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atlantis iss this is houston are you

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we're ready

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wpvi tv this is mission control houston

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atlantis iss this is wpvi in

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hey we have you loud and clear on the

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commander chris ferguson we recognize

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you very well you're a philadelphia

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native you have so many friends family

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and fans here in our region anything

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i'd like to give a big shout out to my

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friends at drexel university archbishop

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bryant high school and of course the

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street i grew up on amity road hello

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commander this is your third space

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flight this is your second space flight

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as commander second on atlantis does it

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place up here and no i'll tell you space

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commander we know that you're a big

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phillies fan and we understand that one

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of the earlier flights you took up a

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chase utley jersey with you did you take

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any philadelphia memorabilia with you

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name to be determined but i hope to see

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the fills in the world series and that'd

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be a great time to return it back to

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copy that commander now you have your

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obviously uh to the crew do you ever get

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sick of the commander talking about the

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yeah as a san francisco giants fan i do

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get a little tired but we'll let him

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have his way here he's the commander

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that is one uh dig into a phillies fan

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back to the commander if i could this

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shuttle program is ending and as you

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know nasa and congress

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never went ahead to replace the shuttle

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generally how do you feel about the fact

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that this is coming to an end and

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there's nothing to replace the shuttle

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that the shuttle program is coming to an

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end i'll tell you it's uh from the heart

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of a pilot who just loves flying

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airplanes and basically anything that

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be sad to retire the shuttle uh that

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said it's had a very long and storied

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career it's been with us since 1981 it's

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west is build this fantastic complex

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astronauts from u.s soil but that will

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moon back in 1969 so if we had landed on

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an astronaut rock band which makes you

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the coolest astronaut ever do you

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argue that i'm the coolest astronaut

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ever but uh no i don't practice my

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rudiments uh we have we have a great

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we love playing for a lot of folks who

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commander and crew have a safe flight

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and a safe return to the united states

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atlantis iss this is houston acr that

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concludes the wpvi tv portion of the

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aboard the international space station

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kow newstime 8 10. this is day number

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eight of the last space shuttle mission

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florida a week ago they're scheduled to

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hello kyw news radio you're aboard the

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thank you so much for joining us this

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mckenzie here at kyw news radio

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uh captain ferguson native son of

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philadelphia uh captain you've been

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having some significant computer

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problems how are things looking right

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your third shuttle flight what's

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crew of six uh or seven and uh by the

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all right captain rex walheim sandy

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soon there's an app every second why not

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a space shuttle app uh commander i want

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philly connection we know that on

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get it back to him it's some home game

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in the not too far distant future i'll

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reserve that mystery player until we uh

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philadelphia the northeast st martha's

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listen for the school closing so i've

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space like you are this morning to the

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crew of atlantis from us thanks very

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much congratulations

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and uh well we understand we still have

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another minute or two carol okay so

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chris we understand that you play with a

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rock and roll band called max q

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so since you're such a fan of kyw news

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there are only a few drummers who can

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sing well in this world and i am not one

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a question for you sandy um this this

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shuttle brings brings the shuttle pro

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this um flight brings a shuttle program

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inspired by the shuttle program so now

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that i guess what's going forward what

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will be the inspiration for young men

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the international space station you know

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we've had people living here for about a

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little over 10 years now and and we're

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doing all kinds of science and

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interesting technology development up

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here and you get to stay here for six

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months when you live here and it's a

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completely different experience than a

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shuttle mission so that's certainly

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something uh any young person should aim

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to do because it's it's a really really

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interesting experience i lived here for

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four and a half months and further on

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we're going to be moving out of low

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earth orbit now you know the shuttles

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and so we're going to be building

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vehicles that can go beyond that to the

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moon or mars or an asteroid so that's

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certainly uh on the horizons for the

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young people who are interested in this

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type of profession

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all right and you have this is day eight

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with the uh shuttle atlantis and you are

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scheduled to return to earth when next

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yeah i'm pretty sure it's going to be

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early thursday morning if uh if my math

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serves correctly we work on a little bit

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of a different time clock up here but i

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think it is early thursday

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all right well congratulations again we

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wish you best for the remaining part of

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your mission and thanks for everything

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you do for nasa and for the united

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states thanks to the crew and good luck

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thanks kyw

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atlantis iss this is houston acr that

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concludes the kyw radio portion of the

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event we will rejoin you after a brief

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atlantis iss this is houston acr

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we are now back with you please stand by

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for a voice check from

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hello irene we have you loud and clear

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on the international space station

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thanks very much the first two questions

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i have are for you commander

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when you got jarred awake last night for

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the computer shut down did it take you a

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few seconds to remember where you are or

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does your sleep body stay with you while

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you uh your space body stay with you

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that's an excellent assessment uh just

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like on earth when you wake up or

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somebody wakes you up in the middle of

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the night you open your eyes and you

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wonder where you are but uh we had our

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gyros cage pretty quickly and uh the

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great folks on the ground helped us help

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to solve the problem with our general

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purpose computer last night

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thanks i understand you're going to be

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speaking with president obama later

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today if he asks you what you think he

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needs to do to keep the space program

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relevant in people's lives what would

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inspiration that uh doing amazing things

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up in space provides for uh young men

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and women

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i i became involved in the space program

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because i remember watching neil armstro

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armstrong walk on the moon in 1969 and

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it was just through following the apollo

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program in the gemini program that i

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developed just a a keen interest in

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science and math and flight and it just

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it propelled me on a career that took me

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through naval aviation and then on to

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the the space program so if for no other

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reason uh we need we need to to inspire

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generations that that will follow us to

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do wonderful things like this and plus

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we need to explore we're we're we're

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explorers by nature we need to leave low

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earth orbit again and go back to the

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moon or an asteroid or mars we need to

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have a destination it's in our destiny

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thank you for sandy

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can you paint us a little word picture

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of what the iss looks like with all the

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stuff you've brought floating around

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there and the rooting around to find the

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sorry about that irene in a word it's

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crowded up here uh almost every module

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has these white uh we call them cargo

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transfer bags or ctbs they're uh stuck

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with bungees to the front of panels the

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pmm which is the permanent stowage

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module that was brought up a couple

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if you look in through the hatch the pmm

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all you will see are white bags stuck to

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walls because there's not enough space

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for some of the things that we brought

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up to go behind the racks or behind or

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inside the stowage areas so it's sort of

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a sea of white bags floating around and

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we're hoping to help straighten it up a

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little bit before we leave

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thank you um for rex about a week and a

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half before you launched the first

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module of china's space station reached

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the launch site

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if they're able to get it into orbit and

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to staff it don't you think it'd be kind

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i think uh in space is one of the

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biggest international brotherhoods they

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have you know here we are a crew of of

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different countries we have uh you know

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american astronauts and and russian

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astronauts and japanese astronauts we

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all work together as one big team we

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work together we solve problems together

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we laugh together we eat together it is

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the best example of international

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cooperation i know of and it's at the

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working level and i think that kind of

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uh works its way up to other parts of

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the country so

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china being a space i think is a great

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thing i think the more nations that get

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in space the uh the better cooperation

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we'll have with each other

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thank you um for doug how comfortable

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are you that the iss is going to be the

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human us human space flight program for

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oh completely uh you know we've got some

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great folks that work in the

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international space station program and

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uh you know there's been just extensive

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planning to get the

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station in in this posture for the next

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uh decade uh we've got several automated

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vehicles that can resupply we've got

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commercial providers that are going to

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be coming online in a year or so to

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provide the

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cargo as well and eventually uh crew

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support uh taking us back and forth so

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uh the iss is in great hands it's a

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great crew on board and uh you know the

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future couldn't look any brighter

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thanks also for you i was just wondering

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if you were surprised that you launched

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on the first try considering

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the weather at ksc and then that last

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i had thought i had brought my uh 127

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karma along with me there for a few uh

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you know when we walked out and uh you

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know while we were strapping in and we

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were getting updates uh

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while we were laying on our backs and

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then uh and then we

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we got to go and uh and then the next

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thing happened at 31 seconds so i was

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thinking oh no but it just worked out so

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good um we couldn't be happier it was

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great for our family our friends and all

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the guests and then the uh i guess close

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to a million people that were

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watching us so

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uh it's always great to launch on the

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first first try and i'm glad to finally

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be able to say i did that

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thanks and for any of you uh have you

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have any of you guys run into robonaut

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rope we we have robonaut is hiding

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because of all the all the company we

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brought him in the sea of bags but he'll

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probably come out to do some work after

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thanks that's all the time we have

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atlantis is this is houston acr thank

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thank you wpvi tv

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kyw radio and reuters elena sciass we