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and good morning discovery

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good morning bill

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yeah good morning kurt uh we hope you

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thank you very much uh

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looks like it's another beautiful day in

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orbit and

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go ahead for mim

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on the oca i did try

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repowering

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with the scuzzy removed and the

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mod was cuz he removed and the system

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powers up fine

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when i insert the scuzzy

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and try to

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do that it just locks the system up

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the first time i did it there was no

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trouble at all but all the other times

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your mother is still in elizabethtown i

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understand and you have one son your

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family must be very proud

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well they're very proud but you know how

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moms are when you do things that

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that happen every few years and

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so she gets very excited but then she

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gets uh she's ready for me to come back

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home whenever i can get a chance

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sir so you're flying this ship what are

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well actually i'm responsible for making

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sure the mission goes um

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goes okay you know before we fly we have

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to train and get organized and prepare

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so that's a large part of it by the time

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we get up in space here everyone's very

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well prepared and i hardly really don't

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have to do much everyone knows their job

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and uh and they're very very uh

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professional so we we actually get up

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here and we each have our duties and we

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follow our the plan that we have each

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your main mission is to study the uh

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depletion of the earth's ozone layer and

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here in charlotte we hear a lot about

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ozone alert

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and trouble in the earth's atmosphere

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can you see that from your vantage point

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can you see over north carolina for

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well actually nancy we can't really see

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the ozone or um

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or anything any of the chemicals that

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we're really looking for what we can see

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from space and from the shuttle

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with our naked eyes that is is we can we

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can see some city smog

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sometimes when you have a big high

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pressure area over an area you wind up

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seeing a lot of haze and

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it kind of looks like smoke

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smog

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but uh the only other things we can

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really see from space with your naked

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eyes we can see some rivers and streams

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flow into the ocean which uh

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it's not really pollution but it's the

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sediments and things that

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are caused by rain and different

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we can see those things

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if you have a volcano that erupts you

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can see all the plume and those kind of

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smoke and debris and

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things like that in the atmosphere what

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effect do you hope your mission uh the

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mars pathfinder the increased

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interest among americans in space is

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going to have on the future of the space

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the space program we've been doing

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things that are fantastic for many years

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and unfortunately not everyone around

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the world hears about what we do so with

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which is coming here in a year or so

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and the uh the mars pathfinder all those

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things are very very

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things that we're kind of doing uh all

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the time with nasa and it's nice now the

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general public can see what we're doing

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so we're very very proud of all those

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things and we're going to continue to do

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those kind of things in the future

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you mentioned the international space

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station the future international space

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station i understand you're going to be

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testing this japanese-made robotic arm

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for possible use on this space station

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canadian arm on board it's a it's a

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relatively long arm it's about the

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length of our payload bay about about 60

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feet and it's used primarily for

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deploying payloads and uh and grabbing

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payloads the small firearm that we're

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testing on this flight and we call it

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mfd because manipulator flight

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demonstration

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uh that small firearm will be at the end

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of a long arm similar to the big one we

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have and it will be able to say replace

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things on orbit without going outside

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you just do it by the robotic arm it can

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open doors undo bolts and we can replace

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things called r o r u's orbital

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replacement units or maybe change out

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payloads that are sitting out on the

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kind of the back porch of the space

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we can't reach them without going eva or

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extra vehicular activity

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and we can use the robot arm just to

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reach out and grab them and put them

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maybe inside an airlock and uh and that

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way we can bring them back home

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tell us a little bit more about the

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status of this mission uh in general

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your primary mission is to check out the

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ozone level what kind of shape is

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well miriam uh

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you know that's kind of hard for me to

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say i'm not a scientist for the

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atmosphere but

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satellite it was crystal spawn number

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of data on the upper atmosphere on the

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ozone and all the chemicals in the upper

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atmosphere and this is the second flight

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of the crystal spas

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and they're looking for even more data

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to cover more the polar regions of the

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world which uh sts-66 could not cover so

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yesterday was a very busy day for us we

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deployed chris's spas

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and it's well on its way now collecting

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data of the earth

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and then you'll just bring it back in

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this is a very crowded flight 24

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payloads a lot of scientific experiments

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to conduct in all and in general is that

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where you see the future of this shuttle

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program moving towards just as a

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well miriam the shuttle is a very

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versatile uh machine it's amazing what

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obviously we can take things up and

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deploy things and bring them back which

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we're going to do on this flight but

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different payloads and activities we

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range from deploying the crystal

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satellite to study the earth's

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atmosphere we have many experiments that

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are designed to test equipment and

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design equipment for the future space

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station how it's going to be developed

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deployed and operated we also have

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astronomy on board we're going to be

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looking at the hellbop comet and also we

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have a bridge structure in the payload

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bay called ieh extreme uh uv hitchhiker

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and it's going to be gathering data on

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some of the uh

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items that are out in the uh in the

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space and deep space so we have quite a

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for this mission and that doesn't really

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count all the little things in the mid

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and other things are in the paler bay

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do you feel perfectly safe

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i think a little garbage there do we

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feel safe up here i think the answer

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there is definitely yes

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we have a great team of folks on the

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ground supporting us

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they're watching over us whatever we're

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they have a lot more data than we do so

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they have a better insight of the health

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of the vehicle but uh we go through a

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lot of training on the ground to prepare

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us for

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almost any malfunction that could happen

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in the orbiter and

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that's one of the good things about

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flying is you don't have to go back to