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educational competitions or challenges

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there's one of those that's underway now

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that combines thinking out of the box

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with a new 3d printer that's on the

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station my colleague NASA commentator

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Lori Meggs

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Center in Huntsville Alabama with some

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special guests to talk about 3d printing

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for future exploration it is an exciting

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day here because we have the future

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engineers told challenge winner

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tool that could be created to use in

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space for future exploration and he's

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here with us today because as you said

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an exciting day he gets to speak to tim

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kopra and jeff williams on the

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International Space Station in just a

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couple of hours and you know kind of

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chatted up about his design and and then

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they just recently printed that so you

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can find out what they think about it

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what's this day mean to you RJ it's a

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really exciting day it's an opportunity

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for me to do what I've always wanted to

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do which is to get involved with space

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exploration and really create new and

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exciting things that can be used up off

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earth what's the number one question you

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want to ask them probably what they

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think the future of 3d printing will

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bring for Space Exploration what do you

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think that is I think it's gonna be

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really create on demand and maybe make

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things that many people don't really

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think that will be necessary in space so

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let's back up a little bit just a bit

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you were a senior in high school

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and how did you learn about the future

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engineers space tools challenge and why

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did you want to participate well I

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actually learned about the competition

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through an ad that I found on the

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was like nasa.gov because I saw some new

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article and then I found the ad I

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clicked on it and I read through it

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after realizing that it was an actual

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competition I wanted to protect

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participate and I mean I've always been

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interested in space exploration so it

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gave me an opportunity to really kinda

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like put forth my knowledge and test

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myself out so high school a senior

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think when or what did you think I guess

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first of all when you learned that you

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had won I was really excited I mean I

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knew that that meant that you know my

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design got to be put up into space so it

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was it was really exciting kind of just

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solidified that I knew what I was

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talking about just a couple of tweets

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yeah just feel so tell me now you've to

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tell us what the tool is I guess you

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the tool is called the multi-purpose

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brushes and maintenance tool RM PMT and

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it's basically like a small little block

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that has a variety of different tools

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that astronauts could use on board

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station all right and I think this

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challenge is really from what I

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understand kind of changed your life

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path drastically I've managed to meet so

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many people I'm CEOs dark-dark apart

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director of Marshall and a variety of

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astronauts so it's it's really changed

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my career path from really focusing on

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being a sole engineer to trying to look

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at different opportunity and business

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engineer and businessman I like that

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well and and then we're so glad you

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could be with us today and you get to

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talk to the crew okay we're going to

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talk to the crew that's cool RJ let's

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bring in Niki Werkheiser now she is the

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in space manufacturing project manager

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for NASA here at Marshall and Nikki what

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do challenges like this really mean to

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NASA they they mean a great deal as a

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matter of fact our in space

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manufacturing project is actually under

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NASA's advanced exploration systems and

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so the whole goal of our projects really

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destinations such as Mars and these are

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three-year mission so it's quite a

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paradigm shift the exciting part about

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in space manufacturing is that we can

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really adapt and leverage the rapid

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involvement of evolution of additive

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manufacturing technologies commercially

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on the ground and really adapt them for

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function that we need however as

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important as the technologies are the

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skill sets that we need to design and

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build these parts is most important so

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and what a more exciting area than in

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space manufacturing to do that with so

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of Mechanical Engineers this new STEM

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program through a Space Act agreement

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with NASA through advanced exploration

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systems office to to really excite

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students today to design parts that we

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can use in space I'm very thrilled to

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say we're actually on our fourth

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challenge and RJ was our first teen

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winner and we have all kinds of exciting

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prizes but really to spark the

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creativity that's already there in our

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students and show that there's a viable

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career path in this area and what I

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really love is that in STEM a lot of

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times we target your math and science

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students that already kind of have a

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affinity for those subjects but this is

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in a creative process so so many times

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be designing apart and I'll say you know

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engineering and the light bulb will go

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science and we say you did engineering

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a wall and that's what we want to

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develop in this hole in

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three that's gonna help NASA get to Mars

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the generation that will get there so we

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the process today so tell us where we

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you've got two printers now on station

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exciting few years we actually under the

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phased technology development roadmap of

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absolutely critical testbed it is the

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missions so now as you mentioned we have

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operations and we have the maiden space

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additive manufacturing facility and the

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how to Silicon Valley California and and

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not only we see the first ever student

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recycler with a company called yes it's

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during these missions that our

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filament and then make any new object we

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want and we're doing printable

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electronics and we're doing more

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autonomy I think you mentioned clothing

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to maybe in the future yes so there is a

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AAAS project as well that works on you

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three-year mission and we have to bring

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enough clothes for everyone so one of

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the options could be to actually 3d

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print those clothes do you hear that RJ

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you need to get on that clothing thing

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now so again if you want to get involved

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if your student out there watching you

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go to future engineers org they have

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challenges going on all the time and we

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like RJ someday and talk to the crew

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that happens today live on NASA TV at

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nah he's got his own they'll do it for

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us here from the payload operations