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i'm

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really pleased to be joining with all of

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i know we have many marylanders in this

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group but whether you're from maryland

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or elsewhere

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thank you for joining us uh all of us in

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maryland are so proud

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that this national treasure is right

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here in prince george's county i want to

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thank our state and local elected

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officials i don't know if county

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executive ulcer brooks is here but i

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want to thank her for terrific

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leadership and all the men and women

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who work here at goddard who work for

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nasa

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who work for noaa who work for the

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geological

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survey thank all of you for the very

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meaningful work you do

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each and every day on behalf of our

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and in fact on behalf of people across

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the world

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i am very pleased to be

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here today

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with my friend and former colleague

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from the senate and that is bill nelson

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of florida

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who is now the nasa administrator i

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remember as soon as we heard that he was

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nominated as the nasa administrator i

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got on the phone with bill nelson and

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said i know you're from florida

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i know it's a big space state but

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maryland's a big space state too and

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senator cardin did the same and we are

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grateful that the new administrator of

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nasa bill nelson is here and has been

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here before and understands the

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importance of goddard

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and i'm especially proud to be here

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welcoming

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the another

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friend and another former colleague from

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the united states senate and that is now

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our vice president kamala harris and

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you'll be hearing from her lately but if

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you could give her a round of applause

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i want to thank her for all the work

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she's doing for our country together

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i want to especially thank her today for

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her leadership

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on issues involving the national space

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council which she chairs and also her

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work with president biden in leading the

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global campaign to confront the climate

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crisis and in the process put millions

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of americans to work in good paying jobs

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as we move to a clean energy economy

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and that brings me to why we're all

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gathered here today we just had a

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terrific tour

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with the leader of goddard dennis

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andreuzic and i want to thank him for

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we are in regular uh communication i

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also want to thank his partners at noaa

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in the united states geological survey

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and we were here to look at some of the

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very important work being done

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to highlight the mission at goddard and

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these other federal agencies

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to tackle climate change

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and investments here at goddard and

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elsewhere around the country are giving

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us the information we need

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to better protect communities against

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the ravages and devastation of climate

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change but also

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to better figure out and chart our way

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to confront the climate crisis and i

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want to thank all of you for being on

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the front lines of that work because

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goddard and its brilliant scientists are

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the leading edge of nasa's climate work

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this is the greatest assembly of earth

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scientists in the world and i want to

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thank you for your expertise and work

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i'm pleased to serve on the

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appropriations committee and i can

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assure you that we'll continue to work

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with our colleagues uh to provide the

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funding for the important programs that

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we just witnessed including things like

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gos including things like pace uh

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including uh landstat9 and many of the

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important instruments that you use to

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gather the data that then you put to

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work to solve problems here on earth

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but in addition to in addition to the

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annual appropriations um

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we can't be engaged in business as usual

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uh and that's why the buildback better

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agenda is so important both pieces of it

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the infrastructure modernization bill as

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well as the investment in people power

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in more opportunities for more americans

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including engaging them in the

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scientific enterprise and the enterprise

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of discovery that you're all working on

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i do want to say to my members from the

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maryland house congressional delegation

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including congressman hoyer and brown

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who i know wanted to be here but they're

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at work as we speak uh trying to pass

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the build back better agenda through the

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house of representatives and that

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includes significant investments in our

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nasa infrastructure including close to

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a very important infrastructure program

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which is of course part of maryland's

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space assets but whether it's nasa

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goddard whether it's wallops whether

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it's the space telescope whether it's

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maryland really is a home for space

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activity and activity looking here at

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earth and i want to thank all of you for

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being part of that extraordinary effort

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this is a moment that we've got to come

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and address the crisis that's be

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upon us and that is why passing this

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bill back better legislation is so

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important that's why i'm so pleased the

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vice president

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and the president are so focused on this

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issue restoring american leadership

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around the world and leading again the

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international campaign

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so now it's my great honor

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to turn the podium over

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to a person who as i said i serve with

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in the united states senate uh and is is

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no stranger to the important work at

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nasa and i'm very pleased that he's now

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at the helm of nasa and that's bill

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nelson please give them a warm maryland

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boy it's been a great day here

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uh just terrific to have the vice

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my good friend senator van hollen

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and it's an honor for me to be back

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to goddard because you all

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are making the impossible possible

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i think when the vice president speaks

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spirit of adventure in nasa

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that is in urgency

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because extreme weather

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and you've heard the president speak

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if we do not act if we do not use

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world's premier space agency

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but we are also at the point of the

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spear on climate change

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we are the leading climate agents

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and the proof's in the pudding

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nasa satellites have captured

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nine million images of our changing

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and it's building on this a half a

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is why we're doing this

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along with putting up five great

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observatories over the next decade

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that will give us precision in our

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of the land the oceans

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more detail than we have now what is

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i'm proud to announce a new nasa earth

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science mission

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it's called incus

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that stands for investigation of

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it's going to be three little small

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they're expected to launch in 2027

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and they will study the behavior of

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including the impact on weather and

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incas will help us better understand

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extreme weather and prepare

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before a disaster it's a part of this

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and in the face of all these disasters

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there are significant equity issues when

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to which communities get the support

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nasa data has the power to change and

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we are exploring the idea

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of a climate mission control

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a mission control

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just like you've seen

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in the launches

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and since you've seen

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since the old apollo days mission

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control

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change exploring the heavens will always

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be at the core of nasa's mission but so

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is

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confronting the challenges here on earth

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and tackling this climate change is

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this administration's

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bill back better legislation

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right now that is the vote is underway

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on the floor of the house of

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representatives as we speak

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and it's been going on for over an hour

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and a half

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so you know what's happening they're

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trying to round up the votes

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well

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in that bill

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there's 365 million more

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for nasa for climate change

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from earth science programs to

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investments in sustainable aviation

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we're developing electric aircraft

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it's time

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for congress now

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to do its part

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that senator is leading the way

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and when this bill does pass later today

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in the house

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it's coming to the senate

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and they've got to have all 50 democrats

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so that the vice president can break the

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tie

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because they're not going to get one

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that senator is helping lead the charge

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and so in all this

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all of this scientific and research and

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technology it's creating

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good-paying jobs

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and new industries

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that are all addressing climate

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change and this agency is confronting

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earth's greatest

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existential

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threat

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we are making investments today to

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protect future generations

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and will unite

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and inspire america to build back better

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and now

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it's my privilege to introduce a space

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visionary

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and the person

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in her role as president of the senate

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that will break the tie for the bill

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back better bill

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ladies and gentlemen

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good afternoon everyone please have a

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bill nelson it is so wonderful to share

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a stage with you we serve together in

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the united states senate

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and i know you have very fond memories

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of your years as a leader in the united

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states senate but i think your first

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love aside from grace has always been

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space

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so it is so good to be with you and you

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know the administrator is right um i'm

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glad that you talked about the bills

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that are before congress

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the american people have waited long

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enough and we need to get this done

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so thank you for your comments um

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it is wonderful to be here at nasa i was

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just looking out the window almost with

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my nose pressed against the window as we

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were driving in

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to be able to arrive at this storied

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place

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where so much of the ingenuity the

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innovation the brilliance

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the skill

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of scientists of engineers of the people

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who you are who make up

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the team at nasa where this work is done

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it really is

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my privilege

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to be with you all today and to

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personally thank you for the work you do

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every day

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it inspires your country

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it inspires our country

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chris van hollen senator van hollen and

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i were classmates when we entered the

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united states senate together

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and i have been seeing him

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firsthand in the halls of the united

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states senate when the cameras are on

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and when the cameras are off and he's

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always the same person

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fighting for maryland

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fighting for what's right

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and doing it always in a way that is

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about elevating a discussion to require

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people to focus on what really impacts

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people in their lives every day senator

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van gaal and i want to thank you for

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your leadership every day thank you

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and i know our friend ben cardin was

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going to be here as well as majority

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leader stanny hoyer

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and i they

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unfortunately senator cardin um had to

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get on his way because he's going to go

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and represent the united states at cop26

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and so he's on his way and then of

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course majority leader hoyer is doing

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the work that bill nelson is talking

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about working hard at capitol hill but i

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do want to thank them for their

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leadership

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thank you also to the leaders of the

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national oceanic and atmospheric

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administration

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thank you to the united states

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geological survey and again thank you to

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all of you at nasa

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and in particular i want to thank you

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all for what you do to keep elevating

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the discourse and the imagination and

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the spirit

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of not only

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what can be done and who does that work

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here in the united states but you really

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do inspire people all over the world and

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there are many ways in which we can talk

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about the work that we do in space

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um you all know that but i'm going to

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talk today about the opportunity

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of space

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so it was 60 years ago that alan shepard

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became the first american to travel into

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space

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he was up there for only 15 minutes

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but the world waited

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with faded breath

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until his safe return

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alan shepard's short flight

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broke barriers

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literally and figuratively

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as have so many of you

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that flight gave president john f

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kennedy and vice president lyndon b

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johnson

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the confidence

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to set our energy and our resources

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toward putting an american on the moon

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in the decades since

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12 americans have walked on the moon

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and even more

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have orbited the earth

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in the decades since

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our nation has launched space stations

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and satellites sent rovers to mars and

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witnessed the birth of new

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stars

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with the technology

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we have developed to explore space from

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camera phones to cat scans

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we have improved life on earth

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with the perspective

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we have gained from space

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we have reminded

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many many folks

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and we have been reminded of how

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precious our earth

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really is and how delicate it is and how

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fragile it is

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but while the exploration of space

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defined the 20th century

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i believe that the opportunity of space

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will define the 21st

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century

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today our nation is more active in space

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than ever before

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that space can benefit humanity

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i believe it is incumbent on all of us

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then to seize all the ways in which

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space can help us solve

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our biggest challenges

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including that

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of the climate crisis

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the world leaders

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who gathered at cop 26 this week were

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very clear

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they were not ambiguous

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they didn't skirt around the issue they

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were clear and they were decisive and

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they were declarative

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climate change is an existential threat

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and we must take immediate action

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to address it

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as our nation works to meet our climate

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commitments

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we know that our actions cannot be

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limited

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to only

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what we can do on earth

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right at this minute we are monitoring

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emissions

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and measuring the impact of climate

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change from space

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we have a fleet of satellites and

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sensors

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providing citizens and scientists with

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the data

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that they that you need to mitigate the

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impact

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take landsat 9

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which was assembled of course here at

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goddard

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and launched into space last september

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as we just saw landsat 9 can provide

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real-time images of our nation's

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landscape

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as natural disasters are increasing in

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frequency and ferocity due to climate

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change

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these images can be used by first

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responders to help save lives

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these images can be used by farmers

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to assess their crops as drought and

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heat

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threaten their yield

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these images can be used by scientists

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who are working to combat climate change

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head on

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and another satellite within our fleet

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is at a university a local university

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that i recently visited hampton

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university in hbcu in virginia

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when i was on that campus i saw the aim

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satellite mission

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students there were working with

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scientists to understand the connections

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between climate change

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and atmospheric changes

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so here's the bottom line

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i truly believe

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space activity is climate action

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space

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activity

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is education

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space activity

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is also economic growth

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it is also innovation

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and inspiration

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and it is about our security

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and our strength

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so as chair

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of the national space council i will

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convene leaders from across our

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administration

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for an inaugural council meeting on

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december 1st

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really looking forward to that

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and at that meeting we will outline a

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comprehensive framework

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for our nation's space priorities

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from our civilian efforts like those we

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have seen today

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to our military and national security

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efforts

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to stem education

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and the emerging space economy

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and what is abundantly clear

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is that when it comes to our space

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activity

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there is limitless potential

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when alan shepard

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launched into space 60 years ago

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he named his space capsule

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the freedom 7

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to honor nasa's first group of seven

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astronauts

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freedom is not just about the feeling of

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flying through space at 5 000 miles per

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hour

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freedom

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is about opportunity

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so as we go forth from here

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let us continue to seize the opportunity

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of space

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and again i thank you all

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for the work you do each and every day

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the work you are doing will impact

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people around our globe around this

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beautiful

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precious planet we call earth

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and i cannot

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thank you enough