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welcome to watch this space i'm nasa

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administrator jim bridenstine and today

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we're going to visit the historic launch

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complex 39a where we launched all of our

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moon missions and even some space

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shuttle missions

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today we have a very special guest elon

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musk the ceo of spacex

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we are at the kennedy space center at

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launch complex 39a

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which is a very historic

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i would say not just launch complex but

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a very historic monument for our country

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from this launch complex we launched all

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of our missions to the moon we also

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launched space shuttles and we have a

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really exciting event that's happening

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tonight which is the reason why we're

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here which is tonight we're going to

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launch with what we call demo one

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which is a mission to the international

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space station with crew dragon in other

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words uh it's it's not crude but it is a

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test flight going all the way to the

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international space station now where we

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are right now on launch complex 39a

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we're on a what we call the crew arm

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which is the way the astronauts are

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actually going to get to the capsule so

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that they can fly to the international

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space station now that's not going to

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happen tonight but tonight we're going

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to test the vehicle all components of

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the vehicle and i am thrilled and

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honored to be here at this very historic

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site with elon musk who has been an

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amazing partner for nasa for all of the

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years to get us to this point where what

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we want to do this year is launch

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american astronauts on american rockets

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from american soil and getting to this

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point as you and i have talked

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was not something that came easy

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it's not something that came fast

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but step by step you have gotten us to

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the point where we're ready almost

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to take that next step i'd like to start

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just by asking you

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the the story that is out there is that

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there was a time in your life

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when you made a trip to russia your

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intent was actually to buy

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um i guess an excess

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intercontinental ballistic missile yeah

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without the new without the new right

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that's a good point yeah that's extra

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yeah that's actually right so tell me

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about why you were there

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and ultimately how it resulted in in

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this moment right now

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originally i was not going to start a

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rocket company

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i really wanted us to

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just become a spacefaring civilization

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um and a multi-kind of species and

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if there's something i could do to get

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the public excited about

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sending

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people to mars um and maybe having a

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base equivalent based on the moon i

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wanted to do a phone traffic mission uh

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to send a small uh greenhouse to service

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to bars so you'd have this amazing shot

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of green plants and a red background and

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i thought that would really inspire the

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public and if the public got inspired

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about uh about sending life to mars then

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they would uh tell their

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senators and punishment to uh

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appropriate more money for nasa so that

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we could do that so my initial goal was

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actually just to increase nasa's budget

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um and then what i found was that first

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of all the russians really started

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charging want to charge me way more than

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i could afford actually they wanted to

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charge more money than i had uh to to do

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the philanthropic mission um and so that

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was you know not really being an option

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um and i thought well is there any way

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make a lower cost and especially a

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reusable rocket system in the u.s

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i just read every book i possibly could

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to try giving it a go essentially to

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give nasa uh

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uh more options more more more sort of

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technology but like more technology

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horses in the stable essentially uh to

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make people to use in order to get

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humanity uh into space and perform

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multiple kind of species and you started

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with a much smaller rock at the top and

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point where we had nine inches from

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falcon 9 was that your goal at that time

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when i started spacex i i only thought

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there was maybe a ten percent chance of

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getting felt than one two officers i did

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not at all think that this would happen

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uh so this is for sure dream come true

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but i mostly at the time i didn't know

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anything about rockets uh and i was you

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know i've been the chief engineer of

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spacex since day one and i don't really

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know anything about rockets which is why

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the first three rockets failed right um

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so the first three falcon ones for

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tell me about uh

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the fourth one so i had actually only

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had enough money for three three flights

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um so i had no more money left to

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so the team sort of rallied and we

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managed to put together enough spare

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parts to pay to do a fourth launch and

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that both launch was successful

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uh so what would have happened if it

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wasn't successful oh we would spacex for

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tonight so we would not be here right

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at this moment getting ready to launch

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crew dragon to the international system

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wow that's an amazing story

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of taking a risk

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and actually coming out on top

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and enabling not just you and spacex but

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enabling the united states of america to

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come to this very critical point in

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american history

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absolutely and uh i just like to express

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spacex owes nasa uh

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in developing although the rocket the

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rock technology that that we built our

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rockets on was developed by nasa uh over

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many decades and we without that spacex

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uh and shortly after our first success

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nasa gave us a critical contract to

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resupply the space station with cargo

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and that was also fundamental to

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spacex's success and without nasa's

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support and spacex wouldn't be here so

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thank you

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well it was long before my time but uh i

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think nasa yes thank you thank you

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thank the united states of america for

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supporting this really amazing absolute

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opportunity

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well we have now learned the events

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surrounding elon musk's decision to

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start spacex let's meet some of the

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astronauts that will be launching on

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commercial crew yes

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but that was in 2001 when all that kind

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of started materializing and he started

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having these these thoughts i wanted to

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ask victor who's going to be

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where were you in 2001 i was learning to

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fly jets okay and i actually got my

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so victor was uh a navy a naval aviator

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uh getting his wings what what month was

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that 2004 december 2001 okay so you got

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yours about five months ahead of me

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i was in may of 2001. uh but you

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obviously did much better than i did

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because i i ended up running a museum

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and then becoming a politician and you

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went on to become an astronaut i don't

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my job is much easier than you if i i

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can tell you that of course uh we're so

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proud of all of our astronauts you guys

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have all made your whole country proud

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bob how about you can you remember maybe

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2001 where you might have been at that

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time i can't back in 2001 i was an

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astronaut candidate i was started in the

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office back in 2000 in the summer july

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so just getting my first chance to come

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down here to kennedy and strap crews in

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i was just getting started as a crusader

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yep one of the astronauts that operated

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the space shuttles before the crew came

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to shrapnel and collected them after

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your background before that you're an

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air force flight test engineer correct

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i'm an air force flight test engineer

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still active duty in the air force i

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so it's amazing to think about where

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everybody was at these different times

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and how it all comes together at this

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one moment in 2019 we're gonna make it

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about i never would have thought this

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it less than one percent chance yeah

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it is really amazing

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classmate of bob so we started we were

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selected in 2000 as astronauts and so we

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uh kind of hard to believe you just got

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2001 that's a long time ago yeah

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yeah i was seriously a long time ago it

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i can remember it well but it was 18

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force and it was in canada cold lake

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flight test center testing uh the

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canadian jets yeah awesome yeah so right

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now inside the crew dragon for tonight's

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uh i don't want to i don't want to call

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him or her a number i know i just i'm

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trying to avoid the use of a dummy

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ripley from

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aliens fantastic yeah it's a great

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character yeah

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one thing that spacex has done really

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well is capture the imagination of the

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american people through branding and

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really exciting things launching for

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example a tesla which is still in deep

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space uh orbiting amazon yeah i mean

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that was a case where like normally we

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flights and there's a fighter talking

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heavy uh routine was reversing against

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block of concrete it's like guys but

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it's hard to get the public excited

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about a block of concrete okay it just

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know that's that's an image that's gonna

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really uh stick in people's minds and

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resonate um and so uh it's like okay

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let's let's put a car in space doesn't

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make any sense obviously yeah you can't

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drive a car in space uh but at least

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it's convertible

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even though there's no errors making

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sense but and

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they're putting um

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anthropomorphic test article in a

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spacesuit driving the car through his

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face

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and then you know it's kind of thing i

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think kids can get really excited about

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you know uh so i think inspiring um

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adults and kids and people of all ages

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uh to want to go out there and explore

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and become multi-planet species and have

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a base on the moon and pull the city on

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mars and ultimately uh go to other star

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systems

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we've got to have inspiring

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images things that really

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you know have a strong emotional effect

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just like make you feel so doug tell me

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uh tonight's test flight um what are

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some of the things that we're going to

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be looking for what are as as as

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somebody who's going to be on this

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you know the crew flight what are some

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of the things you're going to be looking

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for it's just kind of an end-to-end test

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for the system so we just want to see

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the teams work through all the way

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through

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to launch the ascent and we've got to

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get the vehicle activated in orbit and

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then work our way through a pond

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and then we're trying to get out to

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hawthorne actually to see the docking

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out there as well and so obviously just

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seeing how the teams all work together

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make this mission you know successful

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and then all the way through to the

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splashdown so i think we're just trying

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really hard just to see every bit of the

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system those threat spaces so i like

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what you said the words end to end

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so all of the systems and all of the

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subsystems they've all been tested over

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and over again i mean so a lot of

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testing yeah um i mean this has really

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been a joint joint effort with with nasa

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we could

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this

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impact of nasa uh there's been a lot of

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nasa health here and thank you for that

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well we're very grateful for uh what

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you're doing helping us launch american

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astronauts from american soil once again

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and of course these gentlemen here are

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the beneficiaries of that and i can only

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uh express uh the the best that i can

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how proud all of america is

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with

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what you represent

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the entire world is going to see us

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launching again to the international

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space station and this time when we do

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it

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in fact nasa is a customer

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and as a customer we become

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one of many that will be using this crew

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vehicle if all goes according to plan

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and we'll have a robust commercial

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marketplace for space flight and that

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commercial marketplace could be

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um

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sovereign countries it could be

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individuals that want to go maybe on

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vacation with space which i know sounds

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crazy but i'll tell you and you know

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this

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those folks are out there and there's a

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lot of folks that are ready to do it of

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course they have the same dreams and

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ambitions that all of you had when you

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were coming back so it's an exciting

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time i think it's a good this is a good

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step it really is getting getting people

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back and over yeah

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yeah

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it's

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mean

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what i really want to see is

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you know permanent face on moon on the

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moon permanently

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uh occupied human base on the moon and

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us building a city on mars that's like

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i can see the beginning of that before i

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die i'll die happy well the the

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president's first space policy directive

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to me was go to the moon and the word in

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there is sustainable so how do we go we

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don't want to recreate the apollo

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program exactly we don't want to leave

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flags and footprints and not go back we

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want to go and want to stay and this

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time that means landers rovers robots

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and humans yeah in a sustainable return

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and does it it doesn't mean at this

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point we're ready to have as you

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mentioned uh you know a city on the moon

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but what it means is we can put together

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all of the the components that enable it

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to eventually be sustainable and part of

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that is reusability tell me reusability

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is fundamental um the the

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fully reusable vehicle uh will cost

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a hundred times less per flight than an

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expandable vehicle it kind of makes

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sense you think of uh of any other motor

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transport it could be like uh you know

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jet aircraft or

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cars bicycles horses every other mode of

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transport boats they're all reusable the

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only the weird one that is reusable is

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space that's right so um you can imagine

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how expensive it would be if every time

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you flew in a jet that you had to get a

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new jet

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as opposed to refuel the jet it would be

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insanely expensive to fly a jedi for a

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single use there wouldn't be anybody

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flying no exactly it'd be like real like

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a few research flights

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at extreme expense and that's that's all

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the flying that would occur

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so the absolutely fundamental

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breakthrough that's needed is a fully

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reusable uh orbit class a rockville

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spaceship system

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reusable

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so the cost of reuse must be very low

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and it must be able to have a high fly

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rate right and then and that's the

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fundamental breakthrough needed for

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humanity to become a multi-tenant

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species and i think one of the key

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enablers there was a program we called

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commercial crew that went into place

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quite a while ago and and and what the

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vision was um was that we would have

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multiple providers competing on cost and

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innovation and of course that has now

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taken effect and as as you are competing

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against others in this commercial

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marketplace right you have a you have a

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huge incentive to drive down the cost

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and increase the access to space and and

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that's materializing here on this crew

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dragon that we're going to see launch

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tonight

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yeah i actually don't care at all about

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money at all

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um but i do care about us becoming a

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space spring civilization yeah and i do

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know that uh if we don't uh achieve full

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and rapid reusability it will not happen

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and so that's why that's the only reason

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i actually

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want money at all awesome

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awesome

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well guys thank you for being a part of

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this and uh

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it's

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an exciting night

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well thank you for watching watch this

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space i'm nasa administrator jim

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bridenstine you can follow me on twitter

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at jim bridenstine and of course if you

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want to watch this again you can do so