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hi i'm astronaut mike massimino earlier

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this year i flew aboard space shuttle

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atlantis to the hubble space telescope

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my crewmates and i spent more than two

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years training for that mission and now

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another crew is getting ready to fly on

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atlantis and they're going to the

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international space station

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they've been working hard to get ready

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for their flight and they've let us

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follow them around for the past few

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weeks with a camera we're about to show

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you some of that footage and you're

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going to get an up-close view of the

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crew go inside their training and hear

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some of the stories from the astronauts

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and their team

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this is sts 129 behind the scenes and we

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i'm mike massimino astronaut

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and i've been following around the svs

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129 crew and today what this crew is

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doing is they are inside of a simulator

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and they're practicing getting ready to

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come home at the end of their mission so

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they're pretending

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practicing that it's their last day in

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space

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and what they're doing is take making

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the space shuttle converting it from a a

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spaceship that goes around the earth and

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docks with the space station

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to a ship that can land like an airplane

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it'll land like an airplane like a

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glider

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on the runway

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at the kennedy space center that's the

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plan so that's what they're practicing

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now is converting it to uh to a ship

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so what they're doing now

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is they're checking

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they have a picture of how all the

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switches are supposed to look and

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they're comparing the actual switches

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to what they see in their book

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so instead of like coming out with a

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list it's easier to just see the picture

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and match the picture to what

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so they're turning that

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the space shuttle from a

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spaceship into something that can land

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and make sure everything's on the right

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isn't that right mike that's right

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it's always good to have two guys doing

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bobby making sure it's right

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that's a bruce mccandless switch okay

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yeah we don't use the man maneuvering

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unit anymore

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don't get any ideas bobby no flying

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around by yourself in a man-maneuvering

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that's it

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50 minutes

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did you tell them block 7 is complete

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yeah hey scorch

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yes you did

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hey i'll take your hud covers if you

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want we're gonna leave them

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leave them until about an hour prior

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to you so uh that fod for ray j's fog

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does it hit the hood covers i mean it

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stephanie and i just want to say happy

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we know you guys never made your

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deadlines with me so i didn't want to

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that's a great comeback

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totally justified so you guys have a

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cookie cake here awesome

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cool let's go down and have some we got

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time