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GLOVER: We’re going to have an orbital flight
test, a test without the crew in it, of each

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vehicle, and then we’re going to have the
first flight with crew in them, to prove that

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these systems are ready to fly people to space.

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TRUPATHY: These demonstration missions are
important for astronaut safety because, you

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know the folks around here that I work with,
we all asked ourselves, would we be comfortable

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flying our own family on board this vehicle?

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And the answer has to be yes, and so because
of that we need to make sure we test these

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as much as we can.

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FERGUSON: Since we’re dealing with a new
generation of people who are putting human

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space vehicles together again, I think it’s
important to impress upon them every day that

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there is not a day where their attention can
waver.

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GOOD: We can test them down here on Earth,
we can put them in vacuum chambers and acoustic

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chambers and, you know, do thermal tests on
them, but there’s nothing like going up

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and putting them in the real environment.

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VEGA: That will give us a lot of insight on
the vehicle performance, the functional systems,

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even the abort system will be active on that
vehicle.

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HOPKINS: That’s why these initial test flights
are so important, because you need to see—it’s

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not just the hardware—it’s also the software,
it’s the people, it’s the procedures,

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it’s the whole thing coming together.

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WILLIAMS: Boeing’s supposed to land on land,
SpaceX is supposed to land in water.

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Those are two hugely different environments,
so there’s a little bit of interest in the

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survival equipment that’s located in the
spacecraft as well, where that’s going to

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be, how that’s going to work.

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LUEDERS: This is a really critical aspect
of the NASA job, is to continue to have that

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dialogue with the contractors about, well
why did you do that, you know why was that

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safer?

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SIMS: This is someone’s family member, husband,
wife, uncle, aunt.