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good morning endeavor and a special good

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morning to you today mike

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hey good morning to you all down in

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houston and across the planet just

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wanted to say uh thanks for the song

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that was by the band rush and my friends

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ken fisher and greg shirt sent that up

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for me and rush was really inspired by

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the launch of sts-1 so they included

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that in their music and it was really

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inspirational for them for the whole for

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the whole album but what's really cool

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about it is that that space shuttle

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program has really inspired everybody

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across our planet for such a long time

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so this song was a tribute to the space

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shuttle program and so we'd like to say

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hey houston uh endeavor on air to ground

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two

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looks like uh we've got uh our plan

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together and uh we're gonna start uh

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with the pdrs uh

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shuttle pilot greg johnson calling down

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that uh the crew is ready to get started

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with the uh docked late inspection

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ready to uh perform its last

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uh major task as a member of the

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space shuttle sts-134

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mission

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it

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will be delivered over to the

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international space station and become a

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permanent component of the iss during

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the fourth of the spacewalks fourth and

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final spacewalk planned during

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endeavour's mission

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this is gerhard dawn with the german

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space agency and space expo association

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question for box

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you're the prime operator of the smr rms

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what was your most challenging robotics

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task and what was it like working at the

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robotics station in the cupola with that

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well gerhard i'll tell you what

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the cupola was everything that i

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had heard from other people

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times 10.

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it's in a magnificent view

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you have a view of literally half of the

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space station

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operating from the cupola

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some of the robotic ops that we did on

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eva2

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didn't even need any cameras you could

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just look out the window

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a lot of the robotic stop robotic ops

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that we're doing on this mission are

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located on the other side of the station

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for example when we installed ams and

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so the advantage of the cupola uh wasn't

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apparent as far as looking out the

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window but just as a place to be as a

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place to operate the robotic arm it was

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a wonderful and it is a wonderful

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wonderful place to be

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mike fink on friday you guys are going

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to go over a thousand hours in eva time

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during assembly of

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iss or more than 40 days which is either

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an incredibly an incredible milestone or

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maybe it's just a trivial muscle i don't

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know how do you look at that a thousand

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yeah a thousand hours that's uh that's

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pretty impressive in fact we had

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concerns when we were first designing

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the space station of how much time eva

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zero g eva time uh it would take up at

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that point we weren't really as

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experienced with uh with eva the shuttle

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program paved the way with some of the

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earlier evas getting our extra vehicular

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mobility unit emu up and running and

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and then getting it to really shine

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some of the tools and techniques that

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came along for space station building

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are very helpful uh the the stints that

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still use some of those tools to this

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day for the space station so we've

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really come a long way with space

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walking we've learned a lot from our

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russian partners and they've learned a

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lot from us and the new suits that we

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have and their capabilities allow us to

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do uh longer space walks i don't think

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anybody 10 20 30 years ago would imagine

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that we would have so many eight hour

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space walks even like the one we had

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i wanted to ask uh mark kelly about uh

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the upcoming uh atmospheric reentry

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and and landing this is going to be a

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night landing and i i think it might be

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your first night landing and i'm

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wondering

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what you think the challenges uh are

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going to be and

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if you could kind of give us an idea

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well the biggest challenge is it's going

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to be dark

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you know night landings

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uh the fact that you don't have a

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horizon out the window could be a little

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more of a challenge but these are mostly

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instrument approaches i mean they really

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are i mean we fly the equivalent of what

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an ils would be in an airplane it's a

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much steeper glide slope

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about 20 degrees instead of about two or

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but we fly the approach exactly the same

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uh very bright lights on the runway so

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100 or 50 feet it's almost like daytime

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there when you get get very close to the

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i've got a lot of night landings

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over i think about 100 on an aircraft

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carrier those are challenging too so

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i've kind of been in this position