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("The Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz" begins)

- [Amanda] It's pretty cool to be able to be part

of something so big.

We are making the next generation

of human space flight possible every day.

I'm Amanda Gertjejansen,

and we're in New Orleans at Michoud Assembly Facility,

and we're developing the technology to put a man on Mars.

(waltz continues)

- [Announcer] We have a liftoff.

Liftoff on Apollo 11.

- [Amanda] Boeing was a part of the Apollo days,

we were part of shuttle,

and now it's Space Launch System.

- [Chad] SLS is the world's biggest, most powerful

human-rated rocket ever to be built.

Our current mission is to take astronauts

deeper into space than ever before.

And this SLS vehicle is the platform

that we will do that with.

I'm Chad Bryant.

I'm the NASA Core Stage Manager for SLS.

The Core Stage is the central piece of the rocket.

It contains oxygen and hydrogen that mixes together

to form a very explosive combustion,

two million pounds of thrust,

that gets it off the pad and deeper into space

than ever before.

Going to Mars is not easy,

and so it requires a lot of detail in the design of the rocket.

It's all got to work together perfectly

in order to execute the mission.

We have human lives at stake.

All it takes is one part to fail,

and we can lose the mission.

You can't do anything of this scale

without tremendous amount of teamwork.

- [Amanda] Like, it's basically like this whole dance,

and we're the dance conductor.

You're excited to come to work everyday

because you're part of developing the technology

to put a man on Mars,

which would be an ultimate new frontier.