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hi welcome to inside the International

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Space Station flight control room as we

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mentioned earlier we are looking at a

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potential unplanned spacewalk so joining

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me here in the room today is Kenny Todd

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who is the space station operations and

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integration manager and you just came

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out of it I understand the International

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Space Station mission commission team

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meeting and can you tell me what is the

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latest that we have sure at this point

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we are we are in a good situation for

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60p undocking which will occur later

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tonight Houston time we were able to

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review some loads analysis allowed us to

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to get comfortable with the

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perturbations that that will experience

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as we maneuvered the station tonight

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getting ready for that that undocking so

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that was really good news that will

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allow our Russian colleagues to to stay

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on plant to to jettison their 60p

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progress from that point on where we're

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trying to put a plan together that

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supports their launch and docking of the

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62 progress which is currently planned

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for for monday and from a launch

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perspective and then a docking on

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wednesday and so we've got some

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activities in work right now to to try

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to provide us some options to be able to

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support that docking on wednesday okay

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and so in and of course we want to make

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sure we can support the undocking in the

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docking of the to progress vehicles

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let's go back just a little bit and talk

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about what transpired I guess it was on

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Wednesday that mobile transporter was

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discovered that it was stuck can you

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tell me what what happened what the

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events were since then sure we were we

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were doing some some payload operations

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we were moving the mt to to conduct some

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payload operations and shortly after we

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left one of the work sites we saw that

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the the mobile transporter stopped so we

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tried several attempts to to try to put

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it back at the same work site that we

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just left we found ourselves about 15 to

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20 centimeters short we tried several

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times altima tlie got it to about 10

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meters within 10 meters of the the work

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site unfortunately that's not close

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enough to do

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the the necessary latching that we would

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need to do to to support any dynamic

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events like maneuvering of the station

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or docking or undocking of vehicles and

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so that's a that's what we've done over

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the last couple of days is really put a

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lot of effort into trying to see if we

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could get that mobile transporter

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secured at the worksite okay and I

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understand the mobile transporter is

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it's it was what you said 15 one now

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it's 10 centimeters away from work

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station for can you tell me exactly

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where that is so people can sure sure if

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you look at the truss with it has a

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solar rays on on each end of it work

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site for is just almost directly over

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the u.s. lab so from a center of gravity

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standpoint it's it's actually in a very

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good position relative to to the loads

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that it might experience it might be a

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little more difficult situation had it

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been out on one end of the truss or the

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other so we kind of got lucky if we're

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going to have this kind of problem where

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again write and write it almost in the

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middle of the truss okay thanks and also

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so so we know it will be Kellyanne copra

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who be taking going outside the complex

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to do this can you tell me about how

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long with this space off be that we

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think sure at this point we're thinking

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of the order of three to three and a

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half hours we think the task itself that

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we're considering right now which is

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basically going out and and and working

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in around the SITA card area which is

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attached to the to the mobile

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transporter we think that's the source

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of the issue we can get there in

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relatively short order do the task but

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but while we're going out the hatch

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we're going to look and see if there's

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anything in that general area that we

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can go work on just because every time

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we go out there is a you know as a

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penalty to pay for preparing to go

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outside so when we do go outside we want

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to try to try to do as much as we can

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all that said our primary objective is

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to is to go out and get this mobile

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transporter and secure it at the site

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and and if at the end of the day that's

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all that we get done and it's a you know

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even shorter than three or three and a

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half hours that's okay okay that's good

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because I was going to ask it also if

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they do go out on this unplanned

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spacewalk would they would

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there will be the possibility of adding

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any additional task while they were out

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there to take advantage of you know that

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the direction we've given the team is to

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look at those things that are that are

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out there in that general area that we

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might be able to do but if in the

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planning part of doing this that that

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that takes us beyond our target date

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which is either monday or tuesday then

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then we need not to talk about those

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things we need the team to really be

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focused on getting us out the door on

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Monday or Tuesday go deal with this

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mobile transporter problem and what

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determines whether it's Monday or

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Tuesday I've kind of given that

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flexibility to the team what I've asked

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for is a plan to try to get us to Monday

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and if somewhere in there we're going to

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lose some significant content planned

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content and by that I mean I mean we're

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doing space station to do science if if

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we have some of our long duration

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subjects up there that that were going

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to lose out of a study then at that

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point then then I want to have that

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discussion our Russian colleagues

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they're going to launch their 62

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progress before we do the EBA either on

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Monday or Tuesday so we don't have a

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milestone that we're kind of tracking

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trying to track to there so I really did

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kind of give the team some flexibility

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with an understanding that they ought to

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shoot for monday will go to tuesday if

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we have to okay thank you so much and so

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I understand also the there's there'll

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be a mission managers team meeting

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tomorrow or no sunday and that's when

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there will be a go or no-go decision on

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whether or not we'll be doing this

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unplanned spacewalk correct correct yeah

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yeah we we need to give the team a

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couple of days here to try to work

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through the through the details of it

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and so I put a milestone on the schedule

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say let's talk on Sunday we'll move it

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if we need to if we're still trying to

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finish up some work and can't get a good

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picture of what the EPA is going to look

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like but I anticipate based on

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everything that I know right now that we

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can we can we can get together and and

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and be ready to go go get this approved

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on on Sunday morning on Sunday morning

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okay great well thank you so much so

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again Kenny Todd thank you for coming by

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and giving us the latest update of a

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potential spacewalk that is right now

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targeting you do monday or tuesday will

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bring you the latest update on all of

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NASA social media as well as on ww NSA

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gov flash station again that'll be

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Sunday morning when we'll have that