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good morning endeavor welcome to flight

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morning good morning houston and we're

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ready to have some more fun

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yeah that was a great selection carl i

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really loved it

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houston looks like a nice night down

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now brent we have the weather

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radar and the visible satellite picture

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up on our screens right now and there is

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a front coming by we're clear now but we

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squall weather

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towards morning here

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glad you got a good look

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yeah tom we just passed right overhead

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and we could see that stuff out to the

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north and west

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we're just concerned that it goes

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through florida by the time you guys are

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whenever

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endeavor no reply 90 seconds to a tdrs

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and endeavor we have a great view of the

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those lacy webs across the states as we

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went over it look forward to getting a

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yeah you know you'll have a great time

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and a hands up your conversation with

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south africa is still on at one hour and

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okay we copy and we're setting up for

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thanks winston

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is uh koishi done with his exercise and

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yet if not i'll call him on the west

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i didn't have as much length as the that

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of imus and i cleaned them off

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okay thanks

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during your off-duty time did you get to

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yes we demonstrated a very famous uh go

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play in a novel of a noble award

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dan is a good player and we really

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the game

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well actually uh

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dan gave me this a good part

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i was playing the person who who won the

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game so i was supposed to be one but

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it took so long and we didn't come to

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the uh

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the end of the game

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okay we're going lost here you sure have

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a lot to space a lot of territory play

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never houston are you ready to talk to

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johannesburg south africa

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yes sir we sure are sorry

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okay here they come johannesburg this is

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another this is johannesburg how do you

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jonasberg we read you loud and clear

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welcome aboard the space shuttle

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endeavour

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ryan winston

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thank you so much giving us a few

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minutes to talk to you we really

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appreciate it

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this is teddy school in south africa we

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have some students from pro tech who

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have some fascinating questions for you

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and we're going to go to our first

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student who is sashim over to you sasha

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hi captain

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my name is sachin i'm from kempton park

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we are students of pro-tech and we

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really consider this a great privilege

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because this is really a once in a

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lifetime opportunity

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and my question to you is how long have

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you been in space and when can we expect

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well actually just past the seven day

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mark in space we've been up for uh just

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seven days and one hour right now

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and we're going to be up here for about

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our next question comes from a young

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lady imalda i hope to you melda hi this

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have have been a navy pilot most of my

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adult life and i chose to become an

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astronaut because i thought that would

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be a nice next step a nice next

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challenge for me in the work that i was

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already doing in aviation and science

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first flight i haven't regretted that

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decision at all this has been a

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tremendous experience and i wish you all

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could be here with me and share it's

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in koichi good

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our next question will come from ashley

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yeah i'm actually from sorento

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i heard that i had rumors about like are

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you going to land on math soon is it

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ashley went into know that about mars

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okay you want to know if we're going to

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land on mars soon well i have to answer

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however we at nasa do

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have plans and work

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long-term plans at work to go to mars i

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think probably the next big step will be

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to go back to the moon as you know we

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walked on the moon

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about 25 26 years ago the next big step

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would go back to the moon and then

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hopefully from there we'll go on to mars

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but i don't think that's going to happen

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the time you get to be my age and a

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flying space maybe you'll be one of the

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thanks so much gentlemen our next

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about preparation mentally and

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physically or what you experienced in

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space where you prepared for it

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possibly could have been the training we

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have is very very excellent but of

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course we have no way of truly

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simulating zero g the only way to

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experience it is to come up here and uh

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chow have flown before but the other

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four of us were brand new but you'd be

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amazed at how quickly your body adapts i

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but i was not ill at all and we all feel

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great we're having just a wonderful time

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konnichiwa

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koichi wakata i hope i got that right

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thanks for taking the time to talk to us

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we've got a young gentleman here by the

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name of sam who who really feels that

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you gentlemen are a great role model for

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him um and he's got a question for you

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i just wanted to know um when you're

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viewing the earth from space it doesn't

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i was very surprised to to see my body's

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adaptation into this microgravity uh so

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and uh we are feeling very good and we

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are doing uh our job in here and uh it's

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um our next question comes from another

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one of our students it's your son over

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space exploration will benefit us in the

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space would benefit us in the future is

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um i'd like to know how space

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exploration will benefit us on earth and

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that we consider all the time because

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everything that we do has to have a

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purpose and that purpose is generally to

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better some portion of our lives on

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earth that turns out we can come to

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space and do uh lots of lots of things

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we can do that we cannot do on earth

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we can do medical experiments up here we

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can perhaps invent new drugs to combat

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diseases uh we may be able to grow new

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crystals to be able to run faster

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computers uh though the list is endless

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for many many uh hours about how space

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can benefit but it's not limited to any

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one area it really spans uh every part

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of the everyday life on earth and we

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astronaut scots um we understand that

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you you have three objectives on this

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mission one of them being to retrieve a

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japanese communication satellite um we

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one of our students in connection with

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okay um i dr scott and his crew

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my name is sean i like to know what's

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the purpose of your mission

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are you absolutely right they we had

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several uh main objectives on this

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mission and uh one was which to uh

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retrieve the japanese satellite space

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retrieve a satellite called the host

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oast satellite and the way that we went

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rendezvous and the rendezvous

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involved basic orbital mechanics in

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out of the earth's radius of vector

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satellite we opened up the payload bay

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doors and koichi wakata here on my

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operated the robot arm to reach out and

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grapple the satellites and burst them

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both inside the payload bay now that's a

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very quick and simple explanation of a

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task but it was it's really really

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fascinating to participate in it really

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to see the crew operate as a single unit

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was great we had myself sending commands

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to the satellite through the computer uh

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commander brian duffy was actually

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flying the vehicle actually it was hands

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on the stick and throttle flying when he

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koichi weeps out with the robot arm and

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brought you into the bay that really was

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behold even for those of us who were

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to find out about the evas otherwise

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known as spacewalks could you tell us

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more about the spacewalks um if you have

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any plan if you've done any yet

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leroy chow and dr dan barry the second

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participated on and dr chow participated

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on that one with me the purpose of these

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to test out uh equipment and structures

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use in building the international space

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station the second purpose was to test

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extra vehicular mobility in our

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spacesuits and i guess that was the

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highlight of my space space walk even

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though it was a very busy six and a half

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hours of space walking the most

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the most cold environment that we could

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achieve and i activated the thermal uh

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the heating units on my suit to see

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whether or not they would keep me warm

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and i'm happy to report that they they

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worked very very well i

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never once fell uncomfortable out there

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in the coal of space so anyway we've had

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two evas and uh i just enjoyed that i

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wouldn't trade that experience for

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anything else in the world it was

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absolutely absolutely incredible visuals

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left sir our next question is for

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astronauts uh were carson it comes from

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my name's karen and i'd like to know

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what is wrong with the satellite that

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this satellite called

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ffu space fly unit was launched by a

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japanese rocket back in march of last

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year and it has been conducting various

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scientific researches such as material

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processing astronomical observation and

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systems which will be used in the space

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station alpha which will start its

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assembly next year

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and they have been conducting uh very

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successful experiments and we

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successfully retrieved the satellite and

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after we go back home on the earth the

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japanese engineers and scientists will

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gather a lot of

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gentlemen our next question comes from

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in terms of japanese us relations

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what does this mission hold what does it

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hope to improve what what what in terms

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of the us japanese relations the joint

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mission are we going to see more joint

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mission in space

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and what what are the immediate benefits

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konichiwa it's a very good question

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and this successful retrieval of the

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space flight unit was achieved because

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we had a very good coordination and

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cooperation between

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uh the mission control center in nasa in

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houston and also sfu's mission control

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center in japan

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and we showed a perfect teamwork during

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this retrieval together with the crew

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members here

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and this is one of the very good

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examples of international cooperation

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and i think international cooperation is

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the most important thing to proceed on

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to further frontier in space

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and both united states and japan are

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participating in the international space

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station app program which will start its

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assembly as i told you last next next

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i think this is a very key

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element of the future in space program

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how far is the reality of an actual

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space station where

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different countries will be involved is

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it still in the in the books or is it

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how far is it going to be to be a

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reality that is the us japan russia

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the involvement of

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countries in space establishing an

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okay this international space station

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will start its assembly next year late

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next year and the participants are

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united states canada europe japan and

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also russia

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do you hope to invite us sometime in the

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future

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such as south africa

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if we become involved in the space camp

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when i was a when i was five years old i

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saw the apollo luna landing and for me

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was just a dream at the time but now the

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world is changing and i think it's it's

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very uh i feel very happy that i'm

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involved in this space program and i

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feel and i hope that the many more

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people from around the world will be

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able to proceed participate in this

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activity in space

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i regard so especially

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thank you very much our next question

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comes from sashin

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and it's um for you astronaut brian

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duffy

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y'all said that the last

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spacewalk was 25 years ago this walk was

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before y'all

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why has it been so long since the next

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space mission or next since this moon

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yeah the uh the last moonwalk was uh was

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approximately 25 years ago that's right

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and um it turned out that the space

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program of the united states um

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after that time after we had been to the

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to the moon a number of times it

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continued on to the next step

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of

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space exploration and that was to create

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a vehicle that could regularly

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exit the earth's atmosphere and make it

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to space to carry cargo and people into

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space and be able to do it easily be

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able to go up and to be able to come

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down

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so they the united states set out to

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build the first reusable space vehicle

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and that's the space shuttle which

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we're aboard

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right now as we speak

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so we did need to continue going back to

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the moon we could have and we perhaps we

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have a lot to learn yet however at the

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time when they made that decision

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back in the 1970s their decision was to

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build a reusable vehicle that we could

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get to space and back regularly so

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that's where we are today we have a

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great future ahead of us we have a lot

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of great things to do we really do look

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forward to going back to the moon we do

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look forward to going to mars we i don't

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think they're that far away

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this is scott rudelsberger in washington

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commander duffy uh thank you very much

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as well as winston scott and koichi

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wakata for joining us today

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and also thank you to uh certainly our

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pleasure thank you for coming aboard and

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in johannesburg houston thank you very

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much for sharing a space flight

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experience

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with us endeavors approaching hawaii at

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this time but in

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about 45 minutes at 26 after the hour

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they will be above johannesburg

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it'll be in the daylight you will not be

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able to see them but they will sure

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appreciate the view of your beautiful