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Good morning and welcome to

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Kennedy Space Center in Florida,

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where we will soon

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launch NASA's

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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

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This journey started

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more than 20 years ago,

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when we just had Roman

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as pencil and paper sketches,

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and now it stands

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waiting on the launch

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pad, ready

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to go to space

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and reveal the secrets of the universe.

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I'm beyond excited for the NASA

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Goddard Space Flight

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team, the NASA

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JPL team,

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literally the

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thousands that have come together

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to deliver NASA's great

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exploration asset

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right now

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under budget

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and actually ahead of schedule.

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T-minus ten.

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Roman was designed

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to address key questions

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that people have asked

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for a very long time.

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One of them is about exoplanets

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and whether there are planets

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out there and solar systems out there

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like our own.

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The other is about the biggest questions

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on the grandest scales,

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the fabric of the universe,

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how the universe that we see around us

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came to be... Pushed and pulled

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by the competing forces

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of dark matter and dark energy.

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These are mysteries

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that Roman was designed to settle.

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Three. Two. One.

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Ignition and liftoff!

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Go Falcon Heavy and go

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Roman Space Telescope!

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We're going to open Roman's eyes,

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we're going to see the sky

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in a new way with Roman

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for the first time.

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And we're just going to get blown away.

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When we send Roman out there

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a million miles away.

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It will take about three months

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to get out to that point, during

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which time we are turning on

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the instruments,

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aligning the telescope,

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calibrating everything

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so that we are ready to begin

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efficient observations

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as soon as we're there.

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What new things will we discover that

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we don't even conceive of at the moment?

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What questions will Roman answer that

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we don't even know how to formulate yet?

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That's what's going to

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make this mission

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transformative and a civilization

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scale experiment.

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We built this in order to provide

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emotionally impactful

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and scientifically impactful imagery

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for all of humanity,

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and I feel like we have managed

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to achieve that today.

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