Hi, I'm Jim Garvin, I'm the chief scientist here at NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Center, and there are two pioneering woman scientists
who I'd like to talk about as inspiration to me, really
from two different perspectives. And first, I had the great privilege of working for
Sally Ride after her flight, historic flights
in the Space Shuttle. She also led a committee to study what NASA
should be doing after the Challenger set-back. And as her science
guy on that committee, I got to know and watch her in action leading
us and what I thought would be the future of NASA forward. And
many of her ideas have stayed with us. The idea of competition
in science, may the best women or man, or women and men
continue the legacy of exploration, reaching for the stars, going to Mars,
these are things she taught me as a younger person in NASA
to do. So Sally has left a long-lasting vision
for me of how we should do things. And we're trying to do that in the
aftermath of her movement beyond this planet. So, secondly
I'd like to talk about how inspiration works perhaps on a more visceral level.
And one of my colleagues, Lori Glaze, a scientist here at NASA Goddard,
a vulcanologist and planetary scientist,
is really the epitome I think of leadership in science, the way
we need to do it at NASA. Lori is not only an amazingly competent
scientist, but she's also a wonderful leader of people
in achieving great things. And so as we look forward to
missions to places like Venus in the future, we're going to need
scientists like Lori that can not only do the great science but also lead all of us
in endeavors like that.