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<ul><li><keyword id="191583" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jeff-Bezos">Jeff Bezos</keyword>’ <keyword id="199288" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Blue-Origin">Blue Origin</keyword> is looking to make its own ‘free-flyer’ <keyword id="9986322" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="commercial-space-stations">commercial space stations</keyword>.<br /></li><li>A new job posting on the spaceflight company’s official website indicates that the company is looking to hire talent to head up its ‘<keyword id="9986321" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="orbital-habitat-formulation">Orbital Habitat Formulation</keyword>’ product line. <br /></li><li>One of the requirements is that the candidate needs to have an extensive network at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (<keyword id="6360409" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nasa">NASA</keyword>) that Blue Origin can tap into.<br /></li></ul>Billionaire and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company Blue Origin may be considering dipping its toe in the commercial space station game according to a recent job posting on the company’s website. And, it’s looking at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as its first potential customer. <br /><br />The job listing indicates that the company is looking for someone to lead the development of commercial space stations in Low-Earth orbit (LEO) as a part of its new product line ‘Orbital Habitat Formulation’.<br /><br />“LEO habitable stations, learning from but going beyond the ISS (International Space Station), are a first step,” said the <a href="https://blueorigin.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/BlueOrigin/job/Kent-WA/Orbital-Habitat-Formulation-Lead_R4688">job description</a> first spotted by <a href="https://spacenews.com/blue-origin-considers-entering-commercial-space-station-business/">SpaceNews</a>, <br /><br />Blue Origin asserts that these space stations will be ‘fundamentally’ different from the other ‘exploration habitats’ that the company is also planning on building. <br /><br />On the one hand, the company wants NASA to sign up, and on the other, it’s also looking at new acquisitions that help it create these habitats. <br /><br /><strong>Blue Origin targets NASA as its first customer<br /></strong>Hunting for funds and designing a robust product strategy in only one part of the job. The other is the ability to understand government requirements — particularly from NASA.<br /><br />Whoever scores the position will need to have an extensive network at the US-based space agency that Blue Origin can tap “to shape and accelerate the acquisition strategy for LEO destination systems.”<br /><br /><strong>But NASA has hit pause on its promised support<br /></strong>NASA announced its LEO commercialization strategy last year. It said that would support the development of both commercial modules installed on the ISS as well as ‘free-flyer’ space stations operating independently of the ISS — like the ones that Blue Origin wants to build. <br /><br />However, last month NASA hit pause on its NextSTEP program for a free-flyer solicitation, also known as Appendix K. According to officials [source], the space agency is not planning on pursuing the endeavour for the time being. <br /><br />“We are reevaluating how we want to do that solicitation. At this time we will not be moving forward with Appendix K,” said Angela Hart, LEO commercialization manager at NASA during the ISS Research and Development Conference held online on August 27.<br /><br />But the possibility is still on the cards, according to Phil McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight programs at NASA, who was on the same panel with Hart. “I can’t promise any specific timelines associated with that, but we are definitely working on the free flyer and intend to release a solicitation soon on that once we get our strategy all agreed to internally,” he said.<br /><br /><strong>SEE ALSO:<br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/school-bus-sized-asteroid-is-scheduled-to-make-its-closest-approach-to-earth-on-september-24/articleshow/78271529.cms">A school bus-sized asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth tomorrow — safely zooming past the planet</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/defense/news/china-has-hardened-its-stance-experts-decode-the-india-china-joint-statement-on-border-tensions/articleshow/78270081.cms">China has hardened its stance — experts decode the India-China joint statement on border tensions</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/microsoft-acquires-exclusive-license-for-elon-musks-largest-gpt-3-ai-language-model/articleshow/78269391.cms">Microsoft acquires exclusive license for Elon Musk’s largest GPT-3 AI language model</a><br /><br /></strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/facebook-india-head-goes-to-supreme-court-against-delhi-assembly-panels-summons-on-hate-speech/articleshow/78267998.cms"><strong>Facebook India Head goes to Supreme Court against Delhi Assembly Panel's summons on 'hate speech'</strong></a><br />

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is eyeing the commercial space station business — wants NASA as one of its first customers

<ul><li><keyword id="6360409" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="nasa" source="Orion">NASA</keyword> has granted a total of $415.6 million to three companies including <keyword id="191583" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="jeff-bezos" source="Orion">Jeff Bezos</keyword>’ Blue Origin.</li><li>These companies will develop <keyword id="452942" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="commercial-space" source="Orion">commercial space</keyword> stations slated to launch by the later half of this decade.</li><li>NASA’s plan is to create a robust <keyword id="1910557" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="low-earth-orbit" source="Orion">low-Earth orbit</keyword> economy with opportunities for both government and private sectors.</li></ul>NASA has big plans for commercial expansion in space as it has granted a total amount of $415.6 million to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, aerospace company Nanoracks, and defence contractor Northrop Grumman to design space stations and commercial destinations in space. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/a-nasa-astronaut-is-set-to-become-the-first-black-woman-to-live-and-work-at-the-international-space-station/articleshow/87994453.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">NASA </a>hopes to find a replacement for the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/high-speed-space-junk-risk-prompts-nasa-to-abruptly-delay-spacewalk-on-the-international-space-station/articleshow/88018185.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">International Space Station (ISS)</a> that has only till the end of the decade to retire.<br /><br />NASA plans for a “robust low-Earth orbit economy” includes coordination with private industry to formulate and design commercial destination capabilities that will work not only for potential government but private sector needs as well.<br /><br />        <div type="image" title="img (78)" msid="88067211" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Orbital Reef - the first commercial space station in low-Earth orbit is expected to start operating in the second half of this decade.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div><br /><strong>Orbital Reef<br /></strong><br />The first commercial <keyword id="45533" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="space-station" source="Orion">space station</keyword> in low-Earth orbit is expected to start operating in the second half of this decade. It will be called ‘Orbital Reef’ and it will be developed by Blue Origin and Sierra Space. Orbital Reef will be a “mixed-use space business park” that will support all types of human spaceflight activity in low-Earth orbit. It will feature reusable space transportation and advanced automation that is expected to help minimise the cost and complexity of users onboard the space station.<br /><br />        <div type="image" title="img (80)" msid="88067239" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Starlab, from Nanoracks, Voyager Space, and Lockheed Martin.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div><br /><strong>Starlab <br /></strong><br />Nanoracks is collaborating with Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin to develop a commercial low-Earth orbit destination called ‘Starlab’ that is slated to launch in 2027. It will be a continuously crewed, commercial space station which will be dedicated to “advanced research and commercial industrial activity and ensuring continued U.S. presence and leadership in low-Earth orbit.”<br /><br />Starlab could be the replacement for the ISS as it is designed to house four astronauts, and it will have power, volume, and a payload capability to the ISS. <br /><br /><strong>Northrop Grumman</strong><br /><br />Northrop Grumman is also developing a modular, commercial destination for low-Earth orbit. It will provide a base module for extended capabilities such as science and industrial experimentation. It will feature multiple docking ports for future expansion to support crew analogue habitats, laboratories, crew airlocks, and facilities capable of artificial gravity. <br /><br /><strong>SEE ALSO:</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/scientists-discover-mercury-like-exoplanet-where-a-year-is-only-eight-hours-long/articleshow/88063967.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Scientists discover Mercury-like exoplanet where a year is only eight hours long</a><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/exominer-machine-learning-method-helped-discover-301-exoplanets/articleshow/87979847.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">ExoMiner, a new machine learning method helped discover 301 exoplanets</a><br />

NASA backs Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and others with over $400 million funding to build commercial space stations

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>SpaceX; Kevork Djansezian/Getty; Shayanne Gal/Business Insider</span></p><p class="caption">Elon Musk and a SpaceX illustration of its Big Falcon Spaceship on Mars.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/spacex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SpaceX</a>, founded by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a>, is building a rocket-and-spaceship system to land people on Mars.</strong></li><li><strong>Musk said he wants to launch the first humans to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/mars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mars</a> in 2024, following an uncrewed mission in 2022.</strong></li><li><strong>As <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/spacex-organizes-inaugural-conference-to-plan-landings-on-mars/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ars Technica reported</a>, SpaceX held a private "Mars Workshop" with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/nasa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NASA</a> and other experts to draft plans for its Mars landings.</strong></li><li><strong>Experts say setting up a viable outpost, let alone a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/mars-colonization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">colony</a>, on Mars is more daunting than Musk has let on. </strong></li></ul><p>SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, held a hush-hush conference in Colorado this week to formulate a plan for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mars-colonization-human-survival-radiation-food-biosphere-2018-4">landing people on Mars</a> and building an outpost.</p><p>The inaugural "Mars Workshop," first <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/spacex-organizes-inaugural-conference-to-plan-landings-on-mars/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by Eric Berger at Ars Technica, happened Tuesday and Wednesday in Boulder, Colorado.</p><p>SpaceX reportedly sent invitations to about 60 scientists and engineers, asking them not to publicize the event or their attendance at the workshop. Leaders of NASA's Mars exploration program reportedly attended, but the agency did not answer Business Insider's questions about who from its staff was there.</p><p>Workshop attendees were asked to participate in "active discussions regarding what will be needed to make such missions happen," according to Ars Technica.</p><p>According to Ars Technica, the workshop may be "the first meeting of such magnitude" in SpaceX's quest to land humans on and ultimately <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/mars-colonization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">colonize the red planet</a>. (Though a SpaceX representative told Business Insider in an email, "we regularly meet with a variety of experts concerning our missions to Mars.")</p><p>It's about time for these discussions, especially if Musk wants to meet his "aspirational" timeline to launch the first human crew toward Mars in the mid-2020s.</p><p>"We already have the technology to build rockets and land vehicles on Mars. We've been doing that for decades," <a href="https://engineering.purdue.edu/ABE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=7380" target="_blank" rel="noopener">D. Marshall Porterfield</a>, the former director of NASA's Space Life and Physical Sciences Division, told Business Insider. "The main hindrance is the human factor. If you really are going to land a person on Mars, you have to feed them, keep them healthy, and build them habitats."</p><h2>What we know about SpaceX's Mars mission plans</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/913632410549366784">SpaceX/Twitter</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Musk launched SpaceX in 2002 in part because he was frustrated that NASA didn't have any actionable plan to land people on Mars.</p><p>Ever since, his company has been building <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/falcon-heavy-spacex-epic-rocket-launch-in-person-2018-2">larger</a> and more <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-block-5-2018-5">cost-effective rockets</a>, accruing <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-jobs-elon-musk-hiring-open-positions-2018-6">staff</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-funding-investments-500-million-2018-4">cash</a>, and working toward the ultimate goal of colonizing Mars.</p><p>Musk first presented an outline for reaching Mars in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-mars-speech-transcript-2016-9">September 2016</a>, then elaborated on it in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-mars-iac-2017-transcript-slides-2017-10">October 2017</a>. The plan called for an enormous, fully reusable spaceflight system called the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-big-falcon-rocket-bfr-facility-los-angeles-photos-2018-3">Big Falcon Rocket</a>, or BFR. The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-mars-iac-2017-transcript-slides-2017-10">35-story-tall system</a> would have two main parts - a giant spaceship atop a gargantuan booster - and be able to carry up to 100 people to Mars.</p><p>SpaceX plans to launch an uncrewed mission to Mars in 2022, followed by the first human explorers in 2024 - a timeline <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-elon-musk-launched-tesla-mars-falcon-heavy-2018-3">Musk said</a> he felt "pretty optimistic" about at the 2018 South by Southwest festival. He also elaborated on the idea of setting up a permanent Martian colony.</p><p>"It will start off building just the most elementary infrastructure, just a base to create some propellant, a power station, blast domes in which to grow crops - all of the sort of fundamentals without which you cannot survive," Musk said. "And then really there's going to be an explosion of entrepreneurial opportunity because Mars will need everything from iron foundries to pizza joints. I think Mars should really have great bars: the Mars Bar."</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1089/space.2018.29013.emu">Elon Musk/SpaceX; New Space/Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Publishers</a></span></p><p class="caption">A diagram showing how SpaceX plans to establish a base and methane-fueling depot on Mars.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Long before trying to colonize Mars, SpaceX will need to pull off its first landings there. Each will require about half a dozen BFR flights to get a spaceship into low-Earth orbit and refuel it.</p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-instragram-spacex-mars-ship-2018-4">Construction of a prototype</a> spaceship for the BFR system is now underway and may be test-launched as soon as mid-2019. Even if that effort goes well, SpaceX will still need to secure scores of durable supplies and high-tech equipment - and formulate well-laid plans to use it all.</p><p>Workshops with top experts in the spaceflight world could help SpaceX work toward those goals.</p><h2>Why SpaceX needs a great plan - and likely lots of help - to reach the red planet</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasakennedy/38796771514/">SpaceX</a></span></p><p class="caption">The spacesuit and Crew Dragon spaceship that SpaceX will use to launch NASA astronauts into space.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>To pull off its initial Mars plans and seed an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/andy-weir-artemis-book-moon-colony-reason-2017-11">off-world economy</a>, SpaceX will likely need tens of billions or <a href="https://oig.nasa.gov/audits/reports/FY17/IG-17-017.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hundreds of billions</a> of dollars.</p><p>SpaceX was awarded about $3 billion in US government awards and contracts to develop its Falcon 9 rocket and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-astronaut-suni-williams-on-spacex-boeing-spaceships-2018-6">Crew Dragon spaceship</a>, with much of that spent to meet NASA's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-starliner-fuel-leak-risks-nasa-access-iss-2018-8">exacting specifications</a> for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-announcement-astronaut-crew-spacex-boeing-selection-2018-8">flying astronauts</a>. But a Mars mission is far more ambitious - and dangerous.</p><p>Musk has not been shy about the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-hadfield-mars-travel-nasa-spacex-blue-origin-2018-6">high risk of failure</a>. In 2016 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-doesnt-want-to-die-going-to-mars-2016-9">he said</a> "the likelihood of death is very high" for the first Mars missions, and for that reason he probably wouldn't fly there himself.</p><p>"Being unafraid to fail has really been what's helped SpaceX advance so quickly," <a href="https://pressroom.usc.edu/steven-nutt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steve Nutt</a>, an aerospace and mechanical engineer at University of Southern California, told Business Insider. "Historically, engineers have learned more from their failures than they have their successes. By far."</p><p>Still, multilateral support from space agencies and aerospace companies won't come easy; SpaceX will need a very detailed proposal that doesn't sound like a suicide mission.</p><p>How, exactly, Mars missions would play out and which technologies would be used to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-elon-musk-mars-colony-plan-life-support-2017-10">keep people alive on the red planet</a> have yet to be described publicly by the company or shared with Business Insider. (We've asked SpaceX and Musk, to no avail.)</p><p>"They seem to have tackled a huge aspect of it - the rockets, the propulsion, the landing," Ray Wheeler, an advanced life support researcher at NASA's Kennedy Space Center who wasn't invited to SpaceX's Mars workshop, told Business Insider. "But having an efficient and appropriate habitat for the human, reliable life-support systems, the right spacesuits, and so on? That all demonstrates the complexity of this whole idea."</p><p>Porterfield said he admires SpaceX's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-reusable-rocket-launch-costs-profits-2017-6">reusable rockets</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-elon-musk-competition-companies-rockets-2018-3">growing disruption</a> of the rocket-launch industry. But he said that as late as 2016, before Porterfield left NASA to become a professor at Purdue University, SpaceX had "moderate to minimal" interaction with the agency about how to keep people alive in space.</p><p>The "Mars Workshop" conference may be SpaceX's first major attempt to discuss "the elephants in the room," he said. Porterfield acknowledged that few people know what SpaceX's 6,000-plus employees are doing, but said that from his recent perspective on the outside, it seems the company has until now not given much thought to deep-space crew survival and mission planning.</p><p>"All the contact I've had was with aerospace engineers and rocket people," Porterfield said of NASA's communication with SpaceX in previous years. "I didn't see any life support or human health and medicine people."</p><h2>The problem of surviving a mission to Mars</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.spacex.com/mars">Elon Musk/SpaceX</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>The main hurdles to existing on Mars - having enough food, air, and water - are not surprising, but that doesn't make them any less daunting.</p><p>Mars is an average of 140 million miles from Earth. The two planets line up in their orbits about once every two years, which shortens a yearslong trip between Earth and Mars to six or nine months.</p><p>"In a baseline Mars mission, if you go to the surface, you have to stay there. It's a three-year mission. You have to wait on the surface before the planets realign," Wheeler said.</p><p>By comparison, Apollo <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/earth-moon-distance-edge-of-outer-space-2018-5">missions to the moon</a> took about a week. Missions to the International Space Station can last months, but it can be resupplied with relative ease at 250 miles away.</p><p>Porterfield said that the food alone required to feed a ragtag Mars mission crew would amount to 10 tons, based on previous NASA planning. One possible solution to that weight challenge would be to predeliver food supplies years in advance, but that could lead to health problems. Vitamin C, for example, degrades fairly rapidly, so deep-space astronauts might risk developing scurvy.</p><p>Water is also very heavy, as are the filters and machinery needed to scrub poisonous carbon dioxide from a spaceship or <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-mars-human-habitat-finalist-designs-photos-2018-7">Mars habitat</a>.</p><p>"I don't now if they've assumed all this other stuff is less complex, or if it's already available, or NASA or other space agencies are already doing this," Wheeler said of multiple technologies SpaceX will need to pull off a Mars outpost. "Those might be incorrect or somewhat incorrect assumptions."</p><p>A technology called <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/astronaut-plants-air-food-water-life-support-2018-5">bioregenerative life support</a>, which Wheeler has worked on for decades, could help alleviate or even solve these issues.</p><p>The concept is to use biology - an ecosystem of microbes, plants, and even small animals - to scrub carbon dioxide from the air, regenerate oxygen, break down waste, and grow food. A small system could provide productive activities for long, cramped missions (such as gardening) and vital nutrition, Wheeler said. A larger system might constantly supply most of the crew's air and food, negating the need for resupply missions every couple of years.</p><p>"We're really talking about technology that replaces what the Earth does," Porterfield said. "This is our current bioregenerative life-support system."</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Damir Sagolj/Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">Inside a simulated space cabin in which students live as a part of the Lunar Palace 365 Project, at Beihang University in Beijing.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>But prototypes of this technology, such as China's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/r-china-tests-self-sustaining-space-station-in-beijing-2017-7">Lunar Palace-1 experiment</a>, are very heavy, energy-inefficient, and far from a ready-to-launch state. NASA had plans to do similar experiments, but President George W. Bush's administration defunded those projects in 2004, and funding for related work has been scarce or nonexistent since.</p><p>Keeping the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/space-effects-human-body-brain-bones-dna-2018-5">human body healthy in space</a> is another challenge that Porterfield said SpaceX needs to figure out. Floating in microgravity causes bones to weaken and muscles to atrophy, among other physiological problems. Deep-space <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mars-radiation-levels-spacex-nasa-exposure-2018-4">radiation</a> could be a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/martian-radiation-levels-crewed-mission-2017-7">big problem</a>, so developing effective shielding is necessary. It also leads to body-wide <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-twin-study-new-results-mark-scott-kelly-2017-10">genetic changes</a> that researchers are just barely beginning to detect, let alone understand.</p><p>The longest time any person has consecutively lived in space is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/crazy-numbers-about-scott-kellys-year-in-space-2016-2">about a year</a> - not three - and the longest mock mission to Mars lasted about 500 days. (The crew <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mars-mission-psychology-boredom-2016-5">got extremely bored</a>.)</p><p>"We really don't have a lot of data on what happens to a human in microgravity beyond a year," Porterfield said.</p><p>Despite his worries, Porterfield said he's excited that SpaceX is holding a workshop (and likely more in the future) to tackle the company's greatest challenges yet with some of the world's leading experts.</p><p>He's even hopeful that SpaceX - pending "substantial" investments in funding and staff - might pull off a viable crewed Mars mission within a couple years of Musk's 2024 target.</p><p>"They're not hindered by politics or government bureaucracy," he said. "They're capable of being much more nimble than NASA."</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nasa-has-not-sent-humans-to-mars-2018-2">The surprising reason why NASA hasn't sent humans to Mars yet</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

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