Unboxing a New NASA Spacecraft
Go behind the scenes as we unbox NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, after its arrival at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Northrop Grumman engineer Steve Turek and NASA EDGE’s Chris Giersch walk us through the whole process of unboxing a spacecraft – from the instrument that records every tiny bump on its journey to the special crane used to lift the spacecraft to its new home.
ICON launches in fall 2018 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to study Earth’s interface to space. Read more about the ICON mission: nasa.gov/icon
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Music credits: ‘Yellow Flicker’ by Andrew John Skeet [PRS], Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS]; ‘Passing Images’ by Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS]; ‘Push Away’ by Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS], Mikey Rowe [PRS]
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Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Interviewee
- Steve Turek (Northrop Grumman)
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Host
- Chris Giersch (Genex Systems)
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Producers
- Joy Ng (KBRwyle)
- Karen Fox (ADNET)
- Sarah Frazier (SGT)
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Videographer
- Cory Huston (ASRC Federal Data Solutions)