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i think i'm gonna be sad i think

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she's got a ticket

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that's living with me

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she would never be free

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she's

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atlantis mayor houston we're sure john

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has his ticket for the ride home good

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good morning houston i'm sure john's

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space have atlantis fo 11 alpha

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is complete step 10 is complete

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we copy jeff and while you're there if

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you could give us

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some close-up macro

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video of gravit 3 and gravit 4 the pi

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would like to see

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there i would like

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on the space

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station meal and what's your main task

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the main purpose of our fight was to

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pick up john blaha

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and

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deliver

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jerry lenninger to space station mir and

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of course in the process of transfer

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their experiments would take john

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some of john's experiments home and all

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of his results

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we're dropping off some experiments for

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jerry

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and also some supplies for the mere

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space station including water clothing

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and

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some other hardware

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this is mark caro from the houston

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chronicle for john blaha

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before you went on this mission you

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spoke of a personal and professional

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desire to make a long

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space flight and i just wonder if your

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experience has met your expectation and

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uh you're right it was a good question

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in 1991 when i attended a congress of

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cosmonauts and americans in berlin

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i saw some video and heard through

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translators because i spoke to russian

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then about the mere space station and

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set a goal to play on it

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and

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now i've had the opportunity

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um yes it it has met my expectations i

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learned many new things there are a lot

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of things very different about

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a space station and working on it than

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there are on a space shuttle flight and

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uh i'm kind of a dumb person i'm not an

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engineer i'm not a doctor

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so i'm not a real smart person but the

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way i can contribute to the space

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program is as an operator and i know if

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i wanted to continue to work in the

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space program i needed to experience

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this myself so that i could contribute

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for john grunsfeld so we can give

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somebody else a chance with the mic

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from amateur astronomer to professional

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astronomer have you had a chance to look

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at the comet yet uh take a photo of it

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we've gone to the flight deck a couple

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of times and tried as you know we've

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been really busy this flight and haven't

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had a lot of opportunities and a couple

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of times we've tried the problem we ran

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into is that the sunrise comes so fast

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that we our eyes have adjusted uh to

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darkness just in time to see the sun

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rise and so we haven't been able to see

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for mike bake

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we did watch comets last year we

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one of them

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went behind the sun and is coming up now

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and we're hoping to

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watch it several times

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and he was always receiving this

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information and finding them and showing

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so he's done very well with spotting

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those kind of things in space during our

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this is phil chan again for jeff

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what can you discuss the problems you

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had setting up the tvs experiment before

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your docking day and uh what kind of

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confidence do you have that you're going

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to be able to set it up on on the post

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on docking day uh faster smoother better

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faster better cheaper than you did

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previously and get the science back

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the problems that we had when we

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originally set it up were some knit

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problems getting power to it and uh some

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problems getting the data recorded we

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think we've resolved all those and

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obviously having been through it once

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now it's very fresh in our memory how to

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put it all together and how to stow

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things on board so we think we can be

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quite efficient the second time around

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and with those problems now behind us we

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expect it to go pretty smoothly and to

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get a full data take for the folks on

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the ground and i think it'll be very

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and i guess brent you're the only one we

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haven't heard from yet uh any uh hope to

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get uh an extra day in space uh so you

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can get additional tvs data

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well phil i think uh

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all crews will tell you that uh if

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they'll take an extra day in space if

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they can get it

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you know being up here is a real special

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experience and and the chance to have an

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extra day is one one you'll always jump

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you know to keep the program on track

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and and to give us get as much data as

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we can for tiva so if it means uh

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running to you just one or two days

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we're happy to do whatever it takes and

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uh you know eventually we'll get home

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and we'll have a successful mission and

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like the ones before

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uh it will be part of history

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we are very proud that we have the order

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of participating in this flight

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thank you very much

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as i have said many times i'm very glad

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that i have had the opportunity to

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participate in the joint

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program with the russians

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program is not only important for space

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exploration but also for the

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relationship

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between the countries i started working

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on my russian

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two years ago and i came to train

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for a flight

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we my wife and i

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met and befriended many russians and it

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was wonderful

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our relationship with the russians

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uh continues and will expand

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it has been wonderful thank you valeria

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thank you sasha

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i think that uh the mirror station is an

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these stations that built this one it's

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i've worked with sts-81 crew

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unfortunately we are saying goodbye to

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that performed a wonderful docking

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and we have completed all of the program

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that was planned and we're seeing them

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off now and we

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wish them a safe landing

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a successful completion of their tasks

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we are also saying goodbye to our

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colleague the american astronaut john

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blaha who spent four months with us

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aboard

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we have worked a lot we have had

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but despite anything and everything we

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our tasks

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uh we will be we will miss john but we

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no less responsible and important tasks

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and i hope we will be as successful as

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we were as

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john thank you very much

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i would like to simply say that i'm very

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glad to be here on mir and i'm saying

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goodbye to my crew

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thank you very much

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until we meet again

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thank you

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his uh commander counterpart valeri

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go ahead

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thank you ma'am i look forward to

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reading it

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commander mike baker now closing the

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hatch on the atlantis side of the

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interface the orbiter docking system

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that coming at 6 46 this morning central

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the equator on a southeasterly swing