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Every piece of a mission you've got thousands of\h
different systems. You've got the parachute, you've\h\h

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got the rocket boosters for the sky crane, you've\h
got materials work for the heat shield, you've\h\h

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got all these thousands of components. So you have\h
all these parallel research programs going where\h\h

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people are trying to find different solutions to\h
problems we have to solve to make this thing work.\h

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And it's a long timeline and a lot of work by\h
a lot of people. This is obviously unprecedented\h\h

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times but challenges are what NASA does. Just\h
having an internship with NASA and working with\h\h

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NASA is just such a privilege because you're\h
working with the greatest minds in the world.

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Viper is a rover mission. It's a rover of\h
many firsts. It's the first NASA rover to\h\h

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bring three instruments and a drill to map\h
the water resources on the surface of the moon.\h\h

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These tests will help us get ready for\h
the future tests during the fall and\h\h

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to understand the rover's performance\h
in terms of how how well the rover can\h\h

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traverse simulated lunar soil, how well it\h
can overcome obstacles like rocks. It has\h\h

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been challenging to work through this pandemic\h
but this pandemic has also brought opportunities.

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We are working to reduce the carbon footprint\h
of aeronautics whether it is traveling for work,

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or for vacations, or getting things\h
delivered. Aeronautics plays a role in that\h\h

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and so one of the things we're looking\h
at is called advanced air mobility,

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and that is an air taxi that would be able to\h
commute. The idea from like a roof shop downtown\h\h

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into a neighboring suburb, or to the airport and be\h
able to reduce your commute time as well as do it\h\h

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fully on battery power. So one project that I've\h
been working on is the X-57 and it is a Technum\h\h

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aircraft that was originally gas powered, and we\h
are making it fully electric. So we're putting\h\h

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battery packs in it, we are replacing the\h
engines with electric motors and then the goal\h\h

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is to eventually be able to completely reduce\h
emissions and get to a fully electric aircraft.

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This is a nuclear technology and it's a fission\h
system. The heat comes all the way up to these\h\h

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engines here that gives you the electrical energy\h
that you would need then to be able to power\h\h

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instruments or habitats. To be able to go and\h
explore the moon as part of this Artemis program.

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Oh it's so exciting what we're\h
doing in this renaissance of technology\h\h

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and exploration and so, we intend to put\h
the first woman and the next man to step\h\h