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welcome to the international space

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station flight control room of course

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the big news for the day is the move of

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uh the space walk that was scheduled for

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6 10 a.m this morning to 6 10 a.m

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tomorrow morning and tell us a little

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bit about what was behind that move we

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have here with us the integration and

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operations manager for the space station

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kenny todd thanks for joining us kenny

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it's my pleasure

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all right so i guess the decision was

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made yesterday by the mission management

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team so can you tell us what uh what

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they were looking at and why they

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decided to move the space walk

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sure um we

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we had a lot of good discussion

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yesterday

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obviously the first order of business is

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the condition of the suits

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how good do we feel about them being

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at the end of the day when you look the

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suits we judge to be in in good shape

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based on the ground testing that we've

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done of the failed units that returned

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as well as the

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as the suits themselves on orbit and how

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they performed

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one of the things that we did do was put

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in a list of what we would term the

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watch criteria it's basically a uh a

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list of things that we're going to

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monitor during the spacewalk that things

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are a little bit outside the normal of

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what we would monitor and uh and that's

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going to take a little bit of extra time

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if we were in a a contingency type of

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eba where where the clock was running

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i felt very confident we could have gone

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out today um but uh uh you know over the

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in football terms over the last couple

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of weeks we've kind of gone the length

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of the field here when we're and we're

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right here at the goal line getting

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ready to go do the cva and and uh

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we had enough time it was okay we could

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call the timeout make sure everybody had

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to play and and

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that's what we decided to do had we had

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we not had the time um we could have

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done it but uh but i think the better

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part of valor is probably to

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to take that time out let the team get

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ready uh and and and and ready to run to

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play so we should be good and ready to

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go tomorrow at 6 10. absolutely um but i

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know this is the first of three space

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walks and how does this affect the

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future dates of the of the remaining two

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what we're going to do is we we slid 24

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hours of the first spacewalk we're going

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to slide the second spacewalk 24 hours

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as well from the 24th to the 25th

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at this point we're going to try to hold

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the third one on the first that's been

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the plan all along and and

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and we'll

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we'll adjust as we need to but what our

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plan right now is try to stick to the

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first okay and i know um barry wilmore

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is coming up on the end of his um so

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hopefully we can get those in as

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scheduled before he leaves you bet uh

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he's uh uh certainly the guy that's

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trained he and terry have trained these

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evas so i think

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i think everyone would like to see us go

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ahead and get that get that done while

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he's still on board

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at the end of the day we're going to do

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the right thing for

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from a safety standpoint but as long as

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the suits continue to treat us well and

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and we're uh we're moving forward in the

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objectives of the ebas then we're we're

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going to try to stay of course get them

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done before he leaves sure

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well um you mentioned that one of the

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things that the team here on the ground

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was looking at were the protocols they

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they'd use for the suits if anything did

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happen i know we wouldn't expect

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anything to happen but we're always

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ready for the what ifs so what what

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would we do if there's a problem with

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the with a fan on the on the spacesuits

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tomorrow

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um the failure of a fan pumps up is has

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i mean that's an acknowledged failure uh

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it there is the potential and for other

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reasons that it could fail and so our

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procedures as written currently uh

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accommodate uh you know the actions you

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would take if the fan pumps up fails

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what we're doing a little bit different

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now is um is we're being a little more

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conservative if we do have a fan pump

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set up failure uh we're not going to

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spend a lot of time trying to restart

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the fan and and continue the eva uh

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which is what we would do nominally okay

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um in this in in the situation where we

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where we know we probably got a little

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bit of corrosion in those bearings and

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if for some reason we've we've missed

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something in our analysis it says the

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fan is going to continue to run

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and for some reason it does stop our

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first thought is we're going to

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terminate the eva at that point and go

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ahead and start bringing the crew back

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in so we'll we'll do an orderly cleanup

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and we'll then we'll bring the crew back

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in okay

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well uh getting on i guess to the more

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uh exciting news um it's been a while

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since we've done any assembly work on

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the space station it's all been

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maintenance for a while now so how does

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it how does it feel to be getting back

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well uh yeah i i keep coining it kind of

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the reassembly uh it's uh it's exciting

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um uh you know the the challenge is

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going to be continuing to to make

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forward progress on our science and our

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research program at the same time i

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think we've got a good balanced way to

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do that but it's uh it's it's going to

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be different to see big modules moving

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around again on space station and

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and when you look at a longer term of

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what this is going to do for us in terms

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of being able to uh

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to meet our

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our goals for commercial crews and

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commercial cargo vehicles going forward

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it's a it's going to be it's going to be

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exciting and again that's just another

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step on that path to commercializing low

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earth orbit and we're excited to be a

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part of it yeah and that is i guess the

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exciting um

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ultimate outcome that we're looking at

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is the arrival of those first commercial

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crew vehicles carrying astronauts up to

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the space station so i'm sure the whole

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program is looking forward to that

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absolutely

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you know it's uh when you get in a

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program like this that's multiple

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decades you know you uh

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you have to know that over time things

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are going to adjust and and

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and uh you know this this emergence of

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the commercial crew industry um is

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exciting and uh and again i think that

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you know if we can uh if we can satisfy

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those goals and objectives for them uh

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you know that will give us an

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opportunity to start looking a little

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further into the

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into the solar system and what we might

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be able to accomplish there as a as nasa

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and an international partnership so it's

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it's fun and it's exciting we're looking

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forward to transforming the station and

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and trying to

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trying to help those guys get into low

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earth orbit absolutely a milestone not

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just for nasa but also for the united

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states right absolutely absolutely this

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is uh again this is part of our

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our foundation as a country to do these

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kinds of things like exploration and

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it's fun it's fun to be a part of it and

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it's fun to have a station program

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that's doing as much as we can looking

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down and trying to trying to help our

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planet but at the same time looking up

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and and trying to figure out how to