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one part of the mission of the

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international space station is to get

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human beings ready for the future of

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exploration for missions to destinations

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beyond low earth orbit the work on the

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vehicle that will carry those future

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astronauts the orion multipurpose crew

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vehicle is continuing at several

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locations around the country and this

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morning we're going to get an update on

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it from john mccullough the orion

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vehicle integration manager good morning

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it's nice to have you good morning it's

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good to be here it's like coming home

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been back in the control center

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2015 was a very busy year for orion tell

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me about some of the highlights that you

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guys saw

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it really was it is another busy year

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for ryan we seem to have a lot of them

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we started off obviously uh learning and

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applying the lessons learned from eft

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one very successful test flight got a

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lot of data out of that rolling that

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into our designs and updates

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to allow us to conduct a very successful

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critical design review which we did last

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year

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along with our

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partners in exploration

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at marshall and ground systems at

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kennedy we all conducted our critical

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design reviews and so that was a very

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busy time for the team a large community

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review of all our products and and uh

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milestone

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achievements uh moving through there um

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we had the uh

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european structural test article

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delivered to plumbrook i think we have

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some pictures of that um

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those uh that was a very big milestone

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obviously our european partners uh have

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done a great deal in in building up the

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service module portion of the spacecraft

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and so this test article is going to be

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used for uh

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extensive amount of test

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integration and mechanism deploys and

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environmental uh testing at plum brook

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uh it'll then get also uh uh spend time

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at the kennedy space center so uh we're

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looking forward to that testing picking

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up right now they're in the process of

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outfitting it to the the rest of the

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vehicle uh test articles that are out

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there at plumbrook and you'll be seeing

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that testing as we come into the next

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year uh we've also had a huge uh

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milestone in at the michoud uh facility

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where we uh completed welding and you'll

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see those pictures there of the uh the

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em-1 mission uh flight vehicle so the

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pressure uh vessel for that uh

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that vehicle uh had uh seven critical

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welds uh the stir friction weld process

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is a very unique and amazing large

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mechanism uh process that uh

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if you've seen it it's it's quite an

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impressive thing to see and observe but

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uh all that welding uh occurred um and

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just actually finished up this last

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weekend so we'll talk about next year uh

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sure this year shortly

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moving on we also uh

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did a lot of

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drop testing uh that we're leading the

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uh the technology and the uh the

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workplace in terms of large parachute

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spacecraft return

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science and so

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development sequence continued over the

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last year we also

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as you see here did a lot of human in

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the loop testing at the johnson space

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center and so this is the neutral

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buoyancy facility where we

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practice the ingress and egress of the

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and different techniques and different

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approaches in different environments

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a lot of good testing there we also used

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the mock-ups in uh in building nine here

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at jsc to do other uh human in the lube

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testing and uh simulations and that's

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very busy here yeah so very busy here

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tell me about some of the the milestones

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that are on the agenda for 2016. you've

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got a lot of in fact there was

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just an airdrop test last week

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that's correct yes so uh we did 17

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different uh drop tests to test the

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parachutes with different configurations

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different failures different

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techniques and

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changes to the shoot design a little bit

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that was our developmental phase and

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that just completed over the last week a

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very successful final drop for that

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from there we have eight more drops this

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year and and and leading on to em1 where

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uh that's the that actually transitions

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into qualification testing so we

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actually are verifying and qualifying

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the design uh that we finished with the

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developmental phase so a team out there

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does a lot of great work and

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really pulls the whole whole process

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together again if you've been out there

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helicopter for one of the drop tests and

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help with the recovery of some of the

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components and it's an amazing

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integrated process with a huge community

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that really pulls together

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all aspects of space flight it's very

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exciting so a lot goes on there

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so yeah that yuma drop test was very

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successful

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just finished this weekend the weld ford

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edm1 uh vehicle so

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all so the uh pressure vessel for the

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em1 flight is complete

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uh in terms of the assembly and so uh

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february beginning of february that's

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going to be shipping via the guppy to

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ksc for integration

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the ksc

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tell me the e-m1 we're talking about is

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the next flight test the exploration

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mission one and the vehicle is going to

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the kennedy space center soon and what

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happens to it once it gets there yeah so

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it's it's quite an extensive process so

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uh our experience with the eft one um

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really helped us uh improve and baseline

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and understand those processes so that

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we can be even more effective and

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efficient the the second time uh but

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once it gets to to uh the kennedy space

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center we're going to do a proof test uh

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pressure test where we'll pressurize the

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vehicle make sure that there's no leaks

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and no no issues with the with the

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pressure vessel itself and then the

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heat shield structure not the heat

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shield tiles but the heat shield

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structure will arrive and be assembled

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to the to the pressure vessel and then

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they'll spend the rest of the year uh 30

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different subsystems will be delivered

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integration they'll be uh very busy with

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incorporation into the vehicle they'll

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be very busy with

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a lot of the the tubing that's required

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for the prop system all gets routed in

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and hand installed uh to the vehicle and

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so that's largely what they'll be doing

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2017 is a large uh period of of uh

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integrated testing of the vehicle and

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all the different components after

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they've been assembled so

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a huge amount of work is going to be

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going on at the kennedy space center and

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that's as you say still a couple of

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years away before that that flight that

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that test flight but what happens during

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that test flight so that test flight is

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going to be a a huge milestone uh for

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the agency uh there's a little bit of

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video here i think as well

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we are actually going to take the

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vehicle and and exercise all the key

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systems many of the key systems required

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uh for future missions it's a 26 day

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flight it's going to go

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a very exciting part of it it's going to

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go 70 000 kilometers past the moon so

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farther than any other uh human rated

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spacecraft will have gone we're going to

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be delving into the proving ground which

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is a huge piece of of nasa's

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goals to get to mars so this is the

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environment where you're really going to

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test deep space systems understand

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our hardened systems work and and the

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environment the radiation environment

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and then the

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the ability to work in and navigate in

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that type of space is is very unique

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for space flight so we're looking

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forward to that that's going to be a

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huge exercise of the vehicle 26 days in

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deep space great john thanks for

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bringing us up to speed we'll be keeping

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an eye on it very good appreciate it

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thanks for having me john mccullough is