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hello and welcome to our show i'm your

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host a mentality of NASA's Digital

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Learning Network coming to you from

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NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida

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space shuttle Endeavour and its crew are

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ready to launch on the sts-127 mission

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to the International Space Station their

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key assignment deliver and install the

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final two elements of the Kibo Japanese

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experiment module I'll be your guide as

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we retrace the steps leading up to the

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launch of the station's latest additions

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coming up will introduce the sts-127

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astronauts and take a look at space

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shuttle endeavour's unusual route to

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launch pad 39a the first NASA's mission

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payload manager Scott Higginbotham shows

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us how Japan's expose facility and

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exposed section components were ready

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for space and the unique way they'll be

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used hi I'm Scott Higginbotham NASA's

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mission manager for sts-127 flight of

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the remaining two Kibo elements to the

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International Space Station we're here

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today in the KSC space station

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processing facility where the two Kibo

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elements were prepared for launch

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they're currently in endeavours payload

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Bay ready to fly but this is where most

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of the work took place getting them

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ready to go fly we have three primary

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payload elements that we're launching on

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sts-127 or as we in the International

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Space Station program call it mission 2

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j.a the first is the integrated cargo

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carrier or ICC and that cargo carrier is

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carrying up nine different large spare

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parts for the exterior of the space

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station these are all us provided spare

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parts and they will be deployed on the

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station for use additionally on this

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mission we have the two japanese

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elements we have the exposed facility or

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EF and the EF will be mated permanently

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to the japanese pressurized module where

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it will serve as a platform perform

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experiments out in the vacuum of space

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also on this mission we have the

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japanese exposed section which is

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basically a carrier that will be used to

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take to space three large payloads that

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will then be mounted to the EF during

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the mission and then it will return home

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in mid-may we installed all three of the

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primary payload elements into our

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transportation canister using the cranes

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here in this facility

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after all three were in the canister the

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canister was moved to another facility

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here at KSC called the canister rotation

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facility where the canister was lifted

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up from a horizontal orientation and

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placed in a vertical orientation for

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delivery to the pad then after a

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substantial weather delay we delivered

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that canister to the pad hoisted it up

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into the pad a service structure and

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then ultimately transferred those three

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payloads from that structure into the

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orbiter endeavor for launch the

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integrated cargo carrier was prepared by

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a stream North America they are a

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subcontractor to NASA and they did the

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work on the integrated cargo carrier

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down at their facility in Port Canaveral

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Florida it took them about a year to

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prepare that cargo carrier for flight

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the two Japanese elements were prepared

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by a variety of Japanese contractors

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NASA helped after the hardware arrived

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here but the bulk of the work was done

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by the japanese space agency and their

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contractors here in florida now the work

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on these two elements began many many

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years ago unfortunately due to a series

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of delays this hardware has been on the

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ground for quite some time so the work

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really has been spanning almost a

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ten-year period getting these two

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Japanese elements ready for launch ISS

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mission 2 j.a or sts-127 marks the

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conclusion of the assembly of the Kibo

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Japanese experiment module there are

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three permanent large pieces of Kibo

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this mission is carrying up the last

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piece the exposed facility that will

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stay behind as a permanent piece of the

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International Space Station thanks Scott

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for taking the time to describe

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endeavours mission and payload to us now

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I'd like you to meet the dedicated

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astronauts who will take part in this

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demanding mission mark Polanski will

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command endeavor and Doug Hurley will

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serve as the pilot mission specialists

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are Christopher Cassidy Tom Marshburn

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Dave wolf tim kopra and Canadian Space

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Agency astronaut julie payette

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the mission will deliver copra to the

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station is expedition 19 flight engineer

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and science officer and return Japan

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aerospace exploration agency astronaut

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koichi wakata to earth Hurley Cassidy

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Marshburn and copra will be making their

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first trips into space and let's not

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forget about space shuttle Endeavour it

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stood vigilant on launch pad 39b as a

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rescue vehicle during Atlantis's recent

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mission to upgrade NASA's Hubble Space

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Telescope after Atlantis is safe return

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endeavour was rolled around to Pattaya

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top one of NASA's enormous crawler

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transporters to take top billing on the

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seaside launch pad with the Kibo

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elements safely secured in its cargo bay

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endeavour is now ready to set sail on

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its 23rd mission into space I hope you

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