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good morning 81 looking forward to

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i was just about to say that good

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and actually it's chivas assembly

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atlantis houston we copy

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hi chris

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john looks like the foot switch is

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like a charm for a simian like me

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space have atlantis for biorack isozyme

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nine green pistons on my mark

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three two

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wait copy

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houston atlantis for the internet

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go ahead

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now this question was from jeff fox in

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buffalo grove illinois and he'd like to

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know what kind of temporary data storage

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devices do we have on board

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and jeff we actually have just about

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every kind of data storage device on

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board atlantis

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we have tape drives in the orbiter we

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have floppy disk drives we use in our

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portable computers as well as hard

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drives

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and some cd-roms so we use just about

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everything that one might use on planet

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and a lot of flight data file too we

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minus houston bakes we're in the hab

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banks has begun the protocol and is at

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roger we're about to lose the tv uh

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great work everybody it was a long and

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difficult road to get that thing rolling

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that answers the question thank you

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chris

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copy dance

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down in the mid deck of atlantis

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commander mike baker swaps uh places

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with uh jerry lenninger the soon to be

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mir 22 crew member

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lenninger now will take a shot at the

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treadmill vibration isolation system uh

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he then will yield his place on the

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treadmill to pilot brent jett

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as all three uh attempt to take a run

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for brief periods of time

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to collect as much data as possible in

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mike

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first of all i want to talk to you about

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the smoothness of this mission we all

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watch the countdown together uh

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ground-based managers say it's never

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been this smooth before i hope it

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doesn't jinx you to talk about it so

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what do you attribute the uh

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remarkable smoothness and success of

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i think we were also a little bit

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surprised it was a great countdown

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no problems whatsoever during ascent and

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i mean the only thing i can think of is

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that there this is an airplane and the

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more you fly them the better they work

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could well so if we keep flying atlantis

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like we've been doing hopefully it'll

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still uh keep working better and better

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yeah jerry let me uh let me talk to you

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for a couple of minutes you're about to

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do something that's only been done by

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three other americans live away from the

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earth on another country spaceship for a

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long period of time what has been the

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hardest part of getting ready for this

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i it's been actually a very good

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experience i don't know if i could say

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one hard thing russian language is a

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tough language so that's a barrier to

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some degree uh but we had a great

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reception my wife and uh one-year-old

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son were over in russia for about a year

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and i've been doing solid space training

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and i love training so it's been a good

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experience and nothing really too hard

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about it

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you think life on earth jerry is going

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to be better because of what you're

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doing in space between now and the end

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i i think uh you know it's a bunch of

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incremental steps and we kind of lose

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sight

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when you're in the middle of it you see

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these small increments and they just

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kind of blend together and it it's uh

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you know for example this flight they

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say well you already did that on 79 but

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uh when you step back and uh take a look

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at it uh

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and think maybe five years ago and look

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forward you never believe that we'd be

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flying up to a space station docking you

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know mike making it

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kind of look like a routine thing even

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though of course it isn't so uh

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i think we get

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little by little we're making progress

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we're moving forward uh we're making the

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world i think a better place for our for

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our children as we keep pushing the uh

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it is at the uh the launch

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of sts-81 on sunday morning

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and i was there with general glashcloth

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and valerie rieumann

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and they told me the russians are really

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happy with the arrangement on your

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flight and

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they thought you were doing just a super

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job up there and they're very proud to

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well thank you very much i've been uh

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very happy to work with valerie and

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sasha i think