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Starliner is our second crew module to take

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astronauts launched at the

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Kennedy Space Center, all the way to the International Space Station.

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Dock, perform their tasks

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and to return home. And Starliner will

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actually land not in the ocean like

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the Dragon spacecraft does, but instead

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landing on the desert floor in the Western United States

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Just like

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the Space Shuttle which helped us build the International Space Station -

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which by the way is a 120 yards

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long. In other words from one goal post

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in a football field to the other goal post. - That’s how big

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it is. Well the commercial crew program is

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taking our crew to and from the International Space Station

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and of course what we are doing is

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as we adapt to long durations in

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zero gravity, as we build new technology

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and new procedures, it’s going to help

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us on these much longer durations

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back to the Moon and eventually to Mars.

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As we continue to develop new

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spacecraft and as we continue

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to develop spacecraft that we can reuse,

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and as we start to use 3D

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manufacturing

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all of this is bringing down the cost of rockets and spacecraft.

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So that it become much more available

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to the average person to be able to go

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into space. And I think one day we will

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see the average person be able

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to go and fly among the stars.

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This is another repeat of the first

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test of an unscrewed Starliner spacecraft.

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The first one had a malfunction in the software.

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So NASA is very careful

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we want this one to go perfectly

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all the way to the International Space Station to dock

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autonomously and then to return home

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with a landing in the desert

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in the Western U.S. We want that to go perfectly before

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we put human astronauts on the first

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actual flight with humans.

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That is the reason we are doing the second orbital flight test.

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