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Hi I'm Lindsay Aitchison.

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I work on spacesuits.

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This is #AskNASA and
I'm here to answer your

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questions.

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[Music]

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How will NASA
get to the Moon?

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Well, we have a brand new
SLS Space Launch System

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rocket.

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It's launch day and oh the
fire and smoke, oh the

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power, oh the power, you're

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up in space and at that
point you lose your abort

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system so let that go back
to Earth and then one more

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big push and now your
Orion is taking three days

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to fly all the way over
to the Gateway where, it

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parks and now you and now
you're ready to start the

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next phase.

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This is where youre going
to start to unload the

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science equipment and
pull out your spacesuits.

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And then it's

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time for the fun stuff.

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Were going down to
the lunar surface.

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So once you put on
your spacesuit, you're

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going to crawl into the
ascent module and that

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will take you all the way
down to the lunar surface.

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Once you're

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there, go outside start
doing science, geology.

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Spend a couple of days,
once youre done doing all

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that, you climb back into
your ascent module, take

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off and return
to the Gateway.

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Once you get back
to the Gateway, you're

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going to unpack all
of your science and

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everything you wanna take
home, put it into the

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Orion, everybody truckles
back into the Orion, we

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start that three-day
journey back home.

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[Buzzer]

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Why do we need a gateway
to get to the Moon?

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Were going to the Gateway
because it makes a lot of

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sense for sustainability.

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That means you can go back
multiple times and use it

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to get anywhere
around the Moon.

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You can also use it as a
staging point on our way

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to Mars.

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How will humans
explore Mars?

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Well that's

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actually kind of what
we are trying to learn by

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going back to the Moon.

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In addition to learning to
learning so much about how

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the Moon was created,
which tells us how Earth

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was created, we're

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really practicing all
those new technologies as

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new ways of living off
the Earth before we go to

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Mars.

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So once we get there we'll
of practiced everything on

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the Moon and then
we can head out.

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[Music and Laughter]

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So, what will the Gateway
Wi-Fi password be?

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Hopefully something
easy to remember.

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Would you go to the Moon?

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Absolutely.

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Do I get to choose
who goes with me?

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Have you worn an
astronaut glove?

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Yes I have.

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As part of a spacesuit
engineer we try on all of

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our own hardware.

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How does NASA
throw a party?

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Ya planet.

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If you could go anywhere
in the solar system, where

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would you go?

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Probably Mars.

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I mean, its far enough
to be interesting.

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First one there, but still
close enough to home if

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you have a problem.

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What's the coolest thing
about a spacesuit?

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The coolest thing about a
spacesuit is that they are

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made to fit you exactly
so you can have all the

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mobility you need to both
do your job and stay

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alive.

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[Music and Laughter]

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