WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:02.840 --> 00:00:10.260 "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Center Planning and Development is Go." 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.160 We call ourselves the front door to KSC. 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:22.460 We kind of bridge the gap between what NASA needs to be successful and the things that 00:00:22.460 --> 00:00:26.130 they don't need, and what could be available to make partners successful and commercial 00:00:26.130 --> 00:00:27.650 space more viable. 00:00:27.650 --> 00:00:34.260 When Shuttle was retired, there was a large surplus of excess assets and land on KSC that, 00:00:34.260 --> 00:00:37.300 you know, all of the sudden had no real purpose or future. 00:00:37.300 --> 00:00:40.940 Our goal is to repurpose them for more efficient use. 00:00:40.940 --> 00:00:45.510 We have established a number of agreements with some very large companies like SpaceX 00:00:45.510 --> 00:00:49.080 and Boeing to utilize facilities we have. 00:00:49.080 --> 00:00:52.790 We also have a very large land agreement in place with Blue Origin. 00:00:52.790 --> 00:00:56.110 We were in a very advantageous position for ourselves. 00:00:56.110 --> 00:01:02.360 We had identified assets like Launch Complex 39A, Shuttle Landing Facility, that were outside 00:01:02.360 --> 00:01:08.110 NASA's needs for the foreseeable future, and instead of letting those go to waste, covered 00:01:08.110 --> 00:01:13.600 in weeds, we said this is very unique infrastructure that really could be utilized by a non-NASA entity. 00:01:13.800 --> 00:01:19.920 The biggest misconception is that we're actually giving facilities away - which we're not. 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:21.990 Everything is still owned by the U.S. government. 00:01:21.990 --> 00:01:23.150 It's still our asset. 00:01:23.150 --> 00:01:28.430 We're just providing it to a commercial partner at a reimbursable basis. 00:01:28.430 --> 00:01:34.280 We actually are recovering costs associated with maintaining those facilities and operating 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:35.390 those facilities. 00:01:35.390 --> 00:01:39.870 It's not as much as a facilities plan as it is a plan to facilitate change. 00:01:39.870 --> 00:01:46.580 And again it's a lot of outreach both internally and externally, letting folks know that, you 00:01:46.580 --> 00:01:50.060 know, KSC is changing, and we feel like successfully changing. 00:01:50.060 --> 00:01:54.860 So many times I get asked by friends of mine who do know where I work, and do know what 00:01:54.860 --> 00:02:01.090 I do, they say, well is Kennedy Space Center shutting down, or is it closing... 00:02:01.090 --> 00:02:02.510 are you going to loose your job? 00:02:02.510 --> 00:02:03.620 And the answer is no. 00:02:03.620 --> 00:02:06.670 We've cornered the spaceport business and the launch business. 00:02:06.670 --> 00:02:11.030 We are growing faster than I think anybody who was the most positive five years ago thought 00:02:11.030 --> 00:02:12.650 we were going to be at this point. 00:02:12.650 --> 00:02:14.260 We're very vibrant today. 00:02:14.260 --> 00:02:19.129 I worked on the Space Shuttle program, I am nostalgic for it as well. 00:02:19.129 --> 00:02:23.269 But at the end of the Shuttle program, we knew that there was going to be a change coming, 00:02:23.269 --> 00:02:30.200 that something had to change, and the harder we worked, the quicker we were going to benefit 00:02:30.200 --> 00:02:35.489 not only the American public, but those folks that may have been effected by the end of 00:02:35.489 --> 00:02:36.489 the Shuttle program. 00:02:36.489 --> 00:02:38.680 We were going to help them get their jobs back. 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:44.049 There's a reason why you have companies like Blue Origin building giant facilities to manufacture 00:02:44.049 --> 00:02:49.330 rockets here, and SpaceX just constantly expanding their presence here, it's because we are the 00:02:49.330 --> 00:02:52.340 most advantageous place for them to operate. 00:02:52.340 --> 00:02:57.170 We're close to everything, and we have the job base and the history of success that they're 00:02:57.170 --> 00:02:58.170 looking for. 00:02:58.170 --> 00:03:02.620 In the Planning Office, you really try to think not one or two steps ahead, but three 00:03:02.620 --> 00:03:03.620 or four steps ahead. 00:03:03.620 --> 00:03:09.329 We really have to rely on a very wide variety of subject matter experts to kind of gauge 00:03:09.329 --> 00:03:12.420 how we see, you know, the most efficient way of evolving. 00:03:12.420 --> 00:03:16.930 So we work very closely with the other programs to make sure that we don't commit something 00:03:16.930 --> 00:03:19.849 that we can't make available to them in the future. 00:03:19.849 --> 00:03:26.599 NASA always takes priority when it comes to utilization of facilities, or assets, or capabilities. 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:31.480 The programs understand the benefits that commercial bring now as well as the future 00:03:31.480 --> 00:03:37.019 benefits that they may bring to their success as the partnerships grow, and the trust between 00:03:37.019 --> 00:03:39.989 those two - commercial and NASA missions - grow. 00:03:39.989 --> 00:03:45.400 It's a very fast paced and dynamic work environment, every day we are working with people from 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:50.560 all over the center, people outside the center, elected officials, making sure that NASA programs 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:54.340 are successful, that our commercial partners are successful, that the state's successful. 00:03:54.340 --> 00:04:00.510 We're very proud that we've been able to participate in making the Kennedy Space Center a multiuser 00:04:00.510 --> 00:04:01.510 spaceport. 00:04:01.510 --> 00:04:02.540 We're blazing new trails. 00:04:02.540 --> 00:04:06.840 I think if anybody is not excited by what Kennedy Space Center is doing right now, 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:07.840 they're not paying attention. 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:12.060 It really is just phenomenal to think about how bright the future is here because of, 00:04:12.060 --> 00:04:12.959 you know, the path that we're on.