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guess who

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everybody thinks i'm crazy

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crazy

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good morning discovery

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good morning houston great wake-up music

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well just because you're 179 miles up

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doesn't mean you can get away from that

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we had a feeling we'd hear more about

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that

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go ahead discovery

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so mark just wanted to tell you you

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could pass along to jeff stone that

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we're very impressed he got us an ifm

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okay we'll do that nancy and you'll be

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happy to know that the

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ontadris the two single axis antenna

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reflectors are now deployed so all

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appendages have been deployed and the on

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on-orbit checkout is continuing

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that's terrific news mark everything

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went just so smoothly yesterday we were

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happy

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being panned over in an effort to

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in an effort to look at tropical storm

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yes don our suggestion is possibly that

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you check the jumpers

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that were

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part of the ifm for that cable

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we are asking you to do that in view of

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the number of restarts we think that

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there might be a possibility of

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intermittent contact

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jumpers are solid

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we suggest you restart with step 8 on

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okay i'll get the multimeter out and

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recheck our connectors and then

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our jumper cables and then we'll begin

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with step 8 again

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again the instrumentation communications

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officer here in the new mission control

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center is panning the

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af port camera discovery to take a look

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at tropical storm chantal in the gulf of

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as discovery orbits 200 miles above

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meanwhile spacecraft communicator mark

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garneau talking with mission specialist

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don thomas on board discovery about the

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in-flight maintenance procedure

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designed to get the bioreactor

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development system working

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on the crew to check that they have gray

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taped the appropriate pin connectors

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properly and a

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new cable that will be used to make the

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experiment active

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he asked don thomas to check and make

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sure that the rotating wall was rotating

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which he did which indicates there's

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houston discovery with words on bds

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mark i took out the multimeter and

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checked our connectors they looked good

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uh i reconnected them

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and started performing step eight and we

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got a message ecc detected so it looks

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we're back in business here we got our

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experiment timer counting and met clock

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and we're with you on the flight pitch

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good morning welcome aboard discovery

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we're 160 miles above the earth just

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approaching the southern tip of baja

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and we like to share a moment with you

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to

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dedicate the new consolidated control

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center

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after 30 years of hard work

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which included over 100 man space

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flights from our old control rooms we're

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now entering the next century by opening

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the new control center which will lead

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our manned space flight program into

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future benefits aboard the international

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space station and into the next century

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continuing our exploration of the solar

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system for the benefit of humankind

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aboard discovery on this flight we have

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a plaque

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that commemorates the opening of the new

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control center and it says in

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recognition of the first flight flown

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from this mission control room this

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plaque was flown on the flight sts-70 on

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board the space shuttle discovery

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built by the pirate teamwork empowered

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by pirate spirit

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and we dedicate it to all the folks who

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have worked in the flight control rooms

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and who will work in the new control

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room and it's our honor

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to carry this plaque for those folks

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and we do dedicate it to their teamwork

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and effort and it's not the rooms that

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make the difference it's the people that

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man those rooms

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and we trust our lives and our nation's

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man space program to those folks

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and we are proud to be a part of your

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as one of the members of the crew as

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well as don thomas that did work as a

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capcom for at least a year in the

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mission control center i'd just like to

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pass on my word of thanks to those folks

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it's one of the most professional

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organizations i've ever seen

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it's so well run people give their heart

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and soul on every day of every mission

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to support each and every one of us and

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again congratulations to the mission

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operations directorate and john moratore

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hours into preparing the room to be

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prepared for sts-70

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congratulations and we're looking

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forward to this flight and many more in

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well thank you very much tom

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in the orbit one

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shift we're certainly proud to be

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working in the new facility we also

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think it's great you'll be glad to know

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since you're the first mission to fly

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out of this new flight control room we

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have a very nice plaque of your mission

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as well as your crew photo hanging in

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well that's quite an honor for us and

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we're going to try and downlink you a

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closer picture of the

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and we hope that many more patches adorn

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a new control center

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historical missions that were flown from

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the old i'm sure will be followed by

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future historic missions

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from this new control center and again

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thanks tom and kevin that looks good we

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sts-70 commander tom hendricks we're now

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stf70 commander don

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tom henrichs flanked on the left by

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mission specialist nancy curry and on

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commemoration of the first flight of

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the new mission control center here in

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once again receiving down

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down like television from the payload

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bay cameras of the shuttle discovery as

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view of that on this orbital pass which

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again this information is very important

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to understand the effects of

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where scientists in the life sciences

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support center are comparing

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these embryos with a control group on

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houston discovery for stl if you'd like

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discover houston that's an excellent

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view it gives us a real perspective on

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what this storm looks like on a

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yeah nancy's proud of that one

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get that 40 millimeter hasselblad on it

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kevin's cranking away

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tell me if you can imagine the biggest

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problem i was having controlling the

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cameras was that i'm on the floor with

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five people on top of me looking out the

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okay don't get any boot prints on your

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discovery this is houston are you ready

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discovery's ready

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new york times this is houston please

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call discovery for a voice check

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discovery this is new york times how do

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aboard discovery we're 160 miles above

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the earth and we're just now crossing

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it's dark outside

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and this afternoon you've got uh mary

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and we're ready to take your questions

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that sounds terrific the the uh

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the only things we'll ask is uh that you

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speak in a moderate taste because we're

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answers as we go and uh the questions

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are are mostly for both of you so if you

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arkansas and uh she wants to be an

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astronaut and a lot and she and a lot of

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other people in our audience want to

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hear about the biological experiments

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you're conducting up there and the

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communication satellite that you've

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first it was released yesterday and it

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to earth and it acts as a relay system

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maintain that system for many years and

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this satellite is again the last to join

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that system and i'll let

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mary ellen weber answer the question

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about our biological experiment

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can we please move much slower and

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identify ourselves at the point when we

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uh houston discovery did you hear that

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yes we copied that and we will

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this is mary ellen weber and i'm one of

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flight and i'd like to tell you about

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protein protein crystal growth and uh

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maybe i can tell you more about that

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some other time uh next question

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okay slower okay

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and if we could just go a little bit

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slower please

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uh george in connecticut wonder with

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that what you can uh wonders what the

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difference between the shuttle's

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commander and pilot is and could the

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commander and the pilot be the same

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well the biggest difference uh and this

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is kevin kriegel the pilot

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and the biggest difference is that the

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so but seriously uh both the commander

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and the pilot

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uh trained to do most of the same duties

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the pilot backs up the commander

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the commander usually has two flights

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under his belt and there's a lot more

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experience this is

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tom's

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third flight in my first flight it's a

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lot like on an airliner when you have a

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captain and a co-pilot you have the

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captain who's highly experienced running

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the ship

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and the pilot who's learning and backing