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good morning and welcome to the post

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flight crew press conference for the STS

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62 mission that was a 16th mission of

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columbia and the 61st mission in the

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shuttle program I'll turn it over to the

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crew commander he'll reintroduced the

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five-member crew to you and then they'll

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talk about their mission I'll turn it

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over to John Casper Thank You Kyle

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welcome everyone to our press conference

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post-flight press conference I'd like to

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start off by introducing the crew again

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on my far left Marsha Ivan's mission

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specialist on my left our pilot Andy

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Allen on my right mission specialist Sam

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game art and on our far right appear to

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it mission specialist I'd like to do now

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is to run the movie and we'll all

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narrate parts of the movie so if we

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could start that a little logo showing

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our crew patch it of course each crew

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gets a chance to design their own

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individual patch and some shots of

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suiting up before the flight here with a

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few scenes of each crew member as we Don

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our pressure suits landing in entry

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suits pilot Andy a little note home to

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if you're taking it easy here after he

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gets suited up and Sam with its friend

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Theodore this a little teddy bear that

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has traveled around the country and now

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around the world it's given two

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different travelers with a little note

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about where it's been and it took quite

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a journey quite a voyage this time

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Marcia and you can see all the the crew

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is fairly relaxed this was an

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experienced crew with nine flights among

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the five of us before we flew walking

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out to the launch pad and great weather

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for a launch that day we've all been

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here before and you can see some of the

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water deluge getting us ready to go and

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it is still a thrill each and every time

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we do it six seconds of prior is main

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engines and at T 0 we get the solid

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rockets to light off from the inside

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when the solids light off we definitely

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know we're going somewhere we don't know

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exactly where we're going but we know

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we're going it's it's a nice ride to get

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through there's a lot of vibration there

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in the first stage and it is really a

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tremendous kudo to all the people that

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make this work to me the most important

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part of the mission is the first eight

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and a half minutes and it was flawless

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all the way up and the people at the

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Kennedy Space Center deserved to each

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and every one of them heartfelt

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appreciation for how they make this look

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and and how easy they make this look and

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we know the thousands and thousands of

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checks that it takes to make it all work

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as well as it can this is the most

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versatile vehicle that we take into

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space anywhere and it's got so much

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capability getting it theirs is their

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work and they do it flawlessly again SRB

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separation at two minutes about 150,000

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feet now rights moves out quite a bit

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here they were about two and a half Gees

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on our bodies right there get up into

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space of three GS we dropped the

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external tank off yes our bees are

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recovered in the external tank we tried

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to follow it as it started its journey

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back into the Atma

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fear yeah this is going over some of

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Africa now you get a shot of our payload

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Bay it looked pretty full to us and we

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open the eye look out the window and

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open the doors but us MP in the front

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most in the back the eto cryo palette

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and the very aft end of the orbiter all

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the various experience that are going to

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be conducted the limited duration

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candidate materials exposure experiment

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on the left and then the dexters end

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effector behind it on the left you can

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see us MP again and right there and then

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the SSB UV the shuttle solar backscatter

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there now this us MP was that one of the

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primary payloads and you consent p was

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what we've talked about it was tellus

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Science and this is a shot of the

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center and they set almost 10,000

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commands to their payloads throughout

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the mission this is some folks sitting

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at the console getting ready to look at

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some of the dendrites that were

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developed during the isothermal

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and this is what they were looking at

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this is what helped them to modify the

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experiment during the mission the eis g

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globe portion of oast you can see that

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little nozzle there right in the middle

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that plate which is where the nitrogen

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was released of course we didn't homes

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burn to lower altitude to 105 miles this

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is what you see what happens inside

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during enormous burn and the purpose of

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that was to try to maximize the globe

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during all the gas releases Marsha and I

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were busy photographing from inside the

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cabin to complement the sensors that

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were in the payload bay that were

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observing the glow phenomena and this is

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a two of us with a little red lenses on

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our flashlights taking pictures of the

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glow this was a 35 shot the tank Marsha

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took 35 millimeter shot of the glow one

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of the new technology demonstrations

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that we had on this flight was a

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dextrose and effector now here you can

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see Marsha coming in in to grapple the

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magnetic attachment tool of course this

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is a little bit different than what

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we've used in the past in pasture the

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RMS has always used the mechanical

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apparatus to to grapple payloads and

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this we use the magnetic or you can see

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the tracking mirror or the tracking

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target in the mirror

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and one of our office views on orbit

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here we're passing over the Bahamas

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during the operations the task was a

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multiple task looking at how you would

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assemble possibly structures in space

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like a space station we had a couple

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feedbacks into the Kevin the bottom

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top was the N effector or the cameras

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the little flashing lights in the center

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of this mirror big mirror is a camera in

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the payload bay and it looks at a mirror

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now on the end effector and data was

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gathered on this to understand how

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accurately we could move a target if you

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couldn't see it this could be important

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later in assembling a space structure

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when you can't actually see what you're

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doing but you have to mate two fairly

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large pieces of hardware together and it

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with some pegs at the end we basically

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inserted pegs in the holes and found

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that we could do this to a tolerance of

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about a 60 60 thousandths which is

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pretty small the force torque sensor

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display here indicated how much forces

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us to basically feel what we were doing

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with the end effector in a work great

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here we are again simulating a space

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station task this is one of the

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biotechnology experiments from bio serve

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sprouts which we grow by just inserting

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water into them when we get on board as

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it turns out the root of the rosy

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periwinkle is one of the major cancer

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fighting drugs that we have and they

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find that it grows more pure or the cell

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remembers to make more of its drug

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basically in orbit and than it does on

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the ground we took these little tubes

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out and photographed them to see how

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things were progressing and how things

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were growing if you look in there

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closely you see a little guy swimming

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around in circles that's a brine shrimp

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we grow these because they spend their

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entire lifetime in the duration of our

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plane this is the commercial protein

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crystal growth experiment that Marcia

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every day or actually three times a day

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the top tray that experiment you can see

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inside the solutions there you can see

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what's forming the crystals that are

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forming this was the first time I've had

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an opportunity to work with on these

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experience and it's pretty exciting to

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see the actual growth of the crystals

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and knowing what what that will do for

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the scientists on the ground to help

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produce better drugs to fight disease we

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had another a pc g on board as well and

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then the pecans and were another crystal

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growth experiment this particular shot

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is of the modem index zero gravity

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dynamics experiment this is a

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characteristic and representative trust

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previously on 48 now on 62 we find that

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flight those protocols that we repeated

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from from the previous flight us he has

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48 overlay almost perfectly again we

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spent about nine days working on this

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particular experiment and collected some

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nine gigabytes of data that are now

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being analyzed by students at the

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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and in staff there this particular shot

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is during one of the educational dsos

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that we participated in this is a

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downlink video of course has been

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recorded on on board by by our equipment

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and John and I participated in a number

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of blood chemistry analysis type

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experiments testing some new prototype

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hardware actually this stuff is

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commercial hardware that's off the shelf

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long-duration spaceflights blood

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chemistry is something obviously that

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that you have to watch very carefully on

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a long-duration mission to constantly

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check the health of the crew members on

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what we're trying to show here is a

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couple different things the first thing

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suit which is a device that's trying to

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help us readapt a gravity when we get

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home by creating a negative pressure in

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the lower half of our body which will

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help our fluids go back down into the

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lower half of our bodies and that will

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help us readapt a little bit better when

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we get home one of the other things you

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can get out of these scenes this scene

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in the next one that is coming along as

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is this area of our mid deck was

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everything to us it was every room in

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our house all put into one we've got

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Martian and peered working on the

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protein crystals Sam and I are working

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in the OMP as well as motives in the

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background there this is our our

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laboratory our gymnasium or a kitchen or

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bathroom or sleeping area bedroom and

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this is this is our home and our shower

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taking a sponge bath for 14 days you

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know it's the parts you miss here and

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getting your hair clean is easier for

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some of them than it was for others of

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us however it we carry some stuff on

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board that works pretty well they all

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had to get out of my way when I was

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doing my hair but you can see that doing

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and we always have the obligatory eating

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scene in the movie and the one thing

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most people don't think about when

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what if you need some seasoning so we

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carry a salt and pepper on board but

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it's not the kind that you shake it's

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the kind you squirt it's a salt pepper

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that's put into a solution with water

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and you just squirt the salt and pepper

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into your food and then stir it up a

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little bit and you can season your food

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as big dips in mushrooms my way

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now our laboratory or what was our

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daytime laboratory and dining area

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kitchen has now been confirmed and

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transformed into sleeping quarters and

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here you could see any up of flight deck

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Marsha in the in the airlock and as you

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pan around John and I were on the

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starboard bulkhead sleeping there and

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Pierre will ultimately see up suspended

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from the ceiling sleep is very

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comfortable you feel fully supported you

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can see the natural position that the

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body kinds of assumes with the hands and

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the arms out extended out in front of

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you and that's real the sleep restraints

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just keep us from kind of banging into

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each other although it would not be

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necessary another one of our duties on

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board is is taking pictures we took

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almost 10,000 pictures why we're on

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board every time any of us would have a

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minute we would get upstairs and work

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one of our cameras we had 90 millimeter

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camera with 70 millimeter cameras as

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well as our 35-millimeter on board plus

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our movies this first shot is just a

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shot looking down the Gulf of Aqaba down

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into the Red Sea sign eyes on on the

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right there in Saudi Arabia there's on

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the left and from our altitude and 39

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degree inclination we just got a real

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beautiful glimpse of most of the

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habitable earth some of the Himalayas

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chain with Tibet and China on each

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respective side we looked real hard to

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see if we could find the Great Wall of

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China and unfortunately some of it some

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of the best views of it were during our

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sleep periods this is a tropical cyclone

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with tane that was in the indian ocean

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during our flight we got some stills of

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this as well as some actual video of it

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and we went on two consecutive passes we

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basically went right over the thing was

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so huge that we saw it twice

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cold water clouds or closed cell clouds

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with their call these are off the coast

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of Chile and they made such an

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interesting pattern that we photographed

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them almost every time we went over them

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they are caused as a result of a high

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pressure over cold water this is one of

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our us passes here we're coming in over

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the San Francisco Bay Oakland Bay Area

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San Joaquin Valley to the further south

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there the tail and eventually we covered

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all the Sierra Nevadas and pushing out

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across towards the towards the East

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Coast we had for daylight passes every

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day typically in our afternoon now you

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can see the Sierra Nevadas the

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snow-capped Sierra Nevadas come into

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view there's a small like that it's just

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let's see I can't see it now in Mono

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Lake I think just disappeared off to the

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right side of the of the screen the us

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passes over we're pretty spectacular and

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again over the course of 14 days we had

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different attitudes and that we were

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able to see parts of the country that

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had not been photographed before sin or

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Las Vegas now it's coming right onto the

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tip of the tail there passing off the

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center and now we're going to come in

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with Houston is just off to the right

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side here and we'll come in over the

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now you can see the Gulf Coast coming

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this is a pass over the Great Lakes Lake

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Michigan on the left like here on in the

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middle Lake Erie to the right and from

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our this was a sort of the apex or 39

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degree inclination we could look well up

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into Canada as you can see here Hudson

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Bay right up on the horizon there that's

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like area that's coming into view now a

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lot of that part of the country snow

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covered this time of year and this is

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Cape Hatteras the Outer Banks North

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looking on up the coast to Norfolk

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there's a little more Nader shot of

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Virginia Beach's that point of land kind

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in the middle left center Norfolk a

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little bit more towards the top of the

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screen the Eastern Shore of Virginia

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beginning of the Chesapeake Bay tux and

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potomac rivers up there and looking not

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quite all the way to DC but you can

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almost see Washington DC be around the

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very right of the screen and this is a

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coming over the northwest tip of Cuba

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kind of heading southeast and get to see

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a little bit of the Bahamas and the

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water around there the beautiful colors

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that we've got some still shot of that

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you'll see that the very deep blue

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colors of the dip very deep ocean and

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here's some of our exercise on board we

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had a bicycle ergometer little stretch

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band there to workout and our doctors

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our medical folks said that we came back

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in great shape for the period of time

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that we're up there considering we're

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out there for 14 days we attribute part

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of this at least to the fact that we

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exercise all the crew exercised during

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the flight again right below me was John

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working on the odometer but we try to

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squeeze in where we can squeeze in and

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and use this laptop computer for just a

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myriad of different purposes on board as

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well as we can send home a LAN that

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since it was close to Spring Break but

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we travel bungee jumping and I don't

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think that have been done before in

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space we want to claim a first you

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probably didn't get the whole duration

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record but we did some bungee jumping

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floating is like for most of us a dream

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come true I mean you always dream as a

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child if you can fly and float and here

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you get the opportunity to do it and so

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when we did have the opportunity we did

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here they're playing volleyball with me

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here catch I guess it's the day before

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entry we're going over reviewing some of

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our procedures for re-entry going

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through some of the checklist that we're

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going to use to make the entry and andys

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over in the right seat working our pilot

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computer this is another laptop computer

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that we had to help us refresh ourselves

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and review the process we're going to do

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it and we go through as we come around

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intercept the heading alignment circle

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passing over the Kennedy Space Center

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and make our turn to to file into a

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landing so we had it set up over on the

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pilot seat and John and I worked quite a

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bit on it for the for the couple days

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before entry and this is just a shot of

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what the simulation looks like as we're

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passing over the threshold of a KSC 15

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getting into suits is quite an affair in

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space when you don't think about the

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fact that you can't just put your pieces

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of clothes on the floor pick them up one

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of the time and get into them it takes

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two people to get in these suits and it

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really is quite arrangement it takes a

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good bit of time to get everybody all

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suited up looking at the pilots window

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here we had a camcorder this is as we're

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going to our thermal phase which is our

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glow phase or the area that we go

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through our thermal heating the

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reflections you see off our backs that's

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a picture of John there and I'm on his

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right side that's what we call sometimes

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incorrectly the plasma or the fire

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spikes that you see coming over top up

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through the payload bay windows or

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through the overhead windows the glow is

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some beautiful colors and you can see

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we're just about threw it on my right

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window you can look down and see the

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earth again this is our trajectory as

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we're coming across the country the

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white line is our orbit if we had stayed

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in orbit but now we're doing a cross

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range across the country to get back

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home here's a shot of the actual runway

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KSC runway 33 taken out of the pilots

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right-hand window and the Vehicle

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Assembly Building down to the right

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there it really wasn't that bumpy on the

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approach it's just hard to hold that

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camera steady beautiful day at the

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Kennedy Space Center we come down the

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outer glide slope and aunty lowers the

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gear at 300 feet it's always amazing to

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me that this vehicle which has been our

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home our spaceship for 14 days now comes

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back and lands like an airplane and

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we're touching down about two hundred

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we had one last test to perform that was

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to deploy the landing drag chute which

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we've made some modifications to

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deployed that just at the start of our D

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rotation at 175 knots and worked very

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and very bright light breaking to bring

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us to a complete stop in all we flew 224

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orbits around the earth some 5.8 million

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miles and it was a great flight we're