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artemis has been woven into our culture

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it has fostered collaboration across the

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aisles and across the ponds it has grown

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beyond plans and preparations to include

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hardware and software

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and now

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you can feel the momentum it is

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undeniable we are going and together

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we will see artemis

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light the way

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our mission to the moon is no longer

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some far-fetched dream this is reality

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we are going this is the next step in

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evolution they're not just powerpoint

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slides they're actually metals being

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bent shaped formed to build the things

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that we're going to use this is real

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it's going to happen we're going

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we are going to the moon to learn how to

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live on other planets for the benefit of

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all

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hello and welcome we are here at nasa

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langley research center in hampton

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virginia we're about to drop this 14 000

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pound orion crew module into our hydro

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into our hydro impact basin i'm ally

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olney and i'm here with debbie korth the

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orion crew and service module manager

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and jacob putman a data analyst here at

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we're here to talk about orion and

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everything that's going on with it

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we want you all to join us in this

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conversation by asking questions in the

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comments below so make sure to put

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ask nasa so let's get started

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debbie

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can you tell me a little bit about orion

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and what we're testing today yeah sure

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um hi ali hi jacob it's great to be here

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today and really excited for the test

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that's going to be starting up behind us

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and not too too long from now um so so

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artemis is charged with taking the first

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woman and the next man to the to the

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lunar vicinity um and orion is a big

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part of making that architecture happen

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so orion is the spacecraft that's

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designed for deep space in fact it's the

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only spacecraft we have that's um

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specifically capable of bringing crew

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members back from the vicinity of the

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moon back to earth

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so a little bit about orion orion is

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comprised of about three modules uh the

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launch abort system the uh service

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module and the crew module so the launch

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abort system is designed to take the

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crew module away from the launch site or

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the rocket in case there's an emergency

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otherwise it detaches from the the

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spacecraft and the crew module and

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service module continue on their journey

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to space

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once in space um the service module

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provides all of our propulsion and our

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power for the entire spacecraft it also

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provides what we call services like our

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fuels our oxidizers all the commodities

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our gases our water all of that stored

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in the service module and it stays

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connected to the crew module for for

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most of the duration of the mission

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and then the crew module itself is the

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habitable volume where the crew actually

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lives and so it's designed to house four

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crew members for up to 21 days and it

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provides everything that they need to

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live and work in space so you got

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support systems all your guidance to

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just actually live you've got a galley

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have thermal protection systems that

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protect the crew and the vehicle upon

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deploys and slows that crew module down

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as it enters the water for its

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splashdown so that's basically what

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crew module in a variety of conditions

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a pretty significant event for the crew

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that's awesome thank you debbie so we're

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standing here at our gantry jacob can

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you tell us a little bit about this

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facility sure aly so today we're going

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to be dropping the irvine test article

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into the hydro impact basin here at nasa

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langley the hydro impact basin first

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began construction on it in 2010

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the orion program invested 1.7 million

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dollars in this facility so that we

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could ensure future spacecraft are able

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to return our astronaut crew back to

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now the hydro impact basin measures over

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basin we've tested the orion spacecraft

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in a variety of impact conditions as

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debbie mentioned which has allowed us to

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ensure that no matter how the vehicle

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lands in the water it will do so safely

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vehicles out here at the facility um

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really ensuring that no matter what

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spacecraft or astronauts are in uh they

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are able to return to

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interesting and unique about it is that

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the hydro impact basin is actually

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test facility here at langley otherwise

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for the apollo program and used as a

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lunar simulator

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so the first astronauts actually learned

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how to land the lunar module as well as

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so super interesting a unique touch

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facility and really uh excited to see

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another historic test be performed here

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thanks jacob that is so exciting and as

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you said we have had had many orion

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orion the orion crew module is already

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we're testing again today yeah sure

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facility with a series of different

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modules for the crew module the article

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structural test article and what makes

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actual flight structures that we've

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delivered to kennedy and we're in the

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process of building up there so it has

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structure and mass simulators for

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load predictions and our margins for the

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vehicle are are sufficient and and good

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for our flight vehicles um so that's the

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program so for artemis one as you

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mentioned our crew and service module

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have already been delivered at the

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kennedy space center they're in the

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process of getting all of their

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commodities loaded so the fuels and

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oxidizers and all the gases needed for

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abort facility where we actually

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research center so it was the first

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this year and all headed towards our

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so really excited to see that artemis

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systems are being welded into that

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vehicle the tps is thermal protection

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together and the um parts of the service

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prop system and that'll be delivered

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very similar path gets integrated and um

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to be in the program lots of vehicles

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absolutely no we are so excited for all

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of this testing and all that is to come

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for artemis um so back to our artemis

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test today or our orion test today uh

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this test today sure so we actually have

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over 500 sensors integrated into this

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water during the landing so these are

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any risk to the structure of the test

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are safe during any future landings

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that's so great and so there's there's

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yeah so the test today is going to be

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really short

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dropping under the water doesn't take a

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lot of time but there's a lot of work

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that goes into preparing this test

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article

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before it gets to what you guys are

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going to see today

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so the test article itself was developed

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built and assembled by lockheed martin

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at its completion it was shipped out

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here to nasa langley

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where we integrated all the sensors we

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attached them into our data acquisition

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systems put them onto power

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sealed up the capsule

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and then prepared it for testing

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actually prior to this test we performed

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a checkout test a couple weeks ago just

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to make sure we were getting all the

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readings that we expected

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everything checked out fine so we are

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ready to

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begin our test today so looking forward

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to it

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yeah and we're so excited uh i think the

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test is is gonna start uh soon um we

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might have to take some questions from

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social media uh

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so

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i hope you all have been commenting and

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using the hashtag ask nasa um

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let's go to

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some questions

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debbie

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sure

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um

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what will be the the splashdown velocity

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of the orion spacecraft

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um in in nominal conditions when we're

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outshining a mission i think the nominal

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speed is about 10 miles per hour so it's

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pretty slow

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it can get up to around 20 25 and so

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it's the parachute system does a really

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good job as it comes through the

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atmosphere there's shoots that deploy a

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forward bed cover and then drove shoots

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that deploy and the main shoots deploy

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so there's a series of parachute deploys

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that slow the vehicle down to a very

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safe landing landing speed um as far as

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the test today i think it's about um

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20 16 miles per hour

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yeah i will have to get back on the

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exact number but yeah somewhere in that

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ballpark looking at um

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the specific landing speeds we actually

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vary the velocity and vary the angle of

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impact of the vehicle in the water to

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try and capture all of the envelope that

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we need to design towards

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that's that's amazing and so

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what's the difference between a hydro

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well the hydro impact basin is flat at

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the bottom for one and it's also much

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larger so

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be following the water that goes into it

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which again a million gallons of water

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is needed to ensure that we can test uh

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high velocity impacts into the water and

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basically make sure the capsule is not

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hitting the edges of the pool so those

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are kind of the primary differences

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there

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and do you know is is the base in salt

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water and how deep is it

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so it is 20 foot deep and it is not salt

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water it's a mix of light bit of

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chlorine but uh mostly just normal tap

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water with some flooring in it to make

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sure

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it's clear for underwater cameras

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not made for swimming though no not made

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for swimming

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so

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uh jacob what is the team looking for

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for to qualify as today's test as a

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success

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today uh we want a nominal release from

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the hook so we want to actually see it

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drop into the water um

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after that uh as long as it pops out of

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the water afterwards and we get all the

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data that uh we intend to get out of the

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test it will be

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everything we're looking for

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that's great so so debbie

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oh so we're as you can hear we're about

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two minutes away from the splashdown

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test so i think we'll keep taking some

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some questions from social um so make

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sure you're still leaving those comments

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down below and using

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ask nasa

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uh so

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debbie

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um

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when

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how fast will it be going

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i think i i think the range is about 10

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to 20 miles per hour um and like i said

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the parachutes do a really good job of

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slowing down the vehicle on impact we

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also have inside the the vehicle to

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protect the crew what's called the crew

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impact attenuation system so think of

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like shock absorbers on your car or

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maybe like your

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if you have a mountain bike something

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like that so it actually

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it softens the impact of the the vehicle

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when it lands so so not only very very

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smooth and very not very much

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dynamics there it's not getting not

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getting all jostled around as they're

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yeah landing they have they have very

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nice crew attenuation and nice cushioned

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seats that help attenuate that load into

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the crew member yep um great and i i

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think we have

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maybe time for one more question how

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long will it sit in

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the nominal recovery is pretty quick i

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think the requirement is it could be

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there for up to two hours but we

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actually have recovery crews on site

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that get to the vehicle almost

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immediately

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extract the crew and get them back on

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the the recovery ship and then actually

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tow the vehicle back into the recovery

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ship for

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for um out you know deconfiguration and

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actually starting with artemis three

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will be reusing those crew capsules so

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awesome well thank you we're going to

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15 14 13

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12

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10

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9

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eight

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seven

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six

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five

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four

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three

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two

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you can't get better than that

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that was amazing

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yeah it was really cool what'd you think

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how's it look yeah can't get better than

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that it looked like a perfect release

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and uh yeah it looks like

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capsule behaved as expected

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that's so great to hear

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um so i think we are gonna try and take

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a couple more questions from from social

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um and then

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maybe possibly see a replay of of this

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drop

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um

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let's see

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so

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coming in

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uh jacob uh how high

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was orion dropped from today

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so ryan was dropped about seven feet in

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the air

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so not a whole lot of height but plenty

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enough to get some good speed into the

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water and make a nice flash like we saw

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today

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awesome

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um and debbie

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we've got lots of questions for debbie

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um so what other tests uh

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what other tests are there is this

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what's this test particularly used for

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okay so yeah this test is very

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specifically used for our structural uh

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verification and qualifications so as i

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mentioned it's an exact duplicate of our

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flight design and so that's the primary

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uh reason for doing all of these

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different water drop dust is to make

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sure that we've predicted our loads

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accurately and that the margins that we

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have in the vehicle are actually in the

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flight vehicle that we have built so

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there's a whole lot of other testing

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that goes into building a spacecraft so

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when you talk about the actual flight

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vehicles with all of the instrumentation

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and equipment that's installed we do

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lots of thermal cycle testing thermal

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vacuum testing vibration testing every

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component that goes in the vehicle goes

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through its own test program and then

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the vehicle as a whole goes through a

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very elaborate test program where we do

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a thermal cycle thermal vacuum emi emc

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so the the flight units and the flight

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vehicles are

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very well rung out before we fly to make

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sure everything will work properly in

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the very harsh environments of space

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that it'll be operating in

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oh wow that's amazing so we've got a

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couple questions about um

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parachutes

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so

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are are there gonna be parachutes on on

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orion and how many parachutes will there

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be when it lands okay it actually when

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it actually lands it lands under three

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main parachutes but um it actually could

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can land sufficiently under two so it's

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one of our systems that has a lot of

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redundancy and safety built into it

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because it is safety critical system

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there are a series of parachutes that

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deploy as the crew module enters the

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atmosphere and to slow it down

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and as far as testing the parachutes

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have actually completed their entire

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test program so there were dozens and

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dozens of drops of test articles and we

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called lawn darts and other items out

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the back of airplanes looking at every

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possible uh permutation of that

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parachute system so you want to make

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sure if you

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had only one two drugs open or only one

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or only two main parachutes open that

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you can actually the crew would be able

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to survive any kind of anomaly event and

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testing all sorts of wind speeds and

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other parameters you have to test to

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make sure your parachute system is

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complete so ours is actually finished

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certification it's installed in the the

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vehicle and ready to go

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that's awesome um so

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how many uh drops have been done on

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orion um

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sorry

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wrong question um is orion going to

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carry astronauts to the moon

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or mars

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and how many crew can it hold okay

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yeah in fact that's exactly what orion

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is designed to do it's designed to carry

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crew members to the lunar vicinity and

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right now the current module will hold

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four crew members for up to 21 days of

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active use it's about 200 days of

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quiescent use so if the crew left the

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the art of the orion vehicle and when

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it's like a gateway or a space station

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orbiting the moon uh the vehicle is fine

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in a quiescent mode for up to 200 days

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so um yes definitely designed exactly

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what it's designed for to take crew

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members to and from the lunar vicinity

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now to the lunar surface you're talking

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about a lander or something else the

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orion vehicle itself does not actually

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go to the surface of the moon you'd have

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a lander that would take your crew

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members and i think the the architecture

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for mars is still being discussed on

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what kind of transport vehicle you would

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need certainly some additional support

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very cool

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um

566
00:20:41,190 --> 00:20:38,480
so will there be future orion tests uh

567
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done at a higher height

568
00:20:43,909 --> 00:20:42,720
um yeah there are more tests planned as

569
00:20:45,270 --> 00:20:43,919
a part of this sequence jacob you want

570
00:20:46,470 --> 00:20:45,280
to talk about the the next few tests

571
00:20:48,549 --> 00:20:46,480
coming up sure

572
00:20:50,870 --> 00:20:48,559
so uh we are going to do one more

573
00:20:53,430 --> 00:20:50,880
straight drop test at this test facility

574
00:20:54,710 --> 00:20:53,440
uh we'll lift it up uh much higher than

575
00:20:56,310 --> 00:20:54,720
this test here

576
00:20:57,750 --> 00:20:56,320
really to exercise the capsule as it

577
00:20:59,510 --> 00:20:57,760
impacts the water

578
00:21:01,830 --> 00:20:59,520
and then we're also going to be doing a

579
00:21:04,870 --> 00:21:01,840
swing test where we'll actually pull the

580
00:21:06,870 --> 00:21:04,880
vehicle back towards the east end of the

581
00:21:08,870 --> 00:21:06,880
test facility and allow it to swing into

582
00:21:12,310 --> 00:21:08,880
the water so we'll have a combination of

583
00:21:13,830 --> 00:21:12,320
both horizontal and vertical velocity

584
00:21:16,630 --> 00:21:13,840
so yeah we i think we have two more

585
00:21:19,190 --> 00:21:16,640
tests planned for this uh test article

586
00:21:21,590 --> 00:21:19,200
here right because this is the second of

587
00:21:24,630 --> 00:21:21,600
four for this for this crew module

588
00:21:27,190 --> 00:21:24,640
um and do you know how many sensors are

589
00:21:29,510 --> 00:21:27,200
on this orion test vehicle so yeah we

590
00:21:32,230 --> 00:21:29,520
have 500 different sensors on this test

591
00:21:34,710 --> 00:21:32,240
vehicle and they are a combination of

592
00:21:36,870 --> 00:21:34,720
strain gauges accelerometers and

593
00:21:40,070 --> 00:21:36,880
rotational rate sensors distributed

594
00:21:42,149 --> 00:21:40,080
throughout the test article

595
00:21:45,110 --> 00:21:42,159
wow that's awesome and we actually have

596
00:21:47,270 --> 00:21:45,120
a special guest with us

597
00:21:49,510 --> 00:21:47,280
um our

598
00:21:51,350 --> 00:21:49,520
our center director

599
00:21:53,990 --> 00:21:51,360
is here and he actually brought us

600
00:21:55,590 --> 00:21:54,000
something to show

601
00:21:59,669 --> 00:21:55,600
if we want to

602
00:22:03,909 --> 00:22:01,750
hi

603
00:22:05,190 --> 00:22:03,919
clayton would you like to explain what

604
00:22:08,390 --> 00:22:05,200
what the

605
00:22:11,430 --> 00:22:09,430
so

606
00:22:13,750 --> 00:22:11,440
this poster represents why we're doing

607
00:22:15,430 --> 00:22:13,760
all this it's not only the artemis

608
00:22:17,669 --> 00:22:15,440
program and using orion capsule to

609
00:22:19,350 --> 00:22:17,679
return to the lunar surface but it's

610
00:22:22,070 --> 00:22:19,360
talking about our future where humans

611
00:22:24,549 --> 00:22:22,080
are on mars and you notice the caption

612
00:22:28,950 --> 00:22:24,559
first day of school so we're projecting

613
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,990
very cool

614
00:22:36,549 --> 00:22:34,230
thank you so much and that was our was

615
00:22:37,590 --> 00:22:36,559
nasa langley center director clayton

616
00:22:39,830 --> 00:22:37,600
turner

617
00:22:41,830 --> 00:22:39,840
so great information so thank you

618
00:22:44,310 --> 00:22:41,840
clayton for coming on

619
00:22:46,310 --> 00:22:44,320
um so we have a couple more questions

620
00:22:47,270 --> 00:22:46,320
here on social

621
00:22:50,390 --> 00:22:47,280
uh

622
00:22:55,430 --> 00:22:54,149
so what other tests um

623
00:23:00,390 --> 00:22:55,440
are

624
00:23:05,029 --> 00:23:02,230
what other tests was this particular

625
00:23:06,710 --> 00:23:05,039
test article used for okay yeah the the

626
00:23:08,549 --> 00:23:06,720
sta the structural test article has been

627
00:23:09,909 --> 00:23:08,559
part of several tests

628
00:23:11,909 --> 00:23:09,919
like i mentioned some of the testing

629
00:23:13,830 --> 00:23:11,919
that we talked about earlier

630
00:23:15,830 --> 00:23:13,840
on all of the environmental testing done

631
00:23:17,669 --> 00:23:15,840
like the thermal vac thermal cycle

632
00:23:19,029 --> 00:23:17,679
vibration so we use this test article

633
00:23:20,630 --> 00:23:19,039
this is sort of the end of the road for

634
00:23:23,110 --> 00:23:20,640
this test article this will be its sort

635
00:23:24,870 --> 00:23:23,120
of last last big test to qualify the

636
00:23:27,110 --> 00:23:24,880
structure but it's been used all along

637
00:23:29,190 --> 00:23:27,120
the way for a variety of tests to verify

638
00:23:30,710 --> 00:23:29,200
the vehicle design

639
00:23:33,510 --> 00:23:30,720
wow awesome

640
00:23:37,270 --> 00:23:33,520
well i think that's a wrap for us today

641
00:23:40,549 --> 00:23:37,280
we thank you guys so much for joining

642
00:23:42,630 --> 00:23:40,559
if you want to know more about the orion

643
00:23:45,830 --> 00:23:42,640
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