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>> Okay.

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Today at our press conference,

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Pavel Vladimirovich Vinogradov
will be participating.

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He will be the commander.

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Our flight engineer for Crew 35
and flight engineer for Crew 36,

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Mr. Aleksandr Misurkin,
from [inaudible]

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and Christopher Cassidy,
flight engineer too, for Soyuz

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and flight engineer
for the ISS from NASA.

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The following crew will be Oleg
Kotov, he'll be the commander

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of the Soyuz from
Roscosmos, Russia.

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Sergey Ryazanskiy flight
engineer, for Soyuz

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and flight engineer for the
ISS, Roscosmos cosmonaut,

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Michael Hopkins, flight
engineer for NASA.

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>> ...finished your
qualification exams

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for the first ever four orbit
rendezvous, single day launch

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to docking to the space station.

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Can you talk about some of the
examinations you did this week

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and what you're looking
forward to coming up?

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>> Well in addition to
the typical two days,

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one day in a Russian segment
and the normal Soyuz exam,

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we added the short program for
the rendezvous qualifications.

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And although it's
a very new program,

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for our actions inside the
crew, it's very similar

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to what we're used to doing.

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All of the sequence of events
that we do are the same,

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just without a break
of one day in between.

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The space center here has done
a tremendous job to prepare us

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for this new rendezvous approach
and the [inaudible] are all

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in great shape and we as a crew
feel very prepared and ready

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for this exciting new day.

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>> Today we're here at Red
Square and the Kremlin,

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a few weeks before you head
to Baikonur and go to the,

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for your launch to the
International Space Station.

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Can you tell us what you're
doing here at the Kremlin today?

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And maybe compare it to
what it was like for you

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to do this a backup crew member

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and now you're here
for your mission.

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>> Right. It's really
exciting, actually,

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to be here for my own launch.

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When I was here backing up Kevin
Ford, who is soon to come home

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from the space station,
it was interesting

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to see the whole process,
almost as an observer.

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I knew I was part of the
crew in the backup crew,

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but when you're here and it's
here for your own launch,

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and I know that I'm inside
of three weeks from launch,

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it brings a whole
special feeling to going

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through this process and sort
of the historical moments

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of laying the flowers
down in front of Gagarin

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and Korlos [assumed spelling],
the stones there and then

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as we walk through the Kremlin,
the significance of where we are

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and the history that's here and
the space fliers prior to me

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that have gone through this same
exact process is really a neat,

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a neat experience.

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The whole thing is pretty
fantastic from the get go.

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>> And this is going to be
your first launch in a Soyuz,

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and the last time you
prepared for a flight you were

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down in Florida getting
ready for STS-127,

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and this is a lot
different than that.

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>> Right, exactly.

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July in Florida is quite
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than March in Russia.

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But you know, part of
the thing about going

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to space is who you fly with.

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And I really enjoyed my
crew mates on STS-127.

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On a shuttle mission,
there's more crew mates.

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On a Soyuz, I really enjoy
becoming close buddies

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with Pablo and Sache and
knowing their families

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and being a tightknit crew and
even though it's fewer people

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on a Soyuz than a shuttle, it's
the same camaraderie feeling

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that you have as you
remember the team that's