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atlantis iss this is houston are you

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yes we're ready for the event

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tv this is mission control houston

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hello check can you hear me

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yes we can hear you loud and clear how

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i can hear you perfectly wow that's

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amazing it's so good to see all of you i

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want to thank you for talking to us and

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i want to start by asking a question to

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sandra if possible because we know she's

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from down state illinois

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sandra how meaningful is it for you to

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well you know we were so focused on the

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launch the training during most of our

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preparation time i hadn't really thought

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about it but i will tell you it's an

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honor to be a part of any shuttle crew

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and this one is is really special

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because it is the last one

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and we're just very busy up here and i

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think it's going to hit us a little bit

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harder once we land

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there at the cape and have to say

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wow it sure is what's next for the space

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program and what is the impact for

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future generations without the space

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year i think that there's there's one

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big capability we're going to miss up

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and that's being able to return items

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like the space shuttle atlantis is

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returning when we come back last year

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there was a pump a critical pump that

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failed and we're going to bring it home

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so the engineers can take a look at it

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anymore but we are building new rockets

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uh some of our commercial folks are

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putting rockets together for us so we'll

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be able to visit the space station again

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so what happens personally for you and

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your careers what what is your next um

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operations involved without being able

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development of our next uh vehicle which

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low earth orbit and then we also have uh

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the commercial companies as they come

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talk about the commercial programs and

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sending citizens private citizens into

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moving forward in advancing science how

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more people can get in space i think the

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better it's just an amazing place up

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to experience it the problem is right

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to do that and as we do that it'll make

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profession and also just people in

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being astronauts and it seemed like a

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very remote chance or a remote idea

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and you follow your dreams anything can

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space program or whatever your dream is

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great things to look forward to and when

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guys were very busy and didn't really

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have a lot of time to reflect but is

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particularly nostalgic or sentimental

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when we land and we'll stop and when all

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the space shuttle has completed it's

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completed its mission and it's it's not

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a time for stats it's a time for

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celebration it's had a storied 30-year

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career and now we're very very proud of

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it and so i i plan on when we get back

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to the ground celebrating with everybody

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who's worked so hard on this program to

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work that you've been doing for us on

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thank you very much we'll see you

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atlantis iss this is houston acr that

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concludes the wbbm portion of the event

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please stand by for a voice check from

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you're on ktvu morning news it is

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thursday it's july 14th sounds good

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stand by morning pam cook thank you for

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the incredible pictures of the crew

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live about their historic mission

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atlantis iss this is ktvu tv can you

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we hear you good morning gentlemen thank

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this morning um tell us okay we've been

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moon and mars what would you say is the

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the one of the crowning achievements of

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the space shuttle program and that's the

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earth so you know we we get to see this

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to you one final question have you

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thought of a neil armstrong type

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thank you so much we are talking live to

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the astronauts there uh notice the cal

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cow fan in the back we appreciate that

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here in the bay area thank you very much

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for joining us today have a safe trip

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thank you so very much have a great day

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atlantis iss this is houston acr that

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concludes the ktvutv portion of the

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event please stand by for a voice check

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let's go to space what do you say let's

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do it all right here we go the

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astronauts of the shuttle atlantis are

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making history right now on the

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shuttle's last mission in space you know

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that and they are about to join us live

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in fact i think we have them at the

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international space station

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and there they are

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just floating there hi welcome to

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hey it's it's great to be here my

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hometown of philly how you doing

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good that's great and commander we're so

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happy and proud of you now we may talk

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to the rest of the crew too but we're

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going to concentrate on

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commander ferguson here we'll get to

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everybody eventually i'm trying to look

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at you and look at

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their hair sticking straight up that's

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specialist magnus sandy magnus so

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chris ferguson

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when did you first

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get involved in space

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that's awesome

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you know philly's own willow or will

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smith's kid

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what's the thing with herself

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i wet my hair back and forth where my

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hair back and forth that's the first

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time you've seen somebody with their

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hair back and forth from space anyway

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commander ferguson when did you first

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have the dream of going to space from

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living in philadelphia thanks for living

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in philadelphia oh i grew up in the

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northeast there i went to saint martha's

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grade school archbishop ryan high school

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and i think it was somewhere in there i

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had some real motivational teachers who

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got me interested in science and taught

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me a little bit about aviation i thought

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well you know maybe i'd like to fly

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airplanes someday one thing led to

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another i always had a fascination with

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the with the early astronauts and the

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apollo program and you know lo and

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behold you just uh you put your nose to

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the grindstone and you keep your dreams

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alive and you end up in interesting

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places someday

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you're here i'm telling you i've done a

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lot of these interviews as well a few of

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them from space the technology now is

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amazing the picture guys

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you look like you're in a studio maybe

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in omaha nebraska or something the shot

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is so clear is this a hoax are you

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really in space still

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are you really in space

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see the hair

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i don't know we're going to have to do

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oh yeah i can do that watch this

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can everybody float around for us that

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was really cool chris

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i think i think sandy's hair is pretty

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much a dead giveaway

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it is oh there you go there's a pose for

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you right there

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that is so cool well which way is the is

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the space station are you standing are

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actually uh we're in we're in the

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japanese module right now this is one of

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several modules the space station is

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really it's an incredibly large uh

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vehicle it's uh weighs over a million

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pounds right now and uh you know if you

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have one of the unique opportunities

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like we have to you know

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be a thousand feet below and look up at

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this tremendous vehicle it is just

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awe-inspiring it's hard to believe that

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mankind has built this and we get to

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live in it for a couple weeks it's great

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you know every now and then you can see

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the space shuttle go over philadelphia

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what are you looking at right now like

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for instance right now where are you

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uh we're actually

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uh we're like i said we're floating in

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the japanese module which is one of the

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wings that sits off the side of the

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space station of course it's a series of

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tubes that stick together but when you

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see the space station fly over it's a

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very bright light what you're usually

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seeing is the reflection off the large

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solar arrays that are about 300 feet

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yeah so where is the space station right

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wow that's a real good question we

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we actually have this uh real neat

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computer application that tells us where

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we are in the world because sometimes

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just by looking out the window you can't

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tell

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but right now we don't have it up so

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honest to goodness we can't tell you

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where we are over the earth but if we

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went to a window we could find out well

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listen to this

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i've been told you're over the northeast

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atlantic

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fantastic you know rex here is just an

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expert in geography and all he has to go

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down to uh the cupola which is uh kind

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of like a fishbowl if you will to allow

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us to look out the bottom of the space

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station and rex can usually pick out

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exactly where we are at any given moment

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that's kind of cool i'll say did you

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take any tasty cakes uh tasty cakes up

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there and if you did which one do you

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like

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thing we're gonna do is maybe get sandy

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go back and open one of these windows

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behind us we'll let you look out the

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window a little bit did i take any tasty

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cakes unfortunately no but believe me i

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okay now we have some video of you of uh

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you folks eating breakfast what did you

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have for breakfast

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uh

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i'll tell you what let me pass the

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microphone around a little bit this is

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doug hurley the pilot let's just talk to

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uh let's see would i i had uh oatmeal

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with brown sugar this morning and i

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think uh

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somebody else had eggs and i don't

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remember what rex had a sausage patty

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and a sausage patty so you know pretty

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now we don't we a lot of our meals are

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kind of you know similar to military

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meals ready to eat so they're in pouches

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or bags and some of them you have to add

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water to and we have a a small oven in

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the shuttle

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where we can heat things up both

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you know food and we can get hot or cold

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water out of the dispenser right above

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it so

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it's a pretty nice setup and the food is

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uh is really really good

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sandy your face is turning red is is

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that the blood runner for rushing to

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your head and what are you looking at

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a lot of water most of the time when you

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look out the window up here there's just

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a lot of water and occasionally you'll

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go over a continent uh you know only

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takes us 90 minutes to go around the

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world and so we get a sunset in the

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sunrise about every 45 minutes when

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you're over the sahara it's very very

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dramatic there's a lot of browns and

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oranges and tans and beiges it's really

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beautiful the caribbean is really

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beautiful but right now we just see a

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lot of water out the window

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yeah

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you know as bette miller once said

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from a distance

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no i won't sing so

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so i always wondered what you wear but

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we've had some uh people tweet us this

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morning want to know by the way

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congratulations they say to commander

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ferguson we're all proud of you uh

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everybody who ever went to archbishop

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ryan

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uh high school so that's one thing uh

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i'm not gonna ask this but they always

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ask how do you go to the bathroom stuff

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like that you want a notion my co-anchor

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chanel marie jones

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wants to know

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how do you go to the bathroom you go in

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let's just say it involves airflow

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rather than gravity i will just leave it

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thank you all very much well we didn't

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talk to rex uh all right thank you all

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very much and con congratulations

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especially to our commander chris

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hello my family and friends in

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philadelphia drexel university

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archbishop ryan go philly that's right

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you

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even kidding this makes me want to go

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back to school and do something with my

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atlantis iss this is houston thanks so

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thank you that concludes the event

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thank you wbbm tv ktvu tv and wtxf tv