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why we explore mars

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the mysteries of the red planet the

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history of water the possibilities of

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life you learn something and then you

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design the next mission based on what

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you learn has allowed us to literally go

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will cover an area mars

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176 miles mariner 4 began transmitting

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back images the first photograph that a

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human being has ever seen from the

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surface of another planet on august 20th

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1975 the first viking spaceship was

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launched you were seeing something that

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no other human has ever seen before

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that sense of wonderment and achievement

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and always working towards your goal

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we can do and we will do

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together we did it but the attitude was

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together we can do it

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the future is what you make out of it

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and here we are with mars perseverance

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51 years later getting ready to do the

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first ever mars return mission

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eventually we can bring those samples

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back to earth and determine for the very

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good day

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my name is janet petro and i'm the

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deputy director here at america's

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multi-user

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spaceport otherwise known as the kennedy

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space center

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when we started 2020 we knew we were

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going to have a big year at the

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spaceport and i think the events and the

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milestones of the next couple days are

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really going to demonstrate that

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you know i got to give a shout out to

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jpl who designed and built the

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perseverance spacecraft

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but i also want to say how incredibly

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proud i am that the launch services

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program that we house here at the

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kennedy space center and is going to be

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managing the launch of this spacecraft

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and the ula rocket tomorrow

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is located right here at the kennedy

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space center you know this is uh the

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11th mission that our launch services

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support program has launched to the

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planet of mars and so the the orbiters

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that are there and the rovers that are

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there was part of what our launch

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services program provided so we're

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incredibly excited to uh be able to be

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here at the launch event tomorrow and

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i'd like to go ahead and introduce our

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administrator uh mr bridenstine to say a

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well thank you janet and it is fantastic

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to be here at the kennedy space center

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which of course is a

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um it's a it's a historic and and

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and storied agency or uh center here um

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in central florida and uh to see all of

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these activities that are happening here

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again is is really remarkable i'm

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exceptionally

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excited about what we're about to do

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because we're going to launch mars 2020

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with the perseverance robot but there's

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so much more going on here

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she talked about the 11 previous

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launches to mars we've had this will be

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the ninth robot that we land on mars

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and when we think about what we've

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accomplished we have discovered

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that at one point in time liquid water

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was prevalent on mars in fact the

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northern hemisphere of mars was

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two-thirds covered in liquid water

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back in those days about three billion

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years ago mars had a very thick

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and we know that mars had a strong

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magnetosphere that protected it from the

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radiation of deep space we know these

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things because of previous missions with

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the mission that we currently have on

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mars curiosity we now know that the

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methane cycles of mars match the seasons

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of mars which could be an indicator it's

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not definite but it could be an

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indicator that life may very well still

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exist on mars today under its surface

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apart you know separated from the

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radiation of deep space

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uh what very well could be liquid water

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below the surface of mars again another

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amazing discovery about the potential of

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life on another world we're talking

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about microbial life here and because of

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curiosity we now know that mars is

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covered in complex organic compounds

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that don't exist on the moon at all

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they're all over earth and they're all

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over mars and of course those are the

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the fundamental building blocks of life

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and they're all over mars

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so this is the first time in history

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where we're going to go to mars with an

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to find life on another world ancient

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do that we don't know we don't know if

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life existed there or not but we do know

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that mars at one point in its history

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was habitable we don't know that it was

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inhabited but we know that it was

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habitable and now we're actually no

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kidding gonna do an astrobiology mission

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to the surface of mars one other thing a

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number of other things that are

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important but i'll i'll just mention a

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few of them really quickly the president

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has given us a challenge to plant an

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american flag on mars in over in order

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humans and when we send humans to mars

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breathe and we can't take all of that

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oxygen with us so in this mission we

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have a a technology demonstration called

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moxie we're going to take the carbon

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dioxide atmosphere of mars and we're

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going to turn it into oxygen so that

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demonstration on this mission is for the

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first time ever we're going to fly a

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helicopter on mars we call it ingenuity

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is going to transform how we think about

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exploring worlds in the future imagine a

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helicopters in different directions to

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make different discoveries so there is

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so many things that are exciting about

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this mission but one thing that i think

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we're going to cash samples when we

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study the chemistry

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of these sediments in the areas where we

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believe there could have been at one

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it could have been there we're going to

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samples and bring them back to earth for

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the first time in history doing a mars

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sample return mission so there are so

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particular mission i want to say thank

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california that has done amazing work on

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lockheed martin for helping with the

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uh that have done such magnificent work

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so i just want to say it's a great day

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we're going to open it up to a few

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questions i want people to know i've got

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questions are open for all of us

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becoming an astrobiologist so we're

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life could exist or may have at one time

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existed on mars so so we're very excited

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appropriations from congress and jim has

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dollars so we're very excited we're all

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open for questions and uh we're ready to

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take them whenever you guys are thank

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um tomorrow is the first leg of this uh

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yesterday it sounds crazy hard you know

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2031. yeah that's a marshall wonderful

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risk involved from a success perspective

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entry descent and landing of course is

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terror that's that's going to happen in

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and then of course operating on the

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surface of mars we we have seen how

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harsh the mars environment is we saw

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with opportunity with the sandstorm that

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of its useful life of course that was

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number of risks between cashing those

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samples and bringing them home i'll tell

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you the top risk and jim morhart and i

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talk about this all the time the top

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risk is getting the budgets

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we got to get the budgets in order to

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get the resources to go and bring those

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samples home but we're but we're

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planning for it like i said

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we have the highest budget in nasa's

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history and nominal dollars right now

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and it's in fact going up we're 22

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billion right now the president's budget

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request before the house and the senate

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right now is 25.2 so we're going to be

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working on that day in and day out to

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make sure that we have the resources

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necessary

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but let's pretend we get those resources

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then we have to launch

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a launch vehicle which as you described

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it's a it's a relay race so we have to

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launch a launch vehicle something that

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has never been done before and then that

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launch vehicle has to successfully get

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those samples and bring them back to

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earth here's what we know

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we know that nasa has an amazing

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workforce and of course for this

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particular mission jpl is is the lead

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the jet propulsion laboratory at caltech

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um in california and and i will tell you

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that i am confident that given the

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talent that we have at this agency that

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we can in fact be successful

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but it's not easy and and there will be

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challenges ahead so thank you for the

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hi uh irene klotz with aviation week so

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speaking of the budget

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senator shelby on monday introduced a

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coronavirus

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response supplemental appropriation that

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includes about 1.5 billion for nasa

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is that about what you estimate the

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financial impact of the coronavirus has

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been on the agency and what are the

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top two or three budget drivers in that

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1.5 billion thanks

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you know great question we're in the

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middle of looking at that they they have

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put in the funds in the senate bill

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uh as you know with covet and our you

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know our workforce has done an amazing

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job here we are we're launching to mars

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in the middle of a pandemic

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we already launched two astronauts and

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bob and doug hopefully be coming back on

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sunday in the middle of a pandemic

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but those numbers as far as what we need

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continue to change

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and right now that is a good estimate

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today but that could change it is

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changing as we continue to look at the

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impacts on cost and schedule of all our

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programs and we're going to continue to

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work those numbers as we go forward and

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as that bill gets to enactment

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so just at this point what are the top

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two or three programs of the 1.5 billion

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you know it goes across all the mission

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directorates so i'm not saying that

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there's any you know there's a lot of

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money in human exploration

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uh as i when i looked at it but it

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really covers all of the mission

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directorates and the centers

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i would add um that number number one uh

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we are very grateful uh to senator

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shelby for for doing that we're very

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grateful to the senate and we would ask

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that members of congress both sides of

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the aisle both the house and the senate

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uh step up to the plate and help there

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will be there will be more impacts as

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time goes on

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we were very careful to protect two

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missions that were essential to the

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interests of the nation the first one

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was launching american astronauts on

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american rockets from american soil for

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the first time since 2011 and then the

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second mission is this one we had to

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protect this mission because earth and

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mars are aligned once every 26 months

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and if we have to put this robot into

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storage it will cost the american

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taxpayers half a billion dollars so

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we've done great work protecting our

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workforce we've done great work

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protecting these missions

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but the the deputy is absolutely right

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there will be more impacts and and we

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don't know

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when this pandemic is going to end

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and until it does

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these numbers are going to continue to

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change and we will be updating congress

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thank you ken kramer from space up close

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thanks thanks for doing this thanks for

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meeting the media it's really great to

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be here um i'm an organic chemist so i'm

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super excited that we're going to be

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collecting these samples uh that

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potentially have organic molecules in

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them and and looking for past and

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current life maybe uh xenon i wonder if

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you might be working on that and jim can

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you give us since its moon to mars give

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us an up to the minute update on on

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artemis on the core stage on the testing

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when is that green run hot prior test

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going to happen

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thank you

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yeah so i won't necessarily be the one

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working on these samples that come back

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uh but i sure will be following along

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with what happens with them you know

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this is a subject very near and dear to

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my heart i was a geo microbiologist

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before this so this is exactly the

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intersection of all the things i'm

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really passionate about and you know one

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of the cool things about being an

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astronaut is i you know am no longer

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doing my own research i am now part of a

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much bigger project than anything i

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could do on my own and so when i fly in

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space i will be the eyes and ears and

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lab notebook of someone else's research

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and a much much larger collaborative

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research project so i will be really

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really excited to see what happens with

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if i could if i could add to that you

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know that really one of the neat parts

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about looking for this ancient microbial

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matter is

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we knew that

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in australia in the in the uh polbera

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outback

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we sent our scientists there

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to look for the that's where we know of

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the oldest fossils are on earth that we

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know of are there

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but we sent our scientists there to look

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for signatures

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so as our rover is looking

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for these this microbial matter it's

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really looking for signposts that will

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lead us there and we've taken that data

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from australia entered it into the rover

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so it's going to know how to look for it

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as far as the

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can you guys hear me with the rain

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okay i'll i'll talk loudly into the mic

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as far as the artemis program goes

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we have right now for the first time

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since 1972

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we have a human landing system funded

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for the surface of the moon to the tune

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of 600 million dollars

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not only is it funded we now have human

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landing systems under contract so those

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are all significant developments uh in

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the history of our agency there have

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been number of times when we've tried to

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go back to the moon and that has not

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happened we now have that well underway

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we have a budget request before the

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house and the senate right now where

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we're asking for 3.6 billion dollars for

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the human landing system for 2022 um and

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or i should say 2021 and we need to get

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that we need to get that funded uh 100

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percent uh the biggest risks that we

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face are not technical we can do this

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the biggest risk that we face are

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budgetary

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and and i can tell you that with

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the team that we have at nasa right now

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i think we're in good shape we've got

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bipartisan support we're working every

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day to ensure that these missions are

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not just decadal in nature but they're

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generational in nature so they have

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staying power for the long term i would

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i would also say as far as like the

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tactics of this look uh the sls core

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stage is complete the solid rocket

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boosters are right here at the kennedy

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space center processing right now i just

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looked at them we looked at them just

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two days ago

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and let me tell you they're beautiful i

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just want to be clear about that

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and

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the european service module they are

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complete for artemis one which is an

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uncrewed launch around the moon uh which

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we're going to do in 2021 um we're

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expecting or yeah 2021 word we're

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expecting uh that the green run uh is

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going to be done by the end of this year

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in fact we're we're targeting uh uh

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october uh november so

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um i think we're in good shape again the

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big challenge as you know is not just

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budgetary that's that's always the

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biggest one but the the other big

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challenge of course is the the

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uncertainty with the coronavirus uh we

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have had some uh folks uh get

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coronavirus uh down there at the green

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run

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to protect our people we've had to stop

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work a number of times um and those are

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those are important things that we can't

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predict the future of but

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we've had a lot of success in keeping

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our people safe and we intend to

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hi antonia haramijo with florida today

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um my question is for jim um as you know

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so many of the workers involved with

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this mission weren't able to come out to

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the launch because of the pandemic so i

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was wondering if you had a rough

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estimate of how many nasa employees were

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actually able to come out and how many

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had to miss out on the event

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yeah that's a that's a good question i

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don't have those numbers for you offhand

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but i will tell you we we minimized the

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amount of people that were coming here

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um and of course uh you know it'd be

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it'd be nice to have

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all of these fields you know covered

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with not just nasa employees but also

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the public

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and unfortunately we can't do that right

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now but uh but there will come a day i

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don't have the exact numbers of how many

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people that that we didn't bring

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you know i might add to that and you

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know you think about again it goes back

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to the pandemic

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and we were doing uh the the flight

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readiness review a few days ago and one

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of the scientists from jpl he said you

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know when it was determined that we were

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going to go forward with this mission

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during a pandemic he said i wasn't too

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excited about it and he said but

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everybody came together at nasa

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all the centers came together all the

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mission directorates

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we worked together as a team we

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collaborated and i've never seen

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anything like it where

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you know every organization you know

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there's conflict in organizations that's

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normal

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but there wasn't with this and everybody

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worked

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extremely hard to make this happen

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during very difficult times

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and the reason is to to bring hope and

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00:22:59,510 --> 00:22:57,520
inspiration to the country into the

555
00:23:01,190 --> 00:22:59,520
world and we're going to continue to do

556
00:23:06,870 --> 00:23:01,200
that because that's what nasa is here

557
00:23:10,470 --> 00:23:08,710
hey mr administrator

558
00:23:12,149 --> 00:23:10,480
you like uh andy lennox here comes the

559
00:23:15,270 --> 00:23:12,159
rain again

560
00:23:18,149 --> 00:23:15,280
so um i'm mike from fox 35 orlando my

561
00:23:19,909 --> 00:23:18,159
question is weather related actually

562
00:23:21,750 --> 00:23:19,919
so we're very excited about tomorrow's

563
00:23:23,669 --> 00:23:21,760
launch and also excited about bob and

564
00:23:26,310 --> 00:23:23,679
doug's return this weekend

565
00:23:29,110 --> 00:23:26,320
but we've got this system that could

566
00:23:30,950 --> 00:23:29,120
come to the peninsula looks like it will

567
00:23:33,750 --> 00:23:30,960
wonder what the discussion is like sort

568
00:23:37,590 --> 00:23:33,760
of behind the scenes about if we lose

569
00:23:38,789 --> 00:23:37,600
tomorrow's opportunity can we go

570
00:23:40,549 --> 00:23:38,799
next week

571
00:23:42,549 --> 00:23:40,559
and also sort of what's happening with

572
00:23:43,669 --> 00:23:42,559
the conversation about the astronauts

573
00:23:46,230 --> 00:23:43,679
homecoming

574
00:23:48,870 --> 00:23:46,240
yeah so great questions all uh we we

575
00:23:50,710 --> 00:23:48,880
have a launch window here for

576
00:23:53,669 --> 00:23:50,720
this mission to mars

577
00:23:55,350 --> 00:23:53,679
that goes until about august 15th

578
00:23:57,669 --> 00:23:55,360
and we can actually extend a few days

579
00:23:59,830 --> 00:23:57,679
past that if necessary but the launch

580
00:24:02,230 --> 00:23:59,840
windows should that happen go to almost

581
00:24:04,870 --> 00:24:02,240
instantaneous launches on every single

582
00:24:06,870 --> 00:24:04,880
day after august 15. so it's a challenge

583
00:24:08,390 --> 00:24:06,880
but we could if the weather doesn't work

584
00:24:10,390 --> 00:24:08,400
out tomorrow

585
00:24:11,669 --> 00:24:10,400
we're still going to be in great shape i

586
00:24:13,269 --> 00:24:11,679
will tell you it looks like the weather

587
00:24:15,669 --> 00:24:13,279
is going to be good tomorrow morning for

588
00:24:17,590 --> 00:24:15,679
sure so i fully anticipate that tomorrow

589
00:24:19,590 --> 00:24:17,600
morning we're launching to mars

590
00:24:21,190 --> 00:24:19,600
as far as bob and doug coming home from

591
00:24:23,510 --> 00:24:21,200
the international space station which i

592
00:24:24,310 --> 00:24:23,520
know we're all very very excited about

593
00:24:26,630 --> 00:24:24,320
um

594
00:24:28,549 --> 00:24:26,640
you know we we do have uh some some

595
00:24:31,590 --> 00:24:28,559
limitations the limitations of course

596
00:24:33,750 --> 00:24:31,600
are weather and sea states um

597
00:24:36,549 --> 00:24:33,760
the the the vehicle is good the

598
00:24:38,149 --> 00:24:36,559
astronauts are ready to come home uh the

599
00:24:40,390 --> 00:24:38,159
challenge right now is the weather and

600
00:24:42,230 --> 00:24:40,400
the sea states um and so we have a

601
00:24:44,070 --> 00:24:42,240
number of different locations identified

602
00:24:46,870 --> 00:24:44,080
for where they could come home if they

603
00:24:48,470 --> 00:24:46,880
can't come home to the atlantic ocean

604
00:24:50,630 --> 00:24:48,480
right here off the coast of the kennedy

605
00:24:52,070 --> 00:24:50,640
space center we've got other locations

606
00:24:53,909 --> 00:24:52,080
around the state of florida all the way

607
00:24:56,549 --> 00:24:53,919
over to pensacola where they would have

608
00:24:57,990 --> 00:24:56,559
an opportunity to land so

609
00:24:59,990 --> 00:24:58,000
but again it's not just the weather it's

610
00:25:02,230 --> 00:25:00,000
also the sea states and we need to have

611
00:25:04,630 --> 00:25:02,240
very calm seas for this vehicle to land

612
00:25:06,390 --> 00:25:04,640
especially on the first first effort

613
00:25:07,990 --> 00:25:06,400
here it is still we have to remember

614
00:25:09,510 --> 00:25:08,000
this is a test flight

615
00:25:11,430 --> 00:25:09,520
we're learning all kinds of things that

616
00:25:13,510 --> 00:25:11,440
we never knew before and and we want to

617
00:25:15,029 --> 00:25:13,520
get all the data before we you know push

618
00:25:17,029 --> 00:25:15,039
it any further than we absolutely have

619
00:25:18,630 --> 00:25:17,039
to so look if the weather isn't good or

620
00:25:20,070 --> 00:25:18,640
the sea states aren't good we're going

621
00:25:21,750 --> 00:25:20,080
to take our time

622
00:25:24,149 --> 00:25:21,760
bringing bob and doug home our number

623
00:25:25,830 --> 00:25:24,159
one highest priority is their safety

624
00:25:27,110 --> 00:25:25,840
and so we look forward to bringing them

625
00:25:28,710 --> 00:25:27,120
home safely

626
00:25:30,549 --> 00:25:28,720
but i think we're going to be okay it

627
00:25:33,190 --> 00:25:30,559
just might take a few extra days but

628
00:25:34,470 --> 00:25:33,200
again they might come home on august 2nd

629
00:25:36,710 --> 00:25:34,480
do you know when you might call it for

630
00:25:39,350 --> 00:25:36,720
bob and doug yeah in fact we're looking

631
00:25:42,070 --> 00:25:39,360
at maybe a 48-hour lead time as far as

632
00:25:44,070 --> 00:25:42,080
making a go no-go decision and then as

633
00:25:46,870 --> 00:25:44,080
far as the location goes

634
00:25:48,710 --> 00:25:46,880
um we we have you know about six hours

635
00:25:50,870 --> 00:25:48,720
before splashdown before we have to make

636
00:25:53,830 --> 00:25:50,880
a determination as to which location we

637
00:25:56,230 --> 00:25:53,840
want them where we want them to enter so

638
00:25:58,710 --> 00:25:56,240
we have options that's a good thing here

639
00:26:01,590 --> 00:25:58,720
spacex has done an amazing job of making

640
00:26:03,110 --> 00:26:01,600
sure that there are options available

641
00:26:04,710 --> 00:26:03,120
because we do we want to be really

642
00:26:13,909 --> 00:26:04,720
careful with the limitations that we

643
00:26:18,470 --> 00:26:15,990
hi i'm john from afp and i just have a

644
00:26:21,510 --> 00:26:18,480
question regarding china but this race

645
00:26:24,870 --> 00:26:21,520
uh to mars with china how is nasa living

646
00:26:29,029 --> 00:26:27,510
yeah so i get questions about china they

647
00:26:31,350 --> 00:26:29,039
obviously launched

648
00:26:33,830 --> 00:26:31,360
a rover to mars as well

649
00:26:35,750 --> 00:26:33,840
and certainly we welcome more science we

650
00:26:38,310 --> 00:26:35,760
welcome more discovery

651
00:26:40,549 --> 00:26:38,320
we encourage them to to share what they

652
00:26:42,070 --> 00:26:40,559
learn with the entire world just as nasa

653
00:26:44,149 --> 00:26:42,080
shares what it learns with the entire

654
00:26:46,390 --> 00:26:44,159
world so we look forward to to them

655
00:26:48,390 --> 00:26:46,400
doing that

656
00:26:49,350 --> 00:26:48,400
i hear people frame it as though it's a

657
00:26:50,950 --> 00:26:49,360
race

658
00:26:53,990 --> 00:26:50,960
i want to i want to be really clear on

659
00:26:55,669 --> 00:26:54,000
this this is our ninth time to land a

660
00:26:58,950 --> 00:26:55,679
robot on mars

661
00:27:00,710 --> 00:26:58,960
so we've already done this eight times

662
00:27:02,470 --> 00:27:00,720
and of course you know we've got two

663
00:27:04,870 --> 00:27:02,480
missions at the sun right now we've got

664
00:27:07,430 --> 00:27:04,880
a mission at an asteroid a robot at

665
00:27:09,669 --> 00:27:07,440
bennu a robot called osiris-rex we've

666
00:27:11,750 --> 00:27:09,679
got the new horizons probe in deep space

667
00:27:13,750 --> 00:27:11,760
that gave us the beautiful images of

668
00:27:16,149 --> 00:27:13,760
pluto and then the object in the in the

669
00:27:18,149 --> 00:27:16,159
kipper belt and and now it's it's still

670
00:27:20,630 --> 00:27:18,159
it's still traveling and giving us in

671
00:27:23,909 --> 00:27:20,640
fact now it's giving us um you know kind

672
00:27:26,470 --> 00:27:23,919
of a new perspective um on on the on the

673
00:27:28,789 --> 00:27:26,480
galaxy because it's now seeing parallax

674
00:27:31,750 --> 00:27:28,799
among the stars and things like that so

675
00:27:33,830 --> 00:27:31,760
um of course we now have one commercial

676
00:27:35,190 --> 00:27:33,840
crew capability underway we've got

677
00:27:37,909 --> 00:27:35,200
another one

678
00:27:39,990 --> 00:27:37,919
that is very near completion i just want

679
00:27:41,110 --> 00:27:40,000
to be really clear

680
00:27:43,110 --> 00:27:41,120
you know

681
00:27:44,230 --> 00:27:43,120
we landed humans on the moon 50 years

682
00:27:46,389 --> 00:27:44,240
ago

683
00:27:49,029 --> 00:27:46,399
and our budget is as high as it's ever

684
00:27:50,630 --> 00:27:49,039
been so we are in really good shape

685
00:27:53,029 --> 00:27:50,640
president trump's support with the

686
00:27:56,470 --> 00:27:53,039
budget request and bipartisan support in

687
00:27:58,070 --> 00:27:56,480
congress the house and the senate

688
00:27:59,029 --> 00:27:58,080
you know people can try to frame it as a

689
00:28:00,710 --> 00:27:59,039
race

690
00:28:03,510 --> 00:28:00,720
i just look at it as hey here's another

691
00:28:04,789 --> 00:28:03,520
country doing some more discovery and we

692
00:28:13,669 --> 00:28:04,799
are very hopeful that they'll share it

693
00:28:17,430 --> 00:28:15,350
john mcgill with wine that cable and

694
00:28:19,909 --> 00:28:17,440
news this one's for jim again

695
00:28:21,590 --> 00:28:19,919
um you've been the administrator now for

696
00:28:23,510 --> 00:28:21,600
about three years

697
00:28:25,269 --> 00:28:23,520
what do you think is uh the most

698
00:28:27,029 --> 00:28:25,279
exciting thing that you've

699
00:28:28,950 --> 00:28:27,039
accomplished so far

700
00:28:31,830 --> 00:28:28,960
well i want to be i think it's important

701
00:28:34,389 --> 00:28:31,840
to note that any yes any accomplish that

702
00:28:36,149 --> 00:28:34,399
i have goes well beyond me i'm very

703
00:28:38,149 --> 00:28:36,159
grateful to charlie bolden and his

704
00:28:40,230 --> 00:28:38,159
leadership i'm very grateful to robert

705
00:28:42,149 --> 00:28:40,240
lightfoot and his leadership and of

706
00:28:44,389 --> 00:28:42,159
course now i get to benefit from the

707
00:28:46,789 --> 00:28:44,399
fruits of their labor just as

708
00:28:48,630 --> 00:28:46,799
future nasa administrators will benefit

709
00:28:51,430 --> 00:28:48,640
from the the labor of the team that's

710
00:28:53,990 --> 00:28:51,440
here right now and um but but the key is

711
00:28:55,669 --> 00:28:54,000
nasa obviously continues to do stunning

712
00:28:58,310 --> 00:28:55,679
and impressive things

713
00:29:01,190 --> 00:28:58,320
i i will tell you i i was just an

714
00:29:03,750 --> 00:29:01,200
armchair civilian running a non-profit

715
00:29:06,549 --> 00:29:03,760
museum in tulsa oklahoma

716
00:29:08,310 --> 00:29:06,559
when when the space shuttles retired and

717
00:29:09,750 --> 00:29:08,320
it was devastating to me

718
00:29:11,430 --> 00:29:09,760
the fact that the united states of

719
00:29:13,750 --> 00:29:11,440
america was going to be without a human

720
00:29:15,190 --> 00:29:13,760
space flight capability and at the time

721
00:29:17,669 --> 00:29:15,200
we were all hopeful that it was only

722
00:29:19,590 --> 00:29:17,679
going to be a year and then we went nine

723
00:29:20,789 --> 00:29:19,600
years without any human space flight

724
00:29:22,389 --> 00:29:20,799
capability

725
00:29:23,830 --> 00:29:22,399
and i think that was devastating for

726
00:29:27,350 --> 00:29:23,840
those of us who love and are

727
00:29:29,269 --> 00:29:27,360
enthusiastic about space exploration

728
00:29:31,430 --> 00:29:29,279
so i think you know the the work that it

729
00:29:33,430 --> 00:29:31,440
took to get us to the point where we are

730
00:29:36,149 --> 00:29:33,440
once again launching american astronauts

731
00:29:37,430 --> 00:29:36,159
on american rockets uh you know crew one

732
00:29:39,269 --> 00:29:37,440
we're going to have an international

733
00:29:40,549 --> 00:29:39,279
partner with us on the first one from

734
00:29:43,350 --> 00:29:40,559
japan

735
00:29:44,710 --> 00:29:43,360
these are all great things uh so i think

736
00:29:46,230 --> 00:29:44,720
probably the the best thing that's

737
00:29:48,389 --> 00:29:46,240
happened during my time as the nasa

738
00:29:50,950 --> 00:29:48,399
administrator is is launching humans

739
00:29:52,230 --> 00:29:50,960
again to space and um and you know we're

740
00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:52,240
working every day to make sure that

741
00:30:01,350 --> 00:29:53,760
those humans are eventually landing on

742
00:30:05,269 --> 00:30:03,510
hey there rachel joy with florida today

743
00:30:06,950 --> 00:30:05,279
so all of the mars missions have

744
00:30:09,590 --> 00:30:06,960
launched on united launch alliance

745
00:30:12,470 --> 00:30:09,600
rockets atlas and delta obviously this

746
00:30:14,549 --> 00:30:12,480
one is two why is that and and does

747
00:30:19,510 --> 00:30:14,559
spacex ever get a shot at that what's

748
00:30:23,909 --> 00:30:21,590
yeah so um you know there's a process

749
00:30:25,830 --> 00:30:23,919
when every uh spacecraft needs a launch

750
00:30:27,909 --> 00:30:25,840
vehicle and our uh i mentioned earlier

751
00:30:30,710 --> 00:30:27,919
our launch services program they have a

752
00:30:32,149 --> 00:30:30,720
whole and it's a competitive process um

753
00:30:34,549 --> 00:30:32,159
where they take the requirements of the

754
00:30:36,950 --> 00:30:34,559
spacecraft the orbit they need to go get

755
00:30:40,070 --> 00:30:36,960
into the the performance needed by the

756
00:30:42,230 --> 00:30:40,080
vehicle and they issue a a bid and every

757
00:30:44,630 --> 00:30:42,240
um everybody competes against it

758
00:30:46,630 --> 00:30:44,640
including spacex who's on that contract

759
00:30:49,590 --> 00:30:46,640
and then they do an evaluation to see

760
00:30:51,669 --> 00:30:49,600
which um which particular rocket

761
00:30:53,590 --> 00:30:51,679
best meets uh the needs of the

762
00:30:56,870 --> 00:30:53,600
government to get that that uh

763
00:30:58,549 --> 00:30:56,880
spacecraft into orbit so yes spacex does

764
00:31:00,070 --> 00:30:58,559
have an opportunity now and they will

765
00:31:01,830 --> 00:31:00,080
continue to have in the future as they

766
00:31:03,909 --> 00:31:01,840
are building up there quickly building

767
00:31:06,870 --> 00:31:03,919
up their reliability and the numbers of

768
00:31:09,029 --> 00:31:06,880
launches at atlas v but they all compete

769
00:31:10,070 --> 00:31:09,039
they all use the same factors and our

770
00:31:11,830 --> 00:31:10,080
lsp

771
00:31:13,350 --> 00:31:11,840
team does a really great job of that can

772
00:31:15,029 --> 00:31:13,360
you be specific at all though what it

773
00:31:17,110 --> 00:31:15,039
what is it about their rockets about the

774
00:31:19,909 --> 00:31:17,120
atlas about the delta that met those

775
00:31:21,669 --> 00:31:19,919
requirements or like what i do not i

776
00:31:25,430 --> 00:31:21,679
can't speak to that uh you know i wasn't

777
00:31:27,750 --> 00:31:25,440
really in that uh bid but i i i'm i i i

778
00:31:29,190 --> 00:31:27,760
think you know atlas uh uh won the one

779
00:31:31,590 --> 00:31:29,200
the one the bid in that case and of

780
00:31:35,430 --> 00:31:31,600
course cost is a cost is a factor also

781
00:31:36,950 --> 00:31:35,440
so you know spacex uh uh uh

782
00:31:38,789 --> 00:31:36,960
coming in with that but the the

783
00:31:41,190 --> 00:31:38,799
technical performance and cost and other

784
00:31:43,830 --> 00:31:41,200
evaluation factors are all put together

785
00:31:50,389 --> 00:31:43,840
and then the official makes a decision

786
00:31:53,350 --> 00:31:52,230
you know these robots take a long time

787
00:31:56,470 --> 00:31:53,360
to develop

788
00:31:58,470 --> 00:31:56,480
um and and and so the decision as far as

789
00:32:00,950 --> 00:31:58,480
you have to you have to design the the

790
00:32:02,630 --> 00:32:00,960
machinery specific for

791
00:32:06,389 --> 00:32:02,640
um you know the acoustics and the

792
00:32:08,789 --> 00:32:06,399
vibrations of of a launch vehicle so the

793
00:32:09,590 --> 00:32:08,799
selection for this launch was a while

794
00:32:10,470 --> 00:32:09,600
ago

795
00:32:12,310 --> 00:32:10,480
um

796
00:32:14,389 --> 00:32:12,320
long before i think i was the nasa

797
00:32:16,549 --> 00:32:14,399
administrator i could be wrong on that

798
00:32:19,750 --> 00:32:16,559
um but but i think it was before i got

799
00:32:21,350 --> 00:32:19,760
here but i think that the point is um

800
00:32:22,710 --> 00:32:21,360
you know a lot of those previous

801
00:32:24,549 --> 00:32:22,720
missions that you talked about there

802
00:32:26,149 --> 00:32:24,559
wasn't a competitive launch market at

803
00:32:28,149 --> 00:32:26,159
the time it was

804
00:32:29,669 --> 00:32:28,159
we just had a few a few options and they

805
00:32:31,509 --> 00:32:29,679
were all you know

806
00:32:33,350 --> 00:32:31,519
owned and operated by the government

807
00:32:35,110 --> 00:32:33,360
purchased from contractors of course but

808
00:32:36,870 --> 00:32:35,120
operated by the government so this idea

809
00:32:38,710 --> 00:32:36,880
where where we do

810
00:32:41,509 --> 00:32:38,720
we have a launch services provider

811
00:32:43,269 --> 00:32:41,519
capability that is selecting uh you know

812
00:32:45,590 --> 00:32:43,279
looking at competitive bids and making

813
00:32:47,430 --> 00:32:45,600
decisions uh you know for our initial

814
00:32:49,430 --> 00:32:47,440
launches that wasn't really the case for

815
00:32:52,149 --> 00:32:49,440
some of the previous mars missions got

816
00:32:54,310 --> 00:32:52,159
it thank you

817
00:32:55,909 --> 00:32:54,320
if i could add to that too i spent a lot

818
00:32:58,149 --> 00:32:55,919
of time on the senate appropriations

819
00:33:00,630 --> 00:32:58,159
committee and

820
00:33:01,669 --> 00:33:00,640
and look we love our contractors

821
00:33:04,070 --> 00:33:01,679
but

822
00:33:05,830 --> 00:33:04,080
rarely satisfied because they've got to

823
00:33:07,990 --> 00:33:05,840
meet their quarterly numbers

824
00:33:10,470 --> 00:33:08,000
and our job is to preserve taxpayer

825
00:33:12,789 --> 00:33:10,480
dollars and to use them for the best

826
00:33:14,710 --> 00:33:12,799
benefit of the united states and that's

827
00:33:16,070 --> 00:33:14,720
what we're really focused on more than

828
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anything else

829
00:33:20,470 --> 00:33:18,480
and i get it and i can guarantee you we

830
00:33:22,830 --> 00:33:20,480
also i get those questions from a lot of

831
00:33:24,789 --> 00:33:22,840
other contractors

832
00:33:34,149 --> 00:33:24,799
too sure

833
00:33:34,159 --> 00:33:37,990
more questions

834
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,110
all right

835
00:33:45,029 --> 00:33:42,630
well i'll just close it out then it

836
00:33:46,310 --> 00:33:45,039
looks like uh tomorrow morning is uh is

837
00:33:47,830 --> 00:33:46,320
when we're going to launch we're very

838
00:33:50,149 --> 00:33:47,840
excited about it we hope all of you

839
00:33:52,070 --> 00:33:50,159
attend uh folks that want to watch it

840
00:33:53,990 --> 00:33:52,080
virtually we we would encourage you to

841
00:33:56,070 --> 00:33:54,000
go to nasa.gov

842
00:33:57,509 --> 00:33:56,080
watch it on nasa tv

843
00:33:59,350 --> 00:33:57,519
this is going to be an inspirational

844
00:34:00,310 --> 00:33:59,360
moment and of course we're very anxious

845
00:34:02,549 --> 00:34:00,320
about

846
00:34:03,350 --> 00:34:02,559
no kidding the entry descent and landing

847
00:34:04,630 --> 00:34:03,360
and

848
00:34:06,870 --> 00:34:04,640
the great science that we're going to

849
00:34:08,470 --> 00:34:06,880
get starting in february so

850
00:34:09,990 --> 00:34:08,480
stay tuned and we will see you all

851
00:34:38,110 --> 00:34:10,000
tomorrow morning for the launch thank