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NASA is in the process of designing its

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next generation spacecraft Orion which

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will be able to take astronauts that far

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off destinations like an asteroid and

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eventually one day Mars Orion itself is

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gearing up for its first flight into

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space exploration flight test-1 that

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test going to be taking place in the

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fall of this year 2014 but this week

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we're also doing a lot of prep work and

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one important test to get ready for that

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here to tell us a little bit more is

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Mike Seraphin one of NASA's flight

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directors and someone who's involved

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pretty heavily in the test this week and

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that test is underway recovery test I

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don't know if it has a numbers at one or

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we're just going to call it underway

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recovery does it is just the underway

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recurring test so we are performing a

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test is a joint partnership with the

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United States Navy Lockheed Martin and

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NASA this week the crew of the USS San

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Diego a navy vessel out of the port of

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San Diego have sailed out into the

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Pacific off the coast of California and

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they are going to demonstrate the

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ability to recover Orion this week and

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me and my team are going to be here in

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Mission Control we're going to

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demonstrate the the handover process of

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the Orion capsule here in Mission

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Control were responsible for the Orion

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spacecraft from liftoff to splashdown in

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final power down and we're going to hand

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over the spacecraft to the recovery team

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orion like Apollo is designed to land on

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water and not on land so we need a ship

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to go out there and recover it and

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through this joint agreement we are

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going to go demonstrate that this week

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and make sure that we're ready to go for

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the exploration flight test-1 this fall

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and so what are some of the things that

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the recovery teams are going to be

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testing responsible for out there

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tomorrow yes so we are using a new

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design of ship that did not exist in the

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Apollo era it's called a well deck ship

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so the Orion capsule being larger than

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the Apollo capsule there was some

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concern about using a crane over the

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side of the ship to basically raised it

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over off the water onto the deck of the

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ship so folks went off and assess

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various options and

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we looked at a well deck ship and that

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was the the plan that we're going to try

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out here on eft-1 well deck is basically

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an area within the belly of the ship

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that they can flood and they'll open a

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stern gate which is much like the

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tailgate on a pickup truck and tow the

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Orion capsule in into the well deck and

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then close the stern gate and then drain

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the well deck and lowering the Orion

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capsule on to a recovery cradle so

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they're going to demonstrate that

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capability they're also going to

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demonstrate the ability to spot and

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recover things that have been jettisoned

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off of the Orion capsule during the

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final descent landing phase like the

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forward Bay cover and parachutes and go

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retrieve some of those as engineering

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test articles so it's it's a large

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integrated operation and we haven't done

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this for quite a while we certainly

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haven't done it with this class of ship

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or where they capsule this large so

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we're going to check it out and

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demonstrate it make sure we're ready to

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go and my guilty the flight director in

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the room right down the hall from here

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leading the team what do you guys going

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to be doing in there right so my team

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it's a small team of roughly two dozen

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folks that are going to be here in

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Mission Control on flight day

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responsible for Orion from liftoff the

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splashdown are going to be monitoring

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the health and status of Orion during

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the mission and if we see anything off

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nominal that the spacecraft is not

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designed to handle on its own we're

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going to do what we say send commands to

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the spacecraft or issue computerized

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instructions to it too safe things like

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a propellant leak or issues that could

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potentially occur and make sure that the

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spacecraft is safe to handle by the

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recovery team those folks on board the

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the Navy vessel are going to put

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themselves in harm's way and I want to I

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want to make sure that mean my team tell

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them everything that we know about it so

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that they're safe and can take

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precautionary measures if necessary and

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so to switch gears a little bit we

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happen really had to train to handle a

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new vehicle well aside from the cargo

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vehicles recently but not really a new

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crew crew vehicle in a long time what's

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the training been like to get ready for

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Orion to get the flight control team

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ready to

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handle this new craft yeah I'll admit

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that I was a little bit spoiled as a

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space shuttle flight controller and then

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a shuttle flight director and then

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coming over here doing international

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space station operations I always had a

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baseline to work off of and it was

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largely a sustaining operation where you

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could use the previous mission or the

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previous flight and use that to to Delta

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your work off of so you never started

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from scratch but with a brand new

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program like we're flying here on Orion

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you are starting from scratch so all of

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the capabilities that were using in

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Mission Control all the products all of

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the tools all the software all the

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communication capabilities we're having

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to develop and test and check out from

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scratch we're obviously leveraging a lot

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of the capabilities that we had during

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the Space Shuttle area and have during

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the currently here in Mission Control is

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part of the space station program to

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minimize costs and overhead associated

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with that but because Orion talks

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differently via its telemetry stream and

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because it has different capabilities on

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board we've got to develop a lot of new

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things from scratch and we're in the

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process of testing and checking all that

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out right now and again that's to make

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sure that we're ready to go and fly this

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ball team team get excited for this fall

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yeah the the team's excited I I came on

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board the Orion program about two years

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ago and when I was introduced to the

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team I was really excited because all of

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the folks that I'm working with I've

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worked with in the past during my space

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shuttle career so they are a veteran

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team that we are using to to fly the

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Orion spacecraft here out of Mission

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Control very capable very dedicated and

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also a very small team as I said before

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and just the sheer volume of work we're

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having to work really hard really fast a

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development program always has

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unexpected events or surprises that come

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up software doesn't always work as

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designed and we're having to tweak

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things here on the ground as well as

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with some based on some

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flight software updates that we're

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getting through our avionics and

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software counterparts and things that we

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learned in testing we always learn about

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design features that that we have to

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modify our our planned operation or

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tools around and and the team is doing a

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really good job adapting to that and

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working really hard I'm sure they'll be

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ready okay well again the underway

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recovery test taking place tomorrow on

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Thursday februari 20th an important

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recovery of Orion from the water joint

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with the US Navy all that in preparation

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for the upcoming exploration flight

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test-1 later this year Mike thanks for

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joining me really looking forward to