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Hi I'm Lindsay Aitchison.
I work on spacesuits.
This is #AskNASA and
I'm here to answer your
questions.
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How will NASA
get to the Moon?
Well, we have a brand new
SLS Space Launch System
rocket.
It's launch day and oh the
fire and smoke, oh the
power, oh the power, you're
up in space and at that
point you lose your abort
system so let that go back
to Earth and then one more
big push and now your
Orion is taking three days
to fly all the way over
to the Gateway where, it
parks and now you and now
you're ready to start the
next phase.
This is where youre going
to start to unload the
science equipment and
pull out your spacesuits.
And then it's
time for the fun stuff.
Were going down to
the lunar surface.
So once you put on
your spacesuit, you're
going to crawl into the
ascent module and that
will take you all the way
down to the lunar surface.
Once you're
there, go outside start
doing science, geology.
Spend a couple of days,
once youre done doing all
that, you climb back into
your ascent module, take
off and return
to the Gateway.
Once you get back
to the Gateway, you're
going to unpack all
of your science and
everything you wanna take
home, put it into the
Orion, everybody truckles
back into the Orion, we
start that three-day
journey back home.
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Why do we need a gateway
to get to the Moon?
Were going to the Gateway
because it makes a lot of
sense for sustainability.
That means you can go back
multiple times and use it
to get anywhere
around the Moon.
You can also use it as a
staging point on our way
to Mars.
How will humans
explore Mars?
Well that's
actually kind of what
we are trying to learn by
going back to the Moon.
In addition to learning to
learning so much about how
the Moon was created,
which tells us how Earth
was created, we're
really practicing all
those new technologies as
new ways of living off
the Earth before we go to
Mars.
So once we get there we'll
of practiced everything on
the Moon and then
we can head out.
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So, what will the Gateway
Wi-Fi password be?
Hopefully something
easy to remember.
Would you go to the Moon?
Absolutely.
Do I get to choose
who goes with me?
Have you worn an
astronaut glove?
Yes I have.
As part of a spacesuit
engineer we try on all of
our own hardware.
How does NASA
throw a party?
Ya planet.
If you could go anywhere
in the solar system, where
would you go?
Probably Mars.
I mean, its far enough
to be interesting.
First one there, but still
close enough to home if
you have a problem.
What's the coolest thing
about a spacesuit?
The coolest thing about a
spacesuit is that they are
made to fit you exactly
so you can have all the
mobility you need to both
do your job and stay
alive.
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