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Hello, I'm Katrina Jackson, and I am here today at our open house event,

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Explore@NASAGoddard. We are opening our doors to thousands of people

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so that the public can come see our Earth science, planetary science, heliophysics, astrophysics,

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engineering and technology, and since 2015 marks the

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25th anniversary of our Hubble Space Telescope. we are celebrating

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Hubble and the Spirit of Exploration. So, in that spirit,

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let's go explore! [music]

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>>KATRINA: What is your favorite thing about space?

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>>JORDAN: The rocket ships. >>SAMUEL: The Milky Way.

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>>KATRINA: Both are definitely pretty awesome.

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>>KATRINA: What are you looking forward to most today at the open house event? >>CHRIS: Well, just getting the public

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engaged in what we're doing, and understanding what we do in space, and how we support the nation

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and the world with our science. >>KATRINA: So this is your first time at NASA, what do you think?

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>>OLIVIA: It's pretty cool. >>KATRINA: So your first time at a NASA center, is it

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what you would expect to see? >>JESSICA: No, not really.

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I don't really know what I expected, but it's better than I thought.

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>>KATRINA: So this is your first time visiting a NASA center, what do you think?

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>>TRINITY: I really like it, I would come here again. >>KATRINA: Well I hope you do!

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What is one thing that you hope the visitors take away from today? >>JIM: That we

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that we as a species live in space and that studying space is a way

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of connecting to our lives is really important, whether it be Earth, or the way the Sun

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effects us, or even extending ourselves to Mars, it's all in our DNA.

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>>MICHELLE: Well I'm hoping to get a sense of involvement. That is your space program,

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obviously they're paying for it, and I think they'd like to see that it's real people

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behind the missions, get a chance to talk to them, talk about their passions,

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how did you get there, how did you come to work for NASA? And we get a chance to thank them.

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We get to say, "Thank you for coming, thank you for supporting us." I think it's that personal connection

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that I most want them to take away. >>KATRINA: The amount of stuff going on here

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today has been insane - over 130 hands-on activities

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and exhibits, dozens of presentations, meet-and-greets with astronauts, and tours

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of several of our facilities. If you haven't been able to see it all in person, well,

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I hope you can come visit us someday. But in the meantime, stay tuned to

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nasa.gov/goddard and our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or YouTube channels, stay

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up-to-date on all of NASA Goddard's science and missions, and to celebrate Hubble and the

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Spirit of Exploration every day. [whoosh]

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