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and Atlantis Houston good morning or

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good evening Houston time we have you

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handed down through oak hanger and just

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in case we can't talk to you a little

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bit later you do have a go from Houston

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and Moscow for the maneuver the Geo 5.3

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maneuver at 1835 okay very good bill

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basis good evening to all of you there

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in Houston and thanks for the wakeup

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music is real appropriate because we had

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the Russians in our ward room last night

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Saturday night and a little barbecue a

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little max Q okay you should see a

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sheriff on leading us into bill through

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the docking module you folks put on and

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betingelser this compositor made of

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Tyler Crowe which makes it very

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convenient so one place Emil was hard to

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lose things when you lose stuff in there

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it's real difficult to find that these

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ventilator tube that you see all around

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Shannon all have fans in them and you

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can find some things on the intakes for

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them that's real helpful Jenna's going

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to stop here in just a minute after

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passing the narrowest part of mere here

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in crystal to service a plant growth

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experiment called svet which means

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flowers that that is weak plants and

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it's just in the last week had some new

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growth on the other beautiful plants and

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it's just fantastic to see them growing

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into the sunlight up here and say we're

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all nice refreshing green color to have

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aboard the outpost up here and that will

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continue on through cristal going

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towards the note the central node which

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is what makes all of this possible is

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fantastic piece of gear that allows

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I modules to be docked to the various

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ports on it and that's what made the

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construction of Mir station possible

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here we are getting into the dome you

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can see all of the hatches and docking

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adapters so forth right Ian they note

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itself it's a kind of a busy place we

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can look all around the node Shannon's

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gone they got forget the bed for her

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exercise period looking into our they

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rewrote a module coming here is a

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greenhouse experiment which John will be

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spending a great deal of time on you can

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see an Excel wrong so wrong about it on

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the bottom of the greenhouse experiment

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here as we rotate today that the

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designers that would be the proper

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attitude use a French vestibular

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experiment to lose it what you see that

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we've just flown over there going back

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to where we did for the farm our

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transfers in the last couple of days the

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our technology system pts unit is here

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on one set of lockers which as for that

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no difficulty as the first power

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transfer here's a French laser

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spectrometer called Alice and here are

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the cg b a crystal growth units up in

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the next set of lockers and we transfer

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those we've only got one more of the

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power transfers to go coming out of all

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three rota we go back to the load

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through the hatch that was used just a

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few months ago when three rotor came on

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up take a look around the nose just to

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show you how is you know bila confusing

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place it can be up there there's no up

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or down and you got to follow your nose

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to get to the right place and here's the

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orbit module of the Sawyer's that has

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the sky founder or launch and entry

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suits that include now John's the folks

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will be using that to come back down

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here

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months Shannon preparing for exercise

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here with help of Sasha as a flight

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engineer commanders eye view of the

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control post there that's where they

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conduct most of their air-to-ground

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sessions also got a viewport there at

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the center and a display similar to what

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we have on board the shuttle in order to

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do control of the vehicle big white

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tubes on either side as you can see to

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carry the air back and forth and around

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the mirror which is a huge complex 120

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tons now and once you get to that that

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docking no avoids real easy to get kind

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of confused which way is left which way

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is down which way is quant which way is

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crystal but here we wound up going into

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inspector we're going to take a peek at

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John here there we go there's John this

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is where Shannon did most of her work

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The Spectre arrived well norm was there

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and he was the one that that had a

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chance to unpack it all Shannon kind of

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set up her laboratory in there until

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free rotor arrived to see her balloon

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her books there John getting prepared to

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work here with his laptop and going

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through an awful lot of his new

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inventory get set to go to work with

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some of the file management that comes

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pretty pretty pink tag there is intended

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to be read that's that's kind of our

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signal on board that the Tom Akers

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devised as to the red goes over to the

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floating back towards the towards the

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node here Sasha and I spend a lot of our

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mornings in quad to we both love

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photographing mirrors and looking out

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the windows and you'll see while here in

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a second as we get through some of the

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gyro dimes and help stabilize the MIR

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station and into the compartment at the

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far end of quarter that's their air lock

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was used for very VA's here are their

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spacesuits and there are three windows

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at any given time generally there's one

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of the face in the ground it's a

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wonderful place to be even though it

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kept cold for a number of reasons not

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least of which to keep the space suits

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in good shape there's a beautiful opener

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with a solar array stick it down towards

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it and our radiators from one of the

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windows of quantum you can just see the

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full array that came down right from it

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the commander's killer our monetary will

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converse sitting during the rendezvous

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and wouldn't entertain excite during the

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rendezvous now we had a really beautiful

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pass over New Zealand out another

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picture this one taken from a flight

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engineers cabin onboard the MIR station

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CJ is given in a little bit to get a

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picture of the overhead windows that's

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kind of what they were looking at well

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we were looking back at them during the

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the rendezvous docking a little bit

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wider view of that spectacular well here

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has started her exercise and Sasha the

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flight engineer flight engineer one

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double hop a flight engineer to is

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getting ready to talk to folks on the

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thanks for providing the docking module

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to us there we appreciate that bill

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we're going to make a turn here into the

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I kind of fly it into the end of the

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have here you can see the oil on suits

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toe down there at the bottom and kind of

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panning up all our return bags with the

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blue label's I'd like to know what's

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been the biggest surprise for you since

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you have become a mere cosmonaut which

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happened a couple of days back I guess

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the right answer to that is I'm amazed

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at how quickly i am adapted to the

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mirror I've never been on the real meal

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before it looks very different than the

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simulators I trained in and so at first

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I was a little concerned about that but

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Hawaii here and Sasha my two Russian

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crewmates as well as Shannon who spent

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six months there and really helped me

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out the last three days and I feel like

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I'm very comfortable there right now I

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had a great night sleep and I feel very

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good on the mirror right now tell me

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about the emotions that you were feeling

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during docking the hatch opening itself

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and now that you're back with astronauts

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again wow I guess but I before they're

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supposed to watch it sort of like

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Christmas Eve when you're a kid you know

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what I mean you just have a hard time

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getting to sleep and you're just

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wondering uh just what's going to happen

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the next day and then you know just took

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it one step at a time first of all they

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had to dock and that when just real fine

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then they had to have a hack to me

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because the docking wasn't any good the

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hatch didn't get open and everything

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just fell on just great and then finally

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you and hatch opening we met each other

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then you could sort of start thinking

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about going home one of the first things

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you're going to be asked to do when you

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get home is make recommendations for

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improvements to mere to make it more

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habitable for future crew members what

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basically the only suggestion that I

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would really have is just to have more

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experiments to do because that's the fun

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thing to do and more is better as far as

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I'm concerned here duh when you when you

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go on it for the first time John and if

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the atmosphere is clammy or anything

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today the truth I've heard those

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comments before but I thought the

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atmosphere there was very similar to a

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shuttle I find it very comfortable and

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what I was really surprised that is what

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I'm going to call the tremendous volume

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inside to move around then having been

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with the shuttle for so many years when

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I come back to the shuttle now I to me

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it looks smaller than I used to think it

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was so the volume in the mirror is quite

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large and that's the most thing that I

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was impressed with no I don't smell

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anything in there myself well that's

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good i think i've got a couple more

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questions for shannon that if people

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around here have come up with what are

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you going to do for an encore obviously

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it's gonna take you a time some time to

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recover from the effects of

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weightlessness for six months when you

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get back and talk to your bosses at NASA

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what are you going to say you'd like to

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do next have to ask me if I had a

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preference I would just like to have an

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interesting job I mean I just didn't

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really enjoy working and I hope that I

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just have an interesting job but right

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now my vision of life I guess doesn't

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extend much further than landing and

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saying hello to my family I can

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understand that a challenge were you

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able to see other satellites frequently

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as you are orbited the earth and did you

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see space jump flyby at all when you had

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time to look out the windows so I

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thought about you can see if you are

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little flecks of oh I think it's like

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paint something like that coming off me

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and they would sort of sparkle in the

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sunlight you can see that and as far as

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satellite the fob you know the moon a

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lot and I saw a lot of the satellites of

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Jupiter lot but I didn't see any

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artificial satellite

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all right quick final question for

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Valeri it's the question about Russian

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president Boris Yeltsin his health has

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deteriorated there's some debate about

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the open-heart surgery on him Ava Larry

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have you heard about this and be or you

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concerned about the health of President

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Yeltsin that is the medical of course we

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are are concerned about the health of

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the President and about any upcoming

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operations but this is a strategic

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question we are primarily concerned up

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here with the health of the crew at this

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time and the performance of the crews

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mission all right commander thank you