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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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we have brooke heathman who is the crew

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secretary which means that you do

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everything

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isn't that true what are some of the

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things you do for this crew my major

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task for being a crew secretary is to

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send out all the invitations for the

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crew to invite their family and their

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friends to come witness their launch

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i help prepare the invitations send out

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the letters i answer all the guest

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questions

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about where they need to be when what's

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going on what is launch like and then

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make sure that they all get on the right

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bus so that they all can witness the

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launch correctly and everybody's

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enjoying it they're all so excited and

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that is my main job it's not an easy job

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because you've got to answer that phone

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even though you're busy

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you deal with hundreds of people that

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are coming to this launch and you have

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to coordinate where they're going and

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answer all their questions and

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so we're totally indebted to

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to what you do

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so so you know us really well you're

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working right in the middle of the space

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program you're a vital person for launch

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i mean how did you think you were going

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to be doing this sort of job when you

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were i never imagined that you know

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growing no very excited that i am i

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actually started doing this as a high

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school co-op program

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i would go to school have the day and

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then i would go to work half a day to

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get us

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learning about a job and careers right

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and that and after there um i did so

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well in the high school program i also

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did a college co-op program and then

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eventually got a full-time position and

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loving every minute of it so you really

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love what you do you get to work in the

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space program you're able to put up with

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us and that's many people can put up

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with us

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you know all right so much fun our

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families have to put up with us

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but you

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all right well we we appreciate

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everything you do to keep us going i