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hello everyone and welcome to today's

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post launch briefing for the orb 2

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mission to the international space

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station

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orbital sciences signal cygnus cargo

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spacecraft is on its way to the space

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station the antares rocket lifted off

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today at 12 52 pm eastern time from the

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mid-atlantic regional spaceport's launch

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pad zero a here at nasa's wallops flight

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facility in virginia

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cygnus is scheduled to arrive to the

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space station wednesday morning here to

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talk about today's launch

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are william gerstenmaier nasa's

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associate administrator for human

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exploration and operations

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and frank culbertson exec executive vice

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president of orbital sciences

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for those of you watching on tv or

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through the web we'll take questions

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from social media

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to get those questions to us you can use

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the hashtag

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asknasa and let's start with you bill

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thanks rachel again it's a great

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privilege to be here to see the launch

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today of the rocket and things went

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really well and again a tremendous team

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effort between the mars team the wallops

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team and the orbital team to make this

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launch occur today the countdown was

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extremely smooth went went very well

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again i think that shows the team's

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preparation of getting everything ready

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and and all the ground equipment worked

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extremely well the range went went

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really well the weather was good and

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just a tremendous launch we're looking

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forward to the cargo getting to the

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space station there's a lot of

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experiments that are going up for the

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crew as well as some needed equipment

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and then lots of food for the crew so

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this will be great to see this equipment

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get on orbit and it's great to

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to see this team come together and work

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and congratulations to orbital and the

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whole team down here for just a

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wonderful launch today

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frank

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that's all bill that's it okay

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all right well uh good afternoon

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everybody it's a very exciting day for

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us and bill and bill robel i think we've

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found the secret to

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getting people's attention here on the

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eastern shore of virginia maryland and

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delaware and that's

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to launch on a sunday in july and

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i bet you have never had a traffic jam

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on a sunday uh in

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in chincoteague and uh there's a lot of

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traffic out there right now and in fact

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just looking at the number of rookie

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reporters we have here in the room i

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have never seen this room so jam full

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and so i appreciate everybody coming to

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watch this because uh space flight is

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exciting and it's a it's a great thing

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to to experience it's a great thing to

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be a part of uh it's also a great thing

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to take your kids and family members to

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see because it's inspiring to see what

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um uh u.s and international ingenuity

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innovation and engineering can do and

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and we've done some great things and

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today was an example of one of those

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it took a lot of effort for people to uh

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to pull this off

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we worked a lot of problems over the

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last couple of months that had to had to

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be resolved and even today as we were

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working through the countdown small

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things came up and people had to figure

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them out sometimes we had a procedure

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for it sometimes we had to say

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we've never done this before but we'll

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figure it out and we'll get it fixed and

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we did between the teams that are

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led by david thompson our ceo uh it's

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been a really proud day for us to be

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able to pull this off we had things like

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a couple of sailboats that tried to get

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into the area and the coast guard went

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one of them didn't want to turn around i

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we finally saw the little vector go a

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180 like that maybe they threatened them

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with something i don't know but but um

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but anyway they cleared the range and

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and we proceeded and we launched exactly

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on time as was planned uh we've got a

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the uh liftoff of antares and i think

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you can see the rocket on the pad uh

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right before ignition we uh

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inundate the uh the flame trench with

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water to protect it and to protect the

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surrounding hardware the rocket comes

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majestic is the way mr thompson

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it i just like to see it clear the

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ground and get going but

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but it is majestic and it's a beautiful

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medium levels that kind of obscured it

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for people trying to watch it today but

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everything looked great in the first

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stage we burned the first stage for

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everything was as you heard from kurt

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as we climbed into the uh into the stat

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um the first stage was powered by two

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aj26 engines provided to us by aerojet

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uh corporation uh aerojet rocketdyne

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corporation and uh and they perform

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flawlessly

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the first stage itself is built by

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eugenoya uzhmash in ukraine and one of

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our international partners and it also

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performed very well once we reached and

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that didn't really happen

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once we reached the end of the first

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once we burned all that fuel we

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ignited a few seconds later and then

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took us all the way into orbit and it

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also performed flawlessly and put us

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right on the right trajectory we ended

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up with about a

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284 by 190 kilometer

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orbit uh that's the perigee and apogee

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that allows us to stay in orbit long

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enough to do a couple of burns to refine

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that orbit so that we can we can begin

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the chase to catch up with the

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international space station and

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rendezvous with it we have completed the

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first burn uh we have another one coming

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up before too long we've deployed the

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solar arrays both of which uh locked

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into place and we're getting full power

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and all those systems on the spacecraft

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and as we expect them to uh so we're

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very excited about uh the fact that

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we're in orbit and we're headed to the

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station we've got uh over 1600 kilograms

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of cargo as bill said it's a combination

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of experiments food clothing general

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supplies for the crew a lot of

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student experiments on board a lot of uh

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of cubesats for various organizations

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including universities and uh and other

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academic organizations and so we're very

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excited to be able to contribute to the

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continuing research on the station as

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well as spreading the ability to conduct

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research to uh to various citizens

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around the world not just americans

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it's it's a great opportunity for the

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company we're very proud to do that and

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we're really looking forward to the

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rendezvous which will occur wednesday

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that's another delicate procedure that

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has to be conducted much of it

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autonomously but closely watched by our

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mission control team in dulles

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and as we approach the station we will

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stop at about 10 meters away from the

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station at that time

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uh reed and and uh and his crewmates

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will grasp the station with the robotic

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arm uh attach it to the lower side of

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the uh of the node node two and uh and

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attach it firmly and then open the hatch

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and start pulling out their new clothes

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and food and hopefully be very happy

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about everything they find

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it's like christmas in july

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i always wanted to use that phrase

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for uh our team and uh of course they're

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hard at work right now making sure that

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all the systems are working right the

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antares team of course is uh

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closing up their notebooks and

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and uh leaving the mission control

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center and i don't know what they're

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going to do tonight but they'll probably

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be really happy and

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they've been waiting two months to get

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this one off the pad and

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and that includes the nasa and mars

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teams also who work very closely with us

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so again my congratulations to the

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bill thanks for the

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cooperation and collaboration with nasa

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we certainly are really as i said proud

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to be a part of this endeavor the space

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international cooperation there i think

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uh the ability of the space program to

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make sure that or to enable countries to

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come together and do something that's

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extremely difficult do it successfully

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do it with a lot of cooperation and

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trust which is really the key to us

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being able to be successful is a great

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example for the rest of the world to

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follow in orbital we have the same thing

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with our international partners that

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contribute to the success of antares and

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cygnus a pressurized cargo module is

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built in italy and same company that

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components so we we try to work uh with

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the best in the world and uh and we're

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looking forward of course to continuing

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to be an american company that leads in

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the commercialization of space and uh we

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appreciate the opportunity we're looking

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forward to the next six missions in the

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next contract and

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and uh go antares and go cygnus thank

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thanks frank okay we'll take some

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questions here at wallops and on the

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phone and as a reminder to those

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watching from afar you can send us your

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questions on social media using the

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hashtag asknasa

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thank you ken kramer for universe today

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talking about contracts and uh the

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frank last time you were hoping to

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thinking that the space station could be

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extended a few decades i'd like to ask

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bill you know what's your perspective

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can you philosophize a little bit about

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extending the space station

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and and

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the importance of these cargo missions

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and also the next step with the

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contracts tell us tell us what's going

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on when you're gonna when you're gonna

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do that how many com companies might be

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involved thank you okay sure

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the station's been extended from the

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administration standpoint to 2024.

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we see that as a pretty monumental step

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if you think we're in 2014 and in 10

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years is a nice window for researchers

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to to go ahead and build experiments to

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go utilize station we from a nasa

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standpoint see the space station as

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being extremely important to exploration

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kind of activities as you think about

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going beyond low earth orbit and you

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want to go out to mars kind of distances

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what a great platform to learn about

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microgravity and that's the space

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station so you can learn how the human

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body

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operates for extended period of time

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next year we'll do the one year

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increment with two of our crew members

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on board station for one year so we'll

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get the chance to see that if there's

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anything that happens with the human

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body that changes beyond six months we

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have a lot of experiences six months the

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russians have flown crew members to a

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year so so we know that there's nothing

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major can happen but we're really

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looking for those subtle little changes

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in the human body that that might really

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impact a mars-class mission and that's

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where that one-year increment will be

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important to us also our systems that we

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operate onboard space station they have

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to be extremely reliable you know with

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station we have to repair a lot of

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components fairly regularly there's a

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lot of critical components that are

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actually on this uh this cygnus that's

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going up today that are important to go

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change out and when you go to mars

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you've really committed yourself that

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those components everything you need

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really needs to be with you as you go so

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to get a chance to experiment on long

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long life high reliability components is

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another real strong aspect for stations

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so again we're going to utilize station

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as much as we can during these next 10

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years

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again you know i optimistically think

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that once folks start seeing how station

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can be used it'll get used more and

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we'll see station get extended even

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beyond the 2024 time frame and we we're

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putting in place some of the contracts

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for that we got the commercial crew

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transportation contract that we're

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working you know we're trying to award

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some time in august september time frame

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that's been our normal schedule we'll

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select one or more contractors for that

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crew contract cargo contract we just put

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out a draft a request for proposal from

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from the contracting community they have

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over the summer to give us comments back

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to that draft proposal we'll then

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finalize that proposal sometime in the

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fall with the idea to select sometime

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towards maybe december january of next

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year for the second phase of the cargo

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contract so again i think it's a pretty

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robust time i think what's really

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exciting is if you look at the science

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that's getting done on station this is

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probably the most productive science

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period i've ever seen on station and i

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see a lot of student experiments you can

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get the details from the press kit and

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go look at which high schools are

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participating which kids have actually

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are flying experiments to station and

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these these flights that are occurring

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fairly soon you know there'll be an atv

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launch here at the end of this month it

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docks later in august then there'll be a

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spacex launch in the fall

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that that routine of flying every couple

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months allows a lot of experiments to

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get to orbit fairly quickly which is

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important for researchers and important

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for students so so they don't have to

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wait three years before they get results

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back from their experiments they can

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start seeing results from your

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experiments fairly soon so i think this

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is a very dynamic time you have to work

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a little hard to understand what's going

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on with station but i think it's it's

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really worth your time to go out and

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look at the web and spend a little bit

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of research time and go look and i think

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it's also really cool to see here from

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virginia right we're actually launching

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from here to the international space

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station in the international um venues

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that frank just talked about so so think

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about how we've really touched kind of

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the you know the the virginia east coast

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or eastern shore here and and and really

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have changed i think the way things are

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working so so you can see benefits of

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the space program right here right here

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on the eastern shore so it's kind of

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cool

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hi it's frank mooring with aviation week

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um for bill gerstenmaier a question

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about the um

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the logistics that that are playing out

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with these commercial cargo vehicles are

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you meeting your marks are you confident

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that you'll be able to do that through

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the the life of this first contract both

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with orbital and spacex and then for

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frank um i wonder if you could tell us a

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little bit about the upgrades that you

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have planned for um

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the cygnus cargo vehicle um

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when you're gonna start bringing those

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on board too

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again you know i think we we kind of

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planned that it might take a little

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while to get some of these cargo

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vehicles established you know it's it's

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not easy launching a vehicle to space

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there's uh you know even though the

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vehicle is ready and fully designed to

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get into kind of a cadence or routine of

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launching regularly it doesn't happen

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quite as easy as as you think and you've

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and you've seen that occur frank talked

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about his team you know working a couple

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months extra from when they were

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originally going to go plan

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you know the the test stand problem

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really

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go fly and move forward we had enough

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margin on station that it was okay we

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have enough vehicles between spacex and

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atv and orbital that we're okay

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i tell you i can breathe kind of a sigh

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of relief with this flight there was

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some definitely some food and some other

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things that the crew needed there's also

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some components for the japanese module

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that are important there's some other

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upgrade things that are really important

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to get to station so so this flight i

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think is i feel really good that's

446
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occurred now we had some margin but it

447
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was getting to be where it was a little

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tense where we are overall we knew atv

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was coming online but would you like to

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have a little more margin than that so

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again i think this next year will be

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really important to us that we kind of

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establish a cadence of routine flights

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and and that's not easy and and we've

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got a little margin so we can grow and

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not push too hard but we need to get in

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kind of a cadence of where we're flying

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regularly with the cargo flights and

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frank

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and that's important both to nasa and

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the station as as well as to the

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providers

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the companies that are doing this are

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doing it under fixed price contracts so

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doing it on a regular basis

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without major delays is a is a big deal

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for us and so we are trying very hard to

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to achieve regular production and do it

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cost effectively

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in order to continue to improve what we

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on what we're doing and carry more and

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more cargo to the station we do have

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a product improvement program we've been

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working on and we have an enhanced

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version of cygnus that will begin flying

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next year we're actually upgrading the

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ataris on the next mission and we'll be

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able to carry an additional 500

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kilograms

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of cargo on that one

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it's a small it's still the standard

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size pcm so we won't be able to take

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full advantage of all that performance

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but on the following mission or four

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we'll have a

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pressurized cargo module that's a meter

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longer

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and will carry about 700 kilograms more

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than the current

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current system

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and we have some additional changes such

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as new solar arrays some different

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radios lighter weight components all

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adding up to increased performance and

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and higher cargo capability for the

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station over the remainder of the

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contract and uh and yes we will be able

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to meet our 20-ton

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missions marsha smith

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spacepolicyonline.com following up on

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frank's question i'm curious i think is

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this the last atv flight that's going up

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how many

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dragon and or

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cygnus flights does it take to

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equal an atv flight i'm curious what

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this means for the flight rate in the

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long term future when there won't be any

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more atvs and how many htvs are left

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yeah this is the last atv

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and i

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i'll have to go check on the htvs but

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there's roughly i think about four left

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on the htv line we're still negotiating

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with the japanese on those and um again

516
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it depends which version of cygnus you

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take if you take the enhanced cygnus

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that that frank talked about next year

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it's roughly maybe

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two

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of vehicles to equal what's in an atv

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what what's unique about atv is it can

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carry a lot of fluids it can carry water

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it also carries propellant for the

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russians to refuel their system

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htv is unique in the fact that it

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carries some external cargo a little bit

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like the dragon does so we have a nice

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mixture between all these and so when we

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looked at it there wasn't really a big

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need for the unique capabilities of atvs

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so this was the right time to phase out

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atv and and so this will be the last

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flight of atv and then we'll we'll

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continue to fly htvs and and cygnus and

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spacex dragons

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let's do one more here in the room and

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could you uh tell me the fate of the

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first stage rocket

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i know it goes into the ocean but how

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far down range

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and does it just land ballistically or

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are there parachutes to slow it and

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secondly does the second stage remain

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attached to the payload

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until it returns

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the first stage does return uh or does

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land in the atlantic uh ballistically

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we clear the range to make sure that

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people are in fact clear of that area

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before it comes in and that's one of the

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things we have to watch during the

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launch countdown i don't remember

554
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yeah however far that is

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uh near bermuda but um

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uh not really not very near bermuda but

557
00:19:17,029 --> 00:19:15,270
and then the second stage once it uh

558
00:19:18,710 --> 00:19:17,039
separates from the cygnus spacecraft

559
00:19:20,870 --> 00:19:18,720
remains in orbit for a certain amount of

560
00:19:23,830 --> 00:19:20,880
time and then it'll re-enter uh

561
00:19:25,830 --> 00:19:23,840
destructively usually within a few weeks

562
00:19:27,750 --> 00:19:25,840
but we make sure that the anything we

563
00:19:29,029 --> 00:19:27,760
put into orbit that uh

564
00:19:30,710 --> 00:19:29,039
is going to be there for any length of

565
00:19:32,070 --> 00:19:30,720
time is not going to stay on orbit it's

566
00:19:34,230 --> 00:19:32,080
going to return so that we don't have an

567
00:19:36,870 --> 00:19:34,240
orbital debris issue

568
00:19:39,110 --> 00:19:36,880
okay let's take a couple from the phone

569
00:19:41,830 --> 00:19:39,120
i think we have first up bill harwood

570
00:19:44,150 --> 00:19:41,840
with cbs news go ahead bill

571
00:19:45,590 --> 00:19:44,160
yeah thank you rachel uh one for mr

572
00:19:46,870 --> 00:19:45,600
gerstenmaier if i can when you were

573
00:19:48,630 --> 00:19:46,880
saying a minute ago things were a little

574
00:19:49,830 --> 00:19:48,640
bit tense from a supply standpoint i was

575
00:19:51,750 --> 00:19:49,840
under the impression you guys wouldn't

576
00:19:55,190 --> 00:19:51,760
hit your 45-day

577
00:19:57,430 --> 00:19:55,200
countdown time or until till august

578
00:19:58,789 --> 00:19:57,440
and that with atv and progress coming up

579
00:20:00,390 --> 00:19:58,799
here pretty soon you guys are pretty fat

580
00:20:01,830 --> 00:20:00,400
on supplies am i missing something there

581
00:20:03,909 --> 00:20:01,840
i want to make sure i understand how to

582
00:20:05,909 --> 00:20:03,919
characterize it thanks now i mean again

583
00:20:08,390 --> 00:20:05,919
from a requirement standpoint we had the

584
00:20:10,870 --> 00:20:08,400
right skip cycles protected and we had

585
00:20:13,590 --> 00:20:10,880
we had time until the fall but i guess

586
00:20:14,870 --> 00:20:13,600
kind of from a pragmatic warrior

587
00:20:17,270 --> 00:20:14,880
standpoint

588
00:20:18,950 --> 00:20:17,280
even though we had till the fall

589
00:20:20,789 --> 00:20:18,960
knowing the problems we had with some of

590
00:20:22,230 --> 00:20:20,799
the test stand things some of the

591
00:20:25,190 --> 00:20:22,240
challenges been working on the other

592
00:20:26,870 --> 00:20:25,200
side and then also the the french guiana

593
00:20:29,350 --> 00:20:26,880
gets kind of jammed up with a lot of

594
00:20:31,110 --> 00:20:29,360
commercial flights on the european side

595
00:20:33,029 --> 00:20:31,120
you could see all that margin evaporate

596
00:20:34,549 --> 00:20:33,039
pretty quick so if i wanted to worry a

597
00:20:36,230 --> 00:20:34,559
little bit right i could definitely

598
00:20:37,669 --> 00:20:36,240
worry myself into wanting to get a

599
00:20:39,669 --> 00:20:37,679
little more margin so we didn't really

600
00:20:41,750 --> 00:20:39,679
have any problem until the fall so

601
00:20:44,390 --> 00:20:41,760
probably over stepped a little bit by

602
00:20:45,830 --> 00:20:44,400
saying i was concerned but i will tell

603
00:20:47,830 --> 00:20:45,840
you that there were enough things there

604
00:20:49,990 --> 00:20:47,840
that when you add them all up it was it

605
00:20:51,430 --> 00:20:50,000
was a time that you want to make sure

606
00:20:52,710 --> 00:20:51,440
that you're really ready to go flying

607
00:20:54,470 --> 00:20:52,720
you don't you don't pass up an

608
00:20:57,669 --> 00:20:54,480
opportunity lightly

609
00:20:58,870 --> 00:20:57,679
it is rockets not airlines

610
00:21:02,149 --> 00:20:58,880
and bill do you have a follow-up

611
00:21:10,149 --> 00:21:04,630
he's thinking

612
00:21:14,310 --> 00:21:11,909
and then we'll take a couple from social

613
00:21:18,390 --> 00:21:14,320
media hi my name is john for countdown

614
00:21:20,630 --> 00:21:18,400
today um anterior cygnus was named for

615
00:21:23,190 --> 00:21:20,640
astronaut janet voss

616
00:21:25,270 --> 00:21:23,200
who names each spacecraft before their

617
00:21:27,510 --> 00:21:25,280
flight

618
00:21:29,669 --> 00:21:27,520
the executive team at orbital picks the

619
00:21:35,029 --> 00:21:29,679
name for each spacecraft and we have not

620
00:21:37,750 --> 00:21:36,630
okay let's take a couple from social

621
00:21:39,510 --> 00:21:37,760
media

622
00:21:41,029 --> 00:21:39,520
sure the first question is from keith on

623
00:21:42,390 --> 00:21:41,039
twitter for frank

624
00:21:45,830 --> 00:21:42,400
frank what are some of the experiments

625
00:21:48,070 --> 00:21:45,840
this mission is carrying to the iss

626
00:21:50,789 --> 00:21:48,080
we have some student experiments uh of

627
00:21:53,270 --> 00:21:50,799
various types there are some cubesats

628
00:21:56,950 --> 00:21:53,280
there's the what tech tech set for tech

629
00:21:59,029 --> 00:21:56,960
headset for tech headset for

630
00:22:04,230 --> 00:21:59,039
i don't recall all of them

631
00:22:10,470 --> 00:22:07,750
30 odd cubesats that will be deployed

632
00:22:13,909 --> 00:22:10,480
from inside the station

633
00:22:18,789 --> 00:22:16,630
uh one more uh question for frank

634
00:22:20,710 --> 00:22:18,799
from twitter how long does the docking

635
00:22:26,230 --> 00:22:20,720
process itself take

636
00:22:27,669 --> 00:22:26,240
would you characterize it as eight hours

637
00:22:29,190 --> 00:22:27,679
frank

638
00:22:30,070 --> 00:22:29,200
six

639
00:22:33,110 --> 00:22:30,080
yeah

640
00:22:34,710 --> 00:22:33,120
the the final portion is about eight

641
00:22:37,430 --> 00:22:34,720
hours uh when you're approaching the

642
00:22:39,110 --> 00:22:37,440
station and um the last four hours are

643
00:22:40,630 --> 00:22:39,120
when you're fairly close to the station

644
00:22:41,750 --> 00:22:40,640
and you're approaching fairly carefully

645
00:22:44,070 --> 00:22:41,760
from below

646
00:22:45,990 --> 00:22:44,080
and uh and then the last 250 meters are

647
00:22:48,230 --> 00:22:46,000
the or the final approach where you'll

648
00:22:49,750 --> 00:22:48,240
stop at 10 meters and and

649
00:22:51,430 --> 00:22:49,760
and then once they've grappled it'll

650
00:22:53,669 --> 00:22:51,440
take them about an hour to attach it to

651
00:22:54,950 --> 00:22:53,679
the station firmly and

652
00:22:57,110 --> 00:22:54,960
get in a position where they could open

653
00:22:58,870 --> 00:22:57,120
the hatch if they wanted to

654
00:23:00,630 --> 00:22:58,880
okay we'll take one more from the phone

655
00:23:03,110 --> 00:23:00,640
and then come back here for a final

656
00:23:06,870 --> 00:23:03,120
question um on the phone i believe we

657
00:23:09,669 --> 00:23:06,880
have stephen clark with space flight now

658
00:23:12,549 --> 00:23:09,679
hi rachel thanks uh two questions for mr

659
00:23:13,990 --> 00:23:12,559
culbertson uh first of all uh in the

660
00:23:15,909 --> 00:23:14,000
launch video it looks like there's a

661
00:23:17,110 --> 00:23:15,919
little bit of a

662
00:23:18,630 --> 00:23:17,120
tilt of the vehicle coming off the

663
00:23:20,870 --> 00:23:18,640
pattern i'm not sure i've noticed that

664
00:23:22,390 --> 00:23:20,880
before is that a normal maneuver or

665
00:23:23,430 --> 00:23:22,400
something unexpected

666
00:23:25,430 --> 00:23:23,440
and

667
00:23:26,230 --> 00:23:25,440
secondly for frank

668
00:23:29,590 --> 00:23:26,240
how

669
00:23:31,510 --> 00:23:29,600
long-term

670
00:23:33,350 --> 00:23:31,520
provider for antares for stage

671
00:23:35,029 --> 00:23:33,360
propulsion thanks

672
00:23:36,870 --> 00:23:35,039
well for the second one we're still in

673
00:23:40,310 --> 00:23:36,880
the process of negotiating with the uh

674
00:23:42,870 --> 00:23:40,320
proposers on uh uh the next uh block of

675
00:23:44,630 --> 00:23:42,880
engines for for uh antares and uh we'll

676
00:23:45,669 --> 00:23:44,640
probably announce that uh sometime this

677
00:23:48,149 --> 00:23:45,679
summer

678
00:23:49,669 --> 00:23:48,159
um and you were asking about the

679
00:23:50,789 --> 00:23:49,679
what some of us call the wiggle off the

680
00:23:52,549 --> 00:23:50,799
pad

681
00:23:54,470 --> 00:23:52,559
um others called the bomb gartner

682
00:23:55,830 --> 00:23:54,480
maneuver but uh it was a little more

683
00:23:57,750 --> 00:23:55,840
pronounced today or maybe we could just

684
00:24:00,230 --> 00:23:57,760
see it better but as a as the rocket

685
00:24:02,549 --> 00:24:00,240
lifts off it actually moves the the tail

686
00:24:03,990 --> 00:24:02,559
of the rocket closer to the structure so

687
00:24:06,149 --> 00:24:04,000
that it then flies away from the

688
00:24:08,149 --> 00:24:06,159
structure and that's to protect the tail

689
00:24:11,029 --> 00:24:08,159
and the surrounding uh hydraulic

690
00:24:12,230 --> 00:24:11,039
equipment and on electrical cables from

691
00:24:14,789 --> 00:24:12,240
the blast of

692
00:24:16,710 --> 00:24:14,799
being too close to the to the rocket

693
00:24:19,029 --> 00:24:16,720
it's only a degree or so but it is

694
00:24:20,390 --> 00:24:19,039
sometimes visible depending on the on

695
00:24:22,310 --> 00:24:20,400
the viewing angle

696
00:24:24,070 --> 00:24:22,320
uh yes it is a heart stopper when you

697
00:24:28,630 --> 00:24:24,080
see it and you don't expect it but but

698
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:35,029
from here let's go in the front here

699
00:24:39,909 --> 00:24:37,110
how soon before we see a private company

700
00:24:42,310 --> 00:24:39,919
put a man or a woman up into space

701
00:24:43,750 --> 00:24:42,320
you'll have to ask mr garcimar that

702
00:24:46,230 --> 00:24:43,760
okay

703
00:24:49,430 --> 00:24:46,240
well we we've been kind of planning for

704
00:24:50,950 --> 00:24:49,440
late 2017 probably december 2017 from

705
00:24:52,950 --> 00:24:50,960
the us from

706
00:24:55,430 --> 00:24:52,960
from a nasa commercial crew standpoint

707
00:24:57,269 --> 00:24:55,440
that's what our our request for proposal

708
00:24:59,990 --> 00:24:57,279
is asked for from our providers and we

709
00:25:02,549 --> 00:25:00,000
believe that's achievable

710
00:25:04,230 --> 00:25:02,559
not from office

711
00:25:05,990 --> 00:25:04,240
yeah and if you're asking about other

712
00:25:07,590 --> 00:25:06,000
commercial passengers going into space

713
00:25:09,190 --> 00:25:07,600
you'll have to ask those companies how

714
00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:09,200
they're doing yep

715
00:25:13,110 --> 00:25:11,120
most of them are out west

716
00:25:14,789 --> 00:25:13,120
okay one final question in the in here

717
00:25:16,789 --> 00:25:14,799
if anyone has one

718
00:25:19,110 --> 00:25:16,799
let's go right here

719
00:25:20,070 --> 00:25:19,120
keep the black shirts

720
00:25:22,630 --> 00:25:20,080
okay

721
00:25:24,310 --> 00:25:22,640
dod with the mercury eric langer our

722
00:25:26,710 --> 00:25:24,320
question is can you elaborate a little

723
00:25:29,669 --> 00:25:26,720
bit more on the partnership you have

724
00:25:32,230 --> 00:25:29,679
with nasa and the education community

725
00:25:33,909 --> 00:25:32,240
high schools colleges and that and how

726
00:25:35,190 --> 00:25:33,919
corporations can participate in that and

727
00:25:36,710 --> 00:25:35,200
what kind of projects do you have coming

728
00:25:39,190 --> 00:25:36,720
up thank you

729
00:25:41,830 --> 00:25:39,200
sure we have an education group at nasa

730
00:25:44,149 --> 00:25:41,840
that that kind of does overall education

731
00:25:46,149 --> 00:25:44,159
activities and can can

732
00:25:47,750 --> 00:25:46,159
kind of put you in touch with if you're

733
00:25:50,390 --> 00:25:47,760
interested in doing some things with

734
00:25:51,909 --> 00:25:50,400
nasa you know rachel can the pao team

735
00:25:54,870 --> 00:25:51,919
can get you in contact with the right

736
00:25:56,549 --> 00:25:54,880
education folks we also the center for

737
00:25:59,190 --> 00:25:56,559
advancement of science and space the

738
00:26:00,870 --> 00:25:59,200
kasis organization they're managing a

739
00:26:03,669 --> 00:26:00,880
portion of the space station for us and

740
00:26:05,350 --> 00:26:03,679
they do some experiments with students

741
00:26:06,870 --> 00:26:05,360
and with high schools and that's another

742
00:26:09,590 --> 00:26:06,880
avenue that you can contact them

743
00:26:11,590 --> 00:26:09,600
directly if you're interested in in

744
00:26:13,750 --> 00:26:11,600
getting your high school or your your

745
00:26:15,510 --> 00:26:13,760
college or or even junior high we have

746
00:26:17,269 --> 00:26:15,520
some junior highs involved with doing

747
00:26:18,870 --> 00:26:17,279
some experiments in space you can do

748
00:26:20,950 --> 00:26:18,880
those activities through them if you

749
00:26:23,029 --> 00:26:20,960
want to fly something and then there's

750
00:26:25,510 --> 00:26:23,039
underneath the cases organization

751
00:26:27,669 --> 00:26:25,520
there's a nanoracks group that also does

752
00:26:29,750 --> 00:26:27,679
some science and student experiment kind

753
00:26:31,750 --> 00:26:29,760
of thing so there's many avenues

754
00:26:34,390 --> 00:26:31,760
probably the easiest one is to to reach

755
00:26:35,590 --> 00:26:34,400
out to the nasa education office and get

756
00:26:36,710 --> 00:26:35,600
in touch with them and then they can

757
00:26:38,470 --> 00:26:36,720
kind of steer you the right way

758
00:26:40,390 --> 00:26:38,480
depending on what you want to go do and

759
00:26:43,110 --> 00:26:40,400
what you're interested in doing in terms

760
00:26:44,630 --> 00:26:43,120
of classroom and education and products

761
00:26:46,710 --> 00:26:44,640
it's kind of exciting when some of the

762
00:26:47,990 --> 00:26:46,720
things we fly on station they can

763
00:26:49,669 --> 00:26:48,000
actually be

764
00:26:52,310 --> 00:26:49,679
demonstrated on the ground and students

765
00:26:53,830 --> 00:26:52,320
can kind of compare results in their own

766
00:26:56,310 --> 00:26:53,840
classrooms with what's occurring on

767
00:26:58,549 --> 00:26:56,320
space we've we've flown some some ants

768
00:27:00,230 --> 00:26:58,559
we've flown some butterflies we've flown

769
00:27:02,470 --> 00:27:00,240
some interesting things and it's kind of

770
00:27:03,909 --> 00:27:02,480
interesting to see how the terrestrial

771
00:27:05,669 --> 00:27:03,919
equivalent

772
00:27:07,110 --> 00:27:05,679
performs on the ground compared to

773
00:27:09,110 --> 00:27:07,120
what's occurring in space so the

774
00:27:10,950 --> 00:27:09,120
students can get a chance to see and

775
00:27:12,549 --> 00:27:10,960
understand what the microgravity

776
00:27:15,909 --> 00:27:12,559
environment's about

777
00:27:18,310 --> 00:27:15,919
i'm also continually amazed by the

778
00:27:20,549 --> 00:27:18,320
the inquisitiveness of students and and

779
00:27:23,830 --> 00:27:20,559
how they really grasp the uniqueness of

780
00:27:25,430 --> 00:27:23,840
space and sometimes they ask more

781
00:27:26,950 --> 00:27:25,440
i would say maybe intelligent isn't the

782
00:27:29,110 --> 00:27:26,960
right word but more inquisitive

783
00:27:31,510 --> 00:27:29,120
questions than than i get from the

784
00:27:33,269 --> 00:27:31,520
typical researchers i think by the time

785
00:27:34,870 --> 00:27:33,279
you've become an

786
00:27:37,590 --> 00:27:34,880
i'm an experienced researcher you have

787
00:27:39,269 --> 00:27:37,600
this 1g bias where your your mind always

788
00:27:41,269 --> 00:27:39,279
thinks in one gravity and you don't

789
00:27:43,110 --> 00:27:41,279
really ask those interesting questions

790
00:27:45,590 --> 00:27:43,120
and you know one of the students on the

791
00:27:47,029 --> 00:27:45,600
the butterfly experiment you know her

792
00:27:48,070 --> 00:27:47,039
and there was another one where a

793
00:27:49,110 --> 00:27:48,080
student

794
00:27:51,669 --> 00:27:49,120
did a

795
00:27:53,669 --> 00:27:51,679
it was a spider a jumping spider that

796
00:27:56,389 --> 00:27:53,679
that uses it actually jumps to capture

797
00:27:58,070 --> 00:27:56,399
its prey so the student just quietly

798
00:28:00,470 --> 00:27:58,080
asked well what happens if there's no

799
00:28:02,470 --> 00:28:00,480
microgravity with this spider

800
00:28:04,149 --> 00:28:02,480
it can't jump it's just going to float

801
00:28:06,149 --> 00:28:04,159
right is it going to walk over and get

802
00:28:08,630 --> 00:28:06,159
its prey or is it going to try to jump

803
00:28:09,669 --> 00:28:08,640
and and those kind of questions although

804
00:28:10,789 --> 00:28:09,679
simple

805
00:28:16,870 --> 00:28:10,799
they

806
00:28:19,029 --> 00:28:16,880
actually make you think about how you

807
00:28:20,710 --> 00:28:19,039
can use space in new creative innovative

808
00:28:22,710 --> 00:28:20,720
ways and actually become more innovative

809
00:28:24,950 --> 00:28:22,720
so there's a uniqueness of working with

810
00:28:26,470 --> 00:28:24,960
students that is really fun they're not

811
00:28:28,470 --> 00:28:26,480
inhibited by

812
00:28:30,870 --> 00:28:28,480
being embarrassed by asking the dumb

813
00:28:33,029 --> 00:28:30,880
questions they ask questions the right

814
00:28:34,789 --> 00:28:33,039
way and if you're really intuitive and

815
00:28:36,310 --> 00:28:34,799
you and you understand that you can get

816
00:28:37,669 --> 00:28:36,320
innovative you can get creative and you

817
00:28:39,590 --> 00:28:37,679
can see some pretty amazing things

818
00:28:41,110 --> 00:28:39,600
happen so so you should get students

819
00:28:43,110 --> 00:28:41,120
involved with the education group and

820
00:28:45,110 --> 00:28:43,120
you ought to turn loose that imagination

821
00:28:46,710 --> 00:28:45,120
turn loose that innovation and we'll see

822
00:28:49,110 --> 00:28:46,720
what we can do with this microgravity

823
00:28:50,710 --> 00:28:49,120
and the space station we've got on orbit

824
00:28:52,470 --> 00:28:50,720
if i could add just a little bit i think

825
00:28:54,630 --> 00:28:52,480
what bill is describing is what i would

826
00:28:56,789 --> 00:28:54,640
call unconstrained curiosity

827
00:28:58,389 --> 00:28:56,799
and the students really do look at

828
00:28:59,510 --> 00:28:58,399
things differently particularly the

829
00:29:01,510 --> 00:28:59,520
younger ones

830
00:29:03,669 --> 00:29:01,520
and some of the older ones too but there

831
00:29:05,590 --> 00:29:03,679
are organizations that many of them not

832
00:29:08,789 --> 00:29:05,600
for profit that conduct

833
00:29:10,149 --> 00:29:08,799
space camps academies

834
00:29:11,830 --> 00:29:10,159
weeks where students can come in from

835
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various places and build their own

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experiments and then cases and nanoracks

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and others will organize the ability to

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get them onto the space station on our

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last mission we flew several and we had

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students here who had designed

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experiments that flew on the station are

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on cygnus to the station we had some

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slime from king's college i think it was

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and some other places and then these

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were the selected experiments to go

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but there are lots of these

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organizations you just need to get

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online and look for them who are helping

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students uh open their minds and and uh

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and explore space in a real way and then

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they get the data back either pictures

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back or real data and occasionally

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actual uh results so it's it's the way

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to inspire children that

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and young adults that spaces

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something everybody can have access to

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eventually at least

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through

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station i think it's very important that

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we continue to motivate people into the

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science technology engineering and math

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arena

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okay well that'll do it for us i want to

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thank everyone very much for joining us

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today especially villain frank um cygnus

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is set to arrive to the space station on

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wednesday i will begin our nasa tv

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coverage at 5 15 am for a 6 39 a.m

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grapple you can follow the latest

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information on the orb 2 mission and

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find find out more about the

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international space station at