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oh good afternoon glad to have you folks

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here glad to be able to be here to do

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something we haven't been able to do at

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the center for a little while they due

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to the efforts of all the folks and the

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whole shuttle team is we got one in the

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air so without further ado I'm going to

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turn it over to the commander this

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mission captain dick Richards Thank You

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can you hear me in the back yes okay

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well thanks for showing your support and

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interest by coming out here this

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afternoon we put together about a 20

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minute video tape with your highlights

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of the things that we all did on sds 41

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I'd like to introduce my crewmen I was

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very fortunate and to have a great set

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of people on this particular flight

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we've been asked to comment about what

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makes a successful flight and if you put

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good people like we have in this room

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and at this Center together with a good

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hardware it really gets easy and with

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it's a it's a great great thing that we

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do here we we launched on time we've

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done that before in the past I knew we

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could do it and we did it and we're

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going to continue doing those sort of

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things but let me introduce my crew

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immediately to my left a one of our

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first-time Flyers and my pilot very

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fortunate to have in this fight a marine

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and they keep changing the order of

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sequence here to see if I mess this up

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here but in the middle of another

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first-time flyer just reported here in

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1987 and spent three years here and got

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an opportunity to fly in space the first

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US Coast Guardsman ever to fly in space

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commander Bruce Melnick next to him are

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other experienced commissioned

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specialist he was the bosun's made on

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our flight for those of you are not in

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the Navy they don't know what a bosun's

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mate is the most amazing the one that

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keeps good order in the ship and bill

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Shepard did that Navy captain flew on

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sts-27 and I can't tell you how

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invaluable he was not only to me but to

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the other rookies providing us with the

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right words at the right time on what to

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do and earn those four days captain bill

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Shepard and lastly all the way to the

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end but certainly not least bill Shepard

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referred to him in our welcome home

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ceremony at ellington as our secret

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weapon and that's and I'll second that

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Tom Akers real quiet individual but I

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signed him the responsibility of getting

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ulysses out on time and he did that

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those of you who worked with him know

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that as tremendous individual and really

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was a contributor and was absolutely

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essential to making a success of STS 41

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happened for us not a bad job for your

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and without any further ado here if we

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can get the lights down and we'll roll

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this videotape will try to narrate you

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through some of the highlights for sts

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41 well here we are we were pretty happy

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at this point because no flight crew had

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made it this far at least being able to

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walk out of the astro van in about six

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months so we felt pretty good i had left

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word overnight that if if we had to had

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anything to wake me up and i had a nice

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sound sleep so i was rough domestic when

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we got up particularly when we got off

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the launch pad and saw the weather Bob

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will describe a little bit about what

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it's like to fly in the shuttle for the

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first time and have an innocent well as

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pretty as a day as we head for everyone

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watching yeah and as nice of you as it

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first-time Flyers point of view was even

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more spectacular inside the Cape

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provided us with a super vehicle and

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discovery and she performed flawlessly

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it was a extremely smooth ride uphill

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especially once we got off the solid

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rocket motors it was just a nice steady

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acceleration out Tamiko and really

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surprised me how smooth the ride was as

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you can see from our our smoke trail

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going up hill here there's a very little

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wind shear it was just an absolutely

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super day in a super day to start an

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absolutely great mission during the

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launch count it was absolutely and

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almost identical to the one I had about

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a year ago the everything was nominal

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all the calls were as expected and we

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had a real clean vehicle the only thing

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we were concerned with the last few

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minutes was a couple of unplanned holes

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that we could tell would probably be

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we'd be able to get get past those and

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the launch count proceeded then we had

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one cloud nearer that held us and I

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ten minutes late from our plan takeoff

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time but well before the end of our

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launch period about an hour and a half

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after launch Bruce opened the payload

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bay doors as you see here and he and I

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began the check out of the

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upper stage booster system that is going

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to put Ulysses on its way to Jupiter and

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in that picture we have an extremely

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clean payload bay and that was true also

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in the crew compartment the folks down

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at KSC did a great job on this vehicle

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the checkout comprised the next three or

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four hours looking for about a six-hour

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deploy of Ulysses and in that time we

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system the crew interfaces with that

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prepared to activate the tilt table that

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would raise it to 60 degrees for deploy

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Bob our pilot maneuvered the orbiter to

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several different attitudes to provide

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the ground with the corrections they

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needed to give the upper state system of

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precise attitude correction here you see

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the deploy and as the upper stage and

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bay at about four to five inches per

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second you'll see in a moment in the

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background there things that look like

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particles or stars flying back behind

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the vehicle and those are just ice

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particles that continued to come off of

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the orbiter for the first several hours

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that first day and was really a

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spectacular show at about a minute after

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deploy here which again occurred at six

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hours in about a minute mission elapse

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time after one minute dick did a minus X

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or a back-off maneuver where we backed

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away from the spacecraft which gave us

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about two and a half feet per second

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as you can see we deployed in darkness

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you'll see in a minute when the

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spacecraft comes into the sunlight it

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was really a again a very spectacular

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show after 15 minutes from deploy we did

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a gnome separation maneuver that

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ultimately placed us above and behind

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the spacecraft at about 40 miles

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separation you'll see here in a moment

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the curved object you've probably heard

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about that appeared in the screen the

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first time we had noticed it and they're

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still investigating as to what that

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possibly is they think it's ice of some

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sort that came from the rear of the

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vehicle and don't think it came from

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anything associated with the spacecraft

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and there you see that object coming

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into view this was essentially my view

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looking out through the overhead window

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and during the deploy sequence I didn't

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even see this subject and it wasn't

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until after we replayed the videotape

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that we finally picked it up and then

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protect attitude so we could no longer

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see the spacecraft and of course it was

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a long ways off by then also and the

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first solid rocket burn of the upper

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stage occurred and was exactly as they

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expected it to be and then the second

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stage and then finally the third stage

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founded the Ulysses exactly where they

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expected it to be so it was the almost

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as precise in fact a little more precise

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than anybody on the ground had expected

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the three burns to be and as of today

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miles away and doing much better than

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expected Tom and I cranked up the remote

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arm on the first part of day two and put

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part to support the space station but

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mainly to provide some data on the Intel

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carried in the payload bay here it is it

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flies in a gas can it get away special

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and the SSB UV is going to be used to

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calibrate the NASA Nimbus satellites and

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the NOAA tyro satellites which are

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comparing the radiation that's emitted

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from the Sun with the radiation that's

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absorbs the radiation and therefore they

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orbed and can get a grasp on how much

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ozone there is in the atmosphere this is

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a shot of us getting ready to activate

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the ssce or the solid surface combustion

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experiments which you've probably heard

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about our fire in space the data from

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this fire in this enclosed container was

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16-millimeter film and as a backup chef

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fiberscope to put down in front of the

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one of the windows and recorded on board

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the vehicle and this is a recording of

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that that we downlinked subsequently of

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one of the two views of the flame purse

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the intent of the experiment is to

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evaluate the characteristics of flame

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spread in the absence of buoyant

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convection or in microgravity we did

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this by in igniting a small piece of

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paper in this container and then just

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letting it burn and photographing what

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happened with those cameras experiments

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going to fly seven more times with

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varying fuels oxygen concentration and

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pressure in the container and of course

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the application is going to hopefully

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improve our fire safety aspects of

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spaceflight this is a shot of activating

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the ipmp or the investigations into

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polymer membrane processing STS 41 was

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although it was a short flight only four

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days in length though was the first

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flight to start medical tests for future

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extended duration orbiter flights when

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we when we attempt to fly for in the 15

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to 20 day timeframe and even though we

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had such a short flight there was of

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course they want to anchor their

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database with with the low end as well

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as the high end this is I'm hanging on

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top of the escape hole there and and tom

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is wearing me up with a blood pressure

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cuff device which we wore tom

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war for about 48 hours on the ship and

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slept with it as well too and and

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how the heart adjust to the sudden onset

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of zero gravity this is a plug for my

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alma mater they simply at the last

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out to work pretty good to contain all

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of this extraneous hardware on this

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particular medical experiment here Shep

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and I are participating India so for 72

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and 474 it's retinal photography and

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also measuring his inner ocular pressure

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we did this three times on orbit to

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document fluid shift in the body and see

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if there was any correlation to SAS we

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all got a chance on board to work with

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three different types of laptops and we

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and we're looking at various kinds of

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displays and also cursor control devices

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here's one call of felix that will take

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the place of a trackball and may have

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some application down the road in space

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station that previous sequence there was

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the one a lot of us a lot of times we

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get accused of doing this in a hangar

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someplace in Texas and so that last

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sequence whether the disk was our proof

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that this was onboard the orbiter and in

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a micro g environment no no flight crew

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movie can be complete without somebody

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being filmed playing with her food and

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then in the in this case it was me who

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got caught by Chef up there a set of

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canned peaches that I had a lot of good

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time with Tom mentioned that the K

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provided us with a very clean vehicle I

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thought Columbia was clean on my

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previous flight but this one was even

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better we found very few extraneous

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objects a total maybe of three that we

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put in our things found in discovery bag

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and we worked we work very hard to to

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try to maintain

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maintain the cleanliness of the orbiter

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in you see Tom tucking away is a drink

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container and also gave him an

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opportunity to plug this place in

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Missouri and he can talk about that this

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is an advertisement for my hometown

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eminence Missouri and of course the red

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another important aspect of the flight

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was the time that we spent observing the

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earth beneath us as you know we use a

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variety of cameras to document changes

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in the Earth's environment we saw a

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number of them here we are coming up

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over the two besties mountains in

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northern chat in Africa this is a an

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active volcanic region on the earth we

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noticed a lot of fires throughout Africa

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and South America and changes in the

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levels of lakes and also different

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well being in a Coast Guard the only

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time they let me take pictures of the

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ocean was when we're over shallow water

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and here we are over the arabian sea

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just off somalia and if you look at the

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clothes in the middle you'll see a

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ship's wake in the Sun Glenn we also

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observed several other oceanographic

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phenomena that are really only visible

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from Earth orbit such as the Sioux loi's

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that the ocean waves and also some

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spiral Eddie's and we got to get a good

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look at some of those things while we're

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up there looking at the ocean in the Sun

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glint also took some other earth observe

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and masses we crossed Central America

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and South America quite often up there

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and a lot during our awake cycle and

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also we covered Australia quite a few

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times here's a view going over Shark Bay

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and looking in the shark bay on Western

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Australia and then we jump to a scene in

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this central area of Australia in the

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lake eyre area the lake eyre is very

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important to observe from space because

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of the different amounts of rainfall it

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gets really determines how much water

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there are in a different watershed areas

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as we've already talked about we have

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very many cameras that did we use in the

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orbiter and the next clip coming up is a

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demonstration of how we might be able to

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more automate how we use the cameras on

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the space shuttle in specific the TV

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cameras the last several days in space

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and we thought you'd like to see how

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it's been working for us George Salazar

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and his crew down there at this Johnson

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Space Center put together a system that

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allows us to control the cameras without

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using our hands we can just use voice

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commands to talk to the cameras so

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here's a quick demonstration on how they

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action right stop tilt up left stop

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as you can see it's a great system and

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we really like at the end on day four

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one of the one of the things you have to

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do is get ready to come home and we Bob

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and I started off the process by doing

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the FCS check out a flight control

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system the orbiter ap Bob cranked up one

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of our three auxiliary power units to

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provide hydraulic pressure out to our

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control surfaces and just like any

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airplane do to have out at ellington or

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hobby one thing's the pilots do before

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they go flying is wipe out the flight

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control system and move the control

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surfaces around and we do that just by

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letting the computers do that everything

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was extremely nominal and told us that

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know the evening before we do orbited

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Tom Bruce and I stood the arm after

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having the Intelsat array out in the

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flow frugal over a day and a half and

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we couldn't resist putting at least 1

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orbiter sunset that we saw the 60 or so

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here we are with one of our long-range

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tracking cameras coming in we had a calm

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beautiful day out there at Edwards just

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like we expected and for myself the

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first time I've ever flown this vehicle

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for real it matched very closely with

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our shuttle training airplanes that we

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have out here at ellington Field and the

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fact that I had done this about a

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thousand times prior and our shuttle

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turning airplane it felt very at ease

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with the orbiter coming into Edwards Air

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Force Base landing on the concrete

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runway out there runway 22 this test we

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did have a test of the carbon brake

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system on this particular flight for

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those most some of you may know we've

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got a new braking system here and this

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was the second flight of it and our

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objective was to put a moderate amount

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of energy into the brakes and this is a

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series of three flight tests of which

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after the third one the carbon brake

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system will be cleared for na Molina

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mission usage and appropriately having

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the Sun go through with the Ulysses

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project their landing world up we

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thought that was an appropriate thing to

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conclude also the braking system very

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very smooth to me and the orbiter II

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responded just like it did in flight to

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exactly to my expectations and was a

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rule fifteen thousand foot runway and we

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landed about 2,300 feet down the runway

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with about a nine thousand foot rolled

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up and as I turned to my crew just

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before we walked out the white room they

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performed perfectly in my opinion for

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four days and I said this is the last

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time you guys can mess up and fall down

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the stairs and as you can see they did

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did that just as equally well as they

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did everything else for the previous

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four days in the previous nine months