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let's now head out to the marshall space

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flight center in huntsville alabama

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where our friend lori meigs is standing

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by live lori things look uh slightly

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different out there in marshall today

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they sure do josh the payload operations

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integration center recently underwent a

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little facelift and now this room is

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equipped to do just about anything

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joining me now someone who knows a lot

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about that is rick rodriguez he is the

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payload operations manager for

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expedition 36 here and rick first of all

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before we start talking about the room

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let's talk a little bit about the

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accomplishments of expedition 36 so far

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we're about a month in tell us what's

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been going on

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um well we've been very lucky we have a

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crew up there that is extremely hard

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working and really gun whole about

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everything so

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they're just doing every bit of science

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we can throw at them and we're throwing

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a lot of it at him so it's it's been a

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lot of science that we've accomplished

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in that one month let's talk a little

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bit about specific experiments i know

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you've had a lot of fun with one surface

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tele robotics yeah that one um it's a

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it's a experiment that we just started

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last week and it's where the uh the

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astronaut on the station drives a rover

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that's on the

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uh on a field at ames research center in

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california and so it's a remote control

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rover

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it's an experiment within an experiment

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which is cool because

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chris the astronaut on station never saw

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it before he never got trained on it and

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so it's the first time he learned on

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station he he did a little conversation

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with the scientists on the ground and

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then he just went right to it and he had

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a lot of fun driving that rover around i

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bet every boy's dream but you know

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that's where you guys come in too you

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actually go to houston and train the

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astronauts on the procedures for

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experiments that's part of the job in

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here but this one was different yeah we

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still developed all the procedures and

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helped the scientists and and put

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together all the documentation that the

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crew uses but we didn't get to train the

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crew in this case right he did it all

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himself on orbit let's talk a little bit

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about the racks and another experiment

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that used our microgravity science

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glovebox right we just finished doing an

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experiment called bass

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burning and suppression in space

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and that experiment is fun because we

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get to burn things

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they're little samples they're made of

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wax and things like wax and

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we learn how the flames grow in space

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and how to put them out so that's really

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important to figure out how do we do

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firefighting in space better than you

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know trying to learn how to do it better

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than we know now

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last wednesday was a really special day

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yeah for you guys here you unveiled this

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beautiful new room it's a beautiful

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photograph on the back wall nice

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backdrop for us and and a lot of

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dignitaries on hand some important ones

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last week to unveil the new payload

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operations integration center the iss

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program manager was here

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marshall's center director and deputy

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director and also the manager of the

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mission operations laboratory was here

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so it was a big event but this room is

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not only beautiful rick it's also

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functional tell us about how it is

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enhancing science okay

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the biggest thing you see when you walk

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into the room is the video wall

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it's 24 monitors all put together so

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it's like one big monitor and it's great

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because it gives us a way to communicate

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better it gives us a way to see more

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information and the whole team gets to

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so a couple of examples of what's on

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there that we use one of them is uh what

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we call a fault summary display if

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something happens on station we get a

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message and that false summary display

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will pop up and it actually is very

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apparent when it pops up it's very

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bright and so it all lets the whole room

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know hey something's happening we need

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to pay attention right so that's one the

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other example is what we call an aos los

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display aos is acquisitional signal

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that's when we have communication with

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the station los is when we lose it so we

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need to know that because if we're

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working with the scientists and the crew

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members then if they're coming up on an

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los period it's really useful to know

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because we can plan ahead and and tell

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the crew hey we're going to lose you for

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15 minutes we'll be back on the other

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side here's what we want you to do so

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it's very useful to have it right in

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front of us

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right and you've changed the layout too

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of the room you used to face the back

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wall now you face the video wall

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and that's improved communications for

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you guys right yeah and a couple of

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things it puts us all closer to the

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before the people in the back of the

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room really couldn't see the front wall

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which is where we had the video and

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so now we're all closer together the

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other thing we did is we learned over

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the years that maybe one console

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operator needed to talk to another one

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but they were all the way across the

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room so we've learned which ones needed

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to be close together and we moved the

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people around this time so now they're

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that's better as far as which ones are

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closer to each other and we can talk to

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each other easier

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and one other thing i want to point out

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are those cool signs back there i need

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one for my office tell us they're

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functional too they're not only pretty

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right they're obviously they have our

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names on our position names but more

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they change colors we can actually

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change the colors on them and we're

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starting to learn how to use that as a

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communication tool so for instance if

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we're doing a review of of a timeline or

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the crew's plan for tomorrow

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we may tell the team okay you start out

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blue which is the normal color and you

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may tell the team go green when you're

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good with the timeline or go yellow if

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you have a comment

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so when the pod looks around the room

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it's easy to say who's who's good or

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who's not and we can concentrate on the

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people that need attention well we know

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how we feel about the room but let's

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hear what international space station

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program manager mike sufferdini what he

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thought about it

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it's got to feel like you have control

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of everything there's lots of displays

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lots of data

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uh and you get the sense it's all right

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here in front of you now and uh and that

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sir rings of you know we're we're

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maximizing the use of the iss which of

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course is very important to us that's

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right how does this

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room play a role in the whole and fit

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as as most people know all of the

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research management is done here and

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all of the usos control of the

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facilities done here and the management

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of all the us

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shuttle flight we transitioned really at

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systems and keep the systems going but

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their focus really is to operate the

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systems as efficient as possible to

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provide the most

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time and capability to the research

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community so that they can get as much

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done on iss and so really

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starting to focus our attention on and

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so it's it's neat what's your vision for

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this room and the rest of the space

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well my vision is that we fully utilize

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the iss and we've got a ways to go to

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fully utilize it and that means maximize

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to the extent you can all the resources

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still got that's not the only resource a

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lot of research is done by commanding by

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this very room commanding of payloads on

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and and we still have a ways to go to

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storage capacity things like that on

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my dream is to fully utilize iss and i

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really believe when we're done

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utilizing iss to the maximum extent

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possible great great things will be

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discovered on orbit that will really be

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a big benefit to us here on earth so

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and taking a live look inside this very

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popular place rick we want to thank you

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we know you've got a lot of work to do

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we'll let you get back to all your

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expedition 36 work congratulations on

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your new room thank you and that'll do

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it for us from the marshall space flight

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center now back to you josh at mission

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all right thank you lori of course if

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you would like to learn more about all

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the various facilities that help make up

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this international space station team

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including mission control houston

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just log onto the nasa website at

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www.nasa.gov

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station you can take a tour

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of our facility here in houston also the

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different international partner

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facilities around the world including