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The Chinese have a famous proverb: 千里之行，始於足下 which is pronounced "Qiānlǐ zhī xíng, shǐyú zú xià" -- or, more commonly in English, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." It teaches us that even the longest and most difficult ventures have a starting point; something which begins with one "first" step.
Technical Sgt. Justin Perran, a Joint Terminal Air Controller at Buckley Air Force Base, and Dreux Zimmer, a Logistics Management Specialist from the Space and Missile Systems Center's Global Positioning Systems Directorate, describes how the first GPS III satellite, SV-01 (also known as "Vespucci" in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer for whom the Americas were named), began its first step in what will ultimately be a journey of hundreds of millions of miles over its long service life in orbit above us -- from Colorado to Cape Canaveral in preparation for its mid-December launch.
#SpaceStartsHere #GPSIIISV01 #FALCON9 #SMC #LAAFB #AFSPC #USAF #45SW
| Date Taken: | 09.11.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 12.11.2018 18:37 |
| Category: | Series |
| Video ID: | 647481 |
| VIRIN: | 180911-D-AO618-155 |
| Filename: | DOD_106291335 |
| Length: | 00:03:13 |
| Location: | EL SEGUNDO, CA, US |
| Downloads: | 28 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 28 |
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