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well it's always

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exciting when you're getting a new

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vehicle and

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the space shuttle is really unique

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it still is the only spacecraft that's

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ever been built by people

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that takes off goes or goes into orbit

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and performs a big job up there

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and then flies back and lands and gets

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ready to go on another mission so it was

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a very exciting thing to have a new

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vehicle like atlantis

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i think the most important one the one

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that i've been

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very proud of to be a part of is the

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hubble mission that we did on sts-125

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just the the science alone from hubble

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is amazing and just to

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be able to you know take all the

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hardware up and the astronauts up and

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be part of the repair effort and the

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servicing

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well it's going to be great to be back

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on atlantis i'm very excited about

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getting

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another opportunity to fly on board

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atlantis

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i flew it on my only other mission up to

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the

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be able to get to

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another ride on atlantis but up to the

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space station

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um it's going to be it's going to be

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incredible

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i'll be excited as as i always am but i

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you know

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i don't relax until after mikko and that

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you know

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it's going to be an emotional day and i

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think it's going to be bittersweet

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kind of flying off into the sunset in

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one respect but

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but we're still doing you know important

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good work uh we're taking up this

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russian module that's uh

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actually it's its name in russian means

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dawn so

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in one way we're flying off into the

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sunset but we're still

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you know doing important work and and

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it's the

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you know providing more capability to

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we we love all the shuttles and uh

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but when you start working exclusively

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on them when you're responsible for them

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you kind of grow attached to your

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shuttle one of the things that i

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get to do when i uh when it the vehicle

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lands at dryden

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which it's done a couple times since

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i've been the flow director

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is to i get to ride on the pathfinder

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back

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with the vehicle and stopping over at

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all the places that we stop over

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we literally stop traffic on roads i

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mean interstates people pull over when

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they

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see the shuttle on top of the on top of

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the sca

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and just are just in awe i mean they

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just

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cannot get enough of it and you know

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that to me

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you know when people see it sometimes

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it's out of sight out of mind but when

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they

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this could be the last flight of

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atlantis and so

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we're we're going to do our best to pay

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tribute to atlantis not just for this

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flight but for its

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its whole you know all the flights that

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it's been on and all the things that

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it's done and all the people that have

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you have to say you know what a

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magnificent vehicle it has been