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Hi,

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My name is Howard Hu. I am the acting

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program manager for NASA's Orion program.

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We are very excited that we could share

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with you the progress of our three

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spacecraft that is going to support the

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Artemis missions.

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Orion is NASA's next generation human

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spacecraft

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taking the first woman and the next man

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to the lunar surface.

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We are very excited to be here and share

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with you our progress.

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Now we can't do this without the very

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many people that support the

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Orion program and of course we have 

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suppliers

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and people who help build the spacecraft

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across all 50 states including

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Washington DC and Puerto Rico.

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Now we also have our European partners

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who are significant contributors to the

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Orion program across 10 countries in

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Europe. They help

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also build the spacecraft parts and

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components (that) are necessary

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for us to fly to the Moon. Let me tell

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you a little bit about the Artemis I (one)

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spacecraft. Earlier this year we just

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completed a very important system level

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that demonstrated Orion's ability to

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survive

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and operate robustly in space.

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It was the environmental test at Plum

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Brook Station

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where we simulated the space environment

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for vacuum and temperature.

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And of course Orion passed with flying

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colors and demonstrated our readiness 

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for flight. Now we only have a few

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assembly tasks at KSC to pull the entire

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vehicle together

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and then shortly after that we will be

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ready to hand over

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to our ground processing team and

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stacking on the Space Launch System so

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(a) very exciting time

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for us regarding Artemis I (one).

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Now Artemis II (two) we're also making

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significant progress there. Just recently

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we finished bonding over 180 tiles for

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the heat shield and the heat shield

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is at the bottom of the crew module

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which keeps the crew safe as we re-enter

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the atmosphere. It's a very high

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temperature 5,000 degrees

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so the the crew needs a lot of

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heat shield material provides and so

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very exciting 

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news there that we were able to 

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finish there. And of course we're making

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a lot of progress

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for Artemis II (two) doing a lot of

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work installing the hardware that's

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to operate the vehicle and of course

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electronics and other components inside

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the crew module as well. So,

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lots of great progress there. And lots of

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great progress over in Europe as well

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as the Europeans are pulling their final

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pieces of the European service module

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that provides the power and the

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for the spacecraft so that's coming

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along as well. And of course

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they will be delivering their part of

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we will be putting that together and be

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ready for Artemis II (two) in the future

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as well. And finally for Artemis III (three) we're

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also making great progress there.

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Thales Alenia is delivering that in late

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September so that's great progress.

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We've got the first panel built.

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windows so it's very exciting that we're

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gonna have this capability

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delivered in the near future and

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very excited that that's completed.

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Now I want to congratulate Lockheed and

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AMRO for

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making this possible. It's

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certainly very exciting

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you know. We're getting close to flight

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for Artemis I (one) and then we're making

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great progress on II (two) and of course

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we've started making great progress on

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Artemis III (three) as well so really exciting

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times for the program.

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With that, I am going to turn over to

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Lockheed Martin. I will introduce Mike

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who is the vice president for Human

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Well, thank you Howard. As NASA's prime

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contractor for the Orion

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program and the spacecraft we're

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we certainly work constantly day and

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meet these aggressive schedules and to

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make sure that we're ready

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for the Artemis missions as Howard

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Today we're particularly excited because

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one of our great suppliers so we'll be

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manufacturing which is in El Monte,

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sloped pieces. If you think of the

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Orion capsule, these

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sloped pieces along the top of the

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capsule are really critical components

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and that's what the AMRO team

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manufactures. We're actually

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celebrating the completion of that first

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to talk about AMRO. Mike is the CEO of

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AMRO. He's actually the third generation

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of the Riley family

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to run AMRO and they have been a

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fantastic partner for the Orion program.

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So Mike, I'll turn it over to you and ask

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you to explain how you machine the

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and have your team show us what it is

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that you do so well.

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Thanks for the introduction Mike. ARMO

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has been in business for over 40 years

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and I'm honored to be a third generation

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member of the AMRO family.

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AMRO has been involved in the Orion

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program since day one

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and we are honored and excited to see

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what the program has evolved into.

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Standing next to me here we have one of

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the cone panels for the Orion pressure

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vessel -- the window panel.

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the lunar surface through.

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This panel is currently complete and

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third cone panels which will be

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Bola, tell us a little bit about your

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experience working on the Orion panels.

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of position and safety required here at

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we make good parts so the Astronauts

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safe to see their families.

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Thompson. David and I are standing in

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two SLS panels. David can you tell us a

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little bit about the panels that we're

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left, we have an engine section

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We're getting it ready for inspection.

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Then we'll head over to forming.

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Excellent! Thanks, David. Thanks for all

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your hard work to make this program a

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Now, Mr. Howard Hu, back to you. All right,

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to meet those challenges and get us to

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of Artemis III (three). So, we've talked about the

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our suppliers across the country like

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III (three)? Sure thing Howard,

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that's a great question. Phillip, here

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with me to answer that

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is Program Manager David Thompson.

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Thank you, Mike. So how is a cone panel

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weighing approximately

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13,000 pounds. As you can see here, it's

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about 200 pounds in the formed condition.

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departments here at AMRO.

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five-axis machining. We have CNC

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finally we have final assembly.

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friction stir welded to this panel

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are currently in production and will be

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completed in a couple of months.

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All right, we have another question. 

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let's see if Mike Hawes could answer

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this one. Andrea at the Houston

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Chronicle also wants to know

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how many panels total come together on

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the Orion spacecraft

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and how many parts, nuts, bolts are need

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to assemble the entire spacecraft?

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So Mike, I think you got a tough one.

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components that come together to

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make the Orion spacecraft and

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again a reference back to the crew

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module,

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just to build the crew module we're

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going to talk in the order of 200,000

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parts. When we talk about you know

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all of the fasteners and bonds and

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the tiles that cover the surface, so

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hundreds of thousands of parts and 

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the European service module and the

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launch abort system that actually gets

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stacked on top of this.

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But I want to focus on the the key

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pieces of the pressure vessel as we call

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and how we have improved that over

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time. We're focused here

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with the AMRO team on the cone panels.

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but there are only four other pieces of

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the structure that all get welded

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were over 30 panels that had to be

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welded together

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and so over time we have simplified that

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seven and we've saved mass, we save time

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first panel

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that we've been talking about today. We

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continue to deliver panels. AMRO will

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continue to deliver those panels

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through the course of the fall. All seven

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major pieces of the pressure vessel

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structure

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will come together at the Michoud

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by this fall, late this fall.

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together with the friction stir welding

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process that

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we have developed on earlier NASA

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programs and used today

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by September of 21. Then we would

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actually expect to deliver that pressure

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vessel to Florida to the team in the

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Operations and Checkout facility and

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then they'll really start building up

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the entire spacecraft.

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And finally we have one last question

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from Leonard David from Newsspace.com.

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He asks -- with the increasing role of

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entrepreneurs in space,

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how best can the larger space primes

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work with these groups?

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Any advice on this? Let's see, I think Mike

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Hawes and I both could answer this

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question. I'll start first.

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You know, we are certainly working

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with the commercial partners to improve

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not only

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their design but also give them data so

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we've given a range of

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not only requirements data, products test

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data that

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we've generated, reports, and of course

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all the

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design aspects that are important to

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the commercial space flight programs we

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provided as well.

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parachute data which

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obviously provides a safe landing for

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the crew,

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aerothermal aerodynamics database

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and data, all the testing that we've done

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across the board, the GNC guidance

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navigation control

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design, and also re-entry data.

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So lots of significant items -- over a

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thousand products

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that we've given to these commercial

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partners to enable them

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to be successful as well. So I look (it) as

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a partnership

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across all the NASA programs to help

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each other and learn from each other.

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inputs.

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So the question of entrepreneurial

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companies is

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a really fascinating one. We've seen

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so much happen in just the last few

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with the supply chain that we have on

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Orion and Howard didn't mention that

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earlier that we have

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hundreds of companies across the country

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that are all

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providing and probably half of our

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suppliers are actually

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small businesses so when we talk about

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newly started companies entrepreneurial

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companies they certainly fit in that

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kind of range.

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All right. Thank you to Dr. Hawes and

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Mike Riley for helping me today and

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joining us

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on giving a status of Orion.

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Today  it's been a great day What 

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getting

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a discussion with you in terms of our

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progress and 

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fielding some questions from the 

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reporters, so

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appreciate that, and stay tuned we've

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got a lot of exciting things happening

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in Orion.

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we've got a lot of great progress, like I

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said across all three vehicles.

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We'll certainly talk about 

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getting ready for launch, or what we

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call path to the pad,

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and supporting all our Artemis missions

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going forward it's a very exciting time

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for us at NASA

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and looking forward to you joining us on

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that journey.

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Thank you!