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good morning and welcome back to the us

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army's white sands missile range near

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las cruces new mexico this is our

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post-launch news conference for the

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paddleboard one flight test which is a

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test of the orion launch abort system we

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are going to introduce our panelists

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here who will have some opening remarks

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we'll take

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reporters in the audience and also on

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the line from the johnson space center

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with that all introduced uh doug cook

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from nasa headquarters he's the

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associate administrator of the

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exploration system's mission directorate

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as well as mark guyer the manager of the

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orion project at the nasa johnson space

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center in houston

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and don reid the manager of the flight

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test office in the orion project office

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and also served as the test director

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this morning

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and to the his left is the brigadier

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general john reagan who's the commander

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here at the white sands missile range so

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we'll start out with comments from doug

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thank you

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um obviously it's a very big day for the

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exploration team it looked to be

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flawless from my point of view

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it was it's a very complex system

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it's the first

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this first abort system the us has

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developed since apollo but it's much

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more advanced it has more capability

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advanced technologies

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that will be of value to us in the

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we were never able to to put any kind of

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a real abort system on shuttle but for

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the future vehicles this is this is

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capability that that we'll have and have

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now demonstrated um and just looked just

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looked terrific and i really appreciate

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the efforts of the of the the entire

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team uh all my management chain from

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jeff hanley to mark and don and and i i

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really appreciate the work of all the

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all the industry team with the lockheed

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and atk and aerojet and orbital

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with cleon and and all of that all the

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industry team

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it's a tremendous effort to get to this

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point it was a complex system there were

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some hurdles and they've been workers

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working on this for um

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about four years

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and so uh is i really appreciate the

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amount of uh dedication and focus and

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getting to this point today and and

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can talk more details so i do appreciate

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all their work i appreciate the white

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sands missile range for for hosting this

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and being a part of the team as well

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they've done a terrific job appreciate

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all the work by everybody who organized

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this today

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because it's a big effort too to

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for all the logistics and everything but

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but it's a tremendous team effort all

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the way around so appreciate it everyone

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well gosh okay

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i had to write some things down because

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it's such a great day i'm having trouble

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keeping my brain focused

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doug mentioned it an escape system is

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such a huge part of human rating

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for systems in the future as america

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so testing those systems out is a huge

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step of of the for the orion project

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itself uh doug mentioned it's been a

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long time since we've done that and

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this uh the highly talented team showed

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that we can do it that we can put these

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systems together and make them work and

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make our systems safer for the crew and

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better for the uh for the united states

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um doug mentioned already the great team

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call out cleon lacefield a huge amount

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of work leading this commercial industry

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nasa side as well across the the major

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centers who are a huge part of pulling

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this all together

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and as well as our work with uh with the

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general here at the army great a great

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team and what's exciting now about the

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success

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is that they get to share in that

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and they get to look at the great work

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they've done and it's it's obvious to

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we do a lot of testing on the ground you

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test motors by themselves to see how

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they work you test computers by

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themselves but what what this test why

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it's hard is you put them all together

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attitude control motor and you decide to

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accelerate them at 15 g's and blare them

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with 163 dbs and they all got to work

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and the team did such a flawless job

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today it worked great and so it's a huge

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so so i'm done talking and we'll hand it

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over the man of the hour who made it all

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come together don reid thank you mark

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i'm too tired so i didn't write any

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i'm very proud of this team

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doug said we've been working well over

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four years to bring this together

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it's been a very complex uh

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joint team from all across nasa and

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and we all came together it's a very

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dedicated

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professional team that has sacrificed a

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so my heart goes out to the

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families and the people that that help

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make this possible today

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it's a great day for the country for

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going back to what doug said yes it was

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absolutely successful

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from my viewpoint inside the control

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everything worked as it was expected in

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and we have a lot of relieved and very

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happy people out there to see all this

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that they've done come to fruition

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now we can go get all the data that

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go back and look at our models validate

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what we predicted and take the lessons

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so thanks to everybody and i'm so proud

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of this team it's a great accomplishment

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it's been a great honor and a privilege

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for our workforce to support this

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wonderful team that

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is that whose leadership is up here

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with me uh but who's out there and made

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this great success happen uh we in white

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v2 rockets and so we know how important

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testing is and it's just great to have

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this added to our history here and thank

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you so much for coming here today

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and the department of defense too we

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know how important testing uh is uh we

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of course test our weapon systems out

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here to make sure that they deliver uh

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for our soldiers in the field and we're

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just pleased to be a part of nasa as

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well and supporting this test uh

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so that uh your systems uh prove their

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metal uh

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in this test and can and can be used in

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to say um real quick one quick go back

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before we go to questions

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um so orion is by itself doesn't have

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architecture it's part of a system

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integration of that total system so i

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his leadership of the program and doug

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for his leadership at the exploration

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level because we wouldn't be here

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without their guidance and help

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here if the media have uh questions you

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name and affiliation and then direct

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your question to somebody if you can

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yeah leonard david with space.com and

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aia aerospace america magazine um just

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curious with all the congressional

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consolation the program to what degree

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up what you've learned here today how

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get back um we get i think there are 700

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we'll get data back on the aero aero

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acoustics we'll understand how the how

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the guidance worked exactly although it

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looked like it was rock solid from where

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test our models that predict that going

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predicting all of these effects

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extremely fast and a lot of things have

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to fall into place correctly

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what was going through your mind as all

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this was unfolding

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well i was taking a lot of deep breaths

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trying to calm myself down in fact i

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actually started writing down some data

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and the procedures just to kind of calm

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myself down and you know we've been

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there many times

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you know we've gone through this we've

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done these countdowns numerous times and

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the reality sinks in and so the old

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blood pressure goes up and

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and you you really yeah it took a lot to

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say okay i can do this

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you know

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and so but very exciting time and it

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actually was relatively calm which we

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had hoped it would and the reason is is

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because we practice this over and over

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and so

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so yeah then the nerves were really

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uptight and

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yeah so i can speak to that i can talk

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to the plan that we had we we had

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two ascent aborts that we had planned to

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do we we wanted to do the transonic

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abort that's where we really

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challenged the thrust capability of the

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board motor that get back gets back to

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what mark said that's your maximum drag

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condition so you have to have maximum

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thrust to get the separation distance

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so that's how you size the thrust of the

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abort motor then the next one is the

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maximum dynamic pressure

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is where you challenge the structure as

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well as the ability of the attitude

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control motor to uh to control the

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launch port vehicle

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and then we would do another pad abort

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with the actual production systems to

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validate the design in a production

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in a paddle board scenario that drives

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the total impulse of the motor to

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guarantee you get appropriate altitude

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and downrange distance to a lot's got to

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happen as you saw so you'd want to

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validate with the production system that

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in fact you can do everything in the

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okay were there any more follow-ups here

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hi there daniel novik with k-fox tv in

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el paso i guess a follow-up to that

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question so now

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is all that up in the air

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you know are we are we on schedule to do

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those uh other tests and second of all

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for our viewers back in el paso who

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aren't scientists and engineers um just

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explain how difficult it is to have a

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success uh to have a test this

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successful

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um

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let's see i'll try okay all right i can

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i can start off okay um

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this year uh we we have guidance in our

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appropriations language that we are that

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we are executing the program on track

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with the work that's underway so our

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our uh this test is a part of that we

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have other tests that are going on and

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we're we're operating the program

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and and planning the planning is in

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place for tests

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so that is that is our direction we we

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do have a the the president's budget

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request for fy11 that would change

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our programs so um you know we're

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working right now between the

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administration and congress on on what

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resolution is on on

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on the path forward so that's that's yet

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to be uh seen but the planning is in

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place um all these types of tests are

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very important um the various conditions

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that that don talked about you want to

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test in all the critical conditions uh

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going down the road um in in developing

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uh launch launch systems in the future

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and

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you're going to need to do those kind of

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tests

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one

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doing the test at ground zero

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ground zero or from the ground

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and getting the crew back under shoots

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um

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it's uh that's a big test this condition

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that you saw today was is really a very

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that's it's hard to predict how how well

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tests will go that's why you do them

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you're testing out things in order to

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make sure you understand them and so

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but a test like this that that goes this

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well is just a tribute to the hard work

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and and thinking of every possible angle

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of things that might go wrong and and

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that's a tribute to the team that has

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worked through this and worked out bugs

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in the system worked out

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hardware issues along the way

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and it's just it's just preparation but

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there are still unknowns in testing and

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that's why you do the test so you can't

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predict but you see what you see what a

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anymore

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steve ramirez with the las cruces sun

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news

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just wanted to ask particularly don i

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was interested in this the wind seemed

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to be up here a little bit today and i

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remember in a briefing about a week ago

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10 days ago

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someone had mentioned that wind is uh

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is the worst enemy want to know how that

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factored into into today's test at all

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uh secondary question for for for the

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panel is

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if you could can you try to put it into

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into perspective how

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monumental i guess uh

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this type of

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success was for the test today and and

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what it means to the nasa program

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okay so so on the weather steve we we've

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had the weather working against us from

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day one you know being out here you've

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seen the snowstorms you guys have gotten

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you know the wind storms that we had a

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cat level a category one level hurricane

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here i mean we had winds in excess of 80

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not so so the weather has not been our

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friend

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and so yeah we had some challenges early

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this morning in terms of getting our

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thermal protective cover off we were

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right at the limit that we were able to

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successfully do that

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and then for some reason i mean the

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winds right about about an hour before

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launch the upper level winds just almost

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went calm up to about 12 000 feet

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and so we had rehearsed this quite a bit

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the last couple days and we've had many

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meetings

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with uh mark and his mission management

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team

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going through and rehearsing you know

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you know what is an acceptable risk for

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these wins because we knew

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it was going to be a challenge and

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we had a few exceedances in our wind

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placard when we first started and by the

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time we got the launch we were green all

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the way up

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so so the weather

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i could say relative to the to the

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importance of the test um

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so relative to the launch abort um

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technology obviously was very important

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for that it got us the next step of

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saying we can put these complex systems

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together under high loads

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high acoustics and they perform so it it

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reduces the test we need to do forward

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relative to that but i think it's bigger

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than that

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there's a lot going on in orion uh and

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in constellation that you don't see

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because there's no fire and smoke

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all right we're welding a crew module at

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michoud in louisiana right we're flying

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an air

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rendezvous and docking sensor on the

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shuttle later this year we're

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firing a

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first stage

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later this year we're going to do

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we finished our preliminary design for

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software all those are key things that

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people are

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killing themselves working hard every

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day because they believe america should

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be a leader in space

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so a test like this

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which goes great

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and and is visible

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i think really is a is a great uh

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encouragement for the team

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and uh and talking about a very visible

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success for the team so it helps in that

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as far as morale in that sense too

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i'll need the phone

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uh steve i may add to that one of my

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favorite quotes is from uh

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lillian

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that actually died flying one of his own

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planes and he said to design something

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is nothing to build it is not much the

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flight is everything

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and so

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like i said the proof is in the pudding

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and this is where it all comes together

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and that's what makes this such a

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monumental success

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because this system survived in the

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flight environment and everything worked

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as we predicted that it would

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so that that goes to that's a testament

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to our ability to

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use our analytical tools to predict

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uh what we expect to happen the testing

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that we do

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all comes together and gives us high

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confidence that it's all going to work

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as a system

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so we get a lot of confidence in our

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ability to to

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make sure we're successful

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with none here locally we'll take a

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couple calls on the line i understand

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hi can you hear me yes

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okay go ahead try again mark

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mark are you on the line there

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let's go ahead and try the next person

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according to the target mouse and

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go ahead tarek

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thank you my question is mr reed uh you

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mentioned that

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uh the the capital landed uh uh at a

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lower uh rate than you expected i was

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just curious if you go over those

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numbers for us at this time um

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you know how uh how long was the point

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how far down the lane

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uh what was that race of landing on

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parachutes and how did that stack up to

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your

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thank you

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yeah so in terms of the performance and

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the trajectory we went about 6 900 feet

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down range so we actually went a little

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further down range a little higher than

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we predicted

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in terms of the uh the touchdown

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velocity we had predicted out to uh 97

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percent probability that we'd landed 33

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feet per second on on the 97th percent

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high side we actually touched down at 24

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feet per second

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and so that that's good performance it

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shows good performance of the parachutes

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and uh i think that answers your

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question was there one other part there

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how long was the fight

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oh yeah the flight was uh just it was a

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minute and 35 seconds to touch down and

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we had predicted a minute and 39 seconds

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so

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do you have another question tara

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i think he is my follow-up was just i'm

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curious

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given the performance that you saw today

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what an astronaut or a crew would feel

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uh i guess how how top of a

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an escape it would be on on them given

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the g-forces as you saw today thank you

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and so i'll caveat that by saying that

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this this is a high thrust motor the

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design we were going to is actually

561
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going to be a lower thrust motor but for

562
00:22:48,149 --> 00:22:46,559
today's test

563
00:22:50,710 --> 00:22:48,159
given the temperatures that we launched

564
00:22:52,070 --> 00:22:50,720
this motor at they would have seen 16

565
00:22:53,990 --> 00:22:52,080
g's

566
00:22:56,630 --> 00:22:54,000
so somebody like myself that weighs

567
00:23:00,390 --> 00:22:56,640
about 200 pounds would have weighed 3

568
00:23:02,549 --> 00:23:00,400
200 pounds under that 16 g load

569
00:23:05,029 --> 00:23:02,559
and so we hope to get that down to

570
00:23:07,590 --> 00:23:05,039
closer to 10 to 11 g's in the next

571
00:23:08,950 --> 00:23:07,600
generation abort motor

572
00:23:10,950 --> 00:23:08,960
it's like that's the design we've gone

573
00:23:13,909 --> 00:23:10,960
to reduce thrust to boat runner to get

574
00:23:19,029 --> 00:23:13,919
those g's down again right

575
00:23:22,710 --> 00:23:21,029
thank you very much okay thank you we'll

576
00:23:30,310 --> 00:23:22,720
try back is mark kirkman back on the

577
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:34,630
mark are you there

578
00:23:40,230 --> 00:23:36,390
okay are there any follow-ups here

579
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,870
all right

580
00:23:47,430 --> 00:23:44,789
sir

581
00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:47,440
steve ramirez with the sun use again uh

582
00:23:56,149 --> 00:23:53,590
soon i hope

583
00:23:58,230 --> 00:23:56,159
we're working on working the plan okay

584
00:23:59,990 --> 00:23:58,240
thank you gentlemen for joining us today