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atlantis iss this is houston are you

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we're ready

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wbng tv this is houston please call

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atlantis iss this is wbng tv how do you

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uh the iss has you loud and clear how us

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good afternoon atlantis you know the

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launch was a success the docking was

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just so emotional for everyone here how

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uh i got one word for you really busy

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when you're up there is it all work and

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no play or do you get some down time to

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but we're working really hard to try and

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get ahead a bit so when we get our half

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day off we can actually take the day off

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and and look out the window the views

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from the cupola are truly spectacular

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and that's probably where you'll find us

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on flight day eight when we have our

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reason and they need them but we all

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bring some personal momentus on each

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you know we have them as souvenirs and

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for folks who have really worked hard

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hurley we are here in the southern tier

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of new york you're a tioga county native

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graduate of a wego free academy what

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be my home

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i get back there whenever i can and

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just like to say hi to everybody back

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you know this crew you're really an

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inspiration to everywhere across the

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united states but especially kids what

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science and math because that's very

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very important in this business and and

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then keep after your dreams you never

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know uh you know i dreamed of uh

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becoming an astronaut a long time ago i

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never really thought was possible but i

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morning songs with the wake up call

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choose i mean you had chumbawamba you

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a surprise this mission's a little

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special and that nasa arranged for

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several surprise wake-up songs from

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them are but it's been really fun you

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of sharing it with all the the great

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folks at kennedy space center and then a

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family and friends i i think that's

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missions what are your plans where do

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to come to complete this mission

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successfully and uh help out everybody

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so far this final mission has been

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nothing but a success do you see the

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last 30 years of nasa being just that a

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fantastic world up here and if i could

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convey one uh one message to you it

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would be when you stand poised about 600

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feet underneath the international space

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station and look up and see that grand

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thing pass over you it is really

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spectacular you know nasa's past 30

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years of space shuttle you know when

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it's all done we have the space station

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to show for it we have tremendous

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observatories in space it's been a great

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atlantis iss thank you so much from wbng

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thank you from everyone in the southern

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tier keep up the great work and good

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we'll see you later

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hello how do you hear me

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uh this is the international space

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station we have to be loud and clear

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doing uh we're doing fine how's it going

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well first up i have a question um i

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have a few questions from some people in

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the area and then i have my my questions

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here um first off i want to know any

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this is for everyone you know the four

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of you how does it feel to be part of

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history you know being one of the few

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people to venture off into a space

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our normal job and occasionally you just

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much into the work and getting things

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my gosh i'm floating in a big huge

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building you know 200 miles above the

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earth and this is really special and and

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day-to-day job you can't really think

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about it in those kinds of terms but all

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of us are honored to be a part of this

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mission and we're doing our best to

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leave the station in a good

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configuration when we leave

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nasa at all will there be anything

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nasa is really looking forward trying to

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go to the next level we're right now the

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continue to uh to man the space station

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space station is built and uh beyond

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that our access to space we're going to

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true exploration beyond low earth we're

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this is from corey um out here in

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binghamton and he wants to know what

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well i think it was several things it

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college professors that got you

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you know flying fighters and then being

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wants to answer this is from eli he's a

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little boy out here in vestal and he

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wants to know where you guys sleep do

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you sleep in bunks on the floor or do

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sleeping bags that will unroll and we'll

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pull them taut and you climb into your

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a little girl named mira wants to know

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things every day just like you change

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that you'll be having a big feast um you

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the army would eat just kind of uh heat

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the great folks down at kennedy space

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center and uh thank them for their 30

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years of work on this

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awesome space shuttle vehicle that we

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all right thank you guys so much good

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luck with the rest of your mission then

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well thanks a lot and just like to say

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hi to all my family and friends back in

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hello kgo tv this is the international

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you sound fantastic

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commander ferguson if i can start with

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you uh i guess uh today would be oh the

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glory of being an astronaut you get to

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move stuff into the uh international

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space station and drag the garbage out

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not the most glorious day but the work

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well i'll tell you you pretty much hit

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the nail on the head there that is

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exactly what we're doing we have we have

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a lot of a lot of stuff we need to

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supply this international space station

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with to sustain them for about a year so

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a lot of it's food a lot of it's

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clothing a lot of it is spare parts and

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hauling out in the in the other

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direction i wouldn't call it garbage

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it's it's mostly broken things it's

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things that need to go back to the

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ground they want to take a look at it

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they want to know why it failed so they

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can make make it better the next time

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all right specialist magnus i'd like to

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ask you a question

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how are you and how are the others from

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your observation uh reacting

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this being the last

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shuttle

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mission what are the emotions as you

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look about knowing that it's not going

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well you know that's something we've

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been dealing with the whole training

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flow we've we've had a lot of last

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events you know last training event in

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the motion based simulator the last

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training event in building nine where

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our full-scale mockups are the last

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interaction with some of the great

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people at kennedy space center and as

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we've gotten closer and closer to launch

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it

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think

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uh after we get back down to the ground

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after landing it's going to hit us

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really hard and i think we're all going

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to have a really hard time leaving the

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shuttle and doing the walk around and

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greeting the people down there and and

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just

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closing out the program that way i mean

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we'll be really excited that the

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hopefully the mission went well but

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we'll be very sad too because it was a

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a pilot hurley a question for you if i

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could uh america is watching this space

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shuttle mission more intensely than

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any in

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years many years

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is the historic aspect of this mission

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on your minds how do you go about your

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day with that

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uh to be real honest with you i don't

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think it is we

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you know i think most of us our whole

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lives have been very focused and

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goal-oriented and uh this is just one

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more of those things that we're doing

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you know we're so focused on the task

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you're doing

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that particular minute or that

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particular hour and then you know task

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after task and uh you know eva that we

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did yesterday and transfer that we're

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doing today

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you know it keeps us so focused that we

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we tend not to i think look at the big

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picture as much and i and i think we're

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kind of all telling ourselves that you

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know we'll have time to kind of reflect

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on this uh

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this whole event this whole happening

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that we that we've gone through for the

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last nine months uh and and hopefully be

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able to share it and articulate it with

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everybody else

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and finally for specialist walheim if i

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could

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the local boy who made so good uh i just

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wanted to ask you uh with that last

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spacewalk yesterday you're you're

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someone who has done several of those

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as that was going on last one with the

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shuttle uh your thoughts and your

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well it was a it was a

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wonderful site it was a it was a

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pleasure to be a part of it and it was

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kind of unique for me because i've been

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outside on spacewalks for five times but

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it's been about nine years since i've

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been inside while the spacewalk is going

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on so when those guys come right up to

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the window in the spacesuit it's just a

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real uh sci-fi type of look and it was

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it was very interesting and it was a it

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was a lot of hard work and i was really

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proud of the uh the spacewalkers ron

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guerin and mike foster they did an

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awesome job got all their tasks done

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um and another one for you a specialist

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walheim

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now that there are going to be no more

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shuttles to fly

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what becomes of someone who was

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known for his flying on the shuttles

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what are you going to be doing next

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well for me i just want to continue to

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be involved in in the program at nasa

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we've got uh the continuing operations

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here on the space station the space

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station is now complete uh we can end

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the assembly phase and now we're

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entering the uh the utilization phase

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where we can do that groundbreaking

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research to find new ways to treat

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diseases find out new ways to help us to

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be able to stay in space longer our

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human body and then we're also going to

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try to go beyond low earth orbit so i

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think that's really exciting building a

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new system to to get past

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the

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space station's altitude up to uh you

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know the the altitude of the moon or to

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an asteroid or maybe to mars one day and

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so we've got to build those systems and

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i want to be involved in helping to

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well we only have a maybe 20 seconds for

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your answer and i i hope that's fair but

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i was wondering if you could say to

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young people who still think about going

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into space we're talking about mars

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we're talking about meteors what is it

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what gives you the most excitement when

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you are up there or going up there where

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well i would have to give that two

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things number one is launch anytime you

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get slung off the planet from zero to

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seventeen thousand miles an hour and

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eight and a half minutes you can't help

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but get an adrenaline rush and that is

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absolutely spectacular and then when you

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get up here just looking back on the

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earth that 220 miles down and a couple

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days ago i had a chance to see

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california from space again and i could

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see the bay area it was a little bit

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foggy but i could see the outline of it

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and to think i was a kid down there many

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years ago looking up at the airplanes

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and dreaming of flying one day and here

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i am on the international space station

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cruising along at mach 25 it's just

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amazing and if i can do it anybody can

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do it it really is dreams do come true

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with a little bit of persistence and

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all right to all of you thank you so

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much america's watching and uh look

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forward to seeing you back here next

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yeah we we appreciate that and i always

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wanted to say hi to all my my friends

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and

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fantastic thanks a lot

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atlantis iss this is houston acr that

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thank you wbng tv wicz tv and