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station this is jscpao how do you hear

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jscpao we hear you loud and clear

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likewise don a lot of questions from

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reporters here at jsc and on our phone

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bridge so we'll start off with robert

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and space.com

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the three of you look great inside the

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dragon i wonder if you could describe

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your surroundings a little bit and

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would you feel comfortable riding up in

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one of those in a

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well i i spent quite a bit of time

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poking around in here this morning just

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looking at the engineering and the

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layout and i'm very pleased

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it's it looks like it carries about as

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much cargo as i can put my pickup truck

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and it's

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roomier than a soyuz so flying up in a

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human-rated dragon is uh not going to be

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and

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there was a great deal of excitement

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down here watching uh the birthing

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yesterday the grapple and birthing can

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you describe the

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um the sense

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aboard the space station did you uh

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appreciate or did you have a sense of

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his of the history that was being made

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as you brought dragon on board the space

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what uh well we were pretty much focused

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on on the operational aspect of getting

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dragging and and i know

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same thing when you go out for a space

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walk and and a lot of folks think wow is

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it this really neat but but we're so

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focused on making sure we get the job

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done and making sure we get it done

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safely and and these highly operational

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tasks it's it's not really time to sit

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back and and philosophize on what

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happens now after the fact then you

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could sit around and and think about

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what happened but but during the event

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this is phillips loss with

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nasaspaceflight.com

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this is for don you ended up doing the

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grapple yesterday on a night pass and i

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think he said on the space to ground

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yesterday that all the robot arm lights

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were out how challenging was the

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uh actually there's enough stray light

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reflecting from station and with dragon

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being uh snow white though the

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visibility was was uh uh quite nice and

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i would not have gone in and done the

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grapple if i couldn't have seen what i

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was doing

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the the visibility was good from the

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point of view and there weren't any

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shadows cast

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which makes looking at the grapple

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fixture and the grapple fixture target

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uh easy to do

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if if we would have had all the lights

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from the arm on i'm i think the lighting

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might have actually been worse in terms

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of casting shadows and and making fades

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a little harder to see

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and then is there any robotics upcoming

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this uh this week before you do the

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uh no robotics involving the crew as as

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you are aware

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the the robotic arm can be operated from

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the ground and there's a lot of routine

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tasks that

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that the flight controllers on the

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ground do with the arm and this uh saves

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crew time so that we can concentrate on

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doing our payload uh scientific

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experiments and payload operations up

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here and and during

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the time that dragon is docked uh

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they've they've already walked they're

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planning to walk the arm off and they're

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they're going to

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translate mobile trans the the mobile

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transporter and they're going to be

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doing a number of of uh robotic

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operations and everything will be put

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back to where it needs to be