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(Jim Garvin) It all comes down to this. after years of development by our engineers here at
Goddard, we have to get there. And access to space is everything. And while we
don't launch things here from our Greenbelt facility at Goddard, we do
launch from our Wallops Flight Facility about a hundred miles away on the coast
of Virginia. And at Wallops, we launch small rockets, scout rockets,
minotaurs and others that transform the ideas, the development and the dreams
into the reality in space. And after our rockets get us there, our operations
engineers here at Goddard take over. They check out the vital signs, the pulse of
our spacecraft, so that we can get the data back to do the science we set out
to do.