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hi robert perlman with collectspace.com

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with a question for commander steve

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outside of times when the media like

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myself ask about this being discovery's

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how prevalent has the finality of this

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flight been during the course of your

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mission have there been specific times

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where the legacy and history of the

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vehicle has struck you

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well that's a that's a difficult

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question um

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we've been very busy during our mission

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as all shuttle missions are in space

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station missions and so mostly we've

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been probably spent spending 95 percent

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of our time to 99 on just doing the work

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and uh and getting the work done and and

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so when you're really busy like that

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you're focusing on doing the task doing

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the task correctly making sure you uh

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you get everything done how it's

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supposed to done and don't miss anything

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however there are times i know

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personally when i've been reflecting

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about it being the last mission and what

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a wonderful vehicle it is and probably

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you know we were coming up and docking

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and when you look at the cupola windows

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you can look right into discovery's

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payload bay and see the wings and see

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discovery written on the wings and times

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like that i really reflect about

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what a great vehicle it's been 39

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missions uh nearly one year on orbit and

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uh think about all the things that that

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vehicle has done and and uh it's just

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really inspiring to me and uh and kind

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of bittersweet um and and quite frankly

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sad that that knowing that when we land

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thank you and and to follow up on that

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a question for steve bowen and al drew

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they say a picture is worth a thousand

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words and through your helmet cam we got

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to see uh when you took a glance at

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discovery uh docked to the station

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during your spacewalks um would you one

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or both of you describe what it was like

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uh to see discovery there and uh and

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reflect on its

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a lot of us capture repeated what steve

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had from the cupola just to have

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discovery right there and filling our

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entire visor up close and personal you

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realize it's just a magnificent ship

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it's huge it's complex just a wonderful

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completely capable vehicle and uh to be

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working on and around near is just a

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privilege to be part of the legacy of

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discovery is just a i guess it just

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this is gerhard daumer the german

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aerospace center and space expo

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association question for el drew what

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was the most difficult and the most

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that's easy they were both the same

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when i first exited the airlock on my

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we were over top the jungles that looked

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like it was maybe south america the

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amazon basin somewhere

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just beautiful the clouds the river

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valleys down there all the greenery and

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i had to remind myself that i had work

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to do and i couldn't just take in the

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so it's exciting and it was difficult to

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tear my eyes away from that and actually

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focus on getting things ready for our

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question for paolo you accomplished

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about half of your long duration mission

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what was your most challenging task and

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did you have any surprises and what was

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your most exciting moment so far

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we've been spent uh yeah two months uh

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and uh i think the most challenging

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at a procedure for the first time it

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looks very complex and i try to

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understand and interpret it try to do it

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without making mistakes and sometimes i

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so i think those are the for me are the

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most challenging times but uh as usual

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with the familiarity we're repeating

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things things get familiar and we get to

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do it with no problems and of course we

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always have the

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this is jill tulk representing the

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cohasset mariner in massachusetts a

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question for the east coast steve

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what has been the most challenging part

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trying to get up to speed to understand

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the evas and then

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speed with everything else that goes on

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would be and what they were and how

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familiar i was with them and how much

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more training i had to have so

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that was uh clearly the most difficult

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getting to work with the croods uh

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four of my classmates from

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2000 and uh commander steve lindsey and

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having the ability to spend time with

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them it's been fantastic and then

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thanks for the good word stevo now a

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for eric bowe what good bowen anecdote

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from this week could you share with

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uh steve bowen story for uh for this

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mission so far was uh i'm sure there are

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more to come um was uh when uh when

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steve was taking the pump module off of

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truss segment uh eva and mike barrett

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robotic arm um about the time they

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released that pump module um which about

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several hundred pounds for steve to uh

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to take in his arm so they could fly him

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entire uh space station robotic arm

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crashed and uh which means he was stuck

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alternate to robotic workstation to get

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with nowhere to go

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hi uh denise ciao at space.com with a

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when discovery does its fly around after

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undocking i was wondering if either or

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significance of performing that maneuver

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with discovery for the final time and in

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instrumental in its construction thank

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the long history of the space shuttle

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opportunity to undock and do the fly

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every partner represented with the

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more than a million pounds and so to

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and marvel at that every the majority of

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hi uh eric berger with houston chronicle

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congratulations on a successful mission

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a question maybe maybe for nicole or

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someone else who wants to tackle it but

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this space station here now is the

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a question about garbage literally um

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uh hello this is marcia dunna the

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associated press with a question for

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there's great interest in r2 all the way

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unveiling be moved up considering all

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the interest and how excited are you to

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scratching from the inside there um

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all the things that have to come out of

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the pmm and get stowed different places

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and uh folks on the ground are working

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real hard at that and we'll see if we

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end up being able to bring robonaut

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robonaut out before discovery leaves i'm

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really not sure i am looking forward to

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working with him you know as we bring

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robots up into space one of the reasons

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to do that is just to understand a how

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to work with them and b just the

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mechanics of how they work and how

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that's affected by zero g we want to

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learn those lessons here on the inside

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of the space station before we send them

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out to the outside of the space station

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or to other planets which we need to be

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able to do in in terms of exploring both

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as you know a human presence and a

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robotics presence it'll take both of

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those to get us further out into the

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universe and robonaut is a good first

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thank you and for steve bowen it's been

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a real whirlwind for you the past month

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i'm wondering um are you pinching

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yourself that you're even in space on

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this mission and have had a chance to go

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space walking and how are you going to

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make it up to tim crow pro when you get

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i am pinching myself and there's no

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possible way i can make it up to tim but

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you know tim did an incredible job

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putting this together it's the only

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reason we were so successful outside uh

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he really did a fantastic job uh so if

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there's anything i can do for him i'm

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willing to to discuss it

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hi this is emily baldwin from astronomy

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now magazine in the uk

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and it's always really amazing seeing

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views of the earth from space and i'd

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certainly be interested to hear your

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comments on any earth observation you've

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done this mission but what i'd really

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like to know is do you do any nighttime

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astronomical observations and if so what

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well hello to the uk and

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let me get the first part of that the

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earth views are just stunning it's very

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very difficult to explain them to people

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even pictures don't do it justice

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and your senses can be really

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overwhelmed by how beautiful the earth

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is i want to mention to the uk that we

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actually have a medallion up here struck

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in honor of james cook this was

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commissioned about five years after his

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death

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and we're very very happy to have that

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and to honor the rich maritime legacy of

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world discovery that the uk has

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as far as astronomical observations one

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of the problems is that we're moving

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around the earth at seventeen thousand

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five hundred miles an hour it'd be uh

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kind of difficult to train on to

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something unless we were really uh more

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mechanically equipped to do that we keep

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our space station

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oriented so that we're looking belly to

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the ground most of the time and that's

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comfortable to us for a lot of reasons

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and we get really good ground views that

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way now having said that we have some

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very good cameras on board and we're

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able to take some astrophotographs

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that don't require much

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much in the way of exposures but most of

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these are milky way shots and aurora

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shots and they're quite spectacular but

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nothing compared to what the hubble can

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thank you um and my second question um

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apollo inspired the children of the 60s

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and the 70s um the shuttle the the 80s

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and 90s in the early 21st century with

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the shuttle program retiring how do you

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think we'll be able to inspire

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in general is is inspiring and i think

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country and certain countries around the

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world have a strong history of

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exploration and

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even when the shuttle retires we're

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going to continue that we're still going

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to have a a space station it's still

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going to be uh

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supported by astronauts and cosmonauts

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from around the world and i think

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you know we're going to have a program

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beyond this we're not sure exactly what

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it is right now but you know someday

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humans are going to venture again beyond

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lower earth orbit back to the moon and

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mars and other destinations in our solar

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system and it's uh

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you know something i think can inspire

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kids and it's something that we all can

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be uh proud of

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from isa thank you to commanders kelly

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and lin for having us participate in

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this event first question for commander

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kelly how it is on station while having

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vehicles and components from all program

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great things about this program that's

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it's an international program it shows

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how countries that uh cooperate can do

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great things and building a space

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station such as the international space

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station is probably one of the most

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you know significant engineering

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achievements that people have achieved

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and and we've done that

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with this international partnership that

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i think is really one of the the

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and from the news agency enrique

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and paolo today you are now grading the

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leonardo module an italian room on the

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international space station so what are

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the first operations that are going to

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module because it came in a flight

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configuration so everything is fastened

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for launch so we're removing

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so that we can store it in the japanese

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module that's going to be leaving soon

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we're using all the astronauts including