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happen this morning this vehicle those

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of you they haven't seen it before it

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gets off the rail very fast it's not

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quite like watching a liquid one of the

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NASA launches that sort of climb out

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reasonably slowly this this one gets off

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like a missile because that's what the

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first stage basically is you'll see the

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first stage put out the order of six

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seconds then you'll see our coast face

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and then you will see the second stage

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ignite after we have reached the right

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dynamic pressures to do that the

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sustainer motor or second stage is a

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fairly long long time so you'll see that

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climb out as as the plume of the vehicle

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claims out through any wind shears don't

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don't think there are too many today

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you'll see the plume sort of scatter

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around a little bit that's not the

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vehicle maneuvering like that the

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vehicle hopefully is going straight down

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range so that's just the plume being

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hashed about when you who is doing the

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count for us she give us the plus count

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and a T plus 12 seconds Asuma announce

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second stage ignition that's an analogy

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of three point seven five miles and then

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hear that means the end of the s 19

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boosts guidance system that occurs at

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about six miles altitude t plus 44 is

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the max count that's the end of the

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second stage ignition like a second

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stage burn and that's about 30 miles

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altitude t plus 52 we have the payload d

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spend that means the

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yeah vehicle that were spinning up due

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to the bin ken hangul set in to give us

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a spin stabilized vehicle we have of

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that we call a yo-yo d spin which is

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simply some weights that come out on

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long wires much like a a ice skater puts

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our arms out to stop the spin when she

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spent it on the ice it changes the

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moment of inertia in technical terms and

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then as she puts our arms down she'll

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spend up but we will put this D spend yo

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yo D spin system out and that

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essentially takes all the spin right out

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of the vehicle to make us ready to enter

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the microgravity condition for the

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experiments we will get a pair of

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separation at t + 58 that's a 48

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nautical miles or excuse me not nautical

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miles miles t plus 7 affair we have the

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beginning of the microgravity period and

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at t-plus two hundred ninety seconds we

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have a pudgy which is actually 198 miles

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for this mission but close enough to

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turn about 200 miles out you t plus 5 06

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seconds the end of microgravity at 68

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miles such as we are over t plus 6 2 22

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seconds the main chute will deploy will

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get an indication of that you're not

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going to see that today and that's a

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through miles altitude and then t plus

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eight seventy eight seconds we will have

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a payload landing 50 nautical miles

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downrange so it's it's about a 15-minute

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flight it's so 878 seconds I'm so high

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rocky quietiy an hour were close to to

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and nine eight seven six five four three

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a consumption for materials Devon and

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space at the university of alabama in

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huntsville was formed in September of

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1985 when the university received a NASA

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grant from the office of commercial

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programs the intent of the consortium is

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to promote commercial activities in

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space and to enhance a technological

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position of the United States for

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foreign trade we are attending to run

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experiments and we are performing

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experiments in the low gravity of space

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so that we can learn things about

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materials make new materials learn

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things about processes that we can't

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learn on earth where they are masked by

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Earth's gravitational pull the nice part

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about a sounding rocket like this is

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that it can be done approximately every

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six months or so our first launched in

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march of 1989 consulate one was a

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successful launch in which all of the

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experiments worked and worked very well

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Alabama on consular three then is

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experiments not only from the UAH

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Consortium for materials development in

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space but also for from three other NASA

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centers for the commercial development

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of space from mattel in columbus ohio

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from penn state university and from the

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university of colorado we also can

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change experiments very close to launch

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time as opposed to if you're flying on a

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man rated vehicle like the shuttle there

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are a considerable amount of

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documentation that you have to go

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through safety documentation to assure

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the launch people and assure the

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astronauts that we are not in any way

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compromising their health and well-being

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looking at the billion dollar a year a

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home insulation market as one

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application it's also looking at

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going in a lunar Mars moon or mars types

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of missions the e for information in

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this particular experiment will have

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aluminum particles in it so that we can

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see what the effect of aluminum is on

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some of the acoustical properties of the

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material the reason we want to study the

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foams are that if we can make a small

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amount of improvement in the way that

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foams are currently built with there

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being such a large market for it any

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small improvement can have a large

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potential savings in energy and also in

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some general observations that have been

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made for every cell tissue human animal

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are a series of subtle changes in

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physiology that have been observed maybe

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roughly categorized as changes in cell

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secretion or changes in hormone response

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while these might be quite unimportant

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one really doesn't know the importance

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of these over some long-term experience

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in the microgravity arena the other

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intriguing part is these problems that

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clearly related in our minds at least

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two general unsolved Aziz states on

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earth such as cystic fibrosis diabetes

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and so forth so the question for us

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became one of can we get double money

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out of our experiments here where we can

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use micro gravity as a test tube in

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order to learn something about these

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important diseases in order to do that

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we have to sample a microgravity

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experience we have to learn something

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then about the behavior of cells in this

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situation this is why we've constructed

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what we call the Penn State bio module

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which starts from a molec modular set of

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about eight experiments the size of an

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eraser and in this we can put solutions

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in the various side arms and cells and

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tissues of interest in the main chamber

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we work with these then can be assembled

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a base plate with our little computer

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concert pre-flight but we pick the

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chameleon skin and tadpole skin problem

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similar in overall respects to much more

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environment so what we're setting up

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question we're trying to ask then is

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some place over 6.5 billion years of

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evolution cells have learned to handle

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other processes that are involved we're

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hormone does it change color in a manner

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that one would predict this is the

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spirit that we're going to follow as the

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responsibilities we've worked on this

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particular payload for four months most

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of that in Huntsville beginning with the

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understanding and the implementation of

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the experiment package requirements and

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the build up and check out in integrated

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the payload there are 12 experiments in

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supporting hardware accelerometers power

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percent to to conduct the mission and

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like it beats probably kept you up to

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speed on what's happened here I don't

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know exactly we had a couple small

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problems down Eric courts may have 10

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minute old at the end which is a rage

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problem the radar went down and we

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at her pitch gyro and we scratched her

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ended up talking to the factory guys we

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consulted with NASA and finally

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concluded that we could fly safely we

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did so all in all it looks like it's a

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good flight we don't know of any

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anomalies during flight at this point

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believe that the D eyes got all of the

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data that they were looking for I think

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there's indications one experiment may

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have malfunction a little bit but at

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least everything flew exactly the way

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it's supposed to fly so at this point

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we're very happy

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move it Hannah's rocket companies that

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one more time they they have to limit

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some of them they don't get the data on

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till a land but there are some functions

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that show up on a telemetry believe this

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was a foam experiment but I'd rather not

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speak to that actually Fran wessling ER

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dr. Len twister one of the people should

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discuss that if we're really not

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far as we know everything went just fine

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the attitude stayed we only had three

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thrusters fire during the whole

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zero-gravity period so that should have

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got some excellent gravity which is the

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what's next well we're working on a

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whole variety of launches we have a crew

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proposal for NASA which is entities or

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orbital flights 10 orbitals there's a

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Air Force proposal coming out here and

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within the month for another 40 flights

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orbital also we're working on a number

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of programs that involves suborbital

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such as you saw here today so we've got

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a lot of stuff out there ahead of us and

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we're working God and they're very

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confident that we're going to end up

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we got we got more proposals and we can

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handle her between new and launches but

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that's a nice problem to have we don't

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well yeah today's right certainly

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anytime you have a success it's

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obviously helpful it's I guess if you

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fail is prone to give you a more

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negative than a success is to give you

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positive unfortunately but there was

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obviously a big help to us we think

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everybody in the industry actually to

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have a success it doesn't help anybody

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missed industry for anybody to fail so

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we're happy to see anybody succeed and

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well we don't get too tense we've been

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involved in a lot of them here with that

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guy's line item songs your unmanned the

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worst that can happen you know it's not

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too bad but now that we were we were not

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tense but we had a you know some serious

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discussions there about whether we

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should or shouldn't until we got more

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data but we were a little bit concerned

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there we might in fact after scrub and

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if we did we were looking at anywhere

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from two to six days of slippage so we

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were happy we didn't have to do that but

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on the other hand we weren't about to do

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anything dumb we wanted to be very

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confident that it was going to go good

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before we went to that final three

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been very frustrating and then at this

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point really

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well you're right but the last one

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wasn't was a kind of a weird thing I

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apply a lot of skill and cunning is

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right choice of words and do the best

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you can but Brazil is that one percent

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or two out there that's pure luck and

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once in a while you have bad luck and it

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happens to everybody in the business and

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this is just a case where I think

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everybody had done everything he could

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reasonably expect them to do the same

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system and flowing a number of times and

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exactly that configuration we just

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happened to get bit by so it was an

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accident air waiting in somebody we just

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run fortunate rather frustrating part of

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that one of course is we're only half a

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second away from a successful flight

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we'd have kept flying one half second

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more in the last night we'd had a good

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flight just like this one so you'll just

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die closer doing successful failure in

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yes it is that's yeah the hardware we

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use the the guidance package and the

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recovery system are reused to refurbish

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at the factory in this system we flew

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today i believe is our third flight

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no I think we're not concerned about

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worrying things out if that's a sense to

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your question no that's always possible

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but now we send it back to the factory

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get it refurbished Andhra verified and

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this basically comes out as new new

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equipment from a functional point of

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actually we only missed about two miles

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worst mark mark daniel has got the exact

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number but i believe we we were targeted

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for 52 miles and we we landed it about

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54 so this is well within the limits

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he'd expected Marc Marquez running

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continual wind checks and launching

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settings throughout the count and he

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gave him the last one mark you want a

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quarter a second here's our program

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manager mark Daniels he's the guy that

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really made this work and they were

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wondering how we did on the impact

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royalty to predictions well we were

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right on the money with our impact

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predictions we were predicting about 50

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miles north of here and six miles west

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and we impacted 54 north and 11 west so

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that's about as close as you can get to

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that's correct 54 miles north of the

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launcher so we were about as happy as I

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think you can get with everything that

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all the systems and the performance

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today it's a signal coming through on

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the TM electronic noise the wiper arm

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that goes against the gyro itself we

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think there was some contamination error

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on that and so it was interrupting the

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electrical signal and this would have

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given you a feedback into the servos

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which would be its represent herself as

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a chatter in a control system we

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concluded that even if it had in fact

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happened in flight it probably would not

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have reacted into the vehicle we'd had

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enough filtering an electronic system

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plus dynamic damping in the vehicle

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itself that it would have not been a

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problem that is you can imagine we're

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pretty conservative at this point and we

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weren't going to gamble do we convince

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ourselves that it was really not a

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yeah the question about how this relates

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to the orbital flight actually takes the

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same kind of a team exactly it we have

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different players but the difference

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between an orbital flight and this one

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from the mission preparation and the

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launch is very very similar there's not

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a lot of difference really almost no

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more people involved as a matter of fact

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the only difference is instead of going

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up and coming down we go to the same

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altitude and keep going in fact most

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orbital flights won't even go that high

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you know you flatten out and you just

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use the interview to accelerate orbital

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the NASA contracts are set for a mid 93

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first launch the Air Force is fall of 92

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and a couple other programs that could

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be in the middle e92 time frame probably

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well we feel very good about it we've

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felt since day one and we have an

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excellent orbital launch system we

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believe it's the best one the country's

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got of course we're a little prejudiced

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will admit but it's based on highly

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reliable components and we are able to

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ensure the insurance companies looked at

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it and set our premiums and we've got

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about as low premium there's anybody in

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the country so we think that's a vote of

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confidence in our system so we think we

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got an outstanding system there we just

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hope to have the opportunity to go use

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it I think dr. Lundqvist from the

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university of alabama's is here and

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there were some earlier questions about

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the payload and easy he's the guy to

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talk to those so there's anybody have

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anything else on a launch vehicle I'll

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answer it otherwise we should turn it

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over to him okay well thank you we're

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happy you're all here to watch it and

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I'm Chuck Lundqvist from the university

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of alabama in huntsville the consortium

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for materials development in space let

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me begin by congratulating deep and SSI

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on a great flight we got the kind of

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ride we wanted and are now awaiting the

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recovery of the payload obviously it

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came down on parachute and we don't have

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a report yet from the helicopter having

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reached the site so i can't tell you

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exactly what form the payload is in but

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came down well on parachutes so there's

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every reason to believe that it's a

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successful recovery the recovery will be

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with regard to any of the specific

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experiments it's too early to make any

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kind of a diagnosis from the telemetry

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we can tell that the timer's that

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operated the different instruments

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worked and so the 12 experiments were

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working one one way or another and until

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we looked at the individual equipment

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when it gets back and do more detailed

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analysis it's just premature to say

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the the one message or one bit of

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indication was a temperature measurement

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but there could be other interpretations

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of that do so I I'd say it's premature

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to make any kind of a diagnosis on any

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of the experiments we we don't really

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know anything about any of them

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specifically we know that the general

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apparatus worked within the payload we

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see that on the telemetry but just much

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questions

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let me again say that we're just very

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pleased with the flight that SSI

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provided perfect day for it went went

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very well and we now have to analyze the

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results from the individual experiments

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to see what results we got but I'm very