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hi welcome inside the international

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space station flight control room today

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i have a guest with us today we're going

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to be talking about

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nasa's exploration habitat academic

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innovation challenge um laura bailey you

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are the exploration augmentation module

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manager that is a mouthful so if you

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could first welcome and thank you for

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joining us today if you could briefly

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explain what your role is

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sure thank you for having me today

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the exploration augmentation module is

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actually the first crude element it's a

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habitable element following the orion

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and the expectation is that it will be

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in the lunar vicinity orbiting

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the moon

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and that it will serve as sort of a

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platform for us to conduct proving

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ground experiments for habitation for

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long duration exploration so that's one

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of the roles that we have

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with the international space station is

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is learning that knowledge and gaining

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all that we can apply for a future

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spacecraft absolutely and so there are a

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number of experiments that have been

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conducted over the years in the

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international space station to work us

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in that direction as well

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this next habitation element the reason

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why it's different is because it's

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in an area that's outside the van allen

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belt specifically so we're having a

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different exposure different deep space

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exposure that mimics the the transit to

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mars that includes radiation okay

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so let's talk about x-hab what exactly

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is xhab

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or the xhab challenge right so the xhab

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challenge xhab stands for exploration

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habitation and it's actually an academic

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innovation challenge

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that involves universities across the

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country

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who submit us proposals on various

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topics and ideas about how they can

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create innovative ideas for crew

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habitation elements

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so can you tell me where the idea

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using the student challenge came from

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sure um it's actually the brainchild of

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a guy straight out of jsc here one of

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our engineers his name is chris kennedy

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a few years back he was the project

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manager for a surface habitat that

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actually has lunar and mars applications

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and he sort of came up this idea to

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involve university students

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not only from the standpoint of you know

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doing some public outreach for

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universities but also including trying

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to be inclusive and hearing innovative

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ideas that students might come up with

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for habitation and in terms of

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you know architectures or different

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ideas being very inventive

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teams can you tell me a little about

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that and who

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that is

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i mean sure um so there were a number of

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universities who had submitted uh

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proposals

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um we're actually sort of engaged with

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seven of them

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but three of them specifically were are

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being funded and supported directly

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out of the exploration augmentation

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module project

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that includes the university of colorado

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at boulder

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rice university in houston and the

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university of south alabama actually

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this year

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can you tell me briefly how these

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proposals are judged

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yeah so that's actually a pretty

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complicated process we have several

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several folks who are part of the

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judging

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excuse me we review several

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different

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proposals for essentially technical

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content the clarity

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and other universities

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so there's a lot of criteria that goes

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into it and

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among the people who are reviewing these

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proposals there's a variety of different

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subject matter experts that sort of

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cover the broad areas of different

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elements of

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habitation and so were these the

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technologies that nasa identified

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said okay we have this specific need and

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is this how we develop that okay this is

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what we want you to go out and work on

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for so how did we

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yeah yeah so there's um there although

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there are

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certain um topics that we actually

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propose in a given year

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they actually change from ear to ear you

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know different topics that we habitation

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type topics that we propose um but at

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the same time universities are also

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allowed to be creative and come up with

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their own topic as long as it's related

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to deep space habitation you know

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those topics are welcome as well well

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and that makes sense because we don't

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know all the answers and it's kind of

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cool to get others insight from from

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another perspective and perhaps maybe

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someone steps up to the plate and says

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you guys might need this yeah exactly i

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think that's great

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um

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also can you tell me about some of the

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previous exhap challenge projects that

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we have

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yeah um so

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last year

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um i think there were five total of

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those that i can think of

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off the top of my head

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we had a vertical habitation

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architecture that was presented to us a

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horizontal architecture habitation

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architecture that was presented to us

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a robotic plant growth system

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there was also a logistics

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outfitting for you know internal

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architecture and innovation in that so

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we've received a lot of different kind

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of ideas it's been great working with

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the students great well thank you so

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much again for coming out and talking

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with us about this it sounds exciting

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and best of luck