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Hi, I'm Jennifer Takeshita.
I'm the Teledyne Brown

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manufacturing lead for the
Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter.

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We're here at Marshall Space
Flight Center and this is

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Rocket Science in Sixty Seconds.

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♪♪♪♪

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So the LVSA connects the
SLS core stage to the

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Interim Cryogenic Propulsion
Stage at the top.

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My team works with NASA
to create four hundred thirty

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feet of defect free welding.
That's the equivalent of

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one and a half football fields.

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The Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter
is 27 point 6 feet in

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diameter at the bottom, sixteen 
point eight feet at the top

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and it's a thirty foot tall cone,
approximately the size of

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a three story building.

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The LVSA connects and protects.
It connects the core stage

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to the In-Space stage while
protecting the the In-Space stage