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never Houston just like snoopy the

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precocious pup that can do anything you

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the dog crew have done it all good

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morning and congrats to dog face an

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showing a little well-deserved rest

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particularly them and so they're on

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their way to the microphone but I beat

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into it just a little bit this is

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Mission Control Houston this view is

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over northern Australia as i endeavor

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continues on a course now taking across

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the northern part of the continent just

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inland from the north coast again these

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views of northern Australia endeavour

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Carpentaria ever fresh oil or getting

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that endeavor now moving into the

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cogitating on how we might be able to

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achieve an opportunity to go chat with

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those people and ever I didn't know dogs

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could catch it eight we try not to do it

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this is Mission Control this view from

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payload cameras payload Bay cameras

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aboard the shuttle Endeavour showing the

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left side of the screen as the task

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board a worksite upon which gym Voss and

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Mike gurnard spent several hours

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conducting a number of tasks to develop

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techniques and to prove out procedures

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which are expected to be used in some

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Space Station that clears it is good

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moping thank you for joining us

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gentlemen commander walk I'll get right

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with it with you a word about the

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complexity and the busy time line which

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you had on this mission I think before

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you left you said you'd be happy if you

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completed eighty percent of your chores

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that figure well to tell you the truth I

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been pretty busy I think we've gotten

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most of the major objectives done but

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have the running tally much better than

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of the work that they're Mission Control

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team has done and helping us stay with

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this timeline and as I crew of course

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for for hanging in there and keep it up

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with it payload commander colonel vossen

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let's have you weigh in on this for a

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moment did you at any point along this

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mission get the sense that you're

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attempting to do too much yeah I think

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even some extra and I think we've done a

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pretty good job of that any time that

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you have any difficulties or problems in

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a flight it slows you down and could

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your objectives but i think that the

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ground team and the crew have both gone

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fewer options to fall back on how how

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tightly as we possibly can to be able to

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accomplish everything that we can while

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of our time we go into it very

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optimistically assuming that everything

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much of the science objectives as

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possible and they send us up a new plan

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in the morning and then we start to

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execute it and through our training and

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their preparation we are well prepared

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to do that and that's what we've done on

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this flight I'm curious how would you

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facility you were able to grow for thin

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films you wanted to do seven was that

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the performance of the platform well

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shield and a program that's in its

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infancy which we hope is going to result

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of like a brand new kid in the block you

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wakes she'll definitely gets an A for

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effort the people involved with it or

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effort when you don't know exactly what

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facility work that it was controlled

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shuttle end from the ground despite

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numerous problems those were overcome I

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future of such facilities both the wake

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shield itself and others of that type I

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a matter of expectations the fact it or

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program like this that's making new

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control system work very well they had

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tremendous amount next time they fly we

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more smoothly we learn a lot every time

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that we fly a space shuttle and the same

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lot more don't do a lot better and we

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overnight and until they've done it a

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is it worth it well if you're going to

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program where we put all the bells and

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whistles into it but you can't have it

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that you've got to conserve resources

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consequences of occasionally having some

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this kind of appropriate would you call

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different flavors if if wakes she'll

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facilities similar to wake she'll were

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semiconductor materials that were

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reasonable cost then I think you'd find

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success what were you able to prove

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viability of actually doing construction

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work in space we've done quite a few

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edas before that have demonstrated that

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very specific task on re VA related to

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error which are additional tools to help

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looking at were feasible and they will

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the thermal improvement were you warm

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turn my cooling to max cooling just to

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coldest attitude that we could have in

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the dark we were both very comfortable

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the hand so the suit is doing a

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wonderful job and Glenn let's and all

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these folks there at the Johnson Space

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Center have done a wonderful job and

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improving them you must have been

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pleased to have such a successful cap to

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the mission both of you gentlemen were

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well speaking into the commander I

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certainly was you da is an important

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tool and we need the opportunity to

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utilize it and practices as much as

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possible to be ready to build station

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property but I felt kind of like a

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mother watching her kid go off to school

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I couldn't walk them to the school to

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the school or to the bus stop but I had

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to worry about him till he came back in

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so I was very happy to get those guys

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back inside Colonel Vasa was your uh oh

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I'm sorry go ahead

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I was just going to add to that that of

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course it was a wonderful experience for

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us both Mike and myself it was our first

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time out in this all we're trying to

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gain experience for more crew members

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also so that we'll have an experience

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Kadri when we start building the space

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station and we certainly got that we

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finished up the EBA EBA a lot better

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than when we started it and so we now

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two more people who are ready to go and

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help to build space station you had a

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few words about the view out there is it

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hard to concentrate on your work when

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you're in those surroundings well re da

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was very special with this the thermal

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evaluations that we had normally people

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go outside and like all our timelines

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they're very compact and you stay so

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busy and you're focused on your work

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because you must be careful work slowly

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and really pay attention to what you're

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doing out there a lot of times you don't

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have a chance to sit back and just enjoy

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the view but because we were up on the

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arm for 45 minutes and an attitude where

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we were very cold outside and we were

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not supposed to be active we were

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supposed to have a very low metabolism

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we had the opportunity to just sit up

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there and watch the world go by I i

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called it eda heaven because it gave you

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the opportunity to the outside have the

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most unobstructed view possible and to

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see the world go by and I don't know if

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you heard but at one point I noticed

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that as I looked around I could turn

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around and see 360 degrees all the way

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around me and all I could see was

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watering clouds everywhere and was just

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amazing to to note that most of our

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world really is water and I could see it

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all at the same time Colonel Voss one

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more question for you and this is an

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entirely different subject but you were

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locked into orbit on some SRBs which

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were modified because of concerns about

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the gas pads and I know you were

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involved in the Challenger accident

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investigation I'm curious how pleased

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you are I'm assuming you are with the

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way the process went this time around

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and what lessons has NASA learned

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well I think we learned our lessons well

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from the Challenger accident everyone

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listens when there

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problems and we go and fix them the

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management listen when there were

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problems we did not allow the shuttle

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launch until we fix the SRBs this time

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and I have the utmost confidence in our

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management team as well as the workers

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who prepare our vehicles some of my

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commander and good friend Dave Walker

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has said that really struck home to me

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is that we live by the skills and

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talents of the people who work at the

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Kennedy Space Center and the other

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places that prepare hardware for flight

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and that's the truth and we all have

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complete confidence in their abilities

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to do that I'm sure that the solid

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rocket boosters that we rode with the

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absolute best possible safest ones that

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could be produced by human beings and I

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thought that way when I got on them and

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it proved to be the case they were safe

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and they did a good job for us all right

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gentlemen we're just about out of time

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here thanks for taking time out of your

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dog on busy schedule and I know dogs

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always like to come home my dogs like to

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stick their heads out the window I

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this is Mission Control Houston this

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view from payload Bay cameras aboard

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endeavour shows astronaut jim newman

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moving the shuttles mechanical arm he is

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maneuvering it to the position where he

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will wind up cradling the arm to put it

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to bed for the rest of this mission with

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its job done for the flight this all

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taking place as endeavour attracts from

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Northwest to Southeast over the Atlantic

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the robot arm was used extensively

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during this mission to grapple deploy

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and retrieve the Spartan science

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satellite which is coming into your

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field of view on the left the gold

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foiled satellite which studied the solar

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corona and the solar wind for two days

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on its own the robot arm also grappled

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deployed and ultimately retrieved the

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wake shield facility we grappled the

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wake shield on Friday to conduct a

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series of tests regarding the electrical

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fields around the orbiter as a travel

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through space and then was used

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yesterday with a portable foot restraint

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attached to the end of the arm to hoist

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about 30 feet above the payload Bay and

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to position them towards deep space to

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gather data on the thermal effects of

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the cold of deep space and the thermal

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modifications made to their spacesuits

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to keep space walkers in the future

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quite warm as they work on the space

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the rest of Newman's colleagues are in

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the midst of a midday meal the crew was

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awakened over 8 hours ago to begin its

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11th day on orbit earlier this morning

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in the wee hours a commander Dave Walker

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and pilot Ken cockerel turned on one of

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the shuttles three auxiliary power units

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and conducted the flight control system

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check out they were able to exercise the

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body flap ailerons rudder and speed

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brake on the orbiter it all checked out

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just fine and then fired many of the

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shuttles jet thrusters both primary and

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verniers to make sure that all those

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systems are available for the entry and

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landing of Endeavour tomorrow at the

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Kennedy Space Center with that out of

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the way the astronauts now have begun

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the stowage of their crew cabin the

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deactivation of some of the secondary

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experiments in the mid deck area they

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are essentially packing up their ship

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for the return trip the crew will be

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going to bed at 209 p.m. central time

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this afternoon about eight hours from

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now to call it a day and to get up a

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late tonight just after 10 p.m. central

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time to begin their deorbit preparations

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which will lead to their homecoming in

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once again this view of the shuttles

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robot arm built by spar industries of

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toronto canada as astronaut jim newman

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maneuvers it into place on its cradle

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along the port lon Geron of the cargo

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bay the arm was first used on the second

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shuttle mission st s to indo vember of

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commander joe angle and pilot dick truly

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who later went on to become nasa

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administrator maneuvered the robot arm

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during that mission that flight only

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lasted two days but the middle day that

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the astronauts were on orbit was devoted

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almost exclusively to tests with the

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robot arm and its