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>> So today what
you're going to hear

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about is a critical
test coming up.

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Where we will take a really
highly representative structural

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model of the Orion crew module.

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The part of the Orion where
the crew will live and travel

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through space to
other destinations.

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And the specialists
are going to tell you

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about a test that will be done.

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Where they will talk a model

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of the structure
of the crew module.

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And they will do a test to show
how the emergency escape rocket

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can pull the crew away if
they ever need to be pulled

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to safety during
the rocket launch.

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>> In the same facility,

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we'll have the European service
module delivered to the Cape.

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Assemble it with
the crew module.

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And early next year the
whole vehicle will be here

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for the same sort of testing

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that the crew module is
experiencing today for AA-2.

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Near-term test will fly
this abort next year.

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And we'll fly the first
exploration mission beyond the

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moon, as Joel mentioned,
in about a year after that.

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But what a test facility
like this allows us to do,

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besides what Nicole said,
everything together.

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Is to be able to
demonstrate margin.

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So even if you fly successfully,
you may have been really close

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to a failure, but
you don't know it.

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In a facility like this with
the capability to overexpose

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to a level we can predict.

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Then validate all the models.

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You make predictions.

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You know what the
result would be.

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And then this would verify
that your models are correct.

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And then you can
apply the analysis

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to much different conditions.

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And you know you've
baselined it all.

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Like this system will be able to
extract the crew during ascent

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up until we get high enough

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that the vehicle can
recover on its own.

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But then the vehicle is designed
so that, during the trip

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to the moon or to Mars,
it has an abort capability

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to curtail the mission.

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Turn around and come back.

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Within the limits of
orbital mechanics.

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Like Apollo 13, you had to go
to the moon and come back again.

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But the system is all designed
with consumables and power

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and capability to be able

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to bring the crew
back safely any time.

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>> So I'm the project manager

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for the Orion testing
here at SEC.

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We've already conducted
three tests,

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large-scale tests
for Orion program.

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And this is going
to be our fourth.

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And it's the first
full up flight vehicle

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that we'll be testing here.

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So we're really excited
about it.

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You can see it behind me.

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Sitting in the Reverberant
Acoustic Test Facility.

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It's a test facility that
goes up to 163 decibels.

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We'll test this guy up
here at about 155 decibels.

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Just for relation.

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If you stood behind a jet
engine while it was running,

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that's about 145 decibels.

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So you can guess how loud it is.

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We're going to run a series
of tests where we creep up on

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that really high level of 155.

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Dr. Olansen back here is
going to be sitting there

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with his team looking
at all the data.

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Making sure that the
structure's okay.

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And that all their
instrumentation is okay.

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Basically we're checking this
thing out so we can send it

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down to the Cape so he can do
a really successful test flight

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on it next April.

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So we're very excited about it.

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Here we specialize.

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And when all those systems are
put together, either as a module

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or an entire spacecraft.

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We can test those here
for the launch ascent

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and on-orbit conditions.

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So this is kind of
the final piece

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of everything that's
combined that we do here.

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And then we can send
it down to the Cape.

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We can do a flight test.

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And then we can put
people on it.

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Ensure that they're going
to be safe when they fly.

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>> From an Orion perspective,
this is one of four flight tests

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that we're working towards.

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This is the third of four.

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Two tests have already
been accomplished.

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There was Pad Abort
1 back in 2010.

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EFT-1 in 2014.

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So we're up next in April.

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We're actually flying this test.

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It's a full stress test of
the launch abort system.

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To demonstrate that we can
pull the crew away from vehicle

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in case of an emergency.

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To demonstrate that we
can do that successfully.

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And collect a lot of data
in the environment as we go

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through that test so
that we can use that data

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to anchor all the models

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that exist throughout
the Orion program.

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It is all about crew safety.

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The entire purpose, collecting
the data, it's all to make sure

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that the launch support system
will work as advertised.

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It will work in the stressful
conditions that Larry mentioned

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at the maximum dynamic
pressure; right?

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Trying to test at all those
different configurations

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to make sure that the crew can
be returned safely should there

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be any events during ascent.

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So that is the whole
purpose of the test.

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It's why we're executing it.

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We maintain that focus
throughout the entire build.

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So we want to make sure we
can accomplish this test

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and get all the data.

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So that's our focus in
putting everything together.

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That's why we're
here doing this test.

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Making sure we, not only that
the vehicle itself will survive.

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But we accurately characterize
it so we understand the data

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that we're getting during
the flight test itself.

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