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>> Any day. And star.
>> Decker Lodge liftoff from a tropical rain forest to the
tropical rain forest to the
edge of time itself. James
Webb begins a voyage back to
the birth of the universe.
>> That was a rocket taking
the Webb telescope into space recently as a replacement for
recently as a replacement for
the Amazing Hubble telescope.
Talk about the way, said the
various space agencies have
come together to support that
project as well as many
others. And what’s the importance of what the Webb
importance of what the Webb
telescope will be able to do?
>> You know, so can rule, as I
talked you know what we’re doing going forward and to the
doing going forward and to the
moon again with our
international community. Same
thing with James Webb it was a bringing you’re a ping space
bringing you’re a ping space
agency. The Canadian Space
Agency, along with and our
industry partners to build this great observatory it is
this great observatory it is
built and it is being tested.
You know, the intent is that
Hubble has great and wonderful
as images are where we won’t
be able to continue to get
that. And so when with the
follow with the capability of
looking for their back in time
here at the Johnson Space
Center where as we focus on
human exploration. But when
what allows us to think for
their and so right now, as we’re planning to go to moon
we’re planning to go to moon
and well will lead the way for
us to think about going much,
much further allow as we can
do that and explore, but to
help us to to look back in
time. And you know, so right
now I’m thinking about, you
know, looking back in time and
here out of the Johnson Space
Center right now. Today we’re
celebrating our 60th
anniversary we have been here
in Houston. Houston was the
first word spoken And so we intend to carry that forward
intend to carry that forward
as we continue with our
inspiration and it inspires us
and it will allow us to find a very soon that some of the
very soon that some of the
images of coming back from Web
and tests category and
eventually I over the summer, all of the alignment should be
all of the alignment should be
complete and we’ll real images
sent the Webb Space Telescope
will bring to us. You
mentioned the 60th anniversary
of Johnson and when we think
of Johnson space and we think
of the main campus there, but that there’s much more.
that there’s much more.
>> You get thousands of
employees, a budget of
billions of dollars programs
from International Space
Station to the Orion crew
vehicle, human research. >> Commercial cargo, advanced
>> Commercial cargo, advanced
exploration, all of that. And
so how do we all benefit? Do
you think there’s a lot of
things that we may benefit from? We don’t even know about
from? We don’t even know about
many things we benefit from.
>> what you the the a graphic
that that you hadn’t had from the Texas comptroller’s office
the Texas comptroller’s office
because the Texas did come and
do economic so as you mentioned, we bring the from
mentioned, we bring the from
the I manage a budget of over
6 billion but from that, it’s about in Texas, about 40,000
about in Texas, about 40,000
jobs. And then if you look at
the the impact of of not only
dissenter is responsible for jobs here and Houston, but
jobs here and Houston, but
also in New Mexico. And we
didn’t have we have a
component in El Paso as well. But we also benefit from
But we also benefit from
technology as well as from the
jobs. And, you know, when I
talk about 2 students they
say, you know what, what, what am I benefiting there are so
am I benefiting there are so
many things that are
impacting, for example. If you look order and Africa and
look order and Africa and
other places we are doing what
we call regeneration of war on board the International Space
board the International Space
Station to prove that you can
recycle wastewater and purify
it and to be able to use it
again. And so that’s just one example. The International
example. The International
Space Station has sensors on
it that allows us not only to
look changes that are
resources in our in our country and our environment.
country and our environment.
But we have hurricanes, we’re
able to provide data the
recovery services so that they can go and search and and
can go and search and and
certain just a multitude experiments go on every day
experiments go on every day
what we call material Sciences
technologies, life sciences.
All right, here in Houston, we
a real relationship with the medical center where their
medical center where their
best in a looking ways of
being able to treat cancer.
Just a of activity center each and every day that so you talk
and every day that so you talk
about the international space
is want to ask you something
about that partnership. Its
work through the years clear.
But right now it’s kind of
like a tick the situation.
>> Russians are are attacking Ukraine right now. We also
Ukraine right now. We also
have Russian cosmonauts on the
space station with American
astronauts in space. Clearly a
situation that could be
challenging. We depended on Soyuz to to get astronauts to
Soyuz to to get astronauts to
the ISS and cetera. Any
concerns what’s going on? If
you heard anything about any
conflicts or any kind of
tension, there might be there now as a result of what’s
now as a result of what’s
happening in Ukraine. Yeah.
So.
>> You know, camera all
relationship that we’ve had
with the Russians with
International Space Station
goes back many years because the Nest National Space
the Nest National Space
Station we’ve had our
astronauts and cosmonauts on
board for over 21 years. And
so it is so important for to
be able to collaborate more
together and from the
astronauts cosmonauts. As
matter of fact, we had some
here offer training I reached
out to them to let them know
that, you know, we understand
that their conflicts that are
going on. But we have to
continue to be partners in order for us to keep the space
order for us to keep the space
station going. And so when
they’re working together,
there are no will hear talk about, you know, the view from
about, you know, the view from
space that you don’t see
borders. You know, we’re just all one country. And so right
all one country. And so right
now they’re all working by the
time at this year’s. So we
will have launched the more
Russian cosmonauts to the
International Space Station. I eventually we’re going to be
eventually we’re going to be
are returning. Astronaut and 2
cosmonauts 2 Kazakhstan, which
is area where the Russians
back to the launch and landings and we’ll bring our
landings and we’ll bring our
Mark Vande Hei back to the
United States and that that
clamber Ation has been ongoing
and we’ve know we’re continuing what we would like
continuing what we would like
to term as safe and
professional operations on
board the International Space
Station. And so up to this
point, they have not seen any
c***** in the armor of That collaboration at this point,