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Hello, everybody. Can we get started? So my name is Andrew Chess. And I'm lecturing today replacing Eric Lander for the day. He had to be out of town, something that he could not reschedule. He really tries to arrange his very busy schedule so that he is here, but this was something that could not be rearranged. Anyway. So I am a professor at Harvard Medical School, but I have a long history here at MIT, including being on the faculty here for a number of years. I used to teach undergraduates. And even going back further than that, I actually took this class. It was called 7.01 without any extra number at that time. Now it is what, 7.012 or 7. 13? 0-1-2. Anyway. So it was called 7.01. And it was an extremely interesting introduction to biology back then. It was some time over 20 years ago. I'm not sure exactly how many years. I kind of stopped counting at 20. So when Eric called me, when Professor Lander called ...

Welcome everybody. We are extremely fortunate and proud to have with us today Christopher Kraft. Actually, Christopher Kraft, Jr. He told us last night that his father, Christopher Kraft, was born within about a block of Columbus Circle and that is how he picked up the name Christopher Columbus Kraft, which was passed onto Chris Kraft, Jr. I don't really need to say very much by means of introduction because Chris Kraft is a name that has been associated with America's Space Program since the very beginning. And, actually, from the very beginning of his career, right after he graduated from a university in Virginia, he went to work for the old NACA, the National Advisory Commission for Aeronautics. 01:00 And eventually the director of the Johnson Space Center which is the home of Human Space Flight in this country. He had that position through 1982, which was the end of the original orbital flight test phase of the orbiter. So, he really was in charge of the Space...