1 00:00:40,573 --> 00:00:13,446 [ ♪♪♪ ] 2 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:41,741 >>> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THANK 3 00:00:41,808 --> 00:00:43,209 YOU FOR WATCHING. 4 00:00:43,276 --> 00:00:46,880 WELCOME TO WATCH THIS SPACE. 5 00:00:46,946 --> 00:00:51,384 I'M THE HAS AN ADMINISTRATOR JIM 6 00:00:51,451 --> 00:00:52,118 BRIDENSTINE. 7 00:00:52,185 --> 00:00:53,620 THE VIDEO YOU JUST WATCHED WAS A 8 00:00:53,686 --> 00:00:55,255 VIDEO OF SOME OF AMERICA'S 9 00:00:55,321 --> 00:00:57,457 FINEST AND, IN FACT, SOME OF 10 00:00:57,524 --> 00:00:58,725 CANADA'S FINEST. 11 00:00:58,792 --> 00:01:03,296 THESE ARE OUR NEW GENERATION OF 12 00:01:03,363 --> 00:01:03,930 ASTRONAUTS. 13 00:01:03,997 --> 00:01:06,633 WE CALL THEM ASTRONAUT 14 00:01:06,699 --> 00:01:07,033 CANDIDATES. 15 00:01:07,100 --> 00:01:08,902 WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET 16 00:01:08,968 --> 00:01:10,236 THEM TODAY. 17 00:01:10,303 --> 00:01:11,771 N.A.S.A. IS ON THE BRINK OF 18 00:01:11,838 --> 00:01:13,773 DOING SOME AMAZING THINGS. 19 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:15,608 WE ARE FIRST THE FIRST TIME 20 00:01:15,675 --> 00:01:20,680 SINCE 2017 ON THE PRECIPICE OF 21 00:01:20,747 --> 00:01:22,782 LAUNCHING AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS. 22 00:01:22,849 --> 00:01:24,818 THIS HASN'T BEEN TONNE SINCE THE 23 00:01:24,884 --> 00:01:26,119 RETIREMENT OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE. 24 00:01:26,186 --> 00:01:28,054 WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT NEXT 25 00:01:28,121 --> 00:01:28,354 YEAR. 26 00:01:28,421 --> 00:01:31,524 THESE ASTRONAUTS ARE GOING TO 27 00:01:31,591 --> 00:01:36,463 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 28 00:01:36,529 --> 00:01:38,064 ON CREW. 29 00:01:38,131 --> 00:01:39,499 THEY'RE NOT PURCHASING THESE 30 00:01:39,566 --> 00:01:41,468 ROCKETS IN THE PAST; N.A.S.A. IS 31 00:01:41,534 --> 00:01:42,902 BUYING A SERVICE FROM OUR 32 00:01:42,969 --> 00:01:44,737 COMMERCIAL CREW PROVIDERS. 33 00:01:44,804 --> 00:01:47,874 IN THIS CASE SPACEX AND BOWING 34 00:01:47,941 --> 00:01:51,044 AND THE VEHICLE WILL BE 35 00:01:51,110 --> 00:01:51,945 LAUNCHING ON THE AMERICAN 36 00:01:52,011 --> 00:01:52,278 ROCKET. 37 00:01:52,345 --> 00:01:56,282 THIS IS AN EXCITING TIME. 38 00:01:56,349 --> 00:01:57,984 THE TIME BEING WE CAN DRIVE DOWN 39 00:01:58,051 --> 00:01:59,252 COSTS AND INCREASE ACCESS WHERE 40 00:01:59,319 --> 00:02:01,087 N.A.S.A. IS ONE CUSTOMER OF MANY 41 00:02:01,154 --> 00:02:01,855 CUSTOMERS WITH PROVIDERS THAT 42 00:02:01,921 --> 00:02:04,991 ARE COMPETING ON COST AND 43 00:02:05,058 --> 00:02:06,392 INNOVATION IN LOWER EARTH ORBIT. 44 00:02:06,459 --> 00:02:09,395 THIS IS EXCITING FOR THE U.S.A., 45 00:02:09,462 --> 00:02:11,698 IT IS EXCITING FOR N.A.S.A. AND 46 00:02:11,764 --> 00:02:13,900 THE BIG REASON WHY WE'RE DOING 47 00:02:13,967 --> 00:02:14,834 THIS WITH COMMERCIAL CREW 48 00:02:14,901 --> 00:02:16,636 BECAUSE IF WE CAN DRIVE DOWN 49 00:02:16,703 --> 00:02:17,937 COSTS AND COMMERCIALISE LOWER 50 00:02:18,004 --> 00:02:20,940 EARTH ORBIT, WE CAN GO FURTHER. 51 00:02:21,007 --> 00:02:22,942 THE PRESIDENT HAS PUT OUT SPACE 52 00:02:23,009 --> 00:02:24,143 POLICY DIRECTIVE 1 AND SAYING 53 00:02:24,210 --> 00:02:25,478 WE'RE GOING BACK TO THE MOON. 54 00:02:25,545 --> 00:02:28,248 WE'RE GOING BACK TO THE MOON 55 00:02:28,314 --> 00:02:29,782 WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS AND 56 00:02:29,849 --> 00:02:30,884 COMMERCIAL PARTNERS. 57 00:02:30,950 --> 00:02:32,318 WE'RE GOING UTILISE THE 58 00:02:32,385 --> 00:02:33,319 RESOURCES OF THE MOON AND THIS 59 00:02:33,386 --> 00:02:35,154 TIME WHEN WE GO TO THE MOON IT 60 00:02:35,221 --> 00:02:37,891 IS GOING TO BE SUSTAINABLE; IN 61 00:02:37,957 --> 00:02:38,858 OTHER WORDS, WE'RE GOING TO 62 00:02:38,925 --> 00:02:39,192 STAY. 63 00:02:39,259 --> 00:02:41,227 WE'RE GOING TO STAY WITH ROBOTS 64 00:02:41,294 --> 00:02:45,498 AND LANDERS AND ROVERS AND 65 00:02:45,565 --> 00:02:48,067 HUMANS GOING BACK AND FORTH FROM 66 00:02:48,134 --> 00:02:51,004 THE SURFACE OF THE MOON WHICH WE 67 00:02:51,070 --> 00:02:54,674 DAUL GATEWAY WHICH IS IN THE 68 00:02:54,741 --> 00:02:56,976 MOON AROUND DEEP SPACE. THERE'S 69 00:02:57,043 --> 00:02:58,011 EXCITING THINGS HAPPENING AT 70 00:02:58,077 --> 00:02:58,344 N.A.S.A. 71 00:02:58,411 --> 00:02:59,979 THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO BE 72 00:03:00,046 --> 00:03:01,981 ON THESE MISSIONS, THE ONES THAT 73 00:03:02,048 --> 00:03:04,918 WILL FLY THEM, THAT NEXT 74 00:03:04,984 --> 00:03:10,323 GENERATION OF NEIL ARMSTRONG AZ 75 00:03:10,390 --> 00:03:16,496 AND BUZZ ALDRONS, THEY'RE GOING 76 00:03:16,563 --> 00:03:17,497 TO BE HERE. 77 00:03:17,564 --> 00:03:20,633 LET'S GET STARTED. 78 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:26,039 [ APPLAUSE ]S AZ 79 00:03:26,105 --> 00:03:26,806 AND BUZZ ALDRONS, THEY'RE GOING 80 00:03:26,873 --> 00:03:27,206 TO BE HERE. 81 00:03:27,273 --> 00:03:27,707 LET'S GET STARTED. 82 00:03:27,774 --> 00:03:28,374 [ APPLAUSE ]AZ 83 00:03:28,441 --> 00:03:29,108 AND BUZZ ALDRONS, THEY'RE GOING 84 00:03:29,175 --> 00:03:29,509 TO BE HERE. 85 00:03:29,576 --> 00:03:30,009 LET'S GET STARTED. 86 00:03:30,076 --> 00:03:30,443 [ APPLAUSE ] 87 00:03:30,510 --> 00:03:31,177 AND BUZZ ALDRONS, THEY'RE GOING 88 00:03:31,244 --> 00:03:31,578 TO BE HERE. 89 00:03:31,644 --> 00:03:32,078 LET'S GET STARTED. 90 00:03:32,145 --> 00:03:40,086 [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] 91 00:03:40,153 --> 00:03:45,325 [ APPLAUSE ]. 92 00:03:45,391 --> 00:03:48,728 >>> IN FACT AN A LOT OF PEOPLE 93 00:03:48,795 --> 00:03:50,530 AROUND THE COUNTRY ARE 94 00:03:50,597 --> 00:03:52,098 INTERESTED IN WHO YOU ARE AND 95 00:03:52,165 --> 00:03:54,000 WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO ON 96 00:03:54,067 --> 00:03:56,803 BEHALF OF THE U.S.A. AND CANADA 97 00:03:56,869 --> 00:03:58,171 AND ON BEHALF OF THE WORLD. 98 00:03:58,237 --> 00:03:59,973 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND 99 00:04:00,039 --> 00:04:01,341 PARTICIPATING IN THIS, THANK YOU 100 00:04:01,407 --> 00:04:03,109 FOR THIS AUDIENCE LOVE ON YOU 101 00:04:03,176 --> 00:04:05,278 FOR A FEW MINUTES THERE. 102 00:04:05,345 --> 00:04:07,080 A LOT OF ENTHUSIASM. 103 00:04:07,146 --> 00:04:09,682 PLEASE HAVE YOUR SEATS. 104 00:04:09,749 --> 00:04:12,085 WE WILL START WITH KAYLA AND GO 105 00:04:12,151 --> 00:04:13,052 DOWN THE ROAD. 106 00:04:13,119 --> 00:04:15,455 IF EACH OF YOU WOULD TAKE A FEW 107 00:04:15,521 --> 00:04:17,490 MOMENTS, TELL US WHAT YOUR NAME 108 00:04:17,557 --> 00:04:19,025 IS, WHERE YOU'RE FROM AND A 109 00:04:19,092 --> 00:04:20,693 LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR 110 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:21,561 BACKGROUND, WHERE YOU COME FROM 111 00:04:21,628 --> 00:04:23,529 AND WHAT GOT YOU TO THE POINT 112 00:04:23,596 --> 00:04:26,532 WHERE YOU'RE READY TO BE AN 113 00:04:26,599 --> 00:04:26,933 ASTRONAUT. 114 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,168 >> THANKS FOR HAVING US HERE. 115 00:04:29,235 --> 00:04:32,472 IT IS AN ONHOUR TO BE HERE. 116 00:04:32,538 --> 00:04:36,976 MY BACKGROUND IS IN NAVY. 117 00:04:37,043 --> 00:04:39,012 IN THE CLASS OF 2010 AND SERVED 118 00:04:39,078 --> 00:04:41,180 ON SUBMARINES BEFORE COMING TO 119 00:04:41,247 --> 00:04:41,948 N.A.S.A. 120 00:04:42,015 --> 00:04:43,916 I'M FROM WASHINGTON STATE. 121 00:04:43,983 --> 00:04:45,785 >>> SINCE I'VE BEEN THE 122 00:04:45,852 --> 00:04:47,954 ADMINISTRATOR I'VE HAD A LOT OF 123 00:04:48,021 --> 00:04:50,657 DEBRIEFS FROM OUR ASTRONAUTS WHO 124 00:04:50,723 --> 00:04:52,091 LIVE AND WORK ON THE 125 00:04:52,158 --> 00:04:53,192 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 126 00:04:53,259 --> 00:04:57,397 I CAN TELL BASED ON THOSE THAT 127 00:04:57,463 --> 00:04:59,932 YOUR EXPERIENCE ON SUBMARINES, 128 00:04:59,999 --> 00:05:02,669 LIVING IN CLOSE QUARTERS WITH 129 00:05:02,735 --> 00:05:05,304 OTHER PEOPLE IS VALUABLE GOING 130 00:05:05,371 --> 00:05:05,638 FORWARD. 131 00:05:05,705 --> 00:05:07,507 >> I'M ZINA. 132 00:05:07,573 --> 00:05:09,876 I WENT TO CHAPEL HILL AND THEN 133 00:05:09,942 --> 00:05:10,710 PEN STATE. 134 00:05:10,777 --> 00:05:13,179 I WAS A MICRO BIOLOGIST STUDYING 135 00:05:13,246 --> 00:05:15,682 CAVES IN THE DEEP SEA. 136 00:05:15,748 --> 00:05:18,151 >>> THANK YOU. 137 00:05:18,217 --> 00:05:23,289 >> I'M ROGER AND I GREW UP IN 138 00:05:23,356 --> 00:05:26,359 IOWA AND WAS AN AIR FORCE TEST 139 00:05:26,426 --> 00:05:26,693 PILOT. 140 00:05:26,759 --> 00:05:29,529 I GO BY GRAND YEAH. 141 00:05:29,595 --> 00:05:33,366 >>> THAT'S YOUR CALL SIGN? 142 00:05:33,433 --> 00:05:34,600 >> YES. 143 00:05:34,667 --> 00:05:36,035 >>> MATTHEW. 144 00:05:36,102 --> 00:05:40,073 I GREW UP IN COLORADA. 145 00:05:40,139 --> 00:05:43,976 I WENT FOR UNIVERSITY FOR 146 00:05:44,043 --> 00:05:44,377 ENGINEERING. 147 00:05:44,444 --> 00:05:47,780 I WAS AN NAVAL TEST PILOT. 148 00:05:47,847 --> 00:05:50,016 >> I'M BOB. 149 00:05:50,083 --> 00:05:53,052 I GREW UP IN PENNSYLVANIA, WENT 150 00:05:53,119 --> 00:05:54,287 TO BOSTON UNIVERSITY AND THE 151 00:05:54,353 --> 00:05:56,255 UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA A. 152 00:05:56,322 --> 00:05:58,357 I WAS A TEST PILOT AND WORKED AT 153 00:05:58,424 --> 00:06:00,760 N.A.S.A. FOR A RESEARCH PILOT AS 154 00:06:00,827 --> 00:06:03,896 A FEW YEARS BEFORE SELECTED FOR 155 00:06:03,963 --> 00:06:05,198 THIS COLLAR. 156 00:06:05,264 --> 00:06:06,466 >> I'M WOODY FROM PENNSYLVANIA. 157 00:06:06,532 --> 00:06:16,576 I WENT TO MI T AND SPENT TIME 158 00:06:16,642 --> 00:06:18,878 BEOING BEFORE GETTING SELECTED. 159 00:06:18,945 --> 00:06:20,580 >> I'M JOHN. 160 00:06:20,646 --> 00:06:23,683 BORN AND RAISED IN L.A. 161 00:06:23,750 --> 00:06:26,486 I WAS AN OPERATOR AND WENT TO 162 00:06:26,552 --> 00:06:28,321 UNIVERSITY AND BECAME A MEDICAL 163 00:06:28,387 --> 00:06:29,222 DOCTOR BEFORE HERE. 164 00:06:29,288 --> 00:06:32,358 >>> WHEN YOU SAY SPECIAL WARFARE 165 00:06:32,425 --> 00:06:34,127 OPERATOR, MOST OF US WOULD KNOW 166 00:06:34,193 --> 00:06:39,232 THAT AS A NAVY SEAL; START? 167 00:06:39,298 --> 00:06:42,435 >> THAT'S CORRECT. 168 00:06:42,502 --> 00:06:43,936 >> I'M JOSHUA. 169 00:06:44,003 --> 00:06:47,173 I GREW UP ON A CATTLE FORM IN 170 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:47,640 CANADA. 171 00:06:47,707 --> 00:06:49,442 I STUDIED MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 172 00:06:49,509 --> 00:06:51,144 AND PRIOR TO COMING HERE I WAS 173 00:06:51,210 --> 00:06:56,382 AN AIR FORCE TEST PILOT. 174 00:06:56,449 --> 00:06:57,683 >> I'M JASMINE. 175 00:06:57,750 --> 00:07:01,754 I GREW UP IN BALD WIN NEW YORK 176 00:07:01,821 --> 00:07:02,922 ON LONG ISLAND. 177 00:07:02,989 --> 00:07:04,557 PRIOR TO COMING HERE I WAS A 178 00:07:04,624 --> 00:07:07,860 COVER PILOT AND TEST PILOT FOR 179 00:07:07,927 --> 00:07:10,496 THE U.S. MARINE CORPS. 180 00:07:10,563 --> 00:07:12,064 >> I'M LAUREL. 181 00:07:12,131 --> 00:07:14,867 I GREW UP IN EFFECTS AS AND WENT 182 00:07:14,934 --> 00:07:18,638 TO THE UNIVERSITY THE CAN DAYS. 183 00:07:18,704 --> 00:07:20,740 BEFORE THIS I WAS AN ENGINEER 184 00:07:20,807 --> 00:07:22,642 WHERE I WORKED ON RESEARCH 185 00:07:22,708 --> 00:07:25,812 SUBMARINES AND ROBOTS. 186 00:07:25,878 --> 00:07:28,714 >> FRONK FROM FLORIDA. 187 00:07:28,781 --> 00:07:31,617 I GRADUATED IN 1998 IN ARMY. 188 00:07:31,684 --> 00:07:34,554 PRIOR TO THIS I WAS A PILOT AND 189 00:07:34,620 --> 00:07:37,190 A PHYSICIAN WORKING WITH SPECIAL 190 00:07:37,256 --> 00:07:40,626 FORCES GROUP BEFORE SELECTED. 191 00:07:40,693 --> 00:07:41,928 >> I'M JENNY. 192 00:07:41,994 --> 00:07:45,965 I'M A CANADIAN ASTRONAUT. 193 00:07:46,032 --> 00:07:49,368 I STUDIED AT UNIVERSITY. 194 00:07:49,435 --> 00:07:51,137 I WAS WORKING AS AN ENGINEERING 195 00:07:51,204 --> 00:07:52,872 PRF PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY 196 00:07:52,939 --> 00:07:56,676 AT CAMBRIDGE AND I STUDIED FIRE. 197 00:07:56,742 --> 00:07:58,477 >> I'M JESSICA. 198 00:07:58,544 --> 00:08:02,815 I'M FROM COLORA DOSHGS ON. 199 00:08:02,882 --> 00:08:06,352 I STUDDED AT STAB FORWARD AND 200 00:08:06,419 --> 00:08:09,121 DID MARS GEOLOGY WORKING ON THE 201 00:08:09,188 --> 00:08:11,190 MARS ROVER. 202 00:08:11,257 --> 00:08:13,559 >>> IT HAS TO BE REALLY HARD, 203 00:08:13,626 --> 00:08:15,094 ESPECIALLY FROM PLANET EARTH. 204 00:08:15,161 --> 00:08:16,495 >> YES. 205 00:08:16,562 --> 00:08:18,364 THAT'S WHY I STOOD UP FOR THIS 206 00:08:18,431 --> 00:08:18,631 JOB. 207 00:08:18,698 --> 00:08:19,899 >>> WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO MAKE 208 00:08:19,966 --> 00:08:22,201 THAT EASIER FOR YOU. 209 00:08:22,268 --> 00:08:24,103 >> THAT SOUNDS GOOD. 210 00:08:24,170 --> 00:08:26,105 >>> JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS THE 211 00:08:26,172 --> 00:08:28,441 RULES OF THE ROAD HERE, THIS IS 212 00:08:28,507 --> 00:08:30,877 LIVE ON THE N.A.S.A. CHANNEL. 213 00:08:30,943 --> 00:08:32,311 IT'S ALSO ON SOCIAL MEDIA. 214 00:08:32,378 --> 00:08:33,813 THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO 215 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:35,414 MIGHT WANT TO IS A QUESTION OF 216 00:08:35,481 --> 00:08:38,251 ONE OF THESE -- ASK A QUESTION 217 00:08:38,317 --> 00:08:40,853 OF ONE OF THESE FABULOUS 218 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:46,292 N.A.S.A. CANDIDATES. 219 00:08:46,359 --> 00:08:50,263 YOU CAN USE HASHTAG ASK N.A.S.A. 220 00:08:50,329 --> 00:08:55,167 WE WILL GET YOU IN THE QUEUE. 221 00:08:55,234 --> 00:08:56,769 IF YOU'RE IN THE AUDIENCE HERE 222 00:08:56,836 --> 00:08:59,839 AND YOU HAVE A QUESTION, 223 00:08:59,906 --> 00:09:01,140 CERTAINLY THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT 224 00:09:01,207 --> 00:09:02,508 QUESTION MAY BE. 225 00:09:02,575 --> 00:09:09,081 WE HAVE FOLKS WITH MICROPHONES. 226 00:09:09,148 --> 00:09:09,849 LET'S BEGIN. 227 00:09:09,916 --> 00:09:11,717 I WILL START WITH THE FIRST 228 00:09:11,784 --> 00:09:12,852 QUESTION AND I'LL JUST START 229 00:09:12,919 --> 00:09:15,488 WITH YOU KAYLA, SINCE YOU'RE 230 00:09:15,554 --> 00:09:17,256 FRONT AND LEFT HERE, CLOSEST TO 231 00:09:17,323 --> 00:09:17,523 ME. 232 00:09:17,590 --> 00:09:19,492 YOU'RE IN THE DIRECT LINE OF 233 00:09:19,558 --> 00:09:20,259 FIRE. 234 00:09:20,326 --> 00:09:22,328 WHAT IS SOMETHING THAT HAS 235 00:09:22,395 --> 00:09:25,598 SURPRISED YOU ABOUT N.A.S.A. 236 00:09:25,665 --> 00:09:31,370 AND/OR AS TROE NOUGHT TRAINING? 237 00:09:31,437 --> 00:09:33,973 IMPRISONMENT I THINK WHAT HAS 238 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,510 BEEN THE MOST IS HOW MUCH I'VE 239 00:09:37,576 --> 00:09:39,879 BEEN ENJOYING THE JET. 240 00:09:39,946 --> 00:09:41,280 I'VE HAD A REALLY GOOD TIME 241 00:09:41,347 --> 00:09:42,982 DOING IT AND I LEARNT A LOT FROM 242 00:09:43,049 --> 00:09:44,717 TRAINING IN THAT ENVIRONMENT. 243 00:09:44,784 --> 00:09:48,421 >>> IN THE T38, DOES EVERY 244 00:09:48,487 --> 00:09:50,089 ASTRONAUT BECOME A PILOT? 245 00:09:50,156 --> 00:09:51,657 >> NO. 246 00:09:51,724 --> 00:09:55,761 THE ASTRONAUT TO HAVE A 247 00:09:55,828 --> 00:09:57,163 BACKGROUND IN AVIATION, THEY DO 248 00:09:57,229 --> 00:09:59,799 IT CERTIFIED TO BE A PYTHAGORAS 249 00:09:59,865 --> 00:10:01,434 LOT IN A FRONT SEAT. 250 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:02,902 THE REST LEARNING HOW TO FLY IN 251 00:10:02,969 --> 00:10:04,403 THE BACK SEAT. 252 00:10:04,470 --> 00:10:07,306 WE AUSE IT AS AN ANALOGUE FOR 253 00:10:07,373 --> 00:10:09,041 TRAINING AND ENVIRONMENT THAT IS 254 00:10:09,108 --> 00:10:10,443 RISKY, OPERATING REAL EQUIPMENT 255 00:10:10,509 --> 00:10:13,412 AND YOU HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO 256 00:10:13,479 --> 00:10:15,681 COMMUNICATE AND COOPERATE WITH 257 00:10:15,748 --> 00:10:17,416 THE TEAM MATE. 258 00:10:17,483 --> 00:10:19,485 >>> DID YOU FLY AT ALL 259 00:10:19,552 --> 00:10:22,755 COMMERCIALLY OR CIVILLY WHEN YOU 260 00:10:22,822 --> 00:10:25,858 WERE A SUBMARINE WARFARE 261 00:10:25,925 --> 00:10:26,225 OFFICER? 262 00:10:26,292 --> 00:10:26,559 >> NO. 263 00:10:26,625 --> 00:10:27,727 I WAS JUST FOCUSED ON LEARNING 264 00:10:27,793 --> 00:10:29,562 HOW TO OPERATE A NUCLEAR REACTOR 265 00:10:29,628 --> 00:10:30,997 AND DRIVE A BOAT, OPERATING 266 00:10:31,063 --> 00:10:32,264 UNDER THE SEA. 267 00:10:32,331 --> 00:10:34,300 THAT WASN'T REALLY MY AREA OF 268 00:10:34,367 --> 00:10:35,801 EXPERTISE, BUT I'VE HAD A LOT OF 269 00:10:35,868 --> 00:10:37,069 FUN SCRATCHING THE SURFACE OF 270 00:10:37,136 --> 00:10:38,037 THAT SO FAR. 271 00:10:38,104 --> 00:10:43,743 >>> THAT'S FANTASTIC. 272 00:10:43,809 --> 00:10:46,545 OPERATING A NUCLEAR REACTOR IS 273 00:10:46,612 --> 00:10:46,846 TOUGH. 274 00:10:46,912 --> 00:10:48,514 I'M SURE IT WILL SERB YOU WELL 275 00:10:48,581 --> 00:10:51,417 LIVING AND WORKING IN SPACE. 276 00:10:51,484 --> 00:10:53,619 >> ASTRONAUT I HOPE SO. 277 00:10:53,686 --> 00:10:54,987 >>> XENA? 278 00:10:55,054 --> 00:10:56,856 >> THERE ARE A LOT OF SURPRISING 279 00:10:56,922 --> 00:10:58,824 THINGS IN A GOOD ONE. 280 00:10:58,891 --> 00:11:00,426 ONE OF THE MOST SURPRISING IS 281 00:11:00,493 --> 00:11:01,861 HOW DIFFERENT EVERY DAY OF OUR 282 00:11:01,927 --> 00:11:02,495 TRAINING IS. 283 00:11:02,561 --> 00:11:05,798 YOU MIGHT BE IN A CLASS LEARNING 284 00:11:05,865 --> 00:11:06,999 ONE HOUR AND THE NEXT HOUR 285 00:11:07,066 --> 00:11:09,668 YOU'RE WALKING TO THE AREA PORT 286 00:11:09,735 --> 00:11:11,570 TO GET INTO A JET. 287 00:11:11,637 --> 00:11:13,072 IT IS COOL GETTING TO DO THAT 288 00:11:13,139 --> 00:11:14,507 ALONGSIDE CLASSMATES WHO COME 289 00:11:14,573 --> 00:11:18,310 FROM SUCH DIVERSION BACKGROUNDS. 290 00:11:18,377 --> 00:11:19,478 >>> ROGER. 291 00:11:19,545 --> 00:11:20,946 >> WHAT SURPRISES HE IS THE 292 00:11:21,013 --> 00:11:22,148 AMOUNT OF PEOPLE AND DEDICATION 293 00:11:22,214 --> 00:11:23,816 THAT SUPPORT ALL THE TRAINING, 294 00:11:23,883 --> 00:11:27,119 THINGS WE DO. 295 00:11:27,186 --> 00:11:29,855 WE HAD OUR FIRST RUN AT THE NBL 296 00:11:29,922 --> 00:11:31,724 AND THE NUMBER OF DIVERSS THAT 297 00:11:31,791 --> 00:11:33,225 INVOLVED, ALL THE PEOPLE SHOWING 298 00:11:33,292 --> 00:11:35,795 UP TO SUPPORT THAT, WHETHER IT'S 299 00:11:35,861 --> 00:11:36,929 SIMULATORS AND HAVING A WHOLE 300 00:11:36,996 --> 00:11:38,431 TEAM OF PEOPLE WATCHING FOR A 301 00:11:38,497 --> 00:11:41,600 FULL DAY, JUST TO SUPPORT OUR 302 00:11:41,667 --> 00:11:43,135 INDIVIDUAL TRAINING IS AMAZING 303 00:11:43,202 --> 00:11:44,036 TO ME. 304 00:11:44,103 --> 00:11:45,771 IT REALLY SPEAKS VOLUMES TO THE 305 00:11:45,838 --> 00:11:48,040 FACT THAT EVERY ONE IN THE 306 00:11:48,107 --> 00:11:51,243 AGENCY IS DEDICATED TO US 307 00:11:51,310 --> 00:11:53,279 CONCEDING AND ALSO THE MISSION 308 00:11:53,345 --> 00:11:53,679 SUCCEEDING. 309 00:11:53,746 --> 00:11:55,114 I GET PAID TO DO THIS AND THERE 310 00:11:55,181 --> 00:11:57,016 ARE USUALLY TEN OR 20 OTHER 311 00:11:57,083 --> 00:11:58,818 PEOPLE THERE TO HELP ME IMPROVE 312 00:11:58,884 --> 00:12:00,920 AND GET THE MISSION DONE. 313 00:12:00,986 --> 00:12:03,089 THAT'S OPINION REALLY COOL TO -- 314 00:12:03,155 --> 00:12:04,657 BEEN REALLY COOL TO SEE. 315 00:12:04,723 --> 00:12:06,125 >>> THERE'S SO MANY DIVERSION 316 00:12:06,192 --> 00:12:07,226 BACKGROUNDS ON THE STAGE. 317 00:12:07,293 --> 00:12:08,327 THINKING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF 318 00:12:08,394 --> 00:12:09,929 FLYING, A LOT OF PEOPLE GO BACK 319 00:12:09,995 --> 00:12:14,467 TO APOLLO, GEMINI OR MERCU ARE, 320 00:12:14,533 --> 00:12:14,700 Y. 321 00:12:14,767 --> 00:12:18,604 IN THOSE MISSIONS IT WAS LARGELY 322 00:12:18,671 --> 00:12:20,339 AIF YAUTORS. 323 00:12:20,406 --> 00:12:21,574 WHICH YOU ARE ONE. 324 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,176 NOW IT IS IT DIVERSION AND 325 00:12:24,243 --> 00:12:27,346 BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER WHERE 326 00:12:27,413 --> 00:12:30,983 YOU CAN WORK TOGETHER AND MIZ 327 00:12:31,050 --> 00:12:33,486 THE OPPORTUNITIES -- MAXIMISE 328 00:12:33,552 --> 00:12:34,520 OPPORTUNITIES IN SPACE. 329 00:12:34,587 --> 00:12:36,889 DOING IT IN THE TRAINING 330 00:12:36,956 --> 00:12:37,723 ENVIRONMENT IS IMPRESSIVE. 331 00:12:37,790 --> 00:12:39,792 THANK YOU FOR THE AMAZING 332 00:12:39,859 --> 00:12:40,159 COMMENTS. 333 00:12:40,226 --> 00:12:42,461 WE HAVE OUR FIRST QUESTION FROM 334 00:12:42,528 --> 00:12:43,162 SOCIAL MEDIA. 335 00:12:43,229 --> 00:12:45,898 WE WILL GO TO THE SOCIAL MEDIA 336 00:12:45,965 --> 00:12:46,265 QUESTION. 337 00:12:46,332 --> 00:12:48,801 IT IS: WHAT ASTRONAUT DO YOU 338 00:12:48,868 --> 00:12:52,037 LOOK UP TO THE MOST AND TAKE 339 00:12:52,104 --> 00:12:52,705 INSPIRATION FROM? 340 00:12:52,771 --> 00:12:54,607 I'M GOING TO OPEN THIS UP TO THE 341 00:12:54,673 --> 00:12:58,978 FIRST PERSON WHO IS WILLING TO 342 00:12:59,044 --> 00:13:02,448 RAISE THEIR HAND. 343 00:13:02,515 --> 00:13:03,916 IF YOU HAD TO PICK AN ASTRONAUT 344 00:13:03,983 --> 00:13:05,618 THAT YOU LOOK UP TO, WHO WOULD 345 00:13:05,684 --> 00:13:07,887 THAT BE? 346 00:13:07,953 --> 00:13:11,390 >> OBVIOUSLY A VERY DIFFICULT 347 00:13:11,457 --> 00:13:11,757 QUESTION. 348 00:13:11,824 --> 00:13:17,997 TO PARAPHRASE, QUOTING FROM 349 00:13:18,063 --> 00:13:20,766 SOMEBODY SMART, STANDING ON THE 350 00:13:20,833 --> 00:13:23,602 SHOULDERS OF - I THINK IT WAS 351 00:13:23,669 --> 00:13:26,372 NEWTON -- STANDING ON THE 352 00:13:26,438 --> 00:13:27,640 SHOULDERS OF GIANTS. 353 00:13:27,706 --> 00:13:32,444 WHEN I WAS ON BOARD THE U.S. S 354 00:13:32,511 --> 00:13:35,414 EISENHOVE NEIL CAME OUT TO 355 00:13:35,481 --> 00:13:35,714 VISIT. 356 00:13:35,781 --> 00:13:39,185 HE WAS HUMBLE AND YOU COULD 357 00:13:39,251 --> 00:13:40,753 TERROR HE WAS MISSION ORIENTED 358 00:13:40,819 --> 00:13:43,889 AND JUST DID HIS JOB QUIETLY AND 359 00:13:43,956 --> 00:13:44,323 RESPECTFULLY. 360 00:13:44,390 --> 00:13:46,592 HE IS A GOOD PINNACLE FOR THIS 361 00:13:46,659 --> 00:13:48,794 JOB TO LOOK UP TO. 362 00:13:48,861 --> 00:13:50,563 >>> THERE IS A NEW MOVIE COMING 363 00:13:50,629 --> 00:13:53,566 OUT ABOUT HIS LIFE WHICH I HAVE 364 00:13:53,632 --> 00:13:55,134 SEEN MANY IT IS EXTREMELY 365 00:13:55,201 --> 00:13:55,467 MOVING. 366 00:13:55,534 --> 00:13:57,603 FOR THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN 367 00:13:57,670 --> 00:13:58,904 SPACE AND INTERESTED IN HISTORY, 368 00:13:58,971 --> 00:14:01,307 THIS IS A MOVIE ABOUT A PERSON, 369 00:14:01,373 --> 00:14:02,341 ABOUT A PERSON'S LIFE. 370 00:14:02,408 --> 00:14:03,909 I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU WHEN THE 371 00:14:03,976 --> 00:14:06,078 MOVIE WAS OVER, I COULDN'T MOVE. 372 00:14:06,145 --> 00:14:09,348 I JUST SAT THERE. 373 00:14:09,415 --> 00:14:17,056 I JUST KIND OF WAS THINKING 374 00:14:17,122 --> 00:14:18,157 ABOUT HIS LIFE. 375 00:14:18,224 --> 00:14:19,325 THE FACT THAT YOU HAD THE 376 00:14:19,391 --> 00:14:19,959 OPPORTUNITY TO MEET HIM. 377 00:14:20,025 --> 00:14:22,895 DID YOU MEET HIM WHEN HE WAS 378 00:14:22,962 --> 00:14:23,195 THERE? 379 00:14:23,262 --> 00:14:23,529 >> YES. 380 00:14:23,596 --> 00:14:25,965 HE CAME OUT WITH A COUPLE OTHER 381 00:14:26,031 --> 00:14:28,867 FOLKS WHILE WE WERE UP THE COAST 382 00:14:28,934 --> 00:14:31,937 DOING OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN. 383 00:14:32,004 --> 00:14:33,806 >>> THAT SHOWS YOU HIS 384 00:14:33,872 --> 00:14:35,474 DEDICATION LONG AFTER HIS 385 00:14:35,541 --> 00:14:37,309 SERVICE WAS OVER, MILITARY AND 386 00:14:37,376 --> 00:14:39,044 N.A.S.A., HE WAS STILL FOCUSED 387 00:14:39,111 --> 00:14:41,547 ON BEING INVOLVED IN THE LIVES 388 00:14:41,614 --> 00:14:42,848 OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE DOING 389 00:14:42,915 --> 00:14:44,250 WHAT HE USED TO DO. 390 00:14:44,316 --> 00:14:45,251 SO THAT IS GREAT. 391 00:14:45,317 --> 00:14:46,352 LOOK AT YOU NOW. 392 00:14:46,418 --> 00:14:48,320 DID YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS WHAT 393 00:14:48,387 --> 00:14:49,455 YOU WANTED TO DO? 394 00:14:49,521 --> 00:14:51,991 >> YES, ABSOLUTELY. 395 00:14:52,057 --> 00:14:54,159 >>> IT STILL INSPIRED YOU? 396 00:14:54,226 --> 00:14:57,296 >> HE WAS AN INSPIRATION. HE WAS 397 00:14:57,363 --> 00:15:00,299 SOMETHING IN THE DISTANCE OF 398 00:15:00,366 --> 00:15:05,804 MAYBE I COULD BE HERE. 399 00:15:05,871 --> 00:15:06,839 >>> ANYBODY ELSE? 400 00:15:06,905 --> 00:15:13,112 >> I ECHO THAT. I HAD AN 401 00:15:13,178 --> 00:15:14,146 OPPORTUNITY TO MEET HIM SEVERAL 402 00:15:14,213 --> 00:15:15,314 YEARS AGO. 403 00:15:15,381 --> 00:15:16,615 SAME THING. 404 00:15:16,682 --> 00:15:26,292 HIS HUE HUMILITY AND HIS 405 00:15:26,358 --> 00:15:27,259 ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO THE GIANT TEAM 406 00:15:27,326 --> 00:15:29,028 THAT IS N.A.S.A. THAT GOT HIM 407 00:15:29,094 --> 00:15:36,602 THERE IN THE INDUSTRY BEHIND IT. 408 00:15:36,669 --> 00:15:41,340 HIS HU MILITY WAS INSPIRING. 409 00:15:41,407 --> 00:15:43,575 ALSO JOHN YOUNG, WHO PASSED 410 00:15:43,642 --> 00:15:44,943 AWAY, BUT HIS PROFESSIONALISM 411 00:15:45,010 --> 00:15:46,979 AND HIS EXPERIENCE AND 412 00:15:47,046 --> 00:15:48,314 DEDICATION TO ADVANCING HUMAN 413 00:15:48,380 --> 00:15:51,183 SPACE FLIGHT WAS VERY 414 00:15:51,250 --> 00:15:52,217 INSPIRATIONAL AS WELL. 415 00:15:52,284 --> 00:15:53,819 >>> IT'S INTERESTING YOU MENTION 416 00:15:53,886 --> 00:15:54,486 JOHN YOUNG. 417 00:15:54,553 --> 00:15:56,255 IF I REMEMBER RIGHT, HE WAS 418 00:15:56,322 --> 00:15:59,458 INVOLVED IN APOLLO. HE FLEW 419 00:15:59,525 --> 00:16:01,593 THE SPACE SHUTTLE AS WELL. 420 00:16:01,660 --> 00:16:03,595 >> YES. 421 00:16:03,662 --> 00:16:05,431 A VERY BROAD EXPERIENCE. 422 00:16:05,497 --> 00:16:07,633 SO HE GOT TO WALK ON THE MOON 423 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:09,768 AND FLEW THE FIRST SPACE SHUTTLE 424 00:16:09,835 --> 00:16:10,235 FLIGHT. 425 00:16:10,302 --> 00:16:13,472 THAT WAS MY INSPIRATIONAL MOMENT 426 00:16:13,539 --> 00:16:15,808 WHEN I WAS A YOUNG KID GETTING 427 00:16:15,874 --> 00:16:18,243 TO WATCH. 428 00:16:18,310 --> 00:16:19,945 AND FOLLOWING THAT MISSION IS 429 00:16:20,012 --> 00:16:22,381 WHAT SET MY SITES ON THIS 430 00:16:22,448 --> 00:16:22,781 INITIALLY. 431 00:16:22,848 --> 00:16:24,583 >>> THANK YOU FOR THAT. 432 00:16:24,650 --> 00:16:25,617 I WAS INFORMED THAT WE MIGHT 433 00:16:25,684 --> 00:16:28,987 HAVE A QUESTION FROM THE 434 00:16:29,054 --> 00:16:29,355 AUDIENCE. 435 00:16:29,421 --> 00:16:30,456 DOES SOMEBODY WANT TO RAISE 436 00:16:30,522 --> 00:16:31,590 THEIR HAND? 437 00:16:31,657 --> 00:16:39,064 WE'VE GOT MICROPHONES AVAILABLE. 438 00:16:39,131 --> 00:16:42,368 YOU HAVE TO STAND UP AND TALK 439 00:16:42,434 --> 00:16:44,269 INTO THE MICROPHONE.. 440 00:16:44,336 --> 00:16:47,740 >> WHAT IS THE HARDEST PART OF 441 00:16:47,806 --> 00:16:48,907 YOUR TRAINING? 442 00:16:48,974 --> 00:16:50,442 WHAT WAS THE HARDEST PART OF 443 00:16:50,509 --> 00:16:51,577 YOUR TRAINING? 444 00:16:51,643 --> 00:16:53,011 >>> THEY PROBABLY HAVE THE 445 00:16:53,078 --> 00:16:54,546 HARDEST PART COMING UP, BUT THAT 446 00:16:54,613 --> 00:16:57,182 IS A GOOD QUESTION BECAUSE 447 00:16:57,249 --> 00:16:59,485 THEY'VE BEEN THROUGH STUFF 448 00:16:59,551 --> 00:16:59,818 ALREADY. 449 00:16:59,885 --> 00:17:02,721 >> I THINK I WOULD PROBABLY SAY 450 00:17:02,788 --> 00:17:05,090 LEARNING THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE 451 00:17:05,157 --> 00:17:05,391 FIRST. 452 00:17:05,457 --> 00:17:11,263 SOME OF US MAY FLY TO THE 453 00:17:11,330 --> 00:17:12,531 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 454 00:17:12,598 --> 00:17:13,866 WHERE WE WORK CLOSE WITH 455 00:17:13,932 --> 00:17:16,034 PARTNERS THERE. 456 00:17:16,101 --> 00:17:19,405 AS A 33-YEAR-OLD LEARNING 457 00:17:19,471 --> 00:17:24,042 ANOTHER LANGUAGE IS DIFFICULT. 458 00:17:24,109 --> 00:17:28,213 IT REMINDS ME OF I HAVE A 459 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,017 FAVORITE QUOTE WHICH IS IT'S NOT 460 00:17:32,084 --> 00:17:34,319 THAT HARD, BURR IT'S A LOT OF 461 00:17:34,386 --> 00:17:34,753 IT. 462 00:17:34,820 --> 00:17:35,587 I THINK THAT GOES FOR OUR 463 00:17:35,654 --> 00:17:36,422 TRAINING AS WELL. 464 00:17:36,488 --> 00:17:38,323 WE DO A DIVERSION RANGE OF 465 00:17:38,390 --> 00:17:41,627 THINGS, FLYING, BEING IN THE 466 00:17:41,693 --> 00:17:47,065 NEUTRAL BOUYANCY LAB, LEARNING 467 00:17:47,132 --> 00:17:50,235 VARIOUS THINGS, A RANGE OF 468 00:17:50,302 --> 00:17:51,303 EVERYTHING WE DO. 469 00:17:51,370 --> 00:17:54,373 >>> OTHERS? 470 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:56,642 MOST DIFFICULT THINGS? 471 00:17:56,708 --> 00:17:58,343 SOMEBODY HAS GOT TO HAVE 472 00:17:58,410 --> 00:18:02,448 SOMETHING DIFFICULT THAT THEY'VE 473 00:18:02,514 --> 00:18:02,748 DONE. 474 00:18:02,815 --> 00:18:08,787 >> I'D HAVE TO ECHO WHAT WOODY 475 00:18:08,854 --> 00:18:11,490 SAID, AND THE WIDESPREAD 476 00:18:11,557 --> 00:18:11,857 KNOWLEDGE. 477 00:18:11,924 --> 00:18:15,761 EVERYTHING FROM RUSSIAN TO THE 478 00:18:15,828 --> 00:18:17,529 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 479 00:18:17,596 --> 00:18:20,866 THERE'S SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY. 480 00:18:20,933 --> 00:18:24,203 RECENTLY SOME OF US HAS GOTTEN 481 00:18:24,269 --> 00:18:25,337 TO TRAINING THE INITIAL POINTS 482 00:18:25,404 --> 00:18:26,905 LAB IN THE SPACE SUIT. 483 00:18:26,972 --> 00:18:28,740 I HAD MY FIRST RUN LAST WEEK AND 484 00:18:28,807 --> 00:18:30,375 I FOUND THAT TO BE ONE OF THE 485 00:18:30,442 --> 00:18:32,644 MORE PHYSICALLY CHALLENGING 486 00:18:32,711 --> 00:18:37,683 THINGS IN THAT YOU HAVE TO BE - 487 00:18:37,749 --> 00:18:39,685 WE TAKE THINGS FOR GRANTED SUCH 488 00:18:39,751 --> 00:18:41,820 AS LIFTING YOUR ARM UP ABOVE 489 00:18:41,887 --> 00:18:43,655 YOUR HEAD WHICH IS FOREIGN IN 490 00:18:43,722 --> 00:18:44,289 THAT SPACE SUIT. 491 00:18:44,356 --> 00:18:45,958 I FOUND THAT TO BE CHALLENGING 492 00:18:46,024 --> 00:18:48,494 AND HUMBLING AND WAS A LOT OF 493 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:48,760 FUN. 494 00:18:48,827 --> 00:18:51,897 >>> EVEN FOR A NAVY SEAL. 495 00:18:51,964 --> 00:18:54,500 >> YES. 496 00:18:54,566 --> 00:18:56,735 >>> AWESOME. 497 00:18:56,802 --> 00:19:03,275 I'VE GOT A QUESTION I WILL ASK. 498 00:19:03,342 --> 00:19:05,010 I WILL TAKE THIS POINT OF 499 00:19:05,077 --> 00:19:06,545 PRIVILEGE TO IS A QUESTION. 500 00:19:06,612 --> 00:19:08,280 BOB, IT IS DIRECTED TO YOU. 501 00:19:08,347 --> 00:19:09,648 THIS IS AN IMPORTANT THING. 502 00:19:09,715 --> 00:19:11,817 A FEW MINUTES AGO WE WERE 503 00:19:11,884 --> 00:19:13,952 MEETING IN ANOTHER ROOM GETTING 504 00:19:14,019 --> 00:19:14,887 TO KNOW EACH OTHER A LITTLE 505 00:19:14,953 --> 00:19:18,757 BETTER AND YOU PRESENTED ME THIS 506 00:19:26,798 --> 00:19:26,465 PATCH 507 00:19:26,865 --> 00:19:29,101 THE FIRST REACTION WAS THAT'S 508 00:19:29,167 --> 00:19:29,501 INTERESTING. 509 00:19:29,568 --> 00:19:32,504 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ASTRONAUT 510 00:19:32,571 --> 00:19:33,972 CANDIDATES, ABOUT OUR BRAND NEW 511 00:19:34,039 --> 00:19:36,208 CLASS OF ASTRONAUTS AND YOU GIVE 512 00:19:36,275 --> 00:19:40,379 ME A PATCH WITH A TURTLE ON IT. 513 00:19:40,445 --> 00:19:43,181 SHARE WITH ME AND THE AUDIENCE 514 00:19:43,248 --> 00:19:48,320 WHY THIS PATCH HAS A TURTLE ON 515 00:19:48,387 --> 00:19:48,587 IT? 516 00:19:48,654 --> 00:19:50,222 >> JUST OUR ANNOUNCE. LAST 517 00:19:50,289 --> 00:19:51,723 SUMMER THE VICE PRESIDENT CAME 518 00:19:51,790 --> 00:19:53,091 DOWN AND HE HELPED INTRODUCE OUR 519 00:19:53,158 --> 00:19:54,960 CLASS TO THE COUNTRY AND DURING 520 00:19:55,027 --> 00:19:56,228 HIS SPEECH HE TOLD THE STORY 521 00:19:56,295 --> 00:19:58,497 ABOUT A TURTLE ON A FENCE POST 522 00:19:58,564 --> 00:20:00,132 AND IF YOU WALK INTO A FIELD AND 523 00:20:00,198 --> 00:20:02,634 SEE A TURTLE ON A FENCE POST YOU 524 00:20:02,701 --> 00:20:04,436 KNOW IT DIDN'T GET THERE ITSELF. 525 00:20:04,503 --> 00:20:05,671 THAT TRANSLATES TO EVERYONE 526 00:20:05,737 --> 00:20:06,204 HERE. 527 00:20:06,271 --> 00:20:07,372 THERE IS A HUGE SUPPORT 528 00:20:07,439 --> 00:20:09,308 STRUCTURE BEHIND US, WHETHER IT 529 00:20:09,374 --> 00:20:11,176 BE OUR SPOUSES AND KIDS, OUR 530 00:20:11,243 --> 00:20:13,178 PARENTS OR MENTORS, ALL THAT 531 00:20:13,245 --> 00:20:14,780 STUFF, THEY ALL PLAYED A HUGE 532 00:20:14,846 --> 00:20:16,315 ROLE IN GETTING US TO THE POINT 533 00:20:16,381 --> 00:20:17,950 THAT WE'RE AT NOW. 534 00:20:18,016 --> 00:20:19,885 SO MUCH LIKE WE WERE ALIEU 535 00:20:19,952 --> 00:20:24,590 LEWDING TO NEIL ARMSTRONG 536 00:20:24,656 --> 00:20:25,724 ACKNOWLEDGING MASSES BEHIND 537 00:20:25,791 --> 00:20:29,928 THAT, WE HAVE THE SAME THING. 538 00:20:29,995 --> 00:20:31,897 MANY PEOPLE BEHIND US GETTING US 539 00:20:31,964 --> 00:20:32,197 HERE. 540 00:20:32,264 --> 00:20:36,068 THE CLASS IN FRONT OF US TOOK AN 541 00:20:36,134 --> 00:20:37,803 OPPORTUNITY TO NAME THE TURTLES 542 00:20:37,869 --> 00:20:41,073 AND WE'VE IMPRESSED IT AND IT IS 543 00:20:41,139 --> 00:20:43,475 -- EMBRACED IT. 544 00:20:43,542 --> 00:20:45,677 >>> IT IS IMPORTANT. 545 00:20:45,744 --> 00:20:48,313 WE HAVE HERE TODAY NOT JUST THE 546 00:20:48,380 --> 00:20:50,048 ASTRONAUTS BUT THE NEWEST CLASS 547 00:20:50,115 --> 00:20:53,185 OF FLIGHT DIRECTORS AND WE'RE 548 00:20:53,251 --> 00:20:54,186 GOING TO DO ANOTHER SHOW. 549 00:20:54,252 --> 00:20:56,088 THEY MIGHT NOT BE READY FOR ME 550 00:20:56,154 --> 00:20:57,823 TO ANNOUNCE THIS, BUT WE WILL DO 551 00:20:57,889 --> 00:20:59,257 ANOTHER JUST LIKE THIS ONE WITH 552 00:20:59,324 --> 00:21:00,892 THE FLIGHT DIRECT YOURS SITTING 553 00:21:00,959 --> 00:21:02,728 IN YOUR SEATS -- DIRECTORS 554 00:21:02,794 --> 00:21:03,895 SITTING IN YOUR SEATS. 555 00:21:03,962 --> 00:21:05,464 THEY ARE JUST AS CRITICAL TO ALL 556 00:21:05,530 --> 00:21:08,066 OF YOUR MISSIONS AS YOU ARE AS 557 00:21:08,133 --> 00:21:11,203 ARE SO MANY OTHERS HERE AT 558 00:21:11,269 --> 00:21:14,172 N.A.S.A. AND OUR CONTRACTORS AND 559 00:21:14,239 --> 00:21:15,807 OUR PROVIDERS OF THE SERVICES. 560 00:21:15,874 --> 00:21:19,845 WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO SHOWCASE 561 00:21:19,911 --> 00:21:22,347 THE INTERIR ENTERPRISE THAT AT 562 00:21:22,414 --> 00:21:26,618 THE END OF THE DAY -- ENTIRE 563 00:21:26,685 --> 00:21:28,153 SURPRISES, THAT YOU ARE TAKING 564 00:21:28,220 --> 00:21:30,789 ON THE RISK AND PEOPLE OUT THERE 565 00:21:30,856 --> 00:21:31,823 DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO 566 00:21:31,890 --> 00:21:33,458 MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE SAFE AND 567 00:21:33,525 --> 00:21:35,460 PREPARED AND THAT WE'RE GETTING 568 00:21:35,527 --> 00:21:36,662 THE ABSOLUTE BEST DISCOVERY AND 569 00:21:36,728 --> 00:21:38,196 SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION FROM 570 00:21:38,263 --> 00:21:40,332 WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND THAT IS 571 00:21:40,399 --> 00:21:43,201 THE HISTORY AND TRADITION OF THE 572 00:21:43,268 --> 00:21:43,535 COMPANY. 573 00:21:43,602 --> 00:21:46,872 I LOVE THE STORY, THE PATCH, THE 574 00:21:46,938 --> 00:21:49,941 TURTLES AND I APPRECIATE YOU 575 00:21:50,008 --> 00:21:50,942 SHARING THAT. 576 00:21:51,009 --> 00:22:00,185 [ APPLAUSE ]. 577 00:22:00,252 --> 00:22:00,852 >>> ANOTHER QUESTION. 578 00:22:00,919 --> 00:22:02,421 HOW IS THE CURRENT RESEARCH IN 579 00:22:02,487 --> 00:22:04,322 SPACE HELPING YOU TO PREPARE 580 00:22:04,389 --> 00:22:08,760 HUMANS FOR A JOURNEY TO MARS AND 581 00:22:12,164 --> 00:22:11,830 BEYOND? 582 00:22:12,230 --> 00:22:13,565 >> I WILL TAKE THIS ONE. 583 00:22:13,632 --> 00:22:16,334 >>> FOR EVERYBODY, JESSICA IS 584 00:22:16,401 --> 00:22:20,672 THE MARS GEOLOGIST FROM PLANET 585 00:22:20,739 --> 00:22:20,972 EARTH. 586 00:22:21,039 --> 00:22:22,407 >> YES, CORRECT. 587 00:22:22,474 --> 00:22:24,309 I THINK THERE IS ACTUALLY A LOT 588 00:22:24,376 --> 00:22:25,577 OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF RESEARCH 589 00:22:25,644 --> 00:22:28,547 THAT ARE GOING TO BE NECESSARY 590 00:22:28,613 --> 00:22:29,815 TO HELP PREPARE A SPORT, A 591 00:22:29,881 --> 00:22:31,883 JOURNEY TO THE MOON OR TO MARS 592 00:22:31,950 --> 00:22:33,618 OR WHENEVER THAT DESIGNATION 593 00:22:33,685 --> 00:22:34,453 MIGHT BE. 594 00:22:34,519 --> 00:22:36,555 I THINK ONE BIG PIECE OF THAT IS 595 00:22:36,621 --> 00:22:41,026 SENDING ROBOTICS TO THESE 596 00:22:41,093 --> 00:22:43,328 PLACES, SO TO MOON AND MARS WE 597 00:22:43,395 --> 00:22:44,830 HAVE INSTRUMENTS THAT ARE IN 598 00:22:44,896 --> 00:22:47,232 ORBIT AND ALSO THE ROVER IS 599 00:22:47,299 --> 00:22:50,168 PROVIDING US WITH AN 600 00:22:50,235 --> 00:22:51,536 UNDERSTANDING OF THESE BODIES, 601 00:22:51,603 --> 00:22:53,672 FIRST FINDING A GOOD PLACE FOR 602 00:22:53,739 --> 00:22:55,340 US TO GO THAT HAS RESOURCES THAT 603 00:22:55,407 --> 00:23:00,612 WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE, AND 604 00:23:00,679 --> 00:23:03,081 ALSO IS SAFE FOR US. 605 00:23:03,148 --> 00:23:05,117 RELATED TO THAT STUDYING THE 606 00:23:05,183 --> 00:23:07,018 RADIATION INVOLVED IN THE 607 00:23:07,085 --> 00:23:08,987 JOURNEY TO PARTICULARLY TO MARS, 608 00:23:09,054 --> 00:23:11,056 HOW WE CAN MITIGATE THAT RISK 609 00:23:11,123 --> 00:23:12,157 FOR US AS HUMANS. 610 00:23:12,224 --> 00:23:13,992 THERE'S A LOT OF REALLY GREAT 611 00:23:14,059 --> 00:23:23,301 WORKING BEING DONE ON THAT AT 612 00:23:23,368 --> 00:23:23,602 NASA. 613 00:23:23,668 --> 00:23:24,569 I'M WORKING ON GETTING ROCKETS 614 00:23:24,636 --> 00:23:27,205 TO GET US TO THE MOON AND OUT TO 615 00:23:27,272 --> 00:23:31,476 MARS AND BACK IS A BIG PART OF 616 00:23:31,543 --> 00:23:33,145 THAT. 617 00:23:33,211 --> 00:23:35,413 I THINK THERE'S A LOT THAT KIND 618 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,883 OF GOES INTO THIS BIG PICTURE OF 619 00:23:37,949 --> 00:23:38,583 HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT. 620 00:23:38,650 --> 00:23:40,218 WE HAVE TOUCHED ON THAT BUT WE 621 00:23:40,285 --> 00:23:44,356 REALLY ARE THE TIP OF A REALLY 622 00:23:44,422 --> 00:23:45,123 LARGE ICEBERG. 623 00:23:45,190 --> 00:23:47,092 THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE PUTTING 624 00:23:47,159 --> 00:23:49,327 TIME AND ENERGY INTO SOLVING 625 00:23:49,394 --> 00:23:52,364 THESE TOUGH PROBLEMS TO ALLOW US 626 00:23:52,430 --> 00:23:55,801 TO EXPLORE FURTHER. 627 00:23:57,269 --> 00:23:56,034 . 628 00:23:57,335 --> 00:23:59,471 A LOT OF THINGS THAT NASA DOES 629 00:23:59,538 --> 00:24:00,906 THAT PEOPLE DON'T SEE, BEHIND 630 00:24:00,972 --> 00:24:02,808 THE SCENES RIGHT NOW WE'RE 631 00:24:02,874 --> 00:24:04,943 DEVELOPING TECHNOLOGY, WE HAVE 632 00:24:05,010 --> 00:24:06,378 AMAZING SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS 633 00:24:06,444 --> 00:24:09,714 THAT ARE ADVANCING SOLAR 634 00:24:09,781 --> 00:24:11,216 ELECTRIC PROPULSION TO HELP US 635 00:24:11,283 --> 00:24:14,519 GET TO MARS, WHAT'S CALLED THE 636 00:24:14,586 --> 00:24:15,287 HIGHEST SPECIFIC IMPULSE 637 00:24:15,353 --> 00:24:15,654 POSSIBLE. 638 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,255 WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO GET THERE 639 00:24:17,322 --> 00:24:19,090 WITH PROPULSION THAT DOESN'T - 640 00:24:19,157 --> 00:24:21,159 WE DON'T WANT TO LAUNCH MASSIVE 641 00:24:21,226 --> 00:24:22,861 AMOUNTS OF FULTS INTO SPACE TO 642 00:24:22,928 --> 00:24:23,995 GET TO MARS. 643 00:24:24,062 --> 00:24:27,566 SO SOLAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION CAN 644 00:24:27,632 --> 00:24:29,501 HELP US GET THERE FASTER AND 645 00:24:29,568 --> 00:24:30,402 EFFICIENTLY WITHOUT LAUNCHING SO 646 00:24:30,468 --> 00:24:32,504 MUCH MASS INTO SPACE. 647 00:24:32,571 --> 00:24:34,472 WE'RE TRIGG TO FIGURE OUT THE 648 00:24:34,539 --> 00:24:37,242 ANIESOLOGIST WITH THE DEEP SPACE 649 00:24:37,309 --> 00:24:39,911 RADIATION, MICRO GRAVITY 650 00:24:39,978 --> 00:24:40,345 ENVIRONMENT. 651 00:24:40,412 --> 00:24:47,886 ON THE I.S.S. WE HAVE HAD 652 00:24:47,953 --> 00:24:49,855 ASTRONAUTS FOR 18 YEARS THERE 653 00:24:49,921 --> 00:24:52,424 WITH AN INTERNATIONAL TREATY AND 654 00:24:52,490 --> 00:24:54,960 OUR ASTRONAUTS ARE DEMONSTRATING 655 00:24:55,026 --> 00:24:57,329 THAT HUMANS CAN, IN FACT, LIVE 656 00:24:57,395 --> 00:25:00,298 AND WORK IN SPACE. 657 00:25:00,365 --> 00:25:02,100 THERE ARE NO DOUBT CHALLENGES TO 658 00:25:02,167 --> 00:25:03,635 HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY AND WE'RE 659 00:25:03,702 --> 00:25:04,736 LEARNING WHAT THOSE ARE AND 660 00:25:04,803 --> 00:25:07,105 WE'RE PUTTING IN PLACE COUNTER 661 00:25:07,172 --> 00:25:08,640 MEASURES FOR THAT ACTIVITY. 662 00:25:08,707 --> 00:25:09,774 SO THERE'S A LOT HAPPENING. 663 00:25:09,841 --> 00:25:11,376 WHAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT TO 664 00:25:11,443 --> 00:25:14,145 NOTE ALSO IS THAT THE MOON IS 665 00:25:14,212 --> 00:25:16,281 ACTUALLY AN AMAZING PROVING 666 00:25:16,348 --> 00:25:16,615 GROUND. 667 00:25:16,681 --> 00:25:18,483 WE CAN GO TO THE MOON. 668 00:25:18,550 --> 00:25:20,252 IT'S A THREE-DAY JOURNEY HOME. 669 00:25:20,318 --> 00:25:22,520 WE KNOW IN THIS ROOM BECAUSE 670 00:25:22,587 --> 00:25:25,657 WE'RE FOLLOWERS OF THE HISTORY, 671 00:25:25,724 --> 00:25:27,359 APOLLO 13, WHICH SOME CALL A 672 00:25:27,425 --> 00:25:29,261 DISASTER AND OTHERS AN AMAZING 673 00:25:29,327 --> 00:25:30,862 SUCCESS, IT WAS POSSIBLE TO 674 00:25:30,929 --> 00:25:32,230 BRING OUR ASTRONAUTS HOME 675 00:25:32,297 --> 00:25:34,299 BECAUSE IT WAS A THREE-DAY 676 00:25:34,366 --> 00:25:34,833 JOURNEY HOME. 677 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:35,634 HAD SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENED 678 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:37,769 ON THE WAY TO MARS, IT WOULDN'T 679 00:25:37,836 --> 00:25:39,504 HAVE WORKED OUT, BUT IN THIS 680 00:25:39,571 --> 00:25:41,706 PARTICULAR CASE THE MOON IS AN 681 00:25:41,773 --> 00:25:43,475 AMAZING PROVING GROUND TO 682 00:25:43,541 --> 00:25:45,377 DEMONSTRATE THE TECHNOLOGIES TO 683 00:25:45,443 --> 00:25:47,746 REDID YOU SAY THE -- REDUCE THE 684 00:25:47,812 --> 00:25:49,047 RISK, PROVE EVERYTHING WE NEED 685 00:25:49,114 --> 00:25:52,050 TO KNOW ABOUT LIFE AND SCIENCE 686 00:25:52,117 --> 00:25:54,286 AND PHYSIOLOGYS SO WE CAN MAKE 687 00:25:54,352 --> 00:25:55,754 THAT JOURNEY TO MARS. 688 00:25:55,820 --> 00:25:58,123 YOU MENTIONED ROBOTICS. 689 00:25:58,189 --> 00:25:59,858 AGAIN, WE HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH. 690 00:25:59,925 --> 00:26:01,359 THE UNITED STATES IS THE ONLY 691 00:26:01,426 --> 00:26:03,395 COUNTRY AND WE'VE DONE IT WITH 692 00:26:03,461 --> 00:26:04,696 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS, BUT 693 00:26:04,763 --> 00:26:05,497 WE'RE STILL THE ONLY COUNTRY 694 00:26:05,563 --> 00:26:07,232 THAT HAS LANDED ON THE SURFACE 695 00:26:07,299 --> 00:26:10,602 OF MARS WITH LANDSERS AND 696 00:26:10,669 --> 00:26:11,469 ROVERS. 697 00:26:11,536 --> 00:26:14,339 WE'VE DONE IT SEVEN TIMES AND ON 698 00:26:14,406 --> 00:26:16,775 NOVEMBER 26 THE MONDAY AFTER 699 00:26:16,841 --> 00:26:18,043 THANKSGIVING WE'RE LANDING ON 700 00:26:18,109 --> 00:26:20,011 MARS FOR AN 8TH TIME WITH 701 00:26:20,078 --> 00:26:22,347 INSIGHT, WHICH IS A GEOLOGIST, I 702 00:26:22,414 --> 00:26:23,648 KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE REALLY 703 00:26:23,715 --> 00:26:24,683 INTERESTED IN WHAT COMES FROM 704 00:26:24,749 --> 00:26:25,016 THAT. 705 00:26:25,083 --> 00:26:26,952 WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET A 706 00:26:27,018 --> 00:26:28,853 3D IMAGE OF WHAT THE INSIDE OF 707 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:30,522 MARS IS LIKE. 708 00:26:30,588 --> 00:26:32,757 WE WILL STUDY MARS QUAKES, HOW 709 00:26:32,824 --> 00:26:35,927 ACTIVE IS THE GEOLOGY, HOW OFTEN 710 00:26:35,994 --> 00:26:39,831 IS IT IMPACTED WITH METEORS AND 711 00:26:39,898 --> 00:26:41,032 THESE THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO 712 00:26:41,099 --> 00:26:42,467 BE NECESSARY, NOT JUST TO 713 00:26:42,534 --> 00:26:43,969 UNDERSTAND THE PLANET BUT ALSO 714 00:26:44,035 --> 00:26:46,771 TO PREPARE FOR AN EVENTUAL HUMAN 715 00:26:46,838 --> 00:26:49,207 LANDING WHICH A MARS GEOLOGIST 716 00:26:49,274 --> 00:26:51,710 MIGHT BE THE RIGHT PERSON TO 717 00:26:51,776 --> 00:26:54,312 SEND ON A JOURNEY TO MARS. 718 00:26:54,379 --> 00:26:56,381 SO A LOT OF REALLY EXCITING 719 00:26:56,448 --> 00:26:57,682 THINGS HAPPENING AT NASA AND, OF 720 00:26:57,749 --> 00:27:00,251 COURSE, YOUR INSIGHT THERE IS 721 00:27:00,318 --> 00:27:00,618 VALUABLE. 722 00:27:00,685 --> 00:27:03,254 SO I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO THE 723 00:27:03,321 --> 00:27:03,621 AUDIENCE. 724 00:27:03,688 --> 00:27:06,024 THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER PERSON 725 00:27:06,091 --> 00:27:07,258 THAT'S INTERESTED IN ASKING. 726 00:27:07,325 --> 00:27:09,227 WE'VE HAVE A COUPLE OF YOUNG 727 00:27:09,294 --> 00:27:10,795 FOLKS WHICH I'M THRILLED TO SEE. 728 00:27:10,862 --> 00:27:13,164 STAND UP, SAY WHAT YOUR NAME IS 729 00:27:13,231 --> 00:27:15,100 AND IS THE QUESTION. 730 00:27:15,166 --> 00:27:17,569 >> I'M ANNE. 731 00:27:17,635 --> 00:27:19,604 WHAT EXCITES YOU THE MOST ABOUT 732 00:27:19,671 --> 00:27:22,974 GOING TO SPACE? 733 00:27:23,041 --> 00:27:26,177 >>> WHAT EXCITES YOU THE MOST 734 00:27:26,244 --> 00:27:30,215 ABOUT GOING TO SPACE. 735 00:27:30,281 --> 00:27:30,548 LAUREL? 736 00:27:30,615 --> 00:27:31,883 >> I THINK THE ONE THING OR ONE 737 00:27:31,950 --> 00:27:32,851 OF THE THINGS THAT I'M MOST 738 00:27:32,917 --> 00:27:33,952 EXCITED ABOUT IS JUST GETTING TO 739 00:27:34,019 --> 00:27:36,488 SEE THE EARTH FROM THE UNIQUE 740 00:27:36,554 --> 00:27:38,656 PERSPECTIVE OF BEING IN SPACE 741 00:27:38,723 --> 00:27:40,792 WHERE YOU CAN SEE IT ALL BY 742 00:27:40,859 --> 00:27:43,461 OURSELVES OUT THERE IN THE 743 00:27:43,528 --> 00:27:44,562 VASTNESS OF SPACE, EVERYBODY ON 744 00:27:44,629 --> 00:27:46,431 THE PLANET. 745 00:27:46,498 --> 00:27:48,366 IT WOULD BE ABORIGINE 746 00:27:48,433 --> 00:27:50,301 OVERWHELMING FEELING AND GIVE 747 00:27:50,368 --> 00:27:55,874 YOU A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE -- AN 748 00:27:55,940 --> 00:27:58,710 OVERWHELMING FEELING. 749 00:27:58,777 --> 00:28:00,712 >>> I LOOK BACK AND THIS YEAR 750 00:28:00,779 --> 00:28:02,380 WE'RE CELEBRATING THE 751 00:28:02,447 --> 00:28:04,949 ANNIVERSARY OF APOLLO 8 WHICH 752 00:28:05,016 --> 00:28:06,818 WAS THE FIRST TIME WE ORBITED 753 00:28:06,885 --> 00:28:09,387 THE MOON AND WE GOT PICTURES FOR 754 00:28:09,454 --> 00:28:12,957 THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY OF THE 755 00:28:13,024 --> 00:28:14,626 EARTH IN ITS ENTIRETY FROM THE 756 00:28:14,692 --> 00:28:15,393 VICINITY OF THE MOON. 757 00:28:15,460 --> 00:28:18,663 OF COURSE, THAT PICTURE HAS NOW 758 00:28:18,730 --> 00:28:22,467 BEEN, OF COURSE, LIFE MAGAZINE 759 00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:23,201 AND PRETTY MUCH EVERY 760 00:28:23,268 --> 00:28:24,636 PUBLICATION ON THE PLANET 761 00:28:24,702 --> 00:28:25,637 COVERED THAT AND IT REALLY 762 00:28:25,703 --> 00:28:28,740 CHANGED THE PERSPECTIVE OF A LOT 763 00:28:28,807 --> 00:28:33,678 OF PEOPLE, WHO WE ARE AS EARTH. 764 00:28:33,745 --> 00:28:37,582 WE'RE THIS PALE PLU DARK IN THIS 765 00:28:37,649 --> 00:28:39,584 OCEAN OF DARKNESS AND HOW 766 00:28:39,651 --> 00:28:44,289 IMPORTANT THIS PLANET IS -- PALE 767 00:28:44,355 --> 00:28:46,691 BLUE DARK. 768 00:28:46,758 --> 00:28:50,728 SOMEBODY ELSE? 769 00:28:50,795 --> 00:28:55,633 >> MY NAME IS SIMEEHAW. 770 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:59,971 WHAT MAKES YOU WANT TO BE AN 771 00:29:00,038 --> 00:29:00,438 ASTRONAUT? 772 00:29:00,505 --> 00:29:01,840 WHAT DROVE YOU OR STILL DRIVES 773 00:29:01,906 --> 00:29:06,377 YOU TO BECOME AN ASTRONAUT? 774 00:29:06,444 --> 00:29:07,612 >> THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. 775 00:29:07,679 --> 00:29:09,247 I GET ASKED THIS A LOT. 776 00:29:09,314 --> 00:29:11,049 WHEN I THINK ABOUT IT, IF I 777 00:29:11,116 --> 00:29:12,851 THINK ABOUT TO WHEN I WAS YOUR 778 00:29:12,917 --> 00:29:14,085 AGE, FOR EXAMPLE, I TELL PEOPLE 779 00:29:14,152 --> 00:29:15,954 THAT THE ONE THING THAT I 780 00:29:16,020 --> 00:29:17,355 REMEMBER MORE THAN ANYTHING IS 781 00:29:17,422 --> 00:29:19,157 JUST BEING SUPER CURIOUS ABOUT 782 00:29:19,224 --> 00:29:20,959 EVERYTHING, WANTING TO EXPLORE 783 00:29:21,025 --> 00:29:22,427 AND LOOK AND GO FURTHER AND IF 784 00:29:22,494 --> 00:29:24,195 THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT I HAD 785 00:29:24,262 --> 00:29:25,930 NEVER DONE AND THAT I VIEWED AS 786 00:29:25,997 --> 00:29:27,098 BEING VERY DIFFICULT TO DO, I 787 00:29:27,165 --> 00:29:29,200 WANTED TO GO AND TRY TO DO IT TO 788 00:29:29,267 --> 00:29:30,735 SEE WHAT I WOULD LEARN FROM 789 00:29:30,802 --> 00:29:31,636 MYSELF ABOUT DOING IT. 790 00:29:31,703 --> 00:29:34,072 AS I GREW UP, I DEVELOPED OTHER 791 00:29:34,139 --> 00:29:34,472 INTERESTS. 792 00:29:34,539 --> 00:29:35,874 I STARTED TO BECOME REALLY 793 00:29:35,940 --> 00:29:36,841 INTERESTED IN FLYING AND SCIENCE 794 00:29:36,908 --> 00:29:38,843 AND THEN I GOT INTO TEST FLYING 795 00:29:38,910 --> 00:29:42,013 AND ALL THE REST OF IT, BUT 796 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,681 REALLY THE VERY FIRST THING WAS 797 00:29:43,748 --> 00:29:48,353 THIS OVERWHELMING CURIOSITY. 798 00:29:48,419 --> 00:29:49,787 ON A BEGGAR SCALE IT IS 799 00:29:49,854 --> 00:29:52,090 IMPORTANT TO US, TO US AS HUMANS 800 00:29:52,157 --> 00:29:54,559 IN THE WORLD THAT WE ENGAGE IN 801 00:29:54,626 --> 00:29:58,029 THAT, THAT WE'RE CONSTANTLY 802 00:29:58,096 --> 00:29:58,930 REDEFINING WHAT THE IMPOSSIBLE 803 00:29:58,997 --> 00:30:01,699 IS, PUSHING LIMITS AND LOOKING 804 00:30:01,766 --> 00:30:02,267 FURTHER. 805 00:30:02,333 --> 00:30:04,369 FOR ME THAT'S WHERE IT STARTED 806 00:30:04,435 --> 00:30:06,004 AND I THINK THAT'S STILL A BIG 807 00:30:06,070 --> 00:30:08,173 PART OF WHY I'M HERE AND EXCITED 808 00:30:08,239 --> 00:30:09,974 TO GO TO WORK EVERY DAY. 809 00:30:10,041 --> 00:30:13,077 A GOOD QUESTION. 810 00:30:13,144 --> 00:30:16,881 >>> I'M GOING TO JENNY. 811 00:30:16,948 --> 00:30:19,784 >> I WANT TO ECHO WHAT JOSHUA 812 00:30:19,851 --> 00:30:22,420 SAID IN THAT CURIOSITY IS A BIG 813 00:30:22,487 --> 00:30:23,388 COMPONENT AND A BIG DRIVER FOR 814 00:30:23,454 --> 00:30:24,155 WHAT WE DO. 815 00:30:24,222 --> 00:30:26,157 IT CERTAINLY WAS VERY MOTIVATING 816 00:30:26,224 --> 00:30:28,593 IN MY CASE AS WELL. SPACE FLIGHT 817 00:30:28,660 --> 00:30:29,961 IS REALLY INTERESTING AND SUCH 818 00:30:30,028 --> 00:30:31,129 THAT WE KNOW WE'RE GOING TO 819 00:30:31,196 --> 00:30:31,863 LEARN A LOT. 820 00:30:31,930 --> 00:30:33,798 WE DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW WHAT 821 00:30:33,865 --> 00:30:35,400 WE'RE GOING TO LEARN, I MEAN THE 822 00:30:35,466 --> 00:30:37,302 TECHNOLOGIES THAT COME FROM THE 823 00:30:37,368 --> 00:30:38,069 FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE WE GAIN 824 00:30:38,136 --> 00:30:40,238 FROM EXPLORING. 825 00:30:40,305 --> 00:30:41,072 >> SOMETIMES WE LEARN HOW MUCH 826 00:30:41,139 --> 00:30:41,940 WE DON'T KNOW. 827 00:30:42,006 --> 00:30:42,740 >> EXACTLY. 828 00:30:42,807 --> 00:30:48,346 IT'S JUST THIS INCREDIBLE 829 00:30:48,413 --> 00:30:49,047 JOURNEY. 830 00:30:49,113 --> 00:30:50,548 IT'S REALLY INSPIRING. 831 00:30:50,615 --> 00:30:52,517 ONE OF THE THINGS I'D BE REALLY 832 00:30:52,584 --> 00:30:54,385 EXCITED ABOUT ADDING TO WHAT 833 00:30:54,452 --> 00:30:56,154 LAUREL SAID AS WELL, SEEING THE 834 00:30:56,221 --> 00:30:58,623 EARTH FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE, 835 00:30:58,690 --> 00:30:59,724 IT'S ALSO THE EXCITEMENT THAT 836 00:30:59,791 --> 00:31:01,726 COMES WITH WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO 837 00:31:01,793 --> 00:31:05,930 LEARN SO THAT CURIOSITY AND I 838 00:31:05,997 --> 00:31:08,366 GUESS PUSH TO LEARN MORE IS 839 00:31:08,433 --> 00:31:09,767 INCREDIBLE MOTIVATING, I THINK, 840 00:31:09,834 --> 00:31:10,935 FOR MOST OF US. 841 00:31:11,002 --> 00:31:13,805 >>> YOU SOUND LIKE A PHD. 842 00:31:13,871 --> 00:31:18,576 >> I TRY TO HIDE IT. 843 00:31:18,643 --> 00:31:20,078 >>> FRAVRNG? 844 00:31:20,144 --> 00:31:22,247 >> SURE -- FRANK? 845 00:31:22,313 --> 00:31:23,514 >> SURE. 846 00:31:23,581 --> 00:31:25,550 WE COME FROM VERY DIFFERENT 847 00:31:25,617 --> 00:31:26,217 BACKGROUNDS BUT MANY HAVE 848 00:31:26,284 --> 00:31:27,819 SIMILAR PERNTS IN THAT WHEN WE 849 00:31:27,885 --> 00:31:33,124 WERE YOUNG WE LOVED TO EXPLORE, 850 00:31:33,191 --> 00:31:37,228 AND I THINK THAT THAT DRIVES -- 851 00:31:37,295 --> 00:31:37,662 PERSONALITIES. 852 00:31:37,729 --> 00:31:39,097 THAT DRIVES, IT IS DEEP WITHIN 853 00:31:39,163 --> 00:31:40,265 ALL OF US. 854 00:31:40,331 --> 00:31:43,034 WHAT WE DO IS REPRESENT TEAMS, 855 00:31:43,101 --> 00:31:46,404 WE REPRESENT NASA, OUR 856 00:31:46,471 --> 00:31:49,407 MILITARIES, OR SCHOOLS, BECAUSE 857 00:31:49,474 --> 00:31:52,710 I THINK HUMANITY IS DRIVEN BY 858 00:31:52,777 --> 00:31:54,712 WANTING TO EXPLORE. 859 00:31:54,779 --> 00:31:56,581 THAT'S A NEAT PRIVILEGE. 860 00:31:56,648 --> 00:31:58,516 >>> WE'RE GOING TO GO TO SOCIAL 861 00:31:58,583 --> 00:32:00,518 MEDIA AND THEN I KNOW WE'VE GOT 862 00:32:00,585 --> 00:32:02,820 ANOTHER QUESTION FROM THE 863 00:32:02,887 --> 00:32:03,187 AUDIENCE. 864 00:32:03,254 --> 00:32:05,156 MANY OF NASA ASTRONAUT 865 00:32:05,223 --> 00:32:06,491 CANDIDATES HAVE MILITARY FLIGHT 866 00:32:06,557 --> 00:32:08,026 EXPERIENCE, BUT WHAT OTHER 867 00:32:08,092 --> 00:32:09,260 FIELDS OF STUDY ARE ESSENTIAL 868 00:32:09,327 --> 00:32:12,797 FOR BECOMING AN ASTRONAUT? 869 00:32:12,864 --> 00:32:14,565 THERE'S A VERY DIVERSION GROUP 870 00:32:14,632 --> 00:32:15,600 OF BACKGROUNDS HERE. 871 00:32:15,667 --> 00:32:17,135 >> DESPITE THE FACT THAT I'M 872 00:32:17,201 --> 00:32:19,304 ACTUALLY ONE OF THOSE MILITARY 873 00:32:19,370 --> 00:32:23,541 AIF YATORS -- AVIATORS. 874 00:32:23,608 --> 00:32:26,477 IT IS A DIVERSION GROUP AND WE 875 00:32:26,544 --> 00:32:29,213 HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT HAVE 876 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:30,114 DONE INTERESTING THINGS. 877 00:32:30,181 --> 00:32:31,582 YOU THINK OF THE FIRST CLASS OF 878 00:32:31,649 --> 00:32:32,083 NASA. 879 00:32:32,150 --> 00:32:35,119 IT WAS ALL MILITARY AIF YATORS 880 00:32:35,186 --> 00:32:38,122 AND I'M -- AVIATORS AND WE'VE 881 00:32:38,189 --> 00:32:41,559 MOVED AWAY FROM THAT. 882 00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:44,829 WE HAVE TAKEN MANY COURSES IN 883 00:32:44,896 --> 00:32:46,864 GEOLOGY AND IT'S SO APPLICABLE 884 00:32:46,931 --> 00:32:50,501 TO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EXPLORING 885 00:32:50,568 --> 00:32:53,571 OTHER BODIES OTHER THAN EARTH. 886 00:32:53,638 --> 00:32:57,508 WE OF DONE A LOT OF ANALOGUES 887 00:32:57,575 --> 00:32:59,444 BACK AND WE CAN LOOK AT CERTAIN 888 00:32:59,510 --> 00:33:01,679 THINGS ON EARTH AND WHAT DOES 889 00:33:01,746 --> 00:33:03,581 THAT TELL US ABOUT SEEING OIRNGS 890 00:33:03,648 --> 00:33:06,851 ON OTHER BODIES. 891 00:33:06,918 --> 00:33:08,820 XENA STUDIED SOMETHING WAY ABOVE 892 00:33:08,886 --> 00:33:10,988 MY HEAD, BUT ONE OF THE MOST 893 00:33:11,055 --> 00:33:12,223 EXCITING THINGS, THE POSSIBILITY 894 00:33:12,290 --> 00:33:17,528 OF PA FINDING LIFE SOMEWHERE 895 00:33:17,595 --> 00:33:19,263 OUTSIDE OF EARTH AND I THINK 896 00:33:19,330 --> 00:33:21,833 THOSE WOULD PLAY INTO THAT. 897 00:33:21,899 --> 00:33:25,103 JOHNNY AND FRANK WHO ARE MEDICAL 898 00:33:25,169 --> 00:33:25,436 DOCTORS. 899 00:33:25,503 --> 00:33:27,739 SO MUCH OF WHAT WE'RE STUDYING, 900 00:33:27,805 --> 00:33:29,640 ESPECIALLY TALKING ABOUT 901 00:33:29,707 --> 00:33:30,908 LONG-DURATION MISSIONS IS THE 902 00:33:30,975 --> 00:33:32,643 EFFECTS ON THE BODY, RADIATION 903 00:33:32,710 --> 00:33:34,979 AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS, ALL 904 00:33:35,046 --> 00:33:36,748 THOSE THINGS. 905 00:33:36,814 --> 00:33:39,851 WOODY, LAUREL, ANY TIME WE'VE 906 00:33:39,917 --> 00:33:42,987 GOT A QUESTION ON MECHANICS OR 907 00:33:43,054 --> 00:33:44,956 ANYTHING WE GO TO OUR RESIDENT 908 00:33:45,022 --> 00:33:49,894 EXPERT WOODY. 909 00:33:49,961 --> 00:33:51,262 SO MANY OF THESE THINGS. 910 00:33:51,329 --> 00:33:55,333 WE'RE STUDYING SUCH A DIE 911 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,537 DIVERSION AND BROAD RANGE, WE 912 00:33:59,604 --> 00:34:01,038 HAVE SUCH BROAD BACKGROUNDS THAT 913 00:34:01,105 --> 00:34:04,542 WE NEED TO PULL TOGETHER. 914 00:34:04,609 --> 00:34:09,981 >>> YOU SAID XINA AND JESSE, 915 00:34:10,047 --> 00:34:14,385 I'VE BEEN THE ADMINISTRATE OR 916 00:34:14,452 --> 00:34:17,688 FOR FIVE MONTHS NOW AND THERE 917 00:34:17,755 --> 00:34:19,257 HAVE BEEN SO MANY DISCOVERIES 918 00:34:19,323 --> 00:34:20,958 ABOUT IS THERE LIFE OUT THERE. 919 00:34:21,025 --> 00:34:22,660 WE KNOW SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, WE 920 00:34:22,727 --> 00:34:24,862 KNOW THAT THERE IS LICK IED 921 00:34:24,929 --> 00:34:25,630 WATER ONE AND A HALF KILOMETERS 922 00:34:25,696 --> 00:34:27,965 UNDER THE SURFACE OF MARS. 923 00:34:28,032 --> 00:34:29,267 THAT'S A DISCOVERY WE DIDN'T 924 00:34:29,333 --> 00:34:30,168 KNOW WHEN I STARTED. 925 00:34:30,234 --> 00:34:33,237 IT IS FUNNY TO SEE THE CHIEF 926 00:34:33,304 --> 00:34:36,007 SCIENTIST AT NASA SAY THIS, 927 00:34:36,073 --> 00:34:37,942 "GUESS WHAT WE JUST FOUND? 928 00:34:38,009 --> 00:34:40,211 ", AND TO KNOW THERE WILL BE 929 00:34:40,278 --> 00:34:42,013 PEOPLE, IN FACT MAYBE THE FOLKS 930 00:34:42,079 --> 00:34:44,081 HERE ARE TAKING THOSE MISSIONS 931 00:34:44,148 --> 00:34:46,417 TO LEARN EVEN MORE WITH HUMAN 932 00:34:46,484 --> 00:34:47,819 EXPLORATION. 933 00:34:47,885 --> 00:34:49,887 WE NOW KNOW THAT THERE'S COMPLEX 934 00:34:49,954 --> 00:34:51,689 ORGANIC COMPOUNDS ON THE SURFACE 935 00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:52,457 OF MARS. 936 00:34:52,523 --> 00:34:53,624 IT DOESN'T GUARANTEE THAT 937 00:34:53,691 --> 00:34:55,493 THERE'S LIFE, BUT IT INCREASES 938 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:56,994 THE PROBABILITY THAT THERE IS 939 00:34:57,061 --> 00:34:58,930 LIFE, WHICH IS ANOTHER IMPORTANT 940 00:34:58,996 --> 00:35:00,665 DISCOVERY AGAIN JUST IN MY SHORT 941 00:35:00,731 --> 00:35:02,533 FIVE MONTHS HERE. 942 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,136 THE IDEA THAT METHANE CYCLES ON 943 00:35:05,203 --> 00:35:07,638 MARS ARE PERFECTLY CORRELATED 944 00:35:07,705 --> 00:35:09,674 WITH THE SEASONS OF MARS AGAIN 945 00:35:09,740 --> 00:35:11,108 DOESN'T GUARANTEE LIFE BUT 946 00:35:11,175 --> 00:35:12,176 INCREASES THE PROBABILITY. 947 00:35:12,243 --> 00:35:14,612 THIS DIVERSION GROUP OF FOLKS 948 00:35:14,679 --> 00:35:17,715 THAT -- DIVERSION GROUP OF FOLKS 949 00:35:17,782 --> 00:35:20,084 IN THIS CLASS IS GOING TO HAVE 950 00:35:20,151 --> 00:35:22,720 OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE AMAZING 951 00:35:22,787 --> 00:35:23,120 DISCOVERIES. 952 00:35:23,187 --> 00:35:24,422 IF WE'RE SUCCESSFUL IN YOUR TIME 953 00:35:24,489 --> 00:35:27,558 AT NASA, AND I CAN'T MAKE ANY 954 00:35:27,625 --> 00:35:29,660 GUARANTEES, SOME PEOPLE ARE 955 00:35:29,727 --> 00:35:33,798 OLDER THAN OTHERS, BOB, BUT IT 956 00:35:33,865 --> 00:35:36,234 WOULD BE AMAZING IF SOME OF THE 957 00:35:36,300 --> 00:35:38,870 PEOPLE HERE WERE TO MAKE THAT 958 00:35:38,936 --> 00:35:39,904 FIRST TRIP TO MARS AND I THINK 959 00:35:39,971 --> 00:35:42,640 THAT'S IN THE REALM OF 960 00:35:42,707 --> 00:35:43,040 POSSIBILITY. 961 00:35:43,107 --> 00:35:43,941 WE'RE GOING TO THE MOON, WE'RE 962 00:35:44,008 --> 00:35:46,711 GOING TO RETIRE THIS RICK AND 963 00:35:46,777 --> 00:35:49,213 THEN WE'RE GOING TO PROVE OUT 964 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,082 THE TECHNOLOGIES AND TAKE 965 00:35:51,148 --> 00:35:53,351 GATEWAY, THAT FIRST GATEWAY IS 966 00:35:53,417 --> 00:35:54,151 GOOD PROVING TECHNOLOGY. 967 00:35:54,218 --> 00:35:56,087 THE SECOND ONE IS DEEP SPACE 968 00:35:56,153 --> 00:35:57,488 TRANSPORT AND THAT COULD BE OUR 969 00:35:57,555 --> 00:35:58,789 VEHICLE TO GET TO MARS. 970 00:35:58,856 --> 00:36:01,325 SO A LOT OF EXCITING THINGS AND 971 00:36:01,392 --> 00:36:03,394 THE BACKGROUNDS HERE IS AMAZING. 972 00:36:03,461 --> 00:36:06,030 ANOTHER QUESTION FROM THE 973 00:36:06,097 --> 00:36:06,397 AUDIENCE. 974 00:36:06,464 --> 00:36:08,699 >> I'M RYAN. 975 00:36:08,766 --> 00:36:10,001 I WORK FOR NASA. 976 00:36:10,067 --> 00:36:11,936 SO YOU ARE GOING TO ACTUALLY 977 00:36:12,003 --> 00:36:13,604 HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO 978 00:36:13,671 --> 00:36:15,439 SOMETHING THAT MOST PEOPLE ONLY 979 00:36:15,506 --> 00:36:16,541 GET THEORETICALLY TO DO. 980 00:36:16,607 --> 00:36:18,776 WHAT WOULD YOU TAKE WITH YOU TO 981 00:36:18,843 --> 00:36:20,011 A DESERT ISLAND? 982 00:36:20,077 --> 00:36:23,814 SO YOU'RE LITERALLY, THERE'S NO 983 00:36:23,881 --> 00:36:25,249 STORAGE AND YOU HAVE TO THINK 984 00:36:25,316 --> 00:36:27,018 HARD ABOUT WHAT TO TAKE. 985 00:36:27,084 --> 00:36:29,554 HAVE YOU GOT THOUGHTS ABOUT 986 00:36:29,620 --> 00:36:29,854 NATAL? 987 00:36:29,921 --> 00:36:32,757 >>> A GOOD POINT. 988 00:36:32,823 --> 00:36:35,693 >> WOODY. 989 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,828 I WOULD TAKE WOODY. 990 00:36:37,895 --> 00:36:43,467 I THINK I'D TAKE A LONG-RANGE 991 00:36:43,534 --> 00:36:43,801 RADIO. 992 00:36:43,868 --> 00:36:47,672 >> SATELLITE PHONE. 993 00:36:47,738 --> 00:36:49,273 >> IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, LOOKING 994 00:36:49,340 --> 00:36:50,641 TOWARDS THE MISSIONS, WE HAVE 995 00:36:50,708 --> 00:36:52,243 TALKED ABOUT IT A LOT OF TIMES, 996 00:36:52,310 --> 00:36:55,146 BUT WE'RE THE TIP OF THE 997 00:36:55,212 --> 00:36:55,479 ICEBERG. 998 00:36:55,546 --> 00:36:56,681 WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO COMMUNITY 999 00:36:56,747 --> 00:37:01,118 WITH THE TEAM, WE HAVE DIVERSION 1000 00:37:01,185 --> 00:37:02,753 BACKGROUNDS BUT ANYONE BY 1001 00:37:02,820 --> 00:37:04,088 OURSELVES WOULD NOT LAST LONG. 1002 00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:06,324 COMMUNICATION TO ME WOULD BE THE 1003 00:37:06,390 --> 00:37:07,792 MOST IMPORTANT THING TO HELP 1004 00:37:07,858 --> 00:37:08,960 WITH THE JOURNEY AND ALSO TO 1005 00:37:09,026 --> 00:37:11,162 SHARE THAT JOURNEY, BUT MORE 1006 00:37:11,228 --> 00:37:13,297 IMPORTANTLY JUST TO STAY ALIVE 1007 00:37:13,364 --> 00:37:15,032 ON THE JOURNEY BECAUSE THERE ARE 1008 00:37:15,099 --> 00:37:17,501 A WHOLE BUNCH OF THINGS ON THAT 1009 00:37:17,568 --> 00:37:20,404 SPACECRAFT THAT I NEED HELP 1010 00:37:20,471 --> 00:37:23,674 WITH, OR DESERT ISLAND. 1011 00:37:23,741 --> 00:37:27,645 >>> GREAT. 1012 00:37:27,712 --> 00:37:31,082 I'VE IN THIS QUESTION A LOT AND 1013 00:37:31,148 --> 00:37:31,949 THE QUESTION IS HOW MANY 1014 00:37:32,016 --> 00:37:34,051 APPLICANTS WERE THERE TO BE IN 1015 00:37:34,118 --> 00:37:35,453 YOUR CLASS? 1016 00:37:35,519 --> 00:37:36,754 DOES ANYBODY HERE KNOW THE 1017 00:37:36,821 --> 00:37:37,955 ANSWER OFF HAND? 1018 00:37:38,022 --> 00:37:41,525 >> I THINK IT WAS AROUND 18,000. 1019 00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:44,695 >>> 18,000 PEOPLE APPLIED FOR 1020 00:37:44,762 --> 00:37:48,766 YOUR JOB AND YET THIS GROUP HERE 1021 00:37:48,833 --> 00:37:51,769 WAS SELECTED. 1022 00:37:51,836 --> 00:37:53,337 OF COURSE THIS WAS A NEW THING. 1023 00:37:53,404 --> 00:37:54,772 WAS THERE ANYBODY ON THE STAGE 1024 00:37:54,839 --> 00:37:58,576 THAT HAD APPLIED FOR THE 1025 00:37:58,643 --> 00:37:59,377 ASTRONAUT POSITION PREVIOUSLY? 1026 00:37:59,443 --> 00:38:03,714 WE HAVE A NUMBER OF FOLKS. 1027 00:38:03,781 --> 00:38:05,683 HOW MANY TIMES DID IT TAKE? 1028 00:38:05,750 --> 00:38:08,519 I HAVE TALKED TO ASTRONAUTS THAT 1029 00:38:08,586 --> 00:38:09,954 WORK HERE AT THE HEADQUARTERS 1030 00:38:10,021 --> 00:38:12,089 BUILDING THAT HAVE SAID THEY GOT 1031 00:38:12,156 --> 00:38:13,924 ACCEPTED ON THEIR 8TH 1032 00:38:13,991 --> 00:38:17,628 APPLICATION TO BE IN THE 1033 00:38:17,695 --> 00:38:19,363 ASTRONAUT CORPS. 1034 00:38:19,430 --> 00:38:21,999 IT SHOWS THAT THIS PERSON WAS 1035 00:38:22,066 --> 00:38:23,334 QUALIFIED AND STILL IS QUALIFIED 1036 00:38:23,401 --> 00:38:25,369 AS YOU ARE IT'S STILL EXTREMELY 1037 00:38:25,436 --> 00:38:28,606 DIFFICULT TO GET INTO THE CORPS 1038 00:38:28,673 --> 00:38:29,807 AND YET HERE YOU ARE. 1039 00:38:29,874 --> 00:38:33,678 IF YOU DON'T MIND, SHARE WITH US 1040 00:38:33,744 --> 00:38:35,479 THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FIRST 1041 00:38:35,546 --> 00:38:36,580 APPLICATION, SECOND, THIRD, 1042 00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:37,748 WHATEVER AND THEN ULTIMATELY 1043 00:38:37,815 --> 00:38:40,484 WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO FINALLY GET 1044 00:38:40,551 --> 00:38:44,522 THE YES. 1045 00:38:44,588 --> 00:38:44,855 ANYONE? 1046 00:38:44,922 --> 00:38:47,224 >> I APPLIED THREE TIMES. 1047 00:38:47,291 --> 00:38:48,726 I STARTED APPLYING BASICALLY AS 1048 00:38:48,793 --> 00:38:49,593 SOON AS I WAS OLD ENOUGH. 1049 00:38:49,660 --> 00:38:51,062 THE FIRST TIME I APPLIED I WAS 1050 00:38:51,128 --> 00:38:53,597 STILL IN GRAD SCHOOL AND I DON'T 1051 00:38:53,664 --> 00:38:55,032 THINK I MET THE BASIC 1052 00:38:55,099 --> 00:38:55,499 QUALIFICATIONS. 1053 00:38:55,566 --> 00:39:01,238 THIS IS MY THIRD TIME APPLYING. 1054 00:39:01,305 --> 00:39:03,641 I GUESS THAT'S ALL. 1055 00:39:03,708 --> 00:39:05,443 >>> AWESOME. 1056 00:39:05,509 --> 00:39:05,710 BOB? 1057 00:39:05,776 --> 00:39:06,610 >> I THINK ONE OF THE UNIQUE 1058 00:39:06,677 --> 00:39:08,746 THINGS ABOUT THE APPLICATION 1059 00:39:08,813 --> 00:39:11,415 PROCESS THAT WE GO THROUGH IS WE 1060 00:39:11,482 --> 00:39:14,118 GET TO SPEND TWICE A FULL WEEK 1061 00:39:14,185 --> 00:39:15,486 WITH THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT ARE 1062 00:39:15,553 --> 00:39:18,289 ALSO COMPETING FOR THE SAME JOB. 1063 00:39:18,355 --> 00:39:20,624 THAT'S PRETTY UNIQUE TO MOST ANY 1064 00:39:20,691 --> 00:39:22,426 OTHER JOB THAT'S OUT THERE. 1065 00:39:22,493 --> 00:39:23,961 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT OUR EYES 1066 00:39:24,028 --> 00:39:25,963 ARE OPENED TO IS THE QUALITY OF 1067 00:39:26,030 --> 00:39:27,431 THE APPLICANTS THAT ARE COMING 1068 00:39:27,498 --> 00:39:27,865 IN. 1069 00:39:27,932 --> 00:39:31,235 MOST OF US WOULD AGREE THAT 1070 00:39:31,302 --> 00:39:33,003 THERE ARE MULTITUDES OF OTHER 1071 00:39:33,070 --> 00:39:35,039 PEOPLE THAT ARE JUST AS OR MORE 1072 00:39:35,106 --> 00:39:36,774 QUALIFIED POTENTIALLY THAN WE 1073 00:39:36,841 --> 00:39:37,074 ARE. 1074 00:39:37,141 --> 00:39:38,976 SO WE'RE INCREDIBLY BLESSED AND 1075 00:39:39,043 --> 00:39:41,045 FORTUNATE TO HAVE BEEN SELECTED 1076 00:39:41,112 --> 00:39:43,981 BY NASA ON THIS. 1077 00:39:44,048 --> 00:39:45,783 WE, OBVIOUSLY, ENJOY IT. 1078 00:39:45,850 --> 00:39:47,918 WE'VE GOT A GREAT GROUP DYNAMIC 1079 00:39:47,985 --> 00:39:49,286 WITH OUR GROUP AND THAT'S PART 1080 00:39:49,353 --> 00:39:51,589 OF WHAT GOES INTO, I THINK, 1081 00:39:51,655 --> 00:39:54,925 MAKING A GOOD COHESIVE CLASS FOR 1082 00:39:54,992 --> 00:39:55,226 US. 1083 00:39:55,292 --> 00:39:57,027 TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, THIS IS 1084 00:39:57,094 --> 00:39:58,362 MY THIRD APPLICATION AND I DID 1085 00:39:58,429 --> 00:40:02,133 NOT INTERVIEW AT ALL ON EITHER 1086 00:40:02,199 --> 00:40:02,633 OF THE FIRST TWO. 1087 00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:05,536 SO IT'S AN INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE 1088 00:40:05,603 --> 00:40:09,707 TO GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS, BUT 1089 00:40:09,774 --> 00:40:10,841 IT IS VERY EYE-OPENING. 1090 00:40:10,908 --> 00:40:14,044 AS MANY MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW, AS 1091 00:40:14,111 --> 00:40:16,714 PILOT FIGHTERS THERE'S AN EGO 1092 00:40:16,781 --> 00:40:19,250 THAT GOES LIKE THAT, BUT IN A 1093 00:40:19,316 --> 00:40:24,155 GROUP LIKE THIS YOU REALISE YOU 1094 00:40:24,221 --> 00:40:25,689 JUST FLY PLANES. 1095 00:40:25,756 --> 00:40:28,959 >>> KAYLA, YOU'RE A SUBMARINER, 1096 00:40:29,026 --> 00:40:29,660 U.S. NAVY. 1097 00:40:29,727 --> 00:40:31,428 WE HAVE A QUESTION FROM SOCIAL 1098 00:40:31,495 --> 00:40:32,863 MEDIA WHICH I THINK IS 1099 00:40:32,930 --> 00:40:36,200 INTERESTING ABOUT AN LUNAR BASE. 1100 00:40:36,267 --> 00:40:38,469 IT ASKS HOW WOULD AN LUNAR BASE 1101 00:40:38,536 --> 00:40:42,072 OR COLONY SFAEKT THE FUTURE OF 1102 00:40:42,139 --> 00:40:43,774 SPACE TRAVEL -- AFFECT THE 1103 00:40:43,841 --> 00:40:44,909 FUTURE OF SPACE TRAVEL? 1104 00:40:44,975 --> 00:40:50,314 HAVE YOU HAD THOUGHTS ABOUT 1105 00:40:50,381 --> 00:40:50,614 THIS? 1106 00:40:50,681 --> 00:40:51,515 >> AS YOU POINTED OUT, THE 1107 00:40:51,582 --> 00:40:54,785 OPPORTUNITY TO WORK ON THE MOON 1108 00:40:54,852 --> 00:40:56,754 IS A GREAT PROVING GROUND FOR 1109 00:40:56,821 --> 00:40:58,823 FUTURE EXPLORATION DEEPER IN 1110 00:40:58,889 --> 00:40:59,123 SPACE. 1111 00:40:59,190 --> 00:41:00,324 I THINK THERE'S A LOT WE CAN 1112 00:41:00,391 --> 00:41:03,394 LEARN FROM OPERATING IN EXTREME 1113 00:41:03,460 --> 00:41:03,828 ENVIRONMENTS. 1114 00:41:03,894 --> 00:41:06,297 WE'RE DOING THAT ALREADY HERE ON 1115 00:41:06,363 --> 00:41:09,700 THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH. 1116 00:41:09,767 --> 00:41:13,537 SUBNASA HAS A LOT OF PROJECTS 1117 00:41:13,604 --> 00:41:16,040 INCLUDING NE MO, WHICH IS AN 1118 00:41:16,106 --> 00:41:17,875 OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE UNDER WATER 1119 00:41:17,942 --> 00:41:20,444 AND BASICALLY A SUBMERGED 1120 00:41:20,511 --> 00:41:23,480 HABITAT AND DO SCUBA DIVING THAT 1121 00:41:23,547 --> 00:41:25,349 SIMULATES DOING A SPACE WALK. 1122 00:41:25,416 --> 00:41:27,384 THE BASE JUST TAKES THAT TO THE 1123 00:41:27,451 --> 00:41:27,952 NEXT LEVEL. 1124 00:41:28,018 --> 00:41:30,087 IT WOULD TEACH US A LOT ABOUT 1125 00:41:30,154 --> 00:41:32,389 HOW WE NEED TO OPERATE WHEN 1126 00:41:32,456 --> 00:41:34,091 WE'RE FURTHER FROM EARTH AND 1127 00:41:34,158 --> 00:41:35,926 SUPPORT TEAM AND WHEN WE HAVE 1128 00:41:35,993 --> 00:41:38,629 FEW RESOURCES. 1129 00:41:38,696 --> 00:41:41,165 >>> I GET THIS QUESTION A LOT 1130 00:41:41,232 --> 00:41:42,099 BECAUSE PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHY 1131 00:41:42,166 --> 00:41:45,002 ARE WE GOING BACK TO THE MOON. 1132 00:41:45,069 --> 00:41:47,071 WE HAVE GOT GEOLOGISTS HERE AS 1133 00:41:47,137 --> 00:41:47,371 WELL. 1134 00:41:47,438 --> 00:41:50,608 WHEN YOU THINK BACK TO THE 1135 00:41:50,674 --> 00:41:51,508 APOLLO PROPOSAL WE LANDED SIX 1136 00:41:51,575 --> 00:41:53,043 TIMES ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON 1137 00:41:53,110 --> 00:41:53,744 WITH 12 PEOPLE. 1138 00:41:53,811 --> 00:41:56,513 EACH TIME IT WAS IN THAT REGION 1139 00:41:56,580 --> 00:41:57,314 OF THE MOON. 1140 00:41:57,381 --> 00:41:58,782 WHEN WE THINK ABOUT GATEWAY AND 1141 00:41:58,849 --> 00:42:00,584 WHAT IT IS, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 1142 00:42:00,651 --> 00:42:05,489 A HABITAT IN ORBIT AROUND THE 1143 00:42:05,556 --> 00:42:05,956 MOON. 1144 00:42:06,023 --> 00:42:08,292 WHAT THE GATEWAY WILL ALLOW US 1145 00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:09,727 TO DO IS TO HAVE MORE ACCESS TO 1146 00:42:09,793 --> 00:42:13,564 MORE PARTS OF THE MOON THAN EVER 1147 00:42:13,631 --> 00:42:14,031 BEFORE. 1148 00:42:14,098 --> 00:42:15,432 THINKING BACK IN HISTORY, PEOPLE 1149 00:42:15,499 --> 00:42:16,834 HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT THERE 1150 00:42:16,901 --> 00:42:18,736 MIGHT BE WATER ICE ON THE 1151 00:42:18,802 --> 00:42:19,737 SURFACE OF THE MOON. 1152 00:42:19,803 --> 00:42:22,106 WHAT WE HAVE DISCOVERED IN 2008 1153 00:42:22,172 --> 00:42:26,310 AND IN 2009 THAT THERE IS WATER 1154 00:42:26,377 --> 00:42:27,511 AND DISCOVERED THAT THERE ARE 1155 00:42:27,578 --> 00:42:29,647 HOLD-UPS OF BILLIONS OF TONS OF 1156 00:42:29,713 --> 00:42:31,682 WATER ICE ON THE SURFACE OF THE 1157 00:42:31,749 --> 00:42:31,982 MOON. 1158 00:42:32,049 --> 00:42:34,818 THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS HOW IT 1159 00:42:34,885 --> 00:42:36,387 WOULD AFFECT THE TRAVEL WATER 1160 00:42:36,453 --> 00:42:37,588 ICE IS SUPPORT. 1161 00:42:37,655 --> 00:42:39,356 UTILISING THE RESOURCES OF THE 1162 00:42:39,423 --> 00:42:41,392 MOON FOR LIFE SUPPORT WATER IS, 1163 00:42:41,458 --> 00:42:42,660 OF COURSE, THERE TO DRINK. 1164 00:42:42,726 --> 00:42:44,929 ICE MELT IT, YOU'VE GOT WATER, 1165 00:42:44,995 --> 00:42:48,933 CRACK IT INTO HYDROGEN AND 1166 00:42:48,999 --> 00:42:50,534 OXYGEN, WHICH IS NECESSARY TO 1167 00:42:50,601 --> 00:42:52,002 BREATHE, AND WHEN PUTTING THOSE 1168 00:42:52,069 --> 00:42:57,908 IN CRYOGENIC FORM THAT'S ROCKET 1169 00:42:57,975 --> 00:42:58,309 PROPULSION. 1170 00:42:58,375 --> 00:43:00,444 SOME WILL BE LAUNCHING FROM 1171 00:43:00,511 --> 00:43:02,579 LIQUID OXYGEN NITROGEN ROCKET. 1172 00:43:02,646 --> 00:43:04,248 THIS IS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION, 1173 00:43:04,315 --> 00:43:06,283 SOMETHING WE NEED TO THIS THINK 1174 00:43:06,350 --> 00:43:07,051 ABOUT. 1175 00:43:07,117 --> 00:43:08,786 WE PUT HABITATIONS ON THE 1176 00:43:08,852 --> 00:43:10,187 SURFACE OF THE MOON, WE WILL GET 1177 00:43:10,254 --> 00:43:11,488 MORE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE 1178 00:43:11,555 --> 00:43:11,989 SURFACE. 1179 00:43:12,056 --> 00:43:14,158 1969 WE HANDED ON THE MOON AND 1180 00:43:14,224 --> 00:43:16,060 IT TOOK UNTIL 2009 BEFORE WE 1181 00:43:16,126 --> 00:43:18,462 KNEW THAT THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF 1182 00:43:18,529 --> 00:43:19,697 BILLIONS OF WATER ICE. 1183 00:43:19,763 --> 00:43:21,332 HOW MANY DO WE STILL NOT KNOW 1184 00:43:21,398 --> 00:43:23,167 ABOUT THE MOON? 1185 00:43:23,233 --> 00:43:24,435 COULD THERE BE, AND I DON'T HAVE 1186 00:43:24,501 --> 00:43:27,004 AN ANSWER, NOBODY ELSE DOES, BUT 1187 00:43:27,071 --> 00:43:28,439 WE KNOW THERE ARE RARE EARTH 1188 00:43:28,505 --> 00:43:31,375 METALS ARE THAT EXTREMELY 1189 00:43:31,442 --> 00:43:31,742 VALUABLE. 1190 00:43:31,809 --> 00:43:33,811 THEY'RE AS TROYED IMPACTS, NOT 1191 00:43:33,877 --> 00:43:35,879 EARTH METALS AT ALL. COULD THERE 1192 00:43:35,946 --> 00:43:37,748 BE THOSE METALS ON THE SURFACE 1193 00:43:37,815 --> 00:43:40,150 OF THE MOON WHERE THERE'S AN 1194 00:43:40,217 --> 00:43:42,386 ACTIVE GEOLOGY AND WOULD THEY BE 1195 00:43:42,453 --> 00:43:44,755 RIGHT WHERE THEY IMPACTED A 1196 00:43:44,822 --> 00:43:46,090 BILLION YEARS AGO OR HOWEVER 1197 00:43:46,156 --> 00:43:47,658 LONG AGO IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. 1198 00:43:47,725 --> 00:43:49,159 THESE ARE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS 1199 00:43:49,226 --> 00:43:50,561 ABOUT THE SURFACE OF THE MOON 1200 00:43:50,627 --> 00:43:52,096 AND WHAT COMES NEXT FOR THE 1201 00:43:52,162 --> 00:43:54,865 FUTURE OF SPACE EXPLORATION. 1202 00:43:54,932 --> 00:43:56,700 I'M GOING TO GO TO A QUESTION 1203 00:43:56,767 --> 00:43:59,636 THAT I HAVE HERE ON A CARD. 1204 00:43:59,703 --> 00:44:02,740 I MENTIONED SLS, WE MENTIONED 1205 00:44:02,806 --> 00:44:04,475 COMMERCIAL CREW GOING BACK AND 1206 00:44:04,541 --> 00:44:06,744 FORTH TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 1207 00:44:06,810 --> 00:44:07,878 STATION ON COMMERCIAL ROCKETS. 1208 00:44:13,617 --> 00:44:12,383 X 1209 00:44:13,684 --> 00:44:14,918 MISSION YOU'D HIKE TO BE 1210 00:44:14,985 --> 00:44:16,820 INVOLVED IN, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR 1211 00:44:16,887 --> 00:44:18,422 DREAM CHOICE AND WHY? 1212 00:44:18,489 --> 00:44:19,757 >> THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION AND I 1213 00:44:19,823 --> 00:44:23,327 THINK WE ALL HAVE THE VERY CORNY 1214 00:44:23,394 --> 00:44:27,331 BORING ANSWER THAT SERIOUSLY WE 1215 00:44:27,398 --> 00:44:27,931 WOULD TAKE ANYTHING. 1216 00:44:27,998 --> 00:44:29,600 IT IS EXCITING TO ME THAT YOU 1217 00:44:29,666 --> 00:44:31,201 CAN EVEN ASK THAT QUESTION AND 1218 00:44:31,268 --> 00:44:32,970 THAT THERE ARE MULTIPLE OPTIONS 1219 00:44:33,037 --> 00:44:34,938 FOR US TO CHOOSE FROM. 1220 00:44:35,005 --> 00:44:38,809 THAT'S AN EXCITING TIME TO BE A 1221 00:44:38,876 --> 00:44:40,244 PART OF THE SPACE PROGRAM. 1222 00:44:40,310 --> 00:44:42,813 I WOULD GO ON ANY MISSION WITH 1223 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:44,348 ANY ONE OF THESE TURTLES. 1224 00:44:44,415 --> 00:44:45,015 >>> YOU'RE RIGHT. 1225 00:44:45,082 --> 00:44:48,218 THE IDEA THAT WE'VE GOT TWO 1226 00:44:48,285 --> 00:44:49,620 DIFFERENT, VERY DISSIMILAR 1227 00:44:49,686 --> 00:44:50,921 DESIGNS WITH UNITED LAUNCH 1228 00:44:50,988 --> 00:44:54,758 ALLIANCE AND BEOING AND SPACEX, 1229 00:44:54,825 --> 00:44:56,093 LAUNCHING TO THE INTERNATIONAL 1230 00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:59,163 SPACE STATION NEXT YEAR WITH 1231 00:44:59,229 --> 00:45:00,564 HUMANS AND AT THE SAME TIME 1232 00:45:00,631 --> 00:45:03,367 WE'RE BUILDING THE LARGEST 1233 00:45:03,434 --> 00:45:04,868 ROCKET, BIGGER THAN THE STATUTE 1234 00:45:04,935 --> 00:45:05,469 OF LIBERTY. 1235 00:45:05,536 --> 00:45:07,971 THAT HAS GOT TO BE INTIMIDATING, 1236 00:45:08,038 --> 00:45:10,774 NOT THAT THE OTHERS AREN'T, BUT 1237 00:45:10,841 --> 00:45:12,076 WHAT AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY IN 1238 00:45:12,142 --> 00:45:14,278 THIS COUNTRY TO HAVE ALL OF THIS 1239 00:45:14,344 --> 00:45:16,847 AND NOW ON THE PRESS PIES OF 1240 00:45:16,914 --> 00:45:20,350 SEEING IT REALIZED -- PRECIPICE 1241 00:45:20,417 --> 00:45:22,086 OF SEEING IT REALIZED. 1242 00:45:22,152 --> 00:45:24,822 THEN WANT TO WEIGH IN? 1243 00:45:24,888 --> 00:45:27,891 JESSE WANTS TO GO TO MARS SO ALL 1244 00:45:27,958 --> 00:45:29,059 ABOUT THE LCS. 1245 00:45:29,126 --> 00:45:31,295 >> I WOULD DEFINITELY TAKE IT, 1246 00:45:31,361 --> 00:45:31,862 YES. 1247 00:45:31,929 --> 00:45:35,065 I JUST WOULD PIGGYBACK ON. 1248 00:45:35,132 --> 00:45:37,434 IT IS SUPER EXCITING TO HAVE 1249 00:45:37,501 --> 00:45:39,670 THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TO ACTUALLY 1250 00:45:39,736 --> 00:45:41,772 ON THE HORIZON WHEN IT'S JUST 1251 00:45:41,839 --> 00:45:43,574 BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE GREAT WORK 1252 00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:48,745 FOR OF THE TALENTED PEOPLE AAT 1253 00:45:48,812 --> 00:45:49,046 NASA. 1254 00:45:49,113 --> 00:45:50,080 >>> ANYONE ELSE? 1255 00:45:50,147 --> 00:45:51,515 IMPRISONMENT I COMPLETELY ECHO 1256 00:45:51,582 --> 00:45:51,815 THAT. 1257 00:45:51,882 --> 00:45:53,917 WE WOULD TAKE ANY MISSION AND BE 1258 00:45:53,984 --> 00:45:54,251 EXCITED. 1259 00:45:54,318 --> 00:45:56,787 THE FACT THAT WE'RE BUILDING A 1260 00:45:56,854 --> 00:45:59,123 NEW GATEWAY OUT NEAR THE MOON, I 1261 00:45:59,189 --> 00:46:01,058 THINK THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE 1262 00:46:01,125 --> 00:46:03,093 INVOLVED IN INSTRUCTING THAT IS 1263 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:03,460 EXCITING. 1264 00:46:03,527 --> 00:46:06,163 WHILE I WOULD TAKE ANYTHING, 1265 00:46:06,230 --> 00:46:08,999 THAT'S THE KIND OF THING OUT 1266 00:46:09,066 --> 00:46:11,201 THERE SAYING IT'S AMAZING. 1267 00:46:11,268 --> 00:46:11,468 >>. 1268 00:46:11,535 --> 00:46:14,071 >>> IF WE NEED INFORMATION ABOUT 1269 00:46:14,138 --> 00:46:15,906 ORBITAL PHYSICS, THEY GO TO YOU. 1270 00:46:15,973 --> 00:46:19,276 MAYBE YOU CAN SHARE FOR THE 1271 00:46:19,343 --> 00:46:22,513 AUDIENCE WHO A CERTAIN ORBIT IS. 1272 00:46:22,579 --> 00:46:26,550 DON'T DO THAT, UNLESS YOU WANT 1273 00:46:26,617 --> 00:46:26,817 TO.. 1274 00:46:26,884 --> 00:46:27,251 >> I CAN TRY. 1275 00:46:27,317 --> 00:46:28,685 WE HAD A GOOD DISCUSSION ABOUT 1276 00:46:28,752 --> 00:46:33,223 THIS AT DINNER LAST NIGHT. 1277 00:46:33,290 --> 00:46:35,125 WE ARE TRUCKING ABOUT PUT --ING 1278 00:46:35,192 --> 00:46:37,494 - TALKING ABOUT PUTTING THIS 1279 00:46:37,561 --> 00:46:40,564 GATEWAY IN AN INTERESTING ORBIT, 1280 00:46:40,631 --> 00:46:44,101 ONE AROUND THE MOON THAT HAS A 1281 00:46:44,168 --> 00:46:45,969 LOT OF CONVENIENT PROPERTIES. 1282 00:46:46,036 --> 00:46:47,871 FOR EXAMPLE, IT IS EASY TO 1283 00:46:47,938 --> 00:46:50,007 CHANGE THE PLAIN OF THAT OR FWIT 1284 00:46:50,073 --> 00:46:53,510 IF YOU COMPARE IT LIKE A SIR LAR 1285 00:46:53,577 --> 00:46:55,879 ORBIT -- CIRCULAR ORBIT. 1286 00:46:55,946 --> 00:46:56,947 IT GIVES POSSIBILITIES LIKE 1287 00:46:57,014 --> 00:46:58,148 GOING TO DIFFERENT PLACES IF WE 1288 00:46:58,215 --> 00:47:01,185 DO WANT TO GO DOWN TO THE 1289 00:47:01,251 --> 00:47:01,518 SURFACE. 1290 00:47:01,585 --> 00:47:03,120 >>> THE IDEA BEHIND THE GATEWAY, 1291 00:47:03,187 --> 00:47:07,090 WE THINK BACK TO THE OPOLLO ERA 1292 00:47:07,157 --> 00:47:09,526 AND THINK ABOUT A COMMAND 1293 00:47:09,593 --> 00:47:10,794 MODULE, THE ROCK ET ON THE 1294 00:47:10,861 --> 00:47:11,762 LAUNCH PAD. 1295 00:47:11,828 --> 00:47:13,230 WHAT CAME BACK WAS THAT LITTLE 1296 00:47:13,297 --> 00:47:14,665 THING AT THE VERY TOP THAT HAD 1297 00:47:14,731 --> 00:47:16,333 PEOPLE ON BOARD. 1298 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,835 THAT WAS ALL THAT CAME BACK AT 1299 00:47:18,902 --> 00:47:19,369 THE END OF THE DAY. 1300 00:47:19,436 --> 00:47:20,204 IMAGINE ARCHITECTURE THAT WE 1301 00:47:20,270 --> 00:47:22,072 WANT TO BUILD THAT IS 1302 00:47:22,139 --> 00:47:24,141 SUSTAINABLE WHERE ALL THE PIECES 1303 00:47:24,208 --> 00:47:26,176 OF THE ARCHITECTURE ARE 1304 00:47:26,243 --> 00:47:26,543 REUSABLE. 1305 00:47:26,610 --> 00:47:29,646 WHAT THE GATEWAY REPRESENTS IS A 1306 00:47:29,713 --> 00:47:31,715 REUSABLE DEMAND MODULE THAT CAN 1307 00:47:31,782 --> 00:47:33,951 GO TO DIFFERENT ORBITS AROUND 1308 00:47:34,017 --> 00:47:37,421 THE MOON, TO L1 AND L2, YOU CAN 1309 00:47:37,487 --> 00:47:39,556 CHANGE WHAT THAT ORBIT IS, WHICH 1310 00:47:39,623 --> 00:47:42,226 GIVES YOU MORE ACCESS TO MORE 1311 00:47:42,292 --> 00:47:43,260 PARTS OF THE MOON THAN VRP 1312 00:47:43,327 --> 00:47:46,563 BEFORE TO MAKE THOSE AMAZING 1313 00:47:46,630 --> 00:47:46,964 DISCOVERIES. 1314 00:47:47,030 --> 00:47:49,266 SO WE'RE THRILLED TO HAVE YOU 1315 00:47:49,333 --> 00:47:51,301 INVOLVED IN THAT ACTIVITY. 1316 00:47:51,368 --> 00:47:52,703 GET THROUGH CANDIDATE TRAINING 1317 00:47:52,769 --> 00:47:53,837 AND I'M SURE YOU WILL BE 1318 00:47:53,904 --> 00:47:56,206 INVOLVED IN ALL THOSE KIND OF 1319 00:47:56,273 --> 00:47:56,607 ACTIVITIES. 1320 00:47:56,673 --> 00:47:58,675 DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE? 1321 00:47:58,742 --> 00:48:00,277 I KNOW WE HAD ANOTHER QUESTION 1322 00:48:00,344 --> 00:48:01,645 FROM THE AUDIENCE OVER HERE. 1323 00:48:01,712 --> 00:48:04,915 A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM THE 1324 00:48:04,982 --> 00:48:05,282 AUDIENCE. 1325 00:48:05,349 --> 00:48:06,216 >> GOOD MORNING. 1326 00:48:06,283 --> 00:48:08,252 IF YOU WERE ALLOWED ONE PERSONAL 1327 00:48:08,318 --> 00:48:09,720 ITEM TO TAKE INTO SPACE TO 1328 00:48:09,786 --> 00:48:13,190 REMIND YOU OF HOME, WHAT WOULD 1329 00:48:13,257 --> 00:48:20,497 THAT BE? 1330 00:48:20,564 --> 00:48:23,133 >> I HAVE AN ANSWER TO THIS. 1331 00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,235 AT HOME I HAVE AN OLD-TIME 1332 00:48:25,302 --> 00:48:27,004 PIECE, MECHANICALLY WOUND AND IT 1333 00:48:27,070 --> 00:48:31,008 WAS BUILT-IN THE LATE 1800S 1334 00:48:31,074 --> 00:48:31,375 PROBABLY. 1335 00:48:31,441 --> 00:48:32,976 IT CAME FROM MIGRATE GRANDER 1336 00:48:33,043 --> 00:48:34,878 THROUGH MY FATHER. 1337 00:48:34,945 --> 00:48:37,314 I STILL HAVE THAT ON MY DESK AT 1338 00:48:37,381 --> 00:48:37,614 HOME. 1339 00:48:37,681 --> 00:48:39,549 IT IS AMAZING TO ME TO SIT AND 1340 00:48:39,616 --> 00:48:42,252 LOOK AT THIS AND THINK THAT IN 1341 00:48:42,319 --> 00:48:44,388 REALLY A SHORT TIME SPAN OF JUST 1342 00:48:44,454 --> 00:48:46,857 A FEW GENERATIONS, WE'RE SITTING 1343 00:48:46,923 --> 00:48:48,592 HERE WITH THESE PEOPLE TODAY AT 1344 00:48:48,659 --> 00:48:49,626 NASA TALKING ABOUT ACTUALLY 1345 00:48:49,693 --> 00:48:52,529 GOING TO THE MOON AND BEYOND. 1346 00:48:52,596 --> 00:48:54,965 JUST SOMETHING FUNDAMENTALLY 1347 00:48:55,032 --> 00:48:57,167 AMAZING TO THINK ABOUT IN TERMS 1348 00:48:57,234 --> 00:48:58,502 OF THE PACE OF HUMAN INNOVATION, 1349 00:48:58,568 --> 00:49:00,604 IN TERMS OF WHAT WE CAN DO WHEN 1350 00:49:00,671 --> 00:49:02,506 WE COME TOGETHER AND TRY TO DO 1351 00:49:02,572 --> 00:49:04,708 IT AND JUST IN TERMS OF HOW 1352 00:49:04,775 --> 00:49:08,645 EXCITING THE FUTURE IS. 1353 00:49:08,712 --> 00:49:11,982 THERE'S PROBABLY NOT WEIGHT FOR 1354 00:49:12,049 --> 00:49:13,150 THAT BUT THAT'S WHAT IT IS THAT 1355 00:49:13,216 --> 00:49:14,484 I WOULD TAKE. 1356 00:49:14,551 --> 00:49:17,287 >> FOR ME IF YOU ASK ANY OF MY 1357 00:49:17,354 --> 00:49:19,289 CLASSMATES, I REALLY LOVE 1358 00:49:19,356 --> 00:49:20,757 PICTURES, WHICH IS I'M ALWAYS 1359 00:49:20,824 --> 00:49:22,526 THE ONE SNAPPING PICTURES ON ALL 1360 00:49:22,592 --> 00:49:24,428 OUR TRIPS. 1361 00:49:24,494 --> 00:49:27,331 WHEN I DID MY DEEMPLOYMENT I 1362 00:49:27,397 --> 00:49:28,498 ALWAYS CARRIED A BOOK OF 1363 00:49:28,565 --> 00:49:30,267 PICTURES OF MY FRIENDS AND 1364 00:49:30,334 --> 00:49:31,034 FAMILY. 1365 00:49:31,101 --> 00:49:37,441 SO I THINK I WOULD BRING THAT. 1366 00:49:37,507 --> 00:49:41,345 >>> WHAT DID YOU FLY? 1367 00:49:41,411 --> 00:49:44,781 >> HELICOPTERS IN THE MARINE 1368 00:49:44,848 --> 00:49:45,082 CORPS. 1369 00:49:45,148 --> 00:49:45,816 >>> YOU WOULD TAKE THOSE 1370 00:49:45,882 --> 00:49:49,486 PICTURES ON DEPLOYMENT IN THE 1371 00:49:49,553 --> 00:49:49,820 COBRA? 1372 00:49:49,886 --> 00:49:50,654 >> I WOULD. 1373 00:49:50,721 --> 00:49:52,522 I WOULD CARRY THEM IN MY POCKET. 1374 00:49:52,589 --> 00:49:56,326 >>> MORE QUESTIONS FROM THE 1375 00:49:56,393 --> 00:49:59,396 AUDIENCE. 1376 00:49:59,463 --> 00:50:01,465 NO OFFENCE, BUT WE WILL START 1377 00:50:01,531 --> 00:50:02,599 WITH THE YOUNG FOLKS. 1378 00:50:02,666 --> 00:50:04,568 >> MY NAME IS JORDAN. 1379 00:50:04,634 --> 00:50:07,604 WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST REACTION 1380 00:50:07,671 --> 00:50:18,548 WHEN YOU GOT TO NASA? 1381 00:50:18,615 --> 00:50:21,251 >> I HAD THIS BHOEL SPEECH -- 1382 00:50:21,318 --> 00:50:22,152 WHOLE SPEECH PREPARED FOR SAYING 1383 00:50:22,219 --> 00:50:24,020 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY, 1384 00:50:24,087 --> 00:50:25,756 IT'S GREAT THAT I MADE IT THAT 1385 00:50:25,822 --> 00:50:27,257 FAR BECAUSE I WAS CONVINCED I 1386 00:50:27,324 --> 00:50:28,959 WASN'T GOING TO GET IT. 1387 00:50:29,025 --> 00:50:30,594 I PICKED UP THE PHONE AND I 1388 00:50:30,660 --> 00:50:32,863 ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO BE AT HOME 1389 00:50:32,929 --> 00:50:35,699 OVER LUNCH AND MY WIFE WAS 1390 00:50:35,766 --> 00:50:36,032 THERE. 1391 00:50:36,099 --> 00:50:37,534 IT WAS A COMPLETE SHOCK. 1392 00:50:37,601 --> 00:50:40,537 I KNOW THAT SOUNDS TRITE, BUT IT 1393 00:50:40,604 --> 00:50:42,305 REALLY JUST IS, YOU NEVER SPECK 1394 00:50:42,372 --> 00:50:43,640 TO GET IT. 1395 00:50:43,707 --> 00:50:45,709 I'M NOT AN EMOTIONAL PERSON BUT 1396 00:50:45,776 --> 00:50:47,511 I STARTED CRYING. IT WAS ONE OF 1397 00:50:47,577 --> 00:50:58,855 THOSE, HUH, WHAT'S GOING ON? 1398 00:50:58,922 --> 00:51:02,793 JUST A LITTLE BIT. 1399 00:51:02,859 --> 00:51:04,961 IT WAS JUST AN OVERWHELMING 1400 00:51:05,028 --> 00:51:09,266 EXCITEMENT THAT I WAS SHOCKED 1401 00:51:09,332 --> 00:51:09,533 BY. 1402 00:51:09,599 --> 00:51:11,668 >> I WOULD ADD TO THAT. 1403 00:51:11,735 --> 00:51:13,270 I THINK THE CLASSES COVERED 1404 00:51:13,336 --> 00:51:14,771 THOROUGHLY HOW WE ALL FEEL ABOUT 1405 00:51:14,838 --> 00:51:16,440 HOW COMPETITIVE THE PROCESS IS, 1406 00:51:16,506 --> 00:51:18,775 HOW AMAZING ALL OF THE OTHER 1407 00:51:18,842 --> 00:51:20,510 CANDIDATES FOR THIS JOB WERE AND 1408 00:51:20,577 --> 00:51:22,946 HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO BE HERE. 1409 00:51:23,013 --> 00:51:24,848 ONE NOTE I WANT TO ADD, 1410 00:51:24,915 --> 00:51:26,316 ESPECIALLY FOR THE VISITING 1411 00:51:26,383 --> 00:51:27,851 GUYS, THINKING ABOUT WHAT YOU 1412 00:51:27,918 --> 00:51:29,085 WANT TO DO GOING FORWARD AS 1413 00:51:29,152 --> 00:51:30,954 MIDDLE COOLERS, THAT'S WHEN WE 1414 00:51:31,021 --> 00:51:32,489 STARTED TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WE 1415 00:51:32,556 --> 00:51:34,391 WANTED TO BE WHEN WE DPRU UP IN 1416 00:51:34,458 --> 00:51:36,193 A SERIOUS WAY, AND FOR ME -- 1417 00:51:36,259 --> 00:51:36,993 GREW UP. 1418 00:51:37,060 --> 00:51:39,796 I WANTED TO BE AN NAVAL OFFICER, 1419 00:51:39,863 --> 00:51:41,398 IT WASN'T SUPER SPECIFIC, I 1420 00:51:41,465 --> 00:51:44,134 DIDN'T REALISE I WANTED TO BE AN 1421 00:51:44,201 --> 00:51:45,735 ASTRONAUT UNTIL A FEW YEARS AGO. 1422 00:51:45,802 --> 00:51:48,905 I'VE HAD AMAZING MENTORS IN MY 1423 00:51:48,972 --> 00:51:50,807 LIFE WHO SAW TENSIONS IN ME 1424 00:51:50,874 --> 00:51:52,375 BEFORE I SAW IT. 1425 00:51:52,442 --> 00:51:54,177 THAT'S CAUSED ME WANTING TO GO 1426 00:51:54,244 --> 00:51:56,546 TO ABORIGINE A SUBMARINER AND 1427 00:51:56,613 --> 00:51:57,781 APPLY TO BE AN ASTRONAUT. 1428 00:51:57,848 --> 00:51:59,449 THESE BIG THINGS THAT SEEM 1429 00:51:59,516 --> 00:52:01,318 REALLY INTIMIDATING LIKE WHOEVER 1430 00:52:01,384 --> 00:52:03,286 GETS TO DO THAT, THAT CAN NEVER 1431 00:52:03,353 --> 00:52:04,087 BE ME. 1432 00:52:04,154 --> 00:52:05,388 I THINK WE ALL SOMETIMES HAVE 1433 00:52:05,455 --> 00:52:06,623 THOSE DOUBTS BUT THE IMPORTANT 1434 00:52:06,690 --> 00:52:10,093 THING IS THE ADVICE I GOT FROM 1435 00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:14,564 MY LAST BOSS WHICH WAS IF YOU 1436 00:52:14,631 --> 00:52:16,500 WANT TO BE AN ASTRONAUT YOU 1437 00:52:16,566 --> 00:52:18,468 APPLY AND IF YOU DON'T APPLY YOU 1438 00:52:18,535 --> 00:52:19,236 CAN'T BE ONE. 1439 00:52:19,302 --> 00:52:21,071 FOR A LOT OF US TALKING ABOUT 1440 00:52:21,137 --> 00:52:22,639 THE NUMBER OF TIMES WE APPLIED 1441 00:52:22,706 --> 00:52:24,341 TO BE HERE OR WHETHER IT WAS OUR 1442 00:52:24,407 --> 00:52:26,610 FIRST TIME OR NOT, IF YOU DON'T 1443 00:52:26,676 --> 00:52:27,911 GO FOR IT, YOU WILL NEVER GET 1444 00:52:27,978 --> 00:52:28,678 THE CALL. 1445 00:52:28,745 --> 00:52:30,247 I THINK THE FLIGHT DIRECTORS 1446 00:52:30,313 --> 00:52:34,584 PROBABLY FEEL THE SAME WAY. 1447 00:52:34,651 --> 00:52:35,352 I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT NUMBERS B 1448 00:52:35,418 --> 00:52:36,820 BUT THERE HAS BEEN FAR FEWER 1449 00:52:36,887 --> 00:52:39,389 FLIGHT DIRECTORS THAN THERE RR 1450 00:52:39,456 --> 00:52:39,789 ASTRONAUTS. 1451 00:52:39,856 --> 00:52:41,591 IT IS A BIG THING TO PUT 1452 00:52:41,658 --> 00:52:42,592 YOURSELF OUT THERE TO DO 1453 00:52:42,659 --> 00:52:44,160 SOMETHING BIG BUT IF YOU DON'T 1454 00:52:44,227 --> 00:52:48,532 DO IT, YOU WILL NEVER GET THE 1455 00:52:48,598 --> 00:52:48,865 CHANCE. 1456 00:52:48,932 --> 00:52:51,902 >>> ANYBODY ELSE? 1457 00:52:51,968 --> 00:52:55,238 >> I'D SAY AS FRANK SAID, A 1458 00:52:55,305 --> 00:52:57,474 WHITE RANGE OF EMOTIONS WHEN I 1459 00:52:57,541 --> 00:52:59,009 FOUND OUT. 1460 00:52:59,075 --> 00:53:00,176 CERTAINLY AN OVERWHELMING 1461 00:53:00,243 --> 00:53:01,711 FEELING OF EXCITEMENT AND 1462 00:53:01,778 --> 00:53:03,446 AMAZING OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A 1463 00:53:03,513 --> 00:53:05,582 PLATFORM AS BAYING AS NASA TO 1464 00:53:05,649 --> 00:53:09,152 CONTRIBUTE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF 1465 00:53:09,219 --> 00:53:10,353 OUR SPECIES. 1466 00:53:10,420 --> 00:53:12,789 I WOULD SAY THERE'S ONE EMOTION 1467 00:53:12,856 --> 00:53:16,593 THAT I WASN'T EXPECTING AND IT 1468 00:53:16,660 --> 00:53:19,162 WAS - I DON'T KNOW IF "GUILT", 1469 00:53:19,229 --> 00:53:22,232 IS THE RIGHT WORD, BUT MAYBE A 1470 00:53:22,299 --> 00:53:23,767 LITTLE BIT OF GUILT BECAUSE 1471 00:53:23,833 --> 00:53:25,335 DURING THE SELECTION PROCESS 1472 00:53:25,402 --> 00:53:27,270 YOU'RE EMBEDDED WITH AMAZING 1473 00:53:27,337 --> 00:53:29,539 PEOPLE WHO CAN DO JUST AS GOOD 1474 00:53:29,606 --> 00:53:31,474 IF NOT BETTER OF A JOB THAN YOU 1475 00:53:31,541 --> 00:53:33,710 AND KNOWING THAT THIS IS A DREAM 1476 00:53:33,777 --> 00:53:35,478 THAT'S SHARED BY THOUSANDS OF 1477 00:53:35,545 --> 00:53:37,714 PEOPLE AND WE'RE JUST THE 1478 00:53:37,781 --> 00:53:39,916 AMBASSADORS THAT HAVE THE 1479 00:53:39,983 --> 00:53:43,587 OPPORTUNITY TO FULFIL THIS 1480 00:53:43,653 --> 00:53:43,920 MISSION. 1481 00:53:43,987 --> 00:53:46,389 THAT WAS AN EMOTION I WASN'T 1482 00:53:46,456 --> 00:53:46,756 EXPECTING. 1483 00:53:46,823 --> 00:53:48,325 >>> THAT'S AN AMAZING 1484 00:53:48,391 --> 00:53:48,758 PERSPECTIVE. 1485 00:53:48,825 --> 00:53:51,161 THE IDEA THAT YOU GO THROUGH THE 1486 00:53:51,227 --> 00:53:53,530 PROCESS YOU GET TO KNOW HE MEAN 1487 00:53:53,597 --> 00:53:57,000 AND NOT EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT IT 1488 00:53:57,067 --> 00:54:00,537 AND WHEN YOU DON'T GET SELECTED 1489 00:54:00,604 --> 00:54:02,505 IT IS NOT A PERSPECTIVE I 1490 00:54:02,572 --> 00:54:03,106 HAVEN'T HEARD. 1491 00:54:03,173 --> 00:54:05,141 >> THE BEST WAY TO PAY THAT PACK 1492 00:54:05,208 --> 00:54:06,876 IS TO START TO REMEMBER THAT AND 1493 00:54:06,943 --> 00:54:10,780 DO THE BEST SHOT WE CAN. 1494 00:54:10,847 --> 00:54:12,582 >>> WE'RE GOING TO GO TO A TIME 1495 00:54:12,649 --> 00:54:14,985 QUESTION HERE ON SOCIAL MEDIA. 1496 00:54:15,051 --> 00:54:17,253 WE HAVE TIME FOR MAYBE ONE 1497 00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:17,887 APPEARS ON THIS. 1498 00:54:17,954 --> 00:54:19,289 IF YOU REALLY HAVE A GOOD ANSWER 1499 00:54:19,356 --> 00:54:21,324 OR YOU WANT TO BE THE PERSON, GO 1500 00:54:21,391 --> 00:54:22,726 AHEAD AND MAKE IT KNOWN. 1501 00:54:22,792 --> 00:54:25,595 IF NOT, I'M GOING TO DIME 1502 00:54:25,662 --> 00:54:26,029 SOMEBODY OUT. 1503 00:54:26,096 --> 00:54:28,164 WHAT RESEARCH DO YOU HOPE TO BE 1504 00:54:28,231 --> 00:54:30,100 INVOLVED WITH IN MICRO GRAVITY 1505 00:54:30,166 --> 00:54:35,138 THAT WILL HELP US GET ON -- HELP 1506 00:54:35,205 --> 00:54:38,074 US ON EARTH? 1507 00:54:38,141 --> 00:54:39,442 >> I'LL TAKE THAT. 1508 00:54:39,509 --> 00:54:41,077 I THINK ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING 1509 00:54:41,144 --> 00:54:42,245 PARTS OF BEING INVOLVED IN THE 1510 00:54:42,312 --> 00:54:44,347 SPACE PROGRAM IS GETTING TO DO 1511 00:54:44,414 --> 00:54:47,150 RESEARCH THAT HELPS EARTH AS A 1512 00:54:47,217 --> 00:54:47,450 WHOLE. 1513 00:54:47,517 --> 00:54:49,452 EVERYTHING FROM HOW DO WE COMBAT 1514 00:54:49,519 --> 00:54:52,722 BONE DENSITY LOSS TO HOW DO WE 1515 00:54:52,789 --> 00:54:55,692 PREVENT THE EFFECTS OF RADIATION 1516 00:54:55,759 --> 00:54:58,161 TO HOW DO WE DO REALLY EFFICIENT 1517 00:54:58,228 --> 00:55:00,630 WASTE WATER RECYCLING. 1518 00:55:00,697 --> 00:55:02,399 EVERY TECHNOLOGY THAT WE DEVELOP 1519 00:55:02,465 --> 00:55:05,235 FOR SPACE EXPLORATION HAS SOME 1520 00:55:05,301 --> 00:55:06,302 APPLICATION BACK HERE ON EARTH, 1521 00:55:06,369 --> 00:55:08,938 AND TO BE A PART OF A RESEARCH 1522 00:55:09,005 --> 00:55:10,607 PROJECT THAT IS SO MANY MUCH 1523 00:55:10,674 --> 00:55:12,242 BIGGER THAN ANY OF THE RESEARCH 1524 00:55:12,308 --> 00:55:13,943 THAT I DID AS AN INDIVIDUAL 1525 00:55:14,010 --> 00:55:15,545 BEFORE, THAT'S AMAZING. 1526 00:55:15,612 --> 00:55:18,114 >>> THAT'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT 1527 00:55:18,181 --> 00:55:19,315 REALLY HAVE VERY LITTLE TO DO 1528 00:55:19,382 --> 00:55:21,384 WITH SPACE EXPLORATION AT ALL, 1529 00:55:21,451 --> 00:55:22,886 THAT WOULD HAVE BENEFITS ON 1530 00:55:22,952 --> 00:55:24,921 EARTH, AND I WAS TALKING TO A 1531 00:55:24,988 --> 00:55:26,656 GENTLEMAN JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO 1532 00:55:26,723 --> 00:55:28,091 WHO OWNS AND OPERATES A COMPANY 1533 00:55:28,158 --> 00:55:31,494 THAT IS DOING RESEARCH ON THE 1534 00:55:31,561 --> 00:55:32,962 INTERNATIONAL STATION STATION. 1535 00:55:33,029 --> 00:55:35,598 -- SPACE STATION. THEY'RE USING 1536 00:55:35,665 --> 00:55:38,702 ADULT STEM CELLS TO PRINT IN 3D 1537 00:55:38,768 --> 00:55:39,569 HUMAN ORGANS THAT WILL BE USED 1538 00:55:39,636 --> 00:55:40,270 ON EARTH. 1539 00:55:40,336 --> 00:55:42,806 ALL OF THIS IS VERY 1540 00:55:42,872 --> 00:55:44,040 EXPERIMENTAL, BUT THEY'RE HIGHLY 1541 00:55:44,107 --> 00:55:45,175 CONFIDENT THAT THIS IS GOING TO 1542 00:55:45,241 --> 00:55:46,209 BE A FAME CHANGER. 1543 00:55:46,276 --> 00:55:49,846 YOU CAN DO THINGS IN A MICRO 1544 00:55:49,913 --> 00:55:53,316 GRAVITY ENVIRPT, ZERO GRAVITY 1545 00:55:53,383 --> 00:55:54,451 ENVIRPT, THAT YOU CAN'T DO HERE 1546 00:55:54,517 --> 00:55:59,622 ON EARTH -- ENVIRONMENT. 1547 00:55:59,689 --> 00:56:01,691 SOME OF THESE ASTRONAUTS TO WORK 1548 00:56:01,758 --> 00:56:03,560 ON THOSE, THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN 1549 00:56:03,626 --> 00:56:05,595 DOING FROM THE BEGINNING FROM 1550 00:56:05,662 --> 00:56:07,731 ALL OF THE ACTIVITIES FROM FIRST 1551 00:56:07,797 --> 00:56:12,702 SIGNS TO PLANETRY SCIENCE, ASTRO 1552 00:56:12,769 --> 00:56:13,036 PHYSICS. 1553 00:56:13,103 --> 00:56:14,137 IT HAS BEEN AMAZING. 1554 00:56:14,204 --> 00:56:16,673 WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE HERE. 1555 00:56:16,740 --> 00:56:17,640 THANK YOU FOR THAT WONDERFUL 1556 00:56:17,707 --> 00:56:17,974 ANSWER. 1557 00:56:18,041 --> 00:56:19,342 I JUST WANT TO GET A SHOW OF 1558 00:56:19,409 --> 00:56:21,611 HANDS IF YOU'RE WILLING, RAISE 1559 00:56:21,678 --> 00:56:22,412 YOUR HAND IF YOU'RE INTERESTED 1560 00:56:22,479 --> 00:56:25,782 IN GOING TO THE MOON OR MARS. 1561 00:56:25,849 --> 00:56:27,317 LOOK AT THESE YOUNG FOLKS. 1562 00:56:27,383 --> 00:56:31,588 WHAT ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT? 1563 00:56:31,654 --> 00:56:32,756 THEY'RE, LIKE, NO, I DON'T WANT 1564 00:56:32,822 --> 00:56:34,724 TO TOUCH THAT, BUT IT IS COOL 1565 00:56:34,791 --> 00:56:35,291 THEY'RE GOING. 1566 00:56:35,358 --> 00:56:36,526 THAT'S OKAY. 1567 00:56:36,593 --> 00:56:38,061 THEY NEED PEOPLE TO HELP THEM ON 1568 00:56:38,128 --> 00:56:39,429 THE GROUND AS WELL. 1569 00:56:39,496 --> 00:56:45,435 I SEE YOU RAIDS YOUR HAND 1570 00:56:45,502 --> 00:56:45,935 ENTHUSIASTICALLY. 1571 00:56:46,002 --> 00:56:46,503 YOU'RE READY TO GO. 1572 00:56:46,569 --> 00:56:47,637 WE HAVE TO CLOSE OUT THIS SHOW. 1573 00:56:47,704 --> 00:56:49,572 I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE 1574 00:56:49,639 --> 00:56:51,841 AUDIENCE, BOTH ON LINE AND ON 1575 00:56:51,908 --> 00:56:53,777 NASA TV AND THE AUDIENCE THAT 1576 00:56:53,843 --> 00:56:54,844 SHOWED UP HERE TODAY. 1577 00:56:54,911 --> 00:56:56,112 THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING. 1578 00:56:56,179 --> 00:56:57,313 I THINK THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT 1579 00:56:57,380 --> 00:56:58,615 OPPORTUNITY TO GET TO KNOW SOME 1580 00:56:58,681 --> 00:57:01,251 OF AMERICA'S PROUPDEST, SOME OF 1581 00:57:01,317 --> 00:57:03,186 CANADA'S PROUDEST, SO WE CAN 1582 00:57:03,253 --> 00:57:05,421 PREPARE FOR THE NEXT STEP, THE 1583 00:57:05,488 --> 00:57:08,024 NEXT GENERATION OF WHAT THE 1584 00:57:08,091 --> 00:57:10,026 UNITED STATES AND CANADA AND ALL 1585 00:57:10,093 --> 00:57:11,227 OF OUR INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS 1586 00:57:11,294 --> 00:57:12,495 ARE ABOUT TO DO IN SPACE. 1587 00:57:12,562 --> 00:57:14,164 THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING, 1588 00:57:14,230 --> 00:57:15,498 THANK YOU TO THE ASTRONAUT 1589 00:57:15,565 --> 00:57:17,433 CANDIDATES. WE ARE GOING TO 1590 00:57:17,500 --> 00:57:18,902 ANXIOUSLY ANTICIPATE LOOKING 1591 00:57:18,968 --> 00:57:21,271 FORWARD TO YOU NOT JUST BEING 1592 00:57:21,337 --> 00:57:25,475 ASTRONAUT CANDIDATES BUT NO KID 1593 00:57:25,542 --> 00:57:26,676 KIDDING DOING YOUR MISSION AND 1594 00:57:26,743 --> 00:57:28,278 WE WILL FOLLOW YOU ALL THE WAY. 1595 00:57:28,344 --> 00:57:29,879 THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING. 1596 00:57:29,946 --> 00:57:30,613 THANK YOU FOR WATCHING. 1597 00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:32,015 WATCH THIS SPACE. 1598 00:57:32,081 --> 00:57:34,717 I'M THE NASA ADMINISTRATOR 1599 00:57:34,784 --> 00:57:35,819 JIM BRIDENSTINE AND 1600 00:57:35,885 --> 00:57:36,820 WE WILL SEE YOU NEXT TIME. 1601 00:57:36,886 --> 00:57:38,087 THANK YOU SO MUCH.