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good evening we begin NASA television

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coverage of mission STS 76 here at the

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John F Kennedy Space Center in Florida

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we're just hours away from NASA's 76

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space shuttle launch and the 16th flight

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of the orbiter Atlantis there's a crew

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of six astronauts getting ready to

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launch aboard the shuttle Atlantis this

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morning liftoff is planned at 3:13 a.m.

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Eastern Time that's the opening of a

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7-minute launch window the window

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extends until 3:20 a.m. Eastern Time the

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weather conditions are very favorable

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for a liftoff we've got a 90 percent

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chance of having acceptable conditions

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for a launch the flight crew is

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continuing to get ready over in their

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crew quarters at the operations and

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check-out building while the launch team

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here at KSC in the front room is

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preparing the vehicle and monitoring

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systems and we do have two crews out of

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the pad right now one is in the white

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room and inside the vehicle crew module

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getting things set up and ready the

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other is the final inspection team

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making an assessment of the vehicle and

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looking at temperatures and assessing

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we do have live pictures of the flight

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crew cat mission specialist Linda Godwin

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she'll be one of the spacewalkers on

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and commander or kevin chilton Tilton

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will be guiding the shuttle Atlantis to

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a smooth docking mission specialist

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Shannon lucid getting ready to begin her

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and mission specialist rich Clifford

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who's also serving as the flight

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engineer for the mission and will be

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and the crew waving for the camera

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like we're ready to go they've been up

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since 4:30 p.m.

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they'll be getting into the launch and

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we're currently get some live coverage

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of the final inspection team walking

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around on the top of the the mobile

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launcher platform just looking at the

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aft end of the solid rocket boosters one

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of the team members just passed team is

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composed of eight members representing

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the NASA and contractor team they use a

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portable infrared scanner also they take

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close-up photo documentation of the

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cryogenic surfaces and doing a lot of

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data collection to correlate the data

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we're standing by to get live coverage

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of the STS 76 astronauts as they get

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into their launch and entry suits and we

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do have coverage we've got commander or

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kevin chilton making his third flight

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today

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just completed the weather briefing with

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flight directors in Houston and the

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weather coordinators they're going

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through the traditional suit up being

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assisted with the bulky suit Chilton

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will be the third little dock with the

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Russian space station the third to do

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that got pilot Richard Searfoss making

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his second flight he's known as the

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rendezvous expert and will be

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responsible for the undocking of the MIR

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sir Frost will be assisting children at

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the flight controls in the crew cabin of

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mission specialist Ron Sega he's the

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payload commander for this mission

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making his second flight he's very

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familiar with the United States Russian

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cooperative space effort having spent

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several months in Russia serving as

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NASA's Operations Director at the

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Gagarin cosmonaut training center in

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across the room the rest of the crew

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members are getting assisted with

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equipment they'll be taking a board

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mission specialist Shannon lucid

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she's got flying for the five the fifth

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time today it's the first American woman

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to be launched aboard the the MIR

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station she'll be staying aboard the MIR

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for four and a half months as soon as

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she arrives on the MIR station she will

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become part of that team she'll be

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staying on Mir for about a hundred and

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forty three days until August conducting

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long-duration space research mission

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specialist rich Clifford he's also

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serving as the flight engineer and will

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be one of the crew members to make a

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spacewalk spacewalk will occur on flight

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day six he's also gonna be responsible

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for the space vision system and will be

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helping transferal supplies and

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equipment over to the MIR station also

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he'll be assisting the commander and

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pilot with asset and reentry checklists

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and in monitoring vehicle systems as the

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flight engineer mission specialist Linda

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Godwin she's making her third flight

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today she's going to join rich Clifford

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in the spacewalk on flight day six where

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they'll be attaching the four

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experiments to the mirrored docking

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we've got the STS 76 crewmembers walking

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down the hall at the portions in

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check-out building crew getting ready

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for their nine-day flight mission

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specialist Shannon lucid getting ready

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for the first flight day staying in

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space for about four and a half months

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employees wishing the crew well on their

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trip and here we have the crew coming

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seventy-six crew is now aboard the

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astronaut van Bob Cabana

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followed the crew into the van he'll be

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getting out at the launch complex 39

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area he is going to be in the weather

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reconnaissance aircraft that will be

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please step 542

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this is shuttle launch control just past

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the t-minus two hour and Counting mark

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in our countdown for mission STS 76 as

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we count down to a 3-13 a.m. launched

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this morning and mission specialist

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Shannon lucid sitting at the hatch

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wedding her turn to climb aboard the

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however system services and ready to

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dr. Anthony go ahead box team is ready

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copy that

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we've just heard shuttle launch director

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Jim Harrington complete the poll giving

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the final clear for the launch of the

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looking for an on-time launch of

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Atlantis at 3:13 am counting down to the

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final nine minutes before the launch of

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pilots air Frost will flip switches in

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the crew module to directly connect the

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three fuel cells to the essential power

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got a glimpse of commander kevin chilton

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waving as the as the access arm was

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being retracted away crew now ready to

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go as we countdown the final seven

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a profile test and the orbiter error

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services has started the flight control

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surfaces are being moved through a

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pre-programmed pattern to verify they

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are ready for launch next the main

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engines will begin build in position for

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Hey look what hydrogen tanks now being

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pressurized for flight all systems are

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go for launch at this time just a few

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minutes away from the sixteenth voyage

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the gaseous oxygen vent hood is being

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retracted away from the top of the

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trumpeter after that ban price

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kulookakoo close and lock your visors

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8802 Pro and this time for this

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experiment six to wake up the state

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Lance will be lost on a northerly

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trajectory inclined 51.6 degrees to the

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we have a go for engine start

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booster ignition and liftoff

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placing Atlanta from the proper heading

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engines are travelling back now nothing

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to ease the buildup of aerodynamic loads

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on the vehicle as Atlantis continues to

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accelerate rapidly through the dense

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lower altitudes traveling now over 650

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miles per hour time 48 seconds systems

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are performing well Atlantis is now

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easing through the period of maximum

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and the engines were following back up

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atlantis go at throttle up fire engines

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are now running at full status systems

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with the funding well i was the tutors

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now at sixty two thousand feet - a

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sighs rocket booster chamber pressures

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beginning to pay laughs signaling the

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the controller sees a good separation

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Atlantis is now flying free powered by

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ozone main engines second stage guidance

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is now in effect altitude now is one

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hundred seventy eight thousand feet

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downrange distance 38 miles