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My name is Nujoud Merancy, I’m the NASA
Orion Mission Planning and Analysis Lead.

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I’m working all of the design pieces for
Orion to make sure when we design it the engineering

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of the power, the thermal, the computers,
the propellant, all of those things will work

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together to make the complete vehicle that
actually gets us to Mars.

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Looking into the future when people first
land on Mars I think we’ll take satisfaction

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from knowing that we were actually a part
of getting it there – from the first day.

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Orion was there.

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We’re going to be the thing that was there
the entire time – Flying people to and from

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Mars.

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So, that’s where we get a lot of satisfaction
as we will have been that first building block

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to get us there.

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In 2014 we flew our first flight test for
Orion and it was incredible for everyone because

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we actually got vehicle put together.

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It was primarily the crew module but we flew
it.

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We did hardest test we could which was it
fully re-enter at 20,000 mile per hour.

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And what that meant was that our fundamental
vehicle design worked.