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Designing equipment to match the mission.
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My main responsibility is to figure
out what humans will do once we get to many
of these exploration destinations
that we'd like to go to.
For example, if we were going to return to the moon,
what would we do with astronauts when we got there?
If we were going to send astronauts to an asteroid,
how would we explore that?
If we were going to push all the way to Mars,
how would we explore Mars?
What would we do there?
When we're thinking about the design of hardware
to take human crews to places like the moon, asteroids, Mars,
the first thing we have to look at is the physics,
and the physics on each of these places is different.
The gravity is different.
The amount of energy it takes to get there
and to get back is different.
The environments that we see once we get there is
very different.
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