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Marie Lewis, NASA Communications: You are\h
looking live at the Crew Dragon spacecraft\h\h

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and Falcon 9 rocket set to launch four\h
astronauts to the International Space Station\h\h

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in just a few hours. Today, a crew of two\h
Americans, one European, and one Japanese\h\h

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astronaut will set off on a six-month science\h
mission to world’s only orbiting laboratory.\h\h

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Welcome to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in\h
Florida. I’m Marie Lewis with NASA Communications.\h

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Kate Tice, senior certification engineer,\h
SpaceX: And I’m Kate Tice, senior certification\h\h

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engineer at SpaceX. Joining us today is NASA\h
astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson. Welcome, Tracy.\h

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Tracy Caldwell Dyson, astronaut: Thank you, Kate;\h
thank you, Marie. It’s sure a pleasure to be here.\h\h

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You know, it’s a busy month for human\h
spaceflight with traffic to and from the\h\h

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International Space Station. And today’s launch\h
of Crew-2 is a very exciting part of that. And\h\h

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I’m just so pumped that I get to be right here.
Lewis: And Tracy, we were talking earlier when the\h\h

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last time was you were in Florida for a launch.
Caldwell Dyson: That was in 2011 for STS-135.\h\h

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I had just returned from my space station mission\h
and they needed some help in the C-squared group,\h\h

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the Cape Crusader, and I came here to support.
Lewis: Well, we are so happy to have you back\h\h

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for this new era of human spaceflight. A quick\h
note for you all: we have each been vaccinated\h\h

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against COVID-19, uh, and that’s why you see\h
us sitting here together without masks on.\h\h

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We want to keep everyone safe and healthy.
Tice: At 5:49 this morning eastern time, NASA\h\h

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astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur,\h
European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet,\h\h

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and Japan Aerospace Exploration\h
Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide\h\h

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will lift off from Launch Complex\h
39A, which you see right there,\h\h

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at NASA’s Kennedy’s Space Center, as part of the\h
agency’s Commercial Crew Program. This crew will\h\h

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relieve the four Crew-1 astronauts, who have been\h
living and working on station since November.\h\h

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This will be the first time that SpaceX reuses\h
both a first stage and a Crew Dragon capsule.\h\h

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This booster supported the Crew-1 mission and\h
the capsule, Dragon Endeavour, flew astronauts\h\h