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so

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bonjour atlantis another great day in

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all the team on the ground uh what a

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nice touch for the french guy on board i

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was really

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thrilled listening to this music on

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now living with

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all this international crew on board

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sometimes i wonder if i am a french

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european or just

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citizen of the whole world

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this is really a very very exciting

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he decided when he was 40

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okay

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um

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this is a great picture

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videos

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right there

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okay thank you chris and to the fourth

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air expeditionary wing and qatar

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and to my good friend carl tim cantwell

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especially who set this up for me to be

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able to talk to you

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representing

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the air force with the crew of

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atlantis currently dr mayor myself and

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we're real proud to be able to talk to

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you we're real proud of you

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representing the air force in qatar to

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general smith

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over there leading the forces

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we are

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very happy to be able to talk to you

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today as we orbit the earth with our

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friends from russia on the mir space

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station docked at 200 miles flying over

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qatar at this point in time looking down

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on you

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really proud to be part of the air force

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especially in this 50th anniversary year

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and part of the work that you're doing

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there

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i'm going to let eileen collins

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lieutenant colonel and our pilot

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say a couple of words to you

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congratulating you on a successful

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completion your deployment my

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understanding is that you're headed back

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home tomorrow

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hello this is lieutenant colonel eileen

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collins aboard the space shuttle

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atlantis currently docked with mir

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and just like to thank all of you for

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the great work that you're doing to

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defend our country

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and we're proud of you and and what

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you're doing we're also proud to be part

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of the air force and happy to celebrate

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this 50th anniversary

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so keep up your good work and we're

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thinking about you up here on the

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and to the folks of the fourth air

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expeditionary wing as you deploy back

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home

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uh you probably won't get quite the same

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view of the earth that we do but i'm

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sure you'll be able to appreciate the

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vastness of our globe

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how close we get together these days

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with

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our improvements in communication how

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much better our relationships are with

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people around the world here on

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the mirror and the shuttle today we have

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folks

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on this crew that represent

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many different nationalities we have

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a frenchman aboard the uh the crew of

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atlantis we have uh two folks that are

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making their first flight one who was

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born in peru another who is uh

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his parents immigrated from china

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and of course we have the russians on

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the near side of the hatch as part of

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the shuttle crew we also have a russian

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woman elena kondakova who is on an

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exchange with us and it's just a

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wonderful thing to see

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a multinational effort like this come

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together and i can tell you most

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assuredly that the work that the air

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force has done over the last 50 years

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has made something like this happen you

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folks over there qatar keeping up the

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work that you do keeping up the

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tradition great with the air force

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you've made missions like ours in orbit

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possible and it can only get better from

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here we salute you guys

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happy 50th anniversary to everybody in

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the air force especially to you that are

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deployed all those others that are

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deployed around the world great work and

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hope to see you soon when we're back on

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the ground together in our home country

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safety please

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safety here is always a concern as it is

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on any space vehicle

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we are doing our utmost utmost to keep

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things safe here

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the russians have done an outstanding

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job recovering from more than usual

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number of failures you can see we're all

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doing just fine here and we're enjoying

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our time working with our colleagues

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jerry's ready to come home mike's ready

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to take over uh as for micro meteoroid

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hits nothing while we've been in space

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during our stay

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yes i'd like to ask jerry lenninger

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what's the most interesting weather

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phenomena he saw in his uh four months

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in space and what he thinks the rocket's

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uh most interesting weather formation i

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guess just watching some tropical storms

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and also some sea currents and looking

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at sun glint and the different uh

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patterns and swirls on the ocean in the

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islands things like that are always

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amazing uh i'll say gold rockets and i

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think the rockets have a good chance of

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winning it all although i haven't

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watched a single game because i've been

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up here since january yes i was

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wondering if uh while you're staying

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long term in orbit if you can detect the

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effects of solar flares or solar

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noticed um

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flashes at night when i'm sleeping in my

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high speed particles mostly from the

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cosmic ray background radiation but also

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these light trails in your visual field

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basically darkness of course as you fall

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asleep and you'll see these little

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flashes and different points of your uh

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peripheral vision well recently on this

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this to me as well that um

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there's a lot of activity going on right

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now and i think jerry also did a spit

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and so we're actually seeing trails in

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our visual field almost like meteor

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trails and

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night and it changed the orientation of

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the trail so i was pretty sure it was

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localized you know it's a stream coming

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are you more or less spiritual than when

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you first went into space

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i think the same way as everybody else

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who has been to space

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you're so far from earth you begin to

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love it even more and then when you look

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stop thinking about all the

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orders about conflicts on earth why the

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thin layer of atmosphere

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which protects us from radiation from

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and you begin to forget about small

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earthly problems and you start thinking

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about different things

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and i think facilities answer could be

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given in any language around the world

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from anyone who flies up here we all

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hello from the space station near my

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space shuttle atlantis for all of you

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who are viewing the imax film mission

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tomorrow for the first time we welcome

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you and we share with you the thrill of

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a great mission with our russian

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colleagues in space

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i'm commander charlie play court of

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arrest us-84 crew and we are fortunate

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enough to be docked right now on onboard

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the space station near with the mir 23

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crew and we're in the process of

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continuing the mission that you're about

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to watch on the imax theater it's a

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tremendous opportunity for us we'd like

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to connect with you as you have the

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opportunity to share our journeys here

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in space

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and we are fortunate enough to bring

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enjoy renting your home from space after

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his stay on board the mirror moving mike

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fall as his replacement what you're

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seeing is continuing today as we speak

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to you as you sit there ready to watch