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My name is Ashley Korzun and I’m an Aerospace
Engineer here at NASA Langley Research Center.

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What I work on are the aerodynamics for the
advanced technologies that we’re looking

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at to enable us to send very large payloads
and humans to the surface of Mars.

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Propulsive Decent Technologies Project a part
of NASA’s Space Technologies Mission Directorate

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is looking at supersonic retro propulsion
and what this is going to allow us to do is

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land much larger payloads at various locations
across the surface of Mars and be able to

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it a lot more precisely

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We’re learning new thing every day as we’re
pushing forward.

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These are not technologies that we have flown,
we’re pushing the technologies forward and

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each day we’re getting a step closer to
put humans on the surface of Mars.

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What’s behind me is the inflatable structure
for an aerodynamic decelerator it’s a large

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heat shield that you would fill with gas and
you deploy this while you are enter the atmosphere

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of Mars and what this does is it helps your
vehicle slow down and you can reach a lot

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higher altitudes and increase the size of
the mass you can get down to the surface.

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The medley instrumentation package is sitting
on the surface of Mars.

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It’s installed into the heat shield that
landed the Curiosity Rover and that instrumentation

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package included pressure and temperature
measurement that gave us for the first time

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really great data of what the vehicles we
send to Mars are experiencing as they are