we welcome pilots bill reedy, don william, doe allen -- joe allen, chris ferguson, patrick forrester,, tom jones, janet combante, leland melvin, hollow nespoli, ken wrightman, steve robinson, casey thornton, and now last but not least, payload specialist, too, john glenn. [applause] thank you. ok. [laughter] this is one of the greatest gatherings of astronauts probably in the history of nasa. [applause] the things that they have tended to become an astronaut are incredible, but when you are commander -- this is harder than i thought it was going to be. when our commander, you are at the top of the clutch, but this is only a handful of people that missed their lives every day in space and developing new capabilities to get there. you are experiencing something that is not only this -- you are not going to see this again, either. 2012 is the 100 anniversary of aviation, and we are going to celebrate that here in this entire year. you will see at the evidence by this group, and you will see more of it right now. prior to becoming an astronaut, he was a distinguished aviator who served in