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so on behalf of the

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greatest team in the world uh good luck

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to you and your crew on the final flight

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of this true american icon

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and so for the final time fergie

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standing wrecks good luck godspeed and

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have a little fun up there let's light

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this fire one more time mike and witness

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this great nation at its best the crew

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of atlantis is ready for launch

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the last mission of nasa's space shuttle

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era

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sts-135 began on july 8 2011 with a

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roaring launch by shuttle atlantis

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through low layer clouds above nasa's

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kennedy space center in florida

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commander chris ferguson led a team of

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four astronauts to the international

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pilot doug hurley and mission specialist

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sandy magnus and rex walheim will all

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have special roles during the flight

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their mission was a resupply flight

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aimed at bringing more than four tons of

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supplies and equipment to the station

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that will sustain operations aboard the

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orbiting laboratory through 2012.

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once docked to the station the shuttle

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and astronauts used the robotic arm on

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the station to lift the raphaelo module

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stuffed with supplies out of atlantis

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and connect it to one of the ports on

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then the crews got to work moving the

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gear out of rafaello and moving used

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equipment from the station into the

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module for return to earth

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sts-135 piloted doug hurley there

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along with sandy magnus moving a fairly

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large size heat exchanger

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for magnus the flight was a return to a

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place she called home for several months

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during the international space station's

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expedition 18.

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for all you guys who worked expedition

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18 i'd like to announce the return of

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the atlanta's astronauts work with the

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space station's team on a spacewalk to

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place a faulty ammonia pump inside the

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shuttle so it could be studied on earth

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guiding station spacewalkers mike fossum

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and ron garan from inside the station

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wallheim steered the space station's

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the spacewalk also called on fossum and

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garen to place some thermal covers to

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protect a critical area from the

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temperature changes seen in space

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they also set up an experiment that will

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test robotic refueling of satellites in

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space the spectacle of yesterday's uh

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six hour 31 minute spacewalk by mike

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fossum and ron garan has morphed into

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what essentially is a blue collar day

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for the 10 crew members on board as we

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move into the heart of the mission and

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what this flight is really all about and

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that is namely the transfer of almost a

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year's worth of supplies from atlantis's

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cargo module the picture guys

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you look like you're in a studio maybe

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in omaha nebraska or something the shot

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is so clear is this a hoax are you

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really in space still

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see the hair

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i don't know we're going to have to do

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as the mission progressed the astronauts

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took time on several occasions to mark

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the achievements of the past and with

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one left a challenge for the spacecraft

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of the future

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this flag represents not just a symbol

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of our national pride and honor

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but in this particular case it

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represents a goal

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this flag also will be flown prominently

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here by the forward hatch of no two

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to be returned

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to earth once again

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by an astronaut that launches on a us

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vehicle hopefully in just a few years

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the shuttle left the station after about

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nine days of docked operations there and

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after both crews completed their

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atlantis departing the international

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space station for the last time

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thank you for your 12 doc missions to

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the iss and for capping off 37 space

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shuttle missions to construct

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orbiting research facility

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as the iss now energy era of utilization

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will never forget the role the space

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shuttle played in its creation

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flying on its own through space for one

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more night the astronauts shared some of

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it's kind of interesting to be here on

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the final night of a shell mission don't

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quite know what to think we're just

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trying to take it all in

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atlantis descended back to earth on july

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touching down on the shuttle runway at

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kennedy just a few miles from where it

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launched on the final mission of the

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space shuttle program

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a ship like no other its place in

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history secured

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the space shuttle pulls into port for

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the last time

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its voyage

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at an end after uh serving the world for

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over 30 years the space shuttle's earned

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its place in history and come to a final

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stop although we got to take the ride um

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we sure hope that everybody

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uh who has ever worked

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or touched or looked at or envied or

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admired a space shuttle