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The Mighty Eagle is so

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earth-friendly. It is fueled by

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90 percent concentrated hydrogen

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peroxide, which is a green

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propellant, and it passes over a

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silver catalyst screen, causing

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a violent decomposition, giving

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the Mighty Eagle its powerful

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thrust.

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Music

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Autonomous rendevous

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and docking is important because

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it's a long way, large distance,

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between us and other bodies, and

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there's not enough time for

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humans to be in the loop to

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command the vehicle to go left or

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right. So the vehicle has to

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think for itself. I've gotten a

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lot of experience working on the

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Mighty Eagle project. I've

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learned a lot about programming.

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I've learned a lot about

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leadership and teamwork skills.

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I've learned a lot of

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communication skills. I mentored

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interns for the first time this

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summer, so I learned how to give

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commands and work with people

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younger than me.

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Music

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Guidance navigation and control

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engineers spend most of their

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time in the simulation world,

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computer modeling. Flight

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testing on the Mighty Eagle

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validates that and that's

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really invaluable to.

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We're pretty good at our computer

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modeling, but in the real world,

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there's always little surprises.

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The devil's always in the details,

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and the opportunity to flight

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test several times a week has