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good evening thank you for joining us

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here on nasa tv you are getting a live

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feed from ellington field just down the

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street from houston texas our uh johnson

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space center ellington field that is the

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gulfstream three aircraft

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on board doug hurley and bob bankin who

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just landed from a 64-day mission aboard

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the international space station for the

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demo 2 mission thank you for joining us

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here today i'm nasa's gary jordan coming

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to you from down the street and mission

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control center

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this is where we have 24 7 hour

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operations of the international space

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station control teams here switching

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rooms during the coven 19 pandemic

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as we are waiting for uh the crew to uh

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to get out of the plane they're with

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their families now but we just got a

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touchdown of them a few moments ago

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touching down 6

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touching down here in ellington just

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five hours ago they were in the gulf of

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mexico splashing down off of the coast

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getting some great views of the crew now

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coming down from the gulfstream aircraft

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uh we're expected to uh hear some words

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from them as they get situated

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in front of them is a uh

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bob bacon on the left doug hurley on the

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right we should be hearing some words

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right away

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hey good afternoon and thank you all for

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coming today i'm mark guyer director of

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nasa's johnson space center

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i want to thank you for joining us here

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today at ellington field for the return

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of our nasa astronauts after a stellar

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doug and bob welcome home it's great to

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see you guys

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so of course we were excited to see you

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safely splash down earlier today but

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we're very happy to see you back on the

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earth here in houston

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uh on behalf of all the employees of

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nasa and jsc we congratulate you

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on completing your historic mission to

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the international space station you know

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the goals of the aspirations of human

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actually take the risks that make human

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i did want to mention a couple other

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people today you know in the audience we

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have kathy leaders who's now the new

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head of the human exploration mission

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operations mission directorate

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and steve smith steve stitch the program

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manager of the cc ccp program you know

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today is really the culmination

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of an incredible amount of work by you

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and your teams uh to enable the united

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states to launch our astronauts from the

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united states so thank you too thank you

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all right so without further ado i'd

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we're not going to stand right now for

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spend two months on the international

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spacewalks but just to see those two

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coming to say hi and welcoming us back

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see everybody here considering the

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things that have gone on the last few

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off planet but uh thank you again for

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coming to say hi and

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and uh hopefully we'll be able to share

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a lot of this mission with you

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in a few months hopefully if not sooner

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but thank you again

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well first of all thank you for

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everybody who who came out today i know

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with all the challenges

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everybody's wearing a mask uh with the

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situation that we're in it's uh not

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trivial to get this many people here to

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try to be close and celebrate what we've

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accomplished

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i think for both doug and i the thing

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that we're most excited about having

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accomplished with this mission is you

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know it's written right on that sign

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where it says launch america and then of

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course land america today

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as we went through

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our years as astronauts here at the

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johnson space center

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the shuttle era and

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a big chunk of the assembly of the space

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when the space shuttles retired when

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doug took his uh final flight

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i think it was a sad day for us

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because there's something special about

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having that capability to launch and and

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bring your own astronauts home

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we went through a lot of years without

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and i think we're both super super proud

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bringing those space flights back to the

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florida coast and bringing that

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capability back to america as doug

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super crew on board the international

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space station with chris cassidy

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they just took a wonderful care of us

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i can't think of anything that we could

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in place and ready for us when we

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arrived than what chris set up for us

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for him and his work to make things look

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easy for us you know we didn't have the

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an opportunity if you will to try to

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take care of space station as we

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accomplish this test mission and so

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that and happy that it didn't become a

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distraction we were able to accomplish

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the test mission objectives and work

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kind of get dragon certified

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and so it all just worked out

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uh today when we got the wake-up calls

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telling us a little bit about what they

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were looking forward to uh which was us

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coming home and in theo's case getting a

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very much appreciated it and so again uh

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took years to get here

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america and we came home safely to our

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families and it took a lot of people a

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lot of time to make that happen and so

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to kathy thank you for that of course

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you had steve as your right-hand man for

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the most recent history at least and uh

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the the hard work that that you all had

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contractors in this case uh the spacex

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team really could understand nasa

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and what we needed to be able to have in

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place to have

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human space flight be safe in the way

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wonderful team to work with i think

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you know we definitely are our old dogs

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like some of our old tricks because

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it's not always because lazy sometimes

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it's because we did it before and we

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know an easy solution and we try to

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share that with folks and that's really

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as we go forward to

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whether it's in low earth orbit to the

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moon or beyond we need to figure out the

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best way to share what nasa knows

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with the contractor team and help them

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be as successful as possible and i think

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maybe we weren't there five or six years

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returned i think there was a very tight

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knit relationship between the spacex

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to accomplish what we accomplished so

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with that i just want to thank you all

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for coming out today and celebrating

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this uh this victory

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and recognize our small part of what was

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well thanks again bob and doug and we'll

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see you around at jsc and so one last

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bob banken and doug hurley providing

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some brief comments nasa and spacex

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many of whom work directly on this

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banking

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boarding some ground transportation

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making their way either to crew medical

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facilities or on their way home to be

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with their families for the next few

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days we do have some more programming to

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get back to there live at ellington

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field more vips present you see center

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director mark guyer and here we go

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[Applause]

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i've been told i'm not allowed to hold

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the microphone and that's really hard

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for me to do

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but i'm going to take my mask off for

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just a few seconds here and just say

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thank you to everybody who participated

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in this you know we just saw bob and

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doug

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and i think all of us are going to have

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memories now for the rest of our lives

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when they launched in fact we'll have

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memories of the day that they didn't

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launch

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and then three days later coming back

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and doing the whole thing again

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not knowing whether or not they were

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going to go 50 50 on the weather

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and then sure enough

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the skies opened up and we were able to

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launch bob and doug

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i want to say a few words just about

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what champions they are beyond just

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being the first crew

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to fly on dragon

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it goes beyond that they they knew that

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when they were doing this it was a test

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flight they also knew

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that they were going to be responsible

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for you know conducting a lot of

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operations on the international space

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station for a period of months to

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include what ended up being four space

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walks

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spending that extended period of time on

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the international space station

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and then flying back

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and amazingly coming off the jet just

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right now after being

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weightless for the last 63 days coming

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off the jet sitting down and doing a

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public event

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and i got to tell you i've never flown

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into space but for my that's that's not

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normally done it's very difficult but

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they wanted to take that opportunity to

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connect with the american people on this

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momentous occasion and i can't say

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how much i you just can't put into words

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how important this was for our country

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to have access to space again from our

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own soil so again i know they left

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but congratulations to bob and doug and

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their families what an amazing day for

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the united states of america

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i would also say

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that what we just saw is the beginning

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of what will be a whole lot more

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activity in the future right now when we

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talk about commercial crew we're going

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to go

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development

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into operations of course we're always

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going to learn and we're always going to

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modify

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but making that transition from

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development to operations is going to be

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a challenge but the nasa team is up for

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it

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have starliner and we need to get

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starliner flying

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and then we've got to get orion flying

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and we've got to get starship flying and

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we've got to get

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what what's that

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a lot of stars

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absolutely so look there there is a lot

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to do in front of us but here's what we

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know

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come together in a bipartisan way and

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they fund

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nasa amazing things can happen

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right now we have before the house and

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the senate the biggest budget request in

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nasa's history in nominal dollars by the

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way right now

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we have the biggest budget nasa has ever

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had in nominal dollars now if you look

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at real dollars apollo

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might have us beat by a little bit but

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we're heading the right direction and

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next year

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if we get the budget request that is

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before us right now next year we're

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going to go up an order of magnitude and

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that is necessary because today we're

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flying into low earth orbit and in a few

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short years we want to be flying to the

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moon and not just go once or twice but

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we want to go sustainably with a purpose

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we're going to the moon sustainably

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we're going to learn how to live and

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work on another world for long periods

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of time we're going to use the resources

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of the moon in order to live and work

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and we're going to take all of that

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knowledge onto mars that's what we're

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able to accomplish because of the

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bipartisan support we've had in the

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house and in the senate for the budget

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that we have right now and what i'm

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asking for our members of congress to do

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is look at what we've done with what we

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have and if you fund

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us at our budget request level we will

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be on the moon and we will be

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successfully on the moon with our

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commercial partners and with our

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international partners so today was an

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amazing day it was a historic day it's

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been nine years since america launched

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and landed from its own soil and yet

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here we are but the next step is we're

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going on to the moon and then on to mars

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this is about momentum

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it starts today and it finishes when we

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put an american flag on mars

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all right i've got the honor to

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introduce somebody

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who we are very grateful for

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to help us accomplish this mission

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i've said it before and i'll say it

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again nasa seeks to be

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one customer of many customers in a very

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robust commercial marketplace in low

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earth orbit and we want to have numerous

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providers that compete on cost and

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innovation and safety and i will tell

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you there was a moment

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maybe not even a year ago kathy leaders

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you can tell me how long ago it was when

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we had some significant challenges we we

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might have had a few disagreements on

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parachutes we might have had a maybe a

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disagreement on um you know maybe maybe

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we need to change uh the titanium and

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because of its reactivity with uh

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nitrogen tetroxide and

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i sent a tweet elon and i know you

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remember this um and since we've had a

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number of dialogues i sent a tweet and i

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said that it's time to deliver and i

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tweeted it at elon musk

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and i want to tell you elon

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you you responded absolutely

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magnificently uh and you have in fact

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delivered you have delivered beyond

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anything any of us would have expected

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um and and i will also say

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that all of the reports i'm getting from

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all of the teams on commercial crew

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is that this mission went as good as we

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could have hoped and we're so grateful

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for the team at spacex the great team in

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nasa's commercial crew program

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and all of the operators that helped us

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to get to this point so i just want to

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say thank you elon musk the time is

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thanks thanks jim that

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i mean after these great words that were

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spoken um i i i'm not sure i have much

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to add because uh

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from you know vomit dog jim uh but uh

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i do think what what this heralds really

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is fundamentally uh a new era in space

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flight a new era in space exploration

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we're gonna go to the moon we're going

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to have a base on the moon we're going

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to have send people to mars

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and and make life multi-planetary and i

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think this this day

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heralds a new age of space exploration

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that's what it's all about

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and this is the result of an incredible

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incredible amount of work uh

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from people at spacex people at nasa hey

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kelly

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hey this is i mean so much we're 18

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years this has been 18 years to

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to finally fly

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people to overton back and um

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i mean i really came here because i just

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wanted to

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see bum duck to be totally free

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like

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thank goodness

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i think i think i think like mine

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like my entire adrenaline it was just

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just dumped you know

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[Laughter]

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thank god

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and i'm not very religious but i prayed

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for this one

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um

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so just once again thanks everyone uh at

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spacex nasa

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everyone f4 suited you know that that

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play a role in

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in this and not it's the key suppliers

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um

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that did incredible work

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thanks thanks again and

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you know i think this is something that

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the whole world can take uh

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some some pleasure in and and can really

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look at this as an achievement of

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humanity

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um and this you know these are these

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difficult times when

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you know there's not that much good news

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and and i think this is one of those

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this is one of those those things that

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is universally good no matter where you

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are on planet earth this is a good thing

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and and i hope it brightens your day

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thank you

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inspiring words you know all of us are

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here because we believe

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uh in this country in exploring space we

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believe in humanity's destiny to explore

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the solar system and it as was said we

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are here this is a milestone moment and

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it's an honor to be here so thanks again

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for coming thanks for everything you do

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for the mission of nasa

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uh and the work that we do thank you

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and that wraps up today's welcome home

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event bob bankin and doug hurley the

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space dads back in houston to reunite

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with their family now that they're back

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in houston we want to hear from you any

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00:34:17,190 --> 00:34:14,800
welcome home message that you have from

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bob or doug just use the hashtag

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launchamerica

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on any of these social media platforms

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send them a message whether a video or a

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photo or anything we want to hear from

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you welcoming bob banking and doug

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hurley back from their historic missions

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uh thank you for joining us bob and doug

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will enjoy some much needed rest until

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we hear from them again in just two days

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you can join us again on august 4th 4 30

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p.m eastern time 3 30 central for a news

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conference with the crew that concludes

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our coverage of banking and hurley's

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return to houston

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and welcome home ceremony this is