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so

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and good morning you magnificent men and

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good morning houston and thanks for the

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magnificent music

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and good morning eileen

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and charlie and jean-francois with you

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and atlantis houston we're on board

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looking into the space hab hello jean

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go ahead for biorack

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for 11 step 6.

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atlantis houston for the folks in the

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space hub we're looking over your

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atlantis houston in preparation for the

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upcoming biorec activity per our

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pre-flight agreement we think it'd be

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more efficient to split the air to

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roger that chris and uh would you like

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us to configure for underground two back

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in half

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affirmative and we're setting up the cic

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okay we'll go underground two in the hab

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we got a good centerline image we'll

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downlink that to you now

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we see it charlie and it uh it's a good

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chris the

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the green cross here is not dead center

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it's

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tangent to the four o'clock position of

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tell me aren't you a bit scared about

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boarding the russian space station

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because it's been a pretty dangerous

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no the most difficult thing we did uh we

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did yesterday and that was the liftoff

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and that has by far the highest risks in

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it because you're going from zero miles

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an hour to 20 uh 17 000 miles per hour

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and when you're traveling at that kind

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of speed it's also quite hard to know

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over which part of the country you are

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at any one time because you're moving so

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fast

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we've done that we're in space we have

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all that energy now we're in all this

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and the rest of it is actually quite a

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lot easier

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thank you michael can i first of all ask

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you um how do you view the prospect of

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more than four months on mir will you be

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uh no i don't think so there are two

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other people going to be on board that

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spacecraft with me and uh that's the

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city superlative and sasha lazukin i

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already know them well and uh have spent

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some time with them both in russia where

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i lived for a year and a half and then

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uh also on travel with them

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in houston

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and as a result i feel quite close to

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them and we've exchanged some messages

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before my arrival

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my email that is

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as well as also uh by radio from russia

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from my house in russia

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so i thought i'm going to be uh with

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friends and so i won't be feeling

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particularly lonely in any way

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how confident are you that mir will be

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safe because it has had some serious

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if other people see it this way but i

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see the mirror is a very successful but

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old um car in a way it's it's been in

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space up to 13 years and they've been

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putting uh new parts in replacing all

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parts and if anyone's had a an old car

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and maintained it you know that as you

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keep on adding and repairing things

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continue to break around those new parts

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and that's really a fact uh

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a function of the fact that the mir is

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living a lot longer than it was

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originally designed

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and uh yes there has been some problems

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but none of these are ever big

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showstoppers they are serious to some

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extent but we can always continue to uh

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repair improvise and work around those

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problems and the russians have been

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extremely good at doing that today

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now this is all in preparation for the

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international space station which is due

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to be uh built soon in orbit uh what do

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station the space station program base

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the space station program is basically

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uh conceived to conduct science and

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uh development in space

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and a big big part of that is the um

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endeavor of international countries

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working together to achieve those goals

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as a result of an international

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cooperation in space you not only get a

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a good science platform in orbit around

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the earth in which many many

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investigators from other countries can

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all work in or send experiments to

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you also get the experience of many

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countries working together

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and uh working in a great project

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which i see is leading us eventually out

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of earth orbit to the moon and to mars

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settle other planets

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now i put a question to the commander

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charles precourt uh what's it like

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having a british astronaut among you is

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he's warning me that i better say yes to

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that one

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mike's a great asset to the nasa program

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and he brings a load of experience from

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a lot of different areas to us

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and you know he kind of hinted at the

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fact that the benefits of an

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international space station is that the

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fact that we bring together the talents

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of many different nations and in fact

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many different cultures and new ideas

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bring new ways of doing things and we

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discover new things together so yeah

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mike is a great asset we're going to

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miss him when we close the hatch but

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we're glad that he's representing us

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mike again can i ask you um what are you

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well that's a hard thing to answer

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because when you're looking at a flight

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that goes on for four and a half months

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or more

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um there's a whole number of events

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and of course you always choose the

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operational ones as being the most

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glamorous and therefore you say the most

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and there are one or two out there there

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are evas being done by the russian

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cosmonauts they're also we're going to

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get in the soyuz spacecraft at one point

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uh put on our

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spacesuits leave the space station near

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in the soyuz and then fly around to the

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back side of the mirror and join up

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again with it so we'll get a nice fly

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around to the station i'm sure that will

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be a great thing a single event to look

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forward to but really the best thing is

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um living calmly and easily in space

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with two friends and uh spending time

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uh houston atlanta's time back in the

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we've got you on the downlink

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and eileen ecom is happy with the bag