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this is mission control houston

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of course as we've been talking about

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this cigna spacecraft has been

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christened the g david lowe

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by the company of course lowe was a

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former nasa astronaut he flew three

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times went on to work for orbital

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science was one of the architects of

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this cots demonstration mission

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those three missions that he flew sts-32

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sts-43 and sts-57

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on one of them

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one of his colleagues and fellow

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astronauts was astronaut shannon lucid

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of course lucid was a fixture here at

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nasa as both an astronaut and a capcom

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we haven't talked to her in a while so

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she is now joining us on the phone

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shannon how have you been first of all

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oh i've been just great and have you

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been well we've been busy around here we

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miss seeing you around here and hearing

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your voice obviously on the loops oh i

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really miss working but you know life

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goes on

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so let's talk about g david lowe you

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flew with him back

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in 1991 on atlantis let's talk about

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that mission a little bit okay

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so you know whenever you train with your

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colleagues talk a little bit about the

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process for that i mean you train for

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more than a year sometimes up to two

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years like how how close do you become

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you know both as colleagues and both as

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sort of a you know pseudo family and

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what do you remember about g david lowe

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well you do uh you train with uh you

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know your colleagues for a long period

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of time and you get to know them fairly

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well

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and it you really sort of become a

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pseudo family like you said

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and

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it was really a privilege to be with uh

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dave

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and it was a lot of fun he was

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younger than i was and he wasn't married

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at that time but he

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you know uh especially john blaha who's

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the commander and myself we kept telling

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him you know the joys of being married

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he

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person that was doing a flight data file

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and so we had a good time uh you know

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uh

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just a real good time we had so much fun

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together

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so let's talk about the mission itself

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you know i was reading the description

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of it and it it it's interesting and

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it's and it's kind of ironic i guess

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that cygnus is now you know named after

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him and is flying after the station

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carrying a lot of science because that

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flight had a ton of science on it that

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would sort of be the precursor

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to a lot of the stuff that they do

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onboard station right now right

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it it was and uh

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you can correct me if i'm wrong but as

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my memory

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as i remember i think that flight was a

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nine-day flight and that was uh one of

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the longest flights up you know at that

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time and we were thinking towards spa

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station at that time and i know we had

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the lower body pressure negative

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apparatus on board

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you know where

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dave would get in there and then i would

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do ultrasound of his heart and dave was

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really really into the science and

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wanting

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to contribute to

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uh you know the further into space

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flight and to space station which we

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were you know it was just sort of a

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gleam in our eye at that time and we

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were thinking to the future

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yeah i'm reading this it was 32 physical

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material and life science experiments

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they're talking about extended duration

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orbiter and space station freedom which

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of course was the original incarnation

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of the space station but it would go on

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to become the international space

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station right

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right right and it seemed like oh you

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know we're going to go for nine days it

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seems like

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such a stretch at that time

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so let's talk about you know you doing

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these these science experiments on board

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did you have any idea that that you know

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several years later that uh you know

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this stuff would become what is now the

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international space station and you know

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now they're doing up to 200 experiments

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at a time

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i know we

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you know we did not know but we

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certainly

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hoped that

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what we were doing and the input that we

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you know to the design of the

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experiments and how we could do them

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better we certainly hoped that it would

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lead to space station and lead to a

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furtherance of science and space

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so as you look at this vehicle that just

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arrived at the space station here in the

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last

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few hours and it's got the name of your

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former colleague what are your thoughts

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on that do you think it's a it's it is

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an apropos

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name to give this first cygnus vehicle

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yes i think it is just absolutely

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wonderful and i am so glad that oral did

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that i mean

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i can't think of a better name to give

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the vehicle and i can't think of a

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better way to honor dave dave was uh

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such a space enthusiast enthusiast and

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he you know wanted to see uh

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space exploration go on he wanted to see

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science uh being done in space and you

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know he would just be so happy to think

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that he's being honored in this way

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well shannon we miss you around here we

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miss hearing your voice we miss the wake

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up calls obviously we uh you know we

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hope to see you around here at some

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other point but we also hope that uh

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you're enjoying your time off and uh not

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working too much

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well life is going on and life is good

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and i miss all of y'all too

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and i'm glad that we had this

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opportunity to honor dave today well