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we do I think so I didn't turn it off

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can you hear me it's gonna be delayed

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we're about 45 seconds out so welcome to

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our live 360 broadcasts from the Vehicle

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Assembly Building

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I am NASA education specialist Rachel

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power and I have here with me Krista

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Schaeffer hi girls

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we're so excited to get to talk to you

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today live in 360 if you're tuned in

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from a web browser you can actually use

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your mouse or your trackpad to pan

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around you can look left right all

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around up or down basically see almost

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everything we can see if you're using

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your mobile device you can just

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physically turn and look just like if

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you're looking at a 360 video online but

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we're doing it live right so we're here

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actually right now in the Vehicle

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Assembly Building and we are hoping that

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you have lots of questions for us right

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right yes absolutely ask away you can

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tweet them to us using hashtag NASA deep

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that's na si de EP or you can send them

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through the chat window you'll see those

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next to the video player on the browser

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so we'll take questions that's you

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notice me on my phone I'm not looking at

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my social media I'm scrolling through

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you're looking at your questions so I

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can relay them to to Krista here I also

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wanted just to make note that if you do

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look around you may see some other

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people here on the platform with us we

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got Rob he's over on the computer so if

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you turn around the other direction over

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there there's Rob waving to you right

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now thank you rob

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all right and if you just look a little

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bit over from Rob you'll see John John

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is basically he's going to be censoring

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us today might unplug the camera if we

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say something non kidding Johnny might

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come up actually on camera and talk to

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us a little bit about the vab of course

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putting some of these on line for us

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Bethany Bethany is the project

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coordinator for NASA speakers bureau and

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help get this whole event going so it's

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really exciting now Krista we sent out a

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PDF showing everybody the speakers that

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we had today and we had you

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job title listen it was pretty long a

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little bit complicated so I want you to

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help explain it so you are the senior

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field manager for exploration mission-1

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for the mobile launcher correct what

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exactly does that mean okay so I'm going

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to show you guys a picture of the mobile

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launcher it's actually going to be

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parked in this huge building and if you

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guys look around you can try and get an

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idea of how big it is this is probably

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the biggest building volume-wise that

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has ever been built in the US it's not

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the tallest but it is the biggest

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there's four Bay's exactly like this

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Saturn vehicle and then the shuttle if

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you guys don't remember the shuttle so

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we're going to walk over here this is

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the mobile launch platform so what we're

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building this we're building this so

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that when they bring the vehicle to KSC

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it's got something to stand on this

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thing will be the whole structure will

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be picked up taken to the pad and then

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that's where we're going to launch it

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is the whole mobile launcher comes into

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this building and all these platforms

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that you see if you guys look up and

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then if you can look down a little bit

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all these platforms surround the SOS

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vehicle so that we can work on it and

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sure it's ready for launch

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before it goes out to the pad so I know

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we're on platform F so which one is that

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big this thing actually is but this is a

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hundred and twenty feet up in the air

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feet tall so imagine a normal like one

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story building is ten feet tall 400 feet

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way up there so if you get to the edge

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working facility and we've got our hard

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hats on because you might notice even as

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construction going on you might notice

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other people walking around with hard

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construction and working on this for our

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future launch vehicle right and that

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building the mobile launcher we brought

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all the steel together what we're doing

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we have the base everything's ready for

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the rocket and now we're putting all

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that equipment on that that the rocket

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needs to launch so there's all kinds of

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fluid systems there's electrical systems

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systems basically to make the launch

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vehicle be able to function while it's

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arms provide fluids and electrical and

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commodity and controls to the vehicle

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those arms are actually movable they

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move away so they're very complex mini

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systems within this whole giant complex

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structure and this top arm I recently

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saw this sitting outside of this

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building what is the white room for so

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we haven't put this one on yet we call

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this the crew access arm so that one

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trying to move forward okay we're going

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be an unmanned mission it's going to be

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a proving ground a test mission the

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second one though astronauts will

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actually come up the tower they'll walk

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out on this platform and the white room

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is like a clean room and it's it sucks

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spacecraft vehicle so when you see the

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pictures on TV of astronauts walking out

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like we used to be the shuttle now it'll

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be SLS that'll be the white room that

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you see so this entire structure is

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going to come in to this building yeah

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and this rocket is going to be assembled

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on top of it in here

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correct it's like a building inside a

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building so the a platform we're

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standing on right now will be used for

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workers so basically helped do different

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things on the rocket as it being

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assembled in here yes it's so people so

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that people can get access to the rocket

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if you guys pan around one thing you can

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look for look up on the top of the VAB

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they come out open that way up it's over

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that way and it's used to pick up the

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pieces of the rocket from what we call

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the transfer aisle which is the middle

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of the VAB and you stack them on to the

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mobile launch platform and that's how we

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sequentially build the rocket up in this

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building so the parts come in on the

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floor the crane lifts them up and then

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brings them into here this is called the

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high bay right and if they pan around

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the other direction you can actually see

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some of the doors that open up to allow

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the vehicle and mobile launcher to come

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in and out of that this high bay right

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the big vehicle that we used to pick up

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this entire structure is called a

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crawler-transporter it runs on tracks it

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actually pulls up under the mobile

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launch platform picks it up and drives

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it into the Vav set sit down on posts

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the pad comes back in picks it up and

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drives it out to the launch pad I read

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an interesting fact online these doors

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that you see on the other side here

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there they are the largest doors in the

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world yeah they're 456 feet tall you

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know they have to be that large to open

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up to allow this amazing huge structure

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in and out which is just phenomenal

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and actually the next the next

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progression of the vehicle the SLS

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vehicle is going to be 60 feet taller

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platforms yes I think we got 10 now so

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we're gonna need an additional one yep

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to make up for the added weight and some

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of these arms are gonna be going away

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and we're gonna have different arms

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coming in so they'll have to adjust the

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platform is 4 that is are the arms I

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don't if you guys look the platform's

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are actually you can see there are some

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of them are up there on hinges so after

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the the vehicle comes in it surrounds it

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and then the platform's lift up and down

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another huge engineering feat that that

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NASA's right to make it movable so it

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can actually be used for different sizes

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of rockets like if faith were to bring

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in another rocket could the same

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platform work I believe they are

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somewhat adjustable this way and I'm not

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sure up and down maybe John here looking

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will mic up John over here it's on

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excellent all right so what I'm curious

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about to Krista is I mean today we're

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celebrating engineer specifically women

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in engineering and I'm curious like how

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did you get to a to do a job like this

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to be you know the field senior field

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manager for this particular project how

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did you even get to NASA in the first

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place yeah it was kind of a roundabout

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story actually when I was in school I

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knew that I liked science and math I

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wasn't sure I wasn't even sure what

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engineering was but NASA advertised a

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scholarship a co-op scholarship where

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they said hey you know come work you

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know work for us for the summer and then

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we will send you to college and in order

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to do that you had to be an engineer and

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I'm like okay well I know it has

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something to do with math I'll give it a

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so I did and turns out when I went to

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school I kind of gravitated towards

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civil engineering and structures and and

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ended up liking it and it was so like

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fascinated with what was going on here

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at NASA stayed through the whole my

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whole schooling and got hired on and I

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was when I graduated so and is that

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that's one thing that I wanted to tell

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the biggest thing is go out find an

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internship it doesn't even have to be

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something that you think you want to do

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for the rest of your life but it's going

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to give you experience and how the

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business world really works interacting

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with people being able to communicate so

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things like that yeah do you have any

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other recommendations for for them if

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they want to become engineers you know

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what are some things you've learned

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along the way okay basically just some

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of these not necessarily engineering but

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for anybody who goes out in the working

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world whatever you guys choose to do I

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wrote down a few things that I've

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learned over my lifetime you know I have

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kids myself and I hear them

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the times I was too embarrassed to ask a

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question don't be afraid to ask

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questions the smart people ask questions

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if you know people will respect you they

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also want to teach you know when you

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find that hey you're interested in

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something somebody's gonna tell you how

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to do it so it's the people that don't

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ask the questions that are the dumb ones

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not the ones that ask the questions

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right I'm an educator so I am also a fan

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like you know the more you ask the more

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curious you are the more you're gonna

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learn so there's no such thing as a bad

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question right and then don't be

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embarrassed to ask I ask anything I even

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say hey I don't care if this is a stupid

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question

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I don't know this tell me how to do it

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nobody expects you to know everything

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making mistakes

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I am 50 years old I've been working for

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NASA for 30 years I'm gonna still make

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mistakes but I realize that I'm not

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perfect and when it happens I just say

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hey you know I'm sorry I made a mistake

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you know don't pretend to know something

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that you don't know you're gonna

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actually get respect if you admit hey I

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made a mistake I'll do it better next

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time okay so and then the other thing is

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as far as respect treat everybody with

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respect treat everyone like you want to

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be treated you know just because I'm an

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engineer I don't go out to the job site

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and say hey I know everything right you

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know if there's a if there's a guy you

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know laying rebar or welding you know

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everybody knows their job as well as you

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know your job so you know respect

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everybody and learn from that and then

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the last thing if you are an engineer

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your designer actually go out and see

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your thing being done if you're an

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air-conditioner mechanic see how that

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air conditioner works see how things are

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built in the field so many times if you

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don't ever get out away from your office

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you're looking at a set of plans and

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you're like you can't understand why

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this can't be built in the field until

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you go out there and you realize oh my

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gosh the tool that they use to put this

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bolt together is this big and I'm trying

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to get you guys to get it into a space

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this big right so that is the biggest

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lesson that I've learned being out in

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the field is that you actually have to

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see things put together to be a really

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good engineer and I'm curious I wish we

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could see some of our audience and like

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if you're in a classroom right now

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listening just arrange them and even

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though we can't see we can imagine out

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there how many of you love to just build

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things and take things apart whether

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it's Legos or robotic things you know if

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that's something you're passionate about

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around as well then that might be a hint

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to you right that you might be

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interested in this field yeah I never I

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never thought that I would end up in the

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construction field until I came to work

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for NASA and got exposed to it and

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thought wow that's really cool you get

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to be outside you still get to do

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engineering and you get to actually see

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things being built great and there's so

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many different types of construction

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like people think of construction maybe

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with infrastructure and they're like

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homes or buildings or houses or roads

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whatever but look at the infrastructure

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here that's being constructed it's just

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yeah what are the purpose of launching a

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rocket to space is kind of a really cool

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and goal to write and even down to the

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the pieces of electrical equipment that

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we have on the

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there's people here at NASA that are

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building the little circuit boards that

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go into they build the you know the

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valves that go into the panels yeah so

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it's not just the big heavy industrial

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work it's it's down to the small pieces

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and parts all right we look like we

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already are getting some questions in

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are you game for taking a few filter

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questions out all right so one of the

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questions that came in via Ustream is

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what is the purpose or the goal of this

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vehicle and when is it expected to

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launch okay so I mentioned before that

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it's the proving ground so you never

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want to put live astronauts on a rocket

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that you haven't tested before so the

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goal of this is actually to test out the

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vehicle it's going to launch in late

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2019 and the mission goes up into space

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past the moon it's about a I think it's

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about a three week mission and then the

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reusable parts actually after it

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launches comes back but this it's

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basically to test out the vehicle before

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we put people on it all right but so I

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want to walk over here a little bit just

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to kind of get a different perspective

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of things because hey young man this is

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six right you're right

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you can look already building all around

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so from here standing near the edge I

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can see all the way down and see that

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the sections of the platforms are very

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sizes as we look up they get narrower

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and narrower and that's because of the

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shape of the vehicle right right gonna

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be going in here right so can you

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explain a little bit about the very top

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part it seems to get very very narrow at

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the top okay well for that we have to go

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back Bethany that bring it over this way

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Oh actually the Vav one would be better

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so we're gonna get you guys a picture to

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help explain that a little bit so as you

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can see the vehicles fatter on the

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bottom than it is on the top here's

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where the crew capsule is and this is

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the the launch escape mechanism but but

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as it goes up it gets skinnier so that's

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why when you're looking up the holes and

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the platform's get narrower and narrower

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and like I said that's for people to get

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close enough to the vehicle to access it

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to work on it to make it get it ready

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for launch okay we got more questions

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somebody says they they've always wanted

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to work at NASA is it true that you have

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to go to the best schools and be

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extremely smart and is this especially

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true for girls that's a great question

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I'm glad you guys asked because I always

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tell people I wasn't the smartest kid I

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was a navy student pretty average but I

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did have a drive and motivation I wanted

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to work hard and I really had a passion

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for you know doing something in the

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engineering field so I think that's the

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biggest thing is just you have you have

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to show that you're motivated you have

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to show that you're willing you know

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you're good at working with people and

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you're good at communicating excellent

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so another question that just came in

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and I just wanted to remind everybody

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who's watching if you didn't hear

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earlier and you want to send in a

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question there's a couple ways you can

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do it you can send them via twitter

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using hashtag nasa deep dep and you can

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send them through the chat window that

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you see next to the video player and

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don't forget to look around you can pan

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around and see up or down if you're

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using a tablet or a mobile device you

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can actually physically move your device

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to see in different directions this next

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question came in from Cheltenham

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elementary school and they

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- no how many Rockets are in the

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facility at this time or at a time how

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many could be America we're going to be

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just processing one at a time okay but

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we have there's four high base right

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yeah okay we could have four so it's got

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capacity for more than one but the plan

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is for one right the next question I

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love this question because every person

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I ask no matter I could ask everybody

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here this question would have different

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answers so curious about your answer

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what is the best thing about working for

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NASA oh my gosh I think it's just what

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we do here you know sometimes when

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you're working a job every day you get

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you get bogged down and just you know

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being overwhelmed

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lots of workload but then I go outside

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and I look at Wow

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there's the Vav there's the mobile

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launcher there's the crawler I got to

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drive the caller transporter one time

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and it's like I'll never forget that so

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explain what is the crawler transporter

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so it's a it's like a big giant movable

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platform and that's the thing that comes

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up underneath the mobile launcher okay

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makes it mobile so it picks it up takes

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it yeah wherever it got this out it's a

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big giant track the vehicle it's the

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same one they use for shuttle they

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upgraded it and it picks up the mobile

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launcher and then drives it into the V

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and out to the head so it kind of looks

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like a like a big tank but without the

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military stuff just exactly like VA wide

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squatty tank with a flat top okay so

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that itself must be pretty massive and

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then on top of it you have that platform

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the mobile launcher and then you've got

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a rocket stacked on top of that I

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imagine it's not exactly moving fast to

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the launcher when they moved the shuttle

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it was a top speed of 0.8 miles per hour

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point 8 yes and I think that caller can

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go like a little over 1 mile an hour so

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people could probably walk faster than

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yeah not had a name yeah yep caller put

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a dollar makes sense right okay let's

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see if I got another question coming in

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yep here we go our rockets in this

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building currently no we don't have any

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yet but you build them in here I guess

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they want to know really they're built

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off-site but they get assembled in here

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so you guys assembled means we put the

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pieces together so I like Legos like if

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the parts come independently and then

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you stack them up and yes the rocket

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preferences and then we put it together

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like we described before where it comes

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into the center of the building and then

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it's stacked piece by piece onto the

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mobile launcher and we hope to have a

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rocket in here by spring or fall of 19

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okay so it takes then I would guess a

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couple months to three months to process

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it so yeah it ready yeah I launched

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several months to stack it to test it

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out before they're ready for long and

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are you going to what would be your role

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during the time of the launch will you

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be a spectator and join it yeah or your

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spectator or my job will be done by that

541
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time my hope is that I am getting to do

542
00:21:56,490 --> 00:21:54,520
something like this maybe a live 360

543
00:21:57,330 --> 00:21:56,500
launch cats for that that would be my

544
00:21:59,400 --> 00:21:57,340
hope

545
00:22:01,110 --> 00:21:59,410
that would I would if you ever get an

546
00:22:02,970 --> 00:22:01,120
opportunity to come out to the Space

547
00:22:05,250 --> 00:22:02,980
Center to see a launch live I would

548
00:22:06,870 --> 00:22:05,260
highly recommend it and you know you've

549
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:06,880
probably seen quite a few throughout

550
00:22:09,150 --> 00:22:07,570
your career

551
00:22:11,250 --> 00:22:09,160
what does the experience like to see a

552
00:22:13,260 --> 00:22:11,260
launch it never gets old

553
00:22:16,950 --> 00:22:13,270
you know I I missing the shuttle

554
00:22:19,590 --> 00:22:16,960
launches just feeling the the vibration

555
00:22:21,810 --> 00:22:19,600
from the launch blast and just you know

556
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:21,820
knowing what it took to get that thing

557
00:22:26,430 --> 00:22:23,890
up in the air it's amazing yeah I

558
00:22:30,510 --> 00:22:26,440
remember the first launch that I saw in

559
00:22:33,390 --> 00:22:30,520
person I was you know surprised by the

560
00:22:35,670 --> 00:22:33,400
amount of vibration you could feel from

561
00:22:37,710 --> 00:22:35,680
the sound waves you know you see it

562
00:22:39,450 --> 00:22:37,720
launch and then there's a delay because

563
00:22:42,390 --> 00:22:39,460
of course light travels faster than

564
00:22:44,220 --> 00:22:42,400
sound so a short while later you start

565
00:22:46,110 --> 00:22:44,230
to feel the vibrations and the rumbling

566
00:22:49,110 --> 00:22:46,120
in the ground it just shakes everything

567
00:22:50,790 --> 00:22:49,120
around here - that's really cool the

568
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:50,800
next question that has come in is how

569
00:22:55,770 --> 00:22:53,050
long has it taken you to build the

570
00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:55,780
vehicle so far do we do we have parts

571
00:22:59,190 --> 00:22:57,250
that are already being built you know

572
00:23:02,010 --> 00:22:59,200
the rocket itself or the mobile launcher

573
00:23:03,810 --> 00:23:02,020
they've been this vehicle so I'm not

574
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:03,820
sure let's let's start with the mobile

575
00:23:07,890 --> 00:23:05,050
launcher because that's your area of

576
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:07,900
expertise okay the mobile launch are all

577
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:10,810
in part probably it was it's been a

578
00:23:16,140 --> 00:23:13,450
start-stop because we modified one that

579
00:23:19,140 --> 00:23:16,150
we built for constellation but I want to

580
00:23:21,180 --> 00:23:19,150
say probably three years okay you know

581
00:23:24,090 --> 00:23:21,190
from start to finish if we went straight

582
00:23:26,610 --> 00:23:24,100
through the vehicle itself I want to say

583
00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:26,620
that's been in work for at least three

584
00:23:35,370 --> 00:23:33,130
years okay oh I am a fan of this

585
00:23:37,380 --> 00:23:35,380
question because I'm a math educator and

586
00:23:39,410 --> 00:23:37,390
so the question these are from students

587
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:39,420
that are learning statistics right now

588
00:23:46,670 --> 00:23:42,250
stats they want to know how much of a

589
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:46,680
role do statistics play in your job my

590
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:54,610
personally none Oh probably indirectly

591
00:23:57,980 --> 00:23:55,890
they do

592
00:24:00,080 --> 00:23:57,990
but you yourself aren't a number

593
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:00,090
cruncher you're not running any stats no

594
00:24:07,570 --> 00:24:04,490
no I run numbers for math calculations

595
00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:07,580
engineering calculations I run a lot of

596
00:24:15,590 --> 00:24:12,510
cross numbers you know and but but not

597
00:24:17,510 --> 00:24:15,600
necessarily statistics okay next

598
00:24:23,210 --> 00:24:17,520
question what I'm not my favorite

599
00:24:24,710 --> 00:24:23,220
classes now well it isn't necessarily

600
00:24:27,170 --> 00:24:24,720
for everybody and that's why we have

601
00:24:29,330 --> 00:24:27,180
jobs that some are engineers some are

602
00:24:31,610 --> 00:24:29,340
mathematicians but hopefully some of you

603
00:24:33,530 --> 00:24:31,620
that are in that class and are loving it

604
00:24:36,770 --> 00:24:33,540
we need you here at NASA too so we need

605
00:24:40,190 --> 00:24:36,780
lots of that assistance to work here the

606
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:40,200
next question that we got is related

607
00:24:43,910 --> 00:24:42,690
again to rockets and I'm not sure if

608
00:24:44,750 --> 00:24:43,920
this is an insert something you can

609
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:44,760
answer it but they want to know what

610
00:24:50,930 --> 00:24:49,410
kind of fuel does a rocket use you know

611
00:24:53,330 --> 00:24:50,940
that one's kind of man me it's

612
00:24:58,340 --> 00:24:53,340
definitely not what fuel you put in your

613
00:25:00,560 --> 00:24:58,350
car no the boosters are solid it's a

614
00:25:03,620 --> 00:25:00,570
solid it almost looks like a like a hard

615
00:25:05,810 --> 00:25:03,630
gel yeah well I usually describe it

616
00:25:07,970 --> 00:25:05,820
because this is familiar to kids like

617
00:25:10,130 --> 00:25:07,980
it's almost like a rubbery material like

618
00:25:13,460 --> 00:25:10,140
an actual eraser yep kind of consistency

619
00:25:15,830 --> 00:25:13,470
and the actual Orion I think has

620
00:25:18,650 --> 00:25:15,840
hydrazine in it and maybe John Kenneth

621
00:25:22,700 --> 00:25:18,660
the liquid is a liquid for the fourth

622
00:25:24,350 --> 00:25:22,710
stage you'll flip flip okay hydrogen and

623
00:25:27,130 --> 00:25:24,360
oxygen okay so if you're same as the

624
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:27,140
Space Shuttle uses liquid fuel and

625
00:25:34,940 --> 00:25:30,570
liquid hydrogen is extremely cold yeah

626
00:25:36,740 --> 00:25:34,950
it's a negative 420 degrees below zero

627
00:25:38,660 --> 00:25:36,750
so something that's really really cool

628
00:25:42,110 --> 00:25:38,670
the same thing with liquid oxygen it's

629
00:25:43,850 --> 00:25:42,120
well below zero and they come together

630
00:25:46,850 --> 00:25:43,860
when they come together they are

631
00:25:50,870 --> 00:25:46,860
explosive and they rocket fuel

632
00:25:52,850 --> 00:25:50,880
so you do not fuel it wallets in here no

633
00:25:54,919 --> 00:25:52,860
no that gets done out of the launchpad

634
00:25:56,210 --> 00:25:54,929
right there's big spherical tank you

635
00:25:58,310 --> 00:25:56,220
might have seen them if you've ever seen

636
00:25:59,870 --> 00:25:58,320
pictures of the launchpad these large

637
00:26:02,149 --> 00:25:59,880
spherical tanks that are filled with

638
00:26:03,980 --> 00:26:02,159
liquid hydrogen we keep getting

639
00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:03,990
questions in so let's keep going we got

640
00:26:07,279 --> 00:26:05,370
it's just a few more minutes left so

641
00:26:09,620 --> 00:26:07,289
what kind of classes should we take in

642
00:26:12,710 --> 00:26:09,630
school if we want to be an engineer like

643
00:26:16,130 --> 00:26:12,720
you or any engineer ago before you get

644
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:16,140
to college yeah I think we kind of build

645
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:17,970
maybe you start with high school and

646
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:20,970
then we can talk about maybe some enjoy

647
00:26:27,289 --> 00:26:23,490
college courses yeah of course math and

648
00:26:30,889 --> 00:26:27,299
science not so much the biology courses

649
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:30,899
but physics you know any of your math

650
00:26:36,919 --> 00:26:35,730
classes algebra calculus sometimes you

651
00:26:40,370 --> 00:26:36,929
know when you're getting your to your

652
00:26:42,769 --> 00:26:40,380
career you end up not meaning to crunch

653
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:42,779
those kind of numbers it's more of a you

654
00:26:46,190 --> 00:26:44,490
know there's a lot of computer programs

655
00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:46,200
that we use nowadays AI do some of that

656
00:26:50,210 --> 00:26:48,510
stuff but then when you get into college

657
00:26:52,909 --> 00:26:50,220
it's it kind of follows the same course

658
00:26:56,210 --> 00:26:52,919
but then they get into more statics and

659
00:26:59,870 --> 00:26:56,220
dynamics and you know looking at how

660
00:27:01,549 --> 00:26:59,880
materials work and plus of the actual

661
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:01,559
mechanics and material is kind of stuff

662
00:27:05,870 --> 00:27:03,450
and you do get additional kind of

663
00:27:07,789 --> 00:27:05,880
training as you go I mean once you you

664
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:07,799
know get a job here at now say your

665
00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:09,330
training isn't really done right you're

666
00:27:13,009 --> 00:27:10,710
not oh and that's what you're learning

667
00:27:15,710 --> 00:27:13,019
yeah you're your schooling just gives

668
00:27:17,629 --> 00:27:15,720
you a basis for starting your job but

669
00:27:19,940 --> 00:27:17,639
when I started my job I was like wow

670
00:27:21,470 --> 00:27:19,950
they don't teach you this in college you

671
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:21,480
actually have to learn it when you

672
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:24,090
here and John smiling because he knows

673
00:27:28,340 --> 00:27:26,610
the same thing yeah it's it's just the

674
00:27:29,990 --> 00:27:28,350
foundation to kind of build off of for

675
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:30,000
everything else that you're gonna do you

676
00:27:34,130 --> 00:27:31,890
need that background to know whether you

677
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:34,140
know hey that looks writer that looks

678
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:37,290
wrong but you learn after you get into

679
00:27:42,590 --> 00:27:40,530
your job sure yep so let's just do one

680
00:27:44,630 --> 00:27:42,600
less foot kind of general overview where

681
00:27:46,130 --> 00:27:44,640
we are so just in case you missed the

682
00:27:48,980 --> 00:27:46,140
beginning we are in the Vehicle Assembly

683
00:27:52,610 --> 00:27:48,990
Building yep standing on platform F

684
00:27:55,190 --> 00:27:52,620
which is the fifth platform up out of

685
00:27:58,280 --> 00:27:55,200
ten currently that are in this high bay

686
00:28:00,830 --> 00:27:58,290
high bay 3 and this is where the SLS

687
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:00,840
vehicle will be built in sometime in

688
00:28:07,909 --> 00:28:05,610
2019 correct and the vehicle itself will

689
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:07,919
be built on top of a mobile launcher

690
00:28:13,549 --> 00:28:11,970
which you are helping to construct and

691
00:28:16,370 --> 00:28:13,559
then in the air to help design and build

692
00:28:17,630 --> 00:28:16,380
it yes that is so cool I wanted to just

693
00:28:21,799 --> 00:28:17,640
if we have our few minutes left to ask

694
00:28:24,470 --> 00:28:21,809
you if you have any just final words of

695
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:24,480
advice or wisdom or encouragement you'd

696
00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:25,770
like to give for the girls out there

697
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:28,110
maybe that are in school like you might

698
00:28:31,940 --> 00:28:29,730
be struggling maybe they're not maybe

699
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:31,950
they love it but whatever you want to do

700
00:28:36,350 --> 00:28:34,530
to encourage them in their education in

701
00:28:38,780 --> 00:28:36,360
their studies yeah I would say girls do

702
00:28:40,310 --> 00:28:38,790
what you want don't let anybody talk you

703
00:28:44,299 --> 00:28:40,320
into not doing anything because oh

704
00:28:47,150 --> 00:28:44,309
that's normally a boy does that when I

705
00:28:49,549 --> 00:28:47,160
went to school it was primarily boys but

706
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:49,559
you know you can do whatever you want

707
00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:51,330
you know and being out in the

708
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:54,510
construction site you know there's not a

709
00:28:58,340 --> 00:28:56,250
lot of n that work out there but there

710
00:28:59,870 --> 00:28:58,350
are a few women and I you know I like

711
00:29:03,169 --> 00:28:59,880
that women are starting to get out and

712
00:29:05,270 --> 00:29:03,179
just do things that are you know have

713
00:29:08,180 --> 00:29:05,280
been primarily you know a guy's world

714
00:29:11,290 --> 00:29:08,190
right so find some and find something

715
00:29:13,060 --> 00:29:11,300
you love you know if you like math you

716
00:29:14,620 --> 00:29:13,070
if you like sighing I like how you look

717
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:14,630
at me like that yeah if you like rap

718
00:29:19,510 --> 00:29:17,570
yeah but you know you're gonna have to

719
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:19,520
do this job for the rest of your life

720
00:29:23,290 --> 00:29:21,410
so it has to be based on something you

721
00:29:25,270 --> 00:29:23,300
love to do absolutely home

722
00:29:27,340 --> 00:29:25,280
I agree no matter what that job ends up

723
00:29:30,250 --> 00:29:27,350
being something else I didn't go into

724
00:29:32,049 --> 00:29:30,260
statistics cuz I didn't like that but if

725
00:29:34,900 --> 00:29:32,059
you love that that's where you need to

726
00:29:37,660 --> 00:29:34,910
go alright I just wanted to before we

727
00:29:39,340 --> 00:29:37,670
wrap up ask Rob over there to wave

728
00:29:41,740 --> 00:29:39,350
goodbye John thank you

729
00:29:44,110 --> 00:29:41,750
bye ball that's an ear and off camera so

730
00:29:46,570 --> 00:29:44,120
show hopped away from afar but thank you

731
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:46,580
all for tuning in Crysta thank you for

732
00:29:50,260 --> 00:29:48,050
joining me today and for being a role

733
00:29:52,450 --> 00:29:50,270
model for our next generation is the

734
00:29:54,970 --> 00:29:52,460
ring Kennedy Space Center alright don't

735
00:29:56,590 --> 00:29:54,980
forget to tune in at one o'clock eastern

736
00:29:59,680 --> 00:29:56,600
time we'll be coming to you live from

737
00:30:01,330 --> 00:29:59,690
the Glenn Research Center and we'll be

738
00:30:05,500 --> 00:30:01,340
alive again at two three and four