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Well, were the final preparation before

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we get to ignite Ares Demonstration Motor

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number two, which is a large five segment

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solid rocket motor which we have been

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preparing for this test for well over a year.

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One of the interesting objectives of this

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test is we want to demonstrate how this motor

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preforms at cold temperatures. So, were here

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in the middle of the summer in Utah, where it's

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a hundred degrees outside and Shyla Quinn,

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one of our young mechanical engineers has had

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an assignment for the last year to figure out

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a way to chill this motor down to fourty degrees

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so when we static test it, we will be actually

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demonstrating our rocket as if it were launching

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in the winter time in Florida.  Basically, we

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have been asked to cool down the PMBT, which is

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the propellent mean bulk temperature about fourty

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degrees lower than what is would normally be.

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We have 2 two hundred ton chillers, it can go all

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the way down to negative ten degrees. Were putting

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in any where from 15 degrees air into that building

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and we are actually able to, as of a week ago, get

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down to thirty seven degrees on our PMBT, so we

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actually made our goal ahead of schedule.  So on

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test morning, the motor will be fourty degrees or

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below, we'll be able to meet out test objectives

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and we'll be able to release twenty two million

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horse power at fourty degrees in the middle of

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summer in Utah.  It's amazing, it's like as soon

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as you walk in the door, you kind of get hit with

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this wave of cold and it almost instantly takes

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your breath away but you quickly get aclimated to

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it but you do get shocked when you're out in this

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bright sun, shining down on you, a hundred degrees,

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you walk in and you're like "whoa!", that was a

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little cold.  Poor operators having to work in there,

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we're all in cold weather gear and like Kevin was

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saying, were at ninety degrees a hundred, degrees

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outside and you walk in and everyone is in their

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hats and their cold weather gear, working away.

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I did have a couple of operators tell me that they

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kinda hated me a little bit for making it cold.

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They gave me the nickname of being the ice queen

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obviously because were getting it so cold and I

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told them I'd rather be a cool lady than a hot one,

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so nice and cool. So on test morning, the motor

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will be fourty degrees or below and we will be able

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meet out test objectives and we'll be able to