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atlanta smear this is houston are you

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atlanta we are ready

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good morning america this is houston

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please call atlantis mayor for a voice

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atlantis mir this is good morning

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good morning

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shannon i'd like to start with you if i

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can you've been up in space for six

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months you must be incredibly anxious to

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well i'll guarantee you i'll be on the

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right side of the hatch whenever it gets

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closed

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well it's wherever bill reedy is

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he's the commander that's going to take

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the shuttle home and i'm going to be on

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the shuttle when he gets home

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you have admitted in the past to being a

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bit homesick what have you missed most

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well obviously i better say my family

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because they would feel really bad if

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they thought they came in second to some

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real gooey dessert

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how are you feeling physically after

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right now i feel great i mean i feel

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just the same as i did when i left i you

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know couldn't feel uh any better

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the last time somebody spent this much

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time in space they lost a lot of weight

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that sort of thing have you noticed any

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changes in your body and the way you're

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feeling at all

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i haven't no no i haven't noticed any

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changes and

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you know my clothes are fitting about

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the same so

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uh unfortunately i don't think i've lost

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a whole lot of weight

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ken can you describe for me your living

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conditions aboard mir what was did you

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have your own private compartment in

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well it's most probably aware uh mir is

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composed of several different modules

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that have been uh you know that have

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come up and been added at different

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times and i uh spent

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i slept in spectra which is uh one of

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the modules that uh has been recently

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added and so it was just really nice it

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was just a real nice uh place to uh

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you know spend the night

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how big a space did you have that you

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well i didn't call any space my own

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because uh where i slept during the day

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you know people were working so there

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was no place that i called my own it's

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just that at night no one was working in

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there so i'm sleeping in there

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you must be anxious to finally have some

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private space or personal space as much

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fun as it may be aboard all these the

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space station here with these russian

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it'll be really good to get home i'll

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agree with you

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if you can tell me how you do the basic

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things in life like take a shower or do

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well you don't

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i haven't had a shower or a bath since i

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the best thing about doing the laundry

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you don't have to do it when your

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clothes get dirty you just throw them

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as exciting as it must be to be in orbit

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for six months on board the space

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station there must have been periods of

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well i really i truly did not ever get

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bored i always had something to do

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and uh in the evenings if you know if i

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had time i had uh plenty of books to

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read and whenever you have a good book

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uh you know you don't get bored what

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have you been eating food-wise what do

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you guys eat up there on board the

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oh i'm sorry i'm very sorry i

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misunderstood i thought you said what

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have you been reading

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what have we been eating we've been

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eating the mixture of the russian food

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and the american food

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john bleja as you listen to shannon

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describe all this what are you thinking

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you're about to embark on a four-month

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well actually uh shannon and i as you

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know have known each other a long time

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and uh we trained and flew a couple

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place shuttle missions together and then

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we trained in the russian language and

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we trained our city together so we

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actually talked about all of this a lot

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uh before shannon left in march

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and she's been telling me the same kind

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of things she's been telling you this

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morning i'm looking forward to the stay

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on mir

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i've had a lot of fun in the last day

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meeting my roommates and talking to them

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and eating with them so

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shannon's giving me a check out and i'm

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looking forward to this day

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the two of you are part of a pretty

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elite club what kinds of advice shannon

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have you given john as you end your

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well i told him just to take it uh you

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know day by day and uh

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not to worry about anything it all works

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just enjoy every day as it comes

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shannon you did not sign on for a full

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six months in space

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how did you feel when your return to

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obviously i mean uh i had been looking

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forward to coming home when in august

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but uh i fully understand the reasons

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why the flight was delayed and i think

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that was a very good decision and

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actually it was sort of a plus for me as

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it turned out because i got to see uh

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a new crew come up and i get to see how

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cruz exchange and i got to say goodbye

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to yuri and yuri rather than them saying

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goodbye to me and it's sort of easier to

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say goodbye

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when somebody else leaves than it is for

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you to leave if you can understand what

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i'm saying so it all worked out

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john you signed on for a four-month

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mission the same length of a mission

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that shannon originally signed on for

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are you at all leary given her

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experience an extended stay that the

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uh certainly it's possible and again

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a number of months ago shannon and i

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talked about the fact that on these

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types of missions

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you need to plan that you may

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return later than the original plan so

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that you're psychologically prepared for

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that and

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the cosmonauts at star city had told us

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answer your question directly i hope i'm

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ready and

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i think i'll be able to handle that if

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because we've talked about it a lot i

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think this is a fantastic program that

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international space station and for

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no i guess i've been passing all the

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messages on that i can think of but i

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would just like to say thank you to all

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the great people that have worked on the

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ground to support this mission because

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the mission is not just you know the

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astronaut that's visible but there's

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been great support and that's why i've

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had such a good time is because of all

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the great support and i'd also like to

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thank yuri and yuri because they were

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i just couldn't have asked for two nicer

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people to work with and so i just

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appreciate everybody that worked so hard

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atlantis space have box for ett

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came down here on the ground it appears

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okay well all the breakers are good uh

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we're looking at an event timer of event

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i'm at space out park for ettf

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looks like we just had a little problem

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with the event timer everything looks

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oh that's great news

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and uh for

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i've finally got a terminate file

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download command ready for transmit box

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uh but i still get the hourglass

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i'll try and okay that and see if i can

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get out of it this way without rebooting

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the computer

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terry we're looking over your shoulder

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and we still have the same uh

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monochrome video signal we've been

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seeing all along

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wondered if carl or anyone had made

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progress on message 60 which had us

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routing

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and one switch throw an 019 to try and

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okay i think carl had completed message

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copy um when we switched to the flight

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deck we saw no signal so uh we're just

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puzzled and there's no rush at all

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that's your convenience we know you're

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thanks

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and we do well let's see we've got the

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this is mission control houston here in

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the flight control room the orbit one

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team of flight controllers remains on

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station continuing to work with the crew

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on board the joined atlantis mir

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spacecraft as the activities

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yeah bill just thought i'd give you all

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an update if you're ready to copy

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yesterday in my tally i sent down i

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forgot to mention we did get the crater

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b oven over and installed where the iok

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was and ready for entry

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and today we got another big piece of

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the cavant b and we've also got all the

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pieces of russian hardware we've got

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oh two-thirds of john science already

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over on uh perota we'll get started on