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yes my name is lee morin

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md phd

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and i'm a astronaut mission specialist

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with orion america is building a new

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spacecraft for exploration could involve

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missions to the moon missions to an

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asteroid missions to mars and we want

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orion to be able to do all those things

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to take four astronauts into deep space

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and return them safely to the earth and

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the goal was to build a cockpit user

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interface

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a dashboard so to speak that would allow

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the crew to control that spacecraft for

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that period of time for these deep space

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missions and to have the flexibility so

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that even if they were away from the

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planet for

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months or even years

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that they would have the information

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they needed to fly that vehicle and

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return safely to the earth

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and the concept was to go with a glass

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cockpit and what that means is that the

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instruments are all images on a computer

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screen they are all on the glass so

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rather than flipping a physical switch

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the crew brings up a computer screen and

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flips a virtual switch a little icon of

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a switch or icon of a valve

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and with the exception of seven panels

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right around the computer screens which

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have about 60 switches

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that is all of the cockpit of orion

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happens on the glass

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one big benefit is a weight savings

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because you don't have to have a

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physical switch

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there the weight of the switch but you

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also have the weight of the wire to the

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switch

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and you have to have the weight of

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circuitry that takes that wire and feeds

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it into the vehicle computers by putting

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that on the computer screen you save

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that weight and you save the complexity

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of those wires

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that gives us a lot of flexibility and

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as we work with the cockpit if we find

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certain ways that we could do it better

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it's perhaps easier to update the

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software than it is to rewire the

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vehicle it's been very exciting to see

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the orion and the cockpit come together

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and to

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see the computer software that i've

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helped write and my colleagues have been

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writing come together and i think that

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these are the screens that

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some the first crew that goes to an

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asteroid will be looking at to help them

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control the vehicle these are the

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screens that the first humans who go to

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mars we'll be looking at

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as that mission unfolds in the decades

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ahead the orion is going to be the

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linchpin of humanity's exploration

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beyond low earth orbit into deep space

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to get a chill thinking about the role