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late last week there was a new satellite

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launcher that got its first tryout

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aboard the international space station

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the device is known as cyclops and it

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helped with the deployment of a

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naval research laboratory payload called

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spinsat and this morning we're going to

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learn more about cyclops

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from nasa's cyclops project manager

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daniel newswander

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he is from the structural engineering

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division here at the johnson space

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center and he's

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taken some time to come by and join us

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here to talk about that uh danny thanks

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a lot for joining us coming by you're

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welcome it's great to be here uh well

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let's see

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let's start out by just a few questions

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to say

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where did this idea come from why why is

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there a need for this type of

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deployer when we have you know other

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ones that we've used in the past well

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that's a good question

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early on it came from

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several engineers sitting in a room

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trying to come up with ideas to

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enhance or take advantage of the space

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station the capability it has it's a

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great resource and we wanted to take

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advantage of that

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we were aware the japanese were building

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a cubesat deployer the cubesat is a

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standardized cube if you will but we

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were also aware of several satellites

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out there that were if you want to call

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them geometrically challenging for

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example spin set is a big sphere it's

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about a 22 inch

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diameter 52 kilogram sphere so

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that doesn't really fit into a cubesat

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deployer so we came up with an idea to

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try to utilize take advantage of as much

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of the airlock as we could

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and take advantage of some of these

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geometrically challenging or larger

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satellites well you uh

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you touched on already with japan being

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involved obviously but

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the japanese and the canadian hardware

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that's on the station obviously

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obviously there was a big development

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team and you mentioned it who who

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actually made up that team that you're

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that you're on wow um

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yeah we had a very good group we had a

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very big group as you mentioned we

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interfaced with the japanese airlock the

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robotic airlock we interface with the

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japanese robotic arm

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the canadian arm was another interface

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of ours so there was a lot of

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interaction with their engineering

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communities their operational

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communities so there was a big

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international effort here in essence

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cyclops is an international project when

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you really look at it

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we also had

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a very extensive nasa team

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engineers we worked a lot with the

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international space station program with

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their engineers so the logistics their

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operations their payload safety tod stp

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the space test program that's here

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locally they helped us get the

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satellites uh spins as you said was an

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av satellite but they really helped us

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interface with that

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they also provided a lot of experience

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and expertise to really help us be

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successful so you're right it was a huge

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team it was very it was actually my

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favorite part of the whole process is

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interfacing with all these different

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entities and coming together as a as an

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international community and the teamwork

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let's take an opportunity because uh the

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japan aerospace exploration agency

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provided us some animation of the

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procedure so uh if you will walk us

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through this while we look at it here uh

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danny most definitely so actually what

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you're seeing here is uh footage of the

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astronauts uh installing cyclops and

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spin set into the airlock

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um i believe that is butch he's doing

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some final maneuvers there to make sure

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that everything is good to go once it's

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installed by the astronauts it is

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processed through the airlock and here

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you actually see some deployment

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the deployment of the satellite um as

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you can see it went off fairly smooth it

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does have a little bit of a rotation to

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was actually speechless we had worked on

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this for about three years where are you

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when actually when this is going on we

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had a good team that supported down in

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the mission evaluation room okay so

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you're you're right below us we were

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there we were listening to the whole

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thing we heard the japanese applaud as

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the satellite went off um this is the

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first time they'd used their small fine

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armor their japanese robotic arm and so

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they were extremely excited about this

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well obviously what we just watched was

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the actual footage from the preparation

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that you mentioned by butch in the

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actual deployment um now let's take a

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look at the animation and you can talk a

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little bit through that procedure

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okay so here's an animation this is

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courtesy of the

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of the japanese it shows cyclops and

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spin set coming out of the airlock the

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robotic arm coming over and attaching to

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cyclops and picking cyclops up then what

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it does is it takes it out to its

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deployment position it initiates the

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deployment as you'll see here in a sec

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and then that video we just watched

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previously where you actually see the

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this is what we envisioned it to look

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like you did have a different angle in

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the previous one notice in the animation

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there is no rotation to the satellite

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we did notice some rotation to the

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satellite were you expecting rotation or

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or does it really matter in the in this

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case um

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we weren't really expecting a lot of i

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mean you always learned something from

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anything that happens i mean but one of

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the challenges of something like this is

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you're trying to develop a system down

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here on the ground in earth that you're

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going to be using up in space and they

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don't always behave exactly like you

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think so you put a lot of effort and

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robustness into trying to figure out all

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the variables figure out all the things

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that could happen

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and so yeah we were a little surprised

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about the rotation there are a couple

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other things we're a little surprised

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about but we're going to go off and work

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though so that the next satellites that

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use it it'll be better understood and

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it'd be a better experience for well

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that leads me to my last

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major question for you and that is uh

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obviously you described already how that

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went and everybody's reaction to it but

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um so what's next for for the cyclops

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team in terms of future operations um

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cyclops is going to stay on the

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international space station it was built

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to be there for the duration and by the

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way you're seeing a photograph here and

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that's beautiful that's my favorite

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photograph of all the ones you're going

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to see and it's i kind of think of it as

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like when you see a sports team a

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football team going out to get on the

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field and play and they're all in the

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corridor there and the tunnel getting

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ready to go it's kind of like here we go

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we've been planning this for years here

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great shot of the deployment

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but pretty much what we

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built was for something to stay on the

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international space station like i

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mentioned for satellites in the

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satellite community that aren't the

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cubesat variety so they can use it so

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it's going to stay up there and be

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housed inside the space station and be

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used for future deployments

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we have three or four lined up right now

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that we're working with to try to get

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them up there and we're very very

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excited and anticipating their successes

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as well well danny i tell you we're as

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excited probably as you because we we

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just love watching stuff like that and

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seeing the success of the program and

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we really appreciate you stopping by

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this morning and talking to us a little

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bit about cyclops uh danny newswander

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the

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johnson space center and so now let's

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take a look