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1-a. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says that America will continue to lead in space and that failure is not an option.
Duration: 17 seconds
› Listen › Text version 2-a. Engineer Victoria (Torey) Long introduces herself.
Duration: 17 seconds
› Listen › Text version 3-a. Torey Long defines "failure."
Duration: 34 seconds
› Listen › Text version 4-a. Torey Long explains how failure is part of the engineering design process.
Duration: 31 seconds
› Listen › Text version 5-a. Torey Long explains what NASA does to try to prevent failure.
Duration: 30 seconds
› Listen › Text version 6-a. Torey Long describes some of the tests hardware is put through before NASA uses it.
Duration: 30 seconds
› Listen › Text version 7-a. Torey Long explains what NASA does if a failure occurs.
Duration: 19 seconds
› Listen › Text version 8-a. Torey Long describes how NASA learns from failure.
Duration: 21 seconds
› Listen › Text version 9-a. Torey Long describes the different tasks that failure analysts perform.
Duration: 50 seconds
› Listen › Text version 10-a. Torey Long explains the important results of a failure at NASA.
Duration: 27 seconds
› Listen › Text version 11-a. Camille Alleyne explains the test program that a vehicle goes through before it's launched.
Duration: 1 minute 18 seconds
› Listen › Text version 12-a. Camille Alleyne discusses how a vehicle is tested to make sure it will survive the most extreme conditions that it may encounter.
Duration: 49 seconds
› Listen › Text version 13-a. Camille Alleyne explains what to do if a design fails.
Duration: 39 seconds
› Listen › Text version 14-a. Camille Alleyne explains how astronauts prepare for the unexpected.
Duration: 34 seconds
› Listen › Text version 15-a. The STS-133 space shuttle crew explains how astronauts prepare for and deal with failure.
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
› Listen › Text version 16-a. Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert says "Houston, we've had a problem."
Duration: 17 seconds
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