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at nasa's kennedy space center in

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florida a team assembles components for

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one of the backpacks that will be tested

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during the desert research and

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technology studies or rats project

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upcoming field test in arizona

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the backpacks are equipped with gps

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antennas communication components and

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cameras

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the desert rats project is a nasa-led

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team of research partners working

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together to prepare for human robotic

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exploration

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its purpose is to assess preliminary

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exploration operational concepts for

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surface operation including rovers eva

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so what are we going to do about the 140

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okay

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so

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come on

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turn on

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all right what about the switch up top

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let's turn those off

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check

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really yeah

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that implies our trophos

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this backpack is designed to serve as a

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lightweight alternative to a full

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pressurized suit and

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what will happen is the suit subjects

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will get off of the rover

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put on the backpacks and then they'll be

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able to do an hour to

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suit run just like having the suit with

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all the electronics but without the

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weight and the overhead of the

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of the pressurized suit desert rats is

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simulating what would be a a lunar

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traverse so there's a science team that

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goes and does we do scouting trips we

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look at imagery and we plan

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where to go for the best science where

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you can have calm and where the mobility

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team can send the rover and then all

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this goes in an integrated month-long

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field test well we only had uh two to

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three months here for everything for the

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design the building the um

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getting the getting the parts everything

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procured and having it delivered to jsc

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i got as many things started right away

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so that

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everything would be in in time ordering

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was a huge part getting the procurements

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of myself tex everyone else who worked

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on it your prototype shop built the

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frame

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and

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i had some asrc support for other

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mechanical things

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so just getting all that lined up to

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where everything fell into place by our

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deadline environment is a big thing out

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there

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the winds get very high it gets hot it's

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just it's a harsh environment we are

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pretty much out in the middle of nowhere

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the suit subject can dictate a certain

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spot if they see a certain rock a

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certain geological point of interest

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they can hit a button to start a cool

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point record it and then later

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when

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the science team doesn't have to wade

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through

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you know

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several hours of footage to find the one

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little piece that they want they just

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have all these cool points loaded and

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they can go right there and then the

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audio is there they don't have to

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remember what they saw and it's just a

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very good concise way of displaying a

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conveying information the main thing we

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had to design from scratch was just the

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software that runs the voiceover ip

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computer that's all custom done in ksc

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well in the desert there's there's

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nothing there's no infrastructure no

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power no nothing so we bring generators

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we

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bring a network connection down from a

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mountain it's mount eldon it's it's

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several several miles away i think 30

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miles away so we bring network we bring

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power we bring you know there's phones

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there's everything that you would have

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if you were sitting in your office and

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it's more about making the test team is

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productive the astronauts will be in the

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rovers during the test but the um the

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support team the mission control the

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science team

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the entire support team i think there's

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over 100 people that are part of this

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field test to make sure that they can do

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the everything they need to do to get

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their job done

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in the middle of nowhere we're working

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towards what's called a a csa a com

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service assembly where there's a

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standard box that we design and that can

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go in any element the backpacks the

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rovers the um

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the hdu which is

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now called the pem

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any any element we could just put this