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foreign

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you never bring everything with you you

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always kind of live off the land even

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when we go on road trips right we buy

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gas going you know as we travel and we

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buy food as we travel well when we go

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exploring we need to do that same thing

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we need to live off the land we need to

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live on the lunar surface and then

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eventually we need to go on to Mars and

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be able to live off of that surface the

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main things that we have available on

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the moon and Mars primarily we have

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oxygen

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roughly there's a lot of ways to get

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that oxygen out this is one of the

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processes that we're testing today is is

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a well-proven method for extracting

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oxygen from uh from lunar soil or

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regolith as we go forward we need to be

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lunar-like environment

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this test is extracting oxygen from

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lunar stimulant and what that is going

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to enable us to do is live off the land

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on the lunar surface so this is our

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15-foot dirty thermal vacuum chamber we

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use it to simulate the surface of the

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Moon because on the surface of the Moon

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there is no air that means that

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convective heat transfer does not occur

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and any hardware that you build you need

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to make sure that it can withstand that

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harsh environment so here in the chamber

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right now you see our industry partner

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Sierra spaces built reactor we use this

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reactor to melt lunar regolith stimulant

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so we have a reactor that was developed

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by a commercial company and we are

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integrating our gas analysis system with

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that reactor and so we have a laser that

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is going to deliver energy to the

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regolith Melt the regolith and we're

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going to extract the oxygen that way and

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then we analyze the gas products with an

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instrument that is actually flight

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forward and so we have a mass

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spectrometer and that mess back Mass

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Spec is going to be delivered to the

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moon on earlier Eclipse missions and so

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we're using that technology that

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partnering with industry to enable us to

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analyze the gases and have a path

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forward to flight so this will increase

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what we call the technology Readiness

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level because we're we're performing the

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test in a relevant environment the

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vacuum being the relevant environment so

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what the vacuum chamber does is make

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sure that

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um

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our thermal management approach is is

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working well our gas analysis system is

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are we really making with this process

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so it's really exciting to be part of

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that ground floor effort to get that

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technology ready to support our next big

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exploration push this is really the

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first step in a series of

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what I think would

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ideally be a campaign to where we get to

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the point where we're extracting

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useful quantities of oxygen on the lunar

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surface so so this first step lets us

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know that we can perform the process at

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least at a small scale what we're doing

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today is something that's never been