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spectral system is the next newest

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biggest rocket that we're going to build

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and it's not just a replacement for the

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Space Shuttle this rocket is going to

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carry us much further than the shuttle

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would go it's NASA's next big rocket for

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deep space explore the SLS is a national

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capability that provides a unique access

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to space that America has not had in 40

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years a large launch vehicle like this

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really opens the door to destinations

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beyond it's not limited by destination

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what we're focused on here this Center

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is the propulsion system and that

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consists of two solid rocket boosters

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and a core with some tanks that feed

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some liquid rocket engines in the middle

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and then the astronauts it on the top in

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the Orion spacecraft one of the things

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we recognized for SLS is we had to be

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affordable so we had to do things

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differently more efficiently and smarter

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we're all conscious about saving money

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doing it a more affordable than we have

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in the past but at the same time we

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can't sacrifice reliability or safety

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the system uses a significant amount of

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heritage hardware which is things that

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we've evolved from the space shuttle

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program the Space Shuttle had to kind of

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candle looking things which are the

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solid Rockets those are kept and those

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are used on sls we've added a segment to

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the four segments solid rocket boosters

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that we had on shuttle that gives it

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more power more thrust and it helps this

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larger rocket get off the ground what

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those boosters are for is just to get

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minutes and then they fall to the ground

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then your liquid engines you're up high

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enough your liquid needed to carry your

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vehicle to as high as you want to go and

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if you have additional state

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like we're going to have one then you

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can go further out into space right now

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the IMP Tory that we've got consists of

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one engine that was assembled and still

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needs green run testing our

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certification testing we looked at all

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the spares as we collected the spares we

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determined that we for this embolus

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abstains engines will have 16 engines

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that will be able to usually life we are

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making tremendous progress we've got all

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of our prime contractors on board we're

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testing engines we're testing solid

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rocket boosters or avionics systems j-2x

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has set recently set a record at Stennis

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liquid oxygen engine to get to a full

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duration test in for tests we were

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program and and we're moving that into

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the SLS beautiful the motor itself has

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which are full-scale motors tested out

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in Utah and we've gotten a lot of good

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data engineering data from those tests

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this is an adapter that goes between the

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bottom of the Ryan capsule and the top

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of the Space Launch System rocket that

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were developing here Marshall it's been

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specifically designed to give strength

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to the adapter so that it can take the

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loads in flight and still be lightweight

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this shape started out as a series of

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flat panels the iso grid pattern was

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machined into the surfaces then they

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were formed that was called bump in a

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process called the bump for me to make

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them into the shape that we need here

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and we weld three of these segments

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the outside of the CM and we've actually

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we can locate all those parts you know

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together okay putting you know wiring

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valves and pumps and so all of that

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baseline to build our harnesses they're

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set up shop in the ONC and so their

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federal protection is very difficult in

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re-entry vehicles to to test into model

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really understand what's going to happen

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insulation tiles for the back shell of

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the capsule we're building thermal

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barriers for the capsule and we're

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I'm heat shield design we've so we're

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for the future or I measures the heat

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router it's a five access router and

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right now it's machining the interior

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bowl if you will to heat shield to cut

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router it could take weeks of machine

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time running multiple shifts it's the

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biggest heat shield ever constructed now

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the component is the heat shield

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skeleton so the piece of the titanium

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substructure the backbone that makes up

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unique thing is all day hand drilling

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that we're doing so it's not automated

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the hand drew hand drilled by

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technicians on the inside 200-plus

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titanium parts all match drilled

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together so we have a tool that puts all

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the pieces in the right spot and then we

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mcc is transforming from supporting

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space shuttle and Space Station to a

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platform that will support space station

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and m pc b or orion in order to adapt to

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the future we need to go to a more

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modern system KSC will still offer the

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vehicle all the way up into launch will

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operate the vehicle to splashdown the

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working with the Orion program to get

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the spacecraft data so we can we can

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process it with our software in the

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firing room and we will be flight

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walls making it kind of a more

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comfortable place to work so we're

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complete new back because we will have

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refurbished each and every system that

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it's inside of that we're going to have

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the vehicle launched from the mobile

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launcher and not only launched from the

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mobile launcher behalf at our doubt that

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we'll have all the services attached to

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the vehicle the tower is going to be on

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the mobile launcher the vehicle will be

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concept that we knew that worked very

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mobile launch platform had a tower on it

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that the beep the VA be can remain

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adaptable and accommodate different

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vehicle architectures and now we have a

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infrastructure so that we can

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bat do the connections to the mobile

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launcher and once we do those connection

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we're ready to launch there was a time

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where I had to explain what a call it

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was if you didn't work out here at the

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Space Center or if you weren't in the

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central florida area a lot of people

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vehicle the larger rocket and things

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along those lines and that goes from the

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crawler lifted load the hydraulics also

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crawler Way itself with a rock what we

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essentially done is keep all the same

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hydraulic components but just increase

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the size the diameter of the hydraulic

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ride out with the completed crawler to

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systems and a couple punchless items but

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everything worked great the control

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cotton the driver's cab consoles and all

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corners has 22 rollers that are about

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the size of a car be honest with you and

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nose as well what I love doing is

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reminding the outside world whether it's

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within our government or especially the

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media that has a perception that were in

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a law there's nothing going on that you

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know the space program shutting down to

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kind of dispel that rumor and say know

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what this is the the far opposite for us

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we are utilizing this inter program time

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frame to make all the modifications and

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all the infrastructure changes that it

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will help and bring that agency vision

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into reality many of us feel the country

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wants to go forward and NASA has a big

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following and every time I talk to

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people we're excited about NASA enabling

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people to go beyond where they have ever

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gone before and look and discover things

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that they didn't even know existed is

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just it's just a real honor it's been a

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pleasure to be involved with this

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project and I can't say enough for the

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team to put this together I'm privileged

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to work this program I think most people

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are working at today feel the same way I