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deborah houston good morning and

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especially good morning to colonel

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good morning dan thanks a lot i

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the intravehicular astronaut or iv crew

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member is pilot ken cockrell

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he may be assisting this morning during

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some of the portions of this uh

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spacesuit checkout procedure

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cockrell

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will be orchestrating

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the space walk choreographing voss and

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gernhard while they're out in the cargo

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again this live picture being seen from

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the airlock of the shuttle endeavor

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showing astronauts jim voss with his

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back toward the camera and mike

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gernhardt conducting a checkout of the

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extra vehicular mobility units or

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spacesuits they will wear on saturday

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for a six-hour spacewalk that is

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scheduled to begin about 3 am central

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time to test a new thermal improvements

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made to those suits as well as the tools

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and techniques which are being developed

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for incorporation into the flight

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planning for the assembly of the

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international space station

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this will be the second shuttle

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spacewalk of the year to test out this

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type of activity uh two additional

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spacewalks are planned on the next

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flight of endeavor sts-72 which is now

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scheduled for launch in the mid-january

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and we're with you in the middeck

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okay welcome aboard mike and i are just

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down here putting together our tools

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he's got a couple of the debris shield

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handling tools in his hand and i've got

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one he's going to put those on his suit

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i'm putting the other one in our tote

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sack this big bag that we have here

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where we're going to put all of our

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miscellaneous tools that we're carrying

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out for our evaluations

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and i've got a little coffee cup shaped

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device here that is a worksite interface

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that we're also going to carry out in

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the bag so you'll just be seeing us

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putting a lot of our different tools

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into the bag getting them ready for the

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eda

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and we'll try to pause once in a while

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and tell you what it is that we're

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understand duck face

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this uh this live television picture

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coming from the middeck of the shuttle

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endeavor we found working with our

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checklist that was put together by our

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dva trainer matt mickel mutt as

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extremely easy as cross reference

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alphabetically and uh here were the

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configuration drawing has made it really

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easy for us to find all of our stuff and

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put it together

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this television from the mid-deck of

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endeavor showing payload commander jim

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voss

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checking out the various tools that he

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and mike gernhardt will use saturday

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during their six-hour spacewalk in

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this view from the shuttle endeavor is

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of a tropical storm maryland which is

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formed out in the

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atlantic in the caribbean area uh

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maryland had been a tropical depression

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until uh late yesterday early this

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morning uh when its uh winds reached

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tropical storm strength and it acquired

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the name maryland

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that view from the shuttle endeavour of

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the newest tropical storm in this

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current hurricane season

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this is mission control houston

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as endeavor is sailing

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just over the western coast of the south

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american continent at an altitude of

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about

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216 nautical miles were are receiving

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live television from the payload bay

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go ahead and never

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victoria hope y'all were watching on

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that pass that was a beautiful one

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you know we were

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that's good i wasn't sure if you were

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still taking it down or not

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it was a really nice look at the amazon

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river

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yeah in fact that's what i was saying to

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dave

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this my third flight now it's the first

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time i've ever actually seen the river

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i think we've kind of noticed uh that