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after a week of hunting down satellites

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and walking in space endeavour's

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astronauts get a day to relax heading

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down the home stretch the crew turns to

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preparations for bringing its ship into

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port we've got the story of flight day

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eight aboard endeavour next on today's

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welcome to mission update the astronauts

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of endeavor are near the end of their

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seventh full workday and have begun to

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get their spacecraft ready to end its

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tenth trip to earth orbit after four

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scheduled hours of off-duty time and

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with the primary objectives of the

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mission completed the six crew members

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turned their attention to a number of

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secondary experiments and packing up

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some of their equipment for the trip

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home saturday morning the orbiter

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systems are reported to be operating in

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fine fashion flight controllers have not

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been able to determine the cause of an

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ice buildup in the topper unit of the

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flash evaporator system which assists

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the payload bay door radiators in

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dissipating heat generated by the

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shuttle's systems but mission operations

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representative jeff bantel says the fess

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we are looking at

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doing a longer fest dump in the test

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that we tried yesterday

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we've been using the fess off and on

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during the day today in the primary beat

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controller it's worked great haven't

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if our water quantity is allowed we'll

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probably do a little bit longer kind of

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a festive tomorrow

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bantal says that will provide more data

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on the fess operations to assist and to

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assist the engineers who will be

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checking the system after the orbiter

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returns to earth right now endeavour is

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in the 115th orbit of the mission flying

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some 190 miles over the pacific ocean at

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a speed of 17 500 miles an hour the

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on board endeavor all six astronauts are

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nearing the end of their pre-sleep

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period and they're scheduled to turn in

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for the night in just a couple of

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after almost a week's worth of satellite

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retrieval and walking in space the

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astronauts took it easy today seeing two

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secondary payloads and taking some time

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an up tempo start to endeavor's eighth

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day in space last night as mission

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control roused the astronauts for what

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would be a quiet day in orbit with all

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their mission objectives having been

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successfully completed the astronauts

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were given the day to relax enjoy the

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view of the planet and capture images of

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the earth from their vantage point 192

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as endeavour passed over the gulf coast

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of florida early this morning flight

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controllers and pilot brent jett

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discussed weather conditions back on

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earth in particular a massive weather

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brent we have the weather

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glad you got a good look

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the forecast for the kennedy space

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center calls for good conditions for

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three of endeavors crew members

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commander brian duffy japanese astronaut

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koichi wakata and mission specialist

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winston scott gathered on the shuttle's

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flight deck this morning to answer

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questions about their mission from south

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scott who spent seven hours space

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walking in endeavors cargo bay yesterday

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said a vital test of his spacesuit's

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ability to insulate him from bitterly

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cold temperatures proved to be

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the most important part i think was the

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happy to report that they they worked

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wakata who retrieved two satellites

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during the mission including his

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country's space flier unit said the

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mission represented another success in

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the arena of international cooperation

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we saw the perfect teamwork during this

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examples of the international

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the most important thing to proceed on

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to further frontier in space

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endeavor continued to circle the earth

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every 90 minutes as the astronauts began

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to gear up for the final hours of their

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flight and an end to the first shuttle

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mission of the year

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now here's a look at what's coming up in

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the next day on orbit and our schedule

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for nasa television coverage

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in just a few minutes the six astronauts

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on board endeavor end their eighth day

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mission status briefing from here at the

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johnson space center immediately

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afterward we'll go to the goddard space

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flight center for science briefings on

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the shuttle laser altimeter and the

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getaway specials the flight day video

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file containing highlights of this day

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the astronauts start their final full

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work day in space at 5 11 this afternoon

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with preparations for saturday's

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about a quarter to nine tonight

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commander brian duffy and pilot brent

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jett start the pre-landing checkout of

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an hour later they will hot fire the

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reaction control system jets to ensure

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controllability of the orbiter as it

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at 11 41 central time tonight the crew

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holds its in-flight news conference the

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first 20 minutes of tonight's event will

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be for u.s reporters and the final 10

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a bit after one o'clock tomorrow morning

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duffy will take a turn at the portable

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computer flight simulator used by

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commanders and pilots on orbit to hone

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other crew members will be busy packing

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specialist koichi wakata will stow the

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all of the activity on board endeavor is

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being guided from the mission control

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center here in houston where flight

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director rob kelso and his orbit 2 team

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shannon's planning shift comes on

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console later this morning

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a reminder immediately after our 10

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will bring you special science briefings

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on the shuttle laser altimeter and the

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getaway specials and then our flight day

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video file will air at 11 30. we'll be