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mission specialists - Linda Godwin down

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to her mission specialist J apt Linda

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Clifford this is shuttle launch control

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at t-minus 3 hours and Counting

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countdown has picked up once again for

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the launch of STS 59 and endeavour and

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all of our activities are on schedule

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this morning cautiously optimistic about

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the weather the broken layer at the

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that's the most important device which

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this is shuttle launch control at

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t-minus three hours and holding our

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commander sigit IRA's outfitted there

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and final the check of the helmet

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flew previously on the sts-49 mission

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he's ready to go this morning

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and there's our payload commander Linda

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and mission specialist rich Clifford Tom

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astronaut Dave Lisa they're talking with

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Counting our commander Sid gatir is

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riding down the elevator he'll be flying

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morning and the t-38 for weather

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reconnaissance Mike Stevens from NASA

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and away they go

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quite pleasant out of dad this morning

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aboard endeavour helping the crew again

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today as astronaut Andy Thomas has been

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in the crew compartment configuring the

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ETL your step eight points for step

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eight twenty eight and seven friends is

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memory and video please go to clues

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along to that of six a go/no-go for

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launch so do you think go

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I'll help you to go do some Pike go

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go pelagic scope CDR LOD LOD ago no Carl

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that's alright let's go the other wing

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clear to launch

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copy at Devereaux PC close and lock your

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visors that o2 flow - 45 seconds

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standing by for the handoff to

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Debra's computer is now controlling

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five four three two one zero and liftoff

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of the space shuttle Endeavour observing

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now on a course that will have it the

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engines now back at full throttle one

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endeavours already burned more than two

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it lifts off altitude now 15 miles speed

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for burnout and jettison of the twin

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good solid rocket booster separation

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confirmed Deborah now 33 miles northeast

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p0 f OB ignition liftoff confirmed copy

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endeavour Houston we see at nominal Miko

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homes one not required you have a go for

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the et photo DTO by Capcom I'd like to

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get the LS and LS times for Diego worked

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and we've got a good picture rich ok so

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what you're seeing is some live cells

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experiment s ft-lb along with its

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companion st la or growing live cells in

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the microgravity environment to evaluate

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growth process you know the novelty of

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microgravity to check out the system

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fish eggs are being used to watch the

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development of the embryo during early

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division stages this is going to

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effects of physical forces on cell

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movement and may provide clues to the

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understanding of how wounds and organs

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with jealous commander of this SRL

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mission and this morning I'm going to

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try to do my most difficult task of the

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entire mission and that is to attempt to

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explain $0.00 steering so in the course

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of this mission we've been initiating

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proximately 460 maneuvers in fact this

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morning we just initiated the behind two

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hundred and sixty second of over four

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hundred and sixty maneuvers by the time

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we finished this flight we will have an

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issue it in war maneuvers than any other

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shuttle mission these servers are very

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important because they help us point our

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radar in a very special way in our

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normal attitude we fly around the earth

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computers and very complex software to

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special way to produce but we

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a synthetic aperture radar image in fact

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radar image that was taken of the

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television image but this was created

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with the radar image this very complex

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processing assumes that the orbiter is

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parallel to its ground track as it

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burn earth that does not rotate an earth

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the earth and the earth rotates that

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orbiter are not perfectly aligned and

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demonstration purposes we can make them

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aligned by constantly maneuvering at

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steering and this is one of their types

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flight duration we of course have plenty

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large stutters it shouldn't that our

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air purification system this is the

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this is removed very carefully a save

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again after some reason we need some

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hi from sick Gutierrez commander the

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Space Shuttle Endeavor this message was

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recorded in April as we were orbiting

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the planet studying the surface of the

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earth and the atmosphere above it as we

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image the surface of the earth with our

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radar and visual photography we've

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noticed certain rectangular patterns all

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over the world more and more of these

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patterns are appearing in the United

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States on closer examination we realized

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that these are soccer fields more people

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are playing soccer than any other sport

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and for the first time in history the

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World Cup is being held in the United

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States so from way up here to all the

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participating countries back on earth

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welcome to world cup good luck but watch

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this is in five are you know it's

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exciting and all to be up here in the

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the thing that really makes you feel

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happiest ever for those watching Sid

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America down in Richardson Texas at this

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time on our shuttle amateur radio

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experiment basically a ham radio and

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good morning to everyone and back there

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mission specialist aboard the space

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shuttle Endeavour we're now over the

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New Zealand I want to take a few minutes

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maneuvers and science operations to tell

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you about our studies of global change

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on this mission this mission of the

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space radar lab aboard STS 59 on

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as the next century began to understand

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the changes that are going on both

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natural and man-made now I'd like to

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tell you about our experiences here for

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the first four days of the flight we've

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been seeing traces of both man-made and

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natural change spring is coming to the

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northern hemisphere we can see the snow

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line retreating across Asia and we're

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seeing vegetation patterns land-use

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changes natural changes caused by

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weather and geology like volcanoes and

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earthquakes but looking for all those

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kinds of phenomena I'd like to tell you

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about why we're able to study global

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change from the space shuttle on this

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flight

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first of all I want to mention our

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vantage point up here in orbit above the

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earth what the space radar lab out in

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the payload Bay is looking for and then

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give you some examples of the kinds of

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change that we're hoping to study on the

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flight our vantage point here aboard

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endeavour is very important we're about

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138 nautical miles above the Earth's

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surface circling the globe once about

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every 89 minutes and that elevation that

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altitude gives us a horizon that's out

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several hundred miles from wherever we

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happen to be over the earth and that

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gives us the broad perspective and the

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ability for our sensors in the cargo bay

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to see a long distance and measure

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change in a reasonably efficient amount

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of time also because we're in orbit our

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speed is very important circling the

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Earth of 17,000 miles an hour we're able

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to use our speed to let our radar out in

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the cargo bay circe XR create a much

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larger electron

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antenna than would otherwise be possible

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we can see finer detail on the ground

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because of our speed across the Earth's

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surface that whole technique is called

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synthetic aperture radar and also with

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our pollution sensor called maps in the

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cargo bay

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our speed permits us to cover the world

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as it rotates beneath us and thus we can

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create in just two or three days a

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global map of carbon monoxide a tracer

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gas of pollution or burning on the

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planet's surface so the vantage point

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here is very important now what kinds of

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changes can we see from this vantage

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point in low-earth orbit our synthetic

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aperture radar creates images pictures

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of the ground using microwaves which can

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be taken during darkness or through

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clouds the maps carbon monoxide sensor

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creates a map of global pollution it

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traces sources of combustion and how

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that trace gas Co spreads across the

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globe by using those images and that

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pollution map we can look at its past

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present and its future we can look back

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into Earth's past by noting changes in

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the geology of the earth that tell us

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about the world's past climate we can

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look at the present and take a snapshot

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a baseline measurement if you will of

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the pulse of Earth's forests cities

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production of pollution and both

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hemispheres and we can also measure the

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ecology the environment and take its

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present temperature if you will and now

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we can look into Earth's future by

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flying the space radar lab twice this

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year on STS 68 later in the year and

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later radar of this type that a similar

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suite of instruments could be orbited on

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an unmanned platform and by measuring

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Earth's environment over months and

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years we can see the trends on our

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ecosphere that would help us manage the

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planet okay let's see what we did was

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earlier today we recorded us doing what

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we're here for which is to do a large

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number of manoeuvres support the road

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are exactly at the targets that the

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radar folks are interested in and we

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understand from the radar people that

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they're getting accuracies that are far

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beyond their initial expectations and

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the targets are showing up right in the

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middle of their radar swath and we will

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happy to be able to help

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that we are putting in one of the 465

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maneuvers that the ground has planned

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for us

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and it's it's real pleasure to be able

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to go do that and see the results like

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the Reta folks have been showing people

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down there know that we're able to point

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the orbiter extremely precisely to get

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very specific targets within range of

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the radar beams from Nick's from our own

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equipment out in the payload Bay this is

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what we've spent most of our time doing

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and what I think you guys have been

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so we're just now coming up on Chile

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after passing across the coastline and

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the target area for this observation is

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the Andes Mountains central cordiality

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dr. Isaacs is mapping the topography and

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studying the climate in the central

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Andes Mountains he's napping

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things such as plate tectonics or the

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movement of the Earth's crust in this

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area as well as mudslides and other

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this is a real-time image seen exactly

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as the radar system aboard endeavour

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records it and now endeavours radars

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crossing the coast of Italy this is the

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the matira italy calibration site is

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and the wavy lines and the image are the

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former Yugoslavian territory Eastern

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Europe you can see the Cuban antennae

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lit up there and that's how a lot of the

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data that you're super real-time down on

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earth gets down there so near over okay

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okay where today great we're all

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listening just ahead of us and the CIO

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Chili's that tried to shoot right now

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okay we're seeing the XR come down and

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see the ice looking as large flows that

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are breaking up we see those right now

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the leads are showing up quite clearly

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we have a video that will show you next

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which is a view of the earth along the

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across Canada and you'll see both the

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earth as viewed by the astronauts

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through a video downlink and the earth

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as viewed by the radar and this is

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coming across the screen now you see the

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white areas on the right are frozen

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lakes in the radar image they appear

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black and the bright areas in the radar

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image on the left are forests this is a

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time of year when thawing is occurring

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and in the early part of the mission the

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astronauts were calling down that all of

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these lakes appeared nearly completely

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frozen and now today they're calling

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down that some of the ice is starting to

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break up and so we're pretty excited

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about this

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this means that we might capture the

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thaw in these high boreal forest regions

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this is a real-time image coming down

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from the synthetic aperture radar the

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site that is currently being tracked is

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of the Netherlands region of flavell and

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the orbiters again moving to the

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southeast this is a calibration site of

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high interest primarily because of its

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it was artificially created by the Dutch

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and it allows for easy interpretation of

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the radar data once it's obtained here

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on the ground these are the German Alps

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now we're approaching the super site at

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over five and hoof in Germany where the

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24 locations with their active radar

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calibrators are set up and the Munich

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Airport passing right below / - - is

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just outside Munich and the Danube River

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now in the picture before sunrise on the

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California coast but the radar can see

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through that as the California coastline

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comes into view on a northeasterly track

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endeavour will cost across the coastal

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ranges which are mountains that are made

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from various fault lines should also

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cross over the San Andreas Fault just

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before the San Joaquin Valley which is

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coming into view a large agricultural

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area the orbiter is now crossing the

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Sierra Nevada to the Mammoth Mountain

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area which is a backup super site which

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as mentioned this is a hydrology site

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the interest here is for the snow cover

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and the amount of snow cover in that

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area because of the production of water

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that the Sierras produced for the

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what you're going to see in a minute is

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a sur CL band image of Death Valley

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Death Valley is one of what we call our

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super sites in front of you you can see

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the Long Valley which is the dark area

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at the at the center of the image and on

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either side you can see the high ranges

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now a lot of you may be familiar we

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produce some similar videos for the

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Magellan mission we start out here in

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the cotton ball Basin the bright rough

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surfaces that you see are salt deposits

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along the bottom of the valley and also

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some of the rougher rocky or surface

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surfaces now this is El ban which means

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that the bright surfaces you that you

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see are produced by sort of rubble sized

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or medium sized blocks now we're flying

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down through Death Valley the smooth

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deposits you're seeing are some of the

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relatively smooth salt deposits on the

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floor and some of the smoother fans now

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these fans that are coming down from the

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sides of the valley are produced by much

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wetter periods in history what we're

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trying to understand here at Death

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Valley with this radar data is what can

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these alluvial fans tell us about the

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past climate history of the earth and

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the coastline coming into view vision

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from the synthetic aperture radar as

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endeavour crosses the coastline of North

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America up just above the state of

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Washington the data take is of the Juan

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de Fuca Strait which is off the coast

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line and this is an oceanographic data

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take for the radar system again designed

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to observe surface and internal waves as

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as well as wind motion at the sea

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we're using 14 cameras on this flight 35

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millimeter cameras Hasselblad cameras -

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these cameras out the payload Bay a

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movie camera and this big four by five

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alright now this just short clip here is

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a far northeastern Asia or the mainland

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passing out to sea and you can see on

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the video here the coastline of Sakhalin

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Island and it's very snowy still in this

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part of the world as winter ends and

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there is sea ice all along the island of

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Sakhalin up to the cmf not the radar is

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imaging for experiments on the

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penetration of the radar into the ice

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field and you can see frozen lakes and

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ponds of the tundra region up here and

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in particular one of the calibration

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sites for the radar mission to evaluate

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the performance of the radar beam that

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strength and signal intensity and it's a

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the ability to aim the radar actually is

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Sarabeth to Japan then that calibration

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site is coming into view right here you

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can see some of the snow-capped peaks

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around this area of the coast and then

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the street pattern there just to the

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north needs to serve ETSU on the coast

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of Hokkaido and there you see us passing

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out over the east coast of Hokkaido into

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the Pacific Ocean take of the water for

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agricultural irrigation of the constancy

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of the Democratic staff and it's not the

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area just to the top your screen there

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up at the bottom of your screen left

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high and dry 30 or 40 miles of the water

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used to be an enormous commercial

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fishing area but now it's drawn up at

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the predictions that if things continue

549
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at the current rate of diverting water

550
00:50:39,170 --> 00:50:35,100
the whole air or sea will be dry by year

551
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this is Mission Control these views are

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from endeavours payload Bay cameras as

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it flies down across the Southern

554
00:50:54,710 --> 00:50:50,490
Pacific Ocean on this orbit it will pass

555
00:51:01,309 --> 00:50:54,720
just slightly north of the tip of New

556
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:01,319
Zealand endeavour is on a southeasterly

557
00:51:07,130 --> 00:51:04,170
track now out over the Atlantic Ocean

558
00:51:08,750 --> 00:51:07,140
just after crossing over the coastline

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00:51:11,690 --> 00:51:08,760
of the east coast of the United States

560
00:51:12,950 --> 00:51:11,700
the orbiters in a nose forward position

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00:52:15,630 --> 00:51:12,960
with the payload bay of the orbiter

562
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:18,100
endeavour Houston were alive on the

563
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and Deborah Houston New York City sure

564
00:52:58,060 --> 00:52:41,450
yeah bill we just got a beautiful pass

565
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:01,450
you're rich I'm trying to tell Brent he

566
00:53:04,390 --> 00:53:02,690
should have gotten here just a couple

567
00:54:17,750 --> 00:53:04,400
minutes ago and maybe has seen that

568
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:26,970
yeah I do yeah I have a surplus

569
00:54:26,980 --> 00:55:01,490
Danny could see this last time

570
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:11,340
we'll stop damn straight that would have

571
00:55:23,620 --> 00:55:16,690
a deal but billiard fantasticks it felt

572
00:55:28,370 --> 00:55:26,690
Dever is about to get on to the heading

573
00:55:31,580 --> 00:55:28,380
alignment circle and will begin

574
00:55:34,460 --> 00:55:31,590
executing a 285 degree left overhead

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00:55:39,980 --> 00:55:34,470
turn to align the vehicle for a landing

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00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:39,990
on Edwards runway 22 at about 57,000

577
00:55:47,210 --> 00:55:44,930
traveling eight hundred seventy five

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00:56:08,370 --> 00:55:47,220
miles an hour descending at about three

579
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:14,390
now below 30,000 feet 530 miles an hour

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00:56:42,980 --> 00:56:41,150
endeavor you're on glide slope on

581
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centerline surface wind three six zero

582
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:19,520
we'll stop roger wheelstop endeavour did

583
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:21,210
your radar laboratories provided an

584
00:58:25,310 --> 00:58:23,970
unprecedent view of our planet and you

585
00:59:04,900 --> 00:58:25,320
and your crew been a joy to work with

586
00:59:08,580 --> 00:59:07,450
I don't still own glideslope instead yes

587
00:59:10,690 --> 00:59:08,590
sir

588
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:10,700
endeavour you're on glide slope on