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it's good to hear some really good music

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for a change well certainly is about a

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grand place as all thank you babe said

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it's one heck of a town sure is Sir it's

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I used to discovery with the internet

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and go ahead this is a question from

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castle in form of houston texas and she

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wanted to know whether the deployment of

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this teacher satellite would make the co

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a spa or eliminate it altogether the

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size of the zone of exclusion the

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satellite will be checked out over the

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next several months and then be

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positioned as they already spare this is

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the last of a series of teachers

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satellites to complete the current

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network and some of the original

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satellites are reaching the end of their

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expected lifetime therefore this will be

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put into a spare position and called

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this is Mission Control Houston the

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northern coast of Australia now coming

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center as the crew continues to step

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through its post sleep activities

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on that day night outside add a portion

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of Florida we did pick up the SLF and it

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coming across Mexico during the night we

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the BDS is made up of a device developed

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research also provides for gas and

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nutrient exchange for the cells the

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experiment and what we're seeing right

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now our colon cancer cells that are

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the vft or assuming some more video tape

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and we're with you in the mid deck Kevin

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USA this is Houston please call

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this is good day USA I'm Doug Stefan

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hello what mr. Kevin Pringle and have

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shuttle Discovery I was very exciting

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that let's find out as much as we can

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about Kevin because this is his first

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base like correct correct that's correct

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tell us about you Kevin okay myself I

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grew up on Long Island New York I was an

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air force officer for 12 years military

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was an instructor pilot no research

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pilot came an astronaut 1992 and of a

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training ever since and it's my first

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kids how long have you been training for

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this particular flight and in general

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how long have you been training for the

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started training about 10 months ago as

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one of the newer folks in the office

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that dreamed of being an astronaut when

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they were very little of course the

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original folks never could dream of

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being astronauts because they didn't

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old what is your specific mission Kevin

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that is the things that you're working

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have a pilot the back up to the

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commander my primary responsibilities to

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back up the commander

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entry in the take or take care of all

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the orbiter system I've also done some

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secondary experiments just before we

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experiment called hercules which is a

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the earth and flan and the sea now the

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things that you have to do i'm looking

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the Mission Control the things that you

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environment tell people I think some

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other people listen to this program are

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from these missions that are not well

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first day and that satellite is used for

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space communication network and it's the

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last of a series and that was a primary

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mission for flying but we had a lot of

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to the expense of getting the shuttle at

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space we have these smaller experiments

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growing living tissue and the hopes is

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replacement organs mints in the future

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will also have some crystal growth

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experiments that we're growing and we're

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able to grow bigger crystals that can be

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used for drugs to help out cancer

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research and help out patients that way

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to grow a micro capsules what's that use

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that perhaps in a shot that you can take

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structure which will help perhaps in

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people with osteoporosis so there's

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specialist on welcome to good day USA

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come on it's a pleasure to be here it's

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nice to have you here tell us a little

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about you and where you're from and the

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same sort of thing that kevin gave us i

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was born in 1955 in cleveland ohio i

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in physics went on the Cornell

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University in central New York and got

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my PhD in material science from a

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materials engineer crystallographer

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laboratories for six years in new jersey

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married and I have a five month old

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little boy whose home wait for me to get

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back congratulations have you as a

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matter of course or the other members of

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the crew had conversations with your

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family can you do that when you're in

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space yes we can we have one opportunity

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during the mission to have a private

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conference with our families I just had

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mine last night and i'll tell you

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brought a big smile to my face we've

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mission and then being up here for a

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home this makes me feel a little bit

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summer and how much different is the job

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this mission as Kevin mentioned our

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schools here and there in the country

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themselves get around and get your

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contact we will make contact with eight

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different schools from around the world

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we've taught to Argentina we talked to a

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school yesterday Kevin did up in

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Schenectady at the Schenectady Museum

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and as I said we have eight schools that

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we're talking with students from

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answering their questions and it's so

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much fun for us to share our enthusiasm

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with them and to try to get them

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motivated to learn more about science

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and math and maybe you know become

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future astronauts here we're talking a

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mission specialist Donald Thomas is on

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his second shuttle flight and Kevin

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creeglers on his first shuttle flight

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from discovery where exactly are you if

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you look out the window tell us where

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you want what you can see right now

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right now we're coming up over southern

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Florida just heading out over the

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Caribbean we go around the earth every

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90 minutes or so and we r 160 miles

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above the earth that's kind of a low

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actually no that's about our standard

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orbit is 160 we have gone down as low as

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around 105 do it some of the earth

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observations and we'll go up to as high

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as almost 300 to service the Hubble

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Space Telescope yeah I thought that the

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average was around 200 220 230 in there

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what differs explain to the audience

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what difference it makes whether you're

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at a hundred and sixty or where there

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were two hundred miles or I know the

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300-mile thing is for the things like

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the Hubble that are out there far but

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what different sensations and what can

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you see differently at 160 miles you

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can't see it 220 last summer I was at

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160 miles up for 14 days in the last day

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of our mission we dropped down to 135

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miles and that 25 mile difference was

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just spectacular the ground seems so

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much closer to us the detail that you

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can see I could see runways and airports

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and almost the markings the numbers on

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the runway from 135 miles up so the

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farther out you go you lose a little bit

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of detail on the ground but then again

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you gain the perspective the global

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perspective of the planet Earth you have

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brought some windex with you I don't

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know that you really did but what's the

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window experiment that I've been reading

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about well the window experiment back

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Nancy Perry is setting up we've already

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done one day to take today and we'll do

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another it's a look at the environment

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and spacer space another we're at

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actually does have some molecules out

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here and so we're looking at the

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interaction of the shuttle and the

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shuttle steps with the very same tenuous

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atmosphere that we have to try to

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understand it better from just a physics

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perspective but also on a practical

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perspective when we dock with me the

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Russian space station as we did earlier

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this year and when we dock with the

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International Space Station we want to

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know what kind of effects the plumes

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will have on that station and how we can

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protect against that you have a new

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engine in Discovery do you not we sure

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do have a black one engine it worked

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like a champ it had a nipple pump on it

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which brings down the wells from a

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couple of hundred to just a handful

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which anyone does any kind of

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maintenance knows that make it a

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more reliable system as far as the

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performance from our aspect it worked

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just perfect and we're looking forward

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to putting three of them on the show I

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guess in September all right can we go

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back and talk to Kevin for second

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actually I want to talk to the two of

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you together as you live closely in the

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environment you're five people distinct

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to have all different backgrounds have

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you become friends and do you become

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friends because of the work that you do

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together or do they actually put you

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together because you all seem to work

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well together well I think it's probably

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where the traits they try to do when

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they do the selection is folks that can

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work together well as a team if it is

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closed environment and we've been

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working well together for the last nine

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months I have to correct you know that

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the backgrounds aren't that day we have

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four people from ohio and up from New

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York so I'm the only one who has to

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really try to fit in that's right this

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was a so-called Ohio crew as I recall

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that's correct well we have stations all

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over ohio columbus Toledo Dayton

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Cincinnati and suburban Cleveland area

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that are hearing you right now so it

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should be like old home week what day

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are we in Kevin would show are we in the

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fifth or sixth day of the mission I only

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had to think about that because when you

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go through 16 sunrises and sunsets every

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day it gets kind of confusing but we're

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in the latest late morning of flight day

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6 okay so you have not only the windex

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operation scheduled today but you were

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talking about Hercules and the

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bioreactor demonstration systems do

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these continue every day like tomorrow

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and then the eighth day and so forth

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will you be working on all these things

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this correct will be kept busy the rest

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of the mission doing all the secondary

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experiments skinny as much stat as we

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can for the investigators and then the

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day before landing is tasked with

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basically tidying up put the way the

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experiments and get me over there ready

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to come home and so if I asked you to

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give us the things that that this this

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experience both gone and and Kevin this

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for me personally this is my second

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flight and it's a dream come true for me

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I've wanted to be an astronaut since I

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was about six years old so they have a

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little boy who dreamed to be living it

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now is just the best thing that can

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happen to you in life on a personal note

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what I'm taking away from this mission

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is working with these great depot on the

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FCS 70 crew he's our friendship so I'll

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have the rest of my life I know and the

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images that I have in my head right now

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of the planet Earth as we go around it

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when you're flying 160 miles above it in

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the shuttle you really get a perspective

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of the earth as a planet when you can

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look out and see the moon out there you

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can see the milky way the moon also so

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you really get a sense of the solar

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system here that we're in and as we fly

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over they you know the blue water of the

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planet Earth and look over the

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continents it's just it's a great

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perspective to bring back to the to the

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planet well we want to thank you

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gentlemen we've enjoyed this this has

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been a first on good day USA and I hope

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it will not be the last I hope that to

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both of you if you want to stay in space

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are able to do so Kevin kriegel

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astronaut Don Tomas enjoying the view

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and the work from discovery Houston good

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and we are with you in the mid deck ok

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so is actually pretty recorded we're

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short up to the flight deck ok this is

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Mission Control Houston we're expecting

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guests some video tape down like video

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of the window strike reported earlier

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apparently a micrometeoroid hit the

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corner one of the shuttle windows of

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course the daylight makes a little more

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dramatic than it really is so after this

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day lit and we took some under a

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copy Tom and can you gauge any kind of

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depth it looked like maybe a 30-second

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come an inch it's just tough to tell

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them because we can't get close to it

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either fact that's about the same angle

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you're seeing here that's as close as we

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can get Jaffe ms1 said he'd be glad to

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go check it from the outside and this is

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just to show you what it is the window

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houston we did have a slight delay get

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off the ground but once we got into all

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that we're ready to go right to wood and

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one of the first things that we found on

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orbit was an extra crew member that had

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come along and we heard that there was

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some relation to this crew member that

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was also participating in the control

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activities at the new FCC as you can see

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who's happy to come along and really

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have smile at pico and at ricoh the

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first sensation as you know is the

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relaxation 2g after three cheese's are

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happy to get out of the helmet it's more

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difficult for some than others but once

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out you're floating free and right after

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we get up on all of it it's really

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important to document the condition of

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the external tank and you can see this

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crew member is doing an excellent job of

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tracking the external tank as it falls

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back to earth to burn up in the

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atmosphere that's some particular

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think so I know Mark is about six

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Americans helping us for some of

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secondary extended sisters bah our

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experiments looking at mammalian

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development and developmental changes

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my reactor is another experiment that

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this remember was helping us out with

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and during this fight we managed to go

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some outstanding human cells you mr.

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issues and you can see this crew member

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about to take that scare all cell

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culture right now think it's always a

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good idea to learn a lot always go on

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aboard we were able to make a lot more

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sarax contacts at the show amateur radio

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experiment when which we're contacting a

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school around the world and talking with

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hundreds of students trying to get them

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enthusiastic about the space program and

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get up steer towards engineering and

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science field the next experiment you'll

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feel remember monitoring is the safety

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CT which is a protein crystal growth

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experiments growing shuffle soak off the

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energy rom which is man I die alone in I

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cancer-fighting judge really excited

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about the other crystal for going and

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hopefully will bring back some good

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science annex terminus of the immersive

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Alabama at Birmingham Michael capsules

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in space and experiment we're gonna

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activate tonight let it run overnight

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which will be producing some micro

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capsules of ampicillin and hydrate which

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is a drug for the took that we use for

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antibiotics see ft lb expand meant which

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is a space peel-off experiment or flying

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fish embryos in this case medaka fish

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and looking again at developmental pages

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seduced by microgravity and we've

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already been told they've been noticing

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significant changes between the ground

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control study embryos and ours on board

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carry extra crew member is doing the

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Hercules experiment which is a digital

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video camera used to geolocate dipper

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targets on the earth and water we've got

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some good of a spectral data and also

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some technical manic data looking at the

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earth

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on the other experiments also using a

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society on type camera as in Hercules is

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the window expert looking at the flow

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field with the particles around the

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orbiter which will help us understand

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physics here is low space orbit and also

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help us with documents for three

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stations said yes to that completes it

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down wait till we hope this draw some

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attention to the secretaries that we

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have on board and we did appreciate the

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help for six crew member in bringing all

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the benefits of the secretaries to light

550
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and if we have any more wood for Willis

551
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of that ventilator copy that discovery

552
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and it's obvious that with the high

553
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level of activity on board it was handy

554
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having that extra crew member to help

555
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out we also think that we understand now

556
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the alignment problems with Hercules and

557
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we'd like you to check that your extra

558
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crew member is not going outside we

559
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think that might explain that w16

560
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exactly at the w 6 thing we think was

561
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due this crew member and were also

562
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suspicious of him pecking at the power

563
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cords for the back of cleaner I think we