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Chris Scolese: Welcome everybody. I don't think

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I need to introduce Senator Mikulski, I think you all figured that out as we

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walked in. Senator Mikulski of course is

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currently the Vice Chair of the Appropriations Committee.

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She was the Chair of it, and we have a lot to be thankful for from

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the Senator for this year for the budget that we got. Without her leadership

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and her efforts, you know, today would

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not be as happy a day as it is. Senator Mikulski

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has been very critical in advancing

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servicing for NASA and for the nation

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Many of you worked the Hubble servicing missions, they were the beginning of

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real servicing and proving that we could do things

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this next step to do robotic servicing is

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going to take us beyond Earth orbit

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to allow us to do other things to help us help other agencies

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accomplish what they want, in industry and extend the nation's

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leadership in servicing. With that Senator, we'd like you

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to cut the ribbon of our Robotic Operations Center

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called ROC and then we'd like you to say a few words. 
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Scolese: Ok. 3 2 1?Mikulski: Why don't we- no backward

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Scolese: Is that good? Ok everybody 3 2

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[Applause]
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Scolese: Senator?

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Mikulski: Good morning Goddard! How are we today?

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[Applause]
I am so happy to be 

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here with you, in the new year. Next week Congress

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goes back into session, the President will give his State of the Union

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and while he's telling us his take on it. I want to go back

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and tell him what I've seen, and I'm going to tell him, "Before you leave

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get the hell out here to Goddard and you're going to feel better

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about America. You're going to be feeling better about 

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the world, and you're even going to know more about the universe.

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God bless you here at Goddard, really. Their eyes

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on the universe. I'm so proud of you

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I am proud of you and what you do

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every single day in every single way. The way you

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signed up for your mission, and for the purpose of making

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sure that we are the preeminent power

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in space. But when we go into space we

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don't go to conquer, we go to discover.

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To discover new things about the Universe.

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New things about galaxies or super novas.

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And also while we're up there, we also want to make sure

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we're doing good back here. And you and I know

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that one of the greatest inventions that we've had has been the 

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satellite. The satellite has revolutionized

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everything. We couldn't have most of our technology today

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without satellites. But satellites

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are just like people. They get old,

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they end up in the wrong parking spot, they need

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replacements, et cetera. They need

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help, and this is why we need satellite

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servicing. We need satellite servicing.

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[Applause] 
Old satellites shouldn't die they

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shouldn't fade away or fly away, they need to be serviced.

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And when we knew that satellites really for the good

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of our networks and for the good of our

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economy, we need to be able to reuse them. And that's why

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when we said we needed satellite servicing

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Why not do it at Goddard? Because why not do it

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at Goddard? They know how to service things in space. Look they

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took a telescope that weighed all those tons up there

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and remember when Hubble had a problem?

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You remember when Hubble needed a contact lens? The most expensive contact lens

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in techno-ophthalmology there. 

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And yet, it went up, the fix went up

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the astronauts were daring but because of

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here at Goddard, we were able to 

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service. Working with our astronaut team we were

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able to get Hubble back on track and of course

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it has become the greatest telescope since Galileo

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invented the first one.

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but that was only a forerunner of what we can do. The James Webb will go up, we will be looking

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at heliophysics. We'll continue to study "Mission to Planet Earth" 

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to see if there's intelligent life there, keep on looking,

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don't give up on it, we'll find it, we've got some water left.

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we'll do it. But at the end of the day we also

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wanted to talk about how to use our incredible workforce

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for the good of our,

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for the good that is much needed. And that's why we've developed

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the satellite service mission. And now when I look at this

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glitzy, glitzy endeavor back

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here and I see this robot that they're going to do

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a demonstration with- you know I could use one of those.

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I'm only four foot eleven, I could use a robot to service my

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high shelves. I need a high shelf robot

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here and so on, but

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it is just amazing. But you know what's amazing? Of course the

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technology is amazing, and just as we have 

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technological intelligence, technology intelligence

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is only as good as the human intelligence behind it.

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And that's you. I want you to know I so

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admire you. It has been my joy,

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my joy to represent you now for almost

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30 years. You know I grew up with the space program

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I knew when the first rockets went up. I was thrilled

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when at Christmas some many years ago when they read

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Genesis as they circled the Earth. I was so relieved

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when they not only went to the moon, but then came back from the moon.

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And all the wonderful things when Goddard- when Hubble was really

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working again. But through it all it was not the rocket ships

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it was not the telescopes

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it was always the people. It's always you, I so hope

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respect you, I really want you to know my heart will always

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be with you, and may the force be with us all, thank you

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very much.

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[Applause]

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Scolese: We're just going to go off and tour so for people who want to get 

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to the all hands, it's best to head over to building 8 now. Or 3.

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