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for the past couple of weeks we've been

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celebrating the 15th anniversary of the

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international space station back in

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november of 1998 the russians launched

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zarya the first piece of the

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international space station and a couple

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of weeks later that was followed by

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unity that was the first u.s piece of

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the international space station the

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shuttle was endeavor that took it up the

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mission was sts-88 we are happy now to

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be joined by bob cabana the current

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director of the kennedy space center

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down in florida who just so happens to

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be the commander of that mission so bob

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welcome let's talk about what you

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remember about that particular mission

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which was a pretty historic

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oh josh it it was awesome you know i

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think back to the evening of november

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20th we had the whole crew over to our

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house for dinner and dessert and we were

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watching nasa tv watching the launch of

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zarya on the proton rocket from baikonur

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with great anticipation because we knew

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that once zarya was safely on orbit we

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were going to be able to launch a couple

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weeks later and so we were all really

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glad to see zarya make it safely to

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space

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then we got ready for uh for our flight

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and we continued training and we got

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down to the cape and the the first night

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the weather wasn't that great it was

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raining we had a problem starting one of

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the apu's and we counted down to 18

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seconds and didn't go and of course the

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crew was disappointed but you know in

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retrospect

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things just weren't going smoothly that

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night and we went back to crew quarters

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and a great story my daughter and i are

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our wizard of oz aficionados and right

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before we went into quarantine they

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re-released the wizard of oz totally

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restored and she and i went to see it

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it was just

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cool because

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that next day after we didn't launch

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they had a picture of endeavour sitting

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on the launch pad with this beautiful

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rainbow over it and it was ended up in

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the paper the next day

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and that night we went out and the

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weather was great and we went through

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the whole launch count and everything

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was just perfect in uh and we launched

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got safely to orbit

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and the next morning our wake up music

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judy garland singing somewhere over the

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rainbow and i always tell folks

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somewhere over the rainbow dreams come

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true because we launched over that

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rainbow and it was definitely a dream

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flight from start to finish everything

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just went flawlessly

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now whenever you got up in space these

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you know we talk about this a lot these

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two pieces had never gone together they

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they'd never been even on the same side

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of the planet but they went together

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pretty flawlessly were you guys nervous

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at all about actually attaching the two

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pieces of the space station was there

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any trepidation or fear about it at all

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sure absolutely i mean we had a number

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of challenges i mean the first of which

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was the software for the space station

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we spent hours out at sunny carter

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testing the software the boeing facility

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at nasa's software lab there

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then you know the original philosophy on

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the space station was ship and shoot

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ship it to the cape and shoot it to

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space no testing

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the meit test at the cape the mission

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essential integration test

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where we used emulators for the fgb and

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continued to test the software with the

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real hardware at the cape and we found a

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number of problems and so

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the testing that we did there

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ensured our success on orbit we also had

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issues with how we aligned

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the fgb with

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unity once nancy pulled it you know

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unity out we got it safely attached to

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the orbiter docking station fired the

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jets and brought it together but

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lifting the fgb up on top of unity it

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was almost at the full reach of the arm

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and we didn't have any way to properly

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align it other than some camera views

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that weren't as precise as we would like

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but we practiced in the simulator

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we had the space vision system uh that

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we used and through all that data we got

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everything aligned and we're able to

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dock it but on the day that we fired up

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the computers we were using our laptops

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from the flight deck to send the

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commands to the space station to get

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everything operable and uh sergey krieg

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love and i were sending the commands and

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i'll tell you nobody was more surprised

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than me when we sent the commands and

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everything worked perfect all the

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software everything it just all the

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displays it all worked and

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it's a testament to the testing that

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went into it prior to getting those two

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pieces together in space the team just

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did a phenomenal job and i think you

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know when you consider you got

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japan the united states the european

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space agency and all its partners canada

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russia all this hardware being built

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from around the world coming together in

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space for the very first time and having

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everything operate perfectly what a

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testament to the team in the testing

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that we do it's just phenomenal

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there's a lot of questions about who

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would be the first to go inside the

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newly minted international space station

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at the point of time you guys kind of

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did something a little bit different

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that was very symbolic of the

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international partnership talk about

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that with you and sergey

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in fact that was a big media buzz before

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we launched i kept getting asked who's

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going to be the first one inside the

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space station i wouldn't tell anybody i

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didn't even tell the crew and on ingress

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as we went through all the procedures

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and we got to the point where we opened

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a hatch i waved sergey forward and

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through all the hatches as we went into

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unity and into the fgb

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sergey and i entered side by side it was

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an international space station it was an

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american and a russian module and i felt

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it really important that we enter as an

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international crew not as any one

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country and i think it set the example

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for how we operate on space station even

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today i mean we have all our partners

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working together as one up there and

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it's a model for how we're going to

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explore when we go beyond planet earth i

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think we have learned so much working

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together and and when we explore beyond

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planet earth you know it's not any one

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country that should leave planet earth

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but we should leave as the people from

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planet earth and i think the space

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station has just been a tremendous model

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for how we work together

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last question for you what's your

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reaction whenever you look at it now i

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mean this thing weighs almost a million

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pounds it's enormous uh it's grown

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incredibly now that we've sort of

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finished assembly now it's moved into

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science here in the research era you

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know what are your thoughts on it now

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with where it is

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well i mean first off uh i went i

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watched our post flight crew movie video

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the other day about 30 minutes long and

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what great memories it brought back all

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the challenges and stuff and i'll share

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one more story in the end here but

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uh at the end of it you know there's

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this picture of unity and zarya floating

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in space together the birth of the

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international space station

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and then it shifts to a computer

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animation and it shows the assembly

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sequence all the modules coming together

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in this video that's a computer

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we did that what was a computer

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animation 15 years ago it's reality on

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orbit today i mean it's just a

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phenomenal complex all those modules

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all have come together work perfectly

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you know the wall of eva that we used to

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talk about we're never going to be able

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to surmount this it's just going to be

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too challenging

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assembling the space station and how

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important it was to have humans tackle

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the problems that arose as we were out

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there but they all went perfectly you

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know there were some hiccups along the

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way but

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because of the team and our ability as

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humans to overcome and adapt

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we met all those challenges we corrected

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the problems we have a working space

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station on orbit that is just a

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tremendous scientific research and

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engineering facility

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you know i i truly believe it's a

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stepping stone to exploration beyond

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planet earth we are going to prove the

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systems we need

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long duration space flight away from

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planet earth on the international space

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station we are going to learn about how

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the human body behaves for an expanded

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extended period of time in a

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microgravity environment aboard the

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international space station the science

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that's coming from it is phenomenal and

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even greater things are going to come

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i would give anything to be able to go

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back there i think one of the neatest

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things right now on the space station

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it's the cupola to be able to look down

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on the earth from inside that cupola and

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just watch it go by what a tremendous

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view what a unique opportunity that is

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because i tell you there's nothing more

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special than watching the earth go by