WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.040 2 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:05.000 [music] 3 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:09.040 Speaker: Instruments on spacecraft are the extension of our senses. Our aim 4 00:00:09.040 --> 00:00:13.040 is to understand the forces of nature that shape man’s 5 00:00:13.040 --> 00:00:17.000 environment. [music] 6 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:21.000 Kupperian, Jr.: With the Goddard Telescope in space, we can sample 7 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:25.040 radiations emitted from within our own galaxy. With the OAO 8 00:00:25.040 --> 00:00:29.040 man will go a long way toward solving the mystery of 9 00:00:29.040 --> 00:00:33.040 the creation of matter. Speaker: NIMBUS, 10 00:00:33.040 --> 00:00:37.040 research and development craft studying advanced techniques 11 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:41.040 and concepts for meteorological Earth observations. 12 00:00:41.040 --> 00:00:45.040 [music] Speaker: For years, some of the best engineering brains in the country 13 00:00:45.040 --> 00:00:49.040 have been building and improving this communications network to its present 14 00:00:49.040 --> 00:00:53.040 state of performance. NASCOM, NASA Communications. 15 00:00:53.040 --> 00:00:57.040 [music] 16 00:00:57.040 --> 00:01:01.040 Speaker: Weather, communications, Earth resources, 17 00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:05.040 these will be among the main topics for dialogue in the 1970s. 18 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:09.040 [music] 19 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:13.040 Speaker: At Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Maryland, the Operations Control 20 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:17.040 Center monitors the spacecraft’s flight night and day, 21 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:21.000 watching every element of its operation. Speaker: We in the 22 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:25.040 space sciences look from planet Earth to 23 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:29.000 our solar system, to the far reaches of the universe. 24 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:33.040 [music] Mather: The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite has been 25 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:37.040 designed to study the cosmic background radiation, which we think is the remnant 26 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:41.040 of the primeval explosion 15 billion years ago. [music] 27 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:45.000 Mather: What the COBE will tell us at the end 28 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:49.000 of the mission and after our interpretations are done is how 29 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:53.000 we got here. How the galaxies were formed from whatever was there before. 30 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:57.000 [music] Olivier: The Hubble Telescope 31 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:01.040 is the most fantastic telescope ever built. It’s not 32 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:05.040 just good, it’s the best. [beep, radio] Discovery, go for Hubble 33 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:09.000 release. Broome: There’s a significant spherical aberration 34 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:13.040 appears to be present in the optics, in the optical telescope. Leckrone: Right now it’s looking 35 00:02:13.040 --> 00:02:17.040 very, very good that we’ve accomplished all we needed to accomplish for 36 00:02:17.040 --> 00:02:21.040 the correction of HST, and that’s good news 37 00:02:21.040 --> 00:02:25.000 for astronomy. [music, cheering] 38 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.040 Mikulski: The trouble with Hubble is over. We have here 39 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:33.040 a picture taken of the image of a star 40 00:02:33.040 --> 00:02:37.040 with the new— Parkinson: The system is 41 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:41.040 so intertwined. Shepard: Now our ability to assess and predict 42 00:02:41.040 --> 00:02:45.040 climate change depends on our ability to model climate and weather change. 43 00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:49.040 Mumma: One problem we’re working on here is the origin of life in other places. 44 00:02:49.040 --> 00:02:53.040 [cheering, music] 45 00:02:53.040 --> 00:02:57.000 Simnett: This CME that’s just started off here— 46 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:01.040 Bennett: We’ve determined the age of the universe is 13.7 billion 47 00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:05.040 years old. Wiseman: What’s the next step for the planet-finding quest? 48 00:03:05.040 --> 00:03:09.040 Peddie: We wanted to go back and explore the universe, and really the natural first step 49 00:03:09.040 --> 00:03:13.040 for us is to go back to the moon. Eigenbrode: If Mars could ever have 50 00:03:13.040 --> 00:03:17.040 supported life, and if it did, what happened to it? Christian: Really 51 00:03:17.040 --> 00:03:21.000 want to know where the edge of the solar system is. 52 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:25.040 What’s out there? What’s out beyond the solar system? McEnery: By being able to make 53 00:03:25.040 --> 00:03:29.040 observations of the universe in the highest energy form of light, 54 00:03:29.040 --> 00:03:33.040 we get a very different picture. Young: It’s giving us a 24-hour a day, 7-day 55 00:03:33.040 --> 00:03:37.040 a week view of the Sun with unprecedented resolution. 56 00:03:37.040 --> 00:03:41.040 Garvin: It’s important to recognize why space matters. And why exploring near us 57 00:03:41.040 --> 00:03:45.040 on planet Earth is really significant. This is where we will go. 58 00:03:45.040 --> 00:03:49.040 Speaker: The moment of launch is thrilling and important. 59 00:03:49.040 --> 00:03:53.040 Peddie: This is the moment we've all been waiting for all these years. 60 00:03:53.040 --> 00:03:57.000 [music] Speaker: But the great moment, for those who have worked so long 61 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:01.000 and so well, comes after a successful orbit. 62 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:05.000 Parker: There we go. [music] 63 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.000 Straughn: It’s a testament to what humans can do when they’re working to 64 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:13.040 do something big. Something that’s beyond your own self. Gehrels: Every day I 65 00:04:13.040 --> 00:04:17.040 think about this delicate instrumentation in the harsh 66 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:21.040 environment orbiting the Earth and how it’s able to keep going all 67 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:25.040 those years. Thaller: Although I’m a scientist, and of course, I understand what’s going 68 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:29.040 on, it really doesn’t prepare you for how beautiful these things are. 69 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:33.000 Fatoyinbo: I love going into the field, I love making new discoveries. 70 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:37.000 Sellers: There’s no reason why our future shouldn’t be better than our past. 71 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:41.040 So I’m optimistic as long as we get on with it. Scolese: And it’s because of your 72 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:45.040 intelligence, your experience, your dedication, that 73 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:49.040 Goddard has been successful, and I know that’s why we’re going to be successful in the future. 74 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:53.040 Clark: In these tasks, we at Goddard will penetrate even further into the 75 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:57.040 distances and mysteries of the universe and of Earth. 76 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:01.040 [click, music] 77 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:05.472 [music, static sound]