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houston columbia for rendezvous

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go ahead for a round of it

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bill we've been talking over the

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situation

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here with uh possible contingency

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rendezvous today

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and um also been noting how well the

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science is going with wake shield

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and we'd like to offer that um

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during the previous five days of this

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fight we've been getting excellent rest

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and

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towards the end of the day

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if it comes down to it and we do need to

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rendezvous with wake shield today the

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crew is ready and willing to stay up

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almost as late as you'd like

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to make that happen as late as possible

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so that

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wakes you can get more of its mission

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that's that's super taco and we'll uh

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we'll throw that into the equation um

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right now we're we're developing uh some

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criteria uh that will apply that we will

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apply at around the time of the nc 11

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and basically if it just gives us

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confidence

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that

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distance between wake shield and spas

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that's going to be

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be our desire to

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do exactly what uh what you said and

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let's try to get all the wake shield

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yeah we certainly hope we can do the

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rendezvous on schedule tomorrow um just

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wanted to let you know we if it has to

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be today we can do it as late today as

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as possible to make it better

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and uh pass our regards on to mr britt's

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hope he's

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having a good time doing this analysis

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columbia houston with some words on the

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ready to copy mark

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yes taco as you know fido has been

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taking in some c-band radar tracking

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data on spas for the last few revs

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and the

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the news is encouraging the separation

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appears to be growing uh

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for the range at ti at the nominal ti

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it's now 12.1 if we assume a worst case

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k con of 1.1 so right now it looks as

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though we're going to be doing a nominal

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retrieve for wake shield

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the only question in our mind is whether

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or not

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we'll continue to keep spas in mind drag

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attitude for a little while longer that

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is under discussion at this point

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with respect to wake shield retrieve we

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will be retrieving it two orbits early

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and we will be going with the eight mile

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okay uh we copy all the words on the big

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picture sure hope it works out that way

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and that we can keep

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both satellites pumping out their

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science

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with the two revs early

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in columbia for taco

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that's affirmative the plan is for you

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to go to bed an hour earlier and to get

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okay we understand

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we'll start with you dr musgrave how

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serious are those particle dings in the

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jim they are very very small

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hits

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would estimate uh

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oh no more than uh depth of 1 32nd of an

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inch and that's just of course in the

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outer pane

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i understand you almost had a super ding

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with that 4 600 pound super conductor

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growing satellite what happened was that

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a case of a thruster malfunctioning or

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no what really happened was when we

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released the wake shield we waited uh

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at least a minute to verify that its

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attitude control system was functioning

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normally and that took a little bit

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longer than expected to verify that the

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wake shield was controlling its attitude

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properly and while we were waiting uh it

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was drifting ever so slightly towards us

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probably due to

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and part of when we moved the robot arm

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away from the satellite and so that

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small closure rate if we allowed it to

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drift for minutes would have carried it

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closer to the columbia than we were

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comfortable with

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but in the event we started the wake

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shield zone thruster and that carried a

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clear of our cockpit and of course at

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any time we could have moved columbia

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out of the way had we thought there was

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a real collision hazard but we didn't

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want to disturb

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contamination free

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wake side of the satellite which was

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going to conduct our science over the

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next few days so we tried to hold off

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any thruster firings and that's what we

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were able to do was let it drift off

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without any movement by the columbia at

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if my congressman had his way we would

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have no more manned space flight what

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are some of the latest and greatest

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benefits that i can educate him about to

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well i like to talk about the wake

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shield facility that's trailing us now

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by about 20 nautical miles it's our uh

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prototype chip manufacturing facility

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maybe it's the wave of things to come in

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space where we'll actually use the

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resources in space like the pure vacuum

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generated by the wick shield to

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manufacture either high quality

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electronic components like this example

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manufactured product like biomedical

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supplies medicines or pharmaceuticals

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that would actually directly be sold on

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earth and we'd actually produce them in

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space make money up there make a profit

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and that of course that would expand our

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activity in space so this is the way to

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go in space exploration is to find a way

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to use the spaces space's own resources

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to benefit us back on earth and that's

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the first step that we're taking here

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with the wakefield experiment but uh

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does ham radio still play a part in

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emissions and if so is it um

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a vital part or is it just a kind of a

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51 f which was close to 11 or 12 years

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i think it plays on two roles it

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communicates what space is all about it

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lets people

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vicariously live with his face it lets

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people come on board with us

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it's also a very valid way of

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communications

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uh there are times when i've been a

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capsule communicator in mission control

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and we had long losses from the

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satellite we communicate with and we

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have actually gone up to the shuttle

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through a ham radio operator i think

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it's an integral part of the electronic

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net that we are building you can see the

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computers and you can see uh the

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camcorders which are bringing you

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information maybe in the background you

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can see all the wires i think ham radio

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is part of the integral information that

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which we are bringing into the shuttle

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which uh and it's a way of bringing a 25

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year old technology into this century

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senator and former astronaut john glenn

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has volunteered to do geriatric

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experiments in space although you're at

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you be ever interested in that dr

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what i wanted to ask do you do any type

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simulations or experiments on the ground

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or what possibly could go wrong or do

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you just keep your focus on your

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a good question we spent

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about nine months training for this

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flight all five of us on the crew and we

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trained intensively over the last few

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months especially to handle any kind of

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emergency especially during the critical

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phases of launch

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and entry and we often joke once we

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arrive in space when things are going so

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lot of our emergency procedures training

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seems to have been wasted because we

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arrive in space here and never have to

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use all that training that we've uh

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really uh that's a necessary uh part of

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training for space flight you've got to

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be ready just in case something does go

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wrong and we view it as an investment in

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our own safety and our own success on

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this mission i was calling for uh ken

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cockrell my brother oh my goodness this

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is ken cockrell's brother yeah this is

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uh dr jones and dr musgrave to be a part

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of this but i suspect they could relay a

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message okay oh my what do we have here

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i see on the screen here another person

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but uh go ahead with your questions i

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just heard about it on the radio the

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other day and i thought well i'd give it

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just wanted to relay what uh miriam

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though okay go ahead i wanted to know if

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payload 1 up here of course the command

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the ops concept for signs over here got

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the computer down here is uh

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back in here i've got all the updates

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tips and i got my payload system

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that's the way uh columbia's been

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spies uv observatory complement other

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atmosphere to look at ultraviolet light

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objects that way and also the

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instruments on ortho spas have a finer

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fingerprint of the object they're

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spectrum is much more well defined in

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or fingerprint and thus understand the

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physics and the composition of the

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object that we're looking at thanks for

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your question

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dave also had another question and that

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was what role will the space station's

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robot r play in the assembly of the

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international space station and at what

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stage will they be operational

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well dave um the rms is going to play a

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critical role in assembling the space

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station in fact we um hope to fly the

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first space station flight the end of

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next year in which we will attach the

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fgb to the node

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on flight assembly flight 2a thank you