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we're demonstrating international

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friendship and cooperation here aboard

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an international space complex

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shuttle and mirror

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demonstrating what we can do in the

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future as we proceed to international

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uh russian crews american crews and and

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future international crews all working

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uh shannon as you're uh ending your your

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mission wondering what uh just what your

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private thoughts are and feelings as

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this uh

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ceremony is about to happen this morning

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and you're finally really going to be

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coming home and john just the opposite

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for you what your thoughts are what's

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going through your mind as your mission

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uh mixtures of begin uh you know i'm

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really happy and i also feel just a

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little sad this has been my home for six

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months and i've had a great time here

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but obviously i'm very very anxious to

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go back to my real home back in houston

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texas with my family

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just very very grateful that i've had

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this opportunity uh to experience the um

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what it's like to live in an

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international community it was just

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great and i want uh to thank

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uh you know my bosses for letting me do

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this and i'd also like to thank all the

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people on the ground that uh

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gave such tremendous tremendous support

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as to make it such a pleasant experience

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for me and i'd also like to thank yuri

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and yuri and also valeria and sasha

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you know a person doesn't live by

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themselves you live in a group and

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working together it just was a great

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been training to do this mission for the

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last two years i'm really looking

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forward to it

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um the laurie and sasha

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are going to be a great crew to work

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have been fantastic to me since i

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returned to houston and have supported

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me a lot during the transfer ops getting

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all the equipment over here to do the

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and shannon i give a big thank you to

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for having

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given me such a good handover to work on

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the mere space station to make my life a

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little bit easier in the next four and a

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those are my thoughts

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john how do you think you'll be feeling

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tomorrow as you watch atlantis pull away

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kind of looking forward to it because

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we've been so busy uh with two control

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centers controlling us

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that i'm looking forward to the pace

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slowing down a little bit which i think

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it will uh so i'll probably have some uh

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other feelings as well but i don't know

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what those are yet but certainly it'll

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be very pretty as the atlantis pulls

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a few weeks before your flight you

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need to develop a rapport with your

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russian host and i just wondered if you

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could elaborate a little bit on how

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that's transformed since you've docked

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do you feel like you've made up some

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ground do you feel you'll be comfortable

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crew change which occurred with the

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in august prior to their launch and it's

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correct that i have not trained with the

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law and sasha but i had known them at

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star city i would say that uh what i

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told you uh two weeks before launch uh

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i've already learned uh that these two

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people are fantastic uh they're going

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out of their way to help me and help me

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acquainted with the mirror and the

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things we have to do and anytime i have

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folate and sasha for all their help for

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commander reedy i'm wondering what your

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right after launch after the apu shut

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off on its own and whether you have any

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engine cutoffs so we were already in

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everything that the apu's were supposed

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to accomplish on asset was already

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would be working this real hard

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but the space shuttle was designed with

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an awful lot of redundancy and it can

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fly just fine on two apus and in a in a

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bar emergency even one so

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i don't think we're really concerned at

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terry uh wilcox takes care of the apu's

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procedures that we've practiced time and

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time again over the years that that we

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can use so i don't think we're really

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is facing some fairly significant

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problems in terms of schedule and

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week get an incremental design review

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something to the negotiators who are

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meeting in houston to debate some of

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these issues uh what you might say to to

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well that's a pretty big question and

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without a doubt the russians uh have

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known a lot about space stations they

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had first had the salute in orbit and

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of my colleagues that we as an

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need a new space station because after a

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vehicle has been in orbit for a long

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time the parts are starting to

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deteriorate and so without a doubt

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on mere shuttle has been very positive

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how much more we can do with the

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international space station so we really

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need to press forward

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construct the new international space

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station and

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do it together with our the russians and

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the europeans and the japanese and all

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the people in the world so as to provide

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new science information that can help

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improve life for everybody on the planet

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i'm just wondering if during your six

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months up there if you looked out the

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window at night when you didn't have

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anything to do if you ever reflected on

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the the philosophical significance of

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whatever you want to call it of being a

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pioneer or a space explorer i mean do

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you have thoughts like that are those

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the kind of things that you think about

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think wow who would have ever dreamed

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that i would be here who would have

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dreamed ten years ago that uh i would

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about how strange life is and how many

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the commander corzone would you uh

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please tell us what you will be thinking

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about when the hatches close and your

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friend shannon lucid disappears behind

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when the hatch closes and shannon stays

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saying goodbye to a colleague but to a

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very fine person

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an outstanding professional an

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outstanding woman a very practical

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uh reminding having a woman on board has

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of a kind of a household

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it's been very good having her on board

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somewhat sad with her return

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farewell with the crew of atlantis

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because we have had a very productive

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session of work here and these are our

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atlantis mirror houston we've got a good

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well welcome aboard the shuttle mirror

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they made shannon a part of their crew

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and how well we think that that john is

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ends and beginnings and conflicting

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beginnings because it begins john swipe

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i think all of us when the hatch closes

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conflicting emotions we'd obviously like

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passageways into the hatch and see one

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working together with a member of our

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american colleagues for the wonderful

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work that they have performed on orbit

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between russia and the united states in

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for all of mankind

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and that we have done perform such an

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that everything has turned out so well

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i think that's the end of our programs

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and bill uh

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as you so aptly stated uh even in the

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greatest of successes uh there can be a

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okay you can see uh that we're checking

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out all the different things we've got

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to make sure the crosshairs are

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installed the two uh docking lights are

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we're waiting uh

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waiting for the russians to complete

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their side of it which is uh

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checking that the the seal is is nice

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taking hands here with uh valerian sasha

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bittersweet moment because i'll tell you

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they're such great guys and they

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did such a terrific job working with us

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here and all the transfer and

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now hatch closing you can see the