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supporting the mars 2020 mission with

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designed for another world thank you so

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communication and i am just

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virtual nasa social for our first video

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the telemetry center of the universe

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communications engineer just what

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and so that's what this team does is

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make sure that we lower the risk to

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these cool can you show us kind of the

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guts of the building

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let's take a look inside so the guts of

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the building here is the telemetry lab

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it's the heart

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data

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so the cool part about the hanger is we

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can support five

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launch vehicles all at the same time and

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how we do that is this hatch tank

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this patch panel is all that telemetry

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so

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when we talk about telemetry it's

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getting measurements

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from a distance so just like you would

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at the doctor's office a nursing station

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in the middle of the hospital sees your

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telemetry your heart rate

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at your bed so just like that a rocket

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has telemetry

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they have measurements as it goes

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downrange so as you go downrange you

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have to have tracking stations

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so they're either ground assets so a big

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dish looking up or in space tdrs

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so nasa has a tracking satellite down in

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space that looks at the rocket

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so all those different sources all come

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straight into this patch panel and then

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we go along here we record this

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live we record this as raw as possible

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to be able to play back if we have an

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anomaly

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and then as you go down this panel you

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can see that

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it processes that data so it starts as

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ones and zeros

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and by the end when an engineer sitting

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on console it is a temperature

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or a pressure or a gauge so that's what

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my team does

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jessica helps get the information here

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and then my telemetry team

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takes this telemetry and turns it into

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the engineering units so that is the

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heart of the hangar

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so why don't we come over here and we

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can talk more about telemetry

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i know you guys are really proud of the

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fact that you can handle five launches

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at a time

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i don't think we've ever had two happen

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at the same time so certainly like i

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think the day is coming when we're gonna

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need that

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or what's the motivation behind that so

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when we talk about launches i really

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talk about

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power of the vehicle so just

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tomorrow we have nroil mission up in

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wallops

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we are getting that data they're

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powering on doing data flows

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we have sentinel the pad that vandenberg

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is actually powering on

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we're getting the data for that and then

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obviously mars so there's three right

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there that we are processing and

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recording

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all at the same time and then obviously

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you can think easily there's a delta iv

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on the pad

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and then our pegasus coming up there's a

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thousand on the pad right now there's a

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falcon on the pad right now so as they

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power on they're getting that data

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so it might not be the launch but it

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might be the vehicles power on doing any

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testing because again our

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our vehicle experts want to know

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independently from the

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space the launch vehicle team uh how

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that is

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going so that's that's kind of what i

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mean by five launches

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it's really five vehicles could be

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powered on awesome read so

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are you guys ready i mean we're just a

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few weeks away now from launch

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yep ae good to go ae is good to go ready

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i think every time i end up at the

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hangar i'm always

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just amazed because i don't understand

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all the details of what goes on but reid

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diverty

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you do you got a pretty good feeling

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what's going on thanks for joining us

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today thank you for having me thank you

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for having me

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and reid while we were filming you told

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us a really awesome story about your

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first mission at the hangar can you tell

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us a little bit more about that

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yeah sure so my first mission as a the

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mission comm engineer like jessica was

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in the uh

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the thing was a comm engineer for

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curiosity

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and it was about 11 years ago i got to

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sign that mission

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and uh one of the requirements for this

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mission too

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is we call it de-interleaved data so the

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spacecraft

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puts the information uh about the

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spacecraft's health

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inside the launch vehicle telemetry and

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then our team actually

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takes that spacecraft data and send it

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to the spacecraft so that gives the

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spacecraft

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properly before launch

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and so our system is transporting that

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information so when i was the comm

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engineer for curiosity

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i designed a new system uh serial of vip

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and that system i tested and and tested

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in the lab and then tested with the

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spacecraft

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all up leading up to launch and it was

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the backup

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because just like anything you want

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prime and backup so the prime went down

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about 20 minutes before launch and the

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spacecraft came to me and said

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hey our prime went down what happened

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and

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the nasa launch manager also came to me

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and was getting nervous about it

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and this because this was a requirement

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for launch and uh

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i said hey the backup is i know it's

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really good we've tested it

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and uh we're good and so the nlm and the

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spacecraft were like okay we're good

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and so that was like the most

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nerve-wracking and you know 20 minutes

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before launch something goes down is

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is not ideal and so that's why you build

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as a comm engineer you build prime and

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backups and so that's a great story and

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really got me hooked

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um in being in hangar ie and why i'm

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still there now

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so i think when you told us that story

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the first time um you said that

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so the comm engineer doesn't really talk

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much in

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in a public setting they're kind of

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behind the scenes but i

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understand you did get called on to

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actually like speak up and kind of

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verify that you were good

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to proceed is that true yeah so as a

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comm engineer your goal

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is to set everything up and then the

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engineers are using your systems so

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you really don't want to be talking at

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all on the count

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down but in this instance you know one

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of our systems was being

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you know a big a big thing so i had to

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go talk on a lot of nets that are

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very public and you'll probably hear

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you'll probably hear tomorrow right

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countdown one and

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and a lot of the important nets that uh

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that get publicized

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so awesome that's incredible reid thanks

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for sharing that story

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so we're going to take a few questions

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from social media we have one from

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youtube they want to know is hanger ae

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an actual hanger

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or is it just the name of the facility

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so

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define a hanger i guess

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there is a big door in the back that we

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they used to actually use hangar ae as a

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spacecraft processing facility

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it's not used that way anymore since

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i think the 90s was when the last time

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or even before that

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but now we're basically a control room

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and a telemetry

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station for lsp thanks reid and we have

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another

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question here they want to know why is

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it so important to monitor and analyze

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the data coming into hangar ae

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so there's kind of two folds for that so

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first is right you're making sure the

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launch vehicle the spacecraft is ready

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for launch

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right so uh then the the other part of

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it

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is uh other launches happening before

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this this launch tomorrow um so the last

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atlas launch

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we were recording that launch vehicle

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and and

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noting any issues the lsp engineering

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team was noting any issues

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that we might dig into for our launch so

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it's twofold one is

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is making sure the launch is ready that

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day but then also

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having the data from past launches to

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verify that

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if there's a sensor or anything that

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looks out of family

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you can kind of relate successful

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launches

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and we go back every single launch that

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ula in this instance uses we have that

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data and we can go back and

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and relate other launches that could

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have had an issue and we

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we can verify that you know hey this is

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not going to be an issue or it is an

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issue

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so that's that's the hangers job as we

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get the data for

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every launch every launch that lsp could

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launch spacex

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pegasus ula you know we get that data

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and it gives that independent analysis

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to make sure that lsp and nasa is ready

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for launch

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definitely so we have two questions here

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that i'm going to combine into one

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someone wants to know what's the best

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part about working at hanger ae

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and can you share parts of your work

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that you find exciting rewarding or

532
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challenging

533
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yeah so hangar ae is awesome because we

534
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get to work

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every launch on the east or the west

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coast in the us

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so you get to be involved in launches

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from space force to lsp

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to commercial crew so that's the

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exciting part you get to be involved in

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history i mean in this instance you know

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going to mars

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and we're trying to find life on mars i

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mean you can't get more exciting than

545
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that

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about working in the hangar

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absolutely reid and uh i know tomorrow

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is not only a historic day but it's

549
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also a very special celebration i heard

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it's your birthday tomorrow

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it is it is my birthday tomorrow so yeah

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that's exciting too

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00:21:00,149 --> 00:20:58,880
obviously in theory we have a nice a

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firework of sorts

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00:21:03,430 --> 00:21:02,320
taken off for you a rocket launcher yeah

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can't get better than that fingers

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crossed right

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that's right ready to light that candle

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[Laughter]

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well that's it from social media thank

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you so much for joining us reed you were

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absolutely incredible as always

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thank you so much for having me and go

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mars yeah appreciate you

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um i'll ask you one last question just

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because i think people find it

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interesting

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00:21:23,350 --> 00:21:22,159
sure um just not taking for granted

569
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what's happening behind the scenes

570
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because

571
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people love to see the rockets launch

572
00:21:30,149 --> 00:21:27,919
but rockets scheduled for 7

573
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50 a.m eastern time tomorrow morning

574
00:21:33,990 --> 00:21:31,840
what time will you be arriving

575
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uh to be ready for an almost eight

576
00:21:37,990 --> 00:21:35,360
o'clock launch yeah so

577
00:21:40,149 --> 00:21:38,000
my my team gets in at midnight so i'll

578
00:21:42,310 --> 00:21:40,159
be getting in around 11 30

579
00:21:43,909 --> 00:21:42,320
we do our checkouts our polls to make

580
00:21:45,750 --> 00:21:43,919
sure that our team is ready for the

581
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engineering and spacecraft team

582
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to get on console so yeah it's a long

583
00:21:52,230 --> 00:21:49,039
long night

584
00:21:54,230 --> 00:21:52,240
in this instance uh for for all of us

585
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all right awesome read appreciate you go

586
00:21:56,710 --> 00:21:55,360
get some sleep

587
00:21:57,909 --> 00:21:56,720
have a good night and i will i don't

588
00:21:59,029 --> 00:21:57,919
know if i'll see you tomorrow i'll be

589
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somewhere else in the morning

590
00:22:01,909 --> 00:22:00,400
um but i know you guys will be doing a

591
00:22:02,950 --> 00:22:01,919
great job and making all of the things

592
00:22:04,789 --> 00:22:02,960
come together for us

593
00:22:06,789 --> 00:22:04,799
great thanks for having me i want to

594
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preview again of the schedule for today

595
00:22:11,270 --> 00:22:08,240
take a quick look here

596
00:22:13,350 --> 00:22:11,280
at uh what's coming up so our next show

597
00:22:15,669 --> 00:22:13,360
is happening at 11 30 a.m eastern time

598
00:22:17,909 --> 00:22:15,679
so just about 35 minutes from now

599
00:22:19,270 --> 00:22:17,919
this will be a q a featuring dr zarbukin

600
00:22:21,510 --> 00:22:19,280
and dr lori glaze

601
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so get your questions ready answering

602
00:22:24,470 --> 00:22:23,200
those and also

603
00:22:26,149 --> 00:22:24,480
be looking out for more acronyms

604
00:22:26,870 --> 00:22:26,159
throughout the day as we saw the chat

605
00:22:28,149 --> 00:22:26,880
happening there

606
00:22:30,070 --> 00:22:28,159
yeah we've got a lot of acronyms that's

607
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okay and tune in for

608
00:22:32,470 --> 00:22:31,200
all the rest of the shows you see here

609
00:22:33,350 --> 00:22:32,480
you can find those on our facebook page

610
00:22:35,029 --> 00:22:33,360
as well

611
00:22:37,590 --> 00:22:35,039
and that's going to do it for us today

612
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make sure to follow the hashtag

613
00:22:41,909 --> 00:22:40,400
countdown to mars excuse me um and

614
00:22:44,390 --> 00:22:41,919
follow on twitter and facebook

615
00:22:45,029 --> 00:22:44,400
nasa persevere um that's actually a

616
00:22:46,470 --> 00:22:45,039
mission

617
00:22:48,070 --> 00:22:46,480
handle that we'll be tracking through

618
00:22:49,270 --> 00:22:48,080
the mission as we proceed launch

619
00:22:49,990 --> 00:22:49,280
tomorrow morning and then we have a

620
00:22:51,750 --> 00:22:50,000
seven minute

621
00:22:53,830 --> 00:22:51,760
seven month trip to get to the red

622
00:22:54,230 --> 00:22:53,840
planet and that's when the countdown is

623
00:22:57,190 --> 00:22:54,240
over

624
00:22:57,830 --> 00:22:57,200
when we're on the on mars and we're

625
00:23:01,350 --> 00:22:57,840
roving

626
00:23:02,630 --> 00:23:01,360
with this car-sized rover and the first

627
00:23:04,149 --> 00:23:02,640
of its kind helicopter