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good morning and welcome to the johnson

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space center thank you for joining us

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here this morning for the

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joint post flight press conference for

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the sts-71 and mere 18 crew members

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now to start the conference and to

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introduce the rest of the crew members

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is the commander of sts-71

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navy captain robert hoot gibson hoot

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thank you eileen and welcome to the post

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flight press conference for mere 18 and

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sts-71 it was a bit of a complex mission

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and so i'm sure the debriefing will be

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done in a little bit of a complex way

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but first let me start off and introduce

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the the two crews that we have here in

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houston today

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seated immediately to my right our

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mission pilot for sds 71 charlie precord

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next to charlie our payload commander

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and mission specialist number one

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dr ellen baker next to ellen

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our flight engineer mission specialist

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number two

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dr greg harbaugh seated next to greg

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our mission specialist number three and

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mirror 18 backup crew member dr bonnie

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and then we have the crew of mere 18

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starting with the board engineer mr

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gennady strikov

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the commander of mir 18 vladimir

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desjarov

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and our very own cosmonaut researcher

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aboard mere 18 dr norm

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thagard so at this point i would like to

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have the

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the mere 18 crew perhaps starting off

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dr thaigard discuss mere 18.

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normie thanks sue

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we actually as the mere 18 crew began uh

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training in february late february of

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the 94

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and in the course of about a year

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bonnie and i went through a program that

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was a combination it was a combination

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of the sorts of things we would normally

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as a candidate for a whole year just

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that alone and then

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at the same time we had to train

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specifically for the mir 18

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flight so that made it a little bit

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intensive but not overly so

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and we found i think by the time that we

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were ready to fly we had

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we had managed to acquire enough

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expertise enough knowledge of the

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systems of mirror and soyuz to feel

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fairly comfortable with a mission

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i won't talk a lot about the mission now

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i'm sure there'll be questions but i

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will say that velocity told me about

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a week before the shuttle got there that

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i had seen

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more than almost any cosmonaut ever

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seized because we had gone up on a soyuz

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we had seen the arrival of a progress

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resupply ship

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we had done several transfers of modules

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from node to node at the

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at the attachment node and in addition

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of course we had seen the spectre module

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at with that i think what i'd like to do

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is go ahead and start in with our slide

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in our videos we'll start with the

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slides first and we'll

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uh we'll try and give you some

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commentary first of all no

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nothing we do ever starts out without

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the emblem or the patch that was the

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mere 18 patch

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we all had a hand in the design of that

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patch and so we als

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we all feel some ownership for it it

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represents of course a launch

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our launch mere 18 from baikonur in

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central asia

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docking with the mir station the

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three-month stay and then finally the

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arrival of the shuttle and our return to

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earth at the kennedy space center in

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the the first concern i guess i had

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because it was long duration space

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flight and we didn't have

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any recent experience with it is what do

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you need to do by a

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way of exercise to make sure that you're

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in good shape when you come home

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there is an excellent program of

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physical conditioning on board the

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mirror station

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we had two treadmills and a bicycle

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bicycle and when the spectrum module

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arrived of course we received yet

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another bicycle

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so the space station mirror can

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adequately provide for

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physical exercise and it's my personal

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feeling although we are certainly

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studying it to see if that's true that

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the exercise is a benefit

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for those people when they on upon

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the adaptation didn't take much time

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that was a very

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atmosphere that we were used to working

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and this slide in particular

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shows you how we are studying atmosphere

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contaminations in the atmosphere and

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i would like to say that station

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atmosphere

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practically has not changed for the five

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years that i have not been on the board

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and myself were measuring these

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parameters many times

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many times in different points of the

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station in different modules

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we have conducted a grand amount of work

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and a very hard work on board of the

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especially it was a very hard work after

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it was necessary for us to activate the

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and routed necessary number of

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cables also we prepared the

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it took a large amount of time

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to fulfill this completely and

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all of us gennady norm and myself were

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working on the same tasks

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how we were working with the power

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we have replaced many accumulators

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we're making sure that the work with the

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and this is a very brief minute of rest

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yes during the day we were getting very

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we and when i saw a guitar

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that has been onboard of the station for

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i was trying to play some music

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and norm thagart took a picture of me

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where norm thagar was sleeping

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he was very understandable and he was

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because this picture was taken prior to

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chibik's experiment

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and we had to put on the altar

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how to resolve on time this was actually

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but this was this was a pretty standard

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view to be seen on station that is right

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dining table we had and that wound up

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do planning and a lot of the experiments

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conferences during the course of the

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pictured just as you see there in front

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of the the dining table with the camera

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looking in that direction

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and uh veloja and gennady here

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uh are preparing for their eva and i saw

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a lot of this

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and they would on the eve of the evas of

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spacewalks get out the model and discuss

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how they were going to do it what

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handrails they would use what paths they

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they had trained it for that of course

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before flight but by the time the evas

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occurred it had already been a couple of

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it was necessary to do these sorts of

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reviews and apparently it worked out

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very well because the evas of course

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prior to an eva we had to model

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gennady basically is using a metal can

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lid for one of the schematics for work

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we were proposed to perform a job

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and as you can see on the slides we were

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install it and activate it

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this yellow part is a mirror

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equipment which is going to be installed

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crew by anatoly silvia nikolai budaran

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when they perform an eva yeah i'm guilty

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of putting this slide in there the

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the sts-70 crew 71 crew actually never

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saw this view

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this is the base block the core module

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basically taken from that dining table

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that you saw before looking toward the

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central post which is the post from

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which the entire complex is controlled

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and we went through and did a bit of

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housekeeping just before the shuttle

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you do things for convenience and that

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good host and uh present a nice clean

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station the 71 crew never saw this

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especially velocia in the core module

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and cleaned everything up

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that is the mere 18 crew of course

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you could see the world and in the

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lot of the world however we thought we'd

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show one that's familiar to a lot of our

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viewers that is houston

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we had many passes over houston this was

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one of the better passes it was almost

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directly over the city and as you can

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see it's virtually a cloudless

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and as a floridian i couldn't resist

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sticking this one in there

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we also had a lot of nice passes over

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russia

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we didn't get so many good pictures over

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russia simply because in those passes we

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were usually on communications with

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mission control center in moscow

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there is a i always wondered how do the

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cosmonauts come back looking like

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they're in reasonably

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good condition and their hair is all

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and gennady's prices were reasonable too

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i didn't

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i had to pay him with beer with a

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you have seen this picture already

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gennady claims he doesn't play but

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actually he did a very nice job

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we did a lot of science during the

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flight this was early on i think the

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first metabolic session we tried to

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document as much

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of the of the science as we could with

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video

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gennady we had to give him a certificate

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he's basically a qualified doctor now he

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did all of my blood draws

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there was never a time when we didn't

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get the blood that we were supposed to

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get so i guess that's testimony to his

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we had i don't know if i would have

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fully comment on that or not

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that was another one of our science

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experiments which involved a collection

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of

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biological samples and that bag was a

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biological samples floating about in

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mid-air

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these were some of the air sampling

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slides no i guess actually these

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these are the air sampling slides here

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the others were surface sampling

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but you can see the mirror station while

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clean

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still you can grow a few organisms

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spongy and the light but that would be

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true

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almost any place you picked here on

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earth

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in any event i can say that no one

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suffered from any infectious disease

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during the whole course of the flight

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again a little slight that bicycle i

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showed you before that i was sitting on

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could also

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be used for upper body exercises just by

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turning it around just as the load is

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especially prior to nva we had to work

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with our hands a lot

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so we should we would maintain our

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bullets

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very often using their garmenter with

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the hands

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exercises also twice a day

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we were exercising on the treadmill and

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once

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of course we were using the expanders

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muscular strength

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we had to exercise a lot

360
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you can exercise in two places on board

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of the mirror station and also in the

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crystal module

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there are two treadmills

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i mentioned before the progress resupply

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vehicle that came up there this is the

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progress

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and i apologize uh it probably would

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have been a lot more spectacular in the

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daytime however the system of docking is

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fully automated

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and it works very well in fact it works

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well enough that you can do it in the

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light or the dark depending on which is

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more convenient in this case it was more

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convenient to do it at dark

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so the entire docking sequence the final

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approach and docking were conducted in

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the dark

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i it it did seem to me however that we

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got some pretty good photos when it got

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close in even though it was dark

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now this is the mere station as seen

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from that progress vehicle there is a

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television camera mounted on the

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progress and here it is at this point it

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probably was no more than i would guess

387
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25 or 30 feet away

388
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when it actually doc i took these

389
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pictures but when it actually docked i

390
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was uh within i was probably about where

391
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gennady is located there from the

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docking node this is the docking node to

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which the progress is attached and we're

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opening the inner hatch

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i was going to say there was no

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vibration nothing sensed or heard

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during the docking so it was very gentle

398
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and now you're looking at the docking

399
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cone

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of the progress vehicle itself and what

401
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we just opened there was again a hatch

402
00:20:54,070 --> 00:20:52,400
located on the station itself

403
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which is the receiving cone for that

404
00:21:02,870 --> 00:21:01,029
and it's pretty surprising how easy it

405
00:21:04,549 --> 00:21:02,880
is to open all of that and get access

406
00:21:05,990 --> 00:21:04,559
you do have to verify of course the

407
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pressure seals before you can start

408
00:21:08,310 --> 00:21:07,280
opening hatches all of that went

409
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normally

410
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and you have a little tool that you use

411
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to unlatch the latch so that you can

412
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then

413
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open the hatch to the progress vehicle

414
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itself

415
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and i think after the hatch opens uh you

416
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can probably see a little bit of the

417
00:21:28,950 --> 00:21:25,440
wears that were stored inside we each

418
00:21:32,230 --> 00:21:28,960
for our benefit and to our joy received

419
00:21:34,789 --> 00:21:32,240
i think about five kilograms a piece of

420
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candies and foods and photographs and

421
00:21:38,789 --> 00:21:36,960
letters things from home

422
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so the resupply vehicles everyone looks

423
00:21:53,190 --> 00:21:51,590
many of the systems on board the mir

424
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station are regenerable but there will

425
00:21:56,950 --> 00:21:55,120
never be a station i suspect completely

426
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regenerable so it's still necessary to

427
00:22:00,630 --> 00:21:59,039
send up some supplies

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to the station using the progress

429
00:22:08,710 --> 00:22:06,950
those things amount to of course

430
00:22:10,470 --> 00:22:08,720
replenishment of the food supplies

431
00:22:11,990 --> 00:22:10,480
fuel because the station requires fuel

432
00:22:15,909 --> 00:22:12,000
to maintain attitude from time to

433
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time and water and again we're back into

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the eva so we'll turn this over to

435
00:22:26,549 --> 00:22:18,720
velojo to

436
00:22:28,789 --> 00:22:26,559
take you through the eva sequences

437
00:22:30,950 --> 00:22:28,799
we had to spend a lot of time to prepare

438
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the spacesuits for an eva

439
00:22:36,390 --> 00:22:34,400
to check all systems

440
00:22:37,750 --> 00:22:36,400
of the space suit before an eva and of

441
00:22:40,789 --> 00:22:37,760
course norm

442
00:22:43,110 --> 00:22:40,799
has helped us a lot as a third remember

443
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especially before an eva when you have

444
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it is very hard to work in it especially

445
00:22:54,230 --> 00:22:50,159
when you

446
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have to close the hedge

447
00:22:57,590 --> 00:22:57,039
that kind of works always we would put

448
00:23:00,870 --> 00:22:57,600
on

449
00:23:04,149 --> 00:23:00,880
a spacesuit norm would help us

450
00:23:24,310 --> 00:23:04,159
he would close all hatches and then

451
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:45,430
where the solar rays were retracted

452
00:23:49,430 --> 00:23:48,950
usually when we go eva we take with us a

453
00:23:52,549 --> 00:23:49,440
little

454
00:24:04,630 --> 00:23:52,559
more of toast than we plan on the ground

455
00:24:08,390 --> 00:24:04,640
just in case for some unexpected events

456
00:24:11,909 --> 00:24:08,400
here you can see certain elements of dva

457
00:24:30,070 --> 00:24:11,919
when we had to fix the cargo boom

458
00:24:33,750 --> 00:24:32,630
we're going to retract the solar array

459
00:24:37,029 --> 00:24:33,760
norman

460
00:24:39,510 --> 00:24:37,039
is initiating a command to retract

461
00:24:41,269 --> 00:24:39,520
an electrical drive and we're just

462
00:24:45,430 --> 00:24:41,279
helping

463
00:24:48,710 --> 00:24:45,440
to hold the solar rays accurately

464
00:24:49,350 --> 00:24:48,720
books so they would fit into a certain

465
00:25:11,269 --> 00:24:49,360
box

466
00:25:14,870 --> 00:25:13,510
it was not a difficult job to retract

467
00:25:17,029 --> 00:25:14,880
the solar rays

468
00:25:19,350 --> 00:25:17,039
we were just helping the electrical

469
00:25:23,990 --> 00:25:19,360
drive

470
00:25:26,390 --> 00:25:24,000
hard work was after we

471
00:25:28,549 --> 00:25:26,400
undocked the solar array from the module

472
00:25:31,510 --> 00:25:28,559
and started relocating it

473
00:25:32,710 --> 00:25:31,520
as you see on the end of the cargo boom

474
00:25:37,909 --> 00:25:32,720
you see the battery

475
00:25:43,990 --> 00:25:40,830
plus a cosmonaut is on the same cargo

476
00:25:49,990 --> 00:25:46,710
cosmonauts weighed together with a space

477
00:25:53,990 --> 00:25:50,000
suit is approximately 150 kilograms

478
00:25:57,590 --> 00:25:54,000
all together the mass is usually one ton

479
00:26:01,029 --> 00:26:00,390
it was hard to control it because there

480
00:26:03,669 --> 00:26:01,039
were

481
00:26:05,830 --> 00:26:03,679
large moments of inertia and when you

482
00:26:11,269 --> 00:26:05,840
stop to control the cargo bomb

483
00:26:14,789 --> 00:26:11,279
it still continues to move

484
00:26:19,269 --> 00:26:14,799
very strong oscillation momentums and

485
00:26:24,710 --> 00:26:22,830
well of course the public probably

486
00:26:26,710 --> 00:26:24,720
actually

487
00:26:28,310 --> 00:26:26,720
received more attention or got more

488
00:26:32,630 --> 00:26:28,320
attention from the

489
00:26:34,789 --> 00:26:32,640
the docking and the the approach

490
00:26:36,549 --> 00:26:34,799
however i think as you have seen from

491
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the video that proceeded before a lot

492
00:26:40,630 --> 00:26:38,400
went on before the shuttle could come up

493
00:26:43,029 --> 00:26:40,640
there those five evas had to take place

494
00:26:46,230 --> 00:26:43,039
and had to be successful and they were

495
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we had to move the modules from node to

496
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node because the

497
00:26:51,430 --> 00:26:49,520
crystal module needed to be located on

498
00:26:53,190 --> 00:26:51,440
what we call the minus x axis because

499
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that is the axis to which the shuttle

500
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will dock

501
00:27:01,190 --> 00:26:58,080
that all went beautifully thanks

502
00:27:03,510 --> 00:27:01,200
to good help from the soup and to a lot

503
00:27:05,269 --> 00:27:03,520
of hard work by beloja and gennady

504
00:27:06,789 --> 00:27:05,279
it's amazing i could not believe that

505
00:27:08,470 --> 00:27:06,799
you could sustain that much

506
00:27:09,750 --> 00:27:08,480
of a workload for that longer period of

507
00:27:10,789 --> 00:27:09,760
time but they did and they did

508
00:27:13,190 --> 00:27:10,799
beautifully

509
00:27:15,430 --> 00:27:13,200
however i think at the last we were all

510
00:27:19,029 --> 00:27:15,440
glad to see the shuttle come up there

511
00:27:21,350 --> 00:27:19,039
and not the least of the reason was just

512
00:27:23,269 --> 00:27:21,360
the sure the sheer beauty

513
00:27:25,510 --> 00:27:23,279
of seeing the shuttle because it is a

514
00:27:27,990 --> 00:27:25,520
beautiful vehicle no question about it

515
00:27:29,590 --> 00:27:28,000
and to look out through a window someone

516
00:27:30,149 --> 00:27:29,600
asked me well did you watch the docking

517
00:27:34,310 --> 00:27:30,159
on

518
00:27:36,950 --> 00:27:34,320
it through the window and

519
00:27:38,470 --> 00:27:36,960
that is a thrill i'll never forget so we

520
00:27:40,870 --> 00:27:38,480
managed to get a lot of good video as

521
00:27:43,350 --> 00:27:40,880
the shuttle came up there

522
00:27:45,110 --> 00:27:43,360
at times actually uh the behavior of the

523
00:27:45,909 --> 00:27:45,120
shuttle was too good because what

524
00:27:49,830 --> 00:27:45,919
happens is

525
00:27:52,310 --> 00:27:49,840
the movements are so precise and so

526
00:27:53,909 --> 00:27:52,320
controlled that it looks as though there

527
00:27:55,430 --> 00:27:53,919
is no motion

528
00:27:57,830 --> 00:27:55,440
and that you're looking at a model and

529
00:27:59,830 --> 00:27:57,840
not a real shuttle

530
00:28:01,029 --> 00:27:59,840
i mentioned before when the progress

531
00:28:02,310 --> 00:28:01,039
came up and docked

532
00:28:04,070 --> 00:28:02,320
i heard her felt nothing when the

533
00:28:05,590 --> 00:28:04,080
specter module came up we heard nothing

534
00:28:06,630 --> 00:28:05,600
but we could feel just a very slight

535
00:28:08,230 --> 00:28:06,640
vibration

536
00:28:10,070 --> 00:28:08,240
however in the shuttle we're looking at

537
00:28:11,510 --> 00:28:10,080
a 100 ton vehicle and when it docked

538
00:28:12,789 --> 00:28:11,520
with the station there was definite

539
00:28:14,789 --> 00:28:12,799
motion of the station

540
00:28:16,389 --> 00:28:14,799
and perhaps at the end you can actually

541
00:28:18,230 --> 00:28:16,399
see a little bit of camera motion at the

542
00:28:20,310 --> 00:28:18,240
moment of docking

543
00:28:22,070 --> 00:28:20,320
again so well control that the only way

544
00:28:23,669 --> 00:28:22,080
you could tell that there was a relative

545
00:28:24,549 --> 00:28:23,679
motion between the station and the

546
00:28:27,590 --> 00:28:24,559
shuttle

547
00:28:29,269 --> 00:28:27,600
was uh the vertical tail has a

548
00:28:30,630 --> 00:28:29,279
tile separation lines and you could

549
00:28:33,990 --> 00:28:30,640
gradually see those

550
00:28:35,510 --> 00:28:34,000
tile separation lines disappear under

551
00:28:38,470 --> 00:28:35,520
the docking node on the

552
00:28:40,149 --> 00:28:38,480
crystal module but it was as though we

553
00:28:40,789 --> 00:28:40,159
had it on a fishing line and we're just

554
00:28:43,110 --> 00:28:40,799
slowly

555
00:28:44,230 --> 00:28:43,120
reeling it in very controlled very

556
00:28:46,070 --> 00:28:44,240
precise

557
00:28:47,830 --> 00:28:46,080
i had thought beforehand that we'd all

558
00:28:49,510 --> 00:28:47,840
be a bit nervous looking out and seeing

559
00:28:52,870 --> 00:28:49,520
two large objects

560
00:28:54,789 --> 00:28:52,880
so close in space but when you saw how

561
00:28:56,149 --> 00:28:54,799
well controlled it was all of that went

562
00:28:56,630 --> 00:28:56,159
away i don't think any of us were

563
00:28:59,350 --> 00:28:56,640
nervous

564
00:29:00,870 --> 00:28:59,360
except hoot might want to comment about

565
00:29:02,070 --> 00:29:00,880
sweaty palms or something while he was

566
00:29:03,750 --> 00:29:02,080
operating the controls

567
00:29:09,669 --> 00:29:03,760
but from our side though we never had a

568
00:29:20,710 --> 00:29:13,510
in a smiling face of charlie

569
00:29:25,669 --> 00:29:24,070
and i think yes that was actually

570
00:29:27,110 --> 00:29:25,679
the moment because it did move us a

571
00:29:28,389 --> 00:29:27,120
little bit and i was trying to brace