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hi everyone this is Heather Paul outside

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of Flagstaff Arizona and I'm here with

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Joe Cosmo Joe how are you doing today

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fine either nice to see you again I hear

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you as well now we're here as part of

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the desert research and Technology

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studies program with NASA Joe can you

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tell me a little bit about what we're

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trying to accomplish in our field

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mission well obviously this is our extra

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external activity going on here this is

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our 12th year of what we call Desert

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Rats research and Technology studies

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this year we're concentrating a lot on

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the 14-day mission involving the lunar

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electric Rover and the athlete a robotic

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system for delivering payloads and

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render our 11th day of Traverse

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activities throughout our 14-day period

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and things are going fairly well now

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there's a lot of activity happening

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behind us and I know we're getting ready

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for our test day today can you explain

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what our objectives are for today from

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behind us you might see the active

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active mating adapter that's going to be

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mounted on our lunar electric rover and

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then over further to our east we've got

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the athlete vehicle with a mock-up of a

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module a habitation module on there and

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so what they're going to attempt to do

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is rendezvous and dock with the athlete

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vehicle really cool and now how long

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have the guys been in the lunar electric

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rover well this is their 11th day so

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three more to go Wow you think they're

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pretty tired in there they've had their

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ups and downs but it's doing well we're

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very impressed with the capabilities and

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the crew seems to be bearing up well

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such is a very good it's been really

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exciting to be out here with you guys so

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thank you for having us and we want to