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I'm Lori Meggs and welcome to focus on

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Marshall on today's episode I'm on

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location at Kennedy Space Center in

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Florida where we'll take a look at a few

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of the ways marshall center employees

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participate in integration and launch

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activities here at the Cape so let's get

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started we've come inside the vehicle

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assembly building now and i'm joined by

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jolene martin she's the manager of

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Marshalls resident office here at

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Kennedy Space Center and Jolene you have

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a lot of employees here doing martial

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work to support NASA's mission that's

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right there's about 20 of us located

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here at Kennedy Space Center and we

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represent the design center for the

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propulsion elements and we do work here

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such as assist KSC in processing in

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several different facilities around this

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area so all of those elements come

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together in this building and you guys

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act as consultants for the people who

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are putting all the pieces of that

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puzzle together that's a way to look at

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it is that as like we're consultants for

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KSC who is actually processing the

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hardware and in the VA be here all the

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elements come together except for

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possibly the payloads the payloads come

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together in the OPF or in the pad the

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external tank solid rocket boosters the

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Space Shuttle main engines which are

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already attached to the orbiter are all

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assembled in this building but you guys

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do a lot of work before those pieces

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ever get to this building right and we

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should do we have facilities or i should

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say KSC has facilities that marshall is

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there to assist in any way when we see

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some of those i'd love to show you i'm

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here with tom angler and he's with

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Marshalls solid rocket booster project

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he's actually the manufacturing

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operations lead here at Kennedy Space

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Center in time it looks like we're going

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on a trip nice boat it is a nice boat

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but unfortunately we can't go along on

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their next trip they're getting ready to

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go retrieve the Boosters after our next

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flight and they actually go out to sea

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and wait for those solid rocket boosters

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to splashdown after launch right they

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sure do they're about 150 miles off the

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coast of Florida waiting for the

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Boosters come down and after the booster

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splashdown they'll they'll retrieve the

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parachutes and tow the Boosters back

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here to hang RAF can we go see hang RAF

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absolutely so Tom this is hangar AF sure

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is this is where we perform our

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disassembly operations after our

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retrieval process is complete we bring

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the Boosters here into the hangar on

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these rail cars that are

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Linus and we take them apart the motor

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components are sent back out to ATK in

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Utah and the booster components stay

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here are cleaned up and repainted and

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sent over to our assembly refurbishment

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facility all right let's go see that too

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great let's go all right time you

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brought us over to another facility now

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what goes on here this is our solid

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rocket booster assembly and

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refurbishment facility in what we do

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here is the manufacturer of the solid

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rocket booster components to prepare

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them for flight and transfer over the

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vab I see a lot of pieces to a puzzle

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that have to go back together here are

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some of them ready to go already yes for

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example the for December that we have

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over here is ready for flight and it's

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been prepared it's been checked out and

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is ready for transfer for the march two

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thousand seven flight and what else has

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to happen to these before they're ready

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to go well for example we've got painted

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structures which have just come over

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from hangar AF which you saw the in

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process over there and parachute pack is

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an example as well that we have to

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integrate with the with the flight

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vehicle the structures that come over

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have to be insulated we have a robotic

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spray on insulation system that puts

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installation on the structures and we

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assemble them we install electronics in

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the inside of them and then check it all

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out make sure it's ready to go for

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flight and it takes a lot of people to

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do all that work for Marshall right you

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sure does we have about 850 contractor

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and civil servant folks supporting

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Marshall down here all right and then

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you get it all ready to go and it goes

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to VA be right that's correct we send it

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over there and they integrate it with

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the flight vehicle thanks for showing us

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around thank you now we moved over to

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the rotation processing and search

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facility and i'm here with kenton bush

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he's a marshal representative with a

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reusable solid rocket booster project

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and can tell me what we're looking at

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here and what you do in this building

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okay this is a left F center segment

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that's behind us it was recently shipped

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here from Utah along with seven other

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segments it was brought in via rail they

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took it off from that railroad before

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but before they did that actually did a

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grain inspection rotated that to

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vertical they're doing the bare metal

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inspections here if there's any issues

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we work with the KSC ground ops

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personnel to resolve a lot of those

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issues and what is Marshall's role here

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Marcia's role is we are

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you know engineering support to make

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sure that the design requirements are

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met for the overall motor and for the

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overall solid rocket booster so these

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folks are getting it all ready to go to

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the VA be right that's exactly right

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once it's ready once they put do all the

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processing that they need to like build

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up the booster they'll take it over to

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the vab and they'll stack it you know

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one after the other and get it ready for

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flight alright sounds like they've got a

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lot of work to do in there we'll let you