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wyatt smith he's the chief training

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officer not only for our personnel down

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here on the ground but also our

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now why we just heard from ray

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members of this team you guys have been

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training for this first orbital flight

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for years

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so first off you know what what are just

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some of the things that you've been in

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charge of trying to get the ground team

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ready for this very historic flight

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um

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we've been working

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for about five years on development of

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all the training products and simulators

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that have gone into the training

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so there's been a lot of effort by

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the simulator development team

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and obviously the instructors to develop

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all the products the classroom lessons

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uh to get ready for this

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and so this is this is a first so i'm

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assuming anytime it's a first a lot of

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extra effort has to go in to preparing

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the team for something

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yeah there was a lot of effort that went

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into the development of all the the

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products

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i was involved very heavily in the

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development of the simulator

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interface that was used the actual

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simulator is located in dulles

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virginia at the orbital facility and we

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use our

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iss simulation

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here and interface the two together and

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that was a very lengthy effort that went

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into doing that

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but we were on a pretty short time frame

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so we had to do a lot of extra effort to

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get that working correctly there was

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also other simulators that were

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developed that the

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more small

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simulators that the crew would use and

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those were also developed in parallel

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so a lot of simulator development effort

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and obviously all the products that were

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used to train the crew and the ground

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personnel had to be you know built from

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scratch

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we had a few things to use as

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sort of models from like htv or other

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vehicles cargo crash wasn't the first

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time that we've done things like this

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but uh the vehicle is unique uh in its

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own way and so we had to

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work pretty hard to get all that stuff

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complete

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okay and you talk you talk a lot about

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simulators now the entire team is just

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going through you know simulation after

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simulation of just

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everything that could possibly happen

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with this vehicle is that what's is that

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what's going on

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well there's a couple different aspects

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maybe the last couple hours or maybe

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even the last hour of the of the event

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and it's really on that focus is really

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on their their tasks that they have to

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perform at that time what is what is

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what would the crew's task be in that

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final those final moments um the crew is

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responsible since this is a demo mission

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the crew is responsible for um watching

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the vehicle come up what's called the r

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bar so from underneath iss

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they'll be monitoring the vehicle make

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sure that it's on its correct trajectory

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toward

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the grapple point and also they perform

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some demonstrated

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demo objectives that are

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where they they pause the vehicle and

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make it go away using a command panel

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that they have

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so they have to report to the ground how

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the vehicle is performing with a lot of

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visual aids that they have

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and then they actually do the grapple

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with the arm

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the ground personnel are watching from

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much further out on the orbital team you

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know they obviously watch the whole

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entire uh rendezvous and then there's a

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joint operations phase that occurs

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uh maybe for the last four hours of the

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the flight in which the team here is

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heavily involved in monitoring the

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vehicle

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and some demo things that happen

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but during the simulations uh we we do

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all the nominal operations we verify all

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the procedures are correct

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i'm the evil guy

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so our team gets to put in a lot of

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malfunctions and make sure that the

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ground team and the crew respond

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correctly to what the malfunctions are

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you get to try and trip them up have a

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little we try our hardest to trip them

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you know we have to make sure they can

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do all the nominal procedures correctly

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but we do

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try to put some things in there that are

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that are helping them learn and

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exercising flight rules that we have

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it's good to see the you know the teams

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and perform well

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and you said with the last in the last

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few hours is really joint operation

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between nasa and orbital it's not just

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um what are what are some of the things

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you've learned or experienced uh in

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joint training with orbital i mean has

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it been vastly different

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say from training for an atv or an htv

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international partner vastly different

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from training for spacex

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that i saw was that you know orbital had

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a certain way of operating

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they've operated satellites for years

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information exchange that occurs in the

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simulations we did really brought out

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that that's going to be a little bit of

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a difficult choreography to pull all

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that together so they they worked real

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few simulations we really saw it being

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very crisp and clean

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so they you know they kind of started

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off with you know what do we say and how

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do we do this and it has evolved

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jax's involved

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so we had those those guys in

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simulations because orbital uses the the

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proc system in the gym to get radio

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communication with their vehicle when

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it's within range so we had

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trilateral simulation simulations with

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um with the jaxa guys and uh that just

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complexity to it but can't make things

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well it all worked out and i think that

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everybody's prepared

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okay is now in the in the training flow

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for everything is there any uh

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particular moment in this demo mission

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that has received you know special focus

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required a lot of training something

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all new because it's a new vehicle but

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is there any part of the training flow

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rendezvous are are probably what got the

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vehicle is getting closer and things are

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gets really involved and there's a lot

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meters of station you know you want to

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make sure that everything goes good so

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simulations we also did some departure

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simulations but those are a little

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little more easy to do than the

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really close end stuff

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right right before this you told me you

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guys have been preparing for this you

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you and the team i've done a lot of hard

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work you guys kind of excited to finally

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see it all come to fruition yeah we're

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very excited there's been a lot of

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delays that have happened over the past

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couple years because of various

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different things that have happened in

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the vehicle development

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it's hard to believe that it's finally

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here and uh we're certainly very excited

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about it um this this week i think one

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thing that comes to mind is that we do

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we also do onboard training for the crew

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so the crew has a small simulator on

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board and we do various different

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briefings with the crew

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and and this started this past monday

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and it goes to um

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the arrival date in a couple weeks and

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it's real exciting to see that happen

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because that kind of shows you that it's

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real and it's actually going to happen

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so we're we're excited to finally

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finally get that part of it going and

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have a success

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all right and it is a very exciting time

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again wyatt smith he's our chief

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training officer for our teams down here

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and for our astronauts getting ready for

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that first orbital demonstration mission

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to the international space station

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launching on september 17th grapple and

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docking on september 22nd so why thanks

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so much uh great job to you and the team

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really looking forward to watching a

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successful operation know you it's in