00:00Good morning, everybody. How is everyone doing today?
00:06There's a couple empty seats now, so I hope someone could have the seat up here.
00:10No, it's great to be here with everybody today.
00:13Amazing that the whole place is filled up.
00:15I'm just excited to be here in India, first and foremost.
00:20Secondly, of course, to sharing my experience with students
00:23and some of the next generation, the future.
00:26You might see the name or the words R-E-T, retired.
00:30That means I'm getting out of the way,
00:32and then you guys have to take in, fill in, and do the job that I was doing
00:37and that many people are working on, just like the professor mentioned.
00:41I know there's so many things going on in India,
00:43so many startups, so much engineering that's going to work its way
00:48into having humans leave low-Earth orbit,
00:51humans leave the planet and go on to do bigger and better things.
00:55But there's a lot of foundation that goes into it,
00:59and part of that was the International Space Station,
01:01which has been my life for the last 20-some years.
01:05I joined NASA in 1998, and at that time,
01:09there were PowerPoint slides about how the space station
01:13was all going to be put together.
01:15And honestly, I didn't believe it was going to happen.
01:19Not only is it hard technically to do that,
01:21but we are working with all of our international partners from Russia,
01:25from Japan, from Europe, from Canada, and others to do this.
01:31And I thought, for sure, someone's going to say there's no way.
01:34We can't do it.
01:35Yes, we put our name on the paper,
01:37but no, we're not really going to follow through.
01:40But we did.
01:41Yes, it took about a decade to build the International Space Station.
01:45And if you've seen some of those PowerPoints of how it was put together,
01:50solar rays extended, solar rays retracted,
01:53radiators extended, radios retracted,
01:55modules moved here and there.
01:57As we were living there, we were doing science experiments
02:00until it was all built around 2011 and 2012.
02:05And now it is amazing laboratory.
02:08I've had the opportunity to fly in 2006
02:10when it was just one little solar ray
02:12and one little laboratory practically.
02:152012 when we pretty much had it all done,
02:19thinking about a couple more new futuristic exploration modules
02:24or ideas that we were going to put on.
02:26And now again in 2024,
02:29I thought I would only have a glimpse of it,
02:31but I got a long period of time to stay up there and hang out for a while.
02:35So it was awesome.
02:37The space station is cooking.
02:39It is doing everything it's supposed to be doing.
02:42It is the foundation for so many futuristic science projects
02:47that we're working on and technology demonstrations.
02:50And it's awesome.
02:52Unfortunately, we are probably going to be losing it in about five years,
02:57but that is also fortunately because that opens a new chapter,
03:00just like that retired thing there,
03:03opens a new chapter for the next generation
03:05to do even bigger and better things based on the foundation.
03:08But that's wonderful.
03:09Let's just revisit it.
03:09That's beautiful.
03:10Yay!
03:10So now everyone will meet each other,
03:11and thankfully if you haven't learned about them
03:12and maybe we'll get them in a single day
03:14and maybe get them into a new field,
03:14then we'd start to make sure the next generation
03:16either is a small space on the foundation.
03:16And the frontisp습니까 is fairly simple
03:17and it is a small space island,
03:17but for good reason to start to work with it,
03:18you'd listen too frequent.
03:20Here we go,
03:21where can we focus on more waves
03:21and train forward in the direction of the foundation
03:22Oh this is pretty excited,
03:23um both about itskeep's critical
03:24sort of the 1988
03:28level where there's some personal space
03:29and history on display,
03:29we'll put a layer on the left side,
03:31but at the conclusion.
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