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My name is Kelsey Young, and my role
with the Artemis missions

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is, I am the Artemis Science
Flight Operations Lead.

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What that means is I'm responsible
for making sure that science,

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all of our science objectives,
are incorporated into the Artemis

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missions from a perspective
of the flight control team.

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Do we have science representation
on the flight control team? Does

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that science team have the infrastructure
that they need to be successful?

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How will Artemis astronauts
accomplish science objectives?

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How will they be trained?

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How will we design traverses
around science objectives?

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So my role as the Artemis Science
Flight Operations Lead

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is really to make sure
that science has the right role

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to play in the operations
of these exciting Artemis missions.

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For Artemis II, my role on the Artemis
II mission is

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I am the lead for the lunar science
objectives for the mission.

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So when the crew are flying by the moon,
they'll be taking pictures,

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of course, out the window
at the lunar surface.

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They'll be making observations,

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and my role is to lead those lunar science
objectives.

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The JETT5 mission was the highest fidelity
Artemis

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III surface mission simulation to date.

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It included a science team
that works both before the mission

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and during the mission,

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to insert science objectives in as high
a fidelity way as possible.

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What that science team did was,
before the mission happened,

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they interrogated the landing site with,
of course, their science glasses on.

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What science questions did
they want to answer?

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Where do they want the crew member
to go to address those science objectives?

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And the EVA, or spacewalk,
traverses were built in large part

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around those science objectives.

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During the JETT5 test,
that same science team supported the EVA’s

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from Mission Control in Houston.

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So they were able to provide science
guidance up to the crew

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on where to sample, how to best address
the science objectives,

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and how to maximize the return
from the JETT5 mission,

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just like they'll be doing with the Artemis III mission to the lunar south pole.

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Mission simulations like

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JETT5 are so critical to prepare the team
for Artemis surface exploration.

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It's critical
to test the hardware, like the geology

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sampling tools in these high fidelity
analog environments,

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but it's also really important
to prepare the ground teams, the flight

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control team, and specifically the science
team for what it's going to be like

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to actually be conducting these science
operations on the lunar surface.

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For example, how should the science team
structure themselves?

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How do they insert that science guidance,
those science recommendations,

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up into the rest of the mission
control team?

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How do we develop the ground
support infrastructure,

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the tools that we need to work in mission
control?

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These mission
simulations are really critical

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to give us these testing opportunities,
to allow us to figure out how our

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teams will operate.

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The San

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Francisco volcanic field is the field site
for the JETT5 mission simulation.

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It's near Flagstaff, Arizona,
which is an area that's actually long

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been used as an analog for preparing
for planetary surface exploration.

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Apollo crews trained not too far away
from where the JETT5 mission simulation

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occurred, and that San Francisco
volcanic field was chosen in large part

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because the terrain, you know,

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mimics the lunar surface
in a lot of really critical ways.

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It has the sci - the types of science
objectives accessible to mission

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simulation crews that Apollo and Artemis
astronauts have answered and will answer.

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It's the right scale of exploration.

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So the science targets, the EVA targets,
the spacewalk targets

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are at the right scale of exploration
that Artemis astronauts will experience.

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So it gives us a really high fidelity
and robust way to test our hardware

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and our infrastructure
in a high fidelity environment.

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And for me, as a scientist,
it's really exciting because it enables us

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to ask robust
and compelling science questions

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that our crew members for JETT5
will have to answer

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and have to rely on the science team
real time to help them answer,

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which makes it a really ideal testing
opportunity to start to prepare for the

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Artemis missions.

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The JETT5 EVA’s, or spacewalks,
the traverses

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that the astronauts
were running out in the field,

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were designed in part around science
objectives.

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They included astronauts
visiting sites of interest

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from a scientific perspective, collecting
samples, collecting samples of the rocks

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in the regolith in the area
to answer science questions

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that the science team was really excited
to have the astronauts perspective on.

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We conducted some of the JETT5 EVA’s
during the day and some of them at night,

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and the reason for that was to test
a variety of lighting conditions.

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One of the exciting things
about exploration at the lunar south pole

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is that the lighting environment
is really dynamic.

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The sun is going to be moving
within the course of one surface mission,

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and the astronauts
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to encounter a variety of different
lighting environments.

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So by testing some during the day
and some at night, it enables

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our teams to prepare for everything
that Artemis astronauts might experience.

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The JETT5 EVA’s were

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conducted with astronauts in the field
out in Arizona in our test site,

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but they were supported by a mission
control team back on Earth,

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so to speak, which in this case
meant Houston, Texas, in Mission Control.

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So we had a full EVA flight control team
supporting the JETT5 EVA’s,

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the traverses as they were conducted,
and as a part of that flight

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control team, we had a full science team
in the loop as well.

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So just like we expect for future Artemis
missions, we had a science back room

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full of lunar scientists and geologists
providing guidance to the crew real time,

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and we also had a science
flight controller embedded in the EVA

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flight control team
as that sort of senior voice for science

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within the rest of the EVA
flight control disciplines.

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The Science Evaluation

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Room is the science back room
for Artemis missions.

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And we actually had that science back room
populated for the JETT5 EVA’s as well.

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What the science back room,
or Science Evaluation Room for Artemis

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is, is actually the brain
trust of lunar scientists and geologists

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who are responsible for accomplishing our
lunar science and lunar surface science

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and geologic observations and objectives
during each Artemis mission.

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In that room,
we have a whole host of the lunar science

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and geology community represented,
and their job is to feed insights

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and recommendations up to the crew
during a mission to make sure

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that those objectives are represented
and accomplished throughout the mission.

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So it's really kind of where
the lunar science magic happens

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within the Flight Control team
and within Mission Control

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back on Earth during an Artemis mission.

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The Science Evaluation Room, or science
back room, for an Artemis mission

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has a lot of different kind of roles
and expertise represented within it.

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You have lunar scientists,
you have geologists, you have experts

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in imagery and imagery analysis
because images are,

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of course, a critical data set
for the science community after a mission.

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You have experts in sample science,
people who are really wanting

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to study the samples
when they return to Earth.

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You have software experts and lunar data
experts all working together to make sure

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that the science

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objectives, the lunar science
objectives of that mission accomplished,

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and that science expertise

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can be injected
through the Flight Control team real time.

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Artemis lunar science objectives
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those accomplished through geology,
through geologic sampling.

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We’ll be using geology tools,
like a rock hammer, to get samples in situ

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to collect for return to Earth.

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But they'll also include

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science payloads or science instruments
that crew deploy on the lunar surface,

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but that return data back to the science
teams for those instruments on Earth.

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So the lunar science team,
the Artemis mission science teams,

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will include those representing geology,
lunar science, the lunar science payloads,

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and they'll all be working together to
accomplish the lunar science objectives.

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It takes a lot of work to create a geology
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well-trained crew member, and we do that
in a number of different settings.

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We do it in the classroom,
we do it in the field,

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we do it through mission simulations,
and we do it by pulling on science

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community members from across
the number of science disciplines

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for which we have Artemis science
objectives.

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Definitely takes a science village
to create that well-trained crew member,

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and we're fortunate
to have those well-trained

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crew members as our science team
proxies on the lunar surface.