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good afternoon and welcome to NASA

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headquarters

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I'm NASA press secretary Jackie McGinnis

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and we're honored to be joined today by

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leaders from the United States and Japan

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to sign a framework agreement that

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recognizes our nation's mutual interest

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in peaceful exploration

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the framework agreement between the

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government of Japan and the government

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of the United States of America for

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cooperation and space exploration and

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use of outer space including the moon

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and other celestial bodies for peaceful

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purposes covers a broad portfolio of

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joint activities between our Nations

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including exploration

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science Aeronautics technology and much

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first I'd like to welcome NASA

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administrator Bill Nelson to deliver a

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uh welcome everybody and on behalf of

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the Deputy Administrator Colonel Pam

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melroy

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on behalf of our entire Workforce at

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Nasa which is a group of wizards

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they make the impossible possible

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as you have seen in some of the

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extraordinary things that have happened

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just in the last year on behalf of all

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of these I want to welcome you Mr Prime

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Minister hear your delegation

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it's an honor to have you the foreign

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minister uh Mr ambassador

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it's also our Jackson president

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yamakawa and it's great to have our

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astronauts Aki and Anne so thank you all

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Jax's

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koichi wakada

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a very

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experienced astronaut

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is on the International Space Station as

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we speak and he has flown with us five

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I also want to thank the Secretary of

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I want to thank my old buddy Ambassador

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Emmanuel who I'll get to see in just a

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few weeks in Japan

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and uh I want to thank all of you for

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being here the principles of diplomacy

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democracy and Discovery are the core

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cornerstones

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of the U.S Japan Alliance

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our nations are both space-faring

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poised to unlock the secrets of the

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universe

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and today we are once again reaffirming

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that Japan and the U.S explore openly

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explore peacefully

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and explore together

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and this framework that will be signed

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by the Secretary of State and the

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foreign minister

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this framework deepens our partnership

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space unites us

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in this era of space exploration every

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announcement and advancement

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is not an achievement for just a single

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country it is a victory for all of

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humanity

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and that is how the U.S chooses to lead

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in this effort with Japan and others in

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the 21st century

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Deputy Administrator melroy and I are

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looking forward to visiting Japan next

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and we are going to be there to grow the

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bond between NASA and jaxa

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our space programs have storied

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histories of barriers overcome

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and new worlds understood

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and so today we chart a new chapter in a

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adventure together as allies and

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welcome

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thank you administrator next Japanese

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well hello everyone here I am Anthony

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I am truly pleased that the framework

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agreement on Japan U.S space cooperation

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space cooperation has entered a new era

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with the Artemis a project and many

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projects including lunar activities that

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are already in the works by a Japanese

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and U.S astronauts but I strongly hope

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that this agreement will robustly

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promote our space cooperation even

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further and also further expand the

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fields of cooperation under the japan-us

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alliance which has become a stronger

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than ever under the leadership of

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President Biden vice president Harris

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allow me to commend the efforts of

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everyone from both sides in developing

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this a framework agreement and I'm

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committed to continuing to working a

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lock step with the United States to

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deepen this collaboration

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thank you so much

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Mr next we'll hear from Secretary of

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well thank you very very much and good

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afternoon everyone

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it's wonderful to be with you it's

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I take a point of as we would you would

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say in the Senate personal privilege to

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say how good it is to be with the

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administrator I can't help but thinking

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of him as Senator uh for the many years

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that I have the honor of working in

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effect for him as a staff director of

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the Foreign Relations Committee so Mr

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administrator it's wonderful to be here

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with you and with the women and men of

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NASA at headquarters together with

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friends from Jackson

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um and I realize that I'm actually

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sharing this Podium with three people

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who've been uh to space the

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administration included uh Mr Prime

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Minister it's an honor to sit uh with

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you uh with my friend foreign minister

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Hayashi and with our ambassadors as well

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this week our governments have been

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holding incredibly productive and

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wide-ranging meetings that underscore

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that on virtually every issue of

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consequence to our people in Japan and

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the United States alike we are stronger

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together

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um our bilateral partnership

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is among the strongest in the world in

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part because we're always adapting it to

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meet the evolving challenges of our time

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and that's the case on everything from

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security to defending the rights at the

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core of the United Nations Charter

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we're also expanding the horizons of our

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partnership in a very literal way

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through space cooperation and here I

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also want to thank vice president Harris

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for her leadership as chair of the

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National Space Council

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for decades now Japan and the United

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States have worked together to extend

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we were two of the first signatories of

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the Artemis Accord the Prime Minister

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referred to were Partners in the Artemis

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program which will return astronauts to

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the lunar surface including the first

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woman and the first person of color

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we've just signed a new arrangement to

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support the lunar Gateway which will

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prepare for future emissions to Mars

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the framework agreement that we're about

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to sign will take our cooperation to new

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heights it'll strengthen our partnership

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in areas like research on Space

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technology and transportation robotic

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missions and our shared ambition to see

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a Japanese astronaut on the lunar

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in the last century

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the Space Race electrified the world

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seizing the imaginations of millions of

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people awed by the men and women who

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dare to go into the unknown

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it inspired generations of scientists

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researchers innovators dreamers

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and it paved the way for countless

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technological advances in computers

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satellites GPS camera lenses medical

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equipment and so much more

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and these advances have improved the

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daily lives of people across the planet

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now we're entering a new chapter of

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space exploration and our Ambitions are

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no less soaring than in President

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Kennedy's time when he declared his

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commitment to Landing a man on the moon

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and returning him safely to Earth within

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and our achievements I believe will be

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no less impressive or important for the

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benefit of humankind

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but even more than in the past we will

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reach New Frontiers through an approach

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that is fundamentally collaborative

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we've seen what international space

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collaboration can achieve

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just in the last two years it put a

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Rover on Mars and launched the most

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powerful Space Telescope ever the James

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the existence of an exoplanet for the

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first time an earth-sized Planet located

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similar incredible discoveries as we

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agreements like the one that we're

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the Partnerships that aren't the heart

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of this extraordinary progress

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we need to harness the world's

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strengths to reach these New Horizons

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Major General Bill Anders a member of

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Apollo 8 the first human spaceflight to

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reach the moon said and I quote we came

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all this way to explore the moon and the

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discovered the Earth

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he understood that one of space

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together across continents across oceans

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and now for the main event secretary

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Affairs Hayashi yoshimasa will sign the

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framework agreement for the United

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I understand that as part of our chemist

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always the conclusion of this agreement

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between our two countries numerous

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Cooperative projects including the above

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mentioned plans will be conducted

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efficiently under this agreement

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a sincere hope that Japan U.S space

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we further deepen based on this

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and it will benefit the future of all

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mankind

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I anticipate more activities by both

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other countries experts working on space

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thank you very much

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thank you Minister and last but not

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least Ambassador Rahm Emanuel the floor

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is yours I think

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there's a I got this

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you know when you're the fifth and final

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speaker

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you're reminded of what Lyndon Johnson

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once said which is that everything that

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needs to be said has been said it just

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hasn't been said by everybody that needs

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Mr Prime Minister thank you for your

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visit here

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my good friend I was he's a minister

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Nelson but I have to call him Senator

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Nelson uh he's always was a center as we

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work together and to Tony and uh she's

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on it's a pleasure to see you here it's

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been this is a historic week in the

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United States and Japan relationship

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and I cannot think of a more fitting way

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to conclude the prime minister's visit

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for his heroic leadership but to have

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this signing of the symbolizes

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not just the exploration of space but

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the partnership and the friendship

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between the United States and Japan

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doing something in a peaceful way when I

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think about back in May when the

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president uh was in Japan

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and launched the idea that we would have

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an incredible space partnership

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between Japan and the United States they

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did it at the Conte pledged that there

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would be a Japanese astronaut as part of

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Artemis to go to the Moon

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a few months later we signed the Gateway

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agreement

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a few months later we signed this

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agreement the framework agreement that

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initiates and lays out the road map for

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the next 10 years and then in a couple

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weeks we'll have administrator Nelson in

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Japan it's been quite a busy and active

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but productive uh nine months in the

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relationship

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and I don't know about the rest of you I

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mean I'm a little cynical

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but when you see the pictures from the

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web

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program

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if you had to close your mind die and

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think what does the heavens look like

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those are the photos

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it's the barrier of what this the

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sublime

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and the beginnings of what science looks

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and it captures the imagination so

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whether it's a child from Tokyo or

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Topeka

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a child from Chicago or Chiba or a child

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from New Orleans or Nagoya I just wanted

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to prove that I knew the cities of Japan

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and the United States I'm sure a lot of

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you didn't think I knew a city outside

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of Chicago

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yeah yeah but I left everything out of

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you want them to feel a part of what

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we're exploring rather than apart from

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what we're exploring

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today is the beginning of Another Day a

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different future one of Peace one of

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prosperity and one a partnership

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this is a new beginning thank you

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sir today you've witnessed a bit of

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history with the signing of this latest

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agreement between our two Nations thank

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you and congratulations to all those who

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have worked so hard to make this

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agreement a reality and thank you to our