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station this is houston are you ready

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we are ready for the event

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marshall space flight center this is

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mission control houston please call

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station this is don reid at marshall

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space flight center for voice check how

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hey donny read you loud and clear but

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huntsville copies and with that we'll

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gentlemen this is rj helen i just wanted

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to say it's an honor

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hey rj we're really happy to be able to

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um the first question i have is what was

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your impression of my design of the

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multi-purpose precision maintenance tool

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do you think it will

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you know i think this tool will be

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useful we were just talking about it

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jeff and i were you know and what's

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what's cool about it is that oftentimes

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we're having to look for a deep well

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socket well you don't really need a deep

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well socket when you have this because

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you can hold it in your hand and put it

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down and so it has lots of useful pieces

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on here you know one thing that uh that

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oftentimes with prototyping with 3d

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printing is there's a plastic version

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then a metal version but even this

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plastic version i think would work up to

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a certain torque value so uh well done

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thank you and um

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for the next question is mostly about

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your inspiration

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for you

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for both of you actually what inspired

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you to actually pursue your career path

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actually i think we we both have very

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similar career paths we both

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graduated high school and went to the

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military academy at west point

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uh we were talking about this as a

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matter of fact just a week or two ago

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about getting to the military academy

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and for me discovering that the army had

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aviation assets and you could become a

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pilot and i immediately latched on to

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that as an interest and then that

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extended to uh to later learning about

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the opportunity to become a test pilot

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and do some of the unique work uh

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inherent in that field and of course

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since the beginning of the space program

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that's been

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a a path

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to

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pursue a career as an astronaut and that

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happened to me it was in the late 70s in

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fact i i remember reading the book the

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right stuff

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which is a crown which chronicles the

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early history of

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test flight

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and in the early astronauts

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and i knew right then and there that

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that's awesome

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so the third question i have is actually

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mostly about 3d printing the 3d printing

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technology is starting to

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advance

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and so i believe it's going to have a

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huge impact in the space industry do you

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believe it's going to become a vital

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you know rj i believe that it will

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because uh one of the things that is

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very evident from our time up here on

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space station and frankly through our

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entire time with nasa and training and

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getting ready for space flight is how

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complicated it is to support a vehicle

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like this the logistical train in order

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to make this vehicle run is phenomenal

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and the planning that's required and we

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have so many smart people that are

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involved in making sure that all

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logistics are here for us and a lot of

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times it takes months and even years in

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advance of planning but if you're able

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to print the parts that you need for

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replacement and other devices i mean

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really it's a it's almost an unbounded

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sort of capability that you could have

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in order to produce the things that you

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need so i think as the technology

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develops and becomes less expensive and

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easier and more compact i think it has a

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um kind of to add on to that do you

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that there's going to be a single part

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of space exploration that this will be

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vitally important for like

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one of the challenges

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related to what he was talking about is

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we have a lot of equipment a lot of

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tools a lot of spare parts on board

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trying to predict what we might need at

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any given time and then with the

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logistics train

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it can take months to get something here

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that we don't have on board

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depending upon what it is

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so with this capability

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it gives you the opportunity to produce

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something

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that you hadn't anticipated and and make

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it a short notice it also reduces uh

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your stowage requirements

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stowage is a really

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presents a lot of overhead to life and

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work and um and being able to operate

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the space station so being able to do

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that just in general i think

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is is uh

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is very promising a tool like this now

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we don't have a specific use for this

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tool we have a

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generic use for this tool obviously

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with the hex head interfaces and whatnot

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but we don't have a specific use when

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you have a specific problem that will

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drive specific requirements and the 3d

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printing then allows you to do a quick

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design to meet those requirements get it

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printed and meet the tool or

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make the tool to meet that specific need

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for my last question i i wanted to ask

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specifically about like living in space

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what is a small aspect of living a space

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that might be a little annoying and it's

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well you know i have to say that uh we

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are so well supported up here and not

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the the means of living in space i mean

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obviously we have the food the air the

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environment which is phenomenal right

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we're going around the planet every 90

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minutes and outside of this thin hole is

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a vacuum so that's just amazing in

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itself and so there's lots of niceties

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that are also taken care of we have

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great food on board we even have

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but if i could have one thing one small

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that's actually all the questions i had

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thank you for your time

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this has been a great opportunity

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and i hope you enjoyed the rest of your

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well it's been really fun talking with

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you rj and congratulations i think

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yeah this is so cool and uh you've got a

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bright future in front of you because uh

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you have a creative mind a technical

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mind and really the sky's the limit

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congratulations yeah keep it up

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you marshall space flight center

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station please stand by while we