The following text is a speech by Lisa Shaffer (NASA), which was presented at the 8th CEOS Plenary in Berlin, Germany. The original text can be found appended to the minutes of the meeting, which can be found on the archived meeting materials page .? We did it! We took an idea and made it into a reality. Participants of the 8th CEOS Plenary in 1994, holding the photo from the 1st CEOS Plenary in 1984. What was the idea? That the world would benefit from satel...