today's ceremony was made possible through the generous support of the boeing co. ity. [applause] to set the stage for the celebration, i would like to introduce a short video produced by nasa. please, turn your attention to the screens for highlights of discovery. ♪ >> the space shuttle discovery, named for past ships of exploration, was delivered from it palmdale california factory to the kennedy space center in 1983. since then, diovery has lived up to the historic legacy of its name it has been up re than any spacecraft. in order, a probe -- it carried laboratories to study with u as, and insurance to study the earth and its atmosphere. it became the first spacecraft to bring his satellite back to earth. [cheers and applause] but perhaps even more compelling than the discovery is enabled in space, the spirit of this vehicle has help humanity to discover on earth. it's missions include flights that showcase how one time cold war adversaries can become a longtime friends for exploration. it's like have expanded space travel beyond boundaries of age, gender, and ra

as the head of the boeing co. commercial airplanes group, alan mullally spent the last 10 years and enough one disaster after another while somehow managing to transform his divisive culture into a model corporate collaboration spirit under his leadership going survived an unrelenting assault by europe's airbus industry coming difficult merger with rival mcdonnell douglas in the collapse of sales that followed the terrorist attacks on new york and washington d.c. in 2001. mullally turned what would've been a fatal blow to the aerospace giant into an opportunity to fundamentally transform the me into the elite are more profitable enterprise rebate 2006 points commercial jet division was on its way to record sales, revenue and earnings. mullally credited to working together any other and many many of his principles from ford motor company. mullally success at all in the starting making him something of a corporate celebrity, but he hardly acted the part. it looks like an older version of ricky cottingham come with pe

today's ceremony was made possible through the generous support of the boeing co. her opportunity. [applause] to set the stage for the celebration, i would like to introduce a short video produced by nasa. please, turn your attention to the screens for highlights of discovery. ♪ >> the space shuttle discovery, named for past ships of exploration, was delivered from it palmdale california factory to the kennedy space center in 1983. since then, discovery has lived up to the historic legacy of its name it has been up more than any spacecraft. in order, a probe -- it carried laboratories to study with us as, and insurance to study the earth and its atmosphere. it became the first spacecraft to bring his satellite back to earth. [cheers and applause] but perhaps even more compelling than the discovery is enabled in space, the spirit of this vehicle has help humanity to discover on earth. it's missions include flights that showcase how one time cold war adversaries can become a longtime friends for exploration. it's like have expanded space travel beyond boundaries of ag

today's ceremony was made possible through the generous support of the boeing co. r opportunity. [applause] to set the stage for the celebration, i would like to introduce a short video produced by nasa. please, turn your attention to the screens for highlights of discovery. ♪ >> the space shuttle discovery, named for past ships of exploration, was delivered from it palmdale california factory to the kennedy space center in 1983. since then, discovery has lived up to the historic legacy of its name it s been up more than any spacecraft. in order, a probe -- it carried laboratories to study with us as, and insurance to study the earth and its atmosphere. it became the first spacecraft to bring his satellite back to earth. [cheers and applause] but perhaps even more compelling than the discovery is enabled in space, the spirit of this vehicle has help humanity to discover on earth. it's missions include flights that showcase how one time cold war adversaries can become a longtime friends for exploration. it's like have panded space travel beyond boundaries of age, gen