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"Houston, Tranquility base here,  the Eagle has landed."
"Roger"

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[Peddie] When I was a little girl and people were always asking me what do you want to be when you grow up?

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And I always go I'm gonna work up there.

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As an engineer you dream of a job like this

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where you get to follow in the
footsteps of some of your childhood

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heroes. And and of course for me the
Apollo missions seeing these these folks

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on TV step on the moon and worked for
NASA as an engineer it's just a dream to

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be able to say you know I want to do
that too and Here I am.

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hi I'm Cathy Petty and I've got the coolest job at NASA.
I get to work on a project called

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the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter project
or LRO. We're going back to the moon.

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and guess what we're doing right now? We're
building all the parts of the spacecraft

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at Goddard Space Flight Center in
Maryland. The LRO instrument suite is

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comprised of six instruments and one
technology demonstrator. And they are

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geared towards providing us of a variety
of data sets ranging from a thermal map

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of the moon, global topography and most
importantly looking for resources like

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water ice on the moon. The entire suite
should provide more of an atlas as

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opposed to a map. So that we know where
to go on the moon. Where to have the safe

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landing sites and where to put things
like lunar outpost in the hopes of

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having human exploration in the near
future.

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All of our instruments have been built.
So right now they're they're all being

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qualified. Our propulsion tanks, all the
fuel that's going to take us to the moon

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and get us into the orbit already done
completed. So we're we're in the throes

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of the assembly sequence. All the
engineers and technicians and all of our

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our business folks are working very hard
to make sure that we successfully

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integrate it and test it and get ready
for our launch next year.

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[rocket launch]

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If I were to dream, I would love to see
that LRO lived way beyond, decades beyond

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its it's supposed life. And was able to
do more than what we said it would do

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and maybe discover something that
would not only enable human exploration

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but do something that just made it
happen like a lot quicker or we look

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back on the Earth and we were able to
help life here on Earth because of

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something that we never even thought of
because of of the little project called

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LRO. That that would be great that would
be awesome.

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