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of nasa's langley research center in

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hampton virginia and it's my pleasure to

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welcome you to our laboratory on this

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really truly historic day at this time

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please silence your cell phones and

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stand for the posting of our country's

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colors by the u.s joint base langley

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eustis color guard and then please

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remain standing for the singing of our

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national anthem by the woodside high

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school's de meester singers from newport

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news virginia under the direction of

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by the dawn's early light

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what so

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all right please go ahead and take a

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and to the color guard and our singers

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thank you for helping us open today's

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ceremony uh as i mentioned today is a

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very special day for us here at langley

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in this our centennial year we have

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gathered to celebrate the opening of a

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powerful new computational facility that

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promises to accelerate our research for

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decades to come

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but really more importantly we're here

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to honor the legacy of one of the most

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admired and inspirational people

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ever associated with nasa

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and the person for whom this building is

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going to be named after catherine g

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johnson the mathematician and human

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before we go any further i also want to

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recognize the distinguished guest that

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we have participating in today's events

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please hold your applause till i get to

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the end of the list of names and

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recognizing them all

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starting join us today the honorable

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terry mcauliffe governor of the

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commonwealth of virginia

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the honorable mark warner united states

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senator from virginia the honorable

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donnie tuck mayor of hampton

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by way of video we're here from the

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honorable scott taylor congressman from

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virginia's second district also joining

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us here today are colonel jason kelly of

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the u.s army corps of engineers

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from nasa headquarters dan tinney the

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agency's acting associate administrator

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for mission support and today's keynote

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speaker margot lee shetterly author of

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the best-selling book hidden figures

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which serves as the basis basis of the

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other human computers like mary jackson

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she's a presidential medal of freedom

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hall of honor and just last month she

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celebrated her 99th birthday ladies and

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gentlemen please join me in letting her

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know how much we appreciate her in being

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here in her service to the nation miss

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so in a few minutes we'll officially

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open the catherine g johnson

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computational research facility or crf

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as we call it a building that sets the

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stage for our continuing digital

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transformation an exciting new era of

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we know that these are the tools that

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will help us shape the world of the

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future just as langley's wind tunnels

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have helped shape nearly every aircraft

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that's in the skies flying today thanks

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to this new building's robust carefully

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designed infrastructure we'll do more

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calculations than ever and we'll do them

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faster more efficiently and with greater

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in a world-facingly increasingly complex

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challenges langley researchers will need

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that's the promise of this new building

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so now let's take a quick look inside

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the facility that will drive so much of

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hi i'm vince whitfield and we're here at

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the katherine johnson computational

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research center we're about to cut the

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ribbon on this state-of-the-art facility

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but before we do let's take a sneak peek

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inside the building that will enable

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across all of nasa's mission areas let's

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built in the last six years as part of

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the centre's revitalization plan is

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named for catherine g johnson for those

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watching who may not know ms johnson is

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a human computer an amazing

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mathematician who calculated

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trajectories and played a key role in

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america's human space flight program

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featured in the lobby is a beautiful

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portrait of miss johnson that was taken

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last year at nearby fort monroe by

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famous photographer annie leibowitz for

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a vanity fair magazine article we also

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official proclamation from the

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commonwealth of virginia and a group

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achievement award from the nasa

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officer and those who will be

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technologies that are housed here

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and computational fluid dynamics

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the facility advances langley's

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capabilities in modeling and simulation

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about 1200 servers will be moved from

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the current locations on center later

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this fall allowing us to consolidate

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will be about 13 miles of copper network

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cabling and 97 miles of fiber optic

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that powers the ic functions of this

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information on the servers the building

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is designed to withstand category 3

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and it's on track to receive lead silver

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certification from the us green building

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the building is an energy saver 33 more

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efficient than energy standards just a

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capabilities and people will help to

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address nasa's future challenges

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speaking of the future we have a special

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you can't you can't see too much of that

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but as you can see this facility will

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of our number crunching it will also

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with industry as you know at langley we

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have world-class researchers

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that's been true for a century now

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and researchers from across our center

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will benefit from this new facility

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one of our areas of expertise is entry

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spacecraft enters and flies through a

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planet's atmosphere and lands safely on

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langley's skill in this area has been

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used for every successful robotic

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mission that's landed on mars and as we

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are called upon to support nasa's

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journey to mars the calculations we need

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to get us there will take place in this

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there's potential to model the property

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of new polymers and learn which ones

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more capable aircraft and spacecraft all

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are at the end of the day it takes the

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the innovation and brilliant ideas they

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is taking lessons learned when katherine

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johnson and her fellow human computers

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calculated spacecraft trajectories with

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advance the same techniques that she

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used to such spectacular effect and i

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johnson's character and accomplishments

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than this building that will bear her

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of your family for being here today

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we're glad uh you could be here to share

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in this moment and we're happy all of

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you could join us for such a great day

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you know this is an incredible project

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wouldn't have been possible without the

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hard work collaboration and support from

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our partners and friends outside of nasa

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as well and we're going to hear from a

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few of them uh today so first i'd like

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to invite colonel jason kelly of the u.s

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army corps of engineers to the podium

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colonel kelly can you come up

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[Applause]

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to governor mcauliffe

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senator warner

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representative taylor

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mayor tuck

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miss shetley

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friends of this story installation

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and organization

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and of course ms johnson and family

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thank you for joining us today on this

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very special afternoon

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on this very special

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day

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as i look out

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i see friends

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i see partners

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i see folks that understand the

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importance of collaboration

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working together

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especially when you're solving big

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problems

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when taking on addressing

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and conquering

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substantive challenges

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such things are not done alone

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the preciseness required

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to construct a computational research

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facility

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under the watchful eye

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of scientists

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and fellow engineers

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from which the occupants will explore

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and expand the frontiers of knowledge

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regarding space

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is not easily done

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but i've been confident throughout

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i knew this very moment

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this ceremony

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this very day

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would soon come

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miss kellerman

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the center operations director and i

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have long talked about it

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exact

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is the demand she impressed upon me

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and all involved in the oversight of

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construction

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of this building

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having earned an undergraduate degree in

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mathematics from the united states

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military academy

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followed by studies and statistics at

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the georgia institute of technology

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i feel uniquely qualified to speak on

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it's a hallmark of the army corps of

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engineers and it underpins

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all that nasa has done and continues to

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do for our great nation

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i'm honored to represent

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the many men and women

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laborers

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helpers

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project managers

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construction representatives

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architects

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engineers

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and a host of support staff members who

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work so hard to deliver this facility

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as the conclusion of my command tenure

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draws near

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i look forward to watching from afar the

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great advancements and wonders

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that will soon be realized

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from this very site

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i'm honored to have been a part of it

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and i can't wait to see the great work

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that i know will be produced from this

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computational research facility thank

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you

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[Applause]

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thank you colonel kelly for those

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great remarks now it's my pleasure to

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introduce a good friend of nasa langley

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the mayor of the great city of hampton

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the honorable donny tuck mr mayor come

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afternoon

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to

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congressman taylor

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to

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other elected officials and government

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officials

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to director bowles and to the

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administrators

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staff researchers here at nasa langley

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research center and to the

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representatives from nasa headquarters

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and the other research centers

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to

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distinguished guests

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good afternoon it's my pleasure to

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welcome you here

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in our city's 407 year history

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as well as 100 year of relationship with

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nasa langley research center

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we've had many many historic events and

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many proud moments

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and certainly today's prestigious

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recognition of mrs johnson

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whose contributions to nasa langley

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research center and quiet strength

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have inspired so many young men and

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women to break through barriers rates

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as the proudest moment that i've been a

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part of so today congratulations to you

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and thank you

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as well as to the incredible

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men and women

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here at nasa langley research center who

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thank you mayor tuck for those great

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words

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now i'd like to invite to the podium of

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mr dan tinney he's nasa's acting

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associate administrator for mission

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thank you dave and thank you to all of

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you for being here today this is truly a

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historic moment and it's wonderful to

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see such high level support for nasa's

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langley research center and this new

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facility that we're dedicating on behalf

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of miss catherine g johnson

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it's my honor to do this today to

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dedicate this facility a facility that

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will enable the future that's not an

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easy task and a rapidly and changing

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environment such as aerospace but this

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facility truly will endeavor our future

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this facility will help us move forward

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in advancements in aeronautics science

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earth sciences

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as well as space technology

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it will also help us move forward as we

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advance towards our mission in mars

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from aeronautical support to human space

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flight to sciences and space technology

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nasa langley has continued to be

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involved in all facets of nasa's mission

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and it's a tribute to our pioneering

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spirit

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and the story of catherine g johnson

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which has inspired so many her story

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will inspire generations of young people

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who will be inspired to pursue their

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dreams their ambitions to work for us

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hopefully one day

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as author ms shutterly can attest the

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many hidden figures that contributed to

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the great accomplishments of nasa are so

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important to our future

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miss johnson

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thank you for being here thank you for

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your hard work over the years you truly

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did make nasa a wonderful place in

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helping this nation advance our

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aerospace program

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i'd also just like to say that

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miss johnson's testimony is a tribute to

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her sharp mind her pioneering spirit and

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the many doors she helped open for so

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many others

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it's my honor to be here today i want to

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say congratulations to nasa langley

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congratulations to ms catherine g

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johnson and congratulations to nasa as

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we continue to pave away for the united

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states thank you let us celebrate

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thank you dan

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all right uh next we uh have a recorded

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message from congressman scott taylor so

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if we can uh cue that up

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hi everyone it's congressman scott

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taylor and i am extremely excited about

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nasa langley's new computational center

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it will strengthen virginia's already

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strong reputation as a high-tech hub of

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innovation it shows that langley's

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strong past is a springboard to a

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dynamic future

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the world has changed and opened up with

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complex challenges and profound

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possibilities and just as katherine

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johnson expanded and accelerated our

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nation's computing power to meet the

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needs of today

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this center will set the conditions of

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tomorrow in machine intelligence big

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data analytics aerospace technology

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simulations of aircraft and spacecraft

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structures

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electromagnetics acoustics trajectories

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sensors and computer models for hardware

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to explore our solar system and much

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more

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ronald reagan once said that each

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generation goes further than the

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generation preceding it because it

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stands upon the shoulders of that

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generation and that you will have more

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opportunities beyond anything we've ever

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known

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pioneering patriots like catherine

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johnson broke racial and gender barriers

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in laying the foundation of mathematics

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critical to nasa's early space flights

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well

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today it is fitting that the foundation

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of this center is being laid in her

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honor

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our nation's economic future national

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security and our travels beyond this

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world depend on a new generation of

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innovators who stand on the shoulders of

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catherine johnson we are counting on

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this center and we are counting on them

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no pressure

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they must take on this task for our

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nation with persistence character and

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the confidence to make the impossible a

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reality thank you god bless you and god

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all right very good and we certainly

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appreciate those words and that message

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from the congressman now it's uh my

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distinct pleasure to invite to the

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podium a strong nasa supporter and a

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united states senator from the

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commonwealth of virginia he serves on

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the finance banking budget and rules

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committees and is vice chairman of the

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select committee on intelligence the

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senator is a co-chair of the senate

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aerospace caucus and of the senate's

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unmanned aerial

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aerial systems caucus

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so please welcome senator warner to the

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you dave thank you for that introduction

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and it is

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a great honor for me to also be here to

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celebrate this um opening this wonderful

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new facility and to finally have a

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chance to meet uh mrs johnson it is a

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a really great honor i colonel you you

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said

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you are here as an expert on precision

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as a former governor and senator i'm not

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but i'm still extraordinarily glad to be

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here

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and i

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want to commend i think back um

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when i first got this job back in 2008

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and nine and

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talking with folks here we we thought

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about what could be

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that

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langley could be

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bring about and

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your team

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said

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advanced composites modeling and

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simulation

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all of the activities around big data

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and others that are going to come out of

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this facility and to see that

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vision become more and more a reality is

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really remarkable i also want to commend

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the fact that as we think about

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america's

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journey into space and we're celebrating

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ms johnson's role in that you know the

574
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fact is every in every american

575
00:25:48,630 --> 00:25:46,960
astronaut who ever walked on the moon

576
00:25:51,990 --> 00:25:48,640
did part of their training right here at

577
00:25:54,149 --> 00:25:52,000
nasa langley so in many ways that

578
00:25:56,390 --> 00:25:54,159
the whole notion of america looking to

579
00:25:58,549 --> 00:25:56,400
the stars looking to

580
00:26:00,470 --> 00:25:58,559
the notion of conquering space

581
00:26:02,710 --> 00:26:00,480
started right here at nasa langley and

582
00:26:05,269 --> 00:26:02,720
the notion

583
00:26:07,190 --> 00:26:05,279
that ms johnson

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i've also never been called a human

585
00:26:11,830 --> 00:26:09,919
computer either but the idea that what

586
00:26:14,870 --> 00:26:11,840
sheik was able to do

587
00:26:16,549 --> 00:26:14,880
she and her colleagues with

588
00:26:19,750 --> 00:26:16,559
paper pencil adding machines and most

589
00:26:22,470 --> 00:26:19,760
importantly just that plain intellect

590
00:26:25,990 --> 00:26:22,480
just that plain intellect is a

591
00:26:27,269 --> 00:26:26,000
remarkable remarkable accomplishment

592
00:26:29,669 --> 00:26:27,279
i know we're going to hear a little bit

593
00:26:31,909 --> 00:26:29,679
later from margo shatterly who

594
00:26:33,750 --> 00:26:31,919
wrote that the remarkable hidden figures

595
00:26:35,990 --> 00:26:33,760
which turns into a film

596
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and earlier this year

597
00:26:41,430 --> 00:26:38,400
we had miss shetterly come up to capitol

598
00:26:43,430 --> 00:26:41,440
hill and tim kaine and bobby scott and i

599
00:26:46,070 --> 00:26:43,440
sponsored a viewing of the film miss

600
00:26:49,990 --> 00:26:46,080
johnson wasn't able to come but

601
00:26:51,590 --> 00:26:50,000
we filled an auditorium 400 strong

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00:26:53,110 --> 00:26:51,600
particularly of virginia young people

603
00:26:55,669 --> 00:26:53,120
and they hung

604
00:26:56,789 --> 00:26:55,679
not on on not only on the film but on

605
00:26:58,549 --> 00:26:56,799
the words

606
00:27:00,549 --> 00:26:58,559
of our keynote speaker and the

607
00:27:01,830 --> 00:27:00,559
inspiration that provided to

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00:27:04,230 --> 00:27:01,840
particularly

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00:27:07,990 --> 00:27:04,240
you know women and children of color to

610
00:27:09,830 --> 00:27:08,000
recognize that uh the you can

611
00:27:12,549 --> 00:27:09,840
your imagination and as far as you can

612
00:27:13,990 --> 00:27:12,559
reach is only limited by

613
00:27:15,750 --> 00:27:14,000
your your

614
00:27:18,230 --> 00:27:15,760
willingness to take on great challenges

615
00:27:19,750 --> 00:27:18,240
and the truth is ms johnson represents

616
00:27:21,750 --> 00:27:19,760
that so much so it's a real honor for me

617
00:27:24,310 --> 00:27:21,760
to be here it's an honor for me to

618
00:27:26,870 --> 00:27:24,320
finally get a chance to meet you and

619
00:27:29,029 --> 00:27:26,880
to go along with all these other we saw

620
00:27:31,350 --> 00:27:29,039
in that dave that video presentation you

621
00:27:33,190 --> 00:27:31,360
had like a little memorial from the

622
00:27:34,870 --> 00:27:33,200
state we also i want to go over and

623
00:27:36,149 --> 00:27:34,880
present to miss johnson right now

624
00:27:38,470 --> 00:27:36,159
something that tim and i put into the

625
00:27:41,110 --> 00:27:38,480
congressional record uh recognizing your

626
00:27:42,389 --> 00:27:41,120
great contribution and uh

627
00:27:44,950 --> 00:27:42,399
the fact that

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00:27:46,630 --> 00:27:44,960
your story needs to be taught in every

629
00:28:14,710 --> 00:27:46,640
school not only across virginia but

630
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:23,350
stop

631
00:28:28,549 --> 00:28:26,470
thank you so much for that uh

632
00:28:31,430 --> 00:28:28,559
doing that that means a lot so thank you

633
00:28:33,750 --> 00:28:31,440
very much all right now i'm happy to

634
00:28:35,990 --> 00:28:33,760
introduce a leader who works tirelessly

635
00:28:38,549 --> 00:28:36,000
to build a new virginia economy based on

636
00:28:40,710 --> 00:28:38,559
21st century industries such as cyber

637
00:28:42,789 --> 00:28:40,720
security biosciences and advanced

638
00:28:44,870 --> 00:28:42,799
manufacturing and i think it's safe to

639
00:28:46,789 --> 00:28:44,880
say that langley's new computational

640
00:28:48,470 --> 00:28:46,799
center is a good example of the kind of

641
00:28:50,870 --> 00:28:48,480
high-tech future he sees for the

642
00:28:52,789 --> 00:28:50,880
commonwealth of virginia as chairman of

643
00:28:55,190 --> 00:28:52,799
the national governors association he

644
00:28:57,510 --> 00:28:55,200
made cyber security his signature

645
00:28:59,350 --> 00:28:57,520
signature initiative and as a result

646
00:29:00,230 --> 00:28:59,360
been called the cyber governor of the

647
00:29:03,190 --> 00:29:00,240
year

648
00:29:05,350 --> 00:29:03,200
he was named 2016 bio governor of the

649
00:29:07,510 --> 00:29:05,360
year by the biotechnology innovation

650
00:29:10,070 --> 00:29:07,520
organization and was twice elected

651
00:29:11,669 --> 00:29:10,080
chairman of the chesapeake bay executive

652
00:29:14,070 --> 00:29:11,679
council i also know he's one of the

653
00:29:17,430 --> 00:29:14,080
first governors who flew in a drone over

654
00:29:19,590 --> 00:29:17,440
at wallops about what two months ago so

655
00:29:21,510 --> 00:29:19,600
another first

656
00:29:23,350 --> 00:29:21,520
he has worked to make virginia an open

657
00:29:25,750 --> 00:29:23,360
and welcoming place to do business and

658
00:29:27,990 --> 00:29:25,760
has led 30 trade missions to more than

659
00:29:29,430 --> 00:29:28,000
two dozen countries

660
00:29:32,070 --> 00:29:29,440
so we're very glad to have you back

661
00:29:34,470 --> 00:29:32,080
again uh governor so please welcome the

662
00:29:36,549 --> 00:29:34,480
72nd governor of the great commonwealth

663
00:29:44,230 --> 00:29:36,559
of virginia the honorable terry

664
00:29:47,909 --> 00:29:45,990
thank you everybody good afternoon thank

665
00:29:49,909 --> 00:29:47,919
you thank you thank you

666
00:29:51,430 --> 00:29:49,919
i mean first of all i want to

667
00:29:54,070 --> 00:29:51,440
thank david for his tremendous

668
00:29:55,590 --> 00:29:54,080
leadership he started here 38 years ago

669
00:29:57,110 --> 00:29:55,600
and is the director of this langley

670
00:29:58,710 --> 00:29:57,120
research center i'm telling you david

671
00:30:00,389 --> 00:29:58,720
you have done a magnificent job let's

672
00:30:04,070 --> 00:30:00,399
give david a great round of applause if

673
00:30:07,430 --> 00:30:05,669
mayor tuck it's great to be back in the

674
00:30:09,029 --> 00:30:07,440
greatest city in the united states of

675
00:30:10,630 --> 00:30:09,039
america back in hampton the greatest

676
00:30:12,950 --> 00:30:10,640
city and the greatest state the greatest

677
00:30:16,870 --> 00:30:12,960
nation on earth it all comes back to

678
00:30:18,470 --> 00:30:16,880
virginia does it not folks

679
00:30:20,149 --> 00:30:18,480
and to catherine what an honor to be

680
00:30:22,070 --> 00:30:20,159
with you today

681
00:30:24,870 --> 00:30:22,080
we are so honored to have you here today

682
00:30:27,190 --> 00:30:24,880
at this magnificent facility

683
00:30:28,950 --> 00:30:27,200
we love langley research center here in

684
00:30:30,950 --> 00:30:28,960
the commonwealth of virginia first of

685
00:30:33,590 --> 00:30:30,960
all for what it does for us economically

686
00:30:36,549 --> 00:30:33,600
about 1.2 billion a year

687
00:30:38,230 --> 00:30:36,559
of economic activity uh it seems like

688
00:30:39,990 --> 00:30:38,240
just yesterday but it was two and a half

689
00:30:41,990 --> 00:30:40,000
years ago i cut the ribbon on this very

690
00:30:43,590 --> 00:30:42,000
building that we're in today and

691
00:30:45,510 --> 00:30:43,600
the senator and i were back recently for

692
00:30:46,950 --> 00:30:45,520
the measurement systems we put the

693
00:30:48,549 --> 00:30:46,960
shovel in the ground and to be here

694
00:30:50,789 --> 00:30:48,559
today again for this beautiful ribbon

695
00:30:53,350 --> 00:30:50,799
cutting really is something very special

696
00:30:55,029 --> 00:30:53,360
we love langley research facility first

697
00:30:56,549 --> 00:30:55,039
of all we would not be able to be in the

698
00:30:58,630 --> 00:30:56,559
air we would never been able to go to

699
00:31:00,630 --> 00:30:58,640
space we're not for langley research and

700
00:31:02,230 --> 00:31:00,640
we thank you all for that especially

701
00:31:04,789 --> 00:31:02,240
those politicians who spent a lot of

702
00:31:06,549 --> 00:31:04,799
time in the air i thank you for safe and

703
00:31:08,070 --> 00:31:06,559
shorter flights today

704
00:31:09,750 --> 00:31:08,080
but what you've been able to build for

705
00:31:11,350 --> 00:31:09,760
us for the future

706
00:31:13,029 --> 00:31:11,360
this morning senator and i are up at a

707
00:31:14,789 --> 00:31:13,039
great event where with the new fiber

708
00:31:16,310 --> 00:31:14,799
optic cables coming into the united

709
00:31:18,870 --> 00:31:16,320
states of america where is that coming

710
00:31:20,470 --> 00:31:18,880
to virginia beach of course

711
00:31:22,470 --> 00:31:20,480
the only place it should come to

712
00:31:25,110 --> 00:31:22,480
virginia but that new cable will bring

713
00:31:26,870 --> 00:31:25,120
this fastest most reliable data which

714
00:31:28,549 --> 00:31:26,880
we'll be able to use for this facility

715
00:31:30,710 --> 00:31:28,559
now which will be collection all the

716
00:31:33,269 --> 00:31:30,720
langley research data we will have in

717
00:31:35,430 --> 00:31:33,279
one place as soon as i leave here i'm

718
00:31:37,430 --> 00:31:35,440
going off to wallops island

719
00:31:39,110 --> 00:31:37,440
and we are going to launch our first

720
00:31:40,870 --> 00:31:39,120
maritime drone

721
00:31:42,549 --> 00:31:40,880
virginia controls the air we have more

722
00:31:44,789 --> 00:31:42,559
drone companies here than any other

723
00:31:47,190 --> 00:31:44,799
state in america we control the land

724
00:31:49,269 --> 00:31:47,200
we're building 55 sensors for automated

725
00:31:52,389 --> 00:31:49,279
vehicles and by the end of the today we

726
00:31:53,909 --> 00:31:52,399
will own the sea the land the sea and

727
00:31:59,269 --> 00:31:53,919
the air all controlled by the

728
00:32:02,389 --> 00:32:00,630
and katherine none of that would have

729
00:32:03,830 --> 00:32:02,399
happened but for you

730
00:32:05,350 --> 00:32:03,840
so i want to thank you and as the

731
00:32:06,950 --> 00:32:05,360
director said i did recently i'm the

732
00:32:09,430 --> 00:32:06,960
first governor to actually go up in an

733
00:32:11,110 --> 00:32:09,440
unmanned system i went up a drone off of

734
00:32:12,950 --> 00:32:11,120
our new wallops island if you did now

735
00:32:15,190 --> 00:32:12,960
virginia's the only state in america

736
00:32:17,269 --> 00:32:15,200
that has a drone runway three thousand

737
00:32:19,110 --> 00:32:17,279
foot runway down at wallops island i had

738
00:32:21,269 --> 00:32:19,120
a robot in the pilot chair i hit a

739
00:32:22,950 --> 00:32:21,279
button it took off we went eight miles

740
00:32:24,710 --> 00:32:22,960
over the atlantic i hit a button said

741
00:32:25,909 --> 00:32:24,720
land and the thing turned around came

742
00:32:27,909 --> 00:32:25,919
back

743
00:32:29,669 --> 00:32:27,919
that's a distinction uh as you probably

744
00:32:31,909 --> 00:32:29,679
read in the paper uh i just jumped out

745
00:32:34,310 --> 00:32:31,919
of an airplane at ten thousand feet

746
00:32:36,470 --> 00:32:34,320
i had a parachute uh landed at a wounded

747
00:32:38,310 --> 00:32:36,480
warrior event in virginia beach as i

748
00:32:41,830 --> 00:32:38,320
like to say my security he's only got

749
00:32:44,950 --> 00:32:41,840
four months left who cares let him jump

750
00:32:46,470 --> 00:32:44,960
cares anymore but uh all of these great

751
00:32:48,630 --> 00:32:46,480
things that we're doing here leading on

752
00:32:50,230 --> 00:32:48,640
cyber leading on data centers leading on

753
00:32:52,149 --> 00:32:50,240
autonomous vehicles now a leader on

754
00:32:53,990 --> 00:32:52,159
biotech a lot of that can come back here

755
00:32:55,509 --> 00:32:54,000
to the langley research center and i do

756
00:32:57,990 --> 00:32:55,519
want to thank all of you and to

757
00:32:59,750 --> 00:32:58,000
catherine you have been a trailblazer

758
00:33:01,190 --> 00:32:59,760
you think back into the 50s what you

759
00:33:02,950 --> 00:33:01,200
were able to do when a lot of

760
00:33:04,870 --> 00:33:02,960
discrimination and people tried to

761
00:33:06,789 --> 00:33:04,880
constantly hold you down

762
00:33:08,549 --> 00:33:06,799
it reminds me of another groundbreaking

763
00:33:10,230 --> 00:33:08,559
i just did i just named the new building

764
00:33:12,230 --> 00:33:10,240
the new state office building in

765
00:33:14,950 --> 00:33:12,240
richmond the new attorney general office

766
00:33:17,350 --> 00:33:14,960
i named that after another trailblazer a

767
00:33:19,669 --> 00:33:17,360
16 year old young african-american girl

768
00:33:25,590 --> 00:33:19,679
by the name of barbara johns our state

769
00:33:29,509 --> 00:33:27,350
our state office building today is now

770
00:33:31,350 --> 00:33:29,519
the barbara john state office building

771
00:33:33,430 --> 00:33:31,360
because like you catherine

772
00:33:35,029 --> 00:33:33,440
this 16 year old girl in prince edward

773
00:33:36,950 --> 00:33:35,039
county virginia had a very difficult

774
00:33:39,029 --> 00:33:36,960
time in the 50s

775
00:33:40,310 --> 00:33:39,039
two sets of schools white students black

776
00:33:42,470 --> 00:33:40,320
students

777
00:33:45,110 --> 00:33:42,480
and she led a revolt in the 50s at the

778
00:33:46,789 --> 00:33:45,120
age of 16 years old and said this isn't

779
00:33:50,070 --> 00:33:46,799
fair and it's not right

780
00:33:52,549 --> 00:33:50,080
and she led 400 of her fellow students

781
00:33:55,350 --> 00:33:52,559
got them all into the gym 16 years old

782
00:33:57,190 --> 00:33:55,360
in the 50s in prince edward county

783
00:33:58,710 --> 00:33:57,200
think of that

784
00:34:00,149 --> 00:33:58,720
and then had someone go down the street

785
00:34:01,750 --> 00:34:00,159
and call the principal and say there's a

786
00:34:03,430 --> 00:34:01,760
student down here in farmville come get

787
00:34:05,190 --> 00:34:03,440
him as soon as the principal left she

788
00:34:07,350 --> 00:34:05,200
got them all in close the doors and she

789
00:34:09,349 --> 00:34:07,360
marched all 400 out and she is we are

790
00:34:12,629 --> 00:34:09,359
not coming back until we have an equal

791
00:34:15,589 --> 00:34:12,639
school and she got that done

792
00:34:19,190 --> 00:34:17,829
you are that same trailblazer

793
00:34:20,550 --> 00:34:19,200
so when i think of virginia in the

794
00:34:22,310 --> 00:34:20,560
history of what we've gone through we

795
00:34:24,389 --> 00:34:22,320
have had so maggie walker we've had so

796
00:34:25,589 --> 00:34:24,399
many great leaders you are at that top

797
00:34:27,270 --> 00:34:25,599
of that list

798
00:34:29,270 --> 00:34:27,280
so on behalf of everybody who's had to

799
00:34:30,869 --> 00:34:29,280
knock down walls and knock down barriers

800
00:34:32,550 --> 00:34:30,879
we want to thank you because you were at

801
00:34:34,149 --> 00:34:32,560
the forefront

802
00:34:35,750 --> 00:34:34,159
it's easier now to come behind but we

803
00:34:37,909 --> 00:34:35,760
needed always somebody who was that ram

804
00:34:39,270 --> 00:34:37,919
and rod that was you catherine so on

805
00:34:40,950 --> 00:34:39,280
behalf of all of us here in the

806
00:34:43,909 --> 00:34:40,960
commonwealth and the united states of

807
00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:43,919
america i thank you for your leadership

808
00:34:46,790 --> 00:34:45,760
and today is not about putting a name on

809
00:34:50,230 --> 00:34:46,800
a wall

810
00:34:55,109 --> 00:34:53,109
today is about every young student

811
00:34:57,349 --> 00:34:55,119
or every young african-american girl

812
00:34:59,510 --> 00:34:57,359
today who's going to school

813
00:35:01,430 --> 00:34:59,520
says i too can do this

814
00:35:03,349 --> 00:35:01,440
i too can be a success

815
00:35:05,829 --> 00:35:03,359
we just met a young woman a junior at

816
00:35:08,630 --> 00:35:05,839
odu when we were two in the facility all

817
00:35:11,510 --> 00:35:08,640
excited katherine johnson was her hero

818
00:35:13,829 --> 00:35:11,520
she is here now

819
00:35:16,710 --> 00:35:13,839
and she's here because of cancer johnson

820
00:35:18,550 --> 00:35:16,720
and that is her future so today's not

821
00:35:20,710 --> 00:35:18,560
about names today's catherine would you

822
00:35:22,790 --> 00:35:20,720
have been a trailblazer and your name

823
00:35:24,790 --> 00:35:22,800
will go on and on to all of those young

824
00:35:26,550 --> 00:35:24,800
women who follow behind you who have the

825
00:35:28,150 --> 00:35:26,560
courage to do it because of you

826
00:35:38,230 --> 00:35:28,160
katherine so thank you on behalf of all

827
00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:47,270
yes

828
00:35:50,870 --> 00:35:49,270
thank you very much governor

829
00:35:53,270 --> 00:35:50,880
all right so next we're going to hear

830
00:35:55,750 --> 00:35:53,280
from today's keynote speaker someone who

831
00:35:57,910 --> 00:35:55,760
knows catherine johnson well someone who

832
00:36:00,069 --> 00:35:57,920
has spent years researching the stories

833
00:36:02,310 --> 00:36:00,079
of catherine and the many other female

834
00:36:04,710 --> 00:36:02,320
mathematicians at langley who made such

835
00:36:05,670 --> 00:36:04,720
important contributions to nasa and our

836
00:36:07,270 --> 00:36:05,680
nation

837
00:36:09,349 --> 00:36:07,280
let's welcome back to the center a

838
00:36:12,270 --> 00:36:09,359
distinguished member of nasa langley's

839
00:36:22,150 --> 00:36:12,280
extended family margot lee shetterly

840
00:36:24,069 --> 00:36:22,160
[Applause]

841
00:36:25,670 --> 00:36:24,079
thank you dave and to all of our

842
00:36:28,470 --> 00:36:25,680
distinguished guests

843
00:36:31,190 --> 00:36:28,480
to everyone in the nasa langley family

844
00:36:34,390 --> 00:36:31,200
and most of all to mrs catherine johnson

845
00:36:37,270 --> 00:36:34,400
it is an honor to be here today

846
00:36:39,190 --> 00:36:37,280
in 1962 following the success of john

847
00:36:41,349 --> 00:36:39,200
glenn's orbital space flight the city of

848
00:36:43,030 --> 00:36:41,359
hampton hosted a parade for the mercury

849
00:36:45,589 --> 00:36:43,040
seven astronauts

850
00:36:48,550 --> 00:36:45,599
the astronauts and their families local

851
00:36:50,470 --> 00:36:48,560
politicians nasa executives everybody

852
00:36:53,589 --> 00:36:50,480
toured through the city and a motorcade

853
00:36:55,510 --> 00:36:53,599
of 33 convertibles and throngs of people

854
00:36:57,510 --> 00:36:55,520
came out to celebrate them

855
00:36:59,750 --> 00:36:57,520
now as the public faces of the space

856
00:37:01,270 --> 00:36:59,760
program those men became heroes and

857
00:37:03,670 --> 00:37:01,280
their names were synonymous with

858
00:37:05,349 --> 00:37:03,680
american ingenuity perseverance and

859
00:37:07,750 --> 00:37:05,359
courage

860
00:37:09,990 --> 00:37:07,760
who among the thirty

861
00:37:12,870 --> 00:37:10,000
people who crowded the streets of

862
00:37:15,109 --> 00:37:12,880
hampton my hometown i may add

863
00:37:17,510 --> 00:37:15,119
that day to catch a glimpse of those

864
00:37:20,069 --> 00:37:17,520
mercury 7 astronauts could have guessed

865
00:37:22,550 --> 00:37:20,079
that 55 years later we would be

866
00:37:24,950 --> 00:37:22,560
convening to dedicate this

867
00:37:27,270 --> 00:37:24,960
state-of-the-art data facility to the

868
00:37:29,829 --> 00:37:27,280
woman whose mathematical acuity and

869
00:37:32,230 --> 00:37:29,839
behind-the-scenes calculations

870
00:37:34,630 --> 00:37:32,240
contributed to the success of so many of

871
00:37:36,710 --> 00:37:34,640
those groundbreaking missions

872
00:37:39,349 --> 00:37:36,720
but let's not forget the motto of the

873
00:37:42,550 --> 00:37:39,359
city of hampton is e praetoritis

874
00:37:43,750 --> 00:37:42,560
futurist futura out of the past the

875
00:37:46,470 --> 00:37:43,760
future

876
00:37:49,270 --> 00:37:46,480
the question as always has been which

877
00:37:51,829 --> 00:37:49,280
past and to what future

878
00:37:54,470 --> 00:37:51,839
but today as we dedicate the katherine g

879
00:37:57,589 --> 00:37:54,480
johnson computational facility we take

880
00:38:00,390 --> 00:37:57,599
the time to celebrate mrs johnson's past

881
00:38:02,630 --> 00:38:00,400
her contributions to the success of nasa

882
00:38:04,710 --> 00:38:02,640
to computer science and to our nation's

883
00:38:06,470 --> 00:38:04,720
space program

884
00:38:08,550 --> 00:38:06,480
since the national advisory committee

885
00:38:11,829 --> 00:38:08,560
for aeronautics set up shop here in

886
00:38:13,270 --> 00:38:11,839
hampton in 1917 100 years ago the

887
00:38:15,190 --> 00:38:13,280
langley research center which was

888
00:38:17,270 --> 00:38:15,200
originally called the langley memorial

889
00:38:19,190 --> 00:38:17,280
aeronautical laboratory has been

890
00:38:21,190 --> 00:38:19,200
reaching for the heavens

891
00:38:23,109 --> 00:38:21,200
catherine's work and that of the other

892
00:38:25,510 --> 00:38:23,119
women mathematicians who worked here

893
00:38:28,310 --> 00:38:25,520
with her is the foundation of this

894
00:38:30,710 --> 00:38:28,320
building we are living in a present that

895
00:38:32,950 --> 00:38:30,720
they willed into existence with their

896
00:38:35,030 --> 00:38:32,960
pencils their slide rules their

897
00:38:37,349 --> 00:38:35,040
mechanical calculating machines and of

898
00:38:39,270 --> 00:38:37,359
course their brilliant minds

899
00:38:41,510 --> 00:38:39,280
with katherine johnson's achievements to

900
00:38:44,630 --> 00:38:41,520
inspire us we are called first to

901
00:38:47,030 --> 00:38:44,640
imagine and then to engineer the future

902
00:38:48,790 --> 00:38:47,040
of nasa of our community and of our

903
00:38:50,230 --> 00:38:48,800
country

904
00:38:52,150 --> 00:38:50,240
from the vantage point of the present

905
00:38:54,470 --> 00:38:52,160
it's really easy for us to look at the

906
00:38:56,950 --> 00:38:54,480
past and to assume that what actually

907
00:38:59,349 --> 00:38:56,960
happened was always inevitable seems

908
00:39:01,109 --> 00:38:59,359
like a foregone conclusion for example

909
00:39:03,349 --> 00:39:01,119
that america would triumph over the

910
00:39:05,750 --> 00:39:03,359
russians in the space race

911
00:39:07,910 --> 00:39:05,760
only when we step into our time machine

912
00:39:09,990 --> 00:39:07,920
and examine the past up close do we

913
00:39:11,990 --> 00:39:10,000
understand that the path to the future

914
00:39:14,390 --> 00:39:12,000
is rarely smooth or direct or

915
00:39:17,589 --> 00:39:14,400
predictable and catherine's story is no

916
00:39:20,470 --> 00:39:17,599
exception but at every fork her talent

917
00:39:22,470 --> 00:39:20,480
her hard work and her character pulled

918
00:39:24,550 --> 00:39:22,480
her toward her destiny

919
00:39:27,270 --> 00:39:24,560
at every turn she made a choice becoming

920
00:39:29,750 --> 00:39:27,280
the protagonist of her own story and

921
00:39:31,670 --> 00:39:29,760
then of ours

922
00:39:34,790 --> 00:39:31,680
her work calculating the trajectory for

923
00:39:37,349 --> 00:39:34,800
john glenn's 1962 orbital flight is only

924
00:39:39,510 --> 00:39:37,359
the most well-known episode in a life

925
00:39:42,470 --> 00:39:39,520
that intersected many of the memorable

926
00:39:44,390 --> 00:39:42,480
events of the 20th century but it's an

927
00:39:46,790 --> 00:39:44,400
anecdote from her youth one that took

928
00:39:49,030 --> 00:39:46,800
place decades before those decisive

929
00:39:51,510 --> 00:39:49,040
weeks in 1962 that i think is

930
00:39:53,510 --> 00:39:51,520
particularly relevant to this occasion

931
00:39:55,589 --> 00:39:53,520
because it paved the way for us to be

932
00:39:57,510 --> 00:39:55,599
here today

933
00:39:59,349 --> 00:39:57,520
katherine johnson graduated from high

934
00:40:00,950 --> 00:39:59,359
school and enrolled in the historically

935
00:40:03,190 --> 00:40:00,960
black college west virginia state

936
00:40:05,430 --> 00:40:03,200
institute at age 14

937
00:40:07,190 --> 00:40:05,440
and in no time she had whipped through

938
00:40:08,710 --> 00:40:07,200
all of the courses in the math

939
00:40:11,750 --> 00:40:08,720
department

940
00:40:13,750 --> 00:40:11,760
now a professor named w.w sheflin clader

941
00:40:15,670 --> 00:40:13,760
he was the third african american in the

942
00:40:17,510 --> 00:40:15,680
country to get a phd in mathematics and

943
00:40:19,510 --> 00:40:17,520
he was born in norfolk

944
00:40:21,589 --> 00:40:19,520
dr clader took note of catherine's

945
00:40:24,630 --> 00:40:21,599
talent and he developed advanced math

946
00:40:26,710 --> 00:40:24,640
classes just for her and in fact he did

947
00:40:29,030 --> 00:40:26,720
more than that what he did was he began

948
00:40:31,510 --> 00:40:29,040
to prepare her for a career as a

949
00:40:34,230 --> 00:40:31,520
research mathematician which for any

950
00:40:38,069 --> 00:40:34,240
woman in the 1930s much less a black

951
00:40:41,349 --> 00:40:38,079
woman was essentially non-existent

952
00:40:46,470 --> 00:40:41,359
where will i find a job she asked him

953
00:40:53,190 --> 00:40:49,670
now i've come to think of sheflin clader

954
00:40:55,670 --> 00:40:53,200
as the ghost of nasa future

955
00:40:57,670 --> 00:40:55,680
somehow he believed that his star

956
00:41:00,069 --> 00:40:57,680
student would eventually find a career

957
00:41:02,790 --> 00:41:00,079
that was worthy of her talents and he

958
00:41:04,390 --> 00:41:02,800
did all he could to set the cornerstone

959
00:41:05,670 --> 00:41:04,400
of that career

960
00:41:07,990 --> 00:41:05,680
and the fact that a professional

961
00:41:09,910 --> 00:41:08,000
mathematician's job was nowhere on the

962
00:41:11,829 --> 00:41:09,920
horizon when katherine johnson was in

963
00:41:14,069 --> 00:41:11,839
college did nothing to dull her

964
00:41:17,030 --> 00:41:14,079
enthusiasm for that work when she

965
00:41:19,990 --> 00:41:17,040
finally made it to nasa in 1953 this was

966
00:41:22,069 --> 00:41:20,000
16 years after graduation many of those

967
00:41:24,150 --> 00:41:22,079
years spent working as a math teacher in

968
00:41:26,390 --> 00:41:24,160
segregated virginia schools

969
00:41:28,550 --> 00:41:26,400
she was well prepared for the job and

970
00:41:30,230 --> 00:41:28,560
she was so well prepared in fact that

971
00:41:32,710 --> 00:41:30,240
dorothy vaughan who is the head of

972
00:41:35,349 --> 00:41:32,720
langley's all-black west area computing

973
00:41:37,670 --> 00:41:35,359
unit selected her for the assignment in

974
00:41:39,270 --> 00:41:37,680
the flight research division

975
00:41:41,990 --> 00:41:39,280
and i just want to mention that dorothy

976
00:41:44,150 --> 00:41:42,000
vaughn actually taught at moton high

977
00:41:46,309 --> 00:41:44,160
school this was the or this is the black

978
00:41:48,150 --> 00:41:46,319
school in farmville virginia

979
00:41:50,550 --> 00:41:48,160
where barbara johns went to school so

980
00:41:52,230 --> 00:41:50,560
there are a lot of connections here

981
00:41:54,390 --> 00:41:52,240
now dorothy vaughn herself was a

982
00:41:57,589 --> 00:41:54,400
brilliant mathematician and she was also

983
00:41:59,670 --> 00:41:57,599
an excellent manager so dorothy knew

984
00:42:02,069 --> 00:41:59,680
that when she sent katherine johnson to

985
00:42:04,550 --> 00:42:02,079
this hard charging group of brainy

986
00:42:07,349 --> 00:42:04,560
fellas that she was sending the smart

987
00:42:09,349 --> 00:42:07,359
one this is as the john glenn character

988
00:42:11,750 --> 00:42:09,359
mentions in the hidden figures movie

989
00:42:14,630 --> 00:42:11,760
katherine johnson was the right person

990
00:42:16,950 --> 00:42:14,640
at the right time for the job at hand

991
00:42:19,430 --> 00:42:16,960
and it was the rigorous preparation from

992
00:42:21,990 --> 00:42:19,440
her days as a student that would set the

993
00:42:23,990 --> 00:42:22,000
trajectory that would bring her here to

994
00:42:26,230 --> 00:42:24,000
nasa where she could play a role in

995
00:42:28,150 --> 00:42:26,240
determining the future

996
00:42:29,910 --> 00:42:28,160
so any of you students out there who

997
00:42:31,349 --> 00:42:29,920
have ever been in math class and have

998
00:42:34,630 --> 00:42:31,359
asked your teacher

999
00:42:36,710 --> 00:42:34,640
when am i ever going to use this

1000
00:42:38,309 --> 00:42:36,720
i think this might be a really good time

1001
00:42:41,270 --> 00:42:38,319
for you to have a sit down with mrs

1002
00:42:45,589 --> 00:42:43,750
so by now most of us know the details of

1003
00:42:48,230 --> 00:42:45,599
the work that katherine johnson did here

1004
00:42:50,309 --> 00:42:48,240
at nasa we know about the calculations

1005
00:42:52,710 --> 00:42:50,319
she provided for alan shepard's flight

1006
00:42:55,750 --> 00:42:52,720
the calculations that she provided for

1007
00:42:57,270 --> 00:42:55,760
john glenn's pioneering orbital flight

1008
00:42:59,430 --> 00:42:57,280
we know about the math that she

1009
00:43:01,829 --> 00:42:59,440
contributed to the parking orbit

1010
00:43:03,190 --> 00:43:01,839
calculations for the apollo 11 mission

1011
00:43:05,589 --> 00:43:03,200
to the moon

1012
00:43:08,630 --> 00:43:05,599
today all of those things seem

1013
00:43:11,270 --> 00:43:08,640
inevitable but without her past full of

1014
00:43:13,190 --> 00:43:11,280
diverging roads and choices that made

1015
00:43:17,430 --> 00:43:13,200
all the difference we would not be

1016
00:43:18,790 --> 00:43:17,440
standing on the brink of this future

1017
00:43:21,750 --> 00:43:18,800
my first interview with katherine

1018
00:43:23,829 --> 00:43:21,760
johnson took place in 2010 and no matter

1019
00:43:26,950 --> 00:43:23,839
how many times i've heard her story

1020
00:43:29,510 --> 00:43:26,960
since then i am always blown away and

1021
00:43:31,829 --> 00:43:29,520
very touched but what she did in that

1022
00:43:33,990 --> 00:43:31,839
interview and over the course of many

1023
00:43:36,950 --> 00:43:34,000
more interviews was to tell me the

1024
00:43:39,190 --> 00:43:36,960
stories of other women she told me about

1025
00:43:41,190 --> 00:43:39,200
her admiration for mary jackson who

1026
00:43:42,390 --> 00:43:41,200
became nasa's first black female

1027
00:43:44,309 --> 00:43:42,400
engineer

1028
00:43:46,150 --> 00:43:44,319
she told me that she considered dorothy

1029
00:43:48,069 --> 00:43:46,160
vaughn to be one of the smartest people

1030
00:43:49,670 --> 00:43:48,079
that she has ever met

1031
00:43:51,349 --> 00:43:49,680
and she told me that when she speaks to

1032
00:43:53,750 --> 00:43:51,359
students in classrooms and she has

1033
00:43:56,309 --> 00:43:53,760
always been working to inspire kids to

1034
00:43:58,630 --> 00:43:56,319
choose stem careers that she never fails

1035
00:44:00,390 --> 00:43:58,640
to mention dr christine darden who

1036
00:44:03,430 --> 00:44:00,400
started in the computing pool at langley

1037
00:44:05,750 --> 00:44:03,440
in 1967 and went to on to become a top

1038
00:44:08,630 --> 00:44:05,760
expert on the phenomenon of sonic booms

1039
00:44:10,710 --> 00:44:08,640
and she is here today

1040
00:44:12,630 --> 00:44:10,720
she told me about marge hannah the white

1041
00:44:14,950 --> 00:44:12,640
woman who was the first supervisor of

1042
00:44:16,790 --> 00:44:14,960
the segregated west area group and marge

1043
00:44:18,710 --> 00:44:16,800
eventually joined catherine's group and

1044
00:44:21,030 --> 00:44:18,720
did forward-thinking research into

1045
00:44:22,950 --> 00:44:21,040
missions to mars jupiter and saturn and

1046
00:44:24,150 --> 00:44:22,960
this was back in the late 60s and early

1047
00:44:26,309 --> 00:44:24,160
70s

1048
00:44:28,550 --> 00:44:26,319
so by telling her own story catherine

1049
00:44:30,550 --> 00:44:28,560
johnson put me onto the story of the

1050
00:44:31,430 --> 00:44:30,560
black women in the west area computing

1051
00:44:33,430 --> 00:44:31,440
group

1052
00:44:35,670 --> 00:44:33,440
she led me to the white women of the

1053
00:44:38,470 --> 00:44:35,680
east area computing group as well and in

1054
00:44:40,790 --> 00:44:38,480
fact when we celebrate her we celebrate

1055
00:44:43,109 --> 00:44:40,800
the women who worked as computers

1056
00:44:45,270 --> 00:44:43,119
mathematicians technicians

1057
00:44:47,750 --> 00:44:45,280
scientists and engineers at all of the

1058
00:44:48,710 --> 00:44:47,760
naca and nasa installations over the

1059
00:44:51,750 --> 00:44:48,720
years

1060
00:44:53,910 --> 00:44:51,760
her story is a story of curiosity and

1061
00:44:57,349 --> 00:44:53,920
the thirst for knowledge that as is at

1062
00:44:59,589 --> 00:44:57,359
the core of this agency

1063
00:45:01,430 --> 00:44:59,599
my curiosity about catherine's story

1064
00:45:03,670 --> 00:45:01,440
planted the seed for hidden figures and

1065
00:45:04,790 --> 00:45:03,680
what i've come to believe after years of

1066
00:45:07,030 --> 00:45:04,800
research

1067
00:45:09,030 --> 00:45:07,040
is that the world that took shape over

1068
00:45:10,150 --> 00:45:09,040
the course of the 20th century which

1069
00:45:13,030 --> 00:45:10,160
many of

1070
00:45:16,069 --> 00:45:13,040
us call the american century

1071
00:45:18,550 --> 00:45:16,079
this world of airplanes of spaceships

1072
00:45:19,750 --> 00:45:18,560
missiles computers communications

1073
00:45:22,230 --> 00:45:19,760
technology

1074
00:45:24,630 --> 00:45:22,240
that world is in many ways the history

1075
00:45:27,430 --> 00:45:24,640
of women sitting in rooms like the ones

1076
00:45:29,270 --> 00:45:27,440
here at langley doing math

1077
00:45:31,510 --> 00:45:29,280
and with all of those shoulders to stand

1078
00:45:34,069 --> 00:45:31,520
on there is no telling what we will be

1079
00:45:36,710 --> 00:45:34,079
able to achieve in the future

1080
00:45:40,470 --> 00:45:36,720
so catherine telling your story has been

1081
00:45:43,990 --> 00:45:40,480
an honor your work changed our history

1082
00:45:46,790 --> 00:45:44,000
and your history has changed our future

1083
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:46,800
so thank you happy belated birthday and

1084
00:45:58,630 --> 00:45:48,290
congratulations

1085
00:46:03,030 --> 00:45:59,589
thank you

1086
00:46:05,670 --> 00:46:03,040
words and i i'll just share margaret and

1087
00:46:07,430 --> 00:46:05,680
i were talking in the facility uh before

1088
00:46:09,910 --> 00:46:07,440
the uh celebration

1089
00:46:12,390 --> 00:46:09,920
and it's just amazing that uh we're here

1090
00:46:13,349 --> 00:46:12,400
during our centennial year

1091
00:46:18,230 --> 00:46:13,359
uh

1092
00:46:20,630 --> 00:46:18,240
of this building

1093
00:46:23,190 --> 00:46:20,640
uh with somebody who had such an impact

1094
00:46:24,710 --> 00:46:23,200
on our first 100 years and this new

1095
00:46:26,309 --> 00:46:24,720
facility is really going to lay the

1096
00:46:27,349 --> 00:46:26,319
groundwork for our second hundred years

1097
00:46:28,870 --> 00:46:27,359
so it's just

1098
00:46:31,030 --> 00:46:28,880
as i tell people all the time you can't

1099
00:46:33,030 --> 00:46:31,040
make his stuff up it all came together

1100
00:46:36,390 --> 00:46:33,040
in the same year but it's just an

1101
00:46:39,430 --> 00:46:36,400
amazing story and uh that's a good lead

1102
00:46:42,390 --> 00:46:39,440
in to share a special video message from

1103
00:46:43,460 --> 00:46:42,400
our guest of honor today so let's show

1104
00:46:54,710 --> 00:46:43,470
that video

1105
00:46:57,270 --> 00:46:54,720
[Music]

1106
00:47:00,390 --> 00:46:57,280
you want my honest dance i think they're

1107
00:47:05,430 --> 00:47:02,390
i was excited

1108
00:47:07,990 --> 00:47:05,440
for something new

1109
00:47:10,630 --> 00:47:08,000
always like something new

1110
00:47:12,710 --> 00:47:10,640
but give us credits to everybody who

1111
00:47:16,870 --> 00:47:12,720
helped

1112
00:47:20,870 --> 00:47:16,880
i didn't do anything alone but

1113
00:47:22,950 --> 00:47:20,880
try to go to the root of the question

1114
00:47:25,850 --> 00:47:22,960
and

1115
00:47:32,630 --> 00:47:25,860
succeeded there

1116
00:47:36,309 --> 00:47:34,150
do your best

1117
00:47:39,109 --> 00:47:36,319
but like it

1118
00:47:40,549 --> 00:47:39,119
like what you do and you then you will

1119
00:47:43,930 --> 00:47:40,559
do your best

1120
00:47:51,510 --> 00:47:43,940
if you don't like it same morning

1121
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[Music]

1122
00:47:58,069 --> 00:47:54,160
well now if they just did the hard work

1123
00:48:02,150 --> 00:47:58,079
that i did which was my job

1124
00:48:05,349 --> 00:48:02,160
i did it every day i never missed a day

1125
00:48:06,549 --> 00:48:05,359
never stayed home playing stick and

1126
00:48:07,349 --> 00:48:06,559
stuff

1127
00:48:08,150 --> 00:48:07,359
but

1128
00:48:10,950 --> 00:48:08,160
my

1129
00:48:12,790 --> 00:48:10,960
problem was to answer

1130
00:48:15,589 --> 00:48:12,800
questions

1131
00:48:17,829 --> 00:48:15,599
and i did that to the best of my ability

1132
00:48:20,870 --> 00:48:17,839
at all times

1133
00:48:23,349 --> 00:48:20,880
correct or incorrect

1134
00:48:26,850 --> 00:48:23,359
but that's my theory

1135
00:48:34,230 --> 00:48:26,860
do your best all the time

1136
00:48:37,109 --> 00:48:34,240
[Music]

1137
00:48:38,950 --> 00:48:37,119
i'll be exceedingly honored and

1138
00:48:42,390 --> 00:48:38,960
greatly honored

1139
00:48:45,190 --> 00:48:42,400
but you know math is the same

1140
00:48:47,750 --> 00:48:45,200
but i gave you that answer last year

1141
00:48:48,790 --> 00:48:47,760
it's the same name today

1142
00:48:51,750 --> 00:48:48,800
a lot

1143
00:48:54,150 --> 00:48:51,760
man things i liked what i was doing i

1144
00:48:58,390 --> 00:48:54,160
liked working

1145
00:49:01,109 --> 00:48:58,400
i liked the stars and stories

1146
00:49:03,349 --> 00:49:01,119
we were telling

1147
00:49:06,230 --> 00:49:03,359
and it was a joy

1148
00:49:08,790 --> 00:49:06,240
to contribute to the literature

1149
00:49:11,829 --> 00:49:08,800
that was going to be coming out

1150
00:49:23,670 --> 00:49:11,839
but little did i think

1151
00:49:25,670 --> 00:49:24,549
yes

1152
00:49:29,650 --> 00:49:25,680
that was

1153
00:49:29,660 --> 00:49:44,950
[Applause]

1154
00:49:48,150 --> 00:49:46,870
so thank you catherine for everything

1155
00:49:50,069 --> 00:49:48,160
you've done

1156
00:49:51,829 --> 00:49:50,079
uh to like i said shape that first

1157
00:49:53,670 --> 00:49:51,839
hundred years and lay the foundation for

1158
00:49:55,510 --> 00:49:53,680
the second hundred years just amazing

1159
00:49:57,750 --> 00:49:55,520
they actually asked me if i wanted to

1160
00:50:00,470 --> 00:49:57,760
see that video yesterday and i told them

1161
00:50:02,630 --> 00:50:00,480
no i didn't i wanted to see it real time

1162
00:50:05,910 --> 00:50:02,640
today and it certainly didn't disappoint

1163
00:50:07,190 --> 00:50:05,920
it was it was amazing just just fanta

1164
00:50:08,470 --> 00:50:07,200
blew me away

1165
00:50:11,190 --> 00:50:08,480
all right so i also want to thank

1166
00:50:13,750 --> 00:50:11,200
everyone who's helped to make this day a

1167
00:50:16,069 --> 00:50:13,760
really a reality our partners at the u.s

1168
00:50:18,069 --> 00:50:16,079
army corps of engineers norfolk district

1169
00:50:19,510 --> 00:50:18,079
everyone at turner construction and our

1170
00:50:21,510 --> 00:50:19,520
team here including our center

1171
00:50:23,910 --> 00:50:21,520
operations directorate in the office of

1172
00:50:25,589 --> 00:50:23,920
chief information officer

1173
00:50:26,950 --> 00:50:25,599
so it's a beautiful building and i know

1174
00:50:28,549 --> 00:50:26,960
it and

1175
00:50:30,870 --> 00:50:28,559
that and the people who are working it

1176
00:50:33,430 --> 00:50:30,880
will help us reach new heights reveal

1177
00:50:35,109 --> 00:50:33,440
the unknown for the benefit of humankind

1178
00:50:36,630 --> 00:50:35,119
that's what nasa does

1179
00:50:38,390 --> 00:50:36,640
pretty cool job

1180
00:50:39,750 --> 00:50:38,400
as i say i've got the coolest job on the

1181
00:50:41,430 --> 00:50:39,760
planet

1182
00:50:43,589 --> 00:50:41,440
so with that it's really time to get

1183
00:50:45,589 --> 00:50:43,599
down to business and officially open our

1184
00:50:47,750 --> 00:50:45,599
new building so i'd like to ask today's

1185
00:50:50,630 --> 00:50:47,760
speakers to join me for the ceremonial

1186
00:50:52,710 --> 00:50:50,640
ribbon cutting over here to the right so

1187
00:50:54,630 --> 00:50:52,720
miss johnson if you can move over there

1188
00:50:56,230 --> 00:50:54,640
also i'd like to ask loretta kelleman

1189
00:50:58,470 --> 00:50:56,240
director of our center operations

1190
00:51:00,549 --> 00:50:58,480
directorate to join us over there as

1191
00:51:02,230 --> 00:51:00,559
well her team

1192
00:51:03,829 --> 00:51:02,240
and the great work uh we wouldn't be

1193
00:51:05,589 --> 00:51:03,839
here having this ribbon cutting today

1194
00:51:45,510 --> 00:51:05,599
without her team so let's all go over

1195
00:52:16,150 --> 00:51:56,150
all right

1196
00:52:19,270 --> 00:52:17,190
four

1197
00:52:31,430 --> 00:52:19,280
three two

1198
00:52:33,990 --> 00:52:32,950
ladies and gentlemen i'm rob wyman the

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lead for langley's office of

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00:52:37,190 --> 00:52:35,760
communications and on behalf of director

1201
00:52:39,030 --> 00:52:37,200
bowles and the remainder of the staff

1202
00:52:40,150 --> 00:52:39,040
here thank you for coming for those of

1203
00:52:41,430 --> 00:52:40,160
you in the room please sit tight for

1204
00:52:42,630 --> 00:52:41,440
just a minute we have some announcements

1205
00:52:44,630 --> 00:52:42,640
for you but for those of you who

1206
00:52:46,470 --> 00:52:44,640
virtually joined us online from nasa tv

1207
00:52:48,230 --> 00:52:46,480
and facebook live and we counted that

1208
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include upward of 20 different countries

1209
00:52:52,870 --> 00:52:50,559
from around the world joined us today

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00:52:55,430 --> 00:52:52,880
thank you so much this concludes the

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televised portion of today's ceremony

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thank you for helping us celebrate