won a contract -- two and a half weeks ago, we won a contract on the united states naval ship alan shepard that contract will run about $14 million in work. our people will run about 200 or 250 employees on that alone. the ship shows up on wednesday. we will be bringing in diesel generators in order to power the ship up, but in the future, and we just had meetings in norfolk, virginia, and the military sea to command asked what we're doing to get this class of ship. the san francisco drydock is unique in that it is the biggest on this side of the pacific ocean. there are only two united states drydocks on this side of the pacific ocean that could lift this class of ship. it is a great opportunity not only to do good things on the environmental side, but it also generates jobs, and i think that is unique. i think it is great when the jobs and environmental sides come together to make something work like this. we have had a great relationship with the port of san francisco. i was looking at the numbers this morning for projections of manpower this year, and it will continue of work. looking

i remember being in first grade on the first manned flight, alan shepard. first grade class named alan shepard, and everybody in the class worshipped him because he had the same name as the first american in space. and it went on and got better and better from there. there is a bit of medical on c melancholy about what this all represents. at the same time there is a great amount of research going on with the space station. the assistant nasa administrator told me a short while ago that the kind of experimentation that is being done there, in microgravities can't be done on earth. we are getting new kinds of vaccines made up there that cannot be produced on earth. there is valuable research going on up there. and i think as martha pointed out that the sort of idea of a public/private partnership shows tremendous promise too. there are also those who say that you simply cannot make the kind of tremendous investments from that kind of a private endeavour that nasa could make with the billions and billions of dollars that it took to create the manned mission t