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good afternoon and welcome to nasa's

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kennedy space center here in florida

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i'm megan cruz with nasa communications

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and you're here watching the crew

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and science briefing for tomorrow's oft2

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targeted for 2 53 pm eastern daylight

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now oft2 is boeing's second uncrewed

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of its starliner capsule atop a ula

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nasa boeing and ula are targeting a

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launch later this year for the first

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crude flight and speaking of the crew we

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have them here today along with some

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other familiar faces i'm sure

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first we have chris ferguson director of

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and integration cruise systems and then

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we have the crew again as i was saying

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we have commander butch wilmore

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pilot mike fink and mission specialist

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the deputy chief scientist

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program now each will deliver some

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why don't you take it away chris thanks

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megan uh well good morning

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uh this is a this is a great day anytime

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into space is an awesome day

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uh for those of you who did not have the

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roll out of the vertical integration

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facility and over to the pad it

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oh about an hour ago so it's sitting out

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what we hope will be weather dependent

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this has been it's been a long time

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we we have taken an awful lot of effort

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launch the the awesome

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cft crew here later this year so it's

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chris and good morning

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that's what we're in the in the flight

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our flight coming soon and with that our

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thank you spanky let's talk about this a

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returned capabilities to launch humans

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adding a crew on board actually is uh is

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a great thing too

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because we can we add an extra element

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of safety and redundancy

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so if for some reason the automation

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can't handle whatever situation we might

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find ourselves in

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uh we can hit the the manual buttons and

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go manual and fly the spacecraft all the

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way up to docking if needed

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so it really uh we're really trying to

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ensure crew success

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mission success here uh including you

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know being able to

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help out the international space station

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so this is a you know it's a fantastic

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spacecraft i've been on

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on this will be my third one and i'm

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just a big fan of starliner

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great and we'll take one from the phone

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now this is david hurley with discovery

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thanks very much uh butch just referred

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to it but

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nicole uh boeing talked about the fact

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that a crew had been on board

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on oft one uh there would not have been

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the problems because you would have

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overridden the system uh

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so i'd like a kind of a broad answer

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about

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automation and human interaction and

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interface

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and where we are with that and what that

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all means and chris when are you getting

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a great question and now if we had been

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on board i'm not to say that nothing

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would have

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gone uh wrong certainly we had some

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challenges

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but crew brings a different capability

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as spanky mentioned

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and so what you'll see with starliner

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is that it's an incredible jump in

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technology as far as automation goes

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it's a very

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robust spacecraft with a ton of

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capability

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someday we're going to get to the point

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where that spacecraft flies the mission

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all with the automation and no

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interaction from crew we're not quite

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there yet so part of our mission as test

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pilots on board

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the first experimental test flight of

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this new spacecraft

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is to test out those backup systems so

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we will turn off the automation we'll

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take over manually

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we will fly the spacecraft we will test

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out that backup system

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so that for future crews in the case

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that they have a problem with the

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automation

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we have confidence that the backup

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systems will work so that's

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all part of the building process and the

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rigor

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and tests that we do for spaceflight

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and as for being back in the rotation uh

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primary job number one

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let's get these guys up the space

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station get them back safely and then

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we'll we'll see where things go from

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there

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great and we have a question from

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facebook now so what will the sensors on

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rosie the rocketeer be monitoring in

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regards to how the flight will affect

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the astronauts

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okay i'll take that one um so on our

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very first test flight we did have rosie

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well instrumented we collected the data

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that we needed

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uh we processed the data and and it was

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it was actually very good

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rosie's predominant job on this flight

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is to be essentially a weight and

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balance machine

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uh we do not have her instrumented we

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will not be getting any instrumentation

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data off of her

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but she is there to essentially maintain

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a good weight in balance as if a crew

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member

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were really there so she's uh her job is

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is largely to just enjoy the ride

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great let's take one from the room now

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amy from space.com so

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my question is for any one of you three

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if you want to answer

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what has your role been in the past 18

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months in getting this

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capsule ready for reflight

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well i would say that all of us like

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like mike mentioned when

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we started out we are flight testers

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that's what what we trained for back

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when we're in our various services

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and have to have the opportunity to take

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place in the first flight

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of a spacecraft i mean none of us would

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have ever dreamed that we'd be sitting

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in these positions none of us

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so it's fascinating and we're in the

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siem obviously it's a new spacecraft new

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systems new software

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you find things here and there that are

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not working exactly perfectly

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and that's what flight test does we go

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through those processes identify the

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problems

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it's a fascinating wonderful place to be

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uh at this point and we're just excited

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that uh that we have the opportunity

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obviously

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okay we have one question on the phone

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this is jackie goddard times of london

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yes hello thank you my question is for

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chris ferguson

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um firstly no woman wants to just be

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called weight and balance in a

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spacecraft

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um uh but uh poor old rosie um

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but initially you were lined up um to

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fly

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on the first crude mission and and then

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you made that switch

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and i wondered what it feels like um to

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be

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now on the more uh terrestrial side of

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preparing for that

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whether you find yourself being a little

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um envious um

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and and how that has changed the dynamic

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for you thank you very much

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uh that's a great question i can tell

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you that

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uh within two weeks of launch um i

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enjoyed wearing one of those flight

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suits more than

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more than one of these it's a it's it's

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a little more hectic

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right you're worried about a lot of the

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details uh and

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you know there's a pretty pretty good

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elevation of i'll just call it general

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work hours you know in the month and

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the weeks leading to flight um but uh i

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enjoy that job

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uh just as much and we're very proud of

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our crew and looking forward to seeing

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them go fly

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great all right someone else from the

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room here hey thank you uh joey roulette

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with the verge

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um question for the starliner astronauts

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similar to one that was already asked

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but

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how much more engaged were you this time

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around in the starliner preparations

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than

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you were before the 2019 test

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i'd like to say that we um we were

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engaged then and we're engaged now

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and uh and we'll continue to be engaged

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for our flight uh to be honest the

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first oft and oft2 you know the

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the team at boeing and uh the mission

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operations that are happening

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in houston texas you know that team is

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ready to go they're operators

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they're used to working with automation

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and they're used to

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under they totally understand the

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spacecraft then you add

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what chris ferguson and his team bring

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to the mission management so if they

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have to make big decisions in real time

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they're ready to go so we are part of

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that those teams um

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we've made contributions and we've been

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in lots of simulations to help get

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everybody trained so we're we're

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there the the whole team is ready just

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one more

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follow-up how was the end-to-end test i

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know i think you guys participated in

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that if you could kind of give just like

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a general

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like scope of how many more like hours

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you might have put in

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in this time around or if there's any

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kind of major difference

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thanks yeah uh chris can can add because

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uh

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this was definitely a bowling event but

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from what what we as a crew saw the

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endan test was great we

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we the software you know we started

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running it you know hours before

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launch kind of where we are now um and

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all the way through

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landing and that included docking to the

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international space station

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uh there were a few uh pre-planned

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malfunctions to make sure that the

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fault detection and isolation software

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would work and

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it was super smooth and that's how we

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want our software to work

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and chris this is probably a question

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for you from twitter does starliner

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support

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automatic docking to the iss or the

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astronauts have to operate

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that manually uh it fully supports

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automated docking

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um that said uh the astronauts can take

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over at any time

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uh and uh and also using the onboard

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what we call relative navigation system

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uh dock as well so uh there we can we

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can uh we can work it either way

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okay we'll do one from the phone and

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then we'll head to a couple people here

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in the room

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so we have paul brinkman with united

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press international

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hi yeah thanks for for taking my

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question um

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i don't know about any of you but as a

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journalist i'm sort of having a sense of

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deja vu

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because there was a lot of confidence

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and excitement um you know before the

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last

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test flight in 2019 so i'm just

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wondering if any of you are feeling that

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i guess

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for nicole or chris and specifically

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um any of the lessons learned from that

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investigation uh of that mishap

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were those applied at all to these

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readiness reviews or is that all just

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like ancient history i guess

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thanks well it's certainly not

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ancient history um you know i think many

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of you are aware there was an

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an independent review team uh that was

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assembled uh

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after after the first oft flight they've

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they came out with 80 recommendations

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that they recommended that

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we implement a significant uh

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significantly less portion i think it

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was about 25 percent of them were

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considered mandatory

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uh boeing went and and we fixed everyone

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we addressed everyone

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uh you know we want this next flight to

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be as uh to be as uh

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uh i will call it uh you know incident

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free

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uh as clean as it can possibly be uh

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we there is some uh indication made

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about an indian test we called it the

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acel

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mission rehearsal amr uh it it ran

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from launch minus 30 hours all the way

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through touchdown plus a couple hours

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it was a 100 hour plus simulation

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something we had never done and what

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that did is it stitched

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together every element of the mission

570
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that we had previously tested

571
00:19:04,310 --> 00:19:03,039
thoroughly but independently and gave us

572
00:19:06,470 --> 00:19:04,320
an opportunity to see

573
00:19:07,590 --> 00:19:06,480
really how the vehicle performs uh over

574
00:19:10,470 --> 00:19:07,600
the full duration

575
00:19:12,230 --> 00:19:10,480
of an entire mission so we have really

576
00:19:15,190 --> 00:19:12,240
i'll call it thoroughly dug into

577
00:19:16,150 --> 00:19:15,200
tested and verified hundreds of times

578
00:19:18,150 --> 00:19:16,160
you know the independent

579
00:19:19,990 --> 00:19:18,160
uh the software code to ensure that it

580
00:19:21,590 --> 00:19:20,000
performs exactly the way we intend on

581
00:19:22,870 --> 00:19:21,600
oft2

582
00:19:24,789 --> 00:19:22,880
we'll take two questions from the room

583
00:19:25,590 --> 00:19:24,799
here thank you sorry rosenstein with

584
00:19:27,750 --> 00:19:25,600
talking space

585
00:19:29,110 --> 00:19:27,760
um chris you talked earlier about all

586
00:19:29,750 --> 00:19:29,120
the different changes that have been

587
00:19:32,230 --> 00:19:29,760
made

588
00:19:33,510 --> 00:19:32,240
uh to the starliner capsule so i guess

589
00:19:35,190 --> 00:19:33,520
which system

590
00:19:36,710 --> 00:19:35,200
from the ground are you in particular

591
00:19:37,430 --> 00:19:36,720
looking to see the most from and for the

592
00:19:39,110 --> 00:19:37,440
crew

593
00:19:40,549 --> 00:19:39,120
which systems will you guys be really

594
00:19:41,350 --> 00:19:40,559
trying to focus on during this test

595
00:19:44,950 --> 00:19:41,360
flight ahead of

596
00:19:46,470 --> 00:19:44,960
your eventual flights so i'll keep it

597
00:19:47,029 --> 00:19:46,480
real short one thing i'm very interested

598
00:19:48,310 --> 00:19:47,039
in uh

599
00:19:50,230 --> 00:19:48,320
i think most of you are aware we're

600
00:19:52,630 --> 00:19:50,240
flying with a fully up abort

601
00:19:53,830 --> 00:19:52,640
capable system this time we had mass

602
00:19:55,510 --> 00:19:53,840
simulators

603
00:19:57,510 --> 00:19:55,520
for the for the portion of the abort

604
00:19:59,430 --> 00:19:57,520
system for oft-1

605
00:20:01,510 --> 00:19:59,440
um interested in c you know of course we

606
00:20:03,750 --> 00:20:01,520
don't never plan to use the abort system

607
00:20:05,590 --> 00:20:03,760
however we will not be able to monitor

608
00:20:07,909 --> 00:20:05,600
its performance and ensure that you know

609
00:20:10,710 --> 00:20:07,919
we don't see anything unexpected

610
00:20:12,070 --> 00:20:10,720
and then sort of to me we also have an

611
00:20:13,669 --> 00:20:12,080
entry cover uh we're

612
00:20:15,909 --> 00:20:13,679
you know a way to protect the docking

613
00:20:17,110 --> 00:20:15,919
mechanism for the heat of reentry

614
00:20:18,870 --> 00:20:17,120
this will be the first time that we're

615
00:20:20,789 --> 00:20:18,880
using an entry cover entry cover has to

616
00:20:22,630 --> 00:20:20,799
be opened once we get on orbit and then

617
00:20:24,470 --> 00:20:22,640
closed uh prior to landing so those are

618
00:20:26,310 --> 00:20:24,480
the two biggies for me

619
00:20:27,590 --> 00:20:26,320
okay and another oh i'm so sorry i think

620
00:20:29,190 --> 00:20:27,600
from a crew perspective

621
00:20:31,190 --> 00:20:29,200
the second part of that question is

622
00:20:32,870 --> 00:20:31,200
we'll be really focused on the portion

623
00:20:35,029 --> 00:20:32,880
of the mission that we did not

624
00:20:36,870 --> 00:20:35,039
get a chance to accomplish on oft so

625
00:20:37,669 --> 00:20:36,880
specifically that's the rendezvous and

626
00:20:39,110 --> 00:20:37,679
docking

627
00:20:41,510 --> 00:20:39,120
we'll be looking at the relative

628
00:20:44,230 --> 00:20:41,520
navigation system vesta is a series of

629
00:20:46,230 --> 00:20:44,240
cameras that provides us that capability

630
00:20:48,149 --> 00:20:46,240
so we're excited to see from the crew

631
00:20:48,950 --> 00:20:48,159
displays what's that actually going to

632
00:20:51,029 --> 00:20:48,960
look like

633
00:20:52,390 --> 00:20:51,039
vice just what we have in the simulators

634
00:20:54,630 --> 00:20:52,400
of course docking and then

635
00:20:56,310 --> 00:20:54,640
undocking as the other major components

636
00:20:58,310 --> 00:20:56,320
of this test that we'll specifically be

637
00:21:01,270 --> 00:20:58,320
watching

638
00:21:02,950 --> 00:21:01,280
go ahead can cramer space up close

639
00:21:04,070 --> 00:21:02,960
thanks uh good luck on the mission for

640
00:21:05,590 --> 00:21:04,080
the crew

641
00:21:07,430 --> 00:21:05,600
um we were here a couple of weeks ago

642
00:21:09,830 --> 00:21:07,440
and you you arrived with the booster i'm

643
00:21:12,070 --> 00:21:09,840
wondering if you got any more clarity

644
00:21:13,510 --> 00:21:12,080
on how long your mission might be a

645
00:21:14,789 --> 00:21:13,520
couple of days couple of months you

646
00:21:18,230 --> 00:21:14,799
didn't have too much

647
00:21:20,789 --> 00:21:18,240
uh clarity on that and how much science

648
00:21:23,190 --> 00:21:20,799
are you training are you doing to carry

649
00:21:25,110 --> 00:21:23,200
out experiments on the iss if it might

650
00:21:27,270 --> 00:21:25,120
be a longer mission well i can tell you

651
00:21:29,750 --> 00:21:27,280
that we are completely fully trained

652
00:21:30,390 --> 00:21:29,760
to do a full up mission six months or

653
00:21:31,510 --> 00:21:30,400
longer

654
00:21:33,590 --> 00:21:31,520
as long as the spacecraft i think the

655
00:21:35,190 --> 00:21:33,600
spacecraft's ready for like 220 days

656
00:21:36,630 --> 00:21:35,200
uh attached to the space station so

657
00:21:37,350 --> 00:21:36,640
we're fully trained and ready to go and

658
00:21:39,909 --> 00:21:37,360
do that but

659
00:21:41,029 --> 00:21:39,919
our focus is obviously very broad but

660
00:21:43,270 --> 00:21:41,039
our detailed focus

661
00:21:45,430 --> 00:21:43,280
is on this flight it is an experimental

662
00:21:47,350 --> 00:21:45,440
test flight and that's what our focus is

663
00:21:49,029 --> 00:21:47,360
and if it's uh eight days or eight

664
00:21:50,230 --> 00:21:49,039
months whatever it winds up being that's

665
00:21:52,149 --> 00:21:50,240
that's what we're gonna what

666
00:21:53,990 --> 00:21:52,159
what we are prepared to to do and

667
00:21:55,830 --> 00:21:54,000
accomplish so flight tests

668
00:21:57,430 --> 00:21:55,840
what the objectives that we have set in

669
00:21:59,669 --> 00:21:57,440
front of us are the key

670
00:22:01,270 --> 00:21:59,679
for this and honestly wherever we fit in

671
00:22:02,789 --> 00:22:01,280
is where we'll go it depends on the

672
00:22:03,990 --> 00:22:02,799
needs of the space station as far as

673
00:22:06,230 --> 00:22:04,000
duration of the mission

674
00:22:07,750 --> 00:22:06,240
so if the space station needs us uh for

675
00:22:09,029 --> 00:22:07,760
a couple months that's what it'll be if

676
00:22:10,070 --> 00:22:09,039
it needs us for six months that's what

677
00:22:11,430 --> 00:22:10,080
it'll be if you don't if it really

678
00:22:13,270 --> 00:22:11,440
doesn't need us at the time but it's a

679
00:22:15,110 --> 00:22:13,280
good window to go to the space station

680
00:22:16,310 --> 00:22:15,120
and it just becomes a test flight

681
00:22:18,390 --> 00:22:16,320
that'll be fine with us

682
00:22:20,230 --> 00:22:18,400
but that includes the science we we

683
00:22:22,390 --> 00:22:20,240
fully support jennifer and her team

684
00:22:23,669 --> 00:22:22,400
on the science program where uh trained

685
00:22:25,270 --> 00:22:23,679
up in

686
00:22:27,270 --> 00:22:25,280
all the science programs goes as we get

687
00:22:28,549 --> 00:22:27,280
closer to our our launch date

688
00:22:30,070 --> 00:22:28,559
and we know what exactly what

689
00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:30,080
experiments are going to be the focus

690
00:22:32,950 --> 00:22:31,360
we'll get the extra training

691
00:22:34,789 --> 00:22:32,960
again not to interfere with our our

692
00:22:37,590 --> 00:22:34,799
flight test like butch said but

693
00:22:39,669 --> 00:22:37,600
we're definitely a science crew and just

694
00:22:39,990 --> 00:22:39,679
to comment on a standard crew expedition

695
00:22:43,270 --> 00:22:40,000
we

696
00:22:46,630 --> 00:22:43,280
do anywhere up to about 300 experiments

697
00:22:50,630 --> 00:22:48,070
this question's from social it's from an

698
00:22:52,549 --> 00:22:50,640
11 year old from north carolina he wants

699
00:22:53,669 --> 00:22:52,559
to know how long the training process is

700
00:22:55,909 --> 00:22:53,679
before you launch

701
00:22:58,710 --> 00:22:55,919
also what is the fastest speeds you'll

702
00:23:03,350 --> 00:23:01,110
so that training process starts the day

703
00:23:05,270 --> 00:23:03,360
you show up at nasa and it never stops

704
00:23:06,789 --> 00:23:05,280
but it's really exciting it's some of

705
00:23:08,070 --> 00:23:06,799
the coolest training and learning that

706
00:23:09,669 --> 00:23:08,080
you'll ever do

707
00:23:11,350 --> 00:23:09,679
specifically for a mission training

708
00:23:13,990 --> 00:23:11,360
starts about two years

709
00:23:15,669 --> 00:23:14,000
prior um to your launch to train

710
00:23:17,510 --> 00:23:15,679
specifically what you'll be doing on

711
00:23:18,789 --> 00:23:17,520
that mission if it's a spacewalk or

712
00:23:21,110 --> 00:23:18,799
science or in our case

713
00:23:23,350 --> 00:23:21,120
an experimental test flight but that

714
00:23:24,950 --> 00:23:23,360
that training continues the entire time

715
00:23:26,630 --> 00:23:24,960
uh fortunately coming back home we're

716
00:23:28,390 --> 00:23:26,640
going to reach just over 25

717
00:23:29,990 --> 00:23:28,400
mach so uh that's going to be the

718
00:23:31,110 --> 00:23:30,000
fastest eyes i've ever gone and these

719
00:23:32,549 --> 00:23:31,120
gentlemen have flown

720
00:23:33,990 --> 00:23:32,559
flown before but we're looking forward

721
00:23:34,310 --> 00:23:34,000
to those speeds you get a patch if you

722
00:23:37,190 --> 00:23:34,320
fly

723
00:23:38,390 --> 00:23:37,200
25 mach and uh we and you'll see the

724
00:23:40,149 --> 00:23:38,400
astronauts uh

725
00:23:41,190 --> 00:23:40,159
traditionally have them those have flown

726
00:23:41,909 --> 00:23:41,200
i think butch you're wearing your

727
00:23:43,990 --> 00:23:41,919
shuttle one

728
00:23:45,990 --> 00:23:44,000
i'm wearing my soyuz one and we have a

729
00:23:47,350 --> 00:23:46,000
new patch that has a starliner on it but

730
00:23:49,430 --> 00:23:47,360
we're not allowed to wear it until we

731
00:23:51,350 --> 00:23:49,440
go mach 25. i'm looking forward to

732
00:23:52,950 --> 00:23:51,360
watching duke go mach 25 for the first

733
00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:52,960
time i've got a spot for it on my flight

734
00:23:55,830 --> 00:23:53,710
suit so i'm ready

735
00:23:57,190 --> 00:23:55,840
[Laughter]

736
00:23:58,470 --> 00:23:57,200
all right we have one more on social and

737
00:24:00,310 --> 00:23:58,480
then i do see we have two or three in

738
00:24:02,149 --> 00:24:00,320
the room here uh so the one on social is

739
00:24:04,630 --> 00:24:02,159
how will starliner contribute to the

740
00:24:09,750 --> 00:24:04,640
future of space exploration and continue

741
00:24:12,870 --> 00:24:11,669
nicole you got a good answer for that

742
00:24:14,710 --> 00:24:12,880
well i think

743
00:24:16,070 --> 00:24:14,720
i'll answer from the first part of the

744
00:24:16,789 --> 00:24:16,080
we talked a little bit about the big

745
00:24:19,029 --> 00:24:16,799
mission

746
00:24:20,070 --> 00:24:19,039
of how starliner fits into human

747
00:24:22,470 --> 00:24:20,080
exploration right

748
00:24:24,070 --> 00:24:22,480
this is a huge component to returning

749
00:24:25,750 --> 00:24:24,080
this launch capability from

750
00:24:28,310 --> 00:24:25,760
the united states and having this

751
00:24:29,830 --> 00:24:28,320
sustained dissimilar redundancy between

752
00:24:32,070 --> 00:24:29,840
spacex and boeing and so that

753
00:24:33,510 --> 00:24:32,080
we're not reliant on just one company to

754
00:24:34,630 --> 00:24:33,520
get astronauts to the international

755
00:24:37,430 --> 00:24:34,640
space station

756
00:24:38,870 --> 00:24:37,440
and as we look at low earth orbit you've

757
00:24:41,350 --> 00:24:38,880
seen a lot of commercial

758
00:24:42,070 --> 00:24:41,360
launches recently you're going to see

759
00:24:44,230 --> 00:24:42,080
more

760
00:24:45,269 --> 00:24:44,240
folks in low earth orbit that are not

761
00:24:47,909 --> 00:24:45,279
nasa astronauts

762
00:24:49,350 --> 00:24:47,919
that's great this is this is goodness i

763
00:24:51,590 --> 00:24:49,360
think for the younger generation

764
00:24:53,190 --> 00:24:51,600
they're going to see scientists

765
00:24:55,350 --> 00:24:53,200
engineers maybe journalists

766
00:24:57,110 --> 00:24:55,360
in space and they're going to be able to

767
00:24:58,070 --> 00:24:57,120
capture the amazement of space and

768
00:25:00,070 --> 00:24:58,080
they're going to be able

769
00:25:01,590 --> 00:25:00,080
to share these experiences and the

770
00:25:04,230 --> 00:25:01,600
things that we learn

771
00:25:05,190 --> 00:25:04,240
better so than than astronauts are able

772
00:25:07,029 --> 00:25:05,200
to do so

773
00:25:08,789 --> 00:25:07,039
and i think for these kids that they are

774
00:25:09,269 --> 00:25:08,799
going to see that there's opportunities

775
00:25:11,510 --> 00:25:09,279
for them

776
00:25:13,430 --> 00:25:11,520
in space in whichever capacity that they

777
00:25:15,430 --> 00:25:13,440
would like to participate

778
00:25:16,950 --> 00:25:15,440
and so hopefully they'll realize that a

779
00:25:18,390 --> 00:25:16,960
lot of these barriers or maybe

780
00:25:20,149 --> 00:25:18,400
limitations from the past are being

781
00:25:22,470 --> 00:25:20,159
broken down and the opportunities

782
00:25:24,470 --> 00:25:22,480
are there for the taking it will also

783
00:25:26,630 --> 00:25:24,480
increase our science capability

784
00:25:28,710 --> 00:25:26,640
quite a bit which i think jennifer would

785
00:25:31,590 --> 00:25:28,720
probably be best suited to touch on

786
00:25:32,149 --> 00:25:31,600
yeah absolutely so again we talked

787
00:25:35,029 --> 00:25:32,159
earlier

788
00:25:35,430 --> 00:25:35,039
you know we having more crew on orbit

789
00:25:39,110 --> 00:25:35,440
and

790
00:25:40,630 --> 00:25:39,120
can do more science we really do a wide

791
00:25:42,549 --> 00:25:40,640
variety of science

792
00:25:44,149 --> 00:25:42,559
so we do experiments and everything from

793
00:25:46,710 --> 00:25:44,159
human research to

794
00:25:47,909 --> 00:25:46,720
fluid physics to technology

795
00:25:50,549 --> 00:25:47,919
demonstrations

796
00:25:52,470 --> 00:25:50,559
life sciences as well as education so

797
00:25:53,909 --> 00:25:52,480
that is a component of our mission

798
00:25:55,350 --> 00:25:53,919
and so students have been very

799
00:25:57,029 --> 00:25:55,360
successful in student involved

800
00:25:58,149 --> 00:25:57,039
experiments on iss to date

801
00:26:00,789 --> 00:25:58,159
and i look forward to seeing that

802
00:26:02,950 --> 00:26:00,799
increase yeah very bright future for all

803
00:26:04,390 --> 00:26:02,960
of us okay one in the room here

804
00:26:06,070 --> 00:26:04,400
chris get part with nasa space flight

805
00:26:07,269 --> 00:26:06,080
for chris ferguson um

806
00:26:09,990 --> 00:26:07,279
one of the other things that popped up

807
00:26:11,269 --> 00:26:10,000
on oft was a communications issue

808
00:26:12,630 --> 00:26:11,279
some sort of interference with

809
00:26:14,390 --> 00:26:12,640
communication system i'm just wondering

810
00:26:15,269 --> 00:26:14,400
what was the ultimate root cause of that

811
00:26:18,070 --> 00:26:15,279
investigation

812
00:26:19,510 --> 00:26:18,080
and what were the fixes yeah so there

813
00:26:20,870 --> 00:26:19,520
were a couple

814
00:26:23,750 --> 00:26:20,880
you know one of them had to do with

815
00:26:25,430 --> 00:26:23,760
locking on to a bad tdrs frequency

816
00:26:27,590 --> 00:26:25,440
we've got plenty of mitigations in place

817
00:26:28,470 --> 00:26:27,600
for that in fact for the crude flight

818
00:26:31,510 --> 00:26:28,480
test

819
00:26:33,350 --> 00:26:31,520
we are going to uh roll on a new what we

820
00:26:34,950 --> 00:26:33,360
call communications transceiver

821
00:26:36,549 --> 00:26:34,960
that is a little more robust and

822
00:26:39,430 --> 00:26:36,559
resistant to that but we have

823
00:26:40,950 --> 00:26:39,440
mitigation ways to detect if we have

824
00:26:42,230 --> 00:26:40,960
what we call a false lock

825
00:26:44,070 --> 00:26:42,240
and we'll break that lock and we'll

826
00:26:46,789 --> 00:26:44,080
reacquire so that's one of them

827
00:26:48,470 --> 00:26:46,799
another one we discovered that we were

828
00:26:50,710 --> 00:26:48,480
really looking a little too close with

829
00:26:52,549 --> 00:26:50,720
our antennas to the earth's horizon

830
00:26:54,310 --> 00:26:52,559
and therefore we were picking up a lot

831
00:26:55,909 --> 00:26:54,320
of interfering frequencies and those

832
00:26:58,310 --> 00:26:55,919
interfering frequencies all full

833
00:26:59,110 --> 00:26:58,320
in the region of cell phones believe it

834
00:27:01,990 --> 00:26:59,120
or not

835
00:27:03,909 --> 00:27:02,000
so we now have actually canted our view

836
00:27:04,549 --> 00:27:03,919
of the rise and we sort of mask out that

837
00:27:07,669 --> 00:27:04,559
noisy

838
00:27:09,990 --> 00:27:07,679
area and we've taken other measures we

839
00:27:11,909 --> 00:27:10,000
we point ourselves in what we call

840
00:27:14,630 --> 00:27:11,919
communications friendly attitudes

841
00:27:15,909 --> 00:27:14,640
to try to make sure that we minimize our

842
00:27:18,630 --> 00:27:15,919
exposure to uh

843
00:27:20,149 --> 00:27:18,640
to to that noise so i think the biggest

844
00:27:20,870 --> 00:27:20,159
thing is for the crew flight test and

845
00:27:22,310 --> 00:27:20,880
subsequence

846
00:27:24,549 --> 00:27:22,320
we're going to roll on a new transceiver

847
00:27:25,590 --> 00:27:24,559
which will really uh permanently put a

848
00:27:28,070 --> 00:27:25,600
lot of these issues

849
00:27:29,830 --> 00:27:28,080
behind us but in the interim we've got a

850
00:27:32,310 --> 00:27:29,840
lot of good measures in place to ensure

851
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we have good calm throughout the flight

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great thank you and the last question

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from the room here rachel nail with

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florida today

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this is a little bit of a follow on what

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nicole just was talking about um

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virgin galactic and blue origin just

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flew you know folks on these suborbital

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space flights

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and there's a little bit of a

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controversy should these people be

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considered astronauts should they be

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called astronauts

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i'm very curious what you guys think

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about these

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passengers that are on these suborbital

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space flights you know now and in the

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future

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i can say that uh we are excited that

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more people are coming to space uh just

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to

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um stand on the shoulders of uh nicole

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there is that

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you know only 550 people plus or minus

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have been

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been to space and the more people that

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can see our beautiful planet see what

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our eyes have seen

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the better it off is for all of humanity

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and the more companies that we have is

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more jobs

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for everyone including here on the space

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coast so this is all

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goodness as nicole said what we call

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these people

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that's uh that's that's hard to say i

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would just say that we called alan

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shepard

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uh an astronaut when uh he did his

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suborbital flight along with gus

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on uh mercury atlas or excuse me mercury

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redstone

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um and uh so uh but uh these people

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some folks who go to their are not

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professional astronauts like uh

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like it's our profession uh so uh what

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what to call them is a very good

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question

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but we're glad that more people are

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seeing space

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perfect thank you guys so much this uh

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brings us to the end of this briefing

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thank you to everyone who participated

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and asked questions

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again a reminder that the launch

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tomorrow is targeted for 2 53 p.m

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eastern time