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welcome to the International Space

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Station flight control room here with us

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today we have astronaut Mike Fossum Mike

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thank you for coming today we have a lot

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going on hun station today and an

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outsider station in all of it relates to

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session but first of all mike is a

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veteran of space flights he's got three

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Space Flight Center his belt the most

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recent one was with the expedition 29

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mission where you served as a commander

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and so he where he spent on the

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International Space Station for 167 days

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in space that's a long time thank you

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and welcome so let's first talk about

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what we just heard we we did get a

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notification here of a potential

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conjunction with the International Space

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Station can you talk to us and really

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conjunction is a kind of a fancy word

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for we're getting kind of close to

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something they we're watching a number

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of different pieces of debris most of

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them are like satellite upper stages

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boosters things like that and there's

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many of them in orbit around the earth

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and some of them are at or our orbit are

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the same kind of orbit or altitudes that

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the space station is located in and

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right now the trajectory officer got

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word just a short time ago that there is

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a significant piece that they have a

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they don't have a real solid crack on it

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and it's kind of an odd odd science to

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try to understand where these things are

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located and predict where they will be

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in the future but this one just popped

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up as a concern so they're watching it

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closely unfortunately they won't get

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another good look at it to to refine the

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tracking information until this evening

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it's time of closest possible approach

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to the crew is approximately 130 in the

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morning I think 138 yeah am one day

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central time so they're watching they're

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going to be watching that closely and

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shortly they'll be notifying the crew

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about this when you've learned about

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these things then these things happen

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every few weeks where we need to do

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normally we do it a debris avoidance

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maneuver which basically means we just

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take that opportunity to give the space

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station a little bit of a reboost so we

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we burn the engines lift the altitude up

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that change our orbit and that increases

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the the distance away from that future

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you know passing event this one we

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learned about too late and so there's a

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possibility that we will have to do what

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we call a shelter-in-place we've had six

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instances in the in the space station

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program where we've had kind of a late

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notification and and there was a concern

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that we might have to shelter in place

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and that means we closed all on the

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hatches on the u.s. part of the space

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station and retreat into the Soyuz

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spacecraft to minimize the risk of a

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possible damage to the station from this

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passing piece of debris twice we've

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actually done the shelter in place and I

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was fortunate if you call it that do it

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to do the second one last summer on jun

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and how long were you guys sheltered in

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place for that about 45 minutes for an

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hour you want to get everything caught

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no it's not bad it's a little disruption

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to the day and here everybody's a little

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nervous while you go in to do that but

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its its way of just increasing safety

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and being prudent space is a very big

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place and now there's a lot of a lot of

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margin built into these predictions but

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once you get there's there's also

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uncertainty associated with it so it's

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just a it's a safe thing to do when when

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there's going to be something gets a

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little close close enough to make us

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nervous we take different actions

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depending on how much time we have to do

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and that's what's going on now okay

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great thanks for that information so

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again we'll just stay tuned and follow

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along with that I'm sure we'll have a

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breaking news if it's necessary and

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there's a shelter in place we'll make

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sure that the public gets that

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information as well yea though p i as i

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understand that the website will be

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updated as we learn more information the

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website will be updated and if we get

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into the point in the middle of the

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night actually very early in the cruise

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they they'll will have live TV and

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coverage of that great and so folks can

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follow along if you want to keep updated

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on that potential conjunction with the

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space station go to ww NSA gov / station

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and you can get your updates

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so now again another top of the news you

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know item for us is the launch of the

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atv-3 this is the Europeans cargo ship

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that is bringing up seven tons of

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supplies and it's exciting right oh this

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is like that to get was kind of cargo I

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mean it was a great launch great launch

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last night here in houston we watched

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from Houston of course it's the third

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launch of the European Space Agency

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cargo ship atv-3 I was fortunate

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actually to be on at the space station

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to see the first and second vehicles so

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now they're finally launching one that I

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won't see in person up there but it was

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it was a great launch to you know as the

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vehicle took off everything that's gone

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fine you know as always for watching a

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couple of really tiny small things with

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it but everything seems to be on track

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the crews been practiced and prepared

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the space station is ready to receive

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the ATV as a as it will basically chase

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the space station down for a few days or

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work in the orbital mechanics and

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getting in closer to the station until

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it's ready to attach to the aft end okay

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and I know it'll be in orbit for at

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least five and a half days before it

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does go and dock for that docking that

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docking again is scheduled to take place

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on Wednesday March 28th the documents to

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take place at five thirty two p.m.

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central time now real quick I have a

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question for you that came to us on

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Twitter yeah from Twitter we we pulled

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the verse and want to get some questions

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for you so on so first we have this

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Twitter question comes from Jupiter fix

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from Norway yeah is there a lot of work

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for the crew on the arrival of a TV 3

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and is there any good food stuff for the

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crew aboard okay absolutely to both

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there's a the if everything works right

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the ATV will automatically come in and

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do all of its automatic and rendezvous

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and all the way to docking without any

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assistance from the crew on board the

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flight control team on the ground of

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course is monitoring everything closely

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and interacting with the different

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systems but from the cruise point of

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view on board the space station it

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should all work automatically

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the crew is actually ready to take

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manual control and that's uh i think

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it's a it's alec kononenko and andre

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kuipers diapers it's like that are

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trained to do that so I like will be the

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main flying person and Andre is

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assisting him with the procedures and

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backing them up and and so it's a very

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choreographed thing they trained quite a

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bit for this just in case and they'll be

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monitoring different parameters as the

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ATV is doing it's doing its approach and

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coming in close to the station so if

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anything is doesn't meet the the limits

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or the expectations they'll take over

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manual control and bring it in so they

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have to practice that make sure all of

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the systems that data systems the

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tracking systems and their their their

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flight control system or that they used

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to interface with it and do the remote

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control piloting is all working properly

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on the station so they're all they're

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all pumped up and ready to go Stefan and

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in fact today they're actually training

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they're doing an onboard training as

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well of the rendezvous and docking

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and it's important to do that and when

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you get the vehicle and it's always

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Earth because well there's a lot of

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supplies that you're waiting for but the

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what what everybody really likes is the

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stuff that's back just behind the hatch

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the ground usually come up at a slightly

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higher pressure than the space station

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and the the particular one of the one of

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the russian progress cargo ships that

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came up we were all near the hatch and

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we started to equalize that pressure and

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this air is coming from the progress in

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to the ship and we're all gathered

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around looking for the smells of Earth

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smelled like oranges because there was

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there were some oranges on the ship and

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they had you know this so that odor the

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smell of the orange is kind of filled

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that air and when it came through the

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little tiny valve into the space station

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work oranges we couldn't wait to get the

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hatch open and I get to some of that

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fresh fruit and vegetables so oranges

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apples onions garlic are kind of the

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common things pretty good shelf life yes

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uh that have a pretty good shelf life

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that can you know make the trip so

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everybody's looking forward to that okay

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well that answers the good stuff part of

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the question so let's move along to now

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one of the other things that they are

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the crew is working on in advance of

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that the arrival of the atv-3 it's a

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little bit of cleanup of the permanent

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multi-purpose module that is also known

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as Leonardo they space closet all right

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tell me about also our basement it sits

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down and and there's no up or down in

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space but you still know where the down

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is located and it's a great big storage

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you know area but we're bringing a

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moving van up you know 3,000 pounds of

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equipment coming up on a TV 3 you have

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to have a place to put it and so that's

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that is significant and we've got to

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just make sure that the all other things

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we have there right now are organized

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and and cleaned up and you make room to

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bring in all this new stuff or the

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management of your spare parts you're

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all of these things that come up can

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really eat up a lot of crew time and

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we're not there just to rearrange boxes

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and bags and and hunt for lost things

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were there to do other kinds of work now

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what I understand there's a lot more

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involved with then just you know it's

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not like moving furniture and from one

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room to another room it is literally a

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lot more than that because you have to

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maintain the inventory management system

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right right you know where things are

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going to have to be labeled and helps us

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find things and and then all the while

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you're floating so it's a little more

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typical then y know it you can't just

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set all those things on the ground

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outside the garage as you find places to

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put them you have to you know tack them

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down have the bungee cords ready and

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things like that so you can temporarily

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stow things in certain places and then

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know in our garages or our basements we

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might have things setting on the floor

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set on the ceiling as easy as it can sit

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on the floor you can bungee it to the

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wall and so you have things in 33 all

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three dimensions it can be anywhere it

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can be above that ceiling panel if you

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will and so you have to really keep

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track of these things you know

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electronic database it's really

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important because if you when you lose

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them they're really hard to find because

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you have to look everywhere and if

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there's a lot of stuff sure I work I

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recall your mission and you were looking

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for a tube of grease for the for the

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treadmill nugget for the advanced

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resistive exercise device and that was

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that was a lot of fun watching you hunt

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that down Oh what speaking of the a red

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so also today burbank has had also spent

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some time earlier this morning on the

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six-month maintenance of the treadmill

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starting already we did the last yeah so

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what is what all involved with that it's

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open up all of the panels get into the

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details cleaning out for one because

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dust will accumulate and we clean the

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station every week some of the filters

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in different parts of the station get

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cleaned very regularly but there's other

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areas back behind closeout panels but

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it's time to it you need to periodically

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just get in there clean everything up

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inspect it we grease some of the moving

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parts and and make sure that nothing has

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shaken loose because that treadmill gets

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a lot of abuse you get big guys like me

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on there pounding along you know running

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miles on that on the treadmill and it

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takes a lot of abuse so you need to just

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make sure everything's okay and do minor

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adjustments before it turns into

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equipment damage okay great well and we

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just had some video up for NASA

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television as well I want to go ahead

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we're getting close to also later today

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we have an event where the commander

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Burbank Don Pettit and also Andre

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Kuiper's will take a break and talk with

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Bloomberg News at a Moscow to talk about

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the US and Russian cooperation and so I

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will have to break for that in just a

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little bit but real quick the the next

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question here is see what with the set

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it is comes from fly for calm I have

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always wondered what is the most

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humbling thing about seeing Earth from

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space Wow I think for me the most

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humbling thing about seeing Earth from

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space is just knowing when it's a

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magnificent view and it's always just

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amazing the daytime you see all of these

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these the continents rolling by the

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nighttime you see the city lights the

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aurora lights which are stunning and

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just to realize how few people have

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really had the opportunity to see it

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from this vantage point to me is is

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really humbling and I know how fortunate

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I am to to be part of this most

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outrageous of all humankind adventures

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sure well great thank you very much for

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answering that and also I know that you

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came over here in a hurry because you

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were just out at the MBL pool I don't

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know if we have time to pull up any

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video but we do have sunny williams and

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aki or culture yeah we actually do have

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some video for you so they were both

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they are both working on a practice one

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at the embryo and this is a practice one

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for spacewalk something you know about

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oh yeah I've spent a lot of hours out

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there at the neutral buoyancy laboratory

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sunny and Aki are launching in August so

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they're one of the next cruise to head

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up to the space station it looks like

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they may get a spacewalk to to do a

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little bit of maintenance work on the

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station so I wanted to talk to him about

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some ideas for tools and equipment that

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we've been talking about and decided to

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go out there this morning to help him

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suit up and then show them exactly how

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to configure those things on their suits

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so I got to watch him get started in

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their run this morning they're doing

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great great good stuff so again Sonny

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Williams she had flown aboard the space

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station award for expedition 14 so it's

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been a long time since she's been there

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I bet the station's gonna look quite a

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bit different when she gets there she

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also established the world record for

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females with four spacewalks on her belt

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and Peggy Whitson surpassed her a little

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after that then also aki had flown

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aboard sts 124 you were on your mission

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and so they are both scheduled to fly

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aboard ISS as the expedition 32 33 crew

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member and again that launch is set for

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this summer and we look forward to that

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as well thank you very much for coming

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out today it's all as always all the

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pleasure talking to you and we're going

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to go ahead and get out so we can

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prepare for that an in-flight event

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that's going to be taking place from

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here in just a couple minutes and again

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it is going to be commander Burbank and

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Don Pettit and also astronaut European

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who will be talking with Bloomberg News

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thank you so much man hey it's great to

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come over here it's great to watch the

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crew and what's going on on the space

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station it's an amazing place and these

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are very dear friends that are up there

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right now we handed the keys to Dan just

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before we left of course and have been

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staying close to the mission and just

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really appreciate everything that's

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going on they're doing great they're

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having a lot of fun they're getting a

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lot of work done and it's exciting to

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see the mission continue thanks a bunch

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great thank you and that's it for today