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cool the better has broken it is going

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away from it get it open

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the TV the TV is broken

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and Jeff we're tracking it with the

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radar and we do read zero tension inside

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always got the brake on and we don't see

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any other movement it's just laying

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inside the boom copy all Andy and stand

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by

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ok Indian we want to completely verify

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you have a visual on the satellite and

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the away from the shuttle we have an

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image from you you see the picture

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Hermitage now unfortunately in all the

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excitement somebody bumped the camera

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and we lost it ok the view that we had

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of it as it was drifting away and we got

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it for emitted and so before sunset

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yes sir well those are some tethered

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dynamics we did not want to see we have

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demonstrated that you can generate a lot

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of electricity with tether and

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fortunately we've also demonstrated that

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you can use cutters to launch a

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satellite at much higher orbit and phyto

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concurs that was one of our objectives

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two of our objectives at least in fact

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we can see it picked up about an 80 foot

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okay wedding and I guess as far as being

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again it looks like it's going in copy

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as for posing visually Roger we see it

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two minutes to the ceiling back with you

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that's a beautiful shot of an amazing

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commander Amy Witte from WHNT TV but

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have played the devil's advocate here

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how would you answer critics who say 443

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million dollars is a lot to lose and

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space research should be curved

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how would you respond to that I guess I

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would say that we need to take a hard

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doesn't have disappointments come along

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the way because every time we do

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something we learn something I don't

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think there's a research program around

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that doesn't have its types of failures

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and connect can have some of that same

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criticism applied to it but we can't

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learn unless you're trying so I have not

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lost money my excitement about what we

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try to do appear in space so have I lost

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mine yeah I know do I think it is it has

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really lost its parent I think it is a

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tremendously commendable and worthwhile

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goal for us to keep on doing this type

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of research up here we haven't seen the

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last of tethers I hope and we just need

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this is Marsha Dunn of The Associated

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Press for dr. Hoffman

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I'm warning if you could describe a

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little more your feelings of personal

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loss as you watch the tether cut and as

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you saw years and years of work just go

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out into nothingness we got about half

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way there in terms of being able to

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deploy the satellite and to just whet

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people's appetite for the incredible

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scientific investigations that could be

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covered

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scientists have lost a lot and I think

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we feel for them and we were really

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looking forward to demonstrating that we

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could actually retrieve a satellite from

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20 kilometres which of course is

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something that has never been done and

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we've put an incredible amount of work

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into that and those of us here will

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when you're working hard to try to

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develop new ideas new science new

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technology you have setbacks you know

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how many how many things did Thomas

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Edison try it before he finally found a

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filament to make an electric light bulb

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and I want to think back to SPF 46 when

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we obviously also had a disappointment

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and one question was asked to us about

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you know what the purpose is why we

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should keep doing this and at that time

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what I did was to take out something

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that we brought on board and that is a

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copy of a book by Arthur Clark this is a

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book where he describes a very

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futuristic view of an application of

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tethers where some day that maybe a

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tether system that would lead to a space

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elevator going from or normally up to

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geosynchronous orbit tethers have the

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potential to revolutionize a lot of ways

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we operate in space nobody said it's

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gonna be easy I would have hoped that

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after two flights we would have gotten a

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little farther than we got this time and

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I don't want to try to pretend that that

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we're not pretty bitterly disappointed

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but nevertheless you know human

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lifetimes are stored in the big scheme

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of things and hopefully these dreams

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will someday come true and our

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successors I hope will look back to the

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things that we've done and at least they

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can say that we hope to point the way

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and if that's so then I think they'll