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columbia houston simo on air to ground

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dr jim the mmt

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had all players in on the meeting

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right through from the factory and the

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consensus is they just do not understand

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the behavior of fuel cell 2

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even though your folks efforts have done

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a good job towards stabilizing the

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problem it's significantly out of family

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shorten the mission

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and we're looking at a tig

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on tuesday for us down here that's in an

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and of course we're looking at the

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various types of entries looking at

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procedures to reduce the load loss to

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one fuel cell type procedures and we'll

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be discussing those over the next couple

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okay that's certainly disappointed but

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we know you guys put your best effort

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forward and you're doing the right thing

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and we appreciate all the work that's

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and i imagine between now and then we'll

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keep marching forward with as much

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science as we can

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exactly right if you could continue with

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the nominal timeline for now for uh

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completing as much science as possible

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and we've pretty much worked up the

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procedure to reduce the load and looking

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at potentially eventually safe in a fuel

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cell but we haven't made that decision

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we'll have words for you shortly

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if you would like a face to face with

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some of the players down here we can

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yeah that would probably be helpful

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maybe uh after you've gone through uh

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your procedures and worked out your plan

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and then we can have a face to face

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okay we'll pick a time in the next

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questions for you hello from rockford

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among the experiments you're conducting

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you're lighting as many as 200 small

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fires to study plans in space does this

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one of the things that we work very hard

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on the space shuttle program is to be

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safe we have a safety panel in

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both at kennedy space center we have

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safety troops we have safety folks at

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johnson space center they all worked

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very hard to make sure all of our

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payloads are safe

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the combustions on experiments on this

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fight of course that extra attention is

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one of the reasons why it's taken this

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long to fly rockslide's combustion

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experiments because in order to give the

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science investigators the access they

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need to run experiments yet still have

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the experiments be safe with a very

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difficult design issue and we've been

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involved in the last stage of that price

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of process and know that they work very

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hard and

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feel completely safe with the

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thank you roger crouch you have managed

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missions from the ground but never been

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on a flight as we show our viewers some

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pictures of yesterday's lunch describe

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for us what it felt like and was it what

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wasn't quite what i expected i expected

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the first two minutes to be real real

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take a real long time because the solid

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rocket boosters were the things that

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really give you a lot of trust in fact

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though the first two minutes were over

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in about like 20 seconds it seemed to me

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like we were all on the mid deck down

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uh doing high fives and shaking hands

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with each other and after we got to the

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50 mile limit the commander announced

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that we were truly in space from an

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astronaut point of view and we were just

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so elated it was like i guess a little

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child maybe just screaming and hollering

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about the first really great thing

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they'd ever done their life i felt

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many of our viewers would like to know

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what it's like to be weightless in space

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describe for us what that's like and

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rookies like roger and gregory and

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tara's other palette specialist is they

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say all the things that you remember

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and greg have been talking about how

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they feel like they're hanging upside

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down all the time which is true because

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the fluid tip causes the liquid that's

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into your head and it feels like you're

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hanging upside down all the time there's

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a lot of things like that that sort of

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catch you by surprise

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but we've flown a lot of missions now

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where the 83 third space shuttle mission

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and we've had a lot of experience with

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how to counteract those symptoms and how

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to prepare yourself pre-flight and

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and eating lots of high-fiber foods or

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taking other fiber supplements etc so

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we've got a pretty good plan for how to

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make sure that we can perform at full

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efficiency while we're up here

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that you feel the vision is it's just

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fun to float around in space it's just

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fun everything you do is tremendously

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enjoyable because you're completely free

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to float it's like your little kid in

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some kind of peter pan movie or

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the the comet hellbop of course is

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drawing a lot of attention are you

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getting a good look at it right now this

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yeah we uh of course get to see it every

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time we have a sunset and we've been

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a good look at it with the binoculars uh

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incredible to see it and to

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imagine that the last time human eyes

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saw that comet was when they were

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building the great pyramids 4 000 years

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and uh it really makes us feel special

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to be orbiting the earth in a spaceship

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looking at the earth and the comet in

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it also makes you wonder what human

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civilization will be like the next time

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certain that that'll involve uh

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colonization of space and we're real

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part of the baby steps we're taking in

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we're wondering you know what would be

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seeing you go up in space more often and

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seeing you on television do you think

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americans still the same enthusiasm for

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lethargy in a lot of

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the adults in america about the interest

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in the space program but when you talk

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to kids and you talk to them about space

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it's an incredible energy that these

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kids generate just in their thought

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feeling it so much the people in the

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okay good heads up and i'll give you the

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okay that's complete

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okay don you can follow through with fo2

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although if i press harder i probably

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columbia houston for jim

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and uh she's coming up call us about

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yeah we're looking at that and we don't

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have any steps for you right now we're

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checking into a couple of things that we

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may be calling you to now later

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what we'd like for you to now do now

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ahead and save fuel cell 2.

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first however we have a number of power

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orbiter and payload equipment for you to

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perform and we've come up with some

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priorities so we're just going to talk

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we'll be watching you know the power