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I'm Josh Byerly of public affairs officer here at NASA's Johnson Space
Center we're standing inside bldg nine which is the space vehicle mock-up
facility this is where we have the mock-ups of the space shuttle and also
the international space station and we have a new addition is the Orion
spacecraft here today to give us a quick tour of its gonna be just box
Jeff is a senior engineer who is working on the inside of the Orion spacecraft so
let's go ahead and take a look inside job
something just walking through the side hatch right here
and you might notice this is a little bit bigger than Apollo it's set up so
that we can actually take six people from the station and get him down on the
ground we can take four people up to lunar orbit right now you'll see there's
for these super looking devices right here when I'm sitting on one next to me
and to right here going to see it starting here right now so this is kind
of what it would look like we're set up for lunar operations will be obviously
be some other boxes and things in here for real vehicle
this is a low fidelity mock-up so we're just testing different concepts and here
anyway we have the docking hatch overhead if you take a look up here real
quick
that's where when we docked to the space station or where dr. the lunar lander
that the crew actually go through that tunnel and that hatch to get to the
other environment other things that you see inside here are these storage area
which is actually down where we're standing on its below our feet that's
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clothing and food and any portable devices like maybe a laptop or something
like that would be stowed underneath
now what you're looking at here again is the launch and landing configuration so
we get to orbit we're going to have to move some of this out of the way so we
can get access to that equipment and then spread it around the cabinet you
can take things like clothes and laptops and things and we can stick them to the
wall because we're in zero-g there is no real ceiling or no floor so we have the
ability to spread things out and use up all the space in here now one of the
other key areas is over this displaying control area right and the pride of
operators of the vehicle actually sit up underneath here i'll lay down the seat
just a minute let me first point out that there's some windows up here
there's four of them there's a there's two side windows which are indicated
with this black here and one of the opposite side and there's two for
windows
those are primarily used you know for your rendezvous and docking operations
to your other vehicles or just to look out when you're in a launch or landing
configure type of situation where you want to see what the horizon is and you
know what angles are arising my vehicle is my my vehicle on the right
configuration for flying in and those kind of things one might lay in a suit
you're not give you a feel of what the displaying controls look like to swing
the camera around here used to do what we have is three displays basically what
your computer model you're probably looking at this right now looks like if
you have a flat panel it might be turned where it's more like a landscape on the
side bars are just turned up and down like a piece of paper and that's about
the size of a piece of paper inside we have we we interface with the displays
are several ways to do it one of the concepts is to have some push buttons
and survives and allow us to maneuver inside the display to execute something
within the display like turn up-up bond or fan when we're in the launch and
landing configuration while strapped in our seats and our spacesuits we can't
really be reaching up you're doing that kind of thing so we're grabbing a device
that by our side wall allows us to maneuver you something like your mouse
or something in your display we're still working out the details of that now one
interesting thing about this cockpit is there's very few switches like you see
on any air . most of the controls for this vehicle or embedded inside the
display so we have to be able to turn something off and on in the software
another area that's really unique to this is a procedure you probably have a
suit of read directions when you're trying to put something together
well that's on paper today and probably everything you're used to but we're
going to put that inside software and that's represented by this text you see
up here so all our displays for electronic so get ready to get rid of a
lot of paper that's right guess we have a lot of paper but it is a challenge to
do because unlike a book you can just put on your lap and put a dog here on
the pain
nature and yellow sticky or right in you know it's not as easy when it's fixed in
this modern up here right
so hopefully that would be so feel for how the display control stations laid
out you'll also have a some kind of electronic keypad with numbers on it is
a backup to allow us to enter things will have some control devices to apply
the vehicle when we're doing rendezvous anyway that should help you to get
already anything any other questions josh i think that if we appreciate your
time we appreciate you taking the time to take a look thanks
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