alvar: exactly. today, we will be doing the testing. tonight. we're gonna have about a thousand students across the country watching us. my name is alvar saenz-otero. i'm the director of the mit space systems laboratory. fischer: all right, no pressure. alternate... alvar: what inspired me to be where i am is really an innate desire to go to space. the hard part is that in real life you do not see the positioning system, the satellite parts, or the assembly area. we have to imagine them. fischer: post time for the magic. alvar: the whole world today does programming in the same languages. that's what's gonna connect the whole world. if you are working by sending your code to space station while you're in middle school, that's amazing. i don't care who you are. if you have that ability to engineering at age ten, space should no longer be the final frontier. woman: copy that. and thank you for all the science today. okay, well, stand by... makayla: we did submit our code on the anniversary of the first people on the moon. do you think that's good