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good morning Atlantis and happy space

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day good morning bill and thanks for the

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salute to the military folks this

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morning especially those of us in the

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Air Force on board celebrating our 50th

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anniversary appreciate that well happy

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birthday to the Air Force and the music

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was courtesy of the West Point cadet

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and the bow rack ground team wants to

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express their sincere gratitude for that

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thank you this is Peter the back chief

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project matter etha with Eddie here is

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launched I am working your biology

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experiment position I can ask a feasible

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at last Houston a new orbiter state

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I understand we have a naval academy uh

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around 77 timeframe 19th company number

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down there good to see you down I'll be

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you

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last time we try a nice area Jerry the

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last time we talked you predicted that

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you'd be feeling pure joy on this

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journey home is that what's going

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through you right now absolutely elation

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i'll tell you when i saw the shuttle out

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the window that was one happy moment it

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was a beautiful sight so i predicted

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that one correctly well two reasons why

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you're pretty happy is that you've got

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an 18 month old son named john waiting

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for you also your wife Catherine who is

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eight months pregnant have you thought

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about those first few moments are going

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to have with them yes someone I think

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that's gonna be pure elation also you

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know my son's changed a lot in those 18

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months and my wife's grown a bit but

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it's going to be a fantastic moment i'm

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sure we're just gonna hug a hug each

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other and do normal things that people

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are separated from loved ones do it's in

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fact talking about walking you've been

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doing your best to keep in shape while

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in space and it's being reported that

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you're determined to walk off the

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shuttle after it lands why are you so

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determined to walk off because some of

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the astronauts have been carried off the

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shuttle after all the time and space as

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you say I've been working very hard and

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it's one of my goals to come back in

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condition to be able to egress from the

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shuttle I think that's important

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operationally to know that in an

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emergency you'd be able to get off the

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shuttle so it's been kind of beyond that

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just been a personal goal to keep

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running on the treadmill two hours a day

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takes a lot of determination and to have

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a goal to walk off the shuttle game is

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something to shoot for but Mission

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Control certainly has had to tell you

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prepare you for what you probably will

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expect in terms of coming back into

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coming back into Earth's atmosphere how

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that's going to impact you it's going to

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be 50 lakhs physiologically a big

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challenge I think I'm gonna have a lot

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of adrenaline flowing and I think I'll

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be able to get off on my own power

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I may have to crawl a little bit to get

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out of the orbiter it's very hard even

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when you're feeling good to get out of

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the orbiter because of the arrangement

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the space suit you're wearing you got

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the being weighed down by the spacesuit

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and of course the first feel of gravity

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for for this year basically for myself

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last january's left by myself any pull

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of gravity so it's going to be

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interesting and i'm partially doing it

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also as a physician I'm kind of

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interested in the response of the human

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body to long-duration spaceflight and so

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I'm going to test myself you know after

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all of this is said and done you're

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going to hold the record for having but

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you're going to hold the record for

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having the longest period in space is an

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American astronaut 132 days in space how

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does that make you feel actually makes

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me feel good because I'm number two

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Shannon lucid is ahead of me by a bit

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there and I was very glad to see the

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shuttle on time because I don't want to

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break that record tell me about

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undocking from the mirror the last time

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we spoke you expressed some concerns

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about the safety of aamir Jerry now that

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it has a new oxygen generator and some

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other equipment are you feeling a little

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bit better about the safety of it I feel

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better i think mike foale who took my

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place is still has some challenges ahead

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but we did the best we could get it the

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mirror in shape for mike and i think

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it's in better condition than it was

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more needed supplies equipment and so I

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think we're leaving Mike in reasonable

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condition on the other hand I think

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they're still challenges to be faced and

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bikes off to a really good start Jerry

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made it diligent effort to inventory

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things and show him the way out the best

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he could and so I think makes a lot more

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comfortable than Jerry himself was at

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this point in his mission and so that's

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going to be a great start for Mike Jay

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we all a big detik credit him for the

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work that he did in a very tight

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timeline one the shuttle was getting

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ready to come aboard he had a lot of

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work to do to get it ready

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is all right Charles precor thank you so

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much for those thoughts also jerry

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linenger to the rest of the crew safe

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journey home everybody I was going to

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say we're all very very proud here in

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the metropolitan Detroit area of a

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native son four months in space how do

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you feel about what kind of an

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adjustment have you got coming here I'd

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say I've adjusted very well to space and

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that means it's going to be maybe a

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little tougher adjusting to get back to

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earth right now while Pierre I feel as

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natural as uh as walking down on earth

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six months ago so it's going to be a

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readjustment getting my earth legs back

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well the next major events from our

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point of view as the International Space

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Station which we plan on launching the

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parts of that beginning next year and

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that should become operational sometime

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around the year 2000 and we hope that it

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will operate for another 10 to 15 years

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or more all of this is in preparation

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for some day sending humans to Mars and

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of course that's the dream of all of

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ours to see people go to Mars some day

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and expand the human race off the planet

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earth and and add some more exciting

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places in the universe oh boy jerry

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linenger we have this question for you

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we know that you were bored mirror could

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you tell us what it was like and how you

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feel the mission went I think the

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mission went very well we had you know

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on a percent success accomplished all

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the goals that we wanted to accomplish

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and we also had some a lot of side

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tracks along the way repairing some

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equipment aboard mir but overall we had

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a great mission and it's been a great

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stay and you know once in a lifetime