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drifting with a current down a

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dreaming of a pair of

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eyes in

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visions

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good morning discovery and we thought

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you'd like this

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piece about ohio senator john glenn

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uh good morning houston uh yeah it takes

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we're now receiving live television from

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discovery's cameras discovery houston on

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this view from a camera that's mounted

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in the forward

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discovery houston we're getting a superb

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picture from the payload bay and i can

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see the storm

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just coming into view i envy your view

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in this view of tropical storm chantal

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maximum winds now about 51 miles per

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hour as it

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moves to the north northwest in the

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well to the north of puerto rico

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this is mission control houston this

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television view from discoveries of

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tropical storm chantal

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well north of puerto rico on a course

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that will take it to north northwest

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currently a chantal as a tropical storm

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has winds of about 51 miles per hour and

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it's moving on its uh north northwest

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okay and we're ready on the midtech

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we're ready to come aboard when you're

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we're ready for you

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discovery houston three smiling faces

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and we have a good frame and a good uh

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discovery are you ready for the event on

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we are ready tom

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maddie montford this is houston please

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call discovery for a voice check

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hello how are you nancy don and mary

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good morning how are you

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doing just fine before we get started

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let me just tell you that the show that

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we we do we cater more to moms and

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children so when you speak about what

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you do

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as simple in a simple terms as possible

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okay wonderful so we'll just get started

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i'm going to intro you right now

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we are speaking with nancy curry don

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thomas and mary ellen weber they are on

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the sts

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mission on the space shuttle discovery

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they are on the mid deck and they're

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ready to speak to us right now hello and

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thank you for allowing us to come down

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and be with you this morning we're just

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having a wonderful time after our launch

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uh two days ago from the kennedy space

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center we had just a spectacular launch

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we had the deployment of the tracking

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and data relay communication satellite

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on our first day and we've just

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been having a very successful mission up

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now we were originally going to speak to

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you a few weeks back and of course that

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mission was delayed can you give us a

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discovery houston we're not getting dons

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okay do i ask the question again may i

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ask the question again

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discovery uh that last question did not

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come down so would you give the answer

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yeah basically the reason for our uh

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delay of one month was because of a

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woodpecker there were two woodpeckers

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that were poking holes in our external

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197 of them we had a roll back to the

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vehicle assembly building to patch the

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holes and we rolled back out to the pad

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launched about a month late but here we

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did that make you any more nervous to go

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up in space than you probably already

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training very hard for this mission for

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about a year and we're ready and

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it's part of the business sometimes

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sometimes weather's going to get in your

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woodpeckers or

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sometimes it might just be equipment

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we were ready to go

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all three of you right now are on the

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mid-deck of the aircraft can you tell us

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basically the mid-back is part of where

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we work and where we sleep and when

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where we eat and also where we exercise

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we have a uh bicycle which does not have

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a seat on it because we don't need one

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in zero g just have a seat back on it

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and we exercise uh at least once a day

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on orbit but we have a whole variety of

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experiments we've been keeping very very

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and we also have several experiments

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most of those are camera oriented and

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now people are interested in your

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day-to-day activities on board the

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well this morning i had rice krispies

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cold water and that's one of our

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and i'm holding some chocolate instant

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breakfast which i had this morning and

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it's actually very good and we all get

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to select our menu yeah we got to speak

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most of your family members this morning

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missing them what is the thing that you

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thing we do miss most is our families

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out and being able to take a walk around

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the neighborhood enjoying the you know

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fresh air and a cool breeze in your face

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but to make up for that we got a

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spectacular view out the window here yes

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can we take a look at where you're

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flying over right now is that possible

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we're currently we're in the middle of a

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it's it's dark but we can get a sense

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our payload bay facing the earth so as

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we look at the overhead windows of the

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shuttle we're looking down at the earth

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at the earth and for the first time i

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falling towards the earth that was quite

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comfortable from the time the main

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engine's cut off you let go you just

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float around as long as you don't get a

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this is a question for nancy and

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madeline maybe you're the best to answer

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do you know that as i've spent a couple

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of days here at nasa i've just been so

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impressed by what a great personality

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the astronauts that i've spoken to

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have aside from your technical skills

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and the academics that you must know to

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get to where you are is personality a

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big big part of you getting where you

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the selection a large part of it is

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based on a one-hour interview with the

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selection committee and they hold their

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cards pretty close and they tend not to

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talk about what exactly they're looking

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for in the personalities but certainly

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uh being able to take the initiative and

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others and things like that uh you know

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now mary ellen i know you're adventurous

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as well you're a competitive skydiver

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with 1900 jumps under your belt

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does that thrill compared to the one

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it's uh this is pretty awesome this is

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now what do you do for fun you said you

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have you have some time to exercise but

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other than that what is your your off

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we really haven't had a whole lot of off

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think every possible opportunity that we

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you'll find five noses pressed up

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against the window looking at the most

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spectacular view we'll ever see in our

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yes now um nancy we got a chance to

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speak with your eight-year-old daughter

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was on our show last fall when mike my

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co-host interviewed you

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and she said to me that she would love

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to see herself and and your dog auggie

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now what are some of the fun things that

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demonstration of something we were

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night it will take just seconds

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nancy was spinning almost as much as the

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m m's are that uh been released inside

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wonderful now if you all had a chance to

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live up in the space station

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for a year where you wouldn't be able to

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see your husbands and your children and

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your wives

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that's a great question uh i sure would

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like to bring them along if we could do

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that and hopefully one day in the future

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we'll be able to bring our families

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mary ellen did you want to answer that

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i know i agree i would go uh i would

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certainly go on the space station

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and uh you know with or without my

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family but i would certainly rather have

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tell me a little bit about

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in the simplest of terms what your

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responsibilities are aboard the

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my particular responsibilities are

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mission specialists too all three of us

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mission specialist students a flight

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engineer on the flight so i was sitting

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center seat between tom hendricks the

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commander and kevin cradle the pilot all

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the way during the ascent and dom was

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sitting to my right and it was uh it was

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really spectacular don and i both had

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out mirrors so that when the mid engines

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lit we could actually see some of the

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flames as we rolled heads down we could

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see the earth start to go by and uh and

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cockpit monitoring all our instruments

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tdrs satellite our tracking and data

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relay satellite that we deployed on day

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for a number of the smaller mid deck

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experiments that were flying in this

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mission and i'm one of the two crew

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members who would go out and do a

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spacewalk in case we had some kind of

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emergency or contingency and needed to

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go outside to fix something on the

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i was helping him out with the deploy

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as well as working on some of the

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mid-deck experiments and on the other

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crew member that would go out and do a

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spacewalk if we needed to do that

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bob cabana the head of the astronaut

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program here at nasa told me that

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the single most important piece of

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equipment that all of you have is your

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where are yours are you do you have them

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you bet we never leave home without it

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there they go and

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he's ready that way we can hold them for

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do you get a lot of chance to talk to

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one another or is it basically difficult

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to speak up there

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although we can hear each other very

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very clearly it's kind of like

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you know having a fan on in a room and

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uh you might have to talk just a little

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bit louder but you can hear uh just as

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well as on the ground

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we uh we got to speak to your husband

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nancy we didn't get to speak to yours

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marilyn because i know he's still in

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florida but i was curious when you both

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were single

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um

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did you intimidate men because you were

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astronauts was that an intimidating

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well as you know if you spoke to my

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husband he's an army helicopter pilot

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and i met him when he was teaching me

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how to fly one of the army's newest

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helicopters to blackhawk and so i don't

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think he was intimidated at all because

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i was a pilot just like he was and uh so

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it's quite interesting because he can

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understand my job very well and he's

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tremendously supportive

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i know i've actually uh i was actually

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dating my husband for many years before

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i became an astronaut so i'm not real

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certain if anybody was intimidated or

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not

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don he certainly wasn't he wasn't now

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don um was being an astronaut an

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i'm a happily married man and

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i'd have to say absolutely not no no but

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that's why i got married here

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well we got a chance to

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meet your baby kai

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and we got a chance to spend time with

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simone and for you nancy we have we got

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a chance to speak with your husband and

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your daughter they're all doing really

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really well

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is there something you would like to say

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boy sir to uh kai and to my wife simone

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i love you i miss you very much and i

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can't wait to see you next friday at

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landing time love you

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and to dave and stephanie i love you

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with all my heart and don't eat too much

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and once again i guess i have to say

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just i love you a lot jerry and i can't

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wait to see you

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now i understand that all of you swapped

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rings with your husbands or your wives

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well you know i know they're missing

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that

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i know they're missing you and they love

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you and from down here on earth

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we uh we send you the very best wishes

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and we we hope you get back safely on

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thank you very much maddie give my best

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to mike we enjoyed meeting him in

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houston sure well

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thank you

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discovery we have picture

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okay

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don carrico will be very happy to know

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that we are cleaning the windows just

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and the next thing you'll see is uh

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don and tom in the back doing some right

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bobs and we you know as you you're very

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well familiar with we have some

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fantastic passes today over the u.s and

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we also were able to capture hurricane

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chantal

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you can also see the six crew member on

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and just to the right of woody you can

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see the mcc plaque in honor of the first

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that's a great shot discovery

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as we came over the hurricane today

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including one crew member with one

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that sounds like just about the scene

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and uh tom also the other interesting

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thing is that between windex hercules

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and sarax the windows have been kind of

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that's one thing we appreciate looking

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at the timeline is how difficult it is

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to work all those payloads with the

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that's a forum and this is a picture of

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tom and i doing hercules activation and

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this is just one part of hercules the

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hat and the ibm thinkpad computer and

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you'll see the actual camera coming to

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this camera on the ground weighed

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approximately 70 pounds and it was quite

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difficult to train with particularly for

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star alignments to hold this device over

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your head and

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be able to get an alignment within 0.05

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degrees

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we had some difficulty with the

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alignment today mostly due to the

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stabilization of the camera because it

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is so large

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and there's the camera that i'm holding

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so this is i'll be on camera which is a

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multi-spectral imaging

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intensifier camera

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and it's got its own alignment system

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that's a canister on top and then a view

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discovery we really see how that space

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is a premium working with the camera and

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satisfied the last minute the pao event