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good morning discovery that's exactly

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what we were going to say how about them

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Indians and we knew that would wake you

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this is Mission Control Houston wake-up

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music today for the crew of discovery

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was talkin tribe the song about the

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Cleveland Indians who are about 15 games

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ahead in their division at this point in

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the major league baseball season four of

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the members of the discovery crew are

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from Ohio and taking a lot of pride in

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discovery if you're not on the flight

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deck you've got a fantastic view of the

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Nile Delta the pyramids Cairo

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Suez Canal coming up you're right it is

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discovery Houston for Marielle and no

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and we're ready to do the event early if

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you are discovery discovery this is

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Houston are you ready for the event CNN

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this is Houston please call discovery

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for a voice check discovery CNN how do

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you hear me guys look good this morning

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we won we'll get started I'm gonna do a

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little tin second you know hello and who

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you are and then we'll just plunge in my

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order of battle here is to go

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Maryellen first and then Nancy and then

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Don and if that makes I'm gonna try to

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do it as three separate things so you

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guys don't have to play past the

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microphone in this delay you know during

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the interview where are you okay great I

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couldn't tell it doesn't look like the

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mid-deck I know and love it looks like

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something else behind you there great

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okay here we go I envy you you talked

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about envy and the mere gang geez I envy

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the discovery gang yeah okay we're gonna

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start with me Joe here we go we're

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joined by three mission specialists

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aboard the space shuttle Discovery

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orbiting more than a hundred fifty miles

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above the earth right now the team of

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scientists includes Mary Ellen Webber

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Nancy Curie and Don Thomas we're talking

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to them from the mid deck of the space

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shuttle this morning Mary Ellen let me

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start with you

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I'd like you to think back to launch day

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last week I know this was your first

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trip into space I want to know what was

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going through your mind as you left the

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earth for the first time and what it was

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like to experience weightlessness for

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the first time going through my mind was

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we're really going we're really going

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it's really happening and it was just

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and how long as I was preparing to talk

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to you this morning I was sitting at my

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computer typing out questions and I

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discovered the a key on my computer done

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work a few problems like that when

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you're up there I know I can take my

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computer to the computer guy here and he

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can fix it do you have somebody who can

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do minor repairs like that and if you

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I've been looking while we were

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preparing for the interview down here on

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earth a bunch of things that look like

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pictures through a microscope

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I'm not totally sure what you're doing

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and how it's going to help people down

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yeah alright would you pass the

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microphone over to Nancy for a minute

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Nancy I've I've been a private pilot for

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about three months now I've been

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training to do this for a long long time

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particularly in helicopters how is it

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different to be on the space shuttle

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compared to being in a helicopter or

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being in a fixed-wing is it a lot

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different in reality for the for the

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launch and in practice that you've done

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for the landing is it is it a lot

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different as a pilot to bring this thing

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down it would be to bring down a

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helicopter one of the things that NASA

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was trying to find out was how does this

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new improve main engine work I'm sure

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you couldn't tell it if it's and how it

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felt but could you see any difference on

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the meters that you were monitoring

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experiments onboard tell me what is most

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how do you think and how long do you

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think it will take for things that you

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were working on today to actually come

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into use particularly these medical

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things down here on earth when can I go

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to the hospital and get a micro

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encapsulated drug how's your vision and

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are there any other physical changes

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that you are poking you and your

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colleagues and prodding your bodies are

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different on this alright Mike over to

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Don Thomas if you will but you've been

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smiling through this whole thing and I

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hope you'll keep smiling as we talk here

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I want to find out about the experiments

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you're running you're known here on

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earth is the zookeeper in space how's it

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going with the with the live animals and

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the eggs and the embryos well as you

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know we have ten pregnant rats on board

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this is an experiment with the National

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Institute of Health that we're working

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in cooperation with them and the Ames

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Research Center and the investigation is

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focusing on looking at the muscular

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development and also the bone loss

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mechanisms in rodents that hopefully

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we'll be able to translate this over to

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humans on the earth it's particularly

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important for elderly people where you

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have osteoporosis a weakening of the

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bones if we can understand bone loss

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mechanisms

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space maybe we can understand why

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elderly people lose calcium and have

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weakening of the bones and able apply

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this to help many people back on earth

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yeah you're excited about this aren't

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you I'm pretty excited about it I love

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the research we're doing up here and you

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can't get a better laboratory to work

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you know or a greater group of people to

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work with and those associated with NASA

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here yes space programs getting a lot of

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publicity right now last this month

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docking mission with the mirror was

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pretty exciting what you were doing I

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imagine is just as exciting to you

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there's this Apollo 13 movie right now

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do you think of support for what you are

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doing in space growing back here on

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earth we have a amateur radio on board

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here and we've been going around the

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earth talking to many schools during the

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last five days and the kids are as

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enthusiastic today as I was when John

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Glenn first went up in 1962 so I really

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see being enthusiastic and these kids

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today are gonna grow up to be

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enthusiastic scientists engineers and

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carry our space program into the next

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century one of the most unusual things

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about this mission to me I think other

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people here on earth is that it came so

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soon after Atlantis landed just just a

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few days later did you have any

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apprehension that about the fact that

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you were going to go up so soon after

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another shuttle had been in orbit

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I had no apprehension whatsoever the

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same people that launched Apollo 11 26

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years ago yesterday I found at the cave

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the same caliber and we have the

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greatest group of people working at the

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Kennedy Space Center to get vehicles

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they got Atlantis on the ground after

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the 71 mission and within a few days we

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have another team getting us ready for

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launch so I think it's a tribute to the

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Kennedy Space Center and a great group

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of people down there that and their

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can-do attitude that we were able to

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launch successfully right on time yeah

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the past couple of weeks about the fact

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that I would be talking to you today and

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they said to be what we want to know

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about some of the weird things that you

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can do in space that you can't do on

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earth or that you can't do in space that

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you can do on earth is it true that you

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okay how about smell and taste and one

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of our Simon editors said how bad is the

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food up there the food is it's typical

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like camping food I've had better food

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in restaurants and I've had worse food

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that up here and it's good enough to get

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us through the mission some of the

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selections that we get to make I really

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enjoy other ones I'm not too wild about

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it's really an individual thing here as

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far as taste and smell goes some

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astronauts experience a blandness in

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space where they need spicier food but

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for myself the same foods that I enjoy

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in earth I enjoy you up here such as

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stadium mustard from Cleveland Ohio now

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while you guys have been up there in

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relative comfort there has been a

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monstrous heat wave down here on the

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earth it's been above a hundred degrees

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in the Midwest for a few days it's been

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near a hundred and over in the

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northeastern United States and you've

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been in space several times I know that

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if you get spare time you like to look

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out the window at the planet below does

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it look any different down here right

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now particularly in the u.s. Midwest and

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and southeast than it than it has on

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your previous trips with all this

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monstrous heat aboard sto 65 that was a

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15-day mission got to look out the

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window a lot and the cloud patterns have

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changed and some of the ocean currents

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are different but basically the planet

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looks you know very similar to what it

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did a year ago so there's nothing we can

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see up here that you know gives us an

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indication of why it's so hot but we're

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welcome to share our Houston weather

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with the rest of the country last

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question for any of you who want to take

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it what's the most amazing surprising

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thing that's happened to you on your

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the windows it is just incredible an

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amazing last night before going to bed

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the last thing we saw was a set and it

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was just spectacular words can't

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describe it

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alright thank you all three for joining

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us on CNN today Huston CNN that

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discovery Houston we're about a minute

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to the CEO II will pick you up again at

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now coming into view from Discovery is

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the Baja Peninsula the southern extrema

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screen is Miami so it seems in

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and now coming into Bui the Bahamas

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there the island of Andros

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this is Mission Control Houston this

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view from Discovery showing a tropical

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depression forming in the Pacific south

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of the tip of the Baja Peninsula this is

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and as-yet-unnamed storm just a tropical

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depression in its early stages again off

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discovery Houston we had about 10

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seconds of that inch cable now we have

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the picture again okay again we're

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pointing right there that's when we

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found pinched in the door in m57 alpha

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and the back cleaner stopped and that's

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vacuum cleaner going from the pantry

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food area to the WCS is when we found

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out it didn't work anymore as expected

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those are two of the places we've

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discovered on the water that also had

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some damage so we cut the water and the

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and do you need anything further they're

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using Kevin if you just tell us where

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that spliced section is in relation to

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the connector or cable and otherwise

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we've got a good video of it only one

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break in the wire correct that's correct

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we have about three where you see the

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four water's coming out that attaches to

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the vacuum cleaner and we have about

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three feet of water to the vacuum

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cleaner and then the rest of the water

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goes through the connector and discovery

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if you just hold this view understand

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this is a tape downlink we'd like to get

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a rotation of that spliced section so we