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reusable revolutionary

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for 30 years the shuttle is known for

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heartbreaking tragedies

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and ultimately triumph in the human will

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to explore work and live in space

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like no other spacecraft before it the

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shuttle is able to launch our nation's

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for 30 years the shuttle has risen into

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as spectacular and familiar as a sunrise

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with every liftoff of the dreams of

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exploration and for the people who work

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on the shuttle the pride of

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what does it take to get a shuttle to

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not a product of nasa but a product of

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america with human hands putting loving

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care into each and every component

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well getting a shuttle ready to fly is a

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tremendous effort by thousands and

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thousands and thousands of people

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tank and we roll out a shuttle launch

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it's the icing on the cake

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for all the work that they've done the

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launch team includes folks that worked

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before in a building that

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in the middle of the night that may not

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have any windows in it they know

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that you don't have to have a highly

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visible job to be important

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so on behalf of the kc processing and

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launch team i wish you good luck

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godspeed we'll see you back here just

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well the launch here is very very

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but uh thousands and thousands of people

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come to titusville and cocoa beach and

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cape canaveral to see a launch

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you watch the tourists you know come

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here special you know the kids

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with the just in awe when the orbiter

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and to think that we're doing it on

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behalf of of the country and and now

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with the international space station on

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behalf of all the international partners

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clothes you know you have a breakfast

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clothes on because you don't want to get

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them dirty so you have you have your

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breakfast and you put your fancy clothes

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you're exhaustively trained for it

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experience and i've heard a lot of

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people attempt to describe what it feels

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your chair with the baseball bat it's

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eight minutes and so the tremendous

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sense of acceleration is not one that

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earth and we can accelerate real fast

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of sound so as we accelerate we start

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weightlessness it's a great ride

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factory in the 1970s it is obvious that

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craft in history the shuttle lands on a

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runway and can be refitted to fly again

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transition from the era of wires and

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time an entire laboratory the size of a

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school bus can be hauled into space in

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the thing was pointed in the right

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direction to take it on its way to the

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final orbit

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a great capability that

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that the orbiter provided

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before the shuttle if a satellite

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malfunctioned in space it became

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multi-million dollar space junk

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the shuttle gives ailing satellites a

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second chance offering rescue and repair

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the shuttle scenario of having people

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and a work platform in space benefits

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all types of space hardware but one

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repair job stands out above the rest a

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space telescope named hubble

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launched in 1990 hubble is to float high

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above the haze of earth's atmosphere

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free to view the cosmos with

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unprecedented clarity but when

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scientists get the first pictures back

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the results are less than

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spectacular hubble has a flaw in its

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primary mirror resulting in fuzzy

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imagery

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nasa mounts a repair mission to try and

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salvage the telescope

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using the shuttle payload bay as a work

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platform astronauts conduct a series of

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the shuttle releases the hubble once

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scientists soon discover the mission is

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a success

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hubble's vision is restored and the

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space telescope begins rewriting

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astronomy books with every new stunning

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image

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i think the public

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had not a terrific view into what the

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universe is like until we had the hubble

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space telescope as a result

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people associate those images with the

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beauty of the universe

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the numbers and the answers we get about

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the universe beginning with the big bang

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and the age and chemical elements being

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built in stars turning into planets

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solar systems all of that information

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mixed in with these beautiful pictures

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has allowed hubble to actually be an

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icon for science and an icon for the

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in 30 years of flying in the treacherous

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environment of space

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the shuttle is not without tragedy

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the loss of two space shuttles

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challenger in 1986

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and colombia in 2003

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claims the lives of 14 astronauts

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the nation mourns the crews as friends

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neighbors colleagues and as the heroes

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for some the tragic events

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are a source of inspiration

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when i was in high school i was probably

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in the 10th grade i think when we had

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the challenger accident and that was

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sort of the first thing from the space

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program that really sort of made it onto

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my radar screen as a big event

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and it seems like a strange thing to say

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well that inspired me but at the same

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time it was something that it you know

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made me aware of the shuttle program it

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made me aware of how important this work

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was that the shuttle program was doing

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and that people were willing to risk

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their lives for it so that was sort of

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the big event to me that put it onto the

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map and and made me think about what

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for colombia which was lost in its

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return to earth the public becomes

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directly involved with the recovery of

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the spacecraft

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recovery teams many of them volunteers

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diligently search for debris hoping to

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help nasa discover how the accident

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happened

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the public outpouring of grief was

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matched only by the drive to continue

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nasa and the nation were determined to

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make the shuttle better and safer

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and to persist

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the shuttle was grounded for years

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following each accident as it rose again

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each time the pride in america and its

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space program was palpable

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you know you hear in tragedies that they

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said well they died doing what they

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loved to do and they would have wanted

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us to carry on

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and and that is

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absolutely 100 true in the columbia case

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i know every one of those astronauts

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personally and i know each one of them

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would have been extremely disappointed

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how the program ended because of that

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tragedy they truly truly believed in

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what they did they gave their lives for

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what they did

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what they believed in so we had to find

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the problem fix it and fly again

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and on launch day we were doing just

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that it's what we do

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we are we are launching america's space

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shuttle

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for the good of the country and the good

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of the world it's what we do we have to

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do this

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a lot of thoughts back to to rick and

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his crew

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the mere space station

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for years the russians had pursued

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living and working in space with

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long-term missions

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the space station mir is their latest

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achievement

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for shorter missions america develops

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the ultimate spacecraft with the shuttle

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what would happen if the two space

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programs work together the united states

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and russia long rivals on earth and in

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space embark on a program of

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unprecedented cooperation called the

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shuttle mir program

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we have these very different programs

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and we saw that they were complementary

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even the water that we dump overboard

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from the fuel cells on the shuttle could

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be

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drank

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on the space station uh they were they

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fit together beautifully the russian

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outpost is serviced by the american

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shuttle which brings supplies hardware

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and people

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us and russian astronauts conduct

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spacewalks together and american

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scientists live onboard mir for months

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at a time conducting research

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i found it very very interesting to live

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and to work on the mirror space station

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a lot of times people say well

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of the flight that you've had what is

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your favorite flight of course you can't

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pick out a favorite flight because you

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know you enjoyed every single one that

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you did but if i could only choose one

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and i was limited to just one i would

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have picked the mirror flight that i was

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on and the reason why was because it

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gave me the opportunity to be in space

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for a long period of time the program is

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not without challenges

446
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a fire breaks out on the mirror but the

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crew manages to save the outpost

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on a later mission an unmanned supply

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ship collides with mir

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depressurizing one of the modules and

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tumbling the station out of control

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once again the crew works together to

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keep mirror flying

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through the dangers and hardships there

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are many lessons learned

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perhaps the most important element of

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that program beyond the

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physical engineering accomplishment

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which was substantial was

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i'll say it in russian first the zainaba

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doveria

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the mutual trust and respect it turns

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out that these complex programs that we

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undertake

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you can't put them in place by signing a

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law

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or a bill and saying it will be done

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that doesn't make it happen it happens

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one-on-one person to person with mutual

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trust and respect that's what we

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achieved in the mir program along with

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the very products and engineering

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from the beginning it is imagined that

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the shuttle can build a space station

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yet for the first 20 years the shuttle

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is never used for this purpose

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building on the success of the shuttle

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mir program the united states partners

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with russia and other countries to build

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an international space station

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the station is so large it must be sent

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into orbit one module at a time for

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russia sends up the first component

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zarya

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the first us module unity is loaded onto

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the shuttle endeavor

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this new international era in space

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starts with a bit of magic there's a

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picture red huber took

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it was a rainbow over uh endeavour

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sitting out on the pad

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and i have to share a little private

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story my daughter and i are real wizard

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of oz affectionately we launch you know

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then that night everything went

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absolutely perfect

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we're on orbit

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and uh the wake up music

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for our first day on orbit was judy

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garland singing somewhere over the

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rainbow and man it brought tears to my

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and i always tell folks somewhere over

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the rainbow dreams come true because we

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launched over that rainbow that night

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and

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everything went absolutely perfect

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two station components built in two

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different countries meet for the first

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time

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in space

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the shuttle robot arm does the heavy

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lifting and a series of space walks

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finishes the job of connecting them

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together

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i was fortunate enough to be assigned to

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the very first assembly flight

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which was a tremendous feeling for me to

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be

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in at the very ground floor and

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basically laying the cornerstones of the

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international space station

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over many missions piece by piece

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the shuttle brings up station components

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more laboratories

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solar arrays and segments of the

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enormous station truss

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the backbone of the station

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the station becomes the largest

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the station was humongous

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the size of two football fields eight

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habitable modules six people permanently

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inhabiting it was a living laboratory

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that we walked in with people inside

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with life with stuff everywhere it was

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humongous compared to what it seemed

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before

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as a final mission for the space shuttle

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building the international space station

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may be the most lasting achievement

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so the space station would never been

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possible without the space shuttle it's

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a phenomenal accomplishment

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when you consider not just the

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engineering of it i mean here's hardware

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from around the world that comes

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together in space is put together and

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works for the first time

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but the cultural differences between you

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know japan issa and all its partners

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united states canada russia and and

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we're all working together as one and

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that that is really a fantastic model

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and a great model for the future when we

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eventually explore beyond our home

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for the thousands coming to view the

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launch the troubles began early this

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morning the roads leading to the space

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center were jammed hours before the

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scheduled liftoff these people were here

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because they believe in the shuttle and

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they wanted to show it

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history is being made i want to be right

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there right well that was being made

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well i'd like to be an astronaut but you

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know it takes a lot of courage and i'd

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be scared to go up there right now i've

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seen more launches than anybody else

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here and everyone is just as exciting

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but this means more to me than any other

570
00:26:11,350 --> 00:25:52,159
i think what does it mean to me

571
00:26:14,630 --> 00:26:12,950
well i definitely think since the

572
00:26:15,990 --> 00:26:14,640
shuttle was invented it was

573
00:26:17,590 --> 00:26:16,000
people they thought it was like a

574
00:26:19,350 --> 00:26:17,600
revolutionary

575
00:26:22,230 --> 00:26:19,360
thing and it's definitely helped us to

576
00:26:24,149 --> 00:26:22,240
build iss and

577
00:26:26,630 --> 00:26:24,159
i'm kind of sad to see they're retiring

578
00:26:28,149 --> 00:26:26,640
it i mean i always loved to watch on tv

579
00:26:30,149 --> 00:26:28,159
when they first

580
00:26:32,390 --> 00:26:30,159
started when they shot them in the air

581
00:26:34,950 --> 00:26:32,400
i've always been fascinated with rockets

582
00:26:36,390 --> 00:26:34,960
but shuttles they just really astound me

583
00:26:38,390 --> 00:26:36,400
i believe that

584
00:26:40,789 --> 00:26:38,400
the space shuttle program is one of the

585
00:26:42,789 --> 00:26:40,799
most significant engineering feats that

586
00:26:43,430 --> 00:26:42,799
the united states has ever been involved

587
00:26:44,149 --> 00:26:43,440
in

588
00:26:53,190 --> 00:26:44,159
the

589
00:26:56,070 --> 00:26:53,200
memorable experience i've ever had it is

590
00:26:57,590 --> 00:26:56,080
an awesome awesome experience you when

591
00:26:59,029 --> 00:26:57,600
you explore you're always looking

592
00:27:02,390 --> 00:26:59,039
forward you're always looking at what's

593
00:27:04,230 --> 00:27:02,400
next instead of just where you've been

594
00:27:05,990 --> 00:27:04,240
what this shuttle brought i always felt

595
00:27:08,470 --> 00:27:06,000
that apollo lack there's a sense of

596
00:27:11,269 --> 00:27:08,480
science fiction to it here's a

597
00:27:12,870 --> 00:27:11,279
spaceship that you can fly and land and

598
00:27:14,789 --> 00:27:12,880
there was something very romantic about

599
00:27:16,549 --> 00:27:14,799
landing a ship rather than parachuting

600
00:27:18,950 --> 00:27:16,559
down into the water and i think that

601
00:27:21,510 --> 00:27:18,960
captivated people

602
00:27:23,029 --> 00:27:21,520
um i think it's a great deal to america

603
00:27:25,269 --> 00:27:23,039
it allows us to be some of the first

604
00:27:26,470 --> 00:27:25,279
people to explore the world and to be

605
00:27:28,389 --> 00:27:26,480
the leaders to tell the rest of the

606
00:27:30,070 --> 00:27:28,399
world about what's going on in outer

607
00:27:31,830 --> 00:27:30,080
space and to let us know that it's

608
00:27:33,269 --> 00:27:31,840
bigger than just us

609
00:27:34,950 --> 00:27:33,279
well i think it was like a great

610
00:27:36,789 --> 00:27:34,960
experience and we got to explore you

611
00:27:39,750 --> 00:27:36,799
know a lot out of space and about what

612
00:27:44,230 --> 00:27:41,990
it's been a new frontier for america

613
00:27:45,990 --> 00:27:44,240
it's been a chance for us to continue

614
00:27:48,789 --> 00:27:46,000
kind of the american dream of reaching

615
00:27:50,470 --> 00:27:48,799
into new lands and it's given us hope of

616
00:27:52,789 --> 00:27:50,480
being able to continue spreading out

617
00:27:54,950 --> 00:27:52,799
through the universe i would like to see

618
00:27:56,149 --> 00:27:54,960
if we can maybe explore one of the gas

619
00:27:59,029 --> 00:27:56,159
giants

620
00:28:00,149 --> 00:27:59,039
um i would like to go to mars

621
00:28:03,510 --> 00:28:00,159
neptune

622
00:28:07,190 --> 00:28:03,520
i want to go to mars i

623
00:28:08,630 --> 00:28:07,200
want to journey to mercury