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mr golden uh columbia is ready go ahead

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what are you doing with this atomic

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oxygen experiment i noticed that you're

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going to be doing an atomic oxygen

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experiment before you reel in the wake

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satellite and do a free flyer activation

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hanging out

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on the end of the arm at a certain angle

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which will let the ram uh atomic oxygen

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impinge upon the substrates

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and that is a way of uh

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it's a way of almost like a micro lathe

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i see i see

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however how much more work do you have i

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i guess you folks want to stay up an

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extra day to make up for the day that

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you're reading your mind sir um

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we've got quite a bit more work to do

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two more evas two ebas as you know on

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flight days 10 and 12 and then we have

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to retrieve orpheus spas on

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flight day 14 as it's currently planned

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and plenty of other science that's in

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the mid deck

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on columbia that we'll be working uh in

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the hours in between those activities

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you know i just noticed uh uh looking at

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the schedule while we'll all be eating

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turkey and relaxing on thanksgiving

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tammy and tom will be doing the space

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at least you'll get a chance to work off

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your holiday meal what do you plan to

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mr gold mrs tom jones the

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ms2 aboard and we'll be hitting the deck

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running that morning when we wake up on

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eva day on thanksgiving and so we'll

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jump right into our eva uh

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uh underwear if you will and get right

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into the space you check out we'll have

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a breakfast a quick one before we get

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and when we get back inside believe me

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uh we'll be hungry for that thanksgiving

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turkey we've got some

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dinners

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uh that we'll be uh digging into right

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after i get out get that helmet off when

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they come back in from the eva so i'll

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be hungry and we'll all be uh i think

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anxious to have a meal together after

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you didn't make it sound too appetizing

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one has to make do with the resources at

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hey story i tell you uh we're all very

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i think that what you're showing is

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it is not

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a chronological age that counts

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it's what's in your heart your mind and

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and you're doing a terrific job up there

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you're setting the record for the oldest

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astronaut in space

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and i i think this is just wonderful i i

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i congratulate you and uh i stand in awe

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thank you very much sir it's been a

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incredible privilege and experience to

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have been able to follow my calling for

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i think that's the important thing uh

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it's not just in a mold although in my

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important thing though is that i have

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had the opportunity to follow my calling

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you know one other thing that we noticed

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that uh both you and tammy

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are joining the thousand hour club in

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and uh this is another notable

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and again i stand in awe and i i gotta

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say i'm a little bit jealous i'd like to

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get just two hours in space but it

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doesn't look like it's going to happen

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hi mr gold and i i think that your

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feelings are shared by a lot of people

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on the ground we wish

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this opportunity was widely available to

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everyone i hope that's coming in the

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few years with uh commercialization of

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space maybe even some tourism but i'll

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tell you the two hours that you should

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pick to have in space and not the first

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two hours you should choose ones on

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about flight day five and everyone's

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feeling terrific and

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you all look terrific

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keep it safe

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we're very very very proud of you i

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think this is just a wonderful mission

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you look very relaxed

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and i'll be watching you on nasa tv over

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the holidays and when you eat the turkey

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uh i'll recognize what you're doing

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you're wonderful you're the america's

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thanks for the kind words mr goldman and

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the next step in columbia's mission is a

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spacewalk scheduled for thanksgiving day

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tamara jernigan will spend six hours

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of construction on an international

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space station just one year away nasa is

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anxious to learn as much as possible

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about zero gravity working conditions

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joining us this morning from shuttle

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columbia are three nasa crew members

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they are pilot kent rominger commander

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story musgrave gentlemen good morning

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cockrell all the delicate maneuvering

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retrieval takes time as we have seen in

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facility satellite early to avoid a

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it the two satellites were about 14

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inaccuracies and in our sensors or

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anything other going wrong we should

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story musgrave could you tell us a

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shield what it does and how we will

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as perfect as possible semiconductors

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very state-of-the-art uh exploration

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uh pilot kent rominger the orpheus

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telescope which has also been deployed

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uv and it's really there to study not

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the history of where the world came from

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uh curiosity question for anyone who

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camera relative to the camera but the

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shuttle might be upside down relative to

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with a totally open mind to go into

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space realizing you've been created and

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of environment and i think an openness

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that perceived down direction in any

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to expect some kind of illusions where

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cardiovascular system then you're going

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absolutely none and i think you said it

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exactly right it has been a glorious

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the important thing is i've had the

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privilege an opportunity to follow what

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assignment to another mission um

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medically physically ability perform i

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could go on and do more but it may be

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the right decision at the right time

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they and other people do know that i'm

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unable to walk away from this kind of

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thing i still love it too much i would

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keep on doing it forever until someone

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were to tell me it's about that time

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and so there are aspects such as that uh

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many people as you can i've had a

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good missions

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and i've run a i've run a wonderful race

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but there are people waiting for the

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baton you also want to be sure that you

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leave this kind of job when you're at

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your peak and i consider the last

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initial hubble repair mission in this

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there are factors in the entire equation

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which which maybe would support this

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decision

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career the important thing is that