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hi I'm Ben Toma the mechanical lead for

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the assembly test and launch operations

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of the Mars Science Laboratory project

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we've already sent the heat shield the

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backshell and the crew stage on this

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trip we're sending the descent stage and

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of course the Curiosity rover herself

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there's an enormous amount of logistics

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involved in planning such an operation

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when you're talking about moving an

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entire spacecraft along with all of its

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support equipment literally across the

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country it takes months and months of

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planning and weeks and weeks to execute

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curiosity's flipped upside down for a

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ride to Kennedy Space Center in the same

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orientation that it'll be for launch in

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this orientation we carefully wrap

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curiosity and a big huge bag that bag

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acts not only as a Faraday cage but it

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keeps curiosity clean for her journey to

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Florida when she's all bagged up and

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ready we have many engineers and many

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technicians gathered around and safely

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lift curiosity up and down into a

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shipping container base will lift a big

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lid on top of that shipping containers

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it's that shipping container that is

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then used a transporter across the roads

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and across the air on her journey to

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Florida we actually arrived at Kennedy

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on a c-17 a military cargo plane which

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will land at the same landing strip that

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the shuttle lands at the team and I are

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really looking forward to our launch

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this November from Kennedy Space Center