WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:12.128 --> 00:00:15.665 >> 50 YEARS AGO WE WENT TO THE 2 00:00:15.665 --> 00:00:16.933 MOON. 3 00:00:16.933 --> 00:00:19.936 WE CALLED IT APOLLO. 4 00:00:19.936 --> 00:00:24.741 APOLLO HAD A TWIN. 5 00:00:24.741 --> 00:00:35.185 >> IT'S MAIM WAS ARTEMIS. 6 00:00:35.185 --> 00:00:37.887 >> WE'RE SENDING THE FIRST HUMAN 7 00:00:37.887 --> 00:00:39.155 MISSION TO MARS. 8 00:00:39.155 --> 00:00:40.957 >> WE BELIEVE OUR COURSE WILL 9 00:00:40.957 --> 00:00:42.559 REDEFINE WHAT'S POSSIBLE. 10 00:00:42.559 --> 00:00:43.827 >> THAT WE'LL DISCOVER 11 00:00:43.827 --> 00:00:45.695 LIFE-SAVING. 12 00:00:45.695 --> 00:00:46.996 >> EARTHS-CHANGING SCIENCE. 13 00:00:46.996 --> 00:00:48.098 >> AND THE CHALLENGES AHEAD WILL 14 00:00:48.098 --> 00:00:51.101 INSPIRE GENERATIONS. 15 00:00:51.101 --> 00:00:52.368 >> THIS IS OUR MANIFEST. 16 00:00:52.368 --> 00:00:54.370 >> FOR ALL WHO WONDER IF WE CAN 17 00:00:54.370 --> 00:00:55.772 RETURN. 18 00:00:55.772 --> 00:00:57.907 >> FOR ALL WHO DREAM OF TESTING 19 00:00:57.907 --> 00:00:58.208 BEYOND. 20 00:00:58.208 --> 00:01:01.377 >> THIS IS YOUR CALLING. 21 00:01:01.377 --> 00:01:03.613 >> WE GO FOR ALL OF AMERICA. 22 00:01:03.613 --> 00:01:05.682 >> WE GO. 23 00:01:05.682 --> 00:01:07.550 >> WE GO AS THE ARTEMIS 24 00:01:07.550 --> 00:01:11.354 GENERATION. 25 00:01:11.354 --> 00:01:17.160 >> WE GO. 26 00:01:17.160 --> 00:01:23.833 [APPLAUSE] 27 00:01:23.833 --> 00:01:25.101 >> GOOD MORNING, AND WELCOME TO 28 00:01:25.101 --> 00:01:28.671 THE 2019 ADMINISTRATORS HONOR 29 00:01:28.671 --> 00:01:29.939 AWARD PROGRAM. 30 00:01:29.939 --> 00:01:31.674 MY NAME IS AMY GRIGG. 31 00:01:31.674 --> 00:01:34.377 I WORK WITH GODDARD 32 00:01:34.377 --> 00:01:35.779 COMMUNICATION, AND I'LL BE YOUR 33 00:01:35.779 --> 00:01:38.248 EMCEE TODAY. 34 00:01:38.248 --> 00:01:39.916 WE RECOGNIZE THOSE WHO BY 35 00:01:39.916 --> 00:01:41.484 SERVICE, VISION AND ABILITY HAVE 36 00:01:41.484 --> 00:01:42.919 MADE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON 37 00:01:42.919 --> 00:01:45.622 NASA'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO 38 00:01:45.622 --> 00:01:47.924 ADVANCEMENT OF U.S. INTERESTS. 39 00:01:47.924 --> 00:01:50.059 THE ACHIEVEMENTS AND 40 00:01:50.059 --> 00:01:52.428 CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE ACHIEVED A 41 00:01:52.428 --> 00:01:54.864 LEVEL OF EXCELLENCE THAT HAS 42 00:01:54.864 --> 00:01:57.000 MADE AN IMPACT ON NASA'S MISSION 43 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:57.734 SUCCESS. 44 00:01:57.734 --> 00:01:59.702 IT'S AN IMPORTANT DAY, A SPECIAL 45 00:01:59.702 --> 00:02:02.405 DAY FOR EACH HONOREE AND THEIR 46 00:02:02.405 --> 00:02:03.573 FAMILY MEMBERS HERE, BUT IT'S 47 00:02:03.573 --> 00:02:05.508 ALSO A SPECIAL DAY FOR NASA. 48 00:02:05.508 --> 00:02:08.511 BEFORE WE GRIP THE PRESENTATION 49 00:02:08.511 --> 00:02:12.148 OF AWARDS, PLEASE RISE FOR THE 50 00:02:12.148 --> 00:02:13.650 PRESENTATION OF COLORS BY THE 51 00:02:13.650 --> 00:02:15.552 ARMED FORCES COLOR GUARD, AND 52 00:02:15.552 --> 00:02:17.120 THE SINGING OF THE NATIONAL 53 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:18.688 ANTHEM BY GODDARD'S VERY OWN 54 00:02:18.688 --> 00:02:20.623 LINDA GLUSING. 55 00:03:02.949 --> 00:03:08.188 ♪ OH, SAY CAN YOU SEE 56 00:03:08.188 --> 00:03:13.593 ♪ BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT 57 00:03:13.593 --> 00:03:17.197 ♪ WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILED 58 00:03:17.197 --> 00:03:18.331 ♪ AT THE TWILIGHT'S LAST 59 00:03:18.331 --> 00:03:24.337 ♪ GLEAMING 60 00:03:24.337 --> 00:03:25.505 ♪ WHOSE BROAD STRIPES 61 00:03:25.505 --> 00:03:27.373 ♪ AND BRIGHT STARS 62 00:03:27.373 --> 00:03:32.779 ♪ THROUGH THE PERILOUS FIGHT 63 00:03:32.779 --> 00:03:38.685 ♪ O'ER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCHED 64 00:03:38.685 --> 00:03:43.056 ♪ WERE SO GALLANTLY STREAMING 65 00:03:43.056 --> 00:03:48.528 ♪ AND THE ROCKETS' RED GLARE 66 00:03:48.528 --> 00:03:53.666 ♪ THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR 67 00:03:53.666 --> 00:03:57.470 ♪ GAVE PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHT 68 00:03:57.470 --> 00:03:58.471 ♪ THAT OUR FLAG WAS 69 00:03:58.471 --> 00:04:03.076 STILL THERE ♪ 70 00:04:03.076 --> 00:04:10.016 ♪ O SAY, DOES THAT 71 00:04:10.016 --> 00:04:12.418 ♪ STAR-SPANGLED BANNER 72 00:04:12.418 --> 00:04:20.226 YET WAVE ♪ 73 00:04:20.226 --> 00:04:27.867 ♪ O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE 74 00:04:27.867 --> 00:04:43.016 ♪ AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE 75 00:04:43.016 --> 00:04:46.019 >> PLEADS BE SEATED. 76 00:04:46.019 --> 00:04:47.287 WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND OUR 77 00:04:47.287 --> 00:04:48.721 APPRECIATION TO THE ARMED FORCES 78 00:04:48.721 --> 00:04:50.290 COLOR GUARD AND THANK YOU, 79 00:04:50.290 --> 00:04:52.659 LINDA, FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING 80 00:04:52.659 --> 00:04:53.126 PERFORMANCE. 81 00:04:53.126 --> 00:05:00.099 [APPLAUSE] 82 00:05:00.099 --> 00:05:03.136 AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO 83 00:05:03.136 --> 00:05:05.004 INVITE GEORGE MORROW TO THE 84 00:05:05.004 --> 00:05:19.452 STAGE FOR HIS WELCOME REMARKS. 85 00:05:19.452 --> 00:05:20.853 >> THANK YOU, AMY. 86 00:05:20.853 --> 00:05:22.989 IT'S SO GOOD TO SEE YOU OUT 87 00:05:22.989 --> 00:05:28.861 THERE AND IN TV LAND. 88 00:05:28.861 --> 00:05:30.563 PLEASE GIVE LINDA GLUSING 89 00:05:30.563 --> 00:05:32.265 ANOTHER ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR 90 00:05:32.265 --> 00:05:33.666 HER RENDITION OF THE NATIONAL 91 00:05:33.666 --> 00:05:34.500 ANTHEM. 92 00:05:34.500 --> 00:05:35.668 [APPLAUSE] 93 00:05:35.668 --> 00:05:38.271 I'M GEORGE MORROW. 94 00:05:38.271 --> 00:05:40.039 I'M THE ACTING CENTER DIRECTOR 95 00:05:40.039 --> 00:05:42.542 OF GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER. 96 00:05:42.542 --> 00:05:44.777 IT'S AN HONOR TO WELCOME YOU 97 00:05:44.777 --> 00:05:47.213 HERE TODAY AND TO THE 2019 98 00:05:47.213 --> 00:05:50.216 ADMINISTRATORS AGENCY HONOR 99 00:05:50.216 --> 00:05:51.317 AWARDS. 100 00:05:51.317 --> 00:05:54.187 WE'RE PRIVILEGED AT GODDARD TO 101 00:05:54.187 --> 00:05:57.190 BE HOSTING THIS EVENT FOR THE 102 00:05:57.190 --> 00:05:57.724 AGENCY. 103 00:05:57.724 --> 00:06:00.026 OVER THE PAST YEAR WE KNOW NASA 104 00:06:00.026 --> 00:06:01.861 HAS CELEBRATED VERY IMPORTANT 105 00:06:01.861 --> 00:06:03.229 ANNIVERSARIES. 106 00:06:03.229 --> 00:06:05.198 IN 2018, THE AGENCY CELEBRATED 107 00:06:05.198 --> 00:06:08.901 THE 60 YEAR ANNIVERSARY. 108 00:06:08.901 --> 00:06:10.703 LAST MONTH, WE OF COURSE 109 00:06:10.703 --> 00:06:12.538 CELEBRATED 50 YEARS SINCE THE 110 00:06:12.538 --> 00:06:14.273 FIRST MOON LANDING. 111 00:06:14.273 --> 00:06:16.676 JUST THIS PAST MAY, GODDARD 112 00:06:16.676 --> 00:06:20.079 CELEBRATED 60 YEARS HERE IN 113 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:22.215 GREEN BELT IN OPERATION. 114 00:06:22.215 --> 00:06:28.921 WE OPENED OUR GATES IN 1959 AND 115 00:06:28.921 --> 00:06:30.656 BEGAN ITS MISSION AS NASA'S 116 00:06:30.656 --> 00:06:32.658 FIRST SPACE FLIGHT CENTER. 117 00:06:32.658 --> 00:06:34.060 LET'S TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT THE 118 00:06:34.060 --> 00:06:36.763 LAST 60 YEARS OF GODDARD IN THIS 119 00:06:36.763 --> 00:06:39.465 VIDEO. 120 00:06:39.465 --> 00:06:41.534 ♪ 121 00:06:41.534 --> 00:06:43.302 >> INSTRUMENTS AND SPACECRAFT 122 00:06:43.302 --> 00:06:45.705 ARE THE EXTENSION OF OUR SENSES. 123 00:06:45.705 --> 00:06:46.873 OUR AIM IS TO UNDERSTAND THE 124 00:06:46.873 --> 00:06:49.742 FORCES OF NATURE THAT SHAPE 125 00:06:49.742 --> 00:07:05.425 MAN'S ENVIRONMENT. 126 00:07:05.425 --> 00:07:06.993 >> WE'LL GO A LONG WAY FOR 127 00:07:06.993 --> 00:07:12.365 SOLVING THE CREATION OF MATTER. 128 00:07:12.365 --> 00:07:13.766 >> MEMBERS RESEARCH STUDYING 129 00:07:13.766 --> 00:07:16.202 ADVANCE TECHNIQUES AND CONCEPTS 130 00:07:16.202 --> 00:07:18.471 FOR METEOROLOGICAL EARTH 131 00:07:18.471 --> 00:07:19.705 OBSERVATIONS. 132 00:07:19.705 --> 00:07:20.740 FOR YEARS SOME OF THE BEST 133 00:07:20.740 --> 00:07:22.175 ENGINEERING BRAINS IN THE 134 00:07:22.175 --> 00:07:24.710 COUNTRY HAVE BEEN BUILDING AND 135 00:07:24.710 --> 00:07:26.846 EMPLOYING TO ITS PRESENT STATE 136 00:07:26.846 --> 00:07:28.414 OF PERFORMANCE. 137 00:07:28.414 --> 00:07:29.549 NASA COMMUNICATIONS. 138 00:07:29.549 --> 00:07:36.989 WEATHER, COMMUNICATIONS, EARTH 139 00:07:36.989 --> 00:07:40.226 RESOURCES, THESE WILL BE AMONG 140 00:07:40.226 --> 00:07:43.396 THE MAIN TOPICS OF DIALOGUE IN 141 00:07:43.396 --> 00:07:48.234 THE 1970S. 142 00:07:48.234 --> 00:07:51.070 AT GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, 143 00:07:51.070 --> 00:07:54.073 AT GREEN BELT, MARRIED, NIGHT 144 00:07:54.073 --> 00:07:55.741 AND DAY WATCHING EVERY ELEMENT 145 00:07:55.741 --> 00:07:57.176 OF ITS OPERATION. 146 00:07:57.176 --> 00:07:59.445 >> WE IN THE SPACE SCIENCES LOOK 147 00:07:59.445 --> 00:08:03.082 FROM PLANET EARTH TO OUR SOLAR 148 00:08:03.082 --> 00:08:05.651 SYSTEM TO THE FAR REACHES OF THE 149 00:08:05.651 --> 00:08:10.156 UNIVERSE. 150 00:08:10.156 --> 00:08:12.825 >> DESIGNED TO THE BACKGROUND 151 00:08:12.825 --> 00:08:14.427 RADIATION WHICH WE THINK THERE 152 00:08:14.427 --> 00:08:19.098 IS A REMNANT OF A MILLION YEARS 153 00:08:19.098 --> 00:08:22.235 AGO. 154 00:08:22.235 --> 00:08:24.070 >> IT WILL TELL US AFTER THE 155 00:08:24.070 --> 00:08:25.371 MISSION AND AFTER OUR 156 00:08:25.371 --> 00:08:27.073 INTERPRETATIONS ARE DONE IS HOW 157 00:08:27.073 --> 00:08:28.207 WE GOT HERE. 158 00:08:28.207 --> 00:08:29.942 HOW THE GALAXIES WERE FORMED 159 00:08:29.942 --> 00:08:33.346 FROM WHATEVER WAS THERE BEFORE. 160 00:08:33.346 --> 00:08:37.049 >> ALMOST BY TELESCOPE, THE MOST 161 00:08:37.049 --> 00:08:39.585 FANTASTIC TELESCOPE EVER BUILT. 162 00:08:39.585 --> 00:08:41.020 IT'S NOT JUST GOOD. 163 00:08:41.020 --> 00:08:44.590 IT'S THE BEST. 164 00:08:44.590 --> 00:08:47.426 >> THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT 165 00:08:47.426 --> 00:08:49.161 OPERATION THAT APPEARS TO BE 166 00:08:49.161 --> 00:08:49.729 PRESENT. 167 00:08:49.729 --> 00:08:50.930 >> IT'S GOING TO BE VERY GOOD 168 00:08:50.930 --> 00:08:52.732 THAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED ALL WE 169 00:08:52.732 --> 00:08:54.400 NEEDED TO ACCOMPLISH FOR THE 170 00:08:54.400 --> 00:08:57.403 OPTICAL CORRECTION. 171 00:08:57.403 --> 00:09:03.442 THAT'S GOOD NEWS FOR ASTRONOMY. 172 00:09:03.442 --> 00:09:05.044 >> THE TROUBLE WITH HUBBLE IS 173 00:09:05.044 --> 00:09:06.145 OVER. 174 00:09:06.145 --> 00:09:08.581 WE HAVE HERE A PICTURE TAKEN OF 175 00:09:08.581 --> 00:09:14.720 THE IMAGE WITH A NEW-- 176 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:18.457 >> THE SYSTEM IS SO INTERTWINED. 177 00:09:18.457 --> 00:09:19.191 >> THE ABILITY TO ASSESS AND 178 00:09:19.191 --> 00:09:22.028 PREDICT CLIMATE CHANGE IS OUR 179 00:09:22.028 --> 00:09:24.730 ABILITY TO MODEL WEATHER CLIMATE 180 00:09:24.730 --> 00:09:25.298 CHANGE. 181 00:09:25.298 --> 00:09:27.266 >> HERE IS THE ORIGIN OF LIFE IN 182 00:09:27.266 --> 00:09:28.134 OTHER PLACES. 183 00:09:28.134 --> 00:09:29.735 [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] 184 00:09:29.735 --> 00:09:33.673 >> THIS JUST STARTED OFF HERE. 185 00:09:33.673 --> 00:09:36.676 >> WE DETERMINED THE AGE OF THE 186 00:09:36.676 --> 00:09:39.545 UNIVERSE IS $13.7 BILLION. 187 00:09:39.545 --> 00:09:41.681 >> WHAT IS THE NEXT STEP FOR THE 188 00:09:41.681 --> 00:09:44.183 PLENTY-FINDING QUEST. 189 00:09:44.183 --> 00:09:45.818 >> WE WANT TO GO BACK AND 190 00:09:45.818 --> 00:09:47.787 EXPLORE THE UNIVERSE. 191 00:09:47.787 --> 00:09:48.921 THE FIRST STEP FOR US IS TO GO 192 00:09:48.921 --> 00:09:50.656 BACK TO THE MOON. 193 00:09:50.656 --> 00:09:52.625 IF MARS COULD EVER HAVE 194 00:09:52.625 --> 00:09:55.061 SUPPORTED LIFE, AND IF IT DID, 195 00:09:55.061 --> 00:09:56.762 WHAT HAPPENED TO IT. 196 00:09:56.762 --> 00:09:58.331 >> WE REALLY WANT TO KNOW. 197 00:09:58.331 --> 00:09:59.599 WHAT'S OUT THERE? 198 00:09:59.599 --> 00:10:01.167 WHAT'S OUT THERE BEYOND THE 199 00:10:01.167 --> 00:10:03.469 SOLAR SYSTEM IN BY BEING ABLE TO 200 00:10:03.469 --> 00:10:05.137 MAKE OBSERVATIONS OF THE 201 00:10:05.137 --> 00:10:07.273 UNIVERSE IN THE HIGHEST LIGHT, 202 00:10:07.273 --> 00:10:08.441 WE HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT 203 00:10:08.441 --> 00:10:08.874 PICTURE. 204 00:10:08.874 --> 00:10:12.845 >> GIVING US 24 HURRY A DAY, 7 205 00:10:12.845 --> 00:10:14.981 DAYS A WEEK VIEW OF THE SUN. 206 00:10:14.981 --> 00:10:15.982 >> IT'S IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE 207 00:10:15.982 --> 00:10:17.683 WHY SPACE MATTERS, AND WHY 208 00:10:17.683 --> 00:10:20.386 EXPLORING NEAR US ON PLANET 209 00:10:20.386 --> 00:10:22.588 EARTH IS VERY SIGNIFICANT. 210 00:10:22.588 --> 00:10:24.657 THIS IS WHERE WE'LL GO. 211 00:10:24.657 --> 00:10:26.792 >> THE MOMENT OF LAWFUL IS 212 00:10:26.792 --> 00:10:27.226 IMPORTANT. 213 00:10:27.226 --> 00:10:28.661 >> THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN 214 00:10:28.661 --> 00:10:31.063 WAITING FOR ALL THESE YEARS. 215 00:10:31.063 --> 00:10:32.932 >> BUT THE GREAT MOMENT FOR 216 00:10:32.932 --> 00:10:34.600 THOSE WHO HAVE WORKED SO LONG 217 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:36.736 AND SO WELCOMES AFTER A 218 00:10:36.736 --> 00:10:42.608 SUCCESSFUL ORBIT. 219 00:10:42.608 --> 00:10:44.577 >> IT'S A TESTAMENT TO WHAT 220 00:10:44.577 --> 00:10:46.879 HUMANS CAN DO WHEN THEY'RE 221 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:48.314 WORKING TO DO SOMETHING BIG, 222 00:10:48.314 --> 00:10:49.582 SOMETHING THAT IS BEYOND YOUR 223 00:10:49.582 --> 00:10:50.449 OWN SELF. 224 00:10:50.449 --> 00:10:52.018 >> EVERY DAY I THINK ABOUT THIS 225 00:10:52.018 --> 00:10:54.954 DELICATE INSTRUMENTATION AND 226 00:10:54.954 --> 00:10:56.856 HARSH ENVIRONMENT AND HOW IT'S 227 00:10:56.856 --> 00:11:00.226 ABLE TO KEEP GOING. 228 00:11:00.226 --> 00:11:02.528 >> THE SCIENTISTS, AND I 229 00:11:02.528 --> 00:11:04.764 UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON, IT 230 00:11:04.764 --> 00:11:06.032 DOESN'T PREPARE YOU FOR HOW 231 00:11:06.032 --> 00:11:07.466 BEAUTIFUL THESE THINGS ARE. 232 00:11:07.466 --> 00:11:09.035 >> I LOVE GOING TO THE FIELD. 233 00:11:09.035 --> 00:11:16.642 I LOVE MAKING DISCOVERIES. 234 00:11:16.642 --> 00:11:17.743 >> IT IS BECAUSE OF YOUR 235 00:11:17.743 --> 00:11:19.645 INTELLIGENCE, YOUR EXPERIENCE, 236 00:11:19.645 --> 00:11:24.316 YOUR DEDICATION THAT GODDARD HAS 237 00:11:24.316 --> 00:11:25.584 BEEN SUCCESSFUL. 238 00:11:25.584 --> 00:11:28.421 THAT'S WHY I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO 239 00:11:28.421 --> 00:11:29.722 BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE FUTURE. 240 00:11:29.722 --> 00:11:31.791 >> WE'LL MOVE FURTHER IN THE 241 00:11:31.791 --> 00:11:37.396 DISTANCES AND MYSTERIES OF THE 242 00:11:37.396 --> 00:11:42.935 UNIVERSE AND OF EARTH. 243 00:11:42.935 --> 00:11:44.804 >> THAT VIDEO REALLY BRINGS BACK 244 00:11:44.804 --> 00:11:45.237 MEMORIES. 245 00:11:45.237 --> 00:11:51.210 [APPLAUSE] 246 00:11:51.210 --> 00:11:53.412 I STARTED HERE AT GODDARD IN 247 00:11:53.412 --> 00:11:55.748 JUNE OF 1983. 248 00:11:55.748 --> 00:11:58.184 I PICKED UP IN THAT ABOUT THE 249 00:11:58.184 --> 00:12:03.355 TIME IOE BEFORE KOBE AND 250 00:12:03.355 --> 00:12:06.659 SUPPORTED HUDDLE FOR MANY YEARS. 251 00:12:06.659 --> 00:12:09.228 I CHOKED UP WHEN I WATCHED THAT 252 00:12:09.228 --> 00:12:09.862 VIDEO. 253 00:12:09.862 --> 00:12:12.298 FOR THE EARLIEST CREWED MISSIONS 254 00:12:12.298 --> 00:12:16.402 OF PROJECT MERCURY, GEMINI, AND 255 00:12:16.402 --> 00:12:18.404 APOLLO PROGRAM, INCLUDING THE 256 00:12:18.404 --> 00:12:21.373 HISTORIC APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING, 257 00:12:21.373 --> 00:12:22.675 GODDARD MANAGED THE 258 00:12:22.675 --> 00:12:24.944 COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN ASTROS 259 00:12:24.944 --> 00:12:29.615 NAUGHTS AND THEIR COUNTERPARTS 260 00:12:29.615 --> 00:12:31.217 HERE ON EARTH. 261 00:12:31.217 --> 00:12:32.785 FAST FORWARD SIX DECADES WE HAVE 262 00:12:32.785 --> 00:12:34.620 MANY EXCITING PROGRAMS THAT 263 00:12:34.620 --> 00:12:35.788 CONTINUE TO PUSH SPACE 264 00:12:35.788 --> 00:12:44.897 EXPLORATION THE OSIRIS-REX 265 00:12:44.897 --> 00:12:47.299 ASTER OH ROID SAMPLE RETURN 266 00:12:47.299 --> 00:12:48.868 MISSION RECENTLY REACHED ITS 267 00:12:48.868 --> 00:12:52.938 TARGET, THE ASTEROID BENNU. 268 00:12:52.938 --> 00:12:54.974 MAVEN AND THE SAMPLE ANALYSIS AT 269 00:12:54.974 --> 00:12:57.009 MARS INSTRUMENT SUITE CONTINUE 270 00:12:57.009 --> 00:12:58.844 TO PROVIDE VALUABLE DATA ON THE 271 00:12:58.844 --> 00:13:00.112 RED PLANET. 272 00:13:00.112 --> 00:13:02.815 THE LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER 273 00:13:02.815 --> 00:13:05.451 RECENTLY CELEBRATED 10 YEARS OF 274 00:13:05.451 --> 00:13:10.122 MAPPING THE MOON THE TRANSITING 275 00:13:10.122 --> 00:13:14.760 EXPO PLANT SURVEY SATELLITE IT 276 00:13:14.760 --> 00:13:16.362 CONTINUES TO DISCOVER THE WORDS 277 00:13:16.362 --> 00:13:19.598 OUT OF OTHER SOLAR SYSTEM. 278 00:13:19.598 --> 00:13:22.468 AND LONG WITH APL, GODDARD WILL 279 00:13:22.468 --> 00:13:24.603 WORK ON DRAGONFLY, THE LATEST 280 00:13:24.603 --> 00:13:27.039 ADDITION OF NASA'S NEW FRONTIERS 281 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:31.143 PORTFOLIO TO EXPLORE THE 282 00:13:31.143 --> 00:13:35.114 CHEMISTRY OF SATURN'S MOON 283 00:13:35.114 --> 00:13:36.549 TITAN. 284 00:13:36.549 --> 00:13:37.550 THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE WILL 285 00:13:37.550 --> 00:13:39.251 SOON CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF 286 00:13:39.251 --> 00:13:42.087 DISCOVERIES AND THE JAMES WEBB 287 00:13:42.087 --> 00:13:45.391 SPACE TELESCOPE THAT YOU SAW IN 288 00:13:45.391 --> 00:13:47.226 THE VIDEO AT THE END OF LAST 289 00:13:47.226 --> 00:13:50.229 WEEK, THE INSTRUMENT MODULE 290 00:13:50.229 --> 00:13:52.064 INTEGRATED WITH THE SPACECRAFT 291 00:13:52.064 --> 00:13:54.033 AND THE SUN SHIELD ELEMENT, AND 292 00:13:54.033 --> 00:13:55.467 WE HAVE A COMPLETELY 293 00:13:55.467 --> 00:13:59.205 MECHANICALLY INTEGRATED 294 00:13:59.205 --> 00:14:00.306 OBSERVATORY NOW. 295 00:14:00.306 --> 00:14:00.573 [APPLAUSE] 296 00:14:00.573 --> 00:14:06.045 AND OF COURSE THAT WILL BE THE 297 00:14:06.045 --> 00:14:10.049 MOST POWERFUL TELESCOPE EVER 298 00:14:10.049 --> 00:14:13.285 LAUNCHED INTO SPACE, AND IT WILL 299 00:14:13.285 --> 00:14:17.423 LAUNCH IN MARCH OF '21. 300 00:14:17.423 --> 00:14:19.959 NASA WILL GO BACK TO THE MOON BY 301 00:14:19.959 --> 00:14:22.228 2024, NOT JUST TO LAND BUT TO 302 00:14:22.228 --> 00:14:24.230 STAY, AS YOU SAW IN THIS VIDEO 303 00:14:24.230 --> 00:14:27.066 TODAY, AND AFTERWARD WE'LL SEND 304 00:14:27.066 --> 00:14:29.768 A CREWED MISSION TO MARS. 305 00:14:29.768 --> 00:14:37.343 GODDARD'S SCIENTIFIC 306 00:14:37.343 --> 00:14:40.045 CAPABILITIES AND TECHNOLOGICAL 307 00:14:40.045 --> 00:14:42.915 PROWESS WILL PLAY KEY ROLES IN 308 00:14:42.915 --> 00:14:44.750 THESE ENDEAVORS. 309 00:14:44.750 --> 00:14:45.584 MORE THAN ANYTHING WE WILL RELY 310 00:14:45.584 --> 00:14:46.852 ON THE TALENTED TEAMS AND 311 00:14:46.852 --> 00:14:49.855 INDIVIDUALS SCENARIOS THE AGENCY 312 00:14:49.855 --> 00:14:52.424 MANY OF WHOM ARE HONORED TODAY. 313 00:14:52.424 --> 00:14:53.592 IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY WHAT IS 314 00:14:53.592 --> 00:14:54.860 IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE DREAM OF 315 00:14:54.860 --> 00:14:56.695 YESTERDAY IS THE HOPE OF TODAY, 316 00:14:56.695 --> 00:14:58.264 AND THE REALITY OF TOMORROW, WE 317 00:14:58.264 --> 00:14:59.999 TRY TO LIVE THAT EVERY DAY AT 318 00:14:59.999 --> 00:15:01.066 GODDARD. 319 00:15:01.066 --> 00:15:01.967 ALL OF YOU HERE TODAY ARE 320 00:15:01.967 --> 00:15:03.502 TESTAMENTS OF WHAT IS POSSIBLE 321 00:15:03.502 --> 00:15:04.770 AT NASA. 322 00:15:04.770 --> 00:15:07.606 ON BEHALF OF NASA'S GODDARD 323 00:15:07.606 --> 00:15:09.041 SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, WELCOME TO 324 00:15:09.041 --> 00:15:11.243 THE CENTER, AND CONGRATULATIONS 325 00:15:11.243 --> 00:15:14.213 ON YOUR WELL-DESERVED REWARDS. 326 00:15:14.213 --> 00:15:15.915 TO DELIVER OPENING REMARKS FOR 327 00:15:15.915 --> 00:15:17.783 THE CEREMONY, I'LL TURN IT OVER 328 00:15:17.783 --> 00:15:25.624 TO NASA DEPUTY ASSOCIATE 329 00:15:25.624 --> 00:15:29.028 ADMINISTRATOR MELANIE SAUNDERS. 330 00:15:29.028 --> 00:15:32.298 [APPLAUSE] 331 00:15:32.298 --> 00:15:33.699 >> WELL, GOOD MORNING. 332 00:15:33.699 --> 00:15:34.967 IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE AT 333 00:15:34.967 --> 00:15:35.701 THE GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER 334 00:15:35.701 --> 00:15:37.102 WITH NASA'S VERY BEST. 335 00:15:37.102 --> 00:15:41.140 ADMINISTRATOR JIM BRIDENSTINE 336 00:15:41.140 --> 00:15:45.244 AND DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR JIM 337 00:15:45.244 --> 00:15:47.646 WANTED TO EXTEND THEIR HEALTH 338 00:15:47.646 --> 00:15:49.782 FELT CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS 339 00:15:49.782 --> 00:15:52.484 YEAR'S HONOREES. 340 00:15:52.484 --> 00:15:53.919 THEY WANTED TO BE HERE, BUT 341 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:55.621 THEY'RE LITERALLY ON THE MONDAY 342 00:15:55.621 --> 00:15:58.891 TRYING TO BUILD SUPPORT FOR OUR 343 00:15:58.891 --> 00:16:01.727 TRIP TO THE MOON AND THEN TO 344 00:16:01.727 --> 00:16:02.194 MARS. 345 00:16:02.194 --> 00:16:09.535 I BELIEVE IT'S IMPORTANT TO 346 00:16:09.535 --> 00:16:10.836 PAUSE FOR A MOMENT TO REALLY 347 00:16:10.836 --> 00:16:13.806 TAKE IN WHY WE'RE HERE GATHERED 348 00:16:13.806 --> 00:16:14.506 TOGETHER. 349 00:16:14.506 --> 00:16:16.508 NASA IS BESTOWING ON YOU ITS 350 00:16:16.508 --> 00:16:17.209 HIGHEST HONOR. 351 00:16:17.209 --> 00:16:22.247 THE DISHED SERVICE MEDAL IS 352 00:16:22.247 --> 00:16:23.849 AWARDED TO THOSE WHO DISPLAY 353 00:16:23.849 --> 00:16:26.552 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE, ABILITY 354 00:16:26.552 --> 00:16:28.354 OR COURAGE, AND HAVE PERSONALLY 355 00:16:28.354 --> 00:16:29.955 MADE A CONTRIBUTION REPRESENTING 356 00:16:29.955 --> 00:16:31.523 SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS TO THE NASA 357 00:16:31.523 --> 00:16:32.091 MISSION. 358 00:16:32.091 --> 00:16:33.359 THE CONTRIBUTION MUST BE SO 359 00:16:33.359 --> 00:16:34.727 EXTRAORDINARY THAT OTHER FORMS 360 00:16:34.727 --> 00:16:39.932 OF RECOGNITION WOULD BE 361 00:16:39.932 --> 00:16:40.632 INADEQUATE. 362 00:16:40.632 --> 00:16:44.903 THINK ABOUT THAT. 363 00:16:44.903 --> 00:16:46.038 SO EXTRAORDINARY THAT OTHER 364 00:16:46.038 --> 00:16:47.606 FORMS OF RECOGNITION WOULD BE 365 00:16:47.606 --> 00:16:49.041 INADEQUATE. 366 00:16:49.041 --> 00:16:52.978 YOU SHOULD BE VERY PROUD OF YOUR 367 00:16:52.978 --> 00:16:54.513 WORK AND ACHIEVEMENT. 368 00:16:54.513 --> 00:16:55.447 YOUR NAMES JOIN A VERY 369 00:16:55.447 --> 00:17:01.387 IMPRESSIVE JOIN A VERY DISHED 370 00:17:01.387 --> 00:17:02.087 LIST. 371 00:17:02.087 --> 00:17:04.156 NAMES LIKE GUS GRISSOM, JOHN 372 00:17:04.156 --> 00:17:07.459 GLENN, JAMES WEBB, GEORGE LOW, 373 00:17:07.459 --> 00:17:09.862 JIM LOVELL, CARL SAGAN, CHRIS 374 00:17:09.862 --> 00:17:12.364 SCOLESE, JUST TO NAME A FEW. 375 00:17:12.364 --> 00:17:14.500 YOUR FAMILIES HERE AND AT HOME 376 00:17:14.500 --> 00:17:17.770 SHOULD ALSO FEEL VERY PROUD. 377 00:17:17.770 --> 00:17:18.771 THEY SHARE IN THIS 378 00:17:18.771 --> 00:17:20.606 ACCOMPLISHMENT BY SUPPORTING 379 00:17:20.606 --> 00:17:22.041 YOU, BY SUPPORTING YOUR OTHER 380 00:17:22.041 --> 00:17:26.145 RESPONSIBILITIES WHILE YOU WERE 381 00:17:26.145 --> 00:17:28.747 YOU'RE 14-HOUR DAYS OR HERE FOR 382 00:17:28.747 --> 00:17:30.516 MISSIONS THAT HAPPEN AT 2:00 IN 383 00:17:30.516 --> 00:17:31.617 THE MORNING. 384 00:17:31.617 --> 00:17:36.989 ON MAY 8, 1961, PRESIDENT JOHN F 385 00:17:36.989 --> 00:17:39.525 KENNEDY PRESENTED ALAN SHEPARD 386 00:17:39.525 --> 00:17:41.126 THE AGENCY'S SECOND EVER 387 00:17:41.126 --> 00:17:43.395 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL IN 388 00:17:43.395 --> 00:17:45.230 ACCEPTING THE HONOR, SHEPARD 389 00:17:45.230 --> 00:17:47.366 SAID IT WAS AN AWARD THAT REALLY 390 00:17:47.366 --> 00:17:50.369 SHOULD GO TO EVERYONE WHO MADE 391 00:17:50.369 --> 00:17:51.804 THIS HISTORIC FLIGHT POSSIBLE. 392 00:17:51.804 --> 00:17:55.340 SO PLEASE LET'S PAUSE TO GIVE 393 00:17:55.340 --> 00:17:56.642 YOURSELF AND THE PEOPLE WHO 394 00:17:56.642 --> 00:17:58.777 HELPED MAKE TODAY POSSIBLE FOR 395 00:17:58.777 --> 00:18:00.746 YOU, A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. 396 00:18:00.746 --> 00:18:01.213 [APPLAUSE] 397 00:18:01.213 --> 00:18:03.282 ON BEHALF OF NASA WE DEEPLY 398 00:18:03.282 --> 00:18:04.550 APPRECIATE THE EFFORT THAT IT 399 00:18:04.550 --> 00:18:07.753 TOOK TO GET YOU HERE. 400 00:18:07.753 --> 00:18:08.487 THANK YOU ALL. 401 00:18:08.487 --> 00:18:10.089 IT IS MY DISTINCT HONOR TO 402 00:18:10.089 --> 00:18:14.860 INTRODUCE THE AGENCY'S 403 00:18:14.860 --> 00:18:17.096 HIGHEST-RANKING CIVIL SERVANT. 404 00:18:17.096 --> 00:18:18.697 HE'S A FORMER MISSION 405 00:18:18.697 --> 00:18:19.832 DIRECTORATE, ASSOCIATE 406 00:18:19.832 --> 00:18:22.267 ADMINISTRATOR, FORMER CENTER 407 00:18:22.267 --> 00:18:24.803 DIRECTOR, A DISTINGUISHED 408 00:18:24.803 --> 00:18:26.805 ENGINEER, AN OUTSTANDING LEADER, 409 00:18:26.805 --> 00:18:29.641 MY BOSS, MY FRIEND, STEVE 410 00:18:29.641 --> 00:18:30.109 JURCZYK. 411 00:18:30.109 --> 00:18:33.212 [APPLAUSE] 412 00:18:33.212 --> 00:18:34.947 >> THANK YOU. 413 00:18:34.947 --> 00:18:36.048 GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. 414 00:18:36.048 --> 00:18:37.216 LET'S SEE IF I CAN FIND MY 415 00:18:37.216 --> 00:18:38.183 REMARKS. 416 00:18:38.183 --> 00:18:39.918 THANK YOU FOR THAT REALLY GREAT 417 00:18:39.918 --> 00:18:41.353 INTRODUCTION. 418 00:18:41.353 --> 00:18:43.322 A LITTLE BIT OF AN EXAGGERATION, 419 00:18:43.322 --> 00:18:46.892 BUT I'LL TAKE IT. 420 00:18:46.892 --> 00:18:48.627 IT SAYS I'M SUPPOSED TO SAY THAT 421 00:18:48.627 --> 00:18:50.295 IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO BE 422 00:18:50.295 --> 00:18:51.797 HERE AT GODDARD. 423 00:18:51.797 --> 00:18:56.869 IN MY 31 YEAR CAREER, IT'S 424 00:18:56.869 --> 00:18:58.837 MOSTLY A PLEASURE TO BE HERE AT 425 00:18:58.837 --> 00:18:59.972 GODDARD. 426 00:18:59.972 --> 00:19:01.707 THERE WERE A COUPLE OF MEETINGS, 427 00:19:01.707 --> 00:19:03.108 A COUPLE OF MISSIONS THAT GOT 428 00:19:03.108 --> 00:19:04.743 DICEY, BUT TODAY IT IS A 429 00:19:04.743 --> 00:19:06.478 PLEASURE TO BE HERE AT GODDARD. 430 00:19:06.478 --> 00:19:07.746 NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. 431 00:19:07.746 --> 00:19:09.314 SOME OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE 432 00:19:09.314 --> 00:19:10.449 RESEARCH AND SCIENCE MISSIONS 433 00:19:10.449 --> 00:19:11.783 ARE HAPPENING RIGHT HERE IN 434 00:19:11.783 --> 00:19:15.487 GREEN BELT, MARYLAND. 435 00:19:15.487 --> 00:19:17.489 A SAFE DISTANCE, I'M NOT SURE IN 436 00:19:17.489 --> 00:19:19.358 EVERYONE WOULD AGREE, FROM WHAT 437 00:19:19.358 --> 00:19:21.360 WE CALL INSIDE THE BELTWAY AT 438 00:19:21.360 --> 00:19:22.427 HEADQUARTERS. 439 00:19:22.427 --> 00:19:23.896 I LIKE TO JOKE, I'M FROM 440 00:19:23.896 --> 00:19:26.598 HEADQUARTERS, I'M HERE TO HELP. 441 00:19:26.598 --> 00:19:27.599 MAYBE I AM, AND SOMETIMES YOU 442 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:29.601 THINK I'M NOT, BUT IT IS A 443 00:19:29.601 --> 00:19:31.170 DISTINCT HONOR TO BE HERE TO 444 00:19:31.170 --> 00:19:33.005 PRESENT OUR SPECIAL GUESTS 445 00:19:33.005 --> 00:19:35.140 NASA'S HIGHEST AWARDS, THE 446 00:19:35.140 --> 00:19:37.276 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE, AND 447 00:19:37.276 --> 00:19:38.544 DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVICE 448 00:19:38.544 --> 00:19:39.411 MEDALS. 449 00:19:39.411 --> 00:19:40.679 THE ADMINISTRATOR REALLY DID 450 00:19:40.679 --> 00:19:42.414 WANT TO BE HERE TO HOST TODAY'S 451 00:19:42.414 --> 00:19:44.082 CEREMONY, BUT AS MELANIE 452 00:19:44.082 --> 00:19:46.251 MENTIONED, JIM IS ON THE ROAD, 453 00:19:46.251 --> 00:19:48.253 TIRELESSLY MAKING THE CASE FOR 454 00:19:48.253 --> 00:19:50.088 ARTEMIS, MAKING THE CASE FOR 455 00:19:50.088 --> 00:19:52.624 GETTING TO MOON AND ON TO MARS, 456 00:19:52.624 --> 00:19:54.526 AND WHILE CONTINUING 457 00:19:54.526 --> 00:19:56.895 GROUND-BREAKING ACHIEVEMENTS IN 458 00:19:56.895 --> 00:19:59.031 GIANTS, AERONAUTICS RESEARCH, 459 00:19:59.031 --> 00:20:02.067 AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY, MAKING THE 460 00:20:02.067 --> 00:20:03.468 CASE WHY WE NEED PEOPLE LIKE YOU 461 00:20:03.468 --> 00:20:05.204 WORKING ON AMERICA'S FUTURE IN 462 00:20:05.204 --> 00:20:10.576 SPACE. 463 00:20:10.576 --> 00:20:14.012 >> EARLIER, MELANIE MENTIONED 464 00:20:14.012 --> 00:20:16.682 THE SECOND SERVICE MEDAL. 465 00:20:16.682 --> 00:20:18.116 DO YOU KNOW WHO RECEIVED THE 466 00:20:18.116 --> 00:20:19.384 FIRST? 467 00:20:19.384 --> 00:20:20.586 IT'S NOT A NAME THAT YOU 468 00:20:20.586 --> 00:20:25.090 RECOGNIZE IN THERING ANNALS OF 469 00:20:25.090 --> 00:20:26.525 SPACE HISTORY. 470 00:20:26.525 --> 00:20:28.660 IT WAS GUS CROWLEY, AND IN 1959 471 00:20:28.660 --> 00:20:30.095 HE WAS AWARDED THE AGENCY'S 472 00:20:30.095 --> 00:20:32.231 FIRST MEDAL. 473 00:20:32.231 --> 00:20:33.498 JUSTICE JOIN LANGLEY IN 1921 474 00:20:33.498 --> 00:20:35.100 AFTER GETTING HIS ENGINEERING 475 00:20:35.100 --> 00:20:37.369 DEGREE FROM M.I.T. 476 00:20:37.369 --> 00:20:40.072 HE HAD A LOT OF CHOICE OF 477 00:20:40.072 --> 00:20:42.474 CENTERS TO GO TO, IT WAS LANGLEY 478 00:20:42.474 --> 00:20:43.642 OR LANGLEY. 479 00:20:43.642 --> 00:20:44.209 THAT'S IT. 480 00:20:44.209 --> 00:20:47.446 HE BECAME AHEAD OF NACA 481 00:20:47.446 --> 00:20:51.717 RESEARCH, NASA'S PREDECESSORS, 482 00:20:51.717 --> 00:20:54.419 AND HELPED HUGH DRYDEN 483 00:20:54.419 --> 00:20:56.722 TRANSITION THE AERONAUTICS 484 00:20:56.722 --> 00:20:59.024 RESEARCH FROM WAR TO PEACETIME. 485 00:20:59.024 --> 00:21:04.896 WHEN NACA BECAME NASA IN 1958, 486 00:21:04.896 --> 00:21:06.498 GUS BECAME THE DIRECTOR OF 487 00:21:06.498 --> 00:21:09.334 AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH AREA KNOWN 488 00:21:09.334 --> 00:21:11.236 AS "SPACE." 489 00:21:11.236 --> 00:21:12.504 MY POINT IS YOU DO NOT HAVE TO 490 00:21:12.504 --> 00:21:15.774 BE A KNOWN OR FAMOUS NAME TO 491 00:21:15.774 --> 00:21:17.643 SHAPE THE FUTURE OF NASA OR 492 00:21:17.643 --> 00:21:19.444 SPACE AERONAUTICS. 493 00:21:19.444 --> 00:21:23.615 ALL OF YOU HERE TODAY ARE DOING 494 00:21:23.615 --> 00:21:25.183 THAT, AND MANY ARE STILL DOING 495 00:21:25.183 --> 00:21:26.051 THAT TODAY. 496 00:21:26.051 --> 00:21:29.821 THE WORLD KNOWS THE VERY PUBLIC 497 00:21:29.821 --> 00:21:31.456 FACE OF NASA WITH OUR LAUNCHES 498 00:21:31.456 --> 00:21:34.693 AND ASTRONAUTS AND SCIENCE 499 00:21:34.693 --> 00:21:36.595 MISSIONS TO OTHER PLANETS AND 500 00:21:36.595 --> 00:21:38.430 OUR EX-PLANES. 501 00:21:38.430 --> 00:21:40.399 HOWEVER, I WONDER IT IF PEOPLE 502 00:21:40.399 --> 00:21:42.134 REALIZE THE FULL SCOPE OF WORK 503 00:21:42.134 --> 00:21:47.139 THAT PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE DOING, 504 00:21:47.139 --> 00:21:48.674 AMAZING, INCREDIBLE, 505 00:21:48.674 --> 00:21:50.375 UNPRECEDENTED THINGS. 506 00:21:50.375 --> 00:21:51.677 AND IT'S OUR GREAT PRIVILEGE 507 00:21:51.677 --> 00:21:53.078 WITH THE HONOR AWARDS TO TELL 508 00:21:53.078 --> 00:21:54.513 YOUR STORIES AND ACKNOWLEDGE 509 00:21:54.513 --> 00:21:56.081 YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS, LOOKING AT 510 00:21:56.081 --> 00:21:57.916 YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS YOU CAN SEE 511 00:21:57.916 --> 00:22:00.052 WHAT AN IMPRESSIVE ARRAY OF 512 00:22:00.052 --> 00:22:01.620 TALENTED PEOPLE IT TAKES TO GET 513 00:22:01.620 --> 00:22:07.826 OUR AERONAUTICS RESEARCH IN 514 00:22:07.826 --> 00:22:09.895 FLIGHT AND OUR AEROSPACE EFFORTS 515 00:22:09.895 --> 00:22:10.896 OFF THE GROUND. 516 00:22:10.896 --> 00:22:12.464 WORKING TOGETHER AS A NASA TEAM, 517 00:22:12.464 --> 00:22:14.466 AND BEING ABLE TO RELY ON EACH 518 00:22:14.466 --> 00:22:16.134 OTHER IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO GET 519 00:22:16.134 --> 00:22:17.569 THE FIRST WOMAN AND NEXT MAN ON 520 00:22:17.569 --> 00:22:19.304 THE MOON AS PART OF THE ARTEMIS 521 00:22:19.304 --> 00:22:20.872 PROJECT IN 2024. 522 00:22:20.872 --> 00:22:22.541 WE'RE AN INVESTMENT IN AMERICA'S 523 00:22:22.541 --> 00:22:23.008 FUTURE. 524 00:22:23.008 --> 00:22:26.812 THAT INVESTMENT IS GOING TO 525 00:22:26.812 --> 00:22:29.648 RETURN DIVIDENDS IN THE FORM OF 526 00:22:29.648 --> 00:22:31.016 NEW TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE GOING 527 00:22:31.016 --> 00:22:32.818 TO HELP US GET DEEPER INTO 528 00:22:32.818 --> 00:22:36.088 SPACE, AND TO HELP EVERYONE 529 00:22:36.088 --> 00:22:37.356 RIGHT HERE ON EARTH. 530 00:22:37.356 --> 00:22:39.491 JUST IN THE PAST YEAR WE'VE SEEN 531 00:22:39.491 --> 00:22:40.926 IMPRESSIVE ADVANCEMENTS IN 532 00:22:40.926 --> 00:22:42.494 GETTING ARTEMIS ONE OFF THE 533 00:22:42.494 --> 00:22:43.028 GROUND. 534 00:22:43.028 --> 00:22:44.463 WE'RE CLOSER THAN EVER TO 535 00:22:44.463 --> 00:22:47.632 RETURNING THE LAUNCH OF AMERICAN 536 00:22:47.632 --> 00:22:49.301 ASTRONAUTS, ON AMERICAN ROCKETS 537 00:22:49.301 --> 00:22:51.436 FROM AMERICAN SOIL AS PART OF 538 00:22:51.436 --> 00:22:52.604 OUR COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM. 539 00:22:52.604 --> 00:22:56.041 THE PATH-FINDING WORK WILL HELP 540 00:22:56.041 --> 00:22:57.843 PAVE THE WAY FOR FUTURE HUMAN 541 00:22:57.843 --> 00:22:59.144 MISSIONS TO FOUND. 542 00:22:59.144 --> 00:23:02.147 WE'VE FOUND MORE EXPO PLANETS IN 543 00:23:02.147 --> 00:23:03.014 DEEP SPACE. 544 00:23:03.014 --> 00:23:03.482 IT'S AMAZING. 545 00:23:03.482 --> 00:23:07.786 I THINK EVERYONE KNEW THAT THERE 546 00:23:07.786 --> 00:23:09.454 WERE PLANETS AROUND OTHER STARS, 547 00:23:09.454 --> 00:23:11.056 BUT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE FINDING 548 00:23:11.056 --> 00:23:11.656 OUT THERE. 549 00:23:11.656 --> 00:23:14.493 WE'RE FLYING TECHNOLOGIES IN 550 00:23:14.493 --> 00:23:16.228 SPACE TO ENABLE OUR ARTEMIS 551 00:23:16.228 --> 00:23:17.662 PLANS AND ULTIMATELY SEND 552 00:23:17.662 --> 00:23:19.464 ASTRONAUTS TO MARS. 553 00:23:19.464 --> 00:23:20.198 OUR AERONAUTICS PROGRAM IS 554 00:23:20.198 --> 00:23:21.900 MAKING IT FASTER AND SAFER FOR 555 00:23:21.900 --> 00:23:23.335 US TO FLY, AND FOR THE FIRST 556 00:23:23.335 --> 00:23:25.303 TIME WE'RE INTEGRATING DRONES 557 00:23:25.303 --> 00:23:26.471 INTO COMMERCIAL AIR SPACE. 558 00:23:26.471 --> 00:23:31.576 ALL THE AMAZING THINGS WE'RE 559 00:23:31.576 --> 00:23:32.444 DOING IS BECAUSE OF YOUR TALENT 560 00:23:32.444 --> 00:23:34.413 AND DEDICATION, AND TIRELESS 561 00:23:34.413 --> 00:23:37.115 EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE NASA'S 562 00:23:37.115 --> 00:23:39.584 AMBITIOUS GOALIES AND MISSIONS. 563 00:23:39.584 --> 00:23:41.386 BUT THE PEOPLE WE'LL CELEBRATING 564 00:23:41.386 --> 00:23:42.821 TODAY DID NOT GET TO THIS STAGE 565 00:23:42.821 --> 00:23:43.855 ON THEIR OWN. 566 00:23:43.855 --> 00:23:45.290 NOT ONLY ARE THEY AMAZING 567 00:23:45.290 --> 00:23:51.363 INDIVIDUALS, THEY MADE AN IMPACT 568 00:23:51.363 --> 00:23:54.065 ON SOMEONE WHO NOMINATED THEM 569 00:23:54.065 --> 00:23:55.100 FOR THIS AWARD. 570 00:23:55.100 --> 00:23:56.902 I HOPE THAT GOING FORWARD EACH 571 00:23:56.902 --> 00:23:58.503 OF YOU IN THIS AUDIENCE AND 572 00:23:58.503 --> 00:24:00.338 WATCHING ON TV WILL CONSIDER 573 00:24:00.338 --> 00:24:01.773 NOMINATING A COLLEAGUE FOR AN 574 00:24:01.773 --> 00:24:03.341 HONOR AWARD. 575 00:24:03.341 --> 00:24:05.410 WE'RE BLESSED TO BE SURROUNDED 576 00:24:05.410 --> 00:24:06.678 BY EXCELLENCE. 577 00:24:06.678 --> 00:24:08.847 FINALLY, I WANT TO COMMEND EACH 578 00:24:08.847 --> 00:24:13.018 OF OUR DISTINGUISHED HONORARIES 579 00:24:13.018 --> 00:24:14.853 FOR BEING A MENTOR AND ROLE 580 00:24:14.853 --> 00:24:15.320 MODEL. 581 00:24:15.320 --> 00:24:24.830 JUST INCREDIBLE MENTORS, AND I 582 00:24:24.830 --> 00:24:26.398 TRIED TO PAY THAT FORWARD IN MY 583 00:24:26.398 --> 00:24:26.965 CAREER. 584 00:24:26.965 --> 00:24:29.801 I KNOW YOUR PEERS AND EVERYONE 585 00:24:29.801 --> 00:24:31.803 YOU WORK WITH CAN ATTEST YOUR 586 00:24:31.803 --> 00:24:33.238 IMPACT ON MISSIONS AND 587 00:24:33.238 --> 00:24:35.507 ORGANIZATIONS EVERY DAY. 588 00:24:35.507 --> 00:24:37.075 MENTORS ARE INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT 589 00:24:37.075 --> 00:24:38.777 IN OUR FIELD, AND WE CONSTANTLY 590 00:24:38.777 --> 00:24:41.346 SEE THE TORCH PASSED THROUGH 591 00:24:41.346 --> 00:24:43.048 KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING, SERVICE TO 592 00:24:43.048 --> 00:24:45.050 OTHERS, AND THE INSPIRATION THAT 593 00:24:45.050 --> 00:24:51.189 WILL KEEP OUR WORK VIABLE AND 594 00:24:51.189 --> 00:24:53.558 DYNAMIC FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. 595 00:24:53.558 --> 00:24:55.293 I HOPE YOU ALL WILL TAKE PRIDE 596 00:24:55.293 --> 00:24:56.428 IN THAT. 597 00:24:56.428 --> 00:24:57.863 IT'S A HIGH CALLING. 598 00:24:57.863 --> 00:25:00.699 I'M SURE IN 1959 GUS CROWLEY 599 00:25:00.699 --> 00:25:01.967 UNDERSTOOD THE DEDICATION AND 600 00:25:01.967 --> 00:25:04.035 HARD WORK IT TOOK TO GET THERE. 601 00:25:04.035 --> 00:25:05.637 HE WASN'T LOOKING FOR ACCOLADES 602 00:25:05.637 --> 00:25:07.205 AND MEDALS. 603 00:25:07.205 --> 00:25:08.607 HE SIMPLY WANTED TO MAKE A 604 00:25:08.607 --> 00:25:08.907 DIFFERENCE. 605 00:25:08.907 --> 00:25:13.512 WILL IS A SELFLESSNESS TO YOUR 606 00:25:13.512 --> 00:25:15.814 DEDICATION AS WELL TO OUR ENTIRE 607 00:25:15.814 --> 00:25:17.482 NASA FAMILY THAT MAKES ME PROUD 608 00:25:17.482 --> 00:25:19.084 TO WORK WITH EACH AND EVERY ONE 609 00:25:19.084 --> 00:25:20.785 OF YOU EVERY DAY. 610 00:25:20.785 --> 00:25:22.487 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, 611 00:25:22.487 --> 00:25:24.623 THANK YOU TO THE FAMILIES WHO 612 00:25:24.623 --> 00:25:26.057 ARE HERE AND WATCHING ACROSS THE 613 00:25:26.057 --> 00:25:26.892 NATION. 614 00:25:26.892 --> 00:25:28.894 THESE HONORS ARE RICHLY DESERVED 615 00:25:28.894 --> 00:25:31.196 NOW I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE 616 00:25:31.196 --> 00:25:33.331 MELANIE SAUNDERS UP SO WE CAN 617 00:25:33.331 --> 00:25:35.700 GET TO THE GOOD PART AND HAND 618 00:25:35.700 --> 00:25:45.110 OUT THE AWARDS. 619 00:25:45.110 --> 00:25:47.812 >> THANK YOU, MR. JURCZYK, 620 00:25:47.812 --> 00:25:49.915 MS. SAUNDERS, MR. MORROW FOR 621 00:25:49.915 --> 00:25:51.950 YOUR ENTHUSIASM, LEADERSHIP, AND 622 00:25:51.950 --> 00:25:54.085 ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF EXTRAORDINARY 623 00:25:54.085 --> 00:25:55.620 PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUPPORTED THE 624 00:25:55.620 --> 00:25:57.722 NASA MISSION ACROSS THE AGENCY. 625 00:25:57.722 --> 00:25:58.924 WITH THAT WE'LL BEGIN THE 626 00:25:58.924 --> 00:26:00.325 PRESENTATION OF THE AWARDS. 627 00:26:00.325 --> 00:26:03.328 FIRST AWARD IS A DISTINGUISHED 628 00:26:03.328 --> 00:26:03.828 SERVICE MEDAL. 629 00:26:03.828 --> 00:26:07.866 THIS IS NASA'S HIGHEST FORM OF 630 00:26:07.866 --> 00:26:09.534 RECOGNITION THAT IS AWARDED TO A 631 00:26:09.534 --> 00:26:10.702 GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE WHOSE 632 00:26:10.702 --> 00:26:11.570 CONTRIBUTIONS ARE SO 633 00:26:11.570 --> 00:26:13.004 EXTRAORDINARY THAT OTHER FORMS 634 00:26:13.004 --> 00:26:14.739 OF RECOGNITION BY NASA WOULD BE 635 00:26:14.739 --> 00:26:15.840 INADEQUATE. 636 00:26:15.840 --> 00:26:18.710 OUR FIRST HONOREE TODAY IS 637 00:26:18.710 --> 00:26:22.981 DR. RICHARD ANTCLIFF. 638 00:26:22.981 --> 00:26:25.283 >> RICH, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 639 00:26:25.283 --> 00:26:30.956 RECEIVING THE SERVICE MEDAL. 640 00:26:30.956 --> 00:26:33.525 YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO NASA 641 00:26:33.525 --> 00:26:36.928 INCLUDES TECHNICAL, PROBLEMATIC 642 00:26:36.928 --> 00:26:38.930 AND LEADERSHIP ACCOMPLISHMENTS, 643 00:26:38.930 --> 00:26:40.632 ALL OF WHICH HAVE HAD LASTING 644 00:26:40.632 --> 00:26:41.366 IMPACTS. 645 00:26:41.366 --> 00:26:42.467 I CAN'T COVER EVERYTHING IN THIS 646 00:26:42.467 --> 00:26:44.002 SHORT VIDEO, BUT ONE THING THAT 647 00:26:44.002 --> 00:26:46.204 I TRULY APPRECIATED AND RELIED 648 00:26:46.204 --> 00:26:48.640 ON IN YOUR ROLE AS LANGLEY'S 649 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:50.875 SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM IS NEVER 650 00:26:50.875 --> 00:26:53.311 SETTLING FOR THE STATUS QUO. 651 00:26:53.311 --> 00:26:54.446 YOU ALWAYS ASK WHY OR MORE 652 00:26:54.446 --> 00:26:58.883 IMPORTANTLY, WHY NOT. 653 00:26:58.883 --> 00:27:00.285 YOU HAVE FORCED US TO LOOK AT 654 00:27:00.285 --> 00:27:01.586 DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS. 655 00:27:01.586 --> 00:27:04.756 YOU EPITOMIZE AN "OUT OF THE 656 00:27:04.756 --> 00:27:06.191 BOX" THINKER. 657 00:27:06.191 --> 00:27:10.328 THANK YOU, AND KEEP PUSHING. 658 00:27:10.328 --> 00:27:11.563 >> DR. ANTCLIFF IS BEING 659 00:27:11.563 --> 00:27:12.764 RECOGNIZED FOR A CAREER OF 660 00:27:12.764 --> 00:27:14.399 EXTRAORDINARY CONTRIBUTIONS 661 00:27:14.399 --> 00:27:15.500 INCLUDING INNOVATIVE 662 00:27:15.500 --> 00:27:19.070 PARTNERSHIPS, PIONEERING 663 00:27:19.070 --> 00:27:20.672 APPROACHES AND FUTURISTIC 664 00:27:20.672 --> 00:27:22.807 VISIONING IN SUPPORT OF NASA'S 665 00:27:22.807 --> 00:27:23.141 MISSION. 666 00:27:23.141 --> 00:27:32.617 [APPLAUSE] 667 00:27:32.617 --> 00:27:33.885 >> THE NEXT HONOREE IS 668 00:27:33.885 --> 00:27:39.391 MR. RICHARD BARNEY. 669 00:27:39.391 --> 00:27:40.725 >> RICH BARNEY WAS THE VERY 670 00:27:40.725 --> 00:27:43.395 FIRST HEAD OF GODDARD'S 671 00:27:43.395 --> 00:27:44.562 DEVELOPMENT BRANCH. 672 00:27:44.562 --> 00:27:52.103 HE DEVELOPED NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR 673 00:27:52.103 --> 00:27:53.471 KOBE CONTRIBUTED TO THE 674 00:27:53.471 --> 00:27:56.341 FIRST-EVER AGENCY NOBEL PRIZE. 675 00:27:56.341 --> 00:27:59.244 HE LED THE REVOLUTIONARY 676 00:27:59.244 --> 00:28:01.780 TRANSFORMATION WITH FAR-REACHING 677 00:28:01.780 --> 00:28:03.648 IMPACTS ACROSS THE AGENCY, AND 678 00:28:03.648 --> 00:28:04.282 INDUSTRY. 679 00:28:04.282 --> 00:28:06.685 THE LEGACY OF IMPACT AND LIVING 680 00:28:06.685 --> 00:28:08.253 OUT HIS MANTRA THAT YOU'RE ONLY 681 00:28:08.253 --> 00:28:09.988 AS GOOD AS THOSE AROUND YOU HAVE 682 00:28:09.988 --> 00:28:12.190 ENABLED THE AGENCY TO REACH 683 00:28:12.190 --> 00:28:14.325 FARTHER AND ACHIEVE HIGHER. 684 00:28:14.325 --> 00:28:15.460 CONGRATULATIONS. 685 00:28:15.460 --> 00:28:17.429 >> MR. BARNEY IS BEING 686 00:28:17.429 --> 00:28:18.697 RECOGNIZED FOR OUTSTANDING 687 00:28:18.697 --> 00:28:20.131 LEADERSHIP FOR NASA AND THE 688 00:28:20.131 --> 00:28:21.299 COUNTRY IN INSTRUMENT 689 00:28:21.299 --> 00:28:22.000 DEVELOPMENT, SYSTEMS 690 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:23.702 ENGINEERING, SAFETY AND MISSION 691 00:28:23.702 --> 00:28:25.570 ASSURANCE. 692 00:28:25.570 --> 00:28:39.217 [APPLAUSE] 693 00:28:39.217 --> 00:28:42.053 ♪ 694 00:28:42.053 --> 00:28:43.221 >> OUR NEXT HONOREE IS 695 00:28:43.221 --> 00:28:47.358 MR. DARREN BEDELL. 696 00:28:47.358 --> 00:28:49.327 >> I'VE KNOWN DARREN BEDELL FOR 697 00:28:49.327 --> 00:28:51.296 OVER 20 YEARS, AND I'M THRILLED 698 00:28:51.296 --> 00:28:53.298 THAT HE'S RECEIVING THIS HONOR 699 00:28:53.298 --> 00:28:55.033 FROM NASA. 700 00:28:55.033 --> 00:28:56.134 DARREN MOVE TO THE SPACE CENTER 701 00:28:56.134 --> 00:28:57.736 WHEN HE HELPED TO BUILD THE 702 00:28:57.736 --> 00:28:59.471 PROGRAM FROM THE GROUND UP. 703 00:28:59.471 --> 00:29:01.306 AS LONG AS I'VE KNOWN DARREN HE 704 00:29:01.306 --> 00:29:04.642 HAS PUSHED THE BOUNDARIES IN 705 00:29:04.642 --> 00:29:06.578 ORDER TO MAKE THE PROGRAM WHAT 706 00:29:06.578 --> 00:29:07.178 IT IS TODAY. 707 00:29:07.178 --> 00:29:10.482 HE HEAVENS EMPLOYEES UNDERSTAND 708 00:29:10.482 --> 00:29:12.684 THE PROGRAM AND HOW WE CAN HELP 709 00:29:12.684 --> 00:29:14.686 OUR CUSTOMERS ON THE SPACECRAFT 710 00:29:14.686 --> 00:29:16.087 MISSION SIDE. 711 00:29:16.087 --> 00:29:16.654 DARREN, THANK YOU FOR ALL OF 712 00:29:16.654 --> 00:29:17.689 YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS, AND 713 00:29:17.689 --> 00:29:19.758 CONGRATULATIONS FROM EVERYONE IN 714 00:29:19.758 --> 00:29:22.227 THE LAUNCH SERVICES PROGRAM. 715 00:29:22.227 --> 00:29:24.329 >> MR. BEDELL IS RECOGNIZED FOR 716 00:29:24.329 --> 00:29:25.630 DRIVING THE CULTURE AND 717 00:29:25.630 --> 00:29:27.031 CAPABILITIES THAT HAVE RESULTED 718 00:29:27.031 --> 00:29:28.466 IN UNPARALLELED COMMERCIAL 719 00:29:28.466 --> 00:29:30.201 LAUNCH SERVICES, ENABLING OVER 720 00:29:30.201 --> 00:29:32.036 100 NASA MISSIONS TO ACHIEVE 721 00:29:32.036 --> 00:29:35.907 THEIR DESTINATIONS. 722 00:29:35.907 --> 00:29:36.307 [APPLAUSE] 723 00:29:36.307 --> 00:29:48.119 THE NEXT HONOREE IS MR. THOMAS 724 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:51.656 BRYAN. 725 00:29:51.656 --> 00:29:52.690 >> TOM BRYAN IS ONE OF THIS 726 00:29:52.690 --> 00:29:55.360 YEAR'S RECIPIENTS OF THE 727 00:29:55.360 --> 00:30:00.932 PRESTIGIOUS NASA SERVICE MEDAL. 728 00:30:00.932 --> 00:30:03.067 TOM HAS GENEROUSLY DEDICATED 40 729 00:30:03.067 --> 00:30:05.069 YEARS OF HIS LIFE TO NASA'S 730 00:30:05.069 --> 00:30:06.638 MISSION, IMPACTING HUNDREDS OF 731 00:30:06.638 --> 00:30:07.906 PROJECTS IN THE MEANTIME. 732 00:30:07.906 --> 00:30:11.209 TOM'S WORLD CLASS CONTRIBUTIONS 733 00:30:11.209 --> 00:30:13.578 TO MISSION SUCCESS ARE ONLY 734 00:30:13.578 --> 00:30:15.880 CLIPSED BY HIS BRILLIANCE IN 735 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:19.150 MENTORING YOUNG ENGINEERS. 736 00:30:19.150 --> 00:30:21.386 ON GOOD DAYS, AND THERE ARE MANY 737 00:30:21.386 --> 00:30:23.254 OF THOSE, TOM CAN BE SEEN 738 00:30:23.254 --> 00:30:25.390 LEAVING MY OFFICE SAYING, AND I 739 00:30:25.390 --> 00:30:27.525 QUOTE, I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU PAY 740 00:30:27.525 --> 00:30:30.395 ME TO DO WHAT I LOVE TO DO. 741 00:30:30.395 --> 00:30:34.599 CONGRATULATIONS, TOM. 742 00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:35.934 >> MR. BRYAN IS BEING RECOGNIZED 743 00:30:35.934 --> 00:30:36.968 FOR EXTRAORDINARY AND 744 00:30:36.968 --> 00:30:38.169 DISTINGUISHED LEADERSHIP SERVICE 745 00:30:38.169 --> 00:30:39.671 IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NASA'S 746 00:30:39.671 --> 00:30:41.406 HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT MISSIONS AND 747 00:30:41.406 --> 00:30:41.806 PROGRAMS. 748 00:30:41.806 --> 00:30:42.106 [APPLAUSE] 749 00:30:42.106 --> 00:31:13.538 OUR NEXT HONOREE IS MR. RAIN 750 00:31:13.538 --> 00:31:14.339 CARTER. 751 00:31:14.339 --> 00:31:16.107 >> HE HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTED IN 752 00:31:16.107 --> 00:31:19.210 THE DEVELOPMENT AND LONG-TERM 753 00:31:19.210 --> 00:31:20.378 ACTIVATION OF THE WATER SYSTEM 754 00:31:20.378 --> 00:31:22.947 ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 755 00:31:22.947 --> 00:31:24.215 STATION. 756 00:31:24.215 --> 00:31:25.583 FROM THESE CAPABILITIES TO 757 00:31:25.583 --> 00:31:31.890 SYSTEMS THAT WILL MAKE PRESENCE 758 00:31:31.890 --> 00:31:35.293 MORE VIABLE, BECAUSE OF HIS 759 00:31:35.293 --> 00:31:36.861 SENSE OF HUMAN IN WORKING WITH 760 00:31:36.861 --> 00:31:39.864 HUMAN WASTE PROCESSING SYSTEM IS 761 00:31:39.864 --> 00:31:40.598 ESSENTIAL. 762 00:31:40.598 --> 00:31:44.302 NASA WILL SEND HUMANS TO THE 763 00:31:44.302 --> 00:31:47.505 MOON AND MARS WITH SAFE DRINKING 764 00:31:47.505 --> 00:31:50.909 WATER IN LARGE PART DUE TO 765 00:31:50.909 --> 00:31:53.678 MR. CARTER. 766 00:31:53.678 --> 00:31:55.313 MR. CARTER IS BEING RECOGNIZED 767 00:31:55.313 --> 00:31:56.648 FOR EXCEPTIONAL TECHNICAL 768 00:31:56.648 --> 00:31:57.515 SUPPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL 769 00:31:57.515 --> 00:31:58.950 SPACE STATION ENVIRONMENTAL 770 00:31:58.950 --> 00:32:00.919 CONTROL AND LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM. 771 00:32:00.919 --> 00:32:04.722 AS THE AGENCY EXPERT IN 772 00:32:04.722 --> 00:32:06.691 SPACECRAFT WATER SYSTEMS. 773 00:32:06.691 --> 00:32:17.769 [APPLAUSE] 774 00:32:17.769 --> 00:32:21.739 THE NEXT HONOREE IS MR. RICKY 775 00:32:21.739 --> 00:32:22.840 CISSOM. 776 00:32:22.840 --> 00:32:24.409 >> OVER HIS 30-YEAR CAREER, 777 00:32:24.409 --> 00:32:26.411 RICKY CISSOM HAS BEEN ONE OF 778 00:32:26.411 --> 00:32:29.247 THESE GUYS WHO IS THE SET-UP GUY 779 00:32:29.247 --> 00:32:31.549 OF TWO IDEAS. 780 00:32:31.549 --> 00:32:34.252 HE WORKED ON INTERGOVERNMENT 781 00:32:34.252 --> 00:32:35.420 AGREEMENTS AND HOW THE SPACE 782 00:32:35.420 --> 00:32:36.688 STATION WOULD WORK WITH 783 00:32:36.688 --> 00:32:37.822 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS. 784 00:32:37.822 --> 00:32:39.791 HE SET UP THE PAYLOAD OPERATION 785 00:32:39.791 --> 00:32:41.359 OFFICE AND FOUND WAYS TO ALLOW 786 00:32:41.359 --> 00:32:42.927 US TO OPERATE PAYLOADS FROM 787 00:32:42.927 --> 00:32:44.028 ACROSS THE WORLD. 788 00:32:44.028 --> 00:32:45.330 HE THEN MOVED INTO CONTRACTING 789 00:32:45.330 --> 00:32:48.199 AND CAME UP WITH CREATIVE WAYS 790 00:32:48.199 --> 00:32:51.169 TO MOVE STATION FROM 791 00:32:51.169 --> 00:32:53.338 PERFORMANCE-BASED CONTRACTS INTO 792 00:32:53.338 --> 00:32:55.606 CONTRACTS WHERE WE ALLOWED THE 793 00:32:55.606 --> 00:32:56.874 COMMERCIAL COMPANIES TO USE 794 00:32:56.874 --> 00:32:58.309 THEIR APPROACHES AND BEST 795 00:32:58.309 --> 00:33:00.278 PRACTICE TO GET WORK DONE WITH 796 00:33:00.278 --> 00:33:02.547 MINIMAL GOVERNMENTAL OVERSIGHT. 797 00:33:02.547 --> 00:33:04.015 FOR ALL OF THESE REASONS RICKY 798 00:33:04.015 --> 00:33:07.185 IS DESERVING OF THIS SERVICE 799 00:33:07.185 --> 00:33:07.485 MEDAL. 800 00:33:07.485 --> 00:33:08.786 >> MR. CISSOM IS BEING 801 00:33:08.786 --> 00:33:10.054 RECOGNIZED FOR LIFELONG 802 00:33:10.054 --> 00:33:11.222 DEDICATION TO THE INTERNATIONAL 803 00:33:11.222 --> 00:33:15.259 SPACE STATION PROGRAM BY LEADING 804 00:33:15.259 --> 00:33:17.962 MULTIPLE CONTRACT RECOMPETES 805 00:33:17.962 --> 00:33:19.364 DRIVING THE CULTURE CHANGE TO 806 00:33:19.364 --> 00:33:21.265 USING COMMERCIAL APPROACHES FOR 807 00:33:21.265 --> 00:33:22.767 HISTORICALLY GOVERNMENT WORK. 808 00:33:22.767 --> 00:33:38.282 [APPLAUSE] 809 00:33:38.282 --> 00:33:40.418 ♪ 810 00:33:40.418 --> 00:33:41.986 >> OUR NEXT HONOREE IS BEING 811 00:33:41.986 --> 00:33:45.556 RECOGNIZED POSTHUMOUSLY. 812 00:33:45.556 --> 00:33:49.293 MR. JOSEPH CUZZUPOLI. 813 00:33:49.293 --> 00:33:50.695 >> THE NASA DISTINGUISHED 814 00:33:50.695 --> 00:33:52.997 SERVICE MEDAL IS AWARDED TO JOE 815 00:33:52.997 --> 00:33:54.665 CUZZUPOLI IN RECOGNITION OF HIS 816 00:33:54.665 --> 00:33:56.100 MANY YEARS OF EXCEPTIONAL 817 00:33:56.100 --> 00:33:57.802 SERVICE TO NASA AND OUTSTANDING 818 00:33:57.802 --> 00:33:59.637 50-PLUS YEAR CAREER IN 819 00:33:59.637 --> 00:34:00.671 AEROSPACE. 820 00:34:00.671 --> 00:34:02.340 MR. CUZZUPOLI PASSED AWAY IN 821 00:34:02.340 --> 00:34:03.775 MARCH 2019. 822 00:34:03.775 --> 00:34:04.876 HE BEGAN HIS CAREER WITH GENERAL 823 00:34:04.876 --> 00:34:07.278 DYNAMICS WORKING ON THE ATLAS 824 00:34:07.278 --> 00:34:08.713 ROCKET AND THEN PERFORMED KEY 825 00:34:08.713 --> 00:34:10.448 MANAGE THE ROLES FOR SEVERAL 826 00:34:10.448 --> 00:34:13.618 CONTRACTORS FOR THE APOLLO AND 827 00:34:13.618 --> 00:34:15.319 SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAMS. 828 00:34:15.319 --> 00:34:16.921 HE SERVED AS THE NASA 829 00:34:16.921 --> 00:34:19.157 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 830 00:34:19.157 --> 00:34:20.892 ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR OVER 20 831 00:34:20.892 --> 00:34:21.592 YEARS. 832 00:34:21.592 --> 00:34:22.860 IN ADDITION, MR. CUZZUPOLI 833 00:34:22.860 --> 00:34:24.295 CONTRIBUTED HIS VAST KNOWLEDGE 834 00:34:24.295 --> 00:34:25.863 TO SEVERAL ADVISORY TEAMS 835 00:34:25.863 --> 00:34:27.999 INCLUDING THE NASA ADVISORY 836 00:34:27.999 --> 00:34:31.235 COUNCIL'S TASK FORCE ON THE 837 00:34:31.235 --> 00:34:34.572 RENDEZVOUS AND DOCKING MISSIONS 838 00:34:34.572 --> 00:34:38.376 1996 TO 1998, AND THE TASK GROUP 839 00:34:38.376 --> 00:34:50.488 IN 2003-2005 AND THE EXPLORATION 840 00:34:50.488 --> 00:34:54.625 COMMITTEE. 841 00:34:54.625 --> 00:34:56.894 >> MR. CUZZUPOLI'S AWARD IS 842 00:34:56.894 --> 00:34:58.162 BEING ACCEPTED BY 843 00:34:58.162 --> 00:35:02.600 MRS. CUZZUPOLI. 844 00:35:02.600 --> 00:35:07.371 MR. CUZZUPOLI IS BEING 845 00:35:07.371 --> 00:35:08.639 RECOGNIZED FOR DISTINGUISHED 846 00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:10.608 SERVICE IN SUPPORT OF NASA'S 847 00:35:10.608 --> 00:35:13.277 MISSIONSINGS PAST AND PRESENT 848 00:35:13.277 --> 00:35:14.812 AND EXTRAORDINARY CONTRIBUTIONS 849 00:35:14.812 --> 00:35:16.681 TO BENEFIT OUR NATION'S 850 00:35:16.681 --> 00:35:19.383 AERONAUTICS SPACE PROGRAM FOR 851 00:35:19.383 --> 00:35:24.222 FUTURE GENERATIONS. 852 00:35:24.222 --> 00:35:24.489 [APPLAUSE] 853 00:35:24.489 --> 00:35:39.737 THE NEXT HONOREE IS MR. RUSS 854 00:35:39.737 --> 00:35:41.873 DELOACH. 855 00:35:41.873 --> 00:35:45.443 >> RUSS, YOU HAVE A SUPERPOWER, 856 00:35:45.443 --> 00:35:47.411 YOU JUST EMPOWER THAT VALUE OF 857 00:35:47.411 --> 00:35:49.547 HELPFULNESS, AND YOU HELP OTHERS 858 00:35:49.547 --> 00:35:50.581 ALONG THE WAY. 859 00:35:50.581 --> 00:35:51.983 THAT'S A SUPER ADVISORY TRAIT 860 00:35:51.983 --> 00:35:57.922 THAT IS DESERVING OF NASA'S 861 00:35:57.922 --> 00:36:03.060 HIGHEST AWARD. 862 00:36:03.060 --> 00:36:06.164 >> MR. DELOACH IS BEING 863 00:36:06.164 --> 00:36:07.431 RECOGNIZED FOR DISTINGUISHED AND 864 00:36:07.431 --> 00:36:10.835 EXEMPLARY SERVICE IN LEAD NASA 865 00:36:10.835 --> 00:36:15.740 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SAFETY 866 00:36:15.740 --> 00:36:18.342 MISSION ASSURANCE DIRECTORATE. 867 00:36:18.342 --> 00:36:18.609 [APPLAUSE] 868 00:36:18.609 --> 00:36:27.852 OUR NEXT HONOREE IS MR. DAN 869 00:36:27.852 --> 00:36:29.720 DITTMAN. 870 00:36:29.720 --> 00:36:30.988 >> THROUGHOUT THIS IMPRESSIVE 871 00:36:30.988 --> 00:36:32.823 CAREER, DAN'S VOICE WAS NOT 872 00:36:32.823 --> 00:36:34.258 NECESSARILY THE LOUDEST IN THE 873 00:36:34.258 --> 00:36:36.527 ROOM, BUT HIS WORDS CARRIED 874 00:36:36.527 --> 00:36:37.261 WEIGHT. 875 00:36:37.261 --> 00:36:39.530 HE WAS METHODICAL BUT CREATIVE. 876 00:36:39.530 --> 00:36:41.465 HE WAS CAUTIOUS BUT NOT 877 00:36:41.465 --> 00:36:42.233 HESITANT. 878 00:36:42.233 --> 00:36:45.069 HE WAS RESPECTFUL IN ASKING THE 879 00:36:45.069 --> 00:36:46.804 HARD QUESTIONS, AND HE LED FROM 880 00:36:46.804 --> 00:36:47.939 WITHIN AND NOT ABOVE. 881 00:36:47.939 --> 00:36:55.346 SO ALTHOUGH HE'S RETIRED, DAN 882 00:36:55.346 --> 00:36:56.781 CONTINUES TO SERVE THE NASA 883 00:36:56.781 --> 00:36:59.617 MISSION THROUGH THOSE HE MENTORS 884 00:36:59.617 --> 00:37:00.751 AND TRAINS. 885 00:37:00.751 --> 00:37:02.887 HE'S THE ONE, WHEN FACED WITH AN 886 00:37:02.887 --> 00:37:04.155 ENGINEERING CHALLENGE, FIGURE 887 00:37:04.155 --> 00:37:05.656 OUT THE RIGHT THING TO DO, THE 888 00:37:05.656 --> 00:37:07.225 RIGHT WAY TO FIX IT, AND THE 889 00:37:07.225 --> 00:37:08.659 RIGHT WAY TO GET THE TEAM TO 890 00:37:08.659 --> 00:37:10.628 MOVE FORWARD TO DOING THAT. 891 00:37:10.628 --> 00:37:12.530 SO CONGRATULATIONS, DAN. 892 00:37:12.530 --> 00:37:12.997 WELL DONE. 893 00:37:12.997 --> 00:37:14.832 THIS IS WELL DESERVED. 894 00:37:14.832 --> 00:37:16.100 >> MR. DITTMAN IS BEING 895 00:37:16.100 --> 00:37:18.236 RECOGNIZED FOR SUSTAINED IMPACT 896 00:37:18.236 --> 00:37:22.106 OVER THE ENTIRE PORTFOLIO OF 897 00:37:22.106 --> 00:37:28.913 NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER'S 898 00:37:28.913 --> 00:37:30.348 TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES THROUGH 899 00:37:30.348 --> 00:37:32.083 TRUSTED, THOROUGH, AND RELIABLE 900 00:37:32.083 --> 00:37:32.917 ENGINEERING. 901 00:37:32.917 --> 00:37:41.325 [APPLAUSE] 902 00:37:41.325 --> 00:37:43.628 >> THE NEXT HONOREE IS 903 00:37:43.628 --> 00:37:45.730 DR. MICHAEL FREILICH. 904 00:37:45.730 --> 00:37:47.865 >> IT'S MY GREAT HONOR TO 905 00:37:47.865 --> 00:37:50.268 CONGRATULATE MIKE FREILICH FOR 906 00:37:50.268 --> 00:37:52.403 RECEIVING THE AGENCY'S MOST 907 00:37:52.403 --> 00:37:54.272 PRESTIGIOUS AWARD, THE 908 00:37:54.272 --> 00:37:57.141 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL. 909 00:37:57.141 --> 00:37:58.542 MIKE HAS BEEN AN EARTH SCIENTIST 910 00:37:58.542 --> 00:38:00.945 FOR OVER 30 YEARS, AND HAS 911 00:38:00.945 --> 00:38:03.381 WORKED WITH NASA AS A UNIVERSITY 912 00:38:03.381 --> 00:38:08.152 PROFESSOR WITHIN NASA JPL AS A 913 00:38:08.152 --> 00:38:11.255 RESEARCHER, AND THEN HERE AT 914 00:38:11.255 --> 00:38:12.156 HEADQUARTERS. 915 00:38:12.156 --> 00:38:14.892 MIKE HAS HAD A HUGE IMPACT ON 916 00:38:14.892 --> 00:38:16.894 EARTH SCIENCE OVER ALL. 917 00:38:16.894 --> 00:38:17.762 THE ENTIRE NEW MISSION LINES 918 00:38:17.762 --> 00:38:19.463 THAT HE DESIGNED WITH HIS TEAM, 919 00:38:19.463 --> 00:38:21.299 MIKE WITH HIS STRENGTHS GOT 920 00:38:21.299 --> 00:38:23.868 THESE MISSIONS ON BOARD, AND 921 00:38:23.868 --> 00:38:25.169 SOME OF THEM ARE FLYING RIGHT 922 00:38:25.169 --> 00:38:27.705 NOW ON BOARD THE SPACE STATION. 923 00:38:27.705 --> 00:38:28.839 SOME OF THE MISSIONS THAT ARE UP 924 00:38:28.839 --> 00:38:34.111 THERE, ISAT 2 HAS HIS 925 00:38:34.111 --> 00:38:35.946 FINGERPRINT ON IT. 926 00:38:35.946 --> 00:38:37.114 HIS INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION 927 00:38:37.114 --> 00:38:39.984 IS EXEMPLARY, AND WE'RE REALLY 928 00:38:39.984 --> 00:38:43.087 EXCITED TO HAVING HONORED HERE 929 00:38:43.087 --> 00:38:45.523 AT THIS AGENCY THAT HE SO LOVES. 930 00:38:45.523 --> 00:38:46.791 >> DR. FREILICH IS BEING 931 00:38:46.791 --> 00:38:48.225 RECOGNIZED FOR A LIFETIME OF 932 00:38:48.225 --> 00:38:49.794 SUSTAINED LEADERSHIP, VISION, 933 00:38:49.794 --> 00:38:51.462 EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENTS IN 934 00:38:51.462 --> 00:38:53.064 EARTH SCIENCE AND COMMITMENT TO 935 00:38:53.064 --> 00:38:57.635 ADVANCING NASA'S MISSION. 936 00:38:57.635 --> 00:38:57.902 [APPLAUSE] 937 00:38:57.902 --> 00:39:14.118 OUR NEXT HONOREE IS MR. TYRELL 938 00:39:14.118 --> 00:39:15.553 HAWKINS. 939 00:39:15.553 --> 00:39:20.524 >> TYRELL IS DESERVING OF THE 940 00:39:20.524 --> 00:39:22.660 SERVICE MEDAL. 941 00:39:22.660 --> 00:39:23.794 HE HAS LED THROUGH MANY CHANGES 942 00:39:23.794 --> 00:39:25.930 CREDIT IT'S AS DIRECTORATE, 943 00:39:25.930 --> 00:39:28.065 LEADING TEAMS THROUGH FINAL 944 00:39:28.065 --> 00:39:30.501 PHASES OF THE SPACE YOU SHUTTLE 945 00:39:30.501 --> 00:39:32.636 PROGRAM, OR HELPING TO ORGANIZE 946 00:39:32.636 --> 00:39:34.205 AND MANAGE OFFICES AND WORKING 947 00:39:34.205 --> 00:39:36.040 TO GET ASTRONAUTS UP TO THE 948 00:39:36.040 --> 00:39:37.308 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 949 00:39:37.308 --> 00:39:38.476 THROUGHOUT THINKS WHOLE JOURNEY 950 00:39:38.476 --> 00:39:41.011 HE'S AN ADVOCATE FOR KEEPING THE 951 00:39:41.011 --> 00:39:44.448 TEAM MORALE HIGH AND HE'S A 952 00:39:44.448 --> 00:39:46.584 GREAT MENTOR FOR HIS COLLEAGUES. 953 00:39:46.584 --> 00:39:51.722 HE DOES THIS WITH A BIG SMILE ON 954 00:39:51.722 --> 00:39:52.556 HIS FACE. 955 00:39:52.556 --> 00:39:54.358 >> MR. HAWKINS IS BEING 956 00:39:54.358 --> 00:39:55.559 RECOGNIZED FOR EXCEPTIONAL 957 00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:58.529 LEADERSHIP AND IN DEVELOPING AND 958 00:39:58.529 --> 00:40:00.097 LEADING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE 959 00:40:00.097 --> 00:40:14.578 WITHIN NASA. 960 00:40:14.578 --> 00:40:17.348 >> THE NEXT HONOREE IS 961 00:40:17.348 --> 00:40:19.183 MR. ANDREW HUNTER. 962 00:40:19.183 --> 00:40:21.619 >> I'VE KNOWN ANDREW HUNTER FOR 963 00:40:21.619 --> 00:40:23.587 MOST OF MY NASA CAREER, HE'S 964 00:40:23.587 --> 00:40:27.558 BEEN AN OUTSTANDING LEADER FOR 965 00:40:27.558 --> 00:40:29.460 THE FINANCIAL COMMUNITY. 966 00:40:29.460 --> 00:40:32.296 HE HAS HELD POSITIONS IN THE 967 00:40:32.296 --> 00:40:38.969 MISSION DIRECTORATES. 968 00:40:38.969 --> 00:40:42.540 HE WAS NOT ONLY AN OUTSTANDING 969 00:40:42.540 --> 00:40:43.641 LEADER FOR THE FINANCIAL 970 00:40:43.641 --> 00:40:45.075 COMMUNITY BUT ALSO FOR THE 971 00:40:45.075 --> 00:40:47.077 AGENCY IN GETTING US THROUGH THE 972 00:40:47.077 --> 00:40:47.878 TRANSITION. 973 00:40:47.878 --> 00:40:49.914 HE'S THE DEFINITION OF A SERVANT 974 00:40:49.914 --> 00:40:51.348 LEADER TO ME, REALLY LOOKING OUT 975 00:40:51.348 --> 00:40:52.516 FOR HIS PEOPLE IN THE 976 00:40:52.516 --> 00:40:53.484 ORGANIZATION AND THE MISSION OF 977 00:40:53.484 --> 00:40:55.052 THE ORGANIZATION. 978 00:40:55.052 --> 00:40:57.354 AND WELL DESERVING OF THE 979 00:40:57.354 --> 00:40:59.190 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL. 980 00:40:59.190 --> 00:41:00.758 CONGRATULATIONS, ANDREW. 981 00:41:00.758 --> 00:41:01.859 >> MR. HUNTER IS BEING 982 00:41:01.859 --> 00:41:03.294 RECOGNIZED FOR A CAREER OF 983 00:41:03.294 --> 00:41:04.962 OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP TO NASA, 984 00:41:04.962 --> 00:41:06.230 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AND 985 00:41:06.230 --> 00:41:07.798 EXCEPTIONAL DEDICATION TO THE 986 00:41:07.798 --> 00:41:13.737 NASA'S CFO COMMUNITY AND BEYOND. 987 00:41:13.737 --> 00:41:14.004 [APPLAUSE] 988 00:41:14.004 --> 00:41:28.052 OUR NEXT HONOREE IS MS. DORSIE 989 00:41:28.052 --> 00:41:30.921 JONES. 990 00:41:30.921 --> 00:41:32.490 >> IT'S TRULY MY HORN TO 991 00:41:32.490 --> 00:41:34.625 NOMINATE DORSIE JONES FOR THE 992 00:41:34.625 --> 00:41:37.328 NASA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE 993 00:41:37.328 --> 00:41:38.462 MEDAL. 994 00:41:38.462 --> 00:41:41.065 DORSIE HAD A 35 YEAR CAREER 995 00:41:41.065 --> 00:41:41.599 HERE. 996 00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:43.601 SHE STARTED IN 1983, AND SHE 997 00:41:43.601 --> 00:41:45.169 PROCESSED ME IN ON MY FIRST DAY 998 00:41:45.169 --> 00:41:47.304 IN NASA IN 1991. 999 00:41:47.304 --> 00:41:48.439 SHE TOOK OVER LEADERSHIP OF THE 1000 00:41:48.439 --> 00:41:50.574 OFFICE IN 2006 WHERE SHE 1001 00:41:50.574 --> 00:41:52.276 MASTERFULLY GUIDED THE CENTER 1002 00:41:52.276 --> 00:41:54.979 AND ALL MATTERS HUMAN RESOURCES 1003 00:41:54.979 --> 00:41:57.648 UNTIL HER RETIREMENT AT THE END 1004 00:41:57.648 --> 00:41:58.382 OF 2018. 1005 00:41:58.382 --> 00:42:01.552 SHE WAS A TREMENDOUS COLLEAGUE, 1006 00:42:01.552 --> 00:42:03.521 A TRUSTED ADVISE YOU ARE AND A 1007 00:42:03.521 --> 00:42:06.123 GOOD FRIEND TO ME DURING MY NASA 1008 00:42:06.123 --> 00:42:06.891 CAREER. 1009 00:42:06.891 --> 00:42:08.158 I CAN THINK OF NO ONE MORE 1010 00:42:08.158 --> 00:42:09.560 DESERVING OF THE NASA 1011 00:42:09.560 --> 00:42:10.995 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL. 1012 00:42:10.995 --> 00:42:12.496 >> MS. JONES IS BEING RECOGNIZED 1013 00:42:12.496 --> 00:42:13.764 FOR SUSTAINED EXCEPTIONAL 1014 00:42:13.764 --> 00:42:15.199 SERVICE AND DISTINGUISHED 1015 00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:17.468 LEADERSHIP CONTRIBUTING TO THE 1016 00:42:17.468 --> 00:42:19.203 SUCCESS OF STENNIS SPACE CENTER 1017 00:42:19.203 --> 00:42:27.144 AND THE ASA MISSION. 1018 00:42:27.144 --> 00:42:38.856 [APPLAUSE] 1019 00:42:38.856 --> 00:42:44.128 >> THE NEXT HONOREE IS 1020 00:42:44.128 --> 00:42:49.633 MS. VICKIE KLOERIS. 1021 00:42:49.633 --> 00:42:53.504 >> IS IT MY PLEASURE TO NOMINATE 1022 00:42:53.504 --> 00:42:55.773 MERCHANDISE VICKIE KLOERIS. 1023 00:42:55.773 --> 00:42:58.342 SHE HAS BEEN AN INNOVATIVE 1024 00:42:58.342 --> 00:43:02.313 LEADER OVER THE FOOD LAB FOR 32 1025 00:43:02.313 --> 00:43:05.082 YEARS PROVIDING AN VARIETY OF 1026 00:43:05.082 --> 00:43:06.817 HIGH QUALITY, HEALTHY FOODS FOR 1027 00:43:06.817 --> 00:43:08.385 OUR NASA CREW MEMBERS. 1028 00:43:08.385 --> 00:43:09.486 THROUGHOUT HER CAREER, SHE 1029 00:43:09.486 --> 00:43:11.488 NAVIGATING THE UNKNOWN AND SPACE 1030 00:43:11.488 --> 00:43:13.857 FOOD VINES AND IS HIGHLY 1031 00:43:13.857 --> 00:43:15.993 DESERVING OF THE NASA 1032 00:43:15.993 --> 00:43:20.097 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL. 1033 00:43:20.097 --> 00:43:21.665 >> MS. KLOERIS IS BEING 1034 00:43:21.665 --> 00:43:25.235 RECOGNIZED FOR EXCEPTIONAL 1035 00:43:25.235 --> 00:43:27.071 COMMITMENT TO NASA'S MISSION AND 1036 00:43:27.071 --> 00:43:28.505 THE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL 1037 00:43:28.505 --> 00:43:30.074 HEALTH OF NASA'S CREW MEMBERS 1038 00:43:30.074 --> 00:43:31.342 DEMONSTRATED THROUGH LEADERSHIP 1039 00:43:31.342 --> 00:43:33.243 OF THE NASA SPACE FLIGHT FOOD 1040 00:43:33.243 --> 00:43:33.577 SYSTEM. 1041 00:43:33.577 --> 00:43:33.844 [APPLAUSE] 1042 00:43:33.844 --> 00:43:51.996 OUR NEXT HONOREE IS MR. JOE 1043 00:43:51.996 --> 00:43:52.696 MADDEN. 1044 00:43:52.696 --> 00:43:53.931 >> JOE MADDEN HAS BEEN 1045 00:43:53.931 --> 00:43:56.700 SUPPORTING NASA WITH HIS SKILLS 1046 00:43:56.700 --> 00:43:58.268 OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR OVER 1047 00:43:58.268 --> 00:43:59.136 30 YEARS. 1048 00:43:59.136 --> 00:44:01.405 HE'S RENOWNED ACROSS THE KENNEDY 1049 00:44:01.405 --> 00:44:03.107 SPACE CENTER. 1050 00:44:03.107 --> 00:44:05.175 HE'S WILLING TO ACCEPT 1051 00:44:05.175 --> 00:44:07.444 CHALLENGING AND HIGH VISIBILITY 1052 00:44:07.444 --> 00:44:08.178 PROJECTS. 1053 00:44:08.178 --> 00:44:10.314 HIS DEDICATION AND POSITIVE 1054 00:44:10.314 --> 00:44:12.516 ATTITUDE HAVE SUPPORTED MANY 1055 00:44:12.516 --> 00:44:13.617 NASA PROGRAMS. 1056 00:44:13.617 --> 00:44:15.219 JOE IS AN OUTSTANDING LEADER AND 1057 00:44:15.219 --> 00:44:16.487 PROJECT MANAGER WHOSE 1058 00:44:16.487 --> 00:44:18.055 ACHIEVEMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS 1059 00:44:18.055 --> 00:44:19.490 DEMONSTRATE A LEVEL OF 1060 00:44:19.490 --> 00:44:21.458 EXCELLENCE THAT HAS MADE A 1061 00:44:21.458 --> 00:44:23.894 PROFOUND AND INDELIBLE IMPACT ON 1062 00:44:23.894 --> 00:44:26.330 THE GROUND SYSTEMS PROGRAM, AND 1063 00:44:26.330 --> 00:44:29.566 ON NASA MISSIONS SUCCESS. 1064 00:44:29.566 --> 00:44:30.834 >> MR. MADDEN IS BEING 1065 00:44:30.834 --> 00:44:34.004 RECOGNIZED FOR DISTINGUISHED 1066 00:44:34.004 --> 00:44:35.272 SERVICE, ABILITY AND VISION 1067 00:44:35.272 --> 00:44:36.840 DEMONSTRATING EXCELLENCE IN THE 1068 00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:38.275 EXPLORATION GROUND SYSTEMS 1069 00:44:38.275 --> 00:44:44.081 MAKING A PROFOUND, INDELIBLE 1070 00:44:44.081 --> 00:44:45.816 IMPACT ON NASA MISSION SUCCESS. 1071 00:44:45.816 --> 00:44:46.216 [APPLAUSE] 1072 00:44:46.216 --> 00:45:07.371 THE NEXT HONOREE IS MR. EDWARD 1073 00:45:07.371 --> 00:45:08.939 MASUOKA. 1074 00:45:08.939 --> 00:45:11.642 >> OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS, 1075 00:45:11.642 --> 00:45:15.279 EDWARD MASUOKA, DURING HIS 1076 00:45:15.279 --> 00:45:18.148 REMARKABLE CAREER AT NASA, ED 1077 00:45:18.148 --> 00:45:19.550 MANAGED A LARGE CHANGE IN THE 1078 00:45:19.550 --> 00:45:20.984 SCALE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES 1079 00:45:20.984 --> 00:45:22.820 AND SCIENCE DATA PROCESSING. 1080 00:45:22.820 --> 00:45:24.788 HE LED TEAMS THAT DEVELOPED AND 1081 00:45:24.788 --> 00:45:27.091 OPERATED STATE OF THE ART 1082 00:45:27.091 --> 00:45:29.059 SATELLITE DATA SYSTEMS FROM 1083 00:45:29.059 --> 00:45:31.929 NASA'S EARTH OBSERVING 1084 00:45:31.929 --> 00:45:33.363 SATELLITE. 1085 00:45:33.363 --> 00:45:35.065 HE LED EFFORTS TO ENCOURAGE 1086 00:45:35.065 --> 00:45:37.468 INNOVATIVE USES BY DECISION 1087 00:45:37.468 --> 00:45:38.302 MAKERS. 1088 00:45:38.302 --> 00:45:39.903 OVER THE YEARS ED HAS ATTRACTED 1089 00:45:39.903 --> 00:45:42.306 AND MENTORED MANY TALENTED 1090 00:45:42.306 --> 00:45:45.175 SCIENCE ENGINEERS. 1091 00:45:45.175 --> 00:45:46.577 HE HAS PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN THE 1092 00:45:46.577 --> 00:45:48.679 SUCCESS OF MANY IMPORTANT NASA 1093 00:45:48.679 --> 00:45:50.247 MISSIONS. 1094 00:45:50.247 --> 00:45:53.550 >> MR. MASUOKA IS BEING 1095 00:45:53.550 --> 00:45:56.420 RECOGNIZED FOR A DISTINGUISHED 1096 00:45:56.420 --> 00:46:01.125 LIFETIME OF SERVICE IN LEADING 1097 00:46:01.125 --> 00:46:02.559 THE DEVELOPMENT OF AND MANAGING 1098 00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:04.862 NASA EARTH SCIENCE SATELLITE 1099 00:46:04.862 --> 00:46:14.204 DATA PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION 1100 00:46:14.204 --> 00:46:15.639 SERVICES AT GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT 1101 00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:15.939 CENTER. 1102 00:46:15.939 --> 00:46:16.473 [APPLAUSE] 1103 00:46:16.473 --> 00:46:25.048 OUR NEXT HONOREE IS MR. TODD 1104 00:46:25.048 --> 00:46:25.883 MAY. 1105 00:46:25.883 --> 00:46:28.285 >> TODD MAY HAS HELD LEADERSHIP 1106 00:46:28.285 --> 00:46:29.319 POSITIONS ON THE PROGRAM SIDE 1107 00:46:29.319 --> 00:46:32.723 AND INSTITUTIONAL SIDE OF NASA 1108 00:46:32.723 --> 00:46:34.558 MISSION IS A. 1109 00:46:34.558 --> 00:46:35.559 HE NEGOTIATED THE INITIAL 1110 00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:37.394 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RUSSIANS, 1111 00:46:37.394 --> 00:46:40.264 AND THEN HELD PROGRAM MANAGEMENT 1112 00:46:40.264 --> 00:46:41.698 POSITIONS OF INCREASING 1113 00:46:41.698 --> 00:46:42.966 RESPONSIBILITY INCLUDING BEING 1114 00:46:42.966 --> 00:46:44.835 THE MANAGER OF THE SLS PROGRAM. 1115 00:46:44.835 --> 00:46:48.505 HE THEN BECAME THE DIRECTOR AT 1116 00:46:48.505 --> 00:46:52.075 MARSHALL, AND I GOT THE CHANCE 1117 00:46:52.075 --> 00:46:53.243 TO BE A LEAGUE OF TODD DURING 1118 00:46:53.243 --> 00:46:54.211 THAT TIME. 1119 00:46:54.211 --> 00:46:55.612 JUST A REALLY SMART GUY, REALLY 1120 00:46:55.612 --> 00:46:57.214 GREAT LEADER, REALLY DEDICATED 1121 00:46:57.214 --> 00:46:58.916 TO THE NASA MISSION. 1122 00:46:58.916 --> 00:47:00.184 I REALLY ENJOYED WORKING WITH 1123 00:47:00.184 --> 00:47:02.186 HIM OVER THE YEARS AND VERY 1124 00:47:02.186 --> 00:47:04.188 DESERVING OF THIS AWARD THE 1125 00:47:04.188 --> 00:47:05.522 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL. 1126 00:47:05.522 --> 00:47:06.957 >> MR. MAY IS BEING RECOGNIZED 1127 00:47:06.957 --> 00:47:08.358 FOR SUSTAINED EXCEPTIONAL 1128 00:47:08.358 --> 00:47:09.660 SERVICE AND DISTINGUISHED 1129 00:47:09.660 --> 00:47:13.430 LEADERSHIP ENABLING THE SUCCESS 1130 00:47:13.430 --> 00:47:15.165 OF THE MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT 1131 00:47:15.165 --> 00:47:16.834 CENTER AND THE NASA MISSION. 1132 00:47:16.834 --> 00:47:33.383 [APPLAUSE] 1133 00:47:33.383 --> 00:47:37.654 THE NEXT HONOREE IS MR. JAMES 1134 00:47:37.654 --> 00:47:41.058 REUTER. 1135 00:47:41.058 --> 00:47:43.594 >> MR. REUTER HAS BEEN A GREAT 1136 00:47:43.594 --> 00:47:45.028 LEADER IN ORGANIZATIONAL 1137 00:47:45.028 --> 00:47:45.729 POSITIONS. 1138 00:47:45.729 --> 00:47:47.464 HE HAS HAD LEADERSHIP POSITIONS 1139 00:47:47.464 --> 00:47:49.433 ON MAN SPACE FLIGHT PROGRAMS 1140 00:47:49.433 --> 00:47:50.667 INCLUDING SHUTTLE RETURN TO 1141 00:47:50.667 --> 00:47:52.436 FLIGHT WHERE HE LED THE EXTERNAL 1142 00:47:52.436 --> 00:47:53.570 LANGUAGES DEVELOPMENT, ONE OF 1143 00:47:53.570 --> 00:47:55.706 THE MORE CHALLENGING ELEMENTS OF 1144 00:47:55.706 --> 00:47:57.074 GETTING THE SHUTTING FLYING 1145 00:47:57.074 --> 00:47:57.674 AGAIN. 1146 00:47:57.674 --> 00:48:01.545 HE WAS A LEADER AT MARSHALL 1147 00:48:01.545 --> 00:48:03.380 SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, AND THEN I 1148 00:48:03.380 --> 00:48:09.887 RECRUITED HIM IN THE MISSION 1149 00:48:09.887 --> 00:48:10.988 DIRECTORATE. 1150 00:48:10.988 --> 00:48:12.789 I WAS REALLY GLAD TO HAVE JIM ON 1151 00:48:12.789 --> 00:48:15.092 MY TEAM. 1152 00:48:15.092 --> 00:48:17.494 HE'S AN OUTSTANDING LEADER AND 1153 00:48:17.494 --> 00:48:22.299 WELL DESERVING OF THIS MEDAL. 1154 00:48:22.299 --> 00:48:24.468 >> LOGICAL REUTER IS BEING 1155 00:48:24.468 --> 00:48:25.869 RECOGNIZED FOR A CAREER OF 1156 00:48:25.869 --> 00:48:26.904 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AND 1157 00:48:26.904 --> 00:48:28.005 EXTRAORDINARY MANAGEMENT OF 1158 00:48:28.005 --> 00:48:29.439 NASA'S SPACE TECHNOLOGY 1159 00:48:29.439 --> 00:48:29.740 PROGRAMS. 1160 00:48:29.740 --> 00:48:43.287 [APPLAUSE] 1161 00:48:43.287 --> 00:48:48.525 OUR FLEX HONOREE IS DR. ROBERT 1162 00:48:48.525 --> 00:48:49.226 SCULLY. 1163 00:48:49.226 --> 00:48:52.796 >> SINCE JOINING NASA, DR. BOB 1164 00:48:52.796 --> 00:48:55.632 SCULLY HAS BROUGHT SEVERAL 1165 00:48:55.632 --> 00:48:57.601 ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR THE SPACE 1166 00:48:57.601 --> 00:48:58.502 FLIGHT PROGRAMS. 1167 00:48:58.502 --> 00:49:00.070 HE SERVED AS A LEAD FOR THE 1168 00:49:00.070 --> 00:49:04.041 CONTROL PANEL FOR SHUTTLE SPACE 1169 00:49:04.041 --> 00:49:06.109 AND ORION. 1170 00:49:06.109 --> 00:49:10.514 HIS EARTH LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT 1171 00:49:10.514 --> 00:49:12.582 OF A SYSTEM ENABLING THE LAUNCH 1172 00:49:12.582 --> 00:49:14.718 TEAM TO QUICKLY ANALYZE 1173 00:49:14.718 --> 00:49:15.986 LIGHTENING EFFECTS. 1174 00:49:15.986 --> 00:49:20.123 HE DIRECTED THE DESIGN OF THE 1175 00:49:20.123 --> 00:49:21.525 STRUCTURE AND ELECTRICAL 1176 00:49:21.525 --> 00:49:24.494 SYSTEMS, AND DR. SKULLY WAS 1177 00:49:24.494 --> 00:49:26.663 INSTRUMENTAL IN DEVELOPING A 1178 00:49:26.663 --> 00:49:30.100 CHAMBER INSTRUMENTATION FOR THE 1179 00:49:30.100 --> 00:49:31.668 ORION CAPSULE. 1180 00:49:31.668 --> 00:49:33.503 HE HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL TO THE 1181 00:49:33.503 --> 00:49:35.372 PATH AND THE ONGOING SUCCESS OF 1182 00:49:35.372 --> 00:49:36.340 HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT. 1183 00:49:36.340 --> 00:49:37.908 >> DR. SCULLY IS BEING 1184 00:49:37.908 --> 00:49:39.343 RECOGNIZED FOR EXTRAORDINARY AND 1185 00:49:39.343 --> 00:49:41.178 SUSTAINED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 1186 00:49:41.178 --> 00:49:43.313 PROTECTION OF AEROSPACE SYSTEMS 1187 00:49:43.313 --> 00:49:45.182 FROM LIGHTENING AND 1188 00:49:45.182 --> 00:49:50.587 ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE FOR 1189 00:49:50.587 --> 00:49:52.556 ALL HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT PROGRAMS. 1190 00:49:52.556 --> 00:49:52.823 [APPLAUSE] 1191 00:49:52.823 --> 00:50:07.838 THE NEXT HONOREE IS MR. STEPHEN 1192 00:50:07.838 --> 00:50:08.905 SULLIVAN. 1193 00:50:08.905 --> 00:50:11.641 >> SO CONGRATULATIONS TO STEVE 1194 00:50:11.641 --> 00:50:13.777 SULLIVAN, THE COMMERCIAL CREW 1195 00:50:13.777 --> 00:50:15.212 CHIEF PROGRAM ENGINEER. 1196 00:50:15.212 --> 00:50:16.780 STEVE IS AN OUTSTANDING ENGINEER 1197 00:50:16.780 --> 00:50:20.484 THAT WORKS FOR US AT KFC 1198 00:50:20.484 --> 00:50:21.618 ENGINEERING. 1199 00:50:21.618 --> 00:50:22.886 HE LEADS A TEAM OF ENGINEERS 1200 00:50:22.886 --> 00:50:29.860 THAT LOOK AT BOTH SPACEX AND 1201 00:50:29.860 --> 00:50:30.827 BOEING. 1202 00:50:30.827 --> 00:50:31.995 HIS JOB IS TO MAKE SURE THAT 1203 00:50:31.995 --> 00:50:33.430 BOTH PARTNERS ARE CAPABLE OF 1204 00:50:33.430 --> 00:50:34.097 FLYING. 1205 00:50:34.097 --> 00:50:35.866 HE LOOKS AT THE LAUNCH VEHICLES 1206 00:50:35.866 --> 00:50:38.568 AND SPACECRAFT AND LAUNCH 1207 00:50:38.568 --> 00:50:40.404 SYSTEMS AND MAKES SURE THAT IT 1208 00:50:40.404 --> 00:50:41.571 ALL COMES TOGETHER AND THAT 1209 00:50:41.571 --> 00:50:43.006 THEY'RE SAFE TO FLY. 1210 00:50:43.006 --> 00:50:44.074 CONGRATULATIONS TO STEVE 1211 00:50:44.074 --> 00:50:45.409 SULLIVAN FOR THE DISTINGUISHED 1212 00:50:45.409 --> 00:50:46.810 SERVICE MEDAL. 1213 00:50:46.810 --> 00:50:48.078 >> MR. SULLIVAN IS BEING 1214 00:50:48.078 --> 00:50:50.013 RECOGNIZED FOR OUTSTANDING 1215 00:50:50.013 --> 00:50:51.415 LEADERSHIP, PRODUCTION AND 1216 00:50:51.415 --> 00:50:53.650 EXECUTION IN BUILDING NASA'S 1217 00:50:53.650 --> 00:50:55.519 TECHNICAL ROLE TO CONTINUE THE 1218 00:50:55.519 --> 00:50:58.922 PATH TO HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT. 1219 00:50:58.922 --> 00:50:59.322 [APPLAUSE] 1220 00:50:59.322 --> 00:51:15.439 OUR NEXT HONOREE IS MR. MICHAEL 1221 00:51:15.439 --> 00:51:17.574 VAN HOUTEN. 1222 00:51:17.574 --> 00:51:20.243 MIKE VAN HOUTEN HAS DEMONSTRATED 1223 00:51:20.243 --> 00:51:22.379 AN UNPARALLELED LEVEL OF 1224 00:51:22.379 --> 00:51:23.246 EXCELLENCE. 1225 00:51:23.246 --> 00:51:24.114 HIS DEDICATION, POSITIVE 1226 00:51:24.114 --> 00:51:25.549 ATTITUDE, AND EXCEPTIONAL 1227 00:51:25.549 --> 00:51:27.684 PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS HAVE 1228 00:51:27.684 --> 00:51:29.119 SIGNIFICANTLY INFLUENCED THE 1229 00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:30.954 PROGRESS OF THE MOST CHALLENGING 1230 00:51:30.954 --> 00:51:34.658 SOFTWARE PROJECT AT KFC. 1231 00:51:34.658 --> 00:51:35.225 NOTE ONLY HAS MIKE BEEN AN 1232 00:51:35.225 --> 00:51:36.960 INSPIRATIONAL LEADER OF HIS OWN 1233 00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:38.929 TEAM, HE CONTINUOUSLY REACHES 1234 00:51:38.929 --> 00:51:40.497 OUT ACROSS OUR PROGRAM AND THE 1235 00:51:40.497 --> 00:51:42.199 ENTIRE SPACE CENTER TO FORM 1236 00:51:42.199 --> 00:51:43.600 ALLIANCES TO SUCCESSFULLY 1237 00:51:43.600 --> 00:51:44.901 RESOLVE ISSUES. 1238 00:51:44.901 --> 00:51:46.303 IT IS FOR ALL THESE REASONS THAT 1239 00:51:46.303 --> 00:51:47.904 MIKE IS DESERVING OF EVERY 1240 00:51:47.904 --> 00:51:49.172 HONOR, INCLUDING THE 1241 00:51:49.172 --> 00:51:52.309 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL. 1242 00:51:52.309 --> 00:51:54.010 >> MR. VAN HOUTEN IS BEING 1243 00:51:54.010 --> 00:51:55.011 RECOGNIZED FOR DISTINGUISHED 1244 00:51:55.011 --> 00:51:56.580 SERVICE TO NASA AND KENNEDY 1245 00:51:56.580 --> 00:51:58.849 SPACE CENTER, DEMONSTRATING AN 1246 00:51:58.849 --> 00:52:00.984 UNPARALLELED LEVEL OF EXCELLENCE 1247 00:52:00.984 --> 00:52:18.068 IN THE GROUND SYSTEM PROGRAM. 1248 00:52:18.068 --> 00:52:18.602 [APPLAUSE] 1249 00:52:18.602 --> 00:52:21.605 OUR NEXT HONOREE IS MR. BRENT 1250 00:52:21.605 --> 00:52:23.006 WEATHERED. 1251 00:52:23.006 --> 00:52:24.608 >> IT HAS BEEN MY PRIVILEGE TO 1252 00:52:24.608 --> 00:52:27.177 PARTNER WITH MR. BRENT WEATHER 1253 00:52:27.177 --> 00:52:29.613 DURING MY 16 YEARS AS SENIOR 1254 00:52:29.613 --> 00:52:33.016 LEADER AT NASA AS MUCH CENTER. 1255 00:52:33.016 --> 00:52:34.284 HE HAS BEEN A LEADER IN FLIGHT 1256 00:52:34.284 --> 00:52:35.552 OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH FOR OVER 1257 00:52:35.552 --> 00:52:37.287 25 YEARS. 1258 00:52:37.287 --> 00:52:38.889 HE PARTNERED WITH ME TO STAND UP 1259 00:52:38.889 --> 00:52:42.692 THE RESEARCH SERVICE DIRECTORATE 1260 00:52:42.692 --> 00:52:44.995 FOR OPERATIONS AT LANGLEY. 1261 00:52:44.995 --> 00:52:46.096 A FIXTURE IN RESEARCH 1262 00:52:46.096 --> 00:52:48.932 DIRECTORATE MANAGEMENT FOR 17 1263 00:52:48.932 --> 00:52:50.834 YEARS, HE'S NOW THE CHIEF 1264 00:52:50.834 --> 00:52:52.669 ENGINEER FOR INTELLIGENCE FLIGHT 1265 00:52:52.669 --> 00:52:54.938 SYSTEMS AND LEADS THE LANGLEY 1266 00:52:54.938 --> 00:52:57.641 AVIATION SAFETY BOARD. 1267 00:52:57.641 --> 00:53:04.781 SETTING PRECEDENT FOR OTHER NASA 1268 00:53:04.781 --> 00:53:07.417 CENTERS, GENERATIONS OF AIR 1269 00:53:07.417 --> 00:53:08.518 TRAVELERS WILL BENEFIT FROM 1270 00:53:08.518 --> 00:53:10.120 BRENT'S CONTRIBUTIONS. 1271 00:53:10.120 --> 00:53:11.388 >> MR. WEATHERED IS BEING 1272 00:53:11.388 --> 00:53:20.564 RECOGNIZED FOR LEADERSHIP OF 1273 00:53:20.564 --> 00:53:21.965 FLIGHT OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH 1274 00:53:21.965 --> 00:53:24.568 AT NASA LANGLEY ON BEHALF OF 1275 00:53:24.568 --> 00:53:25.635 AGENCY, NATIONAL, AND 1276 00:53:25.635 --> 00:53:26.570 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS. 1277 00:53:26.570 --> 00:53:26.836 [APPLAUSE] 1278 00:53:26.836 --> 00:53:51.161 OUR TIME HONOREE IN THIS 1279 00:53:51.161 --> 00:53:54.598 CATEGORY IS TERRENCE WILCUTT. 1280 00:53:54.598 --> 00:53:55.432 >> AFTER A DISTINGUISHED MARINE 1281 00:53:55.432 --> 00:53:58.435 CORPS CAREER, TERRY CAME TO NASA 1282 00:53:58.435 --> 00:54:02.005 AS AN ASTRONAUT CANDIDATE IN 1283 00:54:02.005 --> 00:54:03.073 1991. 1284 00:54:03.073 --> 00:54:11.047 HE FLEW FOUR, HE WAS IN 1285 00:54:11.047 --> 00:54:12.582 ORGANIZATIONAL PROGRAM SAFETY 1286 00:54:12.582 --> 00:54:15.819 MISSION ASSURANCE AT JOHNSON 1287 00:54:15.819 --> 00:54:18.355 SPACE CENTER AND HEADQUARTERS. 1288 00:54:18.355 --> 00:54:20.090 ALSO BECOMING HEAD OF SAFETY 1289 00:54:20.090 --> 00:54:24.027 ASSURANCE FOR THE AGENCY. 1290 00:54:24.027 --> 00:54:25.629 FOR ROBOTIC AND RESEARCH 1291 00:54:25.629 --> 00:54:29.332 MISSIONS ARE DUE IN LARGE PART 1292 00:54:29.332 --> 00:54:31.334 TO TERRY'S LEADERSHIP. 1293 00:54:31.334 --> 00:54:33.436 I ADMIRE HIS CALM AND STEADY 1294 00:54:33.436 --> 00:54:35.171 APPROACH TO LEADERSHIP AND HIS 1295 00:54:35.171 --> 00:54:36.806 ABILITY TO LEAD TEAMS MOVING 1296 00:54:36.806 --> 00:54:37.540 FORWARD. 1297 00:54:37.540 --> 00:54:39.542 CONGRATULATIONS ON RECEIVING THE 1298 00:54:39.542 --> 00:54:40.744 NASA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE 1299 00:54:40.744 --> 00:54:41.144 MEDAL. 1300 00:54:41.144 --> 00:54:43.113 >> MR. WILCUTT IS BEING 1301 00:54:43.113 --> 00:54:44.547 RECOGNIZED FOR DISTINGUISHED 1302 00:54:44.547 --> 00:54:45.949 SUPPORT AND OUTSTANDING 1303 00:54:45.949 --> 00:54:48.418 LEADERSHIP OUTSIDE OF NASA'S 1304 00:54:48.418 --> 00:55:00.196 SAFETY ASSURANCE ACTIVITIES, AND 1305 00:55:00.196 --> 00:55:01.631 INDELIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 1306 00:55:01.631 --> 00:55:03.066 SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM. 1307 00:55:03.066 --> 00:55:03.333 [APPLAUSE] 1308 00:55:03.333 --> 00:55:13.743 OUR AND SECOND FINAL 1309 00:55:13.743 --> 00:55:14.444 PRESENTATION IS THE 1310 00:55:14.444 --> 00:55:15.578 DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVICE 1311 00:55:15.578 --> 00:55:16.279 MEDAL. 1312 00:55:16.279 --> 00:55:18.014 THIS IS NASA'S HIGHEST FORM OF 1313 00:55:18.014 --> 00:55:19.983 RECOGNITION THAT IS AWARDED TO A 1314 00:55:19.983 --> 00:55:25.388 NON-GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE WHOSE 1315 00:55:25.388 --> 00:55:29.993 CONTRIBUTIONS ARE SO 1316 00:55:29.993 --> 00:55:34.264 EXTRAORDINARY THAT OTHER FORMS 1317 00:55:34.264 --> 00:55:37.500 OF RECOGNITION BY NASA WOULD BE 1318 00:55:37.500 --> 00:55:39.102 INADEQUATE. 1319 00:55:39.102 --> 00:55:41.471 OUR HONOREE IS BEING RECOGNIZED 1320 00:55:41.471 --> 00:55:48.345 POSTHUMOUSLY. 1321 00:55:48.345 --> 00:55:49.779 >> HE HAS CHALLENGED HIS PEOPLE 1322 00:55:49.779 --> 00:55:52.315 TO BE CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE, 1323 00:55:52.315 --> 00:55:55.819 AND PURSUE EFFICIENCY AND COST 1324 00:55:55.819 --> 00:55:58.321 REDUCTION WHILE IMPROVING THE 1325 00:55:58.321 --> 00:55:59.589 EXPERIENCE OF OUR DEEP SPACE 1326 00:55:59.589 --> 00:56:01.424 MISSIONS. 1327 00:56:01.424 --> 00:56:04.961 HE HAS IMPLEMENTED THE FOLLOW 1328 00:56:04.961 --> 00:56:12.335 THE SUN INITIATIVE AND MANY 1329 00:56:12.335 --> 00:56:14.404 OTHER EFFICIENCY INITIATIVES 1330 00:56:14.404 --> 00:56:17.507 THAT INVOLVED COST SAVINGS OF 1331 00:56:17.507 --> 00:56:19.642 40%. 1332 00:56:19.642 --> 00:56:21.911 BECAUSE OF AL, NASA HAS BEEN 1333 00:56:21.911 --> 00:56:23.913 ABLE TO GO DEEPER AND MORE 1334 00:56:23.913 --> 00:56:27.484 RELIABLY INTO SPACE. 1335 00:56:27.484 --> 00:56:28.752 AL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR 1336 00:56:28.752 --> 00:56:30.887 CONTRIBUTIONS, AND GOD SPEED, MY 1337 00:56:30.887 --> 00:56:34.190 FRIEND. 1338 00:56:34.190 --> 00:56:39.429 >> MRS. SHEHENAZ BHANJI ALONG 1339 00:56:39.429 --> 00:56:42.132 WITH THEIR CHILDREN, DR. YASIN 1340 00:56:42.132 --> 00:56:47.570 BHANJI, AND SHAIRA BHANJI WILL 1341 00:56:47.570 --> 00:56:49.239 BE ACCEPTING THIS HONOR TODAY. 1342 00:56:49.239 --> 00:57:15.298 [APPLAUSE] 1343 00:57:15.298 --> 00:57:16.299 >> MR. BHANJI IS BEING 1344 00:57:16.299 --> 00:57:18.134 RECOGNIZED FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL 1345 00:57:18.134 --> 00:57:19.169 ADVANCE IN THE DEEP SPACE 1346 00:57:19.169 --> 00:57:21.604 NETWORK, ACHIEVING DRAMATIC COST 1347 00:57:21.604 --> 00:57:23.406 EFFICIENCIES AND CRITICAL NEW 1348 00:57:23.406 --> 00:57:25.241 CAPABILITIES WITH EXCEPTIONALLY 1349 00:57:25.241 --> 00:57:26.776 HIGH RELIABILITY. 1350 00:57:26.776 --> 00:57:30.547 THE NEXT HONOREE IS DR. DANIEL 1351 00:57:30.547 --> 00:57:31.815 COULTER. 1352 00:57:31.815 --> 00:57:33.817 >> DR. CAN YELL COULTER LED THE 1353 00:57:33.817 --> 00:57:35.919 TEAM THAT DEMONSTRATED THE 1354 00:57:35.919 --> 00:57:38.221 TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE GREAT 1355 00:57:38.221 --> 00:57:39.088 OBSERVATORY. 1356 00:57:39.088 --> 00:57:41.791 HIS TEAM DEVELOPED THE CRITIQUE 1357 00:57:41.791 --> 00:57:45.328 TO MAKE SURFACE ACCURACY 1358 00:57:45.328 --> 00:57:46.763 REQUIREMENTS AT OPERATING 1359 00:57:46.763 --> 00:57:48.598 TEMPERATURES, A TECHNIQUE 1360 00:57:48.598 --> 00:57:52.168 IMPLEMENTED ON JAMES WEBB. 1361 00:57:52.168 --> 00:57:53.169 HE LED THE DEVELOPMENT OF 1362 00:57:53.169 --> 00:57:55.004 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE 1363 00:57:55.004 --> 00:57:57.407 DETECTION OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES 1364 00:57:57.407 --> 00:58:00.310 FROM SPACE AND CHARACTERIZING 1365 00:58:00.310 --> 00:58:05.949 EARTH'S LIFE. 1366 00:58:05.949 --> 00:58:07.617 HE HAS DEMONSTRATED THE HIGHEST 1367 00:58:07.617 --> 00:58:10.053 IDEALS OF PUBLIC SERVICE, 1368 00:58:10.053 --> 00:58:12.455 PROVIDING TECHNICAL, 1369 00:58:12.455 --> 00:58:15.124 INSTITUTIONAL AND LEADERSHIP TO 1370 00:58:15.124 --> 00:58:17.660 NASA AND JPL. 1371 00:58:17.660 --> 00:58:21.631 >> FROM DR. COULTER IS BEING 1372 00:58:21.631 --> 00:58:28.505 RECOGNIZED FOR DISTINGUISHED 1373 00:58:28.505 --> 00:58:30.173 SERVICE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF 1374 00:58:30.173 --> 00:58:34.444 CRYOGENIC AND LARGE TELESCOPE 1375 00:58:34.444 --> 00:58:35.879 SYSTEMS FOR NASA, INCLUDING 1376 00:58:35.879 --> 00:58:37.847 WAVEFRONT SENSING AND CONTROL 1377 00:58:37.847 --> 00:58:47.824 FOR CORONAGRAPHY AND 1378 00:58:47.824 --> 00:58:50.660 INTERFEROMETRY. 1379 00:58:50.660 --> 00:58:53.263 >> OUR NEXT HONOREE IS ROBERT 1380 00:58:53.263 --> 00:58:57.066 ERGUN. 1381 00:58:57.066 --> 00:58:58.101 >> OVER HIS DISTINGUISHED CAREER 1382 00:58:58.101 --> 00:59:00.637 HE HAS LED OR PLAYED A SNARL 1383 00:59:00.637 --> 00:59:03.473 ROLE ON INSTRUMENTS IN MANY NASA 1384 00:59:03.473 --> 00:59:07.844 MISSIONS, INCLUDING MAVEN, AND 1385 00:59:07.844 --> 00:59:09.846 HIS WORK ON THE MISSION WAS KEY 1386 00:59:09.846 --> 00:59:12.115 TO DEFINING OUR CURRENT 1387 00:59:12.115 --> 00:59:25.962 UNDERSTANDING OF THE ELECTRIC 1388 00:59:25.962 --> 00:59:28.131 FIELD AND MOVING CLOSER TO THE 1389 00:59:28.131 --> 00:59:28.765 SUN. 1390 00:59:28.765 --> 00:59:30.833 HE'S HIGHLY DESERVING OF THIS 1391 00:59:30.833 --> 00:59:31.501 MEDAL. 1392 00:59:31.501 --> 00:59:32.969 >> UNFORTUNATELY, MR. ERGUN HAD 1393 00:59:32.969 --> 00:59:35.104 A LAST-MINUTE CONFLICT, AND HE'S 1394 00:59:35.104 --> 00:59:36.940 NOT ABLE TO JOIN US TODAY. 1395 00:59:36.940 --> 00:59:37.941 HE'S BEING RECOGNIZED FOR 1396 00:59:37.941 --> 00:59:39.542 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO NASA IN 1397 00:59:39.542 --> 00:59:41.511 DESIGNING AND BUILDING 1398 00:59:41.511 --> 00:59:43.646 INNOVATIVE ELECTRIC FIELD 1399 00:59:43.646 --> 00:59:45.214 INSTRUMENTATION FOR FLIGHT 1400 00:59:45.214 --> 00:59:48.318 MISSIONS. 1401 00:59:48.318 --> 00:59:49.752 [APPLAUSE] 1402 00:59:49.752 --> 00:59:51.321 >> THE NEXT HONOREE IS 1403 00:59:51.321 --> 00:59:54.023 MR. MICHAEL GRAYBILL. 1404 00:59:54.023 --> 00:59:56.626 >> WE WANT TO NOMINATE MIKE 1405 00:59:56.626 --> 00:59:58.461 GRAYBILL FOR THE DISTINGUISHED 1406 00:59:58.461 --> 00:59:59.862 SERVICE AWARD FOR THE TREMENDOUS 1407 00:59:59.862 --> 01:00:04.133 HELP HE HAS BEEN SUPPORTING THE 1408 01:00:04.133 --> 01:00:05.735 COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM. 1409 01:00:05.735 --> 01:00:07.570 HE HELPED US DEVELOP A BRAND NEW 1410 01:00:07.570 --> 01:00:09.839 WAY OF DO YOU SURVEILLANCE OF 1411 01:00:09.839 --> 01:00:11.407 PRODUCTION, AND HIS WORK HAS 1412 01:00:11.407 --> 01:00:13.810 HELPED US TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS 1413 01:00:13.810 --> 01:00:14.844 TO PROCESSES. 1414 01:00:14.844 --> 01:00:16.512 WE WANT TO THANK MIKE FOR ALL OF 1415 01:00:16.512 --> 01:00:18.481 HIS HELPFULNESS, AND BUILDING 1416 01:00:18.481 --> 01:00:20.216 GREAT RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE 1417 01:00:20.216 --> 01:00:21.951 CONTRACTORS, AND HIS WORK HAS 1418 01:00:21.951 --> 01:00:27.757 HELPED COMMERCIAL CREW BUILDING 1419 01:00:27.757 --> 01:00:30.059 BETTER AND SAFER. 1420 01:00:30.059 --> 01:00:31.327 >> MR. GRAYBILL IS BEING 1421 01:00:31.327 --> 01:00:32.729 RECOGNIZED FOR IDENTIFICATION OF 1422 01:00:32.729 --> 01:00:34.897 IMPROVEMENTS THAT WILL REDUCE 1423 01:00:34.897 --> 01:00:39.302 FLIGHT HARDWARE MANUFACTURING 1424 01:00:39.302 --> 01:00:41.137 ISSUES, AND INCREASE CREW SAFETY 1425 01:00:41.137 --> 01:00:43.272 FOR THE COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM. 1426 01:00:43.272 --> 01:00:43.539 [APPLAUSE] 1427 01:00:43.539 --> 01:00:57.654 OUR NEXT HONOREE IS DR. THOMAS 1428 01:00:57.654 --> 01:00:59.489 HOWSMAN. 1429 01:00:59.489 --> 01:01:01.057 >> FOR ME ONE OF TOM'S UNIQUE 1430 01:01:01.057 --> 01:01:02.825 GIFTS IS HIS ABILITY TO CRAFT A 1431 01:01:02.825 --> 01:01:05.194 WELL INTEGRATED TECHNICAL STORY. 1432 01:01:05.194 --> 01:01:06.863 ALONG BEFORE THE STORY IS 1433 01:01:06.863 --> 01:01:08.564 PRESENTED, TOM WILL DO THE LEG 1434 01:01:08.564 --> 01:01:09.966 WORK AND RESEARCH NEEDED TO 1435 01:01:09.966 --> 01:01:11.401 UNDERSTAND THE PHYSICS OF THE 1436 01:01:11.401 --> 01:01:12.201 PROBLEM. 1437 01:01:12.201 --> 01:01:14.303 FROM THERE HE MOVES ON AND 1438 01:01:14.303 --> 01:01:15.738 UNDERSTANDS THE SENSITIVITIES 1439 01:01:15.738 --> 01:01:17.306 AND NUANCES THAT MAKE THE 1440 01:01:17.306 --> 01:01:19.308 PROBLEM UNIQUE, AND HE TIES THAT 1441 01:01:19.308 --> 01:01:20.710 ALL TOGETHER IN A WELL 1442 01:01:20.710 --> 01:01:23.880 INTEGRATED STORY THAT SPEAKS TO 1443 01:01:23.880 --> 01:01:26.015 AUDIENCE MEMBERS OF ALL RANKS. 1444 01:01:26.015 --> 01:01:27.684 IT'S AN AMAZING SKILL THAT HE 1445 01:01:27.684 --> 01:01:29.686 HAS, AND I'VE SEEN HIM DO IT 1446 01:01:29.686 --> 01:01:31.554 MANY TIMES DURING THE YEARS HE 1447 01:01:31.554 --> 01:01:33.956 HAS WORKED ON SLS. 1448 01:01:33.956 --> 01:01:35.358 TOMORROW, WE'RE PROUD OF YOU 1449 01:01:35.358 --> 01:01:37.093 TODAY, AND YOU'RE WELL DESERVING 1450 01:01:37.093 --> 01:01:38.227 OF THIS AWARD. 1451 01:01:38.227 --> 01:01:40.196 >> DR. HOWSMAN IS BEING 1452 01:01:40.196 --> 01:01:43.066 RECOGNIZED FOR VISIONARY 1453 01:01:43.066 --> 01:01:47.336 LEADERSHIP, QUALITY MENSTERSHIP, 1454 01:01:47.336 --> 01:01:49.072 PRO ACTIVE INFLUENCE, AND 1455 01:01:49.072 --> 01:01:50.907 EXCEPTIONAL TECHNICAL PROBLEM 1456 01:01:50.907 --> 01:01:52.075 SOLVING, BENEFITING THE 1457 01:01:52.075 --> 01:01:53.743 INTEGRATED VEHICLE LOADS 1458 01:01:53.743 --> 01:01:54.210 COMMUNITY. 1459 01:01:54.210 --> 01:01:54.477 [APPLAUSE] 1460 01:01:54.477 --> 01:02:12.762 THE NEXT HONOREE IS DR. MIGUEL 1461 01:02:12.762 --> 01:02:14.230 LARSEN. 1462 01:02:14.230 --> 01:02:16.933 >> DR. LARSEN IS DESERVING OF 1463 01:02:16.933 --> 01:02:17.967 THIS DISTINGUISHED AWARD BECAUSE 1464 01:02:17.967 --> 01:02:19.535 HE'S BASICALLY THE WORLD'S 1465 01:02:19.535 --> 01:02:24.073 EXPERT IN UPPER ATMOSPHERIC WIND 1466 01:02:24.073 --> 01:02:25.241 MEASUREMENTS WHETHER IT'S 1467 01:02:25.241 --> 01:02:26.642 STUDYING THE AURORA IN THE 1468 01:02:26.642 --> 01:02:28.644 NORTHERN LATITUDES OR STUDYING 1469 01:02:28.644 --> 01:02:31.180 THE ELECTRO DYNAMICS ON THE 1470 01:02:31.180 --> 01:02:33.049 EQUATOR, THE MEASUREMENTS BECOME 1471 01:02:33.049 --> 01:02:34.317 SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE 1472 01:02:34.317 --> 01:02:35.618 INVESTIGATION THAT WE DO. 1473 01:02:35.618 --> 01:02:37.019 HE'S BASICALLY THE WORLD'S 1474 01:02:37.019 --> 01:02:39.021 EXPERT IN THIS, AND IT'S VERY 1475 01:02:39.021 --> 01:02:40.590 DIFFICULT TO MEASURE WINDS AT 1476 01:02:40.590 --> 01:02:41.724 THAT ALTITUDE. 1477 01:02:41.724 --> 01:02:44.460 HE HAS LAUNCHED OVER 100 1478 01:02:44.460 --> 01:02:45.728 SOUNDING ROCKETS WHERE HE HAS 1479 01:02:45.728 --> 01:02:49.298 BEEN THE PRIMARY INVESTIGATOR OR 1480 01:02:49.298 --> 01:02:49.999 COULD. 1481 01:02:49.999 --> 01:02:51.267 INVESTIGATOR. 1482 01:02:51.267 --> 01:02:53.102 I THINK THAT VOLUME OF WORK 1483 01:02:53.102 --> 01:02:55.238 SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. 1484 01:02:55.238 --> 01:02:56.639 WE THANK HIM FOR THE SERVICE TO 1485 01:02:56.639 --> 01:02:59.976 NASA AND TO THE COUNTRY. 1486 01:02:59.976 --> 01:03:01.377 >> DR. LARSEN IS BEING 1487 01:03:01.377 --> 01:03:03.780 RECOGNIZED FOR PIONEERING 1488 01:03:03.780 --> 01:03:05.348 RESEARCH, MEASURING VERTICAL 1489 01:03:05.348 --> 01:03:07.817 PROFILES OF THE EARTH'S UPPER AT 1490 01:03:07.817 --> 01:03:18.528 MORE--ATMOSPHERIC WINDS AND 1491 01:03:18.528 --> 01:03:20.730 LEADING OVER 100 NASA SOUNDING 1492 01:03:20.730 --> 01:03:22.298 ROCKETS DURING 40 YEARS OF 1493 01:03:22.298 --> 01:03:22.865 RESEARCH. 1494 01:03:22.865 --> 01:03:23.132 [APPLAUSE] 1495 01:03:23.132 --> 01:03:31.007 OUR NEXT HONOREE IS DR. CHARLES 1496 01:03:31.007 --> 01:03:32.275 LAWRENCE. 1497 01:03:32.275 --> 01:03:33.843 >> DR. CHARLES LAWRENCE IS AN 1498 01:03:33.843 --> 01:03:34.811 INTERNATIONALLY RENOWN 1499 01:03:34.811 --> 01:03:37.680 ASTRONOMER WHOSE SCIENTIFIC 1500 01:03:37.680 --> 01:03:43.386 LEADERSHIP AND TECHNOLOGICAL 1501 01:03:43.386 --> 01:03:45.922 FORESIGHT HAS CHANGED THE WAY WE 1502 01:03:45.922 --> 01:03:46.789 LOOK AT THE UNIVERSE. 1503 01:03:46.789 --> 01:03:53.462 HE DEVELOPED TRANSISTORS AND 1504 01:03:53.462 --> 01:04:05.408 AMP--AMP FLYERS. 1505 01:04:05.408 --> 01:04:06.642 HE EXTENDED THE COLD MISSION 1506 01:04:06.642 --> 01:04:08.044 LIFETIME BY 20%. 1507 01:04:08.044 --> 01:04:11.614 DR. LAWRENCE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN 1508 01:04:11.614 --> 01:04:13.816 INTEGRATING THE SCIENCE TEAM 1509 01:04:13.816 --> 01:04:15.418 DELIVERING PRECISE DETERMINATION 1510 01:04:15.418 --> 01:04:16.986 OF CONTENT AND STRUCTURE OF THE 1511 01:04:16.986 --> 01:04:17.553 YOURS. 1512 01:04:17.553 --> 01:04:26.629 IN 2018, THE HIS GROUP WAS 1513 01:04:26.629 --> 01:04:29.198 RECOGNIZED FOR COSMOLOGY. 1514 01:04:29.198 --> 01:04:30.199 >> DR. LAWRENCE IS BEING 1515 01:04:30.199 --> 01:04:31.634 RECOGNIZED FOR DISTINGUISHED 1516 01:04:31.634 --> 01:04:34.170 LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE TO NASA 1517 01:04:34.170 --> 01:04:36.472 AND THE NATION IN THE PURSUIT 1518 01:04:36.472 --> 01:04:38.741 AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE FIELDS OF 1519 01:04:38.741 --> 01:04:43.946 ASTRO PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY. 1520 01:04:43.946 --> 01:04:44.213 [APPLAUSE] 1521 01:04:44.213 --> 01:04:51.687 THE NEXT HONOREE IS MR. ED 1522 01:04:51.687 --> 01:04:52.555 SIKORA. 1523 01:04:52.555 --> 01:04:54.257 >> ED HAS BEEN A FORCE AT THE 1524 01:04:54.257 --> 01:04:57.360 CRYO CONSUL FOR YEARS. 1525 01:04:57.360 --> 01:04:59.829 I'VE COME TO COUNT ON HIS CALM, 1526 01:04:59.829 --> 01:05:02.098 CONFIDENT VOICE AS WE WORKED 1527 01:05:02.098 --> 01:05:04.500 THROUGH THE CRITICAL STEPS OF 1528 01:05:04.500 --> 01:05:06.002 LAUNCH COUNT DOWN. 1529 01:05:06.002 --> 01:05:07.270 HIS SERVICE TO AMERICA'S SPACE 1530 01:05:07.270 --> 01:05:09.572 PROGRAM HAS SPANNED DECADES AND 1531 01:05:09.572 --> 01:05:10.439 PROGRAMS. 1532 01:05:10.439 --> 01:05:12.108 WHETHER HE'S WRITING SOFTWARE 1533 01:05:12.108 --> 01:05:14.310 FOR THE LAUNCH CONTROL CENTER, 1534 01:05:14.310 --> 01:05:16.913 DEVELOPING REQUIREMENTS, TEST 1535 01:05:16.913 --> 01:05:18.748 PROCEDURES OR FIGURING OUT THE 1536 01:05:18.748 --> 01:05:21.884 BEST WAY TO TEST AND SAVE FLIGHT 1537 01:05:21.884 --> 01:05:22.852 HOT WEAR. 1538 01:05:22.852 --> 01:05:27.990 I COULDN'T BE MORE PROUD TO SEE 1539 01:05:27.990 --> 01:05:30.126 ERRED GET THIS RECOGNITION, THE 1540 01:05:30.126 --> 01:05:31.727 DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVICE 1541 01:05:31.727 --> 01:05:32.695 MEDAL. 1542 01:05:32.695 --> 01:05:34.397 CONGRATULATIONS, AND WELL DONE, 1543 01:05:34.397 --> 01:05:35.398 C-PROP. 1544 01:05:35.398 --> 01:05:36.966 >> MR. SIKORA IS BEING 1545 01:05:36.966 --> 01:05:38.701 RECOGNIZED FOR UNPRECEDENTED 1546 01:05:38.701 --> 01:05:43.205 ENGINE/CRYOGENIC PROPULSION 1547 01:05:43.205 --> 01:05:47.243 TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP AND VISION 1548 01:05:47.243 --> 01:05:52.048 THAT WILL HAVE A PROFOUND IMPACT 1549 01:05:52.048 --> 01:05:53.883 ON FUTURE FLIGHT SAFETY AND 1550 01:05:53.883 --> 01:05:54.250 MISSION SUCCESS. 1551 01:05:54.250 --> 01:06:05.728 OUR NEXT HONOREE IS MR. ROBERT 1552 01:06:05.728 --> 01:06:06.929 SINCLAIR. 1553 01:06:06.929 --> 01:06:11.367 >> MR. ROB SINCLAIR DESERVES THE 1554 01:06:11.367 --> 01:06:13.436 MEDAL IN RECOGNITION OF HIS WORK 1555 01:06:13.436 --> 01:06:14.537 ACROSS ALL UNITED STATES PROGRAM 1556 01:06:14.537 --> 01:06:16.839 TO DESIGN PARACHUTE SYSTEMS TO 1557 01:06:16.839 --> 01:06:19.375 SAFELY RETURN OUR EXPLORERS. 1558 01:06:19.375 --> 01:06:20.543 HE HAS BEEN LEADENING NEAR OF 1559 01:06:20.543 --> 01:06:21.978 THE PARACHUTE LANDING SYSTEMS 1560 01:06:21.978 --> 01:06:24.814 FOR THE NASA ORION PROGRAM, BOTH 1561 01:06:24.814 --> 01:06:27.216 COMMERCIAL CREW PARTNERS AND/OR 1562 01:06:27.216 --> 01:06:29.352 GIN BLUE AND GLENN PROGRAM. 1563 01:06:29.352 --> 01:06:33.055 BEING THE LEAD DESIGNER FOR FOUR 1564 01:06:33.055 --> 01:06:34.890 HUMAN PAIR SHUT SYSTEMS 1565 01:06:34.890 --> 01:06:39.261 SIMULTANEOUSLY, AND HIS WORK IS 1566 01:06:39.261 --> 01:06:40.162 INDELIBLE. 1567 01:06:40.162 --> 01:06:42.565 >> I SEE HIS BIGGEST INFLUENCE 1568 01:06:42.565 --> 01:06:45.735 BEING IN PARACHUTE AND HUMAN 1569 01:06:45.735 --> 01:06:46.836 SPACE FLIGHT. 1570 01:06:46.836 --> 01:06:48.971 HIS PASSION FOR PARACHUTES IS 1571 01:06:48.971 --> 01:06:50.873 CONTAGIOUS. 1572 01:06:50.873 --> 01:07:11.560 HE EMBODIES BEING RECOGNIZED. 1573 01:07:11.560 --> 01:07:12.728 >> MR. SINCLAIR IS BEING 1574 01:07:12.728 --> 01:07:14.196 RECOGNIZED FOR LEADERSHIP IN THE 1575 01:07:14.196 --> 01:07:18.334 DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE 1576 01:07:18.334 --> 01:07:19.769 PARACHUTE SYSTEMS THAT WILL BE 1577 01:07:19.769 --> 01:07:21.604 USED TO LAND EVERY UNITED STATES 1578 01:07:21.604 --> 01:07:23.873 HUMAN SWAYS CRAFT FOR THE NEXT 1579 01:07:23.873 --> 01:07:26.175 GENERATION OF SPACE TRAVEL. 1580 01:07:26.175 --> 01:07:26.675 [APPLAUSE] 1581 01:07:26.675 --> 01:07:29.278 >> THE FINAL HONOREE IS 1582 01:07:29.278 --> 01:07:31.714 DR. JAKOB VAN ZYL. 1583 01:07:31.714 --> 01:07:33.282 >> HE RECEIVED HIS DIAGNOSTIC 1584 01:07:33.282 --> 01:07:35.684 RATE FROM CALTECH IN 1986, 1585 01:07:35.684 --> 01:07:38.687 STARTED ENGINEERING AT JPL AT 1586 01:07:38.687 --> 01:07:40.523 THE SAME TIME. 1587 01:07:40.523 --> 01:07:44.727 HIS WORK ON RADARS, STARTED IT'S 1588 01:07:44.727 --> 01:07:46.929 TENURE ON THE CONSUL IN 2002 AND 1589 01:07:46.929 --> 01:07:48.664 BECAME THE DIRECTOR OF ASTRONOMY 1590 01:07:48.664 --> 01:07:50.332 AND PHYSIC IN 2005. 1591 01:07:50.332 --> 01:07:51.767 WHILE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR HE 1592 01:07:51.767 --> 01:07:54.937 STARTED TWO VISIONARY EFFORTS. 1593 01:07:54.937 --> 01:07:59.208 THE FIRST IS Q SATES, AND THE 1594 01:07:59.208 --> 01:08:01.343 NEXT ARE THE HELICOPTERS THAT 1595 01:08:01.343 --> 01:08:06.449 WILL FLY. 1596 01:08:06.449 --> 01:08:09.185 HE'S MOST DESERVING OF THIS 1597 01:08:09.185 --> 01:08:10.920 PRESTIGIOUS AWARD, AND I HAVE 1598 01:08:10.920 --> 01:08:13.556 THE HONOR OF NOMINATING HIM. 1599 01:08:13.556 --> 01:08:17.259 THANK YOU. 1600 01:08:17.259 --> 01:08:19.962 >> DR. VAN ZYL IS BEING 1601 01:08:19.962 --> 01:08:20.963 RECOGNIZED FOR DISTINGUISHED 1602 01:08:20.963 --> 01:08:22.398 SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP OVER A 1603 01:08:22.398 --> 01:08:24.066 LONG CAREER CONTRIBUTING TO OVER 1604 01:08:24.066 --> 01:08:25.968 20 SUCCESSFUL NASA MISSIONS AND 1605 01:08:25.968 --> 01:08:27.369 INSTRUMENTS. 1606 01:08:27.369 --> 01:08:37.913 [APPLAUSE] 1607 01:08:37.913 --> 01:08:38.881 >> THIS CONCLUDES THE 1608 01:08:38.881 --> 01:08:40.749 PRESENTATION OF THE AWARDS. 1609 01:08:40.749 --> 01:08:41.350 BUT AT THIS TIME WE WOULD LIKE 1610 01:08:41.350 --> 01:08:42.184 TO TAKE A MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE 1611 01:08:42.184 --> 01:08:44.420 THOSE HONOREES WHO COULD NOT 1612 01:08:44.420 --> 01:08:49.558 JOIN US TODAY. 1613 01:08:49.558 --> 01:08:51.127 MR. DWAYNE BROWN. 1614 01:08:51.127 --> 01:08:54.530 DWAYNE BROWN RECEIVES NASA'S 1615 01:08:54.530 --> 01:08:55.931 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL, A 1616 01:08:55.931 --> 01:08:57.566 HEADLINE WRITTEN BY THE STARS IN 1617 01:08:57.566 --> 01:09:01.971 THE NIGHT SKY LONG AGO. 1618 01:09:01.971 --> 01:09:03.105 WHAT A CAREER OF FIRST. 1619 01:09:03.105 --> 01:09:04.907 FROM HIS FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE 1620 01:09:04.907 --> 01:09:07.143 TO EVERY MAJOR SHUTTLE 1621 01:09:07.143 --> 01:09:09.145 ANNOUNCEMENT, RETURN TO FLIGHT, 1622 01:09:09.145 --> 01:09:14.216 JOHN GLENN'S '95 MISSION. 1623 01:09:14.216 --> 01:09:19.021 EILEEN COLLINS WAS THE FIRST 1624 01:09:19.021 --> 01:09:22.725 FEMALE MISSION COMMANDER. 1625 01:09:22.725 --> 01:09:24.894 AND DWAYNE WAS THERE. 1626 01:09:24.894 --> 01:09:26.695 HE BECAME THE TRUSTED FACE AND 1627 01:09:26.695 --> 01:09:28.831 VOICE OF THE PROGRAM. 1628 01:09:28.831 --> 01:09:31.700 WHEN HE WAS ASSIGNED TO SCIENCE 1629 01:09:31.700 --> 01:09:33.435 HE CONTINUED THIS LEVEL OF 1630 01:09:33.435 --> 01:09:35.237 EXCELLENCE. 1631 01:09:35.237 --> 01:09:36.105 ALL THINGS MARS INCLUDING THE 1632 01:09:36.105 --> 01:09:39.108 CURIOSITY LANDING NEW HORIZON TO 1633 01:09:39.108 --> 01:09:43.546 PLUTO, AND IN 2017, LEADING THE 1634 01:09:43.546 --> 01:09:46.382 FOUR HOUR SHOWCASE OF THE TOTAL 1635 01:09:46.382 --> 01:09:47.816 SOLAR ECLIPSE. 1636 01:09:47.816 --> 01:09:54.056 HE'S NOT ONLY THE FACE AND VOICE 1637 01:09:54.056 --> 01:09:57.159 BUT THE HEART AND SOUL OF 1638 01:09:57.159 --> 01:09:58.027 SCIENCE. 1639 01:09:58.027 --> 01:09:59.628 CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS 1640 01:09:59.628 --> 01:10:02.298 WELL-DESERVED HONOR. 1641 01:10:02.298 --> 01:10:03.666 >> MR. BROWN IS BEING RECOGNIZED 1642 01:10:03.666 --> 01:10:05.301 FOR SUSTAINED AND DEDICATED 1643 01:10:05.301 --> 01:10:06.902 COMMITMENT TO BRINGING NASA'S 1644 01:10:06.902 --> 01:10:09.138 ASTONISHING ACHIEVEMENTS TO THE 1645 01:10:09.138 --> 01:10:10.873 NEWS, MARKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC 1646 01:10:10.873 --> 01:10:13.876 FOR THE PAST 3 YEARS. 1647 01:10:13.876 --> 01:10:16.245 MR. EDWARD FEIN. 1648 01:10:16.245 --> 01:10:18.681 >> WHY IS FEIN DESERVING OF THIS 1649 01:10:18.681 --> 01:10:21.550 DISTINGUISHED HONOR? 1650 01:10:21.550 --> 01:10:25.254 ED'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE VARIED, 1651 01:10:25.254 --> 01:10:29.358 AND AS THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 1652 01:10:29.358 --> 01:10:31.493 COUNCIL, HE PATENTED 1653 01:10:31.493 --> 01:10:33.896 TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE MERCURY 1654 01:10:33.896 --> 01:10:39.335 SPACECRAFT TO THE INTERNATIONAL 1655 01:10:39.335 --> 01:10:40.769 SPACE STATION. 1656 01:10:40.769 --> 01:10:44.173 HE OVERSEAS HOW NASA CONDUCTS 1657 01:10:44.173 --> 01:10:46.008 ACQUISITIONS IN THE NEW SPACE 1658 01:10:46.008 --> 01:10:46.809 ERA. 1659 01:10:46.809 --> 01:10:49.545 HE HAS BEEN A SIGNIFICANT FORCE 1660 01:10:49.545 --> 01:10:58.254 MULTIPLIER FOR TRANSFERRING NASA 1661 01:10:58.254 --> 01:11:12.868 TECHNOLOGIES TO THE. 1662 01:11:12.868 --> 01:11:14.503 >> MR. MICHAEL GOOD. 1663 01:11:14.503 --> 01:11:16.905 >> MIKE GOOD HAS DEMONSTRATED 1664 01:11:16.905 --> 01:11:18.040 EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP DURING 1665 01:11:18.040 --> 01:11:20.542 HIS 34 YEAR CAREER. 1666 01:11:20.542 --> 01:11:22.044 HE CAME TO NASA IN 2000. 1667 01:11:22.044 --> 01:11:23.312 HE'S PERFORMED FOUR CRITICAL 1668 01:11:23.312 --> 01:11:25.447 SPACEWALKS TOTALING 30 HOURS IN 1669 01:11:25.447 --> 01:11:26.448 SPACE. 1670 01:11:26.448 --> 01:11:27.883 DURING THE HUBBLE SERVICE 1671 01:11:27.883 --> 01:11:29.718 MISSION HE REPAIRED AN 1672 01:11:29.718 --> 01:11:31.987 INSTRUMENT THAT WAS LIKE DOING 1673 01:11:31.987 --> 01:11:34.290 BRAIN SURGERY IN SPACE. 1674 01:11:34.290 --> 01:11:36.425 HE CAME IN 2014 TO UTILIZE HIS 1675 01:11:36.425 --> 01:11:37.693 EXPERIENCE. 1676 01:11:37.693 --> 01:11:40.362 ANYONES 2014 HE LED A JOINT TEST 1677 01:11:40.362 --> 01:11:43.532 TEAM TO LAYOUT AND TEST THE CREW 1678 01:11:43.532 --> 01:11:45.534 COCKPIT AND DISPLAYS ON THESE 1679 01:11:45.534 --> 01:11:46.802 NEW VEHICLES. 1680 01:11:46.802 --> 01:11:48.771 HIS ROLE HAS BEEN CHALLENGING 1681 01:11:48.771 --> 01:11:50.906 SINCE NASA DOES NOT OWN THE 1682 01:11:50.906 --> 01:11:52.441 SPACECRAFT. 1683 01:11:52.441 --> 01:11:55.344 HE'S A TALENTED LEADER AND HE 1684 01:11:55.344 --> 01:11:57.479 HAS MADE A LASTING IMPACT ON OUR 1685 01:11:57.479 --> 01:11:58.347 PROGRAM. 1686 01:11:58.347 --> 01:11:59.882 IT'S FITTING THAT MIKE GOOD BE 1687 01:11:59.882 --> 01:12:02.318 AWARDED THE NASA DISTINGUISHED 1688 01:12:02.318 --> 01:12:05.020 SERVICE MEDAL. 1689 01:12:05.020 --> 01:12:06.922 WHEN WE FLY OUR CREWS, YOU'RE A 1690 01:12:06.922 --> 01:12:08.357 HUGE CONTRIBUTOR FOR MAKING IT 1691 01:12:08.357 --> 01:12:08.657 HAPPEN. 1692 01:12:08.657 --> 01:12:12.061 >> HE'S BEING RECOGNIZED FOR HIS 1693 01:12:12.061 --> 01:12:14.830 DEDICATION OF ADVANCING THE 1694 01:12:14.830 --> 01:12:17.132 MISSIONS OF NASA. 1695 01:12:17.132 --> 01:12:18.233 MR. WILLIAM HICKS. 1696 01:12:18.233 --> 01:12:20.703 >> BILL HICKS SERVE NASA FOR 37 1697 01:12:20.703 --> 01:12:21.236 YEARS. 1698 01:12:21.236 --> 01:12:23.806 THE LAST SIX HE WAS THE CFO AT 1699 01:12:23.806 --> 01:12:24.773 MARSHALL. 1700 01:12:24.773 --> 01:12:26.241 HE WAS DEVOTED TO SUPPORTING 1701 01:12:26.241 --> 01:12:28.677 NASA'S MISSION AND IS KNOWN AS A 1702 01:12:28.677 --> 01:12:30.346 HIGH INTEGRITY LEADER WITH 1703 01:12:30.346 --> 01:12:31.947 UNWAVERING DEDICATION FOR THE 1704 01:12:31.947 --> 01:12:33.716 JOB PUT BEFORE HIM. 1705 01:12:33.716 --> 01:12:36.218 HE HELPED TO GUIDE CENTER 1706 01:12:36.218 --> 01:12:38.754 RESOURCES, AND OUR TEAM RELIED 1707 01:12:38.754 --> 01:12:40.489 ON HIM DURING TIMES OF GREAT 1708 01:12:40.489 --> 01:12:41.457 CHANGE. 1709 01:12:41.457 --> 01:12:43.592 ALL THE WHILE HE MADE SURE THAT 1710 01:12:43.592 --> 01:12:49.431 NASA ACHIEVED OR PASSED METRICS. 1711 01:12:49.431 --> 01:12:51.166 HE'S MOST DESERVING OF THE HONOR 1712 01:12:51.166 --> 01:12:52.267 OF THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE 1713 01:12:52.267 --> 01:12:53.702 MEDAL. 1714 01:12:53.702 --> 01:12:55.704 >> MR. HICKS IS BEING RECOGNIZED 1715 01:12:55.704 --> 01:12:56.972 FOR ROBERT SCULLY PROVIDING 1716 01:12:56.972 --> 01:12:59.108 OUTSTANDING SERVICE, IMPROVEMENT 1717 01:12:59.108 --> 01:13:00.676 AND LEADERSHIP TO THE PROGRAM 1718 01:13:00.676 --> 01:13:02.511 PLANNING AND CONTROL COMPETENCE 1719 01:13:02.511 --> 01:13:04.079 FOR THE AGENCY AND PROVIDING A 1720 01:13:04.079 --> 01:13:06.382 PROFOUND IMPACT ON NASA'S 1721 01:13:06.382 --> 01:13:07.750 MISSION SUCCESS. 1722 01:13:07.750 --> 01:13:11.286 MR. WILLIAM NEIL MEYERS. 1723 01:13:11.286 --> 01:13:12.421 I'M SO PLEASED TODAY TO SAY A 1724 01:13:12.421 --> 01:13:14.356 FEW WORDS ABOUT OUR AWARDEE 1725 01:13:14.356 --> 01:13:16.191 MR. NEIL MEYERS. 1726 01:13:16.191 --> 01:13:19.461 HE HAS SPENT 51 YEARS AT NASA, 1727 01:13:19.461 --> 01:13:22.398 YES, 51 YEARS, DOING DESIGN FOR 1728 01:13:22.398 --> 01:13:24.066 SPACE FLIGHT HARDWARE. 1729 01:13:24.066 --> 01:13:25.734 HIS INNOVATIVE APPROACH AND 1730 01:13:25.734 --> 01:13:27.603 BELIEF THAT DESIGN HAS TO BE 1731 01:13:27.603 --> 01:13:32.708 ESTHETICALLY PLEASING HAS FILED 1732 01:13:32.708 --> 01:13:34.843 27 PATENTS. 1733 01:13:34.843 --> 01:13:36.712 HIS PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE AND 1734 01:13:36.712 --> 01:13:39.815 HUMBLE APPROACH MAKE HIM MOST 1735 01:13:39.815 --> 01:13:41.250 DESERVING OF THIS DISTINGUISH 1736 01:13:41.250 --> 01:13:41.683 AWARD. 1737 01:13:41.683 --> 01:13:44.953 >> MR. MEYERS IS BEING 1738 01:13:44.953 --> 01:13:47.489 RECOGNIZED FOR MISSION TO THE 1739 01:13:47.489 --> 01:13:49.958 SERVICE OF NASA THROUGH 1740 01:13:49.958 --> 01:13:58.333 TECHNICAL ASPECTS. 1741 01:13:58.333 --> 01:14:02.604 >> MR. MELVIN SKRUGGS. 1742 01:14:02.604 --> 01:14:04.740 >> HE HAS PLAYED A CRITICAL ROLE 1743 01:14:04.740 --> 01:14:06.675 IN SPEARHEADING OPERATIVE 1744 01:14:06.675 --> 01:14:07.810 INITIATIVES. 1745 01:14:07.810 --> 01:14:09.211 ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT 1746 01:14:09.211 --> 01:14:11.680 INITIATIVES WAS REDUCING COST BY 1747 01:14:11.680 --> 01:14:13.515 20% OVER NINE YEARS. 1748 01:14:13.515 --> 01:14:14.917 HE ALSO WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN 1749 01:14:14.917 --> 01:14:17.286 HELPING THE SHUTTLE TRANSITION 1750 01:14:17.286 --> 01:14:19.822 EFFORTS FOR CENTER OPS 1751 01:14:19.822 --> 01:14:21.256 REQUIREMENTS, AND MOST RECENTLY 1752 01:14:21.256 --> 01:14:23.692 IN SOME OF OUR ENERGY-SAVINGS 1753 01:14:23.692 --> 01:14:25.127 COST INITIATIVES. 1754 01:14:25.127 --> 01:14:27.830 MELVIN IS MOST HIGHLY DESERVING 1755 01:14:27.830 --> 01:14:29.231 OF THIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE 1756 01:14:29.231 --> 01:14:30.365 MEDAL. 1757 01:14:30.365 --> 01:14:33.769 >> MR. SKRUGGS IS BEING 1758 01:14:33.769 --> 01:14:35.637 RECOGNIZED FOR DISTINGUISH 1759 01:14:35.637 --> 01:14:38.040 SERVICE THAT HAS PROFOUNDLY 1760 01:14:38.040 --> 01:14:39.475 EFFECTED FEDERAL AGENCIES AND 1761 01:14:39.475 --> 01:14:41.610 INSURING MISSION SUCCESS FOR 1762 01:14:41.610 --> 01:14:42.478 CRITICAL AGENCY PROGRAMS. 1763 01:14:42.478 --> 01:14:47.616 DR. JAWAN CHIN. 1764 01:14:47.616 --> 01:14:49.017 >> WE GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER AS 1765 01:14:49.017 --> 01:14:51.420 PARTICIPANTS IN THE SENIOR 1766 01:14:51.420 --> 01:14:52.855 EXECUTIVE PROGRAM IN THE 1767 01:14:52.855 --> 01:14:55.457 EARLY 2000S. 1768 01:14:55.457 --> 01:14:57.426 HE HAS SINCE GONE ON OH FOR 1769 01:14:57.426 --> 01:15:00.829 LEADERSHIP POSITIONS. 1770 01:15:00.829 --> 01:15:02.831 HE WAS THE DEPUTY AA AND THEN 1771 01:15:02.831 --> 01:15:04.399 ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR FOR 1772 01:15:04.399 --> 01:15:06.368 AERONAUTICS RESEARCH, AND DID AN 1773 01:15:06.368 --> 01:15:08.437 AMAZING JOB TRANSFORMING THE WAY 1774 01:15:08.437 --> 01:15:10.739 WE DO RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY 1775 01:15:10.739 --> 01:15:11.607 DEVELOPMENT IN SUPPORT OF 1776 01:15:11.607 --> 01:15:13.242 AVIATION FOR THE NATION. 1777 01:15:13.242 --> 01:15:14.776 HE LED THE DEVELOPMENT OF 1778 01:15:14.776 --> 01:15:16.345 NUMEROUS TECHNOLOGIES THAT HAVE 1779 01:15:16.345 --> 01:15:18.981 IMPROVED PERFORMANCE OF 1780 01:15:18.981 --> 01:15:20.482 AIRCRAFT, REDUCE THE 1781 01:15:20.482 --> 01:15:23.185 ENVIRONMENTAL PACKET OF AVIATION 1782 01:15:23.185 --> 01:15:24.453 AS WELL AS IMPROVE THE SAFETY 1783 01:15:24.453 --> 01:15:26.188 AND EFFICIENCY OF THE AIR SPACE 1784 01:15:26.188 --> 01:15:27.289 SYSTEM. 1785 01:15:27.289 --> 01:15:30.125 HE HAS BEEN AMAZING LEADER FOR 1786 01:15:30.125 --> 01:15:32.294 ARMD IN THE AGENCY, AND 1787 01:15:32.294 --> 01:15:34.730 CONGRATULATIONS FOR RECEIVING 1788 01:15:34.730 --> 01:15:36.698 THIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE 1789 01:15:36.698 --> 01:15:37.266 MEDAL. 1790 01:15:37.266 --> 01:15:39.134 >> DR. CHIN IS BEING RECOGNIZED 1791 01:15:39.134 --> 01:15:40.802 FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE, 1792 01:15:40.802 --> 01:15:42.237 EXTRAORDINARY CONTRIBUTIONS AND 1793 01:15:42.237 --> 01:15:44.373 OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP MANAGING 1794 01:15:44.373 --> 01:15:48.977 NASA'S AERONAUTIC PORTFOLIO. 1795 01:15:48.977 --> 01:15:51.647 >> DR. PATRICK SIMPLE KINS. 1796 01:15:51.647 --> 01:15:54.783 >> MR. PAT SIMILAR KINS IS MOST 1797 01:15:54.783 --> 01:15:59.755 DESERVING OF NASA'S SERVICE 1798 01:15:59.755 --> 01:16:00.455 MEDAL. 1799 01:16:00.455 --> 01:16:09.831 IN A NUMBER OF MISSIONS, HE 1800 01:16:09.831 --> 01:16:12.935 HELPED US MR. OUR MULTI USER 1801 01:16:12.935 --> 01:16:16.305 SPACE FORT AND BUILD A COHESIVE 1802 01:16:16.305 --> 01:16:18.840 ENGINEERING TEAM, BRINGING FOLKS 1803 01:16:18.840 --> 01:16:19.975 TOGETHER TO HELP MAKE THAT 1804 01:16:19.975 --> 01:16:20.676 HAPPEN. 1805 01:16:20.676 --> 01:16:23.679 FOR THAT I'M ALWAYS GREAT OF. 1806 01:16:23.679 --> 01:16:25.113 THANK YOU, PAT. 1807 01:16:25.113 --> 01:16:32.387 >> DR. SIMKINS IS BEING 1808 01:16:32.387 --> 01:16:34.356 RECOGNIZED FOR HIS LEVEL OF 1809 01:16:34.356 --> 01:16:36.658 EXCELLENCE THAT IS PROFOUND AND 1810 01:16:36.658 --> 01:16:39.928 HAS MADE AN INDELIBLE IMPACT ON 1811 01:16:39.928 --> 01:16:47.169 NASA SUCCESS. 1812 01:16:47.169 --> 01:16:50.872 >> ONE OF NASA'S PRESTIGIOUS 1813 01:16:50.872 --> 01:16:51.673 AWARDS. 1814 01:16:51.673 --> 01:16:52.741 WHEN I THINK ABOUT ERIC THE 1815 01:16:52.741 --> 01:16:54.009 FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MIND 1816 01:16:54.009 --> 01:16:56.712 IS THAT HE'S TRULY AN ENGINEER'S 1817 01:16:56.712 --> 01:16:57.579 ENGINEER. 1818 01:16:57.579 --> 01:16:58.981 HE HAS A STRONG ACADEMIC 1819 01:16:58.981 --> 01:17:00.682 BACKGROUND AND A STAND DESIRE TO 1820 01:17:00.682 --> 01:17:01.383 LEARN. 1821 01:17:01.383 --> 01:17:02.551 HE HAD THE UNIQUE ABILITY TO 1822 01:17:02.551 --> 01:17:04.386 CRAFT GRAPHICAL SOLUTIONS FROM 1823 01:17:04.386 --> 01:17:24.339 THE TEXT BOOK CONGRATULATIONS. 1824 01:17:24.339 --> 01:17:25.774 >> HE'S BEING RECOGNIZED FOR 1825 01:17:25.774 --> 01:17:26.975 SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO 1826 01:17:26.975 --> 01:17:29.177 NASA'S MISSION AS A MENTOR, 1827 01:17:29.177 --> 01:17:30.445 TEACHER AND PROTECTOR OF 1828 01:17:30.445 --> 01:17:40.555 TAXPAYER DOLLARS. 1829 01:17:40.555 --> 01:17:41.990 >> ON BEHALF OF THE AGENCY WE 1830 01:17:41.990 --> 01:17:43.825 THANK EACH OF THE EXTRAORDINARY 1831 01:17:43.825 --> 01:17:47.229 HONOREES, AND WE WISH YOU 1832 01:17:47.229 --> 01:17:48.397 CONTINUED SUCCESS. 1833 01:17:48.397 --> 01:17:49.931 WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND OUR 1834 01:17:49.931 --> 01:17:51.366 SPECIAL APPRECIATION TO 1835 01:17:51.366 --> 01:17:57.139 MR. JURCZYK, MS. SAUNDERS, THE 1836 01:17:57.139 --> 01:17:58.940 CEREMONY STAFF, VOLUNTEERS AND 1837 01:17:58.940 --> 01:18:00.042 OUR HOST GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT 1838 01:18:00.042 --> 01:18:00.909 CENTER. 1839 01:18:00.909 --> 01:18:02.044 FOR ALL OF YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO 1840 01:18:02.044 --> 01:18:03.779 MAKING TODAY'S CEREMONY A 1841 01:18:03.779 --> 01:18:04.479 SUCCESS. 1842 01:18:04.479 --> 01:18:06.148 AT NASA OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE 1843 01:18:06.148 --> 01:18:07.616 BUILT ON THE LEGACY OF THOSE WHO 1844 01:18:07.616 --> 01:18:08.950 HAVE COME BEFORE US. 1845 01:18:08.950 --> 01:18:10.519 WE THANK ALL OF YOU FOR JOINING 1846 01:18:10.519 --> 01:18:12.354 US TODAY, SPECIFICALLY TODAY'S 1847 01:18:12.354 --> 01:18:14.723 HONOREES FOR GIVING US A STRONG 1848 01:18:14.723 --> 01:18:16.725 FOUNDATION TO CONTINUE MAKING 1849 01:18:16.725 --> 01:18:18.360 THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE AS THE 1850 01:18:18.360 --> 01:18:19.795 NEXT GENERATION OF EXPLORERS 1851 01:18:19.795 --> 01:18:21.263 REACH FOR NEW HEIGHTS, AS WE 1852 01:18:21.263 --> 01:18:22.130 MOVE FORWARD TO THE MOON IN 1853 01:18:22.130 --> 01:18:23.498 2024. 1854 01:18:23.498 --> 01:18:27.502 >> NASA CONTINUES TO GO FURTHER. 1855 01:18:27.502 --> 01:18:29.104 AND INCREASE OUR SCIENTIFIC 1856 01:18:29.104 --> 01:18:32.274 KNOWLEDGE FASTER AND IMPROVE THE 1857 01:18:32.274 --> 01:18:34.009 HUMAN CONDITION. 1858 01:18:34.009 --> 01:18:35.744 WE CAN DO THIS BECAUSE WE HAVE 1859 01:18:35.744 --> 01:18:36.878 THE WORLD'S FINEST WORKFORCE. 1860 01:18:36.878 --> 01:18:39.081 THE AGENCY HONOR AWARDS IS A 1861 01:18:39.081 --> 01:18:41.016 SPECIAL OCCASION. 1862 01:18:41.016 --> 01:18:42.551 TO RECOGNIZE THOSE WHOSE 1863 01:18:42.551 --> 01:18:43.785 DEDICATED WORK HAS PROPELLED 1864 01:18:43.785 --> 01:18:45.654 NASA HIGHER THAN EVER BEFORE. 1865 01:18:45.654 --> 01:18:48.457 SIR ISAAC NEWTON, ONE OF THE 1866 01:18:48.457 --> 01:18:50.926 MOST INFLUENTIAL SCIENTISTS IN 1867 01:18:50.926 --> 01:18:53.228 HISTORY ONCE SAID IF I HAVE SEEN 1868 01:18:53.228 --> 01:18:56.131 FURTHER, IT IS BY STANDING ON 1869 01:18:56.131 --> 01:18:58.633 THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS. 1870 01:18:58.633 --> 01:19:08.643 WE AT NASA WORK FOR THE BENEFIT 1871 01:19:08.643 --> 01:19:10.178 OF ALL HUMANITY. 1872 01:19:10.178 --> 01:19:14.750 THEIR EXEMPLARY COURAGE TO FIND 1873 01:19:14.750 --> 01:19:18.420 SOLUTIONS PROVES TO ALL OF US 1874 01:19:18.420 --> 01:19:20.155 THERE IS NO PROBLEM TOO GREAT OR 1875 01:19:20.155 --> 01:19:22.357 MISSION TOO DIFFICULT. 1876 01:19:22.357 --> 01:19:23.859 AS WE PROUDLY RECOGNIZE THE 1877 01:19:23.859 --> 01:19:25.560 HONOREES WITH NASA'S HIGHEST 1878 01:19:25.560 --> 01:19:27.763 AWARDS, I HOPE WE'LL ALL STRIFE 1879 01:19:27.763 --> 01:19:29.664 TO EMULATE THEIR CAREER 1880 01:19:29.664 --> 01:19:31.166 EXCELLENCE. 1881 01:19:31.166 --> 01:19:33.268 I EXTEND MY PERSONAL 1882 01:19:33.268 --> 01:19:35.070 CONGRATULATIONS TO EACH OF THE 1883 01:19:35.070 --> 01:19:38.006 HONOREES AND OFFER MY HEARTFELT 1884 01:19:38.006 --> 01:19:39.474 GRATITUDE FOR THE LEGACY YOU 1885 01:19:39.474 --> 01:19:40.542 HAVE BUILT. 1886 01:19:40.542 --> 01:19:42.344 YOUR HARD WORK EMPOWERS AND 1887 01:19:42.344 --> 01:19:44.613 INSPIRES US TO RISE UP TO MEET 1888 01:19:44.613 --> 01:19:47.015 THE CHALLENGES OF TODAY. 1889 01:19:47.015 --> 01:19:48.817 NASA IS A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE 1890 01:19:48.817 --> 01:19:51.286 OF WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU DO 1891 01:19:51.286 --> 01:19:52.988 EVERY DAY. 1892 01:19:52.988 --> 01:19:55.390 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.