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names so from a personal viewpoint I was

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happening that we went from five to nine

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like the teacher saw us complex they're

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used in communications of the shuttle to

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the shoulder are in orbit and it also

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used process data from a lot of the NASA

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there's been a lot of things said about

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the ozone layer and what displays it

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what doesn't certainly I think it's well

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documented that it can be destroyed both

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by natural phenomena and man-made

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phenomena but the extent of the damage

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and how those things play against

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natural cycles in the ozone layer is not

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lower body negative pressure in

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conjunction with fluid voting has proved

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to be a more effective countermeasure

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than food loading by itself with regard

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to orthostatic intolerance what that

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will cause is a stress on the heart

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I don't consider Mike the rookie on this

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back he's very knowledgeable person has

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been around the system and made very

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large contributions and I feel like he's

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won two or three times

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this was taxing end of the ramp our

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second launch attempt getting ready to

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go for a mission and again as you saw

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there by that little bit of a lead in a

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lot of things go on leading up to a

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flight a lot of training and that was a

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little bit of a summary of it just to

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try to capitulate that time frame of the

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this is about 7am we're getting our

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launch and entry suits on and get them

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all checked out before we go out to the

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it's going out to the crew van I think

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if I could remember the time about I'd

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say 750 in the morning out on the pad

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and about this time during the count you

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really start putting your thinking hat

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on because you got to go to work and

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main engines start running and we run

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them for about six seconds the computers

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make sure they're good and all the smart

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people figured out how to make all that

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work and that's amazing to me that we

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have people in our country and how to do

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that and bang boosters light up for

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those people talk all have been doing a

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great job as far as I'm concerned with

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all our new processing techniques and

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all our new safety inspections in fact I

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think the first two minutes ten seconds

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of this ride is the safest time during

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that time frame it doesn't bother me at

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all I've watched those people Thiokol

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really proud of them and we sure had a

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good ride here right right now it's

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probably about a minute and a half into

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essent getting ready for the solid

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rocket motors to separate it's kind of a

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nice shot here you can see the shock

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waves on the orbiter and on the external

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tank we we push the limits this time a

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little bit more of the envelope went to

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a higher dynamic pressure than we've

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been to before at this point it's

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probably about 2 g's two to two and a

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half GS the right is a little bit rough

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motors there they go another close-up

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shot of the SRB Sep and make sure front

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windows in front of aches and i go

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opaque they literally just go pink very

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bright flash when they come off another

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of course the Rocketdyne engines keep on

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running and boy those motors are complex

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great job making those engines run our

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major activity on the first flight day

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besides the launch

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was to launch the tea dress I us complex

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getting ready for the deployed inside

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takes off I've clue people working

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together to launch something like this

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Jim and I were the primary people that

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were involved in checking to uh I us

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systems making sure everything was ready

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for deploy and Mike's job was to make

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sure that the shuttle was in the proper

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attitude for the deployed David was the

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person that did all the fine photography

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and it's his work that we're looking at

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right this minute and then John's job

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was just to make sure all the rest of us

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were doing our jobs and when we actually

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did the deploy it looks like it's coming

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out sort of in slow motion it's not

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that's real time and the thing that

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always surprises you is how close it

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gets to the vehicle we're all looking

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out and commented on how close it was

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the vehicle and then John puts in some

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impulses to move the shuttle away from

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the IUS you can see this in just a

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minute as we begin to move away now to

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do a deploy involves not only the crew

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people inside the shuttle but involves

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all the people Mission Control that

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order monitoring systems it also

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involves people out at Sunnyvale who are

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monitoring the IUS systems involves

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people a Boeing involves the people up

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systems so you can see it's a huge

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teamwork of people a big network of

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people all across the United States

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they're involved in launching something

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like this satellite now our job in the

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shuttle crew ended as soon as we got the

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satellite out of the bay and then a

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little bit later as we backed away from

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it but then people had to continue to

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monitor as the IUS was bringing the tea

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dress on up to geosynchronous orbit I

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mid-deck as a place where we do our

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eating in our sleeping it's also on

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laboratory that we have on orbit and

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manufacturing module

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going to fly several more times and it

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has several syringes and then you can

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put in different samples in the samples

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of cells and cell culture to see if they

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would manufacture different amounts of

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enzymes that would be of use and a later

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type of manufacturing process and the

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mid-deck is a very very valuable asset

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asset that we as a country have to do

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all these types of experiments shannon

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has indicated we've we turned the

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laboratory after we deployed the i ust

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drew satellite and here you're you're

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seeing us perform Shannon and I are

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performing one of about a dozen physical

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science type experiments we had about an

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equal number of medical supplementary

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objectives or experiments on board this

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particular one is a setup for an optical

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coupler that that actually transmit

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through fiber optics and through through

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video couplers in the windows that you

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optic technology to transmit audio and

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cargo bay from the crew compartment of

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the shuttle you're seeing a whole maze

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of fiber-optic cables here that I'm

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manipulating there and and also the

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audio and video signals that come from

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the TV monitors and go to the video

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tapes that we have on board the shuttle

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experiments using this equipment and

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took about an equivalent of about three

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hours of data on videotapes to bring

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quality we could maintain and what the

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practicality is of doing this in the

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shuttle this is another experiment where

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we undertook to analyze the the

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propagation of flame

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ashless filter paper that's inside a

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containment I'm igniting it here with my

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in a moment you'll see the flame you'll

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notice that the flame is round it

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doesn't point up like a candle flame and

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zero gravity a flame forms a sort of a

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ball flame front as the paper burns

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payload Bay and on the right side you

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can see share sure was the space station

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heat pipe advance radiator element it's

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a mouthful but we took that up and

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consists of two heat pipes which you can

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see here that we tested for use on space

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station instead would reject heat on

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space station you could use many of

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these elements in in a row basically and

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the advantages that there's no moving

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parts no pumps involved if they were to

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take a meteorite hit the whole system

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would still work unlike the systems that

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the results of the tests were excellent

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it worked just as expected you know one

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of the experiments that we did for the

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space station was evaluating different

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kinds of cursor control devices for use

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and for different kinds of cursor

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control devices Jim Adamson Shannon

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lucid and myself evaluated those

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new computers the first time that the

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pilot for flying on orbit called an

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alternate digital auto pilot and in this

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particular scene i'm working with john

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for the vehicle this is just a little

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view up on the flight deck that I put in

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just to show you a three really great

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people working on orbit this is in

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between while I had different clocks

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running on different things they're

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and then so I thought I'd capture this

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once on film but it's really a neat

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thing to see all these human beings

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working in space so well with the ground

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trying to get everything accomplished

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and I just think a lot of that and think

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a lot of that capability that we have in

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the country is it another demonstration

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of some physical principles in

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zero-gravity you can see a pair of long

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nose pliers there that are very stable

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little bit you can see that they've got

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to stable modes you can see even

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flipping back and forth between those

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two so David do this one so I told him I

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had to get that on film this is a gym

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it took both of us essentially to work

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this secondary payload that's in a gas

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viewing attitude or solar viewing

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attitude and Jim would operate the APC

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to open and close the lid and start two

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different modes of the SSP UV sparrows

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housing which what we call a gas can

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which stands for get away special and

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you can see the mechanical lid that we

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actually actually activated from inside

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the crew compartment using a little

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computer and entering inputs very

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fascinating experiment not exact not

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designed to measure the ozone layer but

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actually to calibrate other satellites

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and instruments that do measure the

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ozone layer what we would do is is

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actually measure the backscatter

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ultraviolet rays directly emitted from

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the Sun and also then back scattered off

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the earth so we would actually look at

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the Sun with the experian and then turn

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around and look at the earth this was

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the battelle materials

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for commercial development of space

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investigation of polymer membrane

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processing the bottom line is

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microgravity they can get some idea to

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physical and characteristics of

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materials and as a result develop

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improved membranes here on the planet to

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be used for to help better filters for

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I think this is a that was a sunrise and

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this is up on the flight deck it's just

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a nice picture of the flight deck in

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space me looking at the flight plan

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there and and it was something I did a

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lot and so somebody took this picture of

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me once and we thought we needed a

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picture of John being the commander

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keeping track of all of us doing our

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thing and making sure we stayed on the

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timeline is great great man to work for

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this is down in the mid deck again you'd

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see this a lot different people trying

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to get different types of work done all

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in parallel and so just busy place on

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the mid-back Shannon in the medical kit

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here I asked her to get me some sleeping

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pills why she was getting them I thought

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I'd take a picture of her getting them

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for me you can ask her about so will the

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experiments that with the medical

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experiments that we did had to do with

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assessing the cardiovascular systems

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this particular one was called blood

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pressure variability in which we donned

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an automatic blood pressure cuff and a

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holter monitor you can see we were wired

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for sound right there and for 24 hours

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three different times during the flight

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we had our heart rates and our blood

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pressures taking constantly base John

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and I all did that in fact we had to do

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that pre-flight several two or three

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times and we all and we've also done

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that post like two or three times John's

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a given a sign language there to say

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that that's as its measuring his heart

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now another one of the cardiovascular

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medical experiments that we did was

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running on the treadmill John and I did

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that virtually every day for about 30

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minutes per day when we did this we

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donned a heart rate monitor that went

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around our chest we also had a watch on

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our wrist there that contained a readout

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of what our heart rate was as well as a

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time and during this 30 minutes every 10

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minutes we would attempt to step our

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heart rate up to a different a higher

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level there again Jon and I both did

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that on orbit jim was a control subject

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he did it on the ground and so we've got

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some some good date of all three of us

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pre and post flight I'm going to see

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David enter the scene here while I was

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running down there and looked around

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once and saw this and I thought I was

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quite amazing he was trying to beat me

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running around the world I think this

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was our hamster experiment it's much

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easier to run on that without these

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straps probably the biggest medical

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experiment that we had was called lower

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body negative pressure in this

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experiment bakes and I would would slide

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inside that can there if you will which

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had a waste seal that would come up and

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seal around our waist and we could lower

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the pressure inside that bag to about

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minus 50 millimeters of mercury which is

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equivalent stress on your heart of

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standing up in 1g again this took took

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place during four separate days on orbit

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and as you can see here with the lower

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body negative pressure device there it

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took three people took up virtually the

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entire mid-deck whenever we did this you

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can see Shannon lucid was taking some

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ultrasonic images of our hearts while we

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were in that she's got a American flight

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echocardiographic machine that is

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actually recording that data there

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you've got the subject in the bag and

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then you've got another person that is

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operating the controls down on the lower

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end there and entering the data the

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heart rate and blood pressure data on

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and again this took up the major portion

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of our days for four separate days while

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as I'm looking at this I'm just thinking

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I'll comment the Space Shuttle is an

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absolutely incredible machine I mean it

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has tremendous flexibility and so you

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know as you've seen here we deployed a

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satellite on the first day and then a

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tremendous amount of scientific and

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medical research for the rest of the the

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mission and a real national treasure

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fact the only thing in the world it that

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has this kind of capability so for

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Americans ought to be very proud of this

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system you might add also that I flew

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this on sts 32 and they've made some

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some great improvements both in the

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comfort of the device as well as the the

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hardware itself it's more automated and

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easier to use now it's a picture on the

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flight deck in between experiments you'd

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catch different people with different

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cameras here baixe has a telephoto

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hasselblad lens camera and Jim had an IR

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filter on different people trying to

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take different pictures for

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oceanographers meteorologists geologists

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all around the world are different

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requirements this is a beautiful scene

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of our planet that's just a big blue

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white bowl basically blue planets a good

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description from the IMAX movie it's a

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little sequence where I caught Mike

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taking some pictures out of the pilots

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window this is looking in the North

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Africa you see the earth limb there at

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the top Morocco Algeria Libya the

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Mediterranean Sea really quite beautiful

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our planet and of course these pictures

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don't do it any justice but they're the

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best we can return to you absolutely

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beautiful this planet makes you realize

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or no international boundaries because I

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don't see the boundaries of any of those

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countries there and in a real nice place

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we need to take care of it there's a

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Red Sea down into the Nile River Delta

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they're really beautiful coming out of

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Cairo and announce out toward the

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towards the Aswan Dam Lake Nasser come

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into the scene here in a second no

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reason I'm showing you that is I'd flown

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on to other missions and I never saw the

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Aswan this time i did as china's

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insinuated earth observation is one of

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the favorite pastimes on orbit for

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astronauts flying in space and i think

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one of the things that that impresses me

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the most about it is that since i was a

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young man going to high school the

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geology books as a result of the space

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program have been almost totally

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rewritten and the whole concept of plate

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tectonics and shifting continental

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shelves have has really been totally

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rethought as a result of observations

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made in space the senior sand right here

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is one of the bad things that's all

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equator oil fires burning running south

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down into Saudi Arabia and when I saw

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that and as murky as it looks there

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that's just was the contrast that we saw

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in orbit I mean the planet is beautiful

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and you got to that area and what it

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looked like the planet was out of focus

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there's no question aquiel Fowler fires

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are putting a lot of stuff into the

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environment affecting the lives of five

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billion people and billions of animals

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and plants all over this planet and

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you're not seeing this real good but

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you're looking into the velocity vector

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people always say what does it look like

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on orbit as if you're on a space vehicle

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where you're looking right down the

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velocity vector here approaching the

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Northwest portion of Australia quite

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beautiful you're moving at 17,500 miles

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an hour and that's what it looks like

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one morning I was up eating breakfast

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amala was eating breakfast this is what

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i was looking at and I thought boy what

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a lucky person I am to be able to see

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this scene really a very beautiful

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planet except when you see a scene like

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we saw there and wait it's another

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flight deck picture of some people

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taking pictures here of the hurricane

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that we saw Mike you may wanna talk

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about that you saw what we saw actually

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saw about four hurricanes on on our

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flight this was a hurricane FIFA and we

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had the opportunity to fly right over

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the eye which was really quite

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spectacular first the river so that we

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saw this hurricane the I was not really

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well developed and then when we timing

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was perfect for us as soon as we as the

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IE became developed that we flew right

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over it you keep your eyes on the top

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left of the screen you'll see a shooting

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star just went by it's kind of

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interesting to see that from space

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because you're looking down on it sit up

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at it solve different stars there on the

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bottom of space and the planet of

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courses dominates the upper 78 to that

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picture and this is a bunch of lightning

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storms going on people always ask what

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do they look like from space so I

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thought but throw a little of that in

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this time and I think this is the

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sunrise here and we're getting ready for

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entry day and you're going to see the

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payload bay doors coming closed I think

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David came up with the camcorder and got

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a pretty good sequence of German Shannon

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but not in progress on the left side

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there the payload bay doors starting to

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close every time I see all this i wonder

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how how does it work so much complexity

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it's about two hours before the deorbit

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burn roughly about the time to close

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this is the entry timeframe and we're

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about two hundred fifty thousand feet

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here and out the front windows you can

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really see the globe come up with a fire

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and it's quite an amazing right every

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time you do it you say wow what an

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amazing vehicle and what a beautiful

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ride coming in Jim took this photography

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as John has indicated you spend most

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your time in orbit falling around the

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earth at about 17,500 feet a second and

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in order to get back to earth the trick

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is to take some of that velocity out of

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your over it and actually slow down

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which causes you to fall back into the

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gravity field of the earth and in doing

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so you generate an awful lot of heat and

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some of the fire that you've seen

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shooting up over the top of the vehicle

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is symbol of that here we're going

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subsonic come on over atop the Kennedy

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Space Center and getting ready to turn

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on to the heading alignment circle

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that's about 90 degrees a turn to go

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when I looking out the far left window

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it was clear blue down there and by the

547
00:27:11,850 --> 00:27:08,560
time I got to the front window I thought

548
00:27:17,610 --> 00:27:11,860
it was going into the la smog that's

549
00:27:20,510 --> 00:27:17,620
just what it looked like roll down on

550
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:20,520
final boil or shuttle training aircraft

551
00:27:26,460 --> 00:27:23,890
training we get all of our training in

552
00:27:28,370 --> 00:27:26,470
the kc-135 and all that really pays off

553
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:28,380
here you feel like you're right at home

554
00:27:34,740 --> 00:27:32,770
biggs put the gear down and why would a

555
00:27:36,300 --> 00:27:34,750
beautiful beautiful flying machine to me

556
00:27:38,610 --> 00:27:36,310
it's easiest airplane to fly in the

557
00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:38,620
world in this timeframe but again we get

558
00:27:45,129 --> 00:27:40,510
a lot of excellent training that makes

559
00:27:50,509 --> 00:27:47,330
it's kind of incredible to think that

560
00:27:52,999 --> 00:27:50,519
that vehicle lifts off on top of a bunch

561
00:27:56,269 --> 00:27:53,009
of rocket engine pushing it out into

562
00:27:58,249 --> 00:27:56,279
space you do all that stuff and then it

563
00:28:00,619 --> 00:27:58,259
comes back in it lands like this like an

564
00:28:01,879 --> 00:28:00,629
airplane unbelievable I don't know where

565
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:01,889
we got all the people that knew how to

566
00:28:11,749 --> 00:28:06,690
make that work but we do quite an

567
00:28:13,610 --> 00:28:11,759
amazing machine with tremendous

568
00:28:15,470 --> 00:28:13,620
flexibility to do many different

569
00:28:17,899 --> 00:28:15,480
missions and of course we tell you about

570
00:28:20,869 --> 00:28:17,909
that every time you hear about a

571
00:28:22,340 --> 00:28:20,879
definition a lot of people wonder why it

572
00:28:24,820 --> 00:28:22,350
takes the crew so long to get out of the

573
00:28:26,570 --> 00:28:24,830
vehicle after we land and of course

574
00:28:27,889 --> 00:28:26,580
going through the re-entry and

575
00:28:29,299 --> 00:28:27,899
everything we need some sort of cooling

576
00:28:31,700 --> 00:28:29,309
on board for all the avionics and once

577
00:28:33,950 --> 00:28:31,710
we close the payload bay doors we don't

578
00:28:35,330 --> 00:28:33,960
have the radiators anymore so one of the

579
00:28:38,330 --> 00:28:35,340
things we used to cool the vehicle here

580
00:28:40,129 --> 00:28:38,340
is ammonia boilers and the ammonia being

581
00:28:42,169 --> 00:28:40,139
given off by the ammonia boilers creates

582
00:28:43,970 --> 00:28:42,179
a kind of a cloud around the vehicle and

583
00:28:45,139 --> 00:28:43,980
in this particular mission we had to

584
00:28:47,210 --> 00:28:45,149
wait a little while to get out because

585
00:28:48,639 --> 00:28:47,220
there was a lot of ammonia outside

586
00:28:51,109 --> 00:28:48,649
blowing out of the ammonia boilers and

587
00:28:52,220 --> 00:28:51,119
so it was pretty smelly trying to get

588
00:28:55,129 --> 00:28:52,230
out of the vehicle so we had to wait a

589
00:28:56,989 --> 00:28:55,139
bit for that to clear this little senior

590
00:28:58,909 --> 00:28:56,999
shown you the crew working on that

591
00:29:00,830 --> 00:28:58,919
flight deck after landing there we've

592
00:29:02,419 --> 00:29:00,840
got to do a bunch of little things and I

593
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:02,429
don't know if you've seen that before so

594
00:29:10,669 --> 00:29:06,210
we thought would throw it in coming out

595
00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:10,679
of the vehicle here again I feel very

596
00:29:16,239 --> 00:29:13,110
privileged to have had such a great team

597
00:29:18,830 --> 00:29:16,249
of people to work with up an orbit I

598
00:29:20,779 --> 00:29:18,840
wish them luck in any of their future

599
00:29:25,129 --> 00:29:20,789
endeavors they were really a super group

600
00:29:27,460 --> 00:29:25,139
of people and here's just a scene of the