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and buenos dias atlantis uh

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uh carlos and about two revs it'll be a

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good pass over peru unfortunately it'll

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hey good morning bill and

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thank you for playing the national

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anthem there i hadn't heard that uh

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since i was down there last summer and

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unfortunately it will be dark but i got

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a good debut

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together uh night just before we fell

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okay and i uh mike and i have been

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transitioning uh and having some good

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pass down mike is very well situated

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specters in perfect order

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and uh we've i think on this mission

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i've done it both ways we've got shuttle

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in good order and we also have mike in

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good order on mirror

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uh we're just doing a few loose ends and

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a review of what's already been covered

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and so we're in very good shape and good

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job everybody on the ground that helps

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thanks jerry we'll pass along those

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joining us from the the space have

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module on the space shuttle ten people

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who consider themselves among the

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luckiest in the world today the joint

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crew of mir and shuttle atlantis shuttle

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commander charlie precourt ground

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controllers ground controllers tell us

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both the spaceships are working well

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together what's your assessment of the

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health of mir now compared to what you

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you know the mirror has gone through a

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few uh maintenance problems here in the

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recent uh few months as everyone is

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i could compare it for you with what i

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different overall and with the exception

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that they've added two more modules

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they have more volume but they have also

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more equipment on board now i'd say the

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health is in really good shape at this

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and they've recovered nicely from the

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failures of the last couple of months

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well that's that's certainly good news

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eileen collins you're the shuttle pilot

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getting up and you'll be the pilot

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coming down again i'd like your

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assessment as uh to how crowded it is on

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place where you are right now is it is

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it as much like fiber mcgee's closet

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with just uh wires and pipes falling out

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well actually beer is a lot more

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spacious than the shuttle it has more

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interior volume

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this shuttle flight the atlantis has a

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space tab in the back which adds to our

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for cooling and maintenance of the

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spaceship as well as scientific

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experiments which is why we're up here

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so yes both spaceships are a little bit

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cluttered but i would say it's an

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know we're contributing

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science uh international science and uh

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the health of people around the world uh

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with the mission that we're doing up

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yeah i've got a question for the two

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lew they have been doing much of the

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heavy lifting of equipment back and

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forth between the two ships and and both

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are rookies the transfer seems to be

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well ahead of schedule fellas which

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means you're doing your jobs well carlos

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i'd like your impressions and maybe then

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ed's impressions of launch and your

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thoughts today about what you're going

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well it's just an incredible feeling

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great crew that i belong to and we got

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renew that friendship continue to work

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effort that we have here

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the reason things have been going so

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smoothly is probably because of the hard

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work of the other rookie here who's been

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docking day when we uh first saw amir

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the people around me the people i've

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special group of people they work really

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picture of all of you eating dinner

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meal and the microphone was left on

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mean a lot of whooping and hollering

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initially intended as a home movie but

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our international colleagues that we

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thought we ought to share it with

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they managed to find the time for us so

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bit and we turned on the video camera

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and let it run and we wanted you to see

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that uh life in space can be enjoyable

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folks need to take a break from time to

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time to keep their energy up and that's

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what we were doing we wanted you to see

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that yeah well charlie the thing that

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uh how well everybody's getting along

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different cultures represented there on

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the spaceship and that party sort of

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indicated that to me i want to talk to

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jerry lenninger and mike foale next the

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two of you have traded jobs this week

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the trip back home and paul joining the

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mir crew for another long duration stay

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about your family your personal life but

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fire and the series of equipment

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failures tell us about mir is it working

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as well today as the day you arrived

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we've had difficulties throughout those

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to have a challenge ahead of him and uh

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process out here we're pushing the limit

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frontier so mike's got a challenge ahead

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for him yeah jerry before you hand the

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mic over to uh to mike foley what what

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was the best advice that you think you

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around show them where the equipment is

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something about that and and just make

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his life a little more pleasant up here

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in space yeah mike paul a couple of

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weeks ago you told us you were much more

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worried about the shuttle lots than

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about a long time stay on mirror uh has

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anything happened in the past few days

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change your opinion of mir for better or

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the biggest risk that we all went

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through was launch and that includes the

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cosmonauts also

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surprised here in fact i'm now realizing

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to be so i'm enjoying very much just

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basically live and so you have to have

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regular meals and you i i've noticed the

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timeline that's compressed they have to

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the beauty of being here with

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a long-term cruise is you get to relax

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enjoy your meals enjoy your

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conversations taste your work out

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best that you can accomplish in your

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four and a half months on mir what do

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well i just start flipping but i'll say

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it have a good time i really think

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that's the most important thing here

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i'm quite effective deficient anyway

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getting my uh scientific work done and

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i'll do that anyway the most important

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thing is that

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all of us the three of us on board the

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station and the uh the three new guys

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that come up uh in august that we all

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get along together and uh enjoy each

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other's company atlantis mere crew thank

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