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aboard space vehicle endeavour what's

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space station construction let me let me

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take some of the incoming calls to you

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Larry good morning

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to wish Dave Walker and the crew the

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very best of luck and and the

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congratulations from the Career Academy

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at Hollywood High School and we'd love

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to have them come and visit the school

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after they had their experience and tell

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incredibly relaxed more relaxed and I

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moments of fear are you too darn busy to

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great way to combine flying a love of

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the idea of flying and also science and

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engineering let's take another call

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we're speaking to a space shuttle

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Endeavour was thigma dr. James Newman

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happening to me my name is Manny Shapiro

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outstanding example great countries do

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great things and this is something for

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all of us for the kids for adults for

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seniors to enjoy Renee thank you very

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much for your call and we're really on

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opportunity and am I correct in saying

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did we lose him you know I there's so

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adventure I will I've done so with the

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NASA's budget but dr. is NASA doing more

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the way out into orbit if you will Bob

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aboard endeavour how long would you be

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another 10 days waking up the the

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today fine I'd like to say greetings

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is a great opportunity for America I I

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instead of launching a few spacecraft

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send several probes into deep space each

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faster better cheaper idea which is

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assembly practice how would you respond

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fantasy than fact we've got a bunch of

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my first flight and so this time I'll

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endeavour how many times have you been

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this intense desire to come back to

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pleasure to be back so is this what we

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bring very much back Steve you're on 790

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what you're the biggest rush I think it

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launches of the American space program

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total we've had there's been a hundred

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human space flights and the shuttle is

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now up to about 77 X we're the 71st

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let's take one more call if we can

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George you're on seven

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never ever lost the enthusiasm of

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watching our country and their men into

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it going to be more of an unmanned as

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opposed to manned missions and what do

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that is that the space shuttle itself is

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definitely a vehicle for people it's a

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way of getting people and cargo into

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space and it will always be that until

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vehicles when it comes to just hauling

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material into space and not having to

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worry about bringing it back or needing

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the special skills of people then an

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unmanned vehicle is the way to go for

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communication satellites for most of

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those for example and for others as far

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as just hauling raw material essentially

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or expended nuclear waste into space

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that's a bit further down the road I

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think it will be actually cheaper to

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find good solutions to that here on

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earth rather than sending it into space

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we are working on better technologies to

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make it cheaper to get into space but in

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order to send the stuff off to the Sun

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is a ways off I am beyond respect what

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you do let me stress the MV for a moment

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because you are the true heroes that we

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still write about without criticism you

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are the people who are visiting the

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frontiers that we all of us just sort of

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dream about fantasize about I am

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respectful of your being able to find

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some time for us and I realize you've

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got a lot of work to do haven't you yes

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we have a very busy flight but it's

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actually been a pleasure to take a short

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break

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to talk with you all then I'd love to do

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it again thank you very very much indeed

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for joining us live from Endeavour

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thanks to You captain