more about the regionalism me mission, is the deputy administrator of the national aeronautics and space administration. please join, me in welcoming him. >> good afternoon. i am excited to be here. i can't see one of you though. neither am. i you know, i really want to start out with a story about myself, it was, i was six years old., and i might walk right off the stage. i was six years old. i had a brother, and, i found myself -- if you're familiar -- -- and, i remember getting outside of my parents forward station wagon, it was, sold it had a huge on the back window. and, i remember, my brother, taken me hand up to this rambler. -- we knocked on the door, and this guy answer the door, and, said what is going on? i can remember looking back to my parents looking in the car in thinking -- he let us pet the cat. and my brother got his autograph. and, that was the first time that, i met john lam.. and, like glen's first orbit, if we are not exploring, we are not finding new science, and technology., and if that's not the case,, then we are not leading. we have entered a transformational era in space. o