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good morning discovery and Nancy were

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pretty sure that you recognize that from

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the second grade class at Ferguson

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Elementary where your daughter Stephanie

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is in South Shore Harbor come on a mask

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and Magda went to the kids in the books

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a lil Missy they did a wonderful job

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with admits and it's a great way to wake

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up on all that listening so beautiful

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song like that from a bunch of beautiful

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discovery Houston that's a good-looking

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discoveries ready que se PA oh this is

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Houston please call discovery for a

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voice check discovery this is que se PA

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oh how do you hear me discovery read you

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loud clear does the flight crew have an

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opening statement that like to make we

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like to welcome you aboard discovery

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it's been a spectacular mission for us

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so far watching within 60 seconds of a

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scheduled time after a short delay was

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spectacular beginning of the mission our

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first day was the screw this day I've

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seen in any mission the deployment went

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off without a hitch our primary mission

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is complete with the tea dress on its

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proper orbit now we're working this week

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on the secondary experiments will be

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glad to talk to those during the

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conference and we're looking with

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optimistic pleasure to joining everyone

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back on the ground this coming Friday

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and we're just now approaching the coast

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of Baja 160 miles above the ocean and

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can go ahead with your questions or

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done of the associated press for Don

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you're on a talk show circuit up there

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considering some of the questions you've

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been asked and doesn't matter what kind

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of questions people ask as long as

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they're interested in why is it

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important to NASA yeah we're happy to

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answer any question that the press or

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public might have up here we were having

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a great time and we're up here to share

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this with the rest of the country and

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the rest of the world is spectacular

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experience of flying its paces Cyrene

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and mere 18 had some insightful and

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poignant remarks on a long-duration low

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Earth orbit spaceflight I'm wondering

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how you would feel about a three or four

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months Space Station research assignment

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and if any of you have your names in the

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hopper for the shuttle Mir missions at

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the scenario of rubber and I would

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certainly like to go for three or four

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months aboard the mirror

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some challenges to doing that but I

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think the excitement and the benefits

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all of to all of the world would be well

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so Seth Borenstein to orlando sentinel

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anderson online asked our users to send

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in question for you in gorge below

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Satellite Beach Florida asked how do you

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feel about completing the mission space

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to be assigned any space shuttle mission

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this one had particular meeting for all

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of us because it was a replacement

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satellite for the teachers that was lost

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on challenger and I think it just speaks

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very highly of the way that the agency

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has recovered from that I have to do is

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look at our first day just absolutely

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flawless countdown no problem at all

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right on time everything the first day

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on any mission work and we just said

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that very very pleased with how the

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fishing is gone this is Jim Bank

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eoforwic today I guess I'll ask this one

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ISIL is isolation and that kind of stuff

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could you just talk generically when

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you're on a shuttle mission how you guys

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on the orbiter stay in touch with what's

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here on the ground and how you stay in

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touch with your families and could you

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give a specific example of how you

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exchanged greetings perhaps with your

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families we have a computer program that

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the orbiter and Houston and our family

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escorts that are helping the families on

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the ground will collect and distribute

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those messages so once a day we transmit

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personal messages from the orbiter to

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our families and when those messages are

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private family conferences which give us

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to talk directly to our immediate family

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this flight and that also gives us one

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opportunity during the mission to make a

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peterhall Terry with the West Kentucky

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news for Mary Ellen being a rookie on

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board when you're here on earth you

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don't have to worry about things float

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take any special precautions while

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you're breathing make sure you don't

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suck in and mms strolling around up

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animals that are floating around but in

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general the air is pretty clean up here

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and you just live and go about your

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business normally there's always a

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little bit more of a risk of you getting

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something in your eye or getting

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something up your nose but we we can

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take care of that this is dave lure with

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the columbus dispatch in columbus ohio

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for commander hendrix today is the

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anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11

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and I'd like your views anybody else who

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wants to comment on whether you would

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put a priority on returning to the moon

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and why I think nASA has had that as a

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goal for at least a decade now is to

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return to the moon with the fiscal

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reality of the present economy we aren't

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future and that's why we're

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International Space Station and

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cooperating with the Russians to make

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that an affordable project but long

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range definitely we will be going back

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AP again for Colonel Henrik's I'm

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wondering if you're starting to feel

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more like a space salesman than an

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astronaut because of all the budget cuts

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to the program and when do when does

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talking about all this sort of stuff to

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people like us start to be intrusive to

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your job in orbit well the budget cuts

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aren't affecting this mission we're

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cedrus system and we were scheduled

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materialize as far as this becoming a

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generic or everyday activity I think

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that still years away but the research

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that were conducting now does have

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immediate benefit to researchers on the

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ground and the experiments that relating

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directly now include the bioreactor

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experiment and hercules which is a

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device that can geolocate images while

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is returned that's being generated now

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and how you'd feel if you would take

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such a thing would that be too much of a

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hardship with separation from your

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daughter and your family I taken a

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father like that the heartbeat I think a

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of us were the were the program is well

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looking forward to the years that we're

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effort as far as any of our families I

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think I speaks almost everybody on the

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crew that all our families are very

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supportive of what we do understand that

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we're here to do the job that we do and

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this is seth borenstein from the Orlando

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people who are in their early 40s and I

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guess you qualify as the oldest crew

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member have you noticed any vision

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deterioration and are those vision tests

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pretty easy or are they uncomfortable

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fluid shifting and changing the shape in

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we're not sure exactly which factors

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help determine that this is Jim Bankia

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them yet I think there's still a feeling

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was essentially over of course you're up

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there another week why are you still in

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space and which one of those secondaries

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that you're doing do you think offers

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the most practical and immediate benefit

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the reason that we're still up there

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space is the initial cost the big

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well stay up for a while and use a space

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and the weight that we have to do some

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of these experiments especially some of

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the experiments that couldn't justify

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the cost of a shuttle mission as Tom

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said we've got the crystal growth

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experiment which which was flown several

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times and and we are seeing some

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benefits with any if you're on type

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drugs which is going to help the common

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the future they're doing the NIH

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nervous system so we're doing a lawn out

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here and I think it's well worth the

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time spent up Pete call Terry with the

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West Kentucky news this for anyone who

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had a good window seat during the ascent

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condensation coming off the shuttle it

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look real spectacular from here how to

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look out of the overhead windows and I

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could see some of the plumes coming off

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state of lawson columbus dispatch for

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dr. Webber um as a skydiver are you

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looking for any chance to put on the

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suit and get outside and is that

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possible if the mission remains

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trouble-free do you have any influence

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on doing that kind of activity of course

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doc Pomus and myself would love to get

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outside and see what it's like out there

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but we'll only do that make it in the

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case of an equipment malfunction and

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none of us on board are hoping that that

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happened so maybe the next slide

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discovery stand by now for Louis PA oh

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good morning discovery this is luis PA

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oh how do you hear me come on Cleveland

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Ron Claire good morning this is Harry

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boomer from Cleveland television news

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channels 19 and 43 how are you this

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morning we're having a great day here

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and orbit our things and Cleveland a

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little hot but it's kind of nice how do

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you guys pull off getting an all Ohio

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crew up there well it's not Italian Ohio

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crew the governor helped make it in Ohio

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crew by christening Kevin kriegel as an

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honorary Buckeye it's quite by a

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coincidence the one thing it does

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influence it is the fact that Ohio has

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produced more astronauts than any other

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state and it was just by coincidence

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that four out of five of us claim Ohio

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yo Froelich from the Cleveland Plain

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Dealer for Mary Ellen Weber and Kevin

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kriegel but before you fly you here a

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lot before you fly you hear a lot from

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other astronauts about the experience of

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law on tune of being in space what are

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your sort of initial impressions on that

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what are you going to be telling other

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astronauts other future astronauts when

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you get back well now I have to go

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having gone through it I understand why

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everybody has said that is just

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spectacular and indescribable and it

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really is it's it's just an incredible

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feeling being on top of this rock and

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feeling doing the sheer power and force

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of it as far as the weightlessness it's

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again until you actually experience it

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words can't quite describe it so I have

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a few more days to work out how I'll

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explain that down to the folks to the

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ground this is puerile Wilkinson with WJ

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WTVA here in Cleveland I have a question

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for you i can remember back when men was

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trying to get to the moon when

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astronauts were trying to reach out and

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and just take the universe and bring it

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closer to earth are you something that

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same sort of excitement or has the

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excitement about dust they shuttles and

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mission to other planets died down a bit

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i think i speak for everyone we wouldn't

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be in this job if the excitement had

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died down we still think that we're on

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the frontier and part of building the

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future for us and going out to space

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with the space station back to the moon

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back to Mars it's it's a long haul and

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we're still real excited about being

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part of that this is steve green from

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3wd radio in Cleveland I got a question

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about music every morning that there's a

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mission with the spate any of the space

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shuttle so you guys wake up to music in

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the morning and being that you guys have

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mostly Ohio crew you've got your new

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york crew member as well how you know it

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seems like you've got the perfect

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promotional team for the Rock and Roll

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Hall

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bring over us what you got to say about

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the rock hall in Cleveland well as a

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matter of fact we are flying an item in

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our special flight data file for the

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Rock and Roll Hall of flame same and

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after the flight we plan on visiting

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Cleveland to help commemorate the grand

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opening and return that item hi this is

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jackal mclean from channel 5 right

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question is really basic what's it like

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to be up to space well it's a very

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pleasant experience to be here in

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microgravity it's physically effortless

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as you can see we're floating free here

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the only thing we're doing to making a

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position is flying our feet under

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something the experience of looking out

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the window is absolutely spectacular you

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cannot get enough of it even on a dark

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path with the Moodle at night that we

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are experiencing now we can see cloud

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tops you look down and you see how

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fragile our atmosphere is you realize

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that even you at the Lewis Research

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Center are traveling on a spaceship and

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it's the one way all shared called the

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planet Earth Harry boomer from channels

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19 and 43 again see you guys are having

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to try and scary yourselves there how

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difficult is it for you maintain the

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posture you have right now instead of

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floating around the cabin there it's

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pretty difficult we learned that

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yesterday during one of our events

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that's why the three of us in the back I

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thought against the wall secured by the

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sleeping bags that we use and Tom

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Mariona and foot restraints so the first

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couple days to get your rates down it's

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very easy to as somewhat get out of

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control particularly at the mid deck of

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the wide open area Carol Wilkinson was

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wjw tv8 again a question for the ladies

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on board do you think emissions like

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this are the pathway to us seeing more

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women in space

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more women as part of the space program

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and more women traveling in space in the

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future yes I think more and more women

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will be traveling in space to health

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careers in the background open as more

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and more women go into those kinds of

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fields and get the necessary education

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they will more and more will be selected

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as astronauts so I think the future is

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this is a jackal McLean against chap I

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you guys are in your fourth day right

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now how would you rate it so far is

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eight days too long to be up there or do

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was on a 15-day flight a year ago up in

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orbit on sts 65 and they keep us so busy

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pretty good workout we were all

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exhausted when we landed on that one and

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talking to other crew members and I

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thought with some Russians and everybody

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seems to agree about a seven or eight de

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mission such as we have here is just

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about perfect eat green from three w/e

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again you guys have had some troubles

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with woodpeckers on your way up are you

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looking forward to them when you get

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back and maybe will you bring a

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woodpecker Ricky in the future so as a

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matter of fact we do have a mascot on

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board and there's also one in Mission

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Control we realize that the Kennedy

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Space Center shares that territory with

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a bird sanctuary and the birds took

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their toll on this flight but again the

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troops there at the Kennedy Space Center

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did the correct thing and patch those up

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and got us off safely as far as they're

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looking forward to our return to Earth

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we're looking forward to going back to

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the Kennedy Space Center and thanking

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those thousands of people that have made

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this vehicle Wallace we have not had one

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anomaly on this flight its operating

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perfectly and whether they're having fun

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with the birds or not they're doing a

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this is Mission Control Houston this

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discovery go ahead Don Tom I'm at step 5

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on page 17 I just put the g3 plus

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cartridge into the TCPA and I got a

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message it says to replace with another

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cartridge it says analyzer interrupted

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use another cartridge code number eight

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the copy let us check sis Mission

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Control Houston this television shows

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the bioreactor development system of

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which shed on Thomas onboard discovery

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was just talking with Mission Control

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about that's one of the secondary

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experiments are currently on the lower

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deck of the spacecraft it does studies

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the growth of cell cultures in

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weightlessness I using a cylindrical

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vessel for their growth cell cultures I

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believe to be able to be grown night in

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a much more precise and the identical

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fashion in weightlessness said then can

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be performed in our gravity due to the

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fact that pain weightlessness they can

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be flown again in this grown in this

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cylindrical vessel with no pressure

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points I since they're floating in the

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middle and the rotating cylinder serves

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to provide nutrients constantly

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surrounding those samples currently

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Thomas is working to take a standard

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daily sample of the medium in the

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bioreactor development tet system that's

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this is Mission Control Houston this

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television view from discovery shows

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mission specialist Nancy Korea taking a

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microbial sample of water supply on

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board the spacecraft this experiment is

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being done as a method of evaluating us

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and surgeons really interested in this

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video and appreciates the time spent

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I use discovery now you should be seeing

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live downlink of BDS and we have that

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discovery looks fine this view shows the

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medium in the bioreactor development

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system the rotating cylinder that's uh

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being studied as a cell culture growth

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the device on board shuttle again this

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device allows a cell cultures to grow

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with no pressure points at in the

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weightlessness of orbit which cannot be

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discovery Houston teachers even now