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HEROES is HOPE (Hands-On Project Experience)

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project which is a call from Headquarters.

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And to answer that call, we came up with the

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project HEROES, which is the High-Energy

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Replicated Optics to Explore the Sun Project.

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This project is a joint project between

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Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and

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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), and

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I'm a co-PI, so I'm the PI for MSFC. And

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together with my counterpart at GSFC, we're

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leading this effort to fly a hard x-ray

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telescope on a high-altitude balloon payload.

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The balloon will go to 120,000 ft. and it

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will fly for almost 2 days. During that time,

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we'll observe both astrophysical objects and

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the sun. So it's one of the first dual

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experiments during the same flight, and