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uh all three of you at the international

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i bring greetings this afternoon randy

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and mark and joe from

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president donald trump i just hung up

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the phone from him

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and he wanted me to convey his

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admiration and appreciation

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for your service and your courage and

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thank you sir welcome aboard the

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well thanks so very much i know each of

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you served in the armed forces

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randy and joe were

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in the marine corps like my son and mark

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is in the army now you serve as american

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astronauts and

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i want you to know the president and i

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and every american sees each one of you

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trailblazers in a great american

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tradition you may not be aware but the

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president asked me to chair

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a restart of the national space council

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and i want to assure each one of you

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the the national space council will

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we're looking to build on the historic

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work that you're building on today

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leading the world

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in space exploration and we're just

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really honored to speak to three

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courageous americans who are such an

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mark and joe i understand you both just

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feels a little bit like someone's

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it can be a little uncomfortable but

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interpret uh life in space

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on my whole lifetime and admired people

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like you looked on my whole lifetime and

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admired people like you

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it's a it's an awesome feeling it's a

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it's really an honor and a privilege to

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be up here to be serving our country and

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doing all this great research but i

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something you'll always remember and

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rocket that takes you know the

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exploration missions um and the work

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deep space places you know how does

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particularly proud with your background

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president trump signed a presidential

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memorandum directing the department of

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education to vote at least 200 million

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a year to grant funds toward expanding

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access to high quality stem education

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education in america is laying a

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and all the technical background that's

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more of our little boys and girls to

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all to uh to dream big it was all a

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dream of ours to someday be up here and

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work as hard as you can

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up here but the jobs we had before we

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arrived at nasa we all loved them so

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find a field that you're very passionate

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station day in and day out

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vehicle that carried science that we

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lung cancer so we one of our crewmates

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same companies and new ones are building

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crude vehicles they're going to come to

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our leadership but most of all the place

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that we talk to in houston and all these

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longevity of the operations yeah we're

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america it's the daily stuff that we do

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well that's a great answer commander and

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for your service to the country

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president and every american when i say

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literally and figuratively we all look

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and we are grateful

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uh for your courage and your

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determination and and the contribution

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that you make

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to american leadership in space so god

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bless you and keep you

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you uh to the white house uh and uh i

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got a look at where you work i'd love to

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walk you around

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where we work and have a chance to shake

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your hand and thank you after your long

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journey brings you home so uh

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thank you very much mr vice president

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thank you for joining us on the

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international space station and thank

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you most of all for your support of our

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exploration and i think the national

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space council is going to do great work

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here in the future we look forward to

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seeing it thank you good evening from