1 00:00:08,580 --> 00:00:06,420 Griffin bangala t babe here the eagle 2 00:00:10,619 --> 00:00:08,590 has landed rocket when I was a little 3 00:00:11,730 --> 00:00:10,629 girl and people were always asking me 4 00:00:13,350 --> 00:00:11,740 what do you want to be when you grow up 5 00:00:17,730 --> 00:00:13,360 and I saw has no I'm gonna work up there 6 00:00:19,620 --> 00:00:17,740 as an engineer you dream of a job like 7 00:00:21,660 --> 00:00:19,630 this where you get to follow in the 8 00:00:24,420 --> 00:00:21,670 footsteps of some of your childhood 9 00:00:28,500 --> 00:00:24,430 heroes and then of course for me the 10 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:28,510 Apollo missions seeing these folks on TV 11 00:00:33,779 --> 00:00:31,810 step on the moon and work for NASA as an 12 00:00:35,639 --> 00:00:33,789 engineer it's just a dream to be able to 13 00:00:44,069 --> 00:00:35,649 say you know I want to do that too and 14 00:00:46,649 --> 00:00:44,079 Here I am hi I'm Cathy Peddie and I've 15 00:00:48,119 --> 00:00:46,659 got the coolest job at NASA I get to 16 00:00:50,069 --> 00:00:48,129 work on a project called the lunar 17 00:00:52,590 --> 00:00:50,079 reconnaissance orbiter project or LRO 18 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:52,600 we're going back to the moon and guess 19 00:00:55,829 --> 00:00:54,010 what we're doing right now we're 20 00:00:57,660 --> 00:00:55,839 building all the parts of the spacecraft 21 00:01:00,719 --> 00:00:57,670 at Goddard Space Flight Center in 22 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:00,729 Maryland the LRO instrument suite is 23 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:03,850 comprised of six instruments and one 24 00:01:09,210 --> 00:01:06,490 technology demonstrator and they are 25 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:09,220 geared towards providing us of a variety 26 00:01:15,750 --> 00:01:12,130 of datasets ranging from a thermal map 27 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:15,760 of the Moon global topography and most 28 00:01:20,670 --> 00:01:17,770 importantly looking for resources like 29 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:20,680 water ice on the moon the entire suite 30 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:22,930 should provide more of an atlas as 31 00:01:28,380 --> 00:01:25,450 opposed to a map so that we know where 32 00:01:30,270 --> 00:01:28,390 to go on the moon we're to have the safe 33 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:30,280 landing sites and where to put things 34 00:01:34,740 --> 00:01:32,410 like lunar outpost in the hopes of 35 00:01:57,350 --> 00:01:34,750 having human exploration in the near 36 00:02:02,210 --> 00:02:00,050 all of our instruments have been built 37 00:02:07,130 --> 00:02:02,220 so right now they're they're all being 38 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:07,140 qualified our propulsion tanks all the 39 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:08,610 fuel that's going to take us to the moon 40 00:02:14,630 --> 00:02:10,890 and get us into the orbit already done 41 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:14,640 completed so we're we're in the throes 42 00:02:21,170 --> 00:02:18,810 of the assembly sequence all the 43 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:21,180 engineers and technicians and all of our 44 00:02:25,340 --> 00:02:23,130 business folks are working very hard to 45 00:02:27,230 --> 00:02:25,350 make sure that we successfully integrate 46 00:02:35,179 --> 00:02:27,240 it and test it and get ready for our 47 00:02:42,319 --> 00:02:39,000 if i were to dream I I would love to see 48 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:42,329 that LOL lived way beyond decades beyond 49 00:02:49,530 --> 00:02:46,810 its its supposed life and was able to do 50 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:49,540 more than what we said it would do and 51 00:02:56,550 --> 00:02:52,930 maybe discover something that would not 52 00:02:58,770 --> 00:02:56,560 only enable human exploration but do 53 00:03:01,170 --> 00:02:58,780 something that just made it happen like 54 00:03:04,770 --> 00:03:01,180 a lot quicker or we look back on the 55 00:03:06,390 --> 00:03:04,780 earth and we were able to help life here 56 00:03:08,670 --> 00:03:06,400 on earth because of something that we 57 00:03:10,710 --> 00:03:08,680 never even thought of because of of the