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good morning Atlanta smear hey good

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morning dad I thought we talked to you a

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walk before this yeah I did too but it's

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real real happy to give you an on-time

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wake-up call this is Mission Control

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Houston this live picture male from the

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shuttle Space Lab module this picture

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showing mission specialists Ellen Baker

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and Bonnie Dunbar in the space lab

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science workshop in the rear of Atlantis

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is cargo bay beginning to set up the

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lower body negative pressure device

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that's the white sac that you see

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floating on the left side of the screen

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next to Baker that device so we've used

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in which near 18 crew members lat

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America's sure off Donati striking off

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the North a gird we'll each take turns

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climbing into over the next several days

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and in fact after Atlantis is undocking

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from the earth and to help draw fluids

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evenly throughout their bodies in a

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countermeasure activity designed to help

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them adapt to Earth's gravity once

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Atlantis returns to Earth on Friday

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Dunbar has also been involved in

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activities aboard the space lab this

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morning with a mere 18 crew who are in

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essence the three guinea pigs being

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perfect subjects for the study of the

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effect of long exposure to

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in this picture from the shuttle Space

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Lab module d'azyr off is putting his

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shirt back on after having been

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instrumented for the lower body negative

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pressure device by Bonnie Dunbar payload

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commander Ellen Baker is on the left

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side of the picture she is working to

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hook up all of the telemetry wires and

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and monitors for the lower body negative

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pressure device pilot Charlie Precourt

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in the foreground they're armed with a

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camera to document all the activity

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that's taking place in the shuttle space

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yeah and I understand you're also

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looking forward to getting a good

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old-fashioned American hot dog hot dogs

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and hamburgers and ice cream will be

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great all right if you would pass the

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microphone please back to commander

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Gibson I have a few questions for him

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about the work he's done this week

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commander Gibson you managed to dock the

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shuttle you brought it in on schedule

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under budget and within an inch of its

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life how much training did you get on

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the ground in a simulator for that and

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then how did the real thing compared to

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the training well Leon there's a there's

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a real important point that I want to

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make here and that is that we brought

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the shuttle in on time and successfully

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accomplished a docking I was the one who

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had his hand physically on the controls

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but I would not have gotten there

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without the help of a awful lot of folks

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who you're looking at right now and an

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awful lot of folks on the ground in

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Mission Control and the entire team that

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put that all together as you mentioned

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we have spent a tremendous amount of

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time in the simulators training to do

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this particular task and training to do

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it under ideal conditions and training

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to do it under less than ideal

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conditions and all of those things all

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of those things play together to to

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really prepare you to go out and

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actually do it

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we had somewhat ideal conditions in some

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ways and we had less than ideal

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conditions in other ways for the actual

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docking and the fact that the fact we

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wanted to make it look easy and the fact

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that we came close to making it look

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easy it was because of all that training

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and because of all the great and

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excellent work that got done by a lot of

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people on the ground and and the people

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that we had up here well of course now

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that you've put them together you the

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whole crew you're going to have to take

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them apart coming up this Tuesday if all

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goes according to schedule on July 4th

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why don't you tell us how that works or

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if you wish pass it to another crew

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I'd like to have our pilot Charlie

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Precourt talk about that well we're

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looking forward to the undocking for a

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couple of reasons we are going to be

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able to show it to you through video

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from both the Soyuz and from the shuttle

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and we'll be able to share with you the

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experience in a little more detail and

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you saw it during the docking it's

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basically operationally for us is pretty

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much the reverse of the process that got

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us to the docking the Soyuz commanded by

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Anatoly here and also accompanied by the

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flight engineer Nikolai they will undock

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the Sawyer's return capsule before we

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leave the station and they will move to

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a position where they can actually film

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our undocking of the shuttle and then we

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will move out further and distance from

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the station when we undock and we will

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station keep in a position where we can

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refill the docking of the soyuz capsule

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by anatoly all of that should make for

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some very interesting and be able to

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demonstrate on film the processes that

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we went through to coordinate bringing

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these two massive vehicles together in

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the first place so we're really looking

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forward to that we're really looking

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forward to sharing it with you on the

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let me ask anatoly then a few questions

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commander Folio I'm ready

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understand we're talking about the

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undocking about flying around the

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complex and taking pictures when the

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first of all I think it will be a very

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beautiful sight because when we were

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approaching the MIR station the entire

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complex is very beautiful and we can

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also see through the window and look

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through the window and see the shuttle

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which is very very close and it's a very

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beautiful bird so I think that when we

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see all of this from the Soyuz

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spacecraft if we how we see Atlantis

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depart from mere we will put this on

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film and share our feelings and opinions

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with you commander how long will you be

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on the mirror once the shuttle Atlantis

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dancing a rather short mission and on 30

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August we will return to Earth the next

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crew just slightly over two months and

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we'll be relieved by another crew

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commander briefly how do you think the

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history of this mission is going to be

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written in your country yes 'muslim of

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Duke Slava kakushita Vista reaches

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Campania darker history shows machine

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well even during training in many

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training and many interviews this

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question was encountered many times and

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I think that I think it is worthwhile

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revisiting it because it is very

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important we with this flight are

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beginning a great program and I would

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say it's more than a program it is an

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absolutely necessary cooperative effort

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to put forward cosmonautics and this

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process must proceed quickly because

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these two systems can supplement

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complement one another and this

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development process it's acceleration of

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this process will be significant you

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always want to be prepared we have an

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expression onboard the crew which is

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good Toby Thank You Toby but we have an

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extra which which means prepared always

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prepared

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we had two cakes with us we had an

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actual cake that one of our other

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astronauts Marsha Ivins made for us and

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we also had just in case it fell apart

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in during the launch we also had a an

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inflatable birthday cake with candles

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that we use so we were well prepared

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all right well to the crew of the mirror

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and the space shuttle Atlantis who are

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in orbit thank you spasiba and we hope

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this is Mission Control Houston work

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continues aboard the shuttle space Space

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Lab module in the rear of Atlantis as

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cargo bay as a mission specialist Bonnie

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Dunbar monitors the progress of

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biomechanical tests which have been

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ongoing most of the morning on the MIR

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18 crew members vladimir Doozer off

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just two Dunbar's left is flight

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engineer gennady struck a LOF who has

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been in space for a hundred and ten days

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now he and his commander to giraffe and

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his crew mate thagard will be returning

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to earth next Friday aboard the shuttle

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Space Center the tests have been in two

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parts so far baroreflex testing using a

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special type of neck cuff which measures

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the screen and this picture coming to

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lower body negative pressure device a

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sort of silent cylindrical type sac in

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which crewmembers crawl into to use a

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negative pressure to more evenly

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subjects head and thus being used as a

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countermeasure against the effects of

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long exposure to microgravity let's go

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into the this is the flight deck this is

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control for controlling the engines and

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rendezvous and docking control the craft

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from this station and to make

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observations through these on the right

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manipulator arm arm right now this has

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don't charlie assisted in all aspects

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and right now there is an excellent view

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found in the payload Bay and the access

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reason for the laboratory is to perform

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conditions of space primarily this is a

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system for controlling all of these

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systems in the space lab this is Mission

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Control Houston once again this live

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lab module showing mere 18 flight

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engineer gennady struggle off in the

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lower body negative pressure device this

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dockings mission strike Aleph will be

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using this device every day now for the

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this abusing bar for Ellen not just TVC