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all right welcome back to the final day

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in our artemis week i am so glad to be

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coming to you live from the Kennedy

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Space Center sort of I'm Joshua Santora

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bringing you two amazing ladies who are

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working to do what needs to be done once

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we get to the moon Artemis is getting to

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the moon with our eyes on Mars but it's

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only step one and it's a big step but I

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have with me today Jackie Quinn the EM

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solo project manager Jackie thanks for

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being here oh it's great to be with you

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thanks yeah and then also joined by

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Janeane captain both ladies applied

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chemists I think is that correct

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hi yes very cool yes amazing skills and

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talents chemistry definitely not my

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forte so I appreciate ladies like you

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who are conquering the difficult stuff

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in my mind so let's jump right in can

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you give me both a snapshot of what you

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do obviously we saw job titles principal

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investigator and project manager what do

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those things mean

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I'm Jackie we'll start with you okay so

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I'm the project manager for in solo and

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I work alongside Jenny basically my

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functions are to deal with the overall

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management of the project like schedule

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adherence ensuring that we have enough

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budget um I also make sure we have the

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the staff available with the right skill

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set to work on the project and then you

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know occasionally I get to put in a few

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tidbits based on my technical background

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so that's what I do

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and I think that's a really important

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note of just the fact that there's a lot

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of things that are not technical that go

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into this world so definitely a diverse

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skill set required so I'm sure that's

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again not actually your favorite thing

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to do but very important aspects to the

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job well Jeanine as a principal

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investigator what that sounds really

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important so for EM so but what does

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that mean so as the principal

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investigator for ENSO I'm responsible

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for the science and the instrument

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performance but you know I'm not the

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most important thing at all we work with

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an amazing team of folks at KSC and

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different NASA centers and our

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and we're ready to get this instrument

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to go to the mom so we got to take a

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step back for a second because we didn't

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actually talk about what M solo is so we

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kind of know what you do for this this

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mission or payload or I'm not exactly

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sure the right way to describe it we

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have very interesting terms for things

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like this can you tell us more about

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what is M solo yeah sure so I'm solo

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stands for mass spectrometer observing

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lunar operations you know NASA loves the

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acronyms so this is a modified

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commercial instrument that measures

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gases so we're partnering with infocon a

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company in Syracuse New York here on

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earth this instrument is used in the

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semiconductor industry but we're

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actually going to use it to detect water

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and other volatiles on the lunar surface

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and can you can you give me kind of a

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picture of what does that mean exactly

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you use an interesting term they're a

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volatile obviously it's a research

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mission can you tell me a little more

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about that yeah so you know in planetary

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science when we talk about volatiles

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things you know oxygen nitrogen and

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so we're looking at measuring things

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that we can use as resources on the

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lunar surface and I think we have a

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video if you want to play the video no

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fur I'm so long yeah let's take a look

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I'm solo stands for mass spectrometer

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observing lunar operations we took an

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design to withstand the harshness of

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space we bolstered the glass instrument

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radiation tolerance and applied other

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standard space flight practices into the

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design on the lunar surface M solo can

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measure resources like water crucial to

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deep-space exploration and it can

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measure the gases coming off a lander

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know what is truly coming from the moon

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ensure we are only measuring

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contract essentially commercial

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companies are building lunar landers and

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technology like ours is hitching a ride

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not only will M so it will help us learn

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more about the moon and ultimately

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system but the new rugged designed we

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improve their product that would also

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help universities and other researchers

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using their equipment in harsh

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environments here on earth in Costa Rica

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volcanoes safely detecting what gases

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we are proud of em so of capabilities in

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space and right here on earth and now

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we're headed to the moon from Kennedy

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Space Center I'm Patricia Valentine

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alright so one of the many things in

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that video was I heard them mentioned

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the I think it's the commercial lunar

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payload services which I believe we

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what is Clips it sounds really important

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for our future on the moon yeah it is so

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you know as you mentioned the commercial

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inner payload services program is NASA's

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way of partnering with the commercial

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lunar market using emerging lander

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technologies to deliver NASA's ready to

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fly payloads to the surface of the Moon

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so M solo 1 is set to fly on the

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opportunities so that mission is going

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find water there you know as was

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partners and so from there we're also

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opportunities and trying to understand

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how the thermal cycling influences the

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twenty-one so we're really excited to

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have an instrument on the lunar surface

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next year and then a second M solo

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lunar South Pole and that's gonna land

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equatorial region yeah and that is one

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such a resource that we really need it's

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polar areas where we think there is

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stable water is awesome and can you give

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backgrounds and obviously mentioned

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engineer and applied chemist but how do

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worked on building vacuum chambers and

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operating doing you know vacuums kind of

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science and so I was able to take that

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experience and apply it to what we were

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me really allowed me to jump in and do

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some technology development and really

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focus on you know going to the moon and

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the moon here on earth very cool and we

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to be a part of the Artemis program

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obviously this is a huge flagship moment

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for the agency as we're returning to the

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moon 50 years after the first time

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around so just curious to hear from you

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what that's been like well it's really

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because you know it's it's it's the next

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that were taken where we're gonna send

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the first woman and the next man back to

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the moon and and I know you're talking

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to two PhD women engineer and scientists

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meaningful for us you know we do have

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another another mission the NASA Viper

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rover and then just to give you a little

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a golf sized mobile robot that we're

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sending to the South Poles moon to get a

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close-up view of the location and the

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concentration of water ice and that is

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where we plan to the humans will land on

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the Artemis program in 2024 just just a

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viper is that the first resource mapping

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resource being water and water you see

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can be turn into oxygen or turn you

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could turn the oxygen in from the water

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into breathing air and also into fuel

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infrared spectrometer and also in solo

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in addition to a drill that'll take a

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meter deep sample and carry the lunar

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soil to the surface for evaluation of

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its volatiles and collectively that

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those instruments will determine the

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composition and the concentration of the

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resources at the South Pole including

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water so we believe that the Viper

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robotic mission will bring us closer to

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NASA's ultimate goal of a sustainable

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long-term presence on the moon and

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making it possible to explore even

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further on to Mars and beyond so as you

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note our first step being part of that

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Artemis mission and really making it

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excited as far as the solo team I give a

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group of engineers and scientists that

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we work with and denene and I are truly

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privileged to to be part of that in a

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solo team and also to be part of the

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Viper team so appreciate it yeah

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Jackie Jeanine appreciate you joining us

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cannot wait to see you guys with science

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on the moon again very very soon

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absolutely thank you all right and for

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all of our viewers out there that's

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gonna do it for today we want to give

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everybody a clue we're taking a break

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from this program we're getting ready

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for demo2 mission coming up in just a

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week and a half

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very exciting as humans take flight from

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America to the space station once again

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but that's going to do it from all all