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Well, it’s Preliminary Design Review and

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primarily is a technical review to make

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sure that the design is acceptable at the

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appropriate level of maturity.  But we

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also have to show that we are

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integrated programmatically.

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To me, it’s, it’s like a health check on the

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program.  Umm, those of us that are

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working on the program, uh, we’ve got

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our head down.  We’re, we’re doing our

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pieces, umm, and sometimes when

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you’re working really close to things,

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you don’t necessarily see everything.

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So this gives a opportunity for a fresh

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set of eyes to come in from our review

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team.

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I think part, part of PDR is to show, not

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only your selves, but to show the NASA

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community and the community at large

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that the program is ready to move onto

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the next level.  There’s so many moving

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parts.  There’s so many things going on

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at the agency.

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…then I have four major elements here

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I the program. Alex Priskos has boosters,

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Mike Kynard has engines, Tony Lavoie

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has stages and David Beaman has SPIO

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which includes things like the fairing,

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the adaptors and the interim upper

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stage.

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The agency has a certain set of internal

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requirements.  We require of ourselves

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to review ourselves by an independent

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entity.  In addition to that, there are

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some external stakeholders, some

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organizations external to the agency to

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include Congress and OMB, as well as

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the public, who require a good,

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thorough, truly independent look at

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these programs as they transition

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through their life cycle.

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The PDR in my opinion comes uh, the

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program comes alive in that uh, there’s

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a lot of discussions.  There’s a lot of

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meetings across the board from

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technical costs, schedule, performance

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data, safety, human factors uh, that

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have been talked about for now a

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couple years, and this is really the first

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milestone where it really starts to come

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off the page and alive.

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You can feel that we’re going to do this.

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The hardware is starting to come.

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The Orion hardware is getting ready for

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its first flight test down at the Kennedy

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Space Center, and you can see that this

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is all coming together, and there is no

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doubt in my mind that assuming that

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the budget can come like we, like we

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need it to come uh, within the plan that

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we have, we’ll be flying Space Launch

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System and Orion in 2017 and we’re

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going to get this country and the world

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exploring beyond low earth orbit very