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you're looking live at the crew dragon

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spacecraft and falcon 9 rocket set to

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carry

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three american astronauts and one

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japanese astronaut to the international

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space station

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in just a few hours today begins the

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first full duration science mission of

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nasa's commercial crew program

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good afternoon and welcome to kennedy

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space center in florida

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i'm marie lewis with nasa public affairs

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and i'm kate tyce senior certification

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engineer at spacex

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joining us today is someone very

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familiar with historic launch pad 39a

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retired nasa astronaut nicole stott

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welcome nicole

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good afternoon ladies it is wonderful to

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be here with you at the kennedy space

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center

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absolutely one of my favorite places on

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the planet

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and ours too absolutely at 7 27 pm

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eastern time this evening nasa

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astronauts mike hopkins

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victor glover shannon walker and japan

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aerospace exploration agency astronaut

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suichi naguchi

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will lift off from this historic launch

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complex 39a

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at nasa's kennedy space center and begin

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their six-month journey in orbit

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this mission known as crew one will be

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the first

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american launched mission with

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astronauts aboard since this

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since the demo 2 test flight this past

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summer that's right and we have teams

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across the world

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covering the action from spacex

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headquarters in hawthorne california

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mission control in houston and jaxa

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headquarters in japan

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and of course right here in florida so

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with crew suit up about

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seven minutes or so away we want to

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introduce our team at spacex

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headquarters in california