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we'd like to welcome all you guys at

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forest lake technology magnet school

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in columbia south carolina so understand

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that's the hometown of our nasa

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administrator

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general charlie bolden so we're pretty

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excited to have you guys here

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and as michael said i'm sitting with

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veteran flight director chris edelen and

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chris knows

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quite a bit a lot about what happens in

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this room and also what happens up on

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the international space station this is

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the nerve center for human space flight

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for nasa the mission control center so

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we're very excited to have you guys here

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chris and i and uh and we're ready to

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take y'all's questions

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hi my name is sophia and my question is

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what is the primary job of a flight

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okay well thank you sophia and let me

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first also say uh welcome to mission

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control to force lake uh elementary and

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uh i'll be glad to talk to you a little

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bit about what it's like to work here in

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mission control and also some of the

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other exciting things that nasa is doing

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in space but first we'll talk about the

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flight director job

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essentially the flight director is

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responsible for uh for two things one

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keeping the astronauts safe while

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they're in space and number two ensuring

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the success of the mission so uh we

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don't do this by ourselves obviously we

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have a we have a team of people that uh

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that help us in this job and uh that's

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the room that we're in right now we're

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in uh mission control and right now the

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people in this room are controlling the

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international space station the space

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station's uh 250 miles up in space in

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orbit around the earth there are six

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cosmonauts and astronauts on board the

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space station right now and so in this

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their flight controllers each one is

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responsible for a particular system on

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uh the life support system the uh the

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communication gear uh the power systems

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and uh of course we picked a bad time to

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to show the entire room because uh right

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now is uh evidently a bit of a break in

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the communication so some of the folks

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have stepped off uh stepped off console

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but you see the people here are are

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monitoring the onboard systems on the

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space station they're planning the

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cruise activities and uh in the middle

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of the room there on the left of your

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screen is bob dempsey that's the flight

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director he's in charge right now so he

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takes all the recommendations all the

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inputs from these flight controllers and

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he makes the final decision about what

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plan they're going to execute what

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they're going to do and if anything goes

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wrong then it's up to the specialists at

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their computers here to monitor the data

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from the space station to figure out

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what we should do to fix the problem

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course of action will take to fix the

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problem of course we work very closely

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they need to do as well to to stay safe

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and to keep the mission successful and

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of course that's that's your seat that's

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chris's seat where you saw him showing

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you where bob sits so chris doesn't

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normally sit here but he's here helping

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me answer y'all's questions because he

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knows all the he's the expert on

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on a human space flight next question

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um my name is isabelle and my question

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quiet saturday shift towards the end of

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the shift the crew was getting ready to

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all the alarms started going off so our

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caution warning display goes yellow and

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red and there's tones going off and it

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was a failure of one of our two external

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cooling pumps so these pumps move liquid

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ammonia around the outside of the space

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station to keep that you know to keep

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the the modules that the astronauts live

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in cool and cool off our electronics so

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they don't overheat so one of those two

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pumps failed it had never happened

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practiced before in simulation so

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small team on the weekend having to deal

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with that problem so over the next

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several hours we we saved all the

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systems and made sure that the space

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station could could handle that that you

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know loss of 50 of our cooling and then

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over the next few weeks uh additional

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teams and other flight directors helped

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out and we uh the astronauts actually

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that failed pump and it one one thing to

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you didn't catch that that happened on a

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saturday um just to remind you the folks

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in this room are here on three shifts

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around the clock every day

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every day of the year so

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it's important to know that the the the

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crew up on the international space

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station is being watched over 24 hours a

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day seven days a week 365 days a year

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hello my name is jackson my question is

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takeoff or re-entry of a space vehicle

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any flight controller here the thing we

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worry about uh during launch is are the

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engines going to work

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uh and on landing is the heat shield

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going to work so on landing the

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temperatures can get up to 3000 degrees

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as the spacecraft slows from traveling

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of heat so the heat shield has to work

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russian soyuz capsules they land under

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parachutes so that's another thing we

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worry about are the parachutes going to

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work but uh space flight is very

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dangerous there's lots to worry about we

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have no shortage of of things to keep

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track of here so that's why we we really

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emphasize our preparation and training

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to make sure that we're ready uh no

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matter what happens that we're ready to

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about 24 space station missions so far

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sts-99 which was the shuttle radar

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essentially a radar mapping mission uh

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we helped to to to make a map of the

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entire world and what was special about

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the height information that uh that

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flight path of that mission so it took

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data would would allow this highly

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accurate map and then and what was

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something for years and then to actually

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go and execute it and make it happen and

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it was extremely successful that mapping

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aerial navigation for uh

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phone towers and figuring out what the

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terrain and the area of the of the tower

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of many 135 shuttle missions that uh

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improved science and improved life here

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on earth and uh uh i was honored to to

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be a part of that mission and uh and

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nowadays that radar is actually hanging

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uh of gratitude uh you know i was i

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supported as a flight dynamics officer

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part of the team of highly trained

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specialists you know that you see you

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humbling and it's it's uh it's an honor

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be able to do that because it it really

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with people and to pull together a

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complex mission plan you get to work

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some cases years to develop a mission

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plan and to be the flight director you

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play a very large role in pulling that

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plan together and then executing that so

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my name is alan mcdeffie and

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my question is what is orion's mission

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alan so that i'm glad you asked about uh

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orion uh we have a test flight coming up

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of the orion spacecraft in december this

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it's the first test flight of this

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capsule and you can see the the orion

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spacecraft itself is the capsule on the

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far right and uh the the

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stuff to the left is includes its uh

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that's going to take it up to 3600 miles

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station's orbit space station's down at

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about 250 miles so it's going to take it

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way up high and then it's going to dive

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towards the earth's atmosphere and test

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selector it separates and it's going to

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make sure that the heat shield works

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navigation systems work and and the

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control systems and it's again it's

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works before we put people inside it but

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we're very excited about this mission at

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nasa because orion

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is the it's not really the replacement

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for the space shuttle because it's going

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to do different things the space shuttle

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hauled

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payloads cargo satellites and people up

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into low earth orbit it can only go up

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to about 300 miles

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but the orion will have the capability

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to fly for you for many months at

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distances very far from the earth even

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out to to visit an asteroid or to go to

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the moon or mars so we're really looking

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forward to putting orion through its uh

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its first test flight in december and uh

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just to add one of uh chris's colleagues

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is actually training

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um

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just about every day now i'm probably

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getting ready for that flight but you

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see this flight control room for the

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international space station we also have

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some flight control rooms in this

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building down the hall from here where

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the space shuttle was controlled there's

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also a room

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from which the orion is going to be

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controlled after it is launched from the

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cape canaveral air force station down in

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florida so so one of chris's colleagues

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is uh heavy duty training right now for

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that uh orion mission that chris just

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hello my name is jeremiah strouds and

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what are you working on to prepare for

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the orion missions

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okay yep that's a good follow-up kiera

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um

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again uh uh the the lead flight director

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in charge of orion is mike serafin and

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uh i'm a little bit bummed that i don't

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get to take part in orion but that's not

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my job to do right now i'm a flight

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director mainly concentrating on

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international space station as well as

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um the uh the dragon mission from the

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spacex uh the dragon cargo vehicle that

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just came to the space station a couple

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weeks ago so unfortunately i don't get

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to have the fun uh with the with the

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team that's doing the new vehicle but uh

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they have similar challenges that we

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have here on on the space station team

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where they've they're developing a

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flight plan they're inventing new

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procedures things that they need to do

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to operate that spacecraft they're

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figuring out um when they'll have

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communication with the spacecraft and

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what commands or what instructions need

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to be sent from the ground up to the

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spacecraft and they're making sure that

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they're trained and ready to go and

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they're thinking about what can go wrong

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and what are they going to do about

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those possible failure scenarios to try

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to ensure you know maximum mission

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my name is jada and what is it like to

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control rp responsible for a space

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shuttle mission

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what's it like to control a space

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yes sir that was the question

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okay so it's uh

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as you can expect it's uh it's pretty

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stressful it can be stressful at times

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there's a lot to keep track of but uh

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the way that we handle

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the stress and the uh and the complexity

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is is through preparation and training

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so we as i described earlier we spend

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you know many months or in some cases

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years preparing for a space mission not

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only thinking of what the plan is that

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we intend to execute but uh but what can

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go wrong and what we would need to do in

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response to that so

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and we actually practice in what's

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called simulators

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that's where we

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we flow data that's generated by a

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computer but our displays and screens

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look normal and you know looks like

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normal in-flight data to us so we have a

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practice room which looks similar to

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this one and i will practice with with

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flight controllers and i'll i'll

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rehearse my role as the flight director

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in charge of the team and we'll even do

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this with astronauts that are in another

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building in a space station simulator or

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soon to be an orion simulator as well

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and we'll practice all those steps

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together to make sure that we're ready

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when it comes time to actually fly the

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hello my name is haru

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and my question is do you get

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nervous every time you control a space

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shuttle or a space station mission

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that's a great question haru

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uh

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short answer is no i don't get nervous

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every time but i will admit sometimes

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there's you feel a little bit of

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butterflies if you have especially a

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really uh difficult or challenging shift

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coming up for example uh during the

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rendezvous of of the dragon mission that

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we did a couple weeks ago uh that that

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definitely gets your attention or if

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you're you know getting ready to oversee

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a spacewalk or a launch or a landing

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those are times when the stress levels

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go up dramatically for not only for us

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but for our entire team and the

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astronauts and again the way that we

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combat that i'll give you a little nasa

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secret the way we do that is just what i

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talked about before

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we deal with uh with the butterflies

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through preparation we make sure that

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that we're ready to go and we practice

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and we plan and we train and you guys

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can use the same the same technique if

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if you ever get nervous before a big

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test or uh you know before a concert or

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or or a play the way you can combat that

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the you know combat those butterflies is

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to is to make sure that you're prepared

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that you've studied you've learned your

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parts and uh and then that'll maximize

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your chances of success as well

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it's interesting that you asked that

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question because right now in the last

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couple of hours on the space station the

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crew

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even

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for

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quite a number of days so far

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three additional crew members just

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arrived two weeks ago and this morning

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they spent about two hours conducting an

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onboard training exercise where they

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went through emergency drills they went

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through their own fire drill just like

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you guys would

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at your school

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the crew members did that on the space

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station this morning and they did that

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with the help and interaction with this

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flight control team and a flight control

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team in russia and other flight control

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teams that support space station so yeah

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you're never too old to be ready for any

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kind of an emergency or or as as chris

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said preparation for the mission itself

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so that was a great question and good

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timing for what's going on on the space

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my name is kyle um my question

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is um are you excited to help with the

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orion mission

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thank you kyle um i would be excited by

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the way

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i would be excited if i was working it

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but uh i i'm i'm not involved with orion

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but i am excited to see it fly i am

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looking forward to seeing it go i think

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everybody here at nasa is really looking

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forward to it because you know the

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shuttle was retired back in uh in 2011

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so we've been we've been waiting for an

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american capability to launch you know

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americans into space right now americans

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fly into space on a russian spacecraft

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the soyuz spacecraft

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and so nasa is working on the orion to

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give us american capability to get into

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space and to go beyond

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low earth orbit on other missions and

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also there are two private companies

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boeing and spacex are both working on

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commercial commercially provided launch

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vehicles and spacecraft that will

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shuttle astronauts back and forth to the

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international space station so there's

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there's a lot of really really cool

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things going on in nasa and a lot of

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things to look forward to over the next

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my name is joseph and my question is

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have you ever worked the space shuttle

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mission that something really bad

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no fortunately not the the as a flight

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director and as a flight dynamics

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officers uh that all of my missions were

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successful i was not on console during

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uh during the columbia accident or the

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hi my name is dylan and my question is

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did you follow curiosities landing on

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mars has gary do you think it

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how scary do you think it was during the

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seven minutes to tear the plate

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controllers or curiosity before it

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landed on the surface of the planet

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yeah uh that's a great question and uh

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probably like you guys i i follow

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curiosity quite a bit uh and uh i

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remember watching the landing and uh and

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i remember having a lot of sympathy for

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the for the i'm sure that they were

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sweating bullets there at uh the jet

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propulsion lab or jpl out in out in los

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angeles when their uh spacecraft was was

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going through the i believe the seven

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minutes of terror that you mentioned

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there uh on re-entry into uh on to mars

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uh because you know they had spent so

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much so many years preparing for that

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mission and building it and uh it was

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all coming down to that that critical

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mission phase of uh successful landing

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but uh they were successful the

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curiosity is doing a great job it's been

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on mars now for about a little over two

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years

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they uh that the

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the rover has just arrived at mount

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sharp so it's going to give them a lot

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of

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opportunities now to study the geology

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of mars because on that mountain

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different levels of rocks are exposed so

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it'll be different it'll give them the

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ability to sample from different eras

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different times in the past and

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different types of rocks and they've got

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cameras and they've got a i'll give you

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a big word that you can ask your teacher

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about a mass spectrometer that actually

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allows them to to analyze the chemical

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composition of the rocks so they can

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understand more about the history of

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mars and the big mystery with mars is

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there's evidence that there used to be

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liquid water but that doesn't make sense

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because it's too far from the sun for

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liquid water to exist so we we don't

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know why the climate changed on mars we

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don't know why there used to be liquid

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water but now you know where's all the

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water gone is it locked up in the ground

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or did it escape into space so there's a

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lot to be learned on mars that will help

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us better understand the earth's

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environment and climate and uh plus it's

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just really cool seeing pictures from

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my name is emma

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what was your favorite space shuttle or

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space station mission to be flight

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director on

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yeah my uh my favorite space station

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mission as flight director was uh was

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expedition 34 and that that one flew uh

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from november of 2012 to march of 2013.

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so it's a little over a year and a half

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ago and what made that special for me

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was um i was the lead flight director

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for that mission so i was i was not

551
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sitting here in mission control uh you

552
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know during that mission but rather i

553
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was overseeing all the teams that were

554
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that were operating the mission and so i

555
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got to be closely involved with the crew

556
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during their training leading up to the

557
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mission uh involved with the scientists

558
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and the team of people that come up with

559
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the experiments that we're going to do

560
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and then working with uh with a great

561
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team of flight controllers to oversee

562
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that mission over about four months that

563
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i was in charge of and so that was that

564
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was especially rewarding it was a very

565
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successful mission it was it was a great

566
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hi my name is abby um what is your

567
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favorite part of your job

568
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i think uh for me it would be um

569
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the

570
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preparing a plan basically uh

571
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taking part

572
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in the preparation of a space flight

573
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from the very beginning when someone

574
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says hey wouldn't it be cool if we do

575
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this or that you know what for example

576
00:21:09,830 --> 00:21:07,679
an instrument that was just delivered to

577
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the space station is called rapidscat

578
00:21:13,510 --> 00:21:11,840
it's a radar scatterometer again it's

579
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another uh instrument that was built out

580
00:21:18,149 --> 00:21:15,919
of the jet propulsion lab or jpl out in

581
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california so i got to be involved with

582
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uh with the the planning to install that

583
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rapid scat on the outside of station so

584
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the best part is when you're working

585
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with people that have a great idea to do

586
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some science

587
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and then you help them figure out how to

588
00:21:32,549 --> 00:21:31,039
make that happen how to get that up to

589
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the space station how to get it

590
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installed right and how to you know how

591
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to activate it and how to get it running

592
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and then you see the thing working in

593
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rapid scats working right now measuring

594
00:21:43,590 --> 00:21:41,679
ocean winds that helps us better predict

595
00:21:45,350 --> 00:21:43,600
hurricanes and better predict and

596
00:21:48,630 --> 00:21:45,360
understand the earth's climate so it's

597
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just great to take part from start to

598
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accomplishment of a project and work

599
00:21:54,710 --> 00:21:52,799
with uh you know work in a in a you know

600
00:21:56,710 --> 00:21:54,720
very challenging area because uh you

601
00:21:58,230 --> 00:21:56,720
know space flight is is the really most

602
00:22:00,630 --> 00:21:58,240
exciting thing about it is that it's the

603
00:22:02,390 --> 00:22:00,640
future it's it's real exploration so

604
00:22:04,549 --> 00:22:02,400
this is this is what you know we're

605
00:22:06,549 --> 00:22:04,559
preparing humans to leave

606
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the earth and go out and live into space

607
00:22:11,270 --> 00:22:08,720
so that's the part that i like the most

608
00:22:12,710 --> 00:22:11,280
is taking part in that exploration and

609
00:22:17,029 --> 00:22:12,720
new scientific

610
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my name is aidan kansader and my

611
00:22:22,950 --> 00:22:21,200
question is have you ever been in a

612
00:22:24,830 --> 00:22:22,960
problem where the astronauts have been

613
00:22:29,510 --> 00:22:24,840
in

614
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flight director for about seven years

615
00:22:32,549 --> 00:22:30,640
now um

616
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there's definitely been a few uh

617
00:22:36,549 --> 00:22:34,400
a few uh i won't call them quite

618
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frightful but uh definitely attention

619
00:22:40,789 --> 00:22:38,640
getting moments in space

620
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one of them that stands out is uh back

621
00:22:44,710 --> 00:22:42,240
in 2012

622
00:22:46,549 --> 00:22:44,720
there was a piece of space debris that

623
00:22:48,870 --> 00:22:46,559
came uncomfortably close to the space

624
00:22:51,270 --> 00:22:48,880
station and normally we get a warning

625
00:22:54,070 --> 00:22:51,280
about that from the air force and they

626
00:22:55,510 --> 00:22:54,080
they use radars and to track the debris

627
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and micro meteoroids that are up in

628
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space and we have one of our folks here

629
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in mission control that monitors that

630
00:23:03,190 --> 00:23:00,880
and determines if anything is going to

631
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get too close to the space station and

632
00:23:07,350 --> 00:23:05,039
in some cases we'll even do a collision

633
00:23:09,830 --> 00:23:07,360
avoidance burn to move the space station

634
00:23:12,070 --> 00:23:09,840
out of the way before that object comes

635
00:23:14,390 --> 00:23:12,080
zinging by our orbit but in this case

636
00:23:16,310 --> 00:23:14,400
back in uh i think march of 2012 we

637
00:23:19,190 --> 00:23:16,320
didn't get adequate warning we did not

638
00:23:20,950 --> 00:23:19,200
have time to plan an evasive maneuver so

639
00:23:22,710 --> 00:23:20,960
we had to tell the astronauts and had to

640
00:23:24,789 --> 00:23:22,720
get them to close all the hatches

641
00:23:26,070 --> 00:23:24,799
between the modules where they live so

642
00:23:27,830 --> 00:23:26,080
that everything was airtight on the

643
00:23:30,149 --> 00:23:27,840
space station and then they had to go

644
00:23:32,630 --> 00:23:30,159
into their soyuz spacecraft and shut the

645
00:23:35,110 --> 00:23:32,640
hatches and uh and stay in there and

646
00:23:36,870 --> 00:23:35,120
wait until this object passed by and of

647
00:23:39,190 --> 00:23:36,880
course anything you know we're flying at

648
00:23:40,950 --> 00:23:39,200
five miles a second and so is any object

649
00:23:42,549 --> 00:23:40,960
so even something the size of a marble

650
00:23:44,070 --> 00:23:42,559
could do uh serious damage to the space

651
00:23:45,510 --> 00:23:44,080
station so that was a little that was a

652
00:23:46,870 --> 00:23:45,520
little nerve-wracking waiting for the

653
00:23:48,710 --> 00:23:46,880
clock to count down to zero but

654
00:23:50,310 --> 00:23:48,720
fortunately that object passed by

655
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probably with a couple hundred within a

656
00:23:53,430 --> 00:23:51,600
couple hundred meters of the space

657
00:23:55,269 --> 00:23:53,440
station but it it didn't uh didn't

658
00:23:56,870 --> 00:23:55,279
impact the space station and we sent the

659
00:23:58,870 --> 00:23:56,880
crew back on there back on their

660
00:24:00,390 --> 00:23:58,880
business

661
00:24:13,990 --> 00:24:00,400
all right well forest lake looks like

662
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,190
hi my name

663
00:24:22,470 --> 00:24:18,549
with is

664
00:24:27,269 --> 00:24:23,909
i could not hear that question if you

665
00:24:30,070 --> 00:24:27,279
could repeat that a little bit louder

666
00:24:32,870 --> 00:24:30,080
wow how could we get involved with some

667
00:24:34,390 --> 00:24:32,880
student activities in our school

668
00:24:36,390 --> 00:24:34,400
all right that's a that's a great uh

669
00:24:38,549 --> 00:24:36,400
closing question because um i'll tell

670
00:24:41,110 --> 00:24:38,559
you a little story um

671
00:24:42,710 --> 00:24:41,120
i i was inspired to take up a career in

672
00:24:45,110 --> 00:24:42,720
science and engineering when i watched

673
00:24:47,750 --> 00:24:45,120
the apollo moon landings but um it was

674
00:24:49,590 --> 00:24:47,760
while i was in fifth grade that uh i was

675
00:24:51,430 --> 00:24:49,600
talking with another fellow fifth grader

676
00:24:53,350 --> 00:24:51,440
and uh and uh he knew i was interested

677
00:24:55,750 --> 00:24:53,360
in aviation and space and science

678
00:24:58,230 --> 00:24:55,760
fiction and he said well you ought to be

679
00:25:00,549 --> 00:24:58,240
an aerospace engineer and i said

680
00:25:02,149 --> 00:25:00,559
aerospace engineer that's what i'll do

681
00:25:04,230 --> 00:25:02,159
and that's the plan that i followed so

682
00:25:05,669 --> 00:25:04,240
you can look where it got me so so you

683
00:25:08,230 --> 00:25:05,679
too can take the advice of a fifth

684
00:25:10,710 --> 00:25:08,240
grader uh to plan your future so i would

685
00:25:12,710 --> 00:25:10,720
encourage you guys if uh you know to

686
00:25:14,549 --> 00:25:12,720
find out the areas you're interested in

687
00:25:16,310 --> 00:25:14,559
read books about them if there's a

688
00:25:18,390 --> 00:25:16,320
school club definitely get involved with

689
00:25:20,390 --> 00:25:18,400
that you guys are at a technology magnet

690
00:25:21,990 --> 00:25:20,400
so there's probably a math club math is

691
00:25:24,070 --> 00:25:22,000
the language of science and engineering

692
00:25:26,950 --> 00:25:24,080
so you definitely want to learn all you

693
00:25:29,430 --> 00:25:26,960
can with math if there's museums or

694
00:25:30,149 --> 00:25:29,440
or parks in the area that have uh you

695
00:25:31,830 --> 00:25:30,159
know

696
00:25:33,590 --> 00:25:31,840
things that appeal to you

697
00:25:35,029 --> 00:25:33,600
you can always go visit those and of

698
00:25:36,630 --> 00:25:35,039
course if your

699
00:25:38,549 --> 00:25:36,640
teacher or your parents know anybody

700
00:25:39,669 --> 00:25:38,559
that works you know at a hospital or at

701
00:25:41,350 --> 00:25:39,679
a factory where you know you're

702
00:25:42,950 --> 00:25:41,360
interested in what they're doing ask the

703
00:25:44,310 --> 00:25:42,960
grown-ups grumps love talking about what

704
00:25:45,990 --> 00:25:44,320
they do

705
00:25:47,990 --> 00:25:46,000
and would love sharing that with you

706
00:25:49,110 --> 00:25:48,000
guys it's never too early for for each

707
00:25:51,830 --> 00:25:49,120
of you to start thinking about what you

708
00:25:53,909 --> 00:25:51,840
want to do with your future

709
00:25:55,510 --> 00:25:53,919
that's a great question and we uh we

710
00:25:56,950 --> 00:25:55,520
really appreciate you guys you're a

711
00:26:00,549 --> 00:25:56,960
good-looking

712
00:26:09,350 --> 00:26:00,559
in

713
00:26:10,950 --> 00:26:09,360
out about what nasa's all about what

714
00:26:12,870 --> 00:26:10,960
we're doing not only here for the

715
00:26:15,269 --> 00:26:12,880
international space station but for the

716
00:26:18,390 --> 00:26:15,279
agency itself and don't forget you guys

717
00:26:20,310 --> 00:26:18,400
are the future of uh what we do in here

718
00:26:22,230 --> 00:26:20,320
as chris and i will be gone by the time

719
00:26:24,870 --> 00:26:22,240
you guys may be the ones that are

720
00:26:26,630 --> 00:26:24,880
heading out to mars or beyond so