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Hellena screw on the ISS this is Houston

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are you ready for the event and Houston

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we are ready for the event Fox News

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radio this is Mission Control Houston

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please call the Atlantis crew on the ISS

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for a voice check Atlantis science s

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this is Evan Braun from Fox News radio

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good morning Evan we have you loud and

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clear from the International Space

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Station oh good morning dr. Magnus

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commander Ferguson thank you for

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speaking with me this morning firstly

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how's the mission going well this is one

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of the first days we've been able to

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take a deep breath and and appreciate

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what we're doing up here we've been

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really busy for the first five or six

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days or so but I'd like to think it's

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going really well

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you know if the vehicle is really

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healthy Atlantis is doing just

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wonderfully it's great to see our space

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station friends up here and we've got

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our big cargo module about about three

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quarters or so all transferred so it's

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commander Ferguson you mentioned the

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Atlantis is doing well but how did she

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hold up with launch and ascent and her

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thermal protection system and how's her

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house her help well you know like I said

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thermal protection system you mentioned

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that we worried about for a few years

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it's one of the cleanest vehicles

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they've ever seen so we're not worried

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about that at all and Atlantis is

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purring like a kitten I think she's

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about 25 years or so old but she

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performs just like a newborn she's doing

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great and dr. Magnus it's your first

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time back to the space station since you

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stay late 2008 early 2009 how's the

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station looking now what's different

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modules and a cupola and the cupola is

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just spectacular it's almost like being

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on a spacewalk without being in the suit

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you've got a great view of the earth but

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it really feels like home I have to

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admit both of you could tell me some

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about the mission special tasks and some

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of the things that you're doing

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specifically we know you made a rather

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large delivery to the ISS how's that

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going and and and what's gonna be left

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at the station when you guys depart well

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we are making a rather large delivering

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a lot of our time is being spent moving

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things on to the station and bringing

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things back into our cargo carrier we're

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leaving behind about a year's supply of

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food and consumables as well as about a

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thousand pounds of science equipment and

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some spare parts we're taking back with

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us some trash and some part pieces of

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hardware that need to be refurbished on

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that need to go home so it's it's

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keeping us pretty busy but the station

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seems that the shuttle has been so

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helpful and enabled on being able to

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down the the refuse if you will how's

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shuttle being that this is the last time

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shuttle can do this yeah it's actually a

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real good question you know of course

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well for the the duration of our space

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station operations which has been about

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12 years or so if you count the nut the

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Russian progress vehicle there's smaller

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that turnover and material both on the

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way up and then we can pack them full of

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trash and we release them the one big

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bringing things back from the space

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station and getting to the earth we're

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gonna miss the space shuttle you know

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the two of you have had a great vantage

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point because you've been obviously

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involved in in flying the shuttle and

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building the space station what is that

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about and you go wow I get to do this

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kind of stuff and what do you tell your

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family what do you tell your friends

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about it I mean this is an amazing

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adventure that not many people get to do

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experiences that we've had and I

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expedition 18 I was just going about my

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normal routine and in the course of one

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Germany I talked to Japan and I talked

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moments of realizations like wow look

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what we did we built this huge huge

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monster laboratory orbiting the Earth

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using country you know with cooperation

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it's it just strikes you that wow this

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commander Ferguson same question well

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actually see it about six hours before

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speck on the horizon but you know that

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you're you're closing rapidly

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rotation pitch maneuver and that's where

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we're poised about 600 feet below

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it's just an incredibly emotional moment

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for those who are fortunate enough to

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that we've built in space it really it's

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it makes me both humbled and awestruck

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at what human beings when they put their

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collective efforts together across a

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multinational effort can can build in

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space this this this orbiting laboratory

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a like I said a feeling of all commander

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Ferguson dr. Magnus I believe our window

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is closing thank you so much for

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spending a few moments with us and I

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have fun up there and soak it all in and

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Florida very good we'll see you that and

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hello to everyone in the area that's

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listening we wish you could be here to

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share this experience with us Atlantis

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KTVI TV this is KCI we're coming to you

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in about ten seconds here's last space

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shuttle flight will now get some time

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squeeze in a little more yeah my advice

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TV do you hear me we have you loud and

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clear good morning

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good morning to go through talking of

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for but on the other hand I'm just

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Chris any issues in space so far I mean

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week before you guys return well first

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absolutely wonderful it's we have it

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it's been a flawless mission so far and

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it's right out of the barn we've had a

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we've of course brought up about 10,000

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the the long road back to back to the

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it's always fun talking to you guys up

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in space and and especially you sandy

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because you're one of us you're from

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Belleville I'm curious do you you've

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spent so much time up there do you feel

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how quickly I became readapted to the

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station after we docked just translating

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with my handwriting on it that I'd still

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remain from expedition 18 it's really

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quite funny tell us about this virtual

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meal today I know sandy you had some

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planning in all of this this is gonna be

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definitely we try and you know NASA

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tries very hard to find ways for people

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to participate in the space experience

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because it is such a unique experience

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up here all right before we go I gotta

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see I've always wanted to ask you guys

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to do this if you just hold it set the

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microphone down standing Chris could you

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there you go I like to stock your Kraken

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is up now see that's the experience I

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was right there along with all the other

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great work fees so shuttle missions have

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done over the past 30 years thank you

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thank you guys we'll see you back here

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in st. Louis okay it's great talking

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just a mix of Sun and clouds comfortably

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warm temperatures this afternoon and a

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yes it absolutely is another good news

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on westbound 270 has already been

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cleared so that was minor so let's out

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of the way you won't have any issues

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issues and then switching a bit further

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see traffic there is moving pretty

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smooth as well art we have a new picture

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to share with you this morning this is a

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huge fireball rising from a burning

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manufacturing Atlanta science s this is

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investigation security is tied to Mumbai

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India this morning following deadly

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attacks on Atlantis ISS is this case 2 K

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TV how do you hear me tower killing 17

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people and wounding 131 others we have

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you loud and clear behind the assault

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glass about a minute away we have new

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information from the Transportation

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Security Administration on security

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the TSA says it has recorded more than

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25,000 security breaches since the

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September 11th attacks the breaches

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include everything from people who have

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aid security to those who accidentally

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left the bag at the security checkpoint

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a TSA spokesperson says the number of

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breaches represents only a fraction of

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the 5.5 billion passengers in the past

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if you believed there's nothing up my

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sleeve

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more Atlanteans received a celebrity

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wake-up call when leaves turn circles

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that's before a man on the moon played

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Belleville native Sandra Magnus is one

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of those Atlantis crew members of me I

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asked this right now and since he has

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some time off this morning she is able

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to join us live from outer space with

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Atlantis commander Chris Ferguson

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Atlantis iff

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this is KSDK TV how do you hear me and

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we have you loud and clear on the

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International Space Station sandy let's

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get some personal business out of the

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way is there anybody you want to give a

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yeah I just want to say hello to

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everybody in the area my family and my

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friends it's a really nice time up here

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I wish it could be here a lot of

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conversation about this being the final

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shuttle flight I'm wondering if it's

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bittersweet at all customers say the

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u.s. is in danger of losing its

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leadership in space optimus say retiring

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the shuttle program opens up new

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opportunities tell our viewers why they

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should care about the future of the US

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and space well first of all let me

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address your first question about

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retiring the space shuttle you know

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space program is it's it's it's a

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wonderful thing that we have in United

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States we are committed to it we have

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the resources to do it and I think it's

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just fantastic plus it gives tremendous

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opportunity for young men and women to

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enter fields in science and math you

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know we're not completely giving up on

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the space program of course we still

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have this International Space Station

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we're gonna have American astronauts on

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it for years and years to come

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retiring the Space Shuttle does give us

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however some resources so we can make

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the next step to leave low-earth orbit

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and perhaps go back to the moon or maybe

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even to Mars how does being in space

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affect the aging process for astronauts

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because you to look a lot younger than

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your years well I don't know how it

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affects the aging process but you

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certainly do feel good up here it's

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amazing really I think one of the things

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I found about spaceflight it was coming

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back to earth and feeling what gravity

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is like and how much is just pulling you

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down to the planet and weighing you down

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and of course up here we're in freefall

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we're floating around in zero g and it's

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it's a lot of fun and probably makes us

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look a little better to talk a little

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bit about the life of an astronaut on

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the space shuttle one day you're

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spacewalking the next day you're hauling

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trash or fixing a toilet you've got a

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absolutely not the least of which is to

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transfer about ten thousand pounds of

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food and supply over to the space

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station let me comment just a little bit

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on sandy of course she was here

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for about four and a half months with a

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part of expedition 18 and one of the

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first things I noticed one of the the

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first nights that we we kind of all set

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up our sleeping bags and went to sleep

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was the other three crew members they

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were a little restless they tossed they

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turned they had a hard time including

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myself I looked over at Sandy she was

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sleeping soundly all nestled in her

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sleeping bag like she had never left

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she's so incredibly comfortable up here

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and it's just it's great to have her

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here and great to have her part of this

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crew well we are so sorry we're out of

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time but Chris Ferguson and Sandy Magnus

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thank you so much for joining us and

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keep up the good work we certainly shall

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and every one thing let's say Louis

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thanks for your support and keep tuned

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in to NASA we're gonna be doing great

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we'll do our time right now 6:17 still

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ahead Atlantis ISS this is Houston ACR

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thank you that concludes the event thank

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you Fox News Radio KTVI TV and KSDK TV

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Atlantis crew on the ISS we are now