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>> Three, two, one, ignition.

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This is the LC Minotaur
launch vehicle.

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It is carrying the AA-2
Launch Abort System

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for a full stress test.

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>> Pyros one and two
discharged both sides.

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>> [inaudible] pressure.

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>> Good control.

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>> Pyros three and four.

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>> We are testing
these instruments

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to collect atmospheric wind,
aerosol and water vapor data.

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Doing this to understand how
accurate these instruments are

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and also to understand
how we might be able

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to take these instruments
to space someday.

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>> Hi, everyone.

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Here we are on DC-8.

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We're flying about
two-thirds of the way

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through our third flight,
so flight number three.

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As you can see, students are on
board as well as about a dozen

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or so different instruments.

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>> FIREX-AQ for short,
the goal is to track smoke

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as it crosses North America,
taking air samples ranging

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from high in the sky
to down on the ground

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where people are breathing it.

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>> The DC-8 here at NASA
Armstrong support Operation

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IceBridge since 2009.

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This will be our
seventh campaign.

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>> Air-LUSI, it is designed

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to measure the light reflected
off the moon, and it flies

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in ER-2 high-altitude airplanes.

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>> Flying high in the
Earth's atmosphere with SOFIA,

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the world's largest
airborne observatory,

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scientists finally detected
this elusive molecule called

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"helium hydride."

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>> [inaudible], return
to count and launch.

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>> Capsule.

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[ Blasting ]

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>> SPLICE is developing a family
of sensors that are acquired

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to land safely and
precisely on the moon, Mars,

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and any other destination.

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>> Ready? Here we go.

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>> Here we go.

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>> We are in between
[inaudible].

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>> [inaudible] controller.

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[inaudible], three,
two, one, release.

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>> They'll be coming
to the right

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and then back around
to the left.

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>> The X-56A project is intended
to enable the utilization

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of light-efficient
wings by development

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of flight control technologies
to suppress flutter.

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>> And we're coming to the left.

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>> This is one of the most
heavily instrumented wings we've

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ever tested.

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There was about 10,000
sensors on our wing

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which included fiberoptic
strand sensing,

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additional strand sensing,
displacement sensors,

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load sensing, and
also inclinometers.

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>> Okay, [inaudible]
slowing to one, three, four.

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>> The project I'm working

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on is the Unmanned
Aircraft Systems Integration

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into the National
Airspace System.

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The plan of this project
is to integrate these UAS

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into airspace occupied by
human-piloted aircraft.

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>> Stand by, please.

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Tell your partner
where you're going.

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>> The use of this project is
going to go for a long time

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because it's going to
establish a fundamental data set

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on how pilots breathe in
a tactical environment.

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>> This particular antenna we're
trying to use on the ground,

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and we have a flight
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to explore exactly
how well we're able

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to control the interference of
this [inaudible] type antenna.

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>> We're really excited.

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We have this wing that
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for years that's been
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and now we're testing it to see
if it matches the performance

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that we need for
the X-57 vehicle.

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>> X-57, it's a manned
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and what we're doing is
developing technologies related

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to electric aircraft.

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>> Right now conventional
supersonic aircraft are just way

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too loud when they're
supersonic, very disturbing

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for people, but we're sure
that we can make planes

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that are quiet and
still be supersonic

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so we can reduce flight times in
half without disturbing people.

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>> Ultimately the X-59 will be
creating a quiet sonic thump.

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>> So what we're doing
now is we're going

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to take what we learned
from these experiments

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and we're going to apply them
to the X-59 which is going

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to ultimately be flown
in the year 2021 so that

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for the first time we can
get regulations on the books