FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS, 2747 01:48:53,560 --> 01:48:54,060 THANK YOU. 2748 01:48:54,060 --> 01:48:56,062 SO, THIS IS THE CONCLUSION OF 2749 01:48:56,062 --> 01:48:56,496 OUR PROGRAM. 2750 01:48:56,496 --> 01:48:57,664 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING 2751 01:48:57,664 --> 01:48:57,998 HERE. 2752 01:48:57,998 --> 01:49:00,233 KEEP UP ALL THE GOOD WORK.