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>>2020 is the year of perfect vision. We’ve got a lot going for us this year.
[Aircraft taking off]
>>The Roaring twenties are here, I feel like I’m living in a science-fiction novel.
[Thunder]
>>We’re looking forward to supporting these science campaigns studying the earth’s atmosphere.
There’s nothing like getting up there where you can look out over the distance
and see the curvature of the earth. We love a challenge, we love to learn, we love to explore.
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>>We essentially are using the Moon as a benchmark, so that Earth observing satellites can turn and
look at the Moon and set the scale on the amount of light they’re measuring
from the Earth.
>>865, increase your airspeed 10 knots.
>>Terminate.
>>Good encounter on that one.
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>>It’s pretty cool, we’re venturing into newer technologies. X-57 is better for
the environment.
>>The vibration level mimics what the controller will see in the aircraft.
>>It shows that our design is robust enough to meet the standards of flight.
>>These are our space-rated versions of our fiber-optic technology.
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[Music]
[Deep breath, exhale]
>>Keep going, keep going...
[Music]
>>Nobody in the world is doing what we’re doing.
[Wind blowing]
>>First off, I want to thank everybody for the level of productivity we’ve still maintained.
We’re gonna get over this. We’re a tough people, we can do this.
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>>There were incredible similarities between the oxygen we have to provide to a pilot and the oxygen we have to provide to a patient.
>>I’m extremely proud of how our engineers were able to use what they had available in their
garage and be able to build systems that might help a lot of people.
>>That’s what engineers do, we solve problems.
>>That’s who NASA is, the best and the brightest that America has.
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>>There’s not that much good news, and I think this is one of those things that it seems mostly
good…no matter where you are, this day heralds a new age of space exploration.
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>>Activate payload.
>>Success.
>>Tipping Point is a payload that we’ve been working together between Blue Origin and NASA.
It’s tied into the work that we’re doing in terms of getting NASA and America back to the Moon.
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>>What we’re hoping to be able to do is to put this collection of knowledge out there so that companies
can start to understand how do I design an airplane to be able to handle these kind of things.
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[Music]
[Aircraft taking off]
[Background noise]
>>GCAS...
>>As I try to steer it to the left, back towards the intruders, it continues to avoid.
[Music]
[Helicopter flying]
>>If we can provably control flutter in stability modes past the flutter boundary,
this would allow us to use lighter-weight, more flexible structures like those seen on the X-56.
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>>NASA Armstrong has a lot of cool projects, I mean every day you learn something new,
>>It’s fun and exciting.
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>>It’s exciting to work on something that could really benefit our nation.
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