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Hi, I'm Jim Garvin, I'm the chief scientist here at NASA's Goddard Space Flight

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Center, and there are two pioneering woman scientists

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who I'd like to talk about as inspiration to me, really

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from two different perspectives. And first, I had the great privilege of working for

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Sally Ride after her flight, historic flights

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in the Space Shuttle. She also led a committee to study what NASA

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should be doing after the Challenger set-back. And as her science

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guy on that committee, I got to know and watch her in action leading

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us and what I thought would be the future of NASA forward. And

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many of her ideas have stayed with us. The idea of competition

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in science, may the best women or man, or women and men

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continue the legacy of exploration, reaching for the stars, going to Mars,

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these are things she taught me as a younger person in NASA

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to do. So Sally has left a long-lasting vision

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for me of how we should do things. And we're trying to do that in the

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aftermath of her movement beyond this planet. So, secondly

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I'd like to talk about how inspiration works perhaps on a more visceral level.

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And one of my colleagues, Lori Glaze, a scientist here at NASA Goddard,

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a vulcanologist and planetary scientist,

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is really the epitome I think of leadership in science, the way

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we need to do it at NASA. Lori is not only an amazingly competent

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scientist, but she's also a wonderful leader of people

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in achieving great things. And so as we look forward to

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missions to places like Venus in the future, we're going to need

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scientists like Lori that can not only do the great science but also lead all of us

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in endeavors like that.