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hi I'm NASA public affairs officer

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brandy dean here at Lockheed Martin's

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exploration development lab in Houston

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Orion the new spacecraft that NASA's

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building to take humans farther into

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space than we've ever gone before we're

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here today to give you the latest update

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on NASA's exploration design challenge

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more than 125,000 students from 81

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countries around the world join this

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challenge to become part of Orion's

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first spaceflight this year today we've

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got exciting news for the u.s. high

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radiation shield experiments for Orion's

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flight we're going to be announcing the

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top five teams that will advance to the

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next level of the challenge to share the

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news with you I have to spaceflight

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experts here with me today NASA

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astronaut Rex Walheim serves as the

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Orion program astronaut representative

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and we'll tell you how the astronauts

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will work and live on board the Orion

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spacecraft and Heather McCain isn't a

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Ryan engineer for Lockheed Martin yes

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she is actually a rocket scientist has

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been involved in the design and build of

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the spacecraft for the past several

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years now I'm going to turn it over to

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them to tell you a little more about

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Orion and introduce our five finalists

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teams hi everyone I'm Heather McKay and

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I'm excited to be a part of the team

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building the Orion spacecraft over 3,000

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people across America helped to build

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NASA's new spacecraft that will carry

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astronauts far beyond our moon all of

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their work is coming together at Kennedy

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Space Center in Florida much like this

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broadcast our team works virtually and

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in person to build a spacecraft nASA has

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partnered with Lockheed Martin and the

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National Institute of aerospace to give

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students like you an opportunity to

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become part of Orion's first flight

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through the exploration design challenge

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our team agreed that radiation shielding

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first spaceflight because the spacecraft

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will travel through the Van Allen belt a

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large intense radiation field in space

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that could be very harmful to humans

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designing new ways to shield humans from

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radiation during spaceflight is critical

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as we venture out to explore asteroids

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and eventually Mars Rex can you tell us

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a little more about the Orion spacecraft

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and explain why radiation

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is so important for us to study when

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planning our missions sure Heather I can

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tell you firsthand that building a

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spacecraft of deep space missions is an

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extremely challenging and difficult task

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it takes a great team to develop the

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systems to make sure that we can have a

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safe or mission first let me tell you a

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little bit about the spacecraft Orion is

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really actually made up of three major

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parts the crew module the service module

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and the launch abort system the crew

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module which I'm in here is what keeps

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the astronauts think is the living

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work during the mission and it's about

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bathroom in the house so it's not a lot

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of volume so you really have to like

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your crew members because you're going

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to be in a confined space with them for

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weeks or maybe even months now below the

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crew module sits the service module this

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has our propulsion our power and our

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finally the launch abort system which is

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the system i worked on most it sits atop

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three solid rocket motors to propel the

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crew module to safety in the event of an

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emergency on a launch pad or during

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first spaceflight called exploration

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put to the test to see if the radiation

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Pacific Ocean this is a very exciting

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have all of you as part of our virtual

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crew on this flight test congratulations

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experiment designs this was a very

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difficult challenge and all of you

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exploration now for the moment we've all

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been waiting for Heather and I will

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announce the five top finalists note

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that these are not in any particular

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order congratulations are in order for

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team Aries in the governor's school for

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science and technology in Hampton

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this five-member team was sponsored by

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mr. Gregory House the governor's school

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is owned and operated by six peninsula

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school divisions Gloucester Hampton

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Newport News picasa williamsburg james

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city county and york students who attend

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the governor's school go to classes

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there in the morning and mature their

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homes high school for coursework in the

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afternoon this team worked well together

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in school and virtually in order to

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complete the project on time

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congratulations to augment pagana

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Christopher Danny sagent on a job well

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done our next team is Titan chillin

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systems from the Illinois mathematics

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sponsored by mr. Eric Hawker this team

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had six members graduation Virginia

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residential high school for 650

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qualified students from across the state

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of Illinois body epic representational

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genius students are accepted into the

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program at pence graders and live in

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residential halls during the school year

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team titanmen members actually come from

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the cities of Freeport Woodbridge and

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Glen Ellen Illinois congratulations to

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the team Titan members Alec Alonso

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Cassandra Clare Michael and Ryan well

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you ready for another another school

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can't wait all the way from Utah is team

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Harriman Utah congratulations this

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two-person team was sponsored by mr.

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Matthew lung Harriman high schools in

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public schools serving over 2,100

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south jordan and Riverton chairman is

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south of Salt Lake City and as a site

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where some Utah home building decide to

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bring movie magic to life by building an

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exact replica of the house and the

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Disney movie up just to remind people

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that Adventure is out there an

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appropriate model for this EDC finals

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team congratulations to Matthew and

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Christian moving back to a Midwest we

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have team arion from area high school p

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indus sponsor a Miss Virginia walkin

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this all-girls team includes ashlynn

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Lorena Madison and Sabrina very high is

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quite of a unified school district plus

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there was 544 students in pre-k through

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a 450 square mile region around the

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school area is the first green school

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Green Team has promote environmentally

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friendly practices for the school and

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the community congratulations to team

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arion and finally from my home state of

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California team war from summit view

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this four-person team was sponsored by

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mrs. carol cow some of you as a unique

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learning challenges small class size and

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California history or painted on the

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congratulations to Cameron Ethan Greg

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and Tyson those are the five schools

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now each team will be assigned a mentor

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assessment of radiation in space this

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biological systems the results of this

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of each design after the old terrace

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earning an honor to go to NASA Kennedy

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congratulations to our five teams for a

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congratulations to these teams by

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sending them a Twitter message at

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for Orion's first flight thank you for

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joining us today