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good morning Atlantis and to let you

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good morning Sam a lot of clear and I

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while this work continues in the space

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lab science module the entry team of

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flight controllers led by entry flight

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director Wayne Hale has been on console

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since about two o'clock this morning as

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they cycle themselves into the same

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shift they'll work tomorrow in support

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of all the preparations required for

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Atlantis as deorbit burn and return to

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the Kennedy Space Center entry flight

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director Wayne Hale has already had one

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weather briefing from the spaceflight

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meteorology group this morning is

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expecting a more detailed weather

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briefing from those forecasters about a

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half an hour from now as he continues to

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formulate his strategy and that of the

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entry team to present to the mission

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management team of top NASA managers and

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and a Space Lab Houston for Bonnie to

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related arm we just need to know how

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special I abuse and talk Pharrell and

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I'll B&B advises just to go ahead and

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that we accepted to really run all right

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let me start with a big picture question

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commander gibson one of this mission was

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to go up and get norm thagard and to do

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some long-term experiments about

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long-term space days but the other part

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of it was to prove it could be done

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technically to prove it could be done

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politically that we could work with the

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Russians put those on a balance and tell

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me which was the most important part of

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this flight Nancy I guess it's hard to

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say that one was more important than the

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other because they all had their very

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specific purposes you mentioned that it

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was done to show that it could be done I

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think we really integrated it more into

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a a long-term picture than just to go

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show that it could be done we are all

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interested in building International

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making that work and this is one of the

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first steps on the way we have divided

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it up to call what we call phase one and

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then leading into phase 2 phase one is

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the flights to mirror and those are

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techniques many of the tests that will

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be doing in phase 2 so this is just one

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small part of the of the whole overall

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picture again commander Gibson norm

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saying that this is likely to be his

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last flight I'm wondering about you how

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likely are you to fly again and what is

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it that NASA could offer you after you

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have done what you have said is pretty

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much the pirating challenge of a

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lifetime well fancy I guess I had to

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to top this one but how am I going to

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challenging flight in the future after

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this and the answer is i guess i don't

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next or what what i do within NASA I

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valuable to NASA maybe this is the last

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the options open still at this point

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three months in space is doable but that

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six months or a year is in his mind

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pretty difficult thing to do I'm just

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long-term stay and what is it that you

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have what is your reaction to what norm

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discouraged you in any way from wanting

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to make a long stay yourself Lillian see

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medical doctor do that kind of long

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duration activity to do the self

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me whether I really want to do it put me

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terms in space and would you be

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do that personally pesotum user data

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contemporary level and are more

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technologically advanced or is certainly

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interesting and I would with great

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pleasure would agree to do this if I

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alpha station I think this would be very

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interesting to try and how this would be

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Russian cosmonauts and astronauts but

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also astronauts and cosmonauts from

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other countries commander Desert Storm

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did you get lonely up there commandeer

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the desert of northern Taggarts gazelles

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to immobility noka number two Stan save

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loaded down with work the same way that

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issues norm wasn't loaded down so much

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accepting a new model module with new

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equipment linea not leave charlie

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program it comes up every year for a

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vote it's going to be the space station

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Congress undoubtedly there will be those

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who try to kill it are there people that

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you just have to write off who are

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always going to do this or after a

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mission it's been given this much

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international publicity and talked about

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this much in terms of success do you

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find it frustrating that you have to

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fight these battles over and over again

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good that there's some skeptics out

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there to keep us honest and make sure

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that we produce the maximum product for

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the dollar that's spent on the program

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of frustration that if you work in

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something like this like we do it's our

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life and we are very very dedicated to

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it we believe in it completely and it's

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somewhat frustrating that we can't

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communicate how important it is to those

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people who doubt it and I guess it kind

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of falls back to your earlier question

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to hoot about what was the most

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important part of the flight whether it

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really goes on here is that there's a

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little bit of everything for everybody

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be research whether it be international

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relationships whether it be new

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technologies for everyday life on earth

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whether it be from motivating our

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children will it be for education you

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can look all different directions and

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what we do impacts every different area

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of our lives so

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yes there is some frustration but it

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keeps us honest and I think it's healthy

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and that's our process that was made our

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country strong and now I think that same

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process will make our entire globe

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strong internationally as we join

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think of this flight is that we've

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demonstrated a willingness both sides

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and now internationally to to carry on

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really encouraging well that brings to

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before he left which is that remember

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asking him about something what he

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thought would come of this and and Greg

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lot of Hope after a parlor freeze but

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the danger now is sitting back and not

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committing ourselves the same thing that

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the ground to keep this going to keep

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this interest to generate it what would

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I do personally be fancy and what would

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you tell NASA to do and what would you

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do personally well I think we've done

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with what we can do on a personal level

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challenging set of objectives and we

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satisfied those and I think we did it

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very well with regard to NASA you know I

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think we could we need to do a good job

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of telling the American people what what

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we do and why we do it and to follow up

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charlie's point to let folks know why it

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is worthwhile any on the tax dollar that

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the taxpayer spends that pays for our

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budget you know we we do an awful lot if

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you look back and created some sort of

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an anthology at will we've done just in

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satellite deploys and retreat

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season and some of the amazing fantastic

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list of accomplishments and I think the

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American public needs to have that kept

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in front of them so that they appreciate

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what the space program is really doing

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for them and I guess I would try to be

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aggressive at getting that word out okay

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I think I lost the the end of the answer

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to that question but let me go ahead and

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can can hear me which is what is the

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real human thing that he is looking

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forward to doing the most when he gets

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woods you want to take a hot shower away

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his family that he wants to do when he

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gets home no school today is busy but

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palazzo what taco baroda yeah very first

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thing I probably want to do is to stand

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time and I've missed that and second

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thing with I'd like to meet with my

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family with my kids my wife to talk to

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socialize take a little walk if there is

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such an opportunity immediately tell you

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the truth I miss I miss people pretty

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much and kind of the everyday earth life

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one last real quick question for hoot

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its twenty years since Apollo Soyuz 20

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years from now what do you want people

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Danny I hope they'll say it was it was a

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very good success I hope they'll say

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that it had been an incredibly long dry

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spell between apollo-soyuz and SDS 71

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but then look at all the other missions

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that we did and look at how SDS 71

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helped open the way between the United

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States and Russia and that we existed in

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and Lena's we have you an air-to-ground

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one through my life okay so you're clear

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lanús you are loud and clear on here to

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ground one plus go over and try a UHF

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Atlantis unbelievable picture nor by

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well story that this loop is still a