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>> Six, five, four,
three, two, one.

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>> Fire

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>> Missile away.

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>> Flight Opportunities
is a program

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where NASA provides opportunity
for technology development

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by flying these technologies
in space

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like environments on
similar platforms.

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>> The mission of the NASA
Flight Opportunities Program is

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to do risk predictions of new
technologies by flying them

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on commercial flight platform.

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The way it works is that
the principal investigator

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of a technology will go and
pick a commercial flight vehicle

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such as balloon where
it can get long exposure

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to high altitude environment.

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[inaudible] radiation.

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You can also use public
aircraft to get a few signals

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of microgravity or
sending rockets

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to get a few minutes
of microgravity.

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You can also use a vertical
takeoff and landing vehicles

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on which you can test
landers technology.

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>> RSO how do you read?

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>> RSO is green.

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>> Copy.

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>> Surveillance?

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>> Surveillance ready.

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>> The work that we're doing

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under Flight Opportunities
helps provide validation

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that yes it can be done and
yes this is the sort of thing

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that is worth these other
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money in.

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>> Part of the real value of the
Flight Opportunities Program is

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that it is effectually priming
the pump for an entire industry

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in lots of different ways.

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Its helping us as the vehicle
providers figure out how best

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to service the research
community.

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But also, because the Flight
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are specifically geared towards
technology its helping develop

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the actual systems and the
technologies and the censors

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at that in turn are going
to enable all this science.

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>> NASA is really excited

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to help advance commercial
space flight industry.

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The Flight Opportunities Program
funds technology development

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flights on commercial vehicles.

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These flight investments not
only stimulate the technical

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advancement and technology
advancement which can

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of course be used on
commercial and NASA missions

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but it also stimulates the
flight provider industry.

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Bringing more vehicles to
the market in the future

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which can be used
for further research.