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and uh also uh inco says uh that he he

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does not think he'll actually get the

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spec 62 message so

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they said poc atlantis

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floating into the field of view now in

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this live television picture from the

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of atlantis to join apton walls is

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mission specialist shannon lucid on the

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eve of her return to earth after six

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months in orbit aboard the mir space

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again her colleague john blaha veteran

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u.s astronaut is aboard the mir at this

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hour with mir 22 commander valerie

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corzine and flight engineer alexander

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over the course of the next four months

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january aboard atlantis on the sts-81

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mission which will carry astronaut jerry

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lenninger to the mir as the fourth u.s

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shannon i i want to talk to you first if

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everybody doesn't mind first of all you

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guys are we're mid-deck now right so

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we're all kind of wedged into uh the f

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portion of the flight deck where we flew

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shannon uh let's talk about your your

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time aboard mir i i know it's difficult

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to prepare for for six months in space

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but it wasn't

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what you expected from your training

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was pretty much as i expected uh except

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i think i had a better time than i mean

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i expected to have a good time but i

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think it was even better than i expected

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um right now i'm just pretty happy

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tomorrow we're coming home and

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i don't know i'm just pretty happy right

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you know i really do feel just a little

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bit sad uh because i've had a great time

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i've had great friends uh

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all adventures have to come you know to

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and i'm ready to go home

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he says compatibility and good humor are

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two of the characteristics which come

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eventually flights to mars how important

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that uh all the crew members got along

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physiologically more adept at being

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astronauts especially over long periods

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makes human beings so wonderful is that

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space and and the international space

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are they going to be an okay partner for

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us to be able to go forward with or is

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i think they build marvelous hardware

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mir station is just elegantly simple and

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robust and if you think about the fact

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that their station's been uh

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in orbit now for

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over 10 years it's really remarkable and

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volume that you have available to do

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work over there and just just uh how

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magnificent a facility it is and we're

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russians and using our shuttles to go

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back and forth and then we're going to

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build the international space station

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launches and they're contributing

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time to produce that they'll produce and

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they'll produce quality hardware

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shannon for you being up that much

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longer has it made a really large change

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these guys so they thought

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i was changed i was different uh

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i think i'm the same person but a lot of

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times a person's not the best judge of

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themselves but no i don't think i've

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all right we're really quickly running

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out of time before we go shannon tell me

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what you expect physically as you come

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back come back to earth and gravity

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well i think it'll just take a there's a

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lot of muscles i haven't used for six

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months and so it's just going to take a

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little time to get uh back you know used

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to using them and i just think i'll be

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okay we copy uh page

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isolation play to

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roger