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Hi.  I’m Jenny Devolites and I am the Morpheus Lander Test Conductor and the Systems Engineering and Integration Lead

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Morpheus is the world’s first prototype lander with liquid oxygen, liquid methane propulsion.

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One of the really exciting aspects of this project is that it’s a rocket and it flies and we get to light an engine and there is smoke and fire

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From a team development perspective, there is a group of us that designed, built and flew this vehicle.

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That’s not an opportunity you get every day so that was always a very exciting thing to be able to do.

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But the long term implications of it for the Journey to Mars are even more important.

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The technologies that we are testing, we’re trying to enable the types of capabilities that we are going to need down the road in order to get humans to Mars and back safely.

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And one of the important things is the integration of oxygen and methane with the rest of the system.

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Something very important about going to Mars is that you only have what you can take with you or what you can make on the surface.

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You look at Mars, it’s very dry but, you can extract water from the Martian soil