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Speaker: Instruments on spacecraft are the extension of our senses. Our aim

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is to understand the forces of nature that shape man’s

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environment.
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Kupperian, Jr.: With the Goddard Telescope in space, we can sample

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radiations emitted from within our own galaxy. With the OAO

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man will go a long way toward solving the mystery of

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the creation of matter.
Speaker: NIMBUS,

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research and development craft studying advanced techniques

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and concepts for meteorological Earth observations.

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Speaker: For years, some of the best engineering brains in the country

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have been building and improving this communications network to its present

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state of performance. NASCOM, NASA Communications.

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Speaker: Weather, communications, Earth resources,

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these will be among the main topics for dialogue in the 1970s.

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Speaker: At Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Maryland, the Operations Control

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Center monitors the spacecraft’s flight night and day,

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watching every element of its operation.
Speaker: We in the

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space sciences look from planet Earth to

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our solar system, to the far reaches of the universe.

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Mather: The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite has been

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designed to study the cosmic background radiation, which we think is the remnant

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of the primeval explosion 15 billion years ago.
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Mather: What the COBE will tell us at the end

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of the mission and after our interpretations are done is how

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we got here. How the galaxies were formed from whatever was there before.

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Olivier: The Hubble Telescope

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is the most fantastic telescope ever built. It’s not

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just good, it’s the best.
[beep, radio] Discovery, go for Hubble

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release.
Broome: There’s a significant spherical aberration

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appears to be present in the optics, in the optical telescope.
Leckrone: Right now it’s looking

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very, very good that we’ve accomplished all we needed to accomplish for

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the correction of HST, and that’s good news

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for astronomy.
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Mikulski: The trouble with Hubble is over. We have here

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a picture taken of the image of a star

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with the new—
Parkinson: The system is

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so intertwined.
Shepard: Now our ability to assess and predict

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climate change depends on our ability to model climate and weather change.

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Mumma: One problem we’re working on here is the origin of life in other places.

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Simnett: This CME that’s just started off here—

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Bennett: We’ve determined the age of the universe is 13.7 billion

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years old.
Wiseman: What’s the next step for the planet-finding quest?

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Peddie: We wanted to go back and explore the universe, and really the natural first step

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for us is to go back to the moon.
Eigenbrode: If Mars could ever have

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supported life, and if it did, what happened to it?
Christian: Really

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want to know where the edge of the solar system is.

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What’s out there? What’s out beyond the solar system?
McEnery: By being able to make

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observations of the universe in the highest energy form of light,

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we get a very different picture.
Young: It’s giving us a 24-hour a day, 7-day

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a week view of the Sun with unprecedented resolution.

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Garvin: It’s important to recognize why space matters. And why exploring near us

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on planet Earth is really significant. This is where we will go.

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Speaker: The moment of launch is thrilling and important.

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Peddie: This is the moment we've all been waiting for all these years.

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Speaker: But the great moment, for those who have worked so long

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and so well, comes after a successful orbit.

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Parker: There we go.
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Straughn: It’s a testament to what humans can do when they’re working to

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do something big. Something that’s beyond your own self.
Gehrels: Every day I

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think about this delicate instrumentation in the harsh

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environment orbiting the Earth and how it’s able to keep going all

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those years.
Thaller: Although I’m a scientist, and of course, I understand what’s going

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on, it really doesn’t prepare you for how beautiful these things are.

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Fatoyinbo: I love going into the field, I love making new discoveries.

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Sellers: There’s no reason why our future shouldn’t be better than our past.

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So I’m optimistic as long as we get on with it.
Scolese: And it’s because of your

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intelligence, your experience, your dedication, that

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Goddard has been successful, and I know that’s why we’re going to be successful in the future.

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Clark: In these tasks, we at Goddard will penetrate even further into the

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distances and mysteries of the universe and of Earth.

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