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>> Okay. Well welcome to the 33,

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34 change of command
ceremony here today

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on the good ship
international space station.

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We're going to hand
over today command

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from myself to Kevin Ford.

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Just wanted to reflect a couple
things about our time up here

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and just time in history.

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Sort of was brought
to our attention

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on the 55th anniversary
of Sputnik that was sort

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of a cool event that we
actually launched satellites

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from the Japanese portion of
the space station on that day.

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So we got to thinking
about what's been going

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on in the last couple years;

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about a hundred years ago
the girl scouts for founded,

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Oreos were founded; so those
are significant events and a lot

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of other really cool things
happened all over the world

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at that point in time as well.

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National parks were founded,
a lot of great things all

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over the world including
aviation started too.

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50 years ago I mentioned already
Sputnik was a pretty major event

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for all of us that
got us here today.

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25 years ago, Aki just
graduated from high school,

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Yuri was flying airplanes and I

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in the United States
became legal drinking age.

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So a bunch of interesting past
things happened 25 years ago.

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10 years ago -- a little over 10
years ago, people became living

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on this international space
station for a permanent presence

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and we are honored to
be fulfilling that dream

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and living that dream right now.

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So I just wonder what
is going to happen

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or what our future lies in store
for us, 10 years, 25 years,

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50 years and a hundred
years from now.

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I think we've left the ship
in good shape and I'm honored

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to hand it over a Kevin.

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Although he's an Air
Force guy so we have

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to make him a little more
Navy because it is a ship.

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So I have a little
present for him first to --

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this is a Navy pennant that --
if you hold this for a second --

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flies over Navy ships
when the commander is

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on board so this is for you.

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>> Thank you very much, Suni.

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Very nice.

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>> And now [inaudible] came
up and that was an idea

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from Evgeny's daughter and
there's four of us living here

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in node 2 and it's pretty
crowded the [inaudible] is not

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lonely but with two of us
leaving he might be lonely

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and so I'm going to
give him a friend.

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>> Uh-huh.

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We know what to do with that.

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>> And I'm not sure you
guys know who Magnum PI is

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but Oleg is our magnum
PI and with

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that he gets the traditional
Hawaiian shirt that's been

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on the ISS for quite some time.

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>> Thank you so much.

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>> So as you can see we
have a great crew up here,

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us who are going home
very shortly and the ones

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who are taking over;
the ships in good hands.

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>> Thank you very much.

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I hope you heard all of Suni's
words they were very nice words

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and we do appreciate the gifts.

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We appreciate also
the great hand

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over we've gotten from you guys.

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It's been relatively short,
not as some have been shorter

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but three weeks is a
pretty short hand over.

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And between Oleg, Evgeny,
and I we have all together

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if you combine all of
our space time we have

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about three months total
time in space so far.

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And if you combine the
time of Suni and Aki

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and Yuri they have three
years of total time

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in space, living in space.

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So they really had
a lot to offer us.

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We learned a tremendous amount
from them and they were really,

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really good about sharing it.

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We're not really ready to
see them go, to be honest,

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but it's time for
them to get home.

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They need to land at a time
when the rescue forces can get

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to them and find them easily

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and get them safely
back to their families.

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It's been a pleasure
serving with them.

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Suni said she hopes
she left the station

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in great shape and they have.

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This space station is in
remarkably good condition.

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It's ready full up utilization.

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The exercise equipment
is fantastic,

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the facilities are fantastic,
everything is in order,

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the ground teams are running
really well and harmoniously

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with the crew and the training
to get here has been great

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so we're ready for
a great expedition.

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We'll be -- we'll be here
holding down the fort

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for maybe four or so weeks until
the rest of the crew gets here

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to complement Expedition 34
and we're looking forward

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to doing a lot of
science and getting a lot

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of utilization done now that
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up and ready to go.

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So thanks to everybody on
the ground, thanks to Suni

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and the crew, thank you for a
great hand over and I'm ready

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to assume command of the
International Space Station.

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Thank you very much.

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>> You've had it.

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[ Applause ]

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[ Pause ]

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>> And Houston that concludes
the change in command ceremony.

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Thanks for being
on board with us.

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>> Thank you so much.

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It was a great job and
congratulations to both