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welcome to the johnson space center for

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the sts-26 post flight crew press

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conference very pleased to introduce

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discovery crew led by captain rick calc

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thanks for coming here today we sure

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enjoyed that mission and we're very

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pleased to see from the smiles on

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people's faces when we got back here

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that

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just about everybody did i think it was

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a great shot in the arm

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for the agency and as best i can

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determine it was also a good one for the

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country

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we're sure pleased to be the most i

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guess the most visible part of that

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great team effort that involved tens of

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thousands of people and

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to start we'd like to acknowledge

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publicly how much we appreciated uh

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all the work that went into making this

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mission such a success and uh

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they're just

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many many many thousands of people out

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there that put their hearts into it and

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it's very gratifying to come back with

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being able to say that

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the mission was as successful as it was

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of course uh my crew here with me at the

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dave hillmers

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mike lounge

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and finkie nelson

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uh we'd like to get right into the uh to

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the movie

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so jeff we can turn down the house

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this is what it really was all about um

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here is the ending of a beautiful

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mission and

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bringing the united states back into the

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manned space flight program and we're

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very proud to represent the country

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and to

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to be part of the team here we are at

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suit up the morning before we launch we

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really didn't think we were going to go

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we knew that the winds were such that

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our pre-programmed profile

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might cause some problems with the

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structure but we said well we'll suit up

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anyhow and who knows maybe the winds

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will get better

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there were a large number of folks down

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there at the cape here are some of them

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we certainly appreciate it and i think

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we could almost palpably feel the

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support that we had

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took a great effort on the part of the

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mission management team to

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come to all the right decisions which

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allowed us to uh launch on this day and

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then

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some very excellent execution of the uh

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flow and the count by the launch control

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team

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to get us off on the day that we said we

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were going to and and not too long after

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the time we said we were going to go

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no matter how many times uh you ride

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this rocket you're always a bit taken

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back by the ignition of the solid rocket

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motors

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it's quite a ride

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as you can expect

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this is shown in half speed

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which makes it take a lot longer than

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what it really did but maybe that's kind

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of what was going through our minds as

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we rode through first stage it seemed

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like it took a lot longer than it ever

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in training

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we understand there were a lot of very

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excited people on the ground when we got

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and then they

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re-emphasized their excitement once we

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got to the two-minute point and the

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solid rocket boosters uh separated

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obviously the first

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part of the flight the the ride on the

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solid rocket motors was a very critical

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one for this mission

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much of the redesign effort that had

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gone into the space shuttle program have

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been centered around those boosters

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and all indications are to date that

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those boosters performed exceptionally

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well we're interested in uh the

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follow-up teardown of the boosters to

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find out if indeed there are any other

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uh deficiencies that we need to look at

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here you see one of the 65 sunrises that

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we saw during the four-day mission

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here we have the payload bay doors open

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and that's the first thing we did once

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safely in orbit

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and got busy preparing the uh

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tdrs satellite for its deployment

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from the payload bay there's rick at the

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seat reading a checklist talking to the

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ground there on the handheld microphone

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dick going through his checklist making

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sure the orbiter

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go for deployment making sure everything

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dave hilmer is back at the uh

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checking the crt making sure all the

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parameters are okay and uh

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and controlling the switches that

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mechanisms that hold the payload in the

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payload bay it's tilted up here at about

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satellite there the black

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shape with the booster rocket underneath

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on the aft flight deck that had all the

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mechanism the ordnance arming functions

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cause the payload to separate from its

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the whole sequence worked as it was

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to geosynchronous altitude which was its

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and wreck performing the

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maneuver to back away from the satellite

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about one minute after deployment

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we've heard that the checkout of the

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satellite is going extremely well it's

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checkout right now

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in fact this afternoon it's a maneuver

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completed to stop the drift

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to the west and there will be checked

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all the systems seem to be go right now

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a marvelously complex machine that

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requires coordination of a lot of

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different organizations to make it work

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the number of mid deck experiments we

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crystals for biomedical samples uh

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research ranging ranging from aids to

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cancer research and a lot in between a

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pretty complex experiment

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sponsored by mr bruce lloyd the idea

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that are encapsulated in these vacuum

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structure is different than might be

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one that grew some

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crystals of lead acetate crystals that

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grow to a fairly large size in a short

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uh was activated by mixing uh two fluids

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right before eyes we could watch these

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huge crystals grow

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they will be analyzed once they got back

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differences between those and earthbound

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ones here i'm setting up a phased

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partitioning is a method for separating

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evaluation or test that we did was

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earth we also had about 4 000 feet of 16

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millimeter film that we took much of

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which was out the window as you see here

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this is always a very important part of

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our flights to the crew members because

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we not only get to look out the window

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but we get to document what we see

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it turns out that during the course of

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our flight it was an unusually

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clear period across the northern

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hemisphere according to those people

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that are used to looking at space

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and they're very excited about the

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photographs that we took

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and they've even said that there are

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things that we've taken pictures of that

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they haven't seen before or it's been a

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long time since they've had a good

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photograph of them

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this data that comes the data that comes

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from these photographs is used by a wide

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those people are quite excited about

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what we've what we've seen on these

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photographs as they have been on

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previous space flights this was a an

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exceptionally good pass over the

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hawaiian islands

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the equipment that we use is primarily

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coast of africa

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they happen to be very clear many of the

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days that we passed over them

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we also had several different attitudes

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that we

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had the orbiter in which let us get uh

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this particular one of those attitudes

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let's get this pass over the himalayan

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mountains looking up into china

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uh this was when the orbiter's nose was

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pointed to the south

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here's a shot of meal time meals are

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always enjoyable

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as a social event we play with our food

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a little bit like we're supposed to

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and just get a chance to discuss what's

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going on that day and what's planned for

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the next day

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here's a target practice with an m m

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that's out there in the middle and uh

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i think it's a bullseye

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it must have been a fluke because uh the

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next shot misses by three inches

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we do carry up with us some photographs

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of our families you see them on the

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lockers to the left we also

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during a period during one day take some

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pictures next to some stickers from our

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alma mater and so on but you can see we

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keep a pretty clean cabin in the back

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you can see the sleep stations that mike

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and i use

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had our own fish bowl here

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we've eaten most of the fish by this

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sometimes you've got to unwind the

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this was entry day you see us wearing

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the gray

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underwear that goes under the orange

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suits

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we were inspired i was inspired to try a

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little pommel horse routine uh

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using the treadmill there

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i didn't find this so hard at all i

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don't know why

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why it's actually i'm not pretty either

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mike

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however the judges did vote and gave

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the zero g olympics we did want to

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communicate uh particularly to the youth

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uh of the country that we we really the

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space is a fun place and even though we

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went through a terrible tragedy several

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years ago we still want to communicate

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that there are some things up there that

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are unique we want to

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to really inspire the youngsters to take

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an interest

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prior to entry you've got to get the

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suits

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back on again and the seats set up and

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and strapped in after the

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luxury of being in a shirt sleeve

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kind of hard for us to

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get back crawl back into these things it

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hurts just to watch it and

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but these are the the suits that we wore

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them both during the launch and during

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the entry turns out to be not much

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different getting into them on the

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ground

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you can see the pole strapped to the

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ceiling well this is a sunset taken out

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the window before we close the payload

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bay doors just to transition into the

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deorbit and landing phase it's always

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beautiful

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as we fade from

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bright sunlight to darkness

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we cross the

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western coast between la and santa

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barbara it's a beautiful day at edwards

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and as we have done many times before

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came in overhead the edwards lake bed

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and made our 300 mile an hour descent to

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a

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but

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at touchdown we'll stop we could look

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back on a

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flight that was as far as i'm concerned

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picture perfect and could not have been

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better for the country and getting us