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nasa and its international partners had

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made some updates to the spacecraft

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traffic so here with me today i have a

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special guest to talk about some of

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these updates and what this means for

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spacecraft now the crew now and future

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spacecraft that will be visiting the

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space station kenny todd the space

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station operations integration manager

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long title i think i got that right this

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time thank you very much for joining me

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today my pleasure to talk about some of

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the stuff so first of all let's just

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talk about

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um i know that there was the progress 59

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issue and we were unable unfortunately

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to have that uh cargo craft that's the

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russian cargo craft docked to the space

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station can you explain to me is this

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new update a result of the 59 progress

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absolutely our our russian colleagues

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are working very hard to try to

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understand the root cause of the problem

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but as with all things when you have a

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major major failure such as they've had

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they they have to go through their

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standard anomaly resolution process so

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they formed a commission it's going to

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take some time to work through that

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when you look at

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some of the upcoming events

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that we had with the return of of the

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in addition to that the launch of the

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next crew upcoming and and then and the

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the upcoming progress launches as well

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um they made the decision and we think

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it's a prudent one to

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to reshuffle their schedule a little bit

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and provide them the extra time

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necessary to to finish their analysis

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and and determine the root cause

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okay and so i know that 41s which is the

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41 soyuz spacecraft that would be taking

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uh bringing commander verts samantha

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christopher and anton shkaplerov back

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home they would be departing today

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um on the original plan so what what's

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the next plan for the those guys

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yeah the uh

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for us having our russian colleagues uh

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come out with a new schedule and give us

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at least a feel for when they might try

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to bring this crew home really gives us

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uh a plan for how we we might want to

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deal on orbit with the with the extra

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time with the crew up to this point we

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weren't sure if it's a week or two weeks

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or four weeks and now that we have a

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little a little more certainty in in the

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return plan uh we can go and and start

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to

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lay in some some objectives for the crew

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to try to accomplish we've got a lot

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going on in the summer time frame

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particularly in the area of trying to do

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some reconfiguration reconfigurations of

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and so we're looking to try to move some

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of those activities forward a little bit

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because we

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we know that based on the current

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russian plan that that we're probably

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going to have a little bit longer of

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what we what we call an indirect period

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where we'll be at three crew on board

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the station and so anything that we can

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bring in in that particular part of the

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schedule back to the left a little bit

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and try to get that work done with terry

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and samantha that's what we're going to

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try to do okay and so what does this

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mean for all the future i mean is

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everything going to be shifting to the

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right or will this also mean that maybe

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something changes in one of the perhaps

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the next mission is shortened therefore

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the rest of it it kind of stays on track

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or does everything just completely shift

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to the right because i know a lot of

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this the progress in soyuz is scheduled

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i think a large part of that is still uh

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to be determined i mean quite frankly uh

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you know what we've got is a good set of

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planning dates right now that gives the

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entire partnership an opportunity to

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try to try to figure out how best to use

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the resources on orbit plus get ready to

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figure out when we need to fly apply

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things and so when it comes to to the

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longer term

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schedule for our russian colleagues and

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how they want to

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to put that schedule together i think

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really a lot of that's going to be

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driven by what they find in their root

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cause analysis so we'll work with the

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dates they've given us and i think we'll

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uh we'll we'll have a good plan okay and

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so what are we looking at for the next

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uh soyuz launch

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at this point we're looking at the end

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of end of july time frame uh the middle

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to the end of july time frame which

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when you consider that uh that time

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frame it'll be shortly before we have

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an htv vehicle show up

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we'll most likely still have spacex

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seven on board and so uh it'll be great

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to uh to have the extra crew show up in

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that time frame we'll we'll put them to

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work and we'll we'll do as much as we

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can do um

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as far as when they'll return and

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whether or not that'll affect their

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their return schedule based on when they

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actually launch it again we'll just have

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to wait and see where our russian

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colleagues end up on that okay and also

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until july you said

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scheduled to be launching

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in august so that's been accelerated can

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you explain what the reason was behind

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that you bet when you look at the uh at

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the commonality between the the

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for the progress and the soyuz uh

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vehicle um you know

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it probably makes better sense to say

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let's launch a cargo vehicle using that

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same launcher ensure that whatever

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corrections whatever things they've been

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able to determine through the commission

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that they wanted to repair that all

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have been factored in and and test them

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against a cargo vehicle as opposed to a

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crude vehicle and so uh we think it's

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prudent we support their approach there

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the supply we're good on supplies avoid

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last well out into the fall um and

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the the one thing

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that we're at right now relative to our

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logistics train uh by having our our

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commercial resupply

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vehicles here in the u.s

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that the the jackson team provides we

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can we can weather these kinds of storms

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now and and the current state of our

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logistics train i think we're in really

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good shape okay and what can you tell me

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real quick about the investigation

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that of what had occurred with 59 where

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based on what our russian colleagues are

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saying uh and telling telling us through

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uh press reports and so forth and and

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when we have uh some folks who are who

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are participating and and uh sitting in

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on some of their discussions uh they're

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clearly focused at this point on the on

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the interface between the third stage

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and the and the progress and so um i

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know they're looking at their data and

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looking at their telemetry and and

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seeing if they can get root cause it's a

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very difficult uh problem to solve and

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and uh certainly uh you know we will

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support whatever they need and and

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and uh we're uh we're very supportive of

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their efforts so far they they're they

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seem to be doing a very good job at

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trying to get to the bottom of the

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problem great and also we have the we

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have the one year mission that is now

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underway with nasa astronaut scott kelly

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and the russian cosmonaut mikhail

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konienko can you tell me if there are

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any impacts to that particular mission

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on this schedule changes at this point

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there is nothing that we've defined

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there was a little bit of hardware on 59

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progress that our russian friends lost

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but it's uh not anything we can't work

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around so we're uh we're continuing with

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our science objectives and and

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we'll uh we don't see any major impacts

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to to the to the planet we've got for

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for scout and macau okay great well as

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always we really appreciate you coming

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and giving us this update i know that we

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have uh notified the crew aboard the

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space station and um recently samantha

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christopher reddy had uh posted a tweet

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about her thoughts on and it looks like

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she supports her stay aboard the space

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station and all are

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good to go and continuing their work

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aboard the space station so we're good