 Greetings from the National Archives flagship building in Washington, D.C., which sits on the ancestral lands of the Nicaraguan peoples. I'm David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, and it's my pleasure to welcome you to a special session of the National Archives Young Learners Program, a series of free educational programs that bring the holdings of the National Archives to life using historical characters and special guests. All of our Young Learner Programs are available to watch on our YouTube channel. I invite you to explore previous encounters with Rosa Parks, Theodore Roosevelt Washington Irving, and many, many notable figures of American history. Dates and information for future programs can be found on the National Archives website, archives.gov, under upcoming events, and on the National Archives Facebook page. This afternoon we meet NASA astronaut Nicole Stott, who spent over 100 days in space aboard the International Space Station, and on the final flight of the space shuttle Discovery. She performed a spacewalk, the 10th woman to do so, painted the first watercolor in space and participated in the first NASA Tweet-Up, in which she sent social media messages from the space station back to Earth. She later reflected on her experiences and said that the image of Earth viewed from space as a glowing ball of blue floating against the backdrop of blackness reminded me how special it was to be living in such a unique environment, and the image became the inspiration for my painting. The National Archives preserves a vast amount of NASA records, the written word, photographs, audio, and video recordings, and digital records. For today's conversation, we're featuring a newspaper and two photographs relating to Nicole Stott. The Space Center Roundup was the official newspaper of NASA's Johnson Space Center, and this issue announced Stott's selection for the astronaut candidate class in 2000. The two photographs were taken during her missions to space. As an artist, Stott was inspired by views such as this image of the International Space Station. We invite you to further explore National Archives records through Doc's Teach, our online teaching tool. The Doc's Teach activity featured here highlights Sally Ride, another accomplished NASA astronaut, and the first American woman in space. All the programs are brought to you from the National Archives Public Programs and Education staff and the National Archives Foundation. And now it's my great pleasure to welcome our special guest, NASA astronaut Nicole Stott. Hello from the National Archives Public Programs and Education staff. My name is Breanne Robertson, and I am an education specialist in Washington, D.C. Welcome to a special session of the National Archives Young Learners Program. This afternoon, we'll meet NASA astronaut Nicole Stott. We'll find out why she wanted to become an astronaut, what she learned from her time living in space, and how this knowledge inspires her art. We'll take our audience questions via the YouTube chat box and have a question and answer session with Ms. Stott at the end of our conversation. The chat box is monitored by the National Archives staff. And let us know where you're watching from today. You can go ahead and type that in now. Reads and information for future programs can be found on the National Archives website. Archives.gov under attend an event and on the National Archives Facebook page. All the programs are brought to you from the National Archives Public Programs and Education staff and the National Archives Foundation. Now it is my privilege to introduce you to NASA astronaut and director of the Space for Art Foundation, Ms. Nicole Stott. Nicole, thanks so much for joining us today. Hi, great to be here. Thank you. So let's begin with what inspired you to become an astronaut. How did you make that decision? Well, well, I think definitely in, you know, embedded in that decision was the fact that as a kid, I think I was six or six and a half. I think when I with my family got to watch that first moon landing and have vivid memory of that with my family watching on a black and white TV and then going outside and looking at the moon and considering it. And I think even at six and a half, you realize that's a pretty extraordinary thing, excuse me, to see happening, right? But it was a long time before I started thinking about astronaut as a possibility. But I had parents who shared what they loved with me and my dad loved to build and fly small airplanes. And so as a kid, we spent a lot of time out at the local airport and I developed a love to very quickly for not just flying, but wanting to know how things fly. And then, you know, as I was going off to university and studying aeronautical engineering, I'm like, man, if you want to know how airplanes fly, why would you not want to know how rocket ships fly? And the space shuttle program was going on. And I'm like, man, that's what I really want to work doing is helping us get rockets to space and then to shorten up this long story for me, where it really came this whole like, you know, maybe I could be an astronaut was as I watched astronauts coming through while we were getting the spaceships ready for them to fly and seeing through all my work with NASA, but everything we're doing in space is ultimately about improving life on earth. And I thought, man, that would be something that would be so cool to be a part of not just here on earth, but in space with the work that's going on up there too. And then realizing that most of the work that an astronaut does was a lot like what I was already doing as an engineer. And that got me thinking that maybe it's not just other special people that get to be the astronauts. Maybe I could actually consider it. And very thankfully, I had some mentors that encouraged me to fill out the application, which was the one thing I had control of and the whole process was was filling out that application and getting my name in the mix. And I believe me when I see them, I thank them every time for for that very simple encouragement, you know, not discouraging me anyway, but kind of like giving me control of the one thing I had control of already. Yeah. So let's talk a little about that process. So at the top of the program, the archivist, we saw a picture of you as a member of that, you know, of you and your classmates and that candidate class of 2000. So what was the process for being chosen? So once you finally got up the courage to submit an application, what came next? Well, I I submitted the application with the idea that, OK, this is, you know, I'm going to go ahead and do this. Still in the back of my mind, I was always doubting like, oh, I don't stand a chance. Why would they ever pick me? And to my surprise, I got an interview after that that first application. Very thankful for that went. And what they do is they invite you to come to Houston, Texas, where the Johnson Space Center is. And when they say interview at that time, it was like this week long experience that involved medical tests and some psychological testing and visiting the different facilities to see what goes on there. And then the actual interview itself was one hour out of that week, you know, sitting around this big ginormous table with all of these people representing not just the astronaut office, but all of what goes into running the space program. And and they essentially ask you questions like, tell me about yourself since you graduated from college. I mean, it's kind of a weird open ended question. But I think they want to see that you can have a conversation that you can, you know, maybe get off track a little and then get back on track. And it was it was kind of an interesting experience, not one you would expect. I kind of went in there thinking, oh, they're going to ask me questions about the technical work that I did and all of that. And there was a little bit of that. But what they really wanted to get to know was you as a person, what I want to be locked up in a small spaceship with this person for two weeks or six months or whatever it might be on the mission. And I didn't get selected the first time, which again, like I said, wasn't surprising to me, but was, of course, you know, disappointing, I think you go through anything like that and you're really, really hopeful. But they offered me a job working at the Johnson Space Center, flying on the shuttle training aircraft, which was this modified airplane that they used to train astronauts, how to land the space shuttle. And for a person who loved flying, wanted to know how things fly, loved what I was doing at NASA, I thought, how can it get any better than to be now like flying on one of these airplanes that I'd seen working and be on it and helping train astronauts. And then two years later, I interviewed again and was selected and and then the process just continues. I mean, it's kind of a mystery and ultimately how you get assigned to a flight and all this training that you're going through to to prepare yourself to do that. I'm very thankful for that picture that was shown because that was one that, you know, I have to remember it because I always think about showing our official NASA class picture, you know, or the goofy one we do with our little Buggiers on or something. And I love that picture that you guys chose to show because I think it's it's kind of a it shows all of us as who we are, where we're at that point. I know we look exactly the same as we did, you know, 22 years ago. But I see I see all of those people and I recognize them now as, you know, part of my family and but we just look kind of raw and not really kind of, you know, surprised a little even that we are getting those pictures taken and it makes me smile to think of that that whole stage of it. So how did you move from being that green, new, you know, candidate classmate to then ready to actually go into space? Like how how did you prepare for that? What was your training like? Yeah, you know, it's it's interesting because it's all kinds of different training. And on one sense, it's a lot like going back to school. You know, they put us through all these classes of learning about the different spaceships that you might fly on. You know, for me, that was the space shuttle. And and on the Russian side, it was the Soyuz spacecraft and the space station that we were building and starting to fly at that time. And then there's learning how to do spacewalks, you know, getting suited up in the big white suit and, you know, then lifting you on a crane and putting you into the big pool where the mockup of the space station is and learning how to do that and how to fly the robotic arm, that big white crane like thing that we have on the outside of the station that we use to move equipment and people around on the outside of the station. And, you know, just everything about the science that we're going to be doing. It's it's just this mix of of training. And then on top of that, because we were, you know, preparing to start those flights on the International Space Station, it involved a lot of travel between all of the different countries where we have partners on the space station. And so I spent a lot of time in Star City, Russia and, you know, Montreal and Canada and Cologne, Germany and Tokyo, Japan working with our international partners. And and then on top of that, you had to learn to speak Russian. And that was I will just say that was probably the most difficult thing. And all of the training was for somebody who was like almost 40 when I was selected to be like learning how to speak another language. So I would say to all the kids in the audience, learn how to speak that other language now, because once you program your brain to do that with any language, it makes it a lot easier to learn another one when you get older. That's great advice. So so something you didn't mention about your training, but I want to hear a little bit more about is your time at deep sea. Can you talk a little bit about your time? Because you've not only been in space, you've been at the bottom of the ocean. Oh, my gosh, it was so awesome. And so most of the training, actually, I won't say most all of the training that we do, even if it's in a classroom, learning about how the electrical system on the space station works in one way or another. It's really training on how to be a good crewmate, how to be a teammate, you know, as part of these missions. And and then on top of all that, we do some very special training that we call expeditionary training that is very purposefully about how do you work as a good team? How do you discover your own strengths and weaknesses and admit that you actually have weaknesses? You know, that's a difficult thing to do and how you're going to deal with them and recognize those in your crewmates as well. So you can bring everybody together to really, you know, be happy as a team and also successful with the mission. The absolute best way we do that is to go live underwater on this place that we call the it's called the Aquarius Undersea Habitat. It's about the size of a school bus. It's an undersea laboratory. It sits at 60 feet under water off the coast of Key Largo in Florida. And it's absolutely the best example, the best analog to what it's like to live in space. You're under the water instead of in space, just like our space station, where you can't just hop in your spaceship and come home anytime you want. If something's going wrong, you have to deal with it there. The same thing is true at 60 feet under the ocean. You have to figure out how to work with your crew to deal with things that aren't going right. You're living in a relatively confined space. You know, you're communicating, you know, with the team and the control center about your day to day activities. And you're having to be very deliberate and diligent about the environment that you're in because you can't just go outside of the Aquarius Habitat without special equipment on or considerations for how you're going to survive in that environment that surrounds you. And then the final thing I'll say is that from the standpoint of being in a really extraordinary place like that, the chance to experience your planet from that really special vantage point to look out the window of an undersea module laboratory and see like Earth surrounding you and the life that surrounds you there. It's just, I mean, I get goosebumps thinking about it. It's so awesome. It's so wonderful. And I think it really does help you prepare you for this experience you're going to have when now you're in outer space and you're looking out the window of your space station back at Earth, where you're kind of surrounding Earth and seeing it from this totally new vantage point. It's like we get to go to interspace to learn how to live and work in outer space. It's really, and I highly recommend to everyone if you can get underwater with a mask on, even for a couple seconds and open your eyes and see this world that's just so unique and different to us, but that shares the same planet with us. Man, I think you develop appreciation for all of the on-wonder that surrounds us every day. So we actually have a video of you talking about some of the things you learned from living in space. Let's take a minute and watch that now. I've been blessed to experience our planetary home from some extraordinary vantage points, from interspace on the Aquarius undersea habitat to outer space on the International Space Station. Witnessing the complexity of human survival in these extreme environments, I discovered three unifying and life-changing lessons. We live on a planet, an overwhelmingly beautiful, glowing, colorful, crystal clear planet. We are all Earthlings, and the only border that matters is that thin blue line of atmosphere that blankets and protects us all. We build our spaceships as mechanical life support systems, like the ISS, to mimic as best we can what Earth does for us naturally. As a crew on the space station, we know that our survival depends on staying acutely aware of the health and well-being of our atmosphere, of our spaceship, and of all our crewmates. In contrast, here on Spaceship Earth, we pollute our atmosphere, our oceans, and our soils. We are experiencing devastating impacts to our planetary life support system, and to all life we share our planet with. To survive and thrive, we must bring these three simple lessons of planet, Earthling, and thin blue line into our daily lives. I came back to Earth knowing that by behaving like crewmates, not passengers, we have the power to create a future for all life on Earth that's as beautiful as it looks from space. Why is teamwork? This is a theme that you brought up a little bit already. We saw it there, especially in the closing remarks of that video. Why is teamwork so important to being an astronaut? And what does it mean to be a crewmate on planet Earth? Well, I think the teammate thing, you know, you're going into this extreme environment. You're going to a place that requires you to be like purposely deliberate, diligent about all of the things you're doing, right? Just so that you can survive there. And you need a good team. You need to have a diverse experience base from the people that you're working with. So, you know, where I do have a weakness, my crewmate, my teammate, might have that strength and can help balance out the work that we're going to be doing so that we can be successful. And safe in that place. And it just drives out, you know, the building of a really happy, healthy crew. When you go into it, knowing that you're going to have all these different experiences that you can pull together, that you all are in this place and recognize that there's things that you have to do to survive there. And in the video, I use the word survive and thrive. And I think those are, I mean, those are two different things. And we thrive in this mechanical spaceship orbiting the earth because we are paying attention to the things that allow us just to survive, right? And so, you know, on the spaceship example, it's like every day we get up and we pay attention to how much CO2 is in our atmosphere. We pay attention to how much clean drinking water we have. To the integrity of that thin metal hull. And to the health and well-being of all of our crewmates because we know we have to do that as just the first step to being able to do any science in that place or the work of the mission. You don't go out and do a spacewalk unless you know that crew member is safe inside of that space suit. And I think it's a really nice way for us to think about our role here on earth, to consider and this is not something I created this idea of our planet like our spaceship, right? And to think about that thin blue line of atmosphere, just like the thin metal hull of our spaceship. And that all that we do inside of that is going to put us in a position where we can survive and thrive here or where we might not be able to survive at all. And to me the simplest way to think about that was this distinction between choosing to behave like a crewmate versus choosing to behave like a passenger. And the difference in those is one is a very passive role. Passenger is a very passive role. And crewmate is a very active role. Recognizing that you do have to take care of your environment of this planet as our home and also of all of the life we share it with. Yeah. So I want to change subjects just a minute because I want to make sure we allow enough questions for our audience to ask questions to you directly. So and I see you have this amazing statue behind you. Yeah. So you run an organization called Space for Art. What is the connection between art and space and why is it so important? Well, I mean, I hope everyone will agree. I think that space, exploration, space, it's just such an inspirational topic. Right? I mean, you can think about the history of it, kind of the legacy of where we went from not flying in space to now where for over 20 years we've had this continuous presence, human presence in space orbiting our planet as an international community. And I think about it like representing, representing our planet, our planetary community. And to me, art is also, it's like this universal communicator, right? It allows us to engage with audiences that might not even know about space and all of the things that are going on there that ultimately are about improving life on earth. And the way we bring the Space for Art Foundation, really, we bring those two things together, not just through these beautiful artistic spacesuits, but the idea is that we're uniting a planetary community of children through the awe and wonder of space exploration and the healing power of art. And our projects are all done with kids in pediatric cancer centers and other hospitals around the world, orphanages, refugee centers, where kids are going through what you hope, really and truly hope, is the worst thing they'll ever have to deal with in their life. And you bring the inspiration of space and this outlet, this creative outlet to them. And I just watch in awe as I see them sit up straighter, you know, paint and create, talk about space, but really and truly start thinking and sharing what they look forward to for their own future. And I don't know, I can't think of two better things than Space and Art to bring together to, you know, help, you know, encourage that to happen. And in parallel with that, inspiring these kids to understand their role as crewmates, to know that they already are in space, you know, as crewmates on this planet and that they really do have as role as crewmates and not passengers. I think they just get it and they want to go, you know, you know, take that role on full speed. So, and then we end up with these beautiful art spacesuits that are this compilation of all the individual kids, pieces of art and they see it come together in this beautiful, you know, this space suit that is all about protection, right, is all about life support again too. Just, you could do that same parallel between the space suit and the planet. And I don't know, kids get it and then it's really beautiful and we've had the chance to fly a couple of these on the space station and watch them flying through space and the kids talking to their crew members on board about their participation in it Yeah, I think it's a good thing. It's, for me, I've discovered that I had the opportunity to go live underwater, to go live in space so that I could bring it back to Earth and do this work with these kids on this next mission in my life. That's really where I've found my place. Well, let's turn it over to some of those. Yeah, I want to hear some from our audience now. If you have questions for Ms. Stop, please go ahead and type them in the YouTube chat box now. And while you're doing that, I'll go ahead and I'll give a shout out. We've got Mr. Weatherhold Science Class in Washington, D.C. Thanks for joining us and we've got other viewers from Adams Park Library in Atlanta, Georgia. We have a comment from one of our viewers who says, My stepdaughter had the pleasure of going to space camp in Huntsville, Alabama for three years because of family members that work there. It was great. Wow. So, all right. So first question. What were some of the science experiments that you did on the International Space Station and what can we learn in space that we can't learn here on Earth? Well, I'll start with that part of the question because I think it's really kind of cool to think about it. You know, we go to space and we know we're in this environment where we float, right? Where we're moving around in three dimensions just effortlessly and, you know, we get to fly from one end of the space station to the other. It's just amazing. I mean, I can use the word awesome again there. It's just really incredible to be able, you know, as somebody who's so used to just walking on the ground to be able to move that way in space. But we can do that because we're in this environment that we call microgravity where we're basically able to take gravity out of the equation. And by doing that, we can understand all kinds of different things about the way our body responds to that new environment. And we can also look at things that we think we know a lot about here on Earth already and we can look at them in a whole new way. It gives us a whole new perspective on pretty much every area of science you can imagine. And I know the numbers have increased a lot since I was on the space station, but I remember when I was there every day we had over a hundred active science experiments going on. Representing everything from biology to chemistry to human life sciences to, you know, fluid dynamics. I mean, anything you can imagine, plant growth was going on on that space station. And I got to be either the experiment itself, you know, drawing my blood or little pieces of hair, you know, to send back to see how my body was responding to that environment, to getting to change out cartridges in this combustion chamber we had on board the station where we're burning all these different kinds of mixtures of fuels to see how we could burn fuel cleaner and how we could make fuel more, you know, more effective for us. And the thing that was super cool to me about it was that everything we were doing there, whether it was looking at my body and how it was changing and responding to the environment or those fuels or the protein crystals we were growing or the plants and how they were being grown and harvested, everything about every single one of those experiments was going to in some way help us explore, live in space longer, further away. But also, then this is the coolest part to me, is all of them were helping us improve life here on Earth. And that's a pretty cool thing to be a part of when it's not just about the space exploration side of it, it's the space exploration helping us, you know, make life better here on Earth for all life that we share it with. Yeah. So I have two questions here, they're kind of related. Okay. How did it feel the first time you left Earth and were you ever scared going into space? What did you do to relax if you got nervous? Yeah. So how did I feel? It felt awesome. I mean, riding, you know, launching to space on a space shuttle was you know, like an overwhelmingly impressive ride to space. And when you think about it on any of these rockets that we launch on, you're sitting quietly on the launch pad, you know, you're out there for a couple hours before they light the engines. Brianna, I remember we talked a little bit about this, you know, napping on the launch pad because you're just so comfortable waiting for the countdown to start and everything. But holy moly, once that countdown starts and when that rocket launches at zero, you wonder if you were ever on a launch pad and you on the space shuttle, at least you're shaking and it feels like three of you are sitting on top of you because you're accelerating to get to space. And it's just this blur almost of a ride to space where your body is just responding to all that energy underneath you. I mean, on the space shuttle, it took 7 million pounds of rocket thrust underneath you to get you off the launch pad and into space, you know, out of that gravity that holds us here on earth to where we're orbiting the earth 16 times a day. And what's incredible to me is that happens in eight and a half minutes. So you go from sitting on the launch pad to traveling around our planet in eight and a half minutes at 17,500 miles an hour. From zero to 17,000 miles, it's like five miles a second in eight and a half minutes. It's amazing what we can do as humans when we really decide that there's a solution to the problem. And then you would think in all of that, there would be reason to be afraid in that. But I don't think that I was ever really afraid of that whole experience or scared of what was going to happen there because of all the training we do to train to respond to all of these things in the best humanly possible way to deal with them if we can. But I'll tell you, I was afraid for my family, for my son who was seven years old when I flew the first time, for my husband and my mom and my sisters watching me do that. It's a lot more difficult to watch somebody you love launch into space than it is to be the person strapping in. And then in space, the thing that I was afraid of was not something happening to my spaceship because I felt like we were prepared to deal with that as much as possible again. But I was afraid that something would happen to my son on the ground and then I couldn't be there. So I think the thing that helped me in all that was we have a way, we can talk to our families, our friends pretty regularly from the space station. I could call home every day and talk to them. I could email once a week. We had a video conference and that was, it was a way to connect on a regular basis that was very comforting for me. And yeah, and then just knowing that they were following along with me from Earth. And I'll tell you, there's nothing like looking out the window of the space station to be a very kind of transcendent, meditative experience to really help you feel more connected to everyone that's down there than sometimes you do when you're right here in the middle of it. So we have viewers from Finland. So I want to give them a shout out. We got some international viewers. Yeah, any additional questions or you want to tell us where you're watching from? Go ahead and drop that in the YouTube chat box. So I think you maybe you said how needed is to look out the window. But what would you say is really the coolest thing about being an astronaut? You know, in the end, I mean, I think of whatever we do in life, it ultimately comes down to the people you're sharing the experience with, right? These crewmates that I was with for months on the station, you know, on the space shuttle where you share this like common mission. You're coming from all you're representing 16 different countries coming together and able to work as one crew. And that's pretty cool. And I think it's another way to think about how we really do have the power to come together here on Earth in that same way. It's kind of orders of magnitude, right? You know, seven people on a space station versus seven plus billion here on Earth. But I think the model works. But the whole, I mean, the whole experience just wrapped up into one is so cool. Our ability to get off the planet and do these things in space that are benefiting our life here on Earth you know, the expiration aspect of it that's allowing us to learn more about who and where we are together in space. Floating, flying that zero to zero G micro G. I mean, our bodies are so cool in the way we adapt to these new kinds of environments. And then all of that wrapped up into looking out the window back at Earth and, you know, realizing again what I learned when I was in kindergarten. You know, I mean, I knew we'd live on a planet but looking out that window it's like, oh my gosh, we live on a planet in space. That's pretty that's pretty cool. So maybe that's it. It's hard to pick. So you mentioned, you know, some of your bodily experiences floating around. You also talked about how that also figures into some of the science that comes back to Earth. So one of our audience members asked, how did living in space impact your body or your health? Can you talk about that a little? Yeah. And I think we, you know, we go to space knowing there's going to be this impact on our bodies. And we continue to learn more and more about what this unique environment is doing to our bodies. And that's, you know, that's good stuff from the standpoint of I can go and I can live it in this place. And then I can do think what we call counter measures, you know, I can do these things by eating particular foods while I'm there, staying really hydrated, exercising two hours a day. You know, all of these kinds of things that we can do to counteract those impacts on our bodies so that we know when we get back to Earth we'll still be in good shape to move around in gravity and, you know, and stay healthy. And then there's things that are happening to us that we're not quite sure about yet, you know, completely changes in people's vision that the longer we stay in space, the more that seems to be presenting itself where the changes that people are having in space, they don't necessarily have the ability to recover once they come back to Earth. And so we need to learn more and more about that. So, you know, it would be no fun to travel to Mars and get there and not be able to see when you get there and not have a way to recover that. We need to really be very respectful and deliberate about figuring those things out. But one of the things that's really significant in getting to that microgravity environment, especially, is that we do that two hours of exercise every day because we essentially go into like an accelerated osteoporosis where our bones, you know, our bones figure out, our brain figures out, hey, if you're just floating around, you don't need bones or muscles to survive here. So our body on its own doesn't tend to waste the energy to maintain it. But we can do those things like exercising two hours a day to counteract that. And we've shown very good success with the exercise we do there, with the diet that we have and the supplements that we use and that we can fully recover our bone density when we get back to earth. And that's the kind of thing we really need to be looking at proactively and in response to people here on earth having those issues with their bones. And lots of really good stuff has come from that. All right. So I think we don't have time for any more questions from the audience, but I do want to ask you one final question. We like to ask us at the end of all of our Young Learners programs. And so that question is, what advice do you have for our youth today? Wow. I think two things in particular, one is regardless of whether you want to be an astronaut or you have your sights set on something else, I think the key in that and really opening up opportunities for yourself is to pay, really pay attention to what you're curious about, what you enjoy. For me, that was flying, wanting to know how things fly. And it led to all these really incredible opportunities meeting people that helped guide me along the way and encouraged me in all of that. And I think it just came from paying attention to something I love. And then I think the other thing would be this idea of crewmate, not passenger. Right now, at whatever age you are, you can make the conscious choice to be an active member of, an active Earthling, participating in what's going on around you, with your environment, with the people and the people in other life you share this planet with and be respectful and responsive and active in a way that has you right off of that, knowing your role, your very important role as a crewmate and not a passenger. Well, Nicole, thank you so much for your insights and sharing your insights and experience with us today. I also want to thank our audience for their thoughtful questions and for letting us know where they're watching from. That's always fun. I do want to show everyone that Doc's Teach slide again. And hang on just a second. With my screen jumping to full screen, I lost my notes. So this is Doc's Teach slide. This is our activity about another amazing female astronaut, Sally Ride. And that is available on docsteach.org. We have other terrific documents and activities about space exploration there. So again, that's docsteach.org. And lastly, do you like Girl Scout cookies? I know that they are. There's been a lot of posts from my friends and family about that lately. But if so, if you are a Girl Scout yourself or you just like eating their cookies, please join us on Thursday, March 17th at 11 a.m. Eastern Time when we meet Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts. Wow.