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good morning discovery a little stevie

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and mark that's what i call wake up

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music we're all wide eyes

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but still here now thanks a lot

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as steve uh as you're going into

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observation 1-4 we'd like for you to

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interface box and we'll see if that

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okay and

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you see a decent image of the comment on

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your screen right now is it just too

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messy to see

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discovery houston we have the parameters

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for an upcoming maneuver at 15 colon 3-0

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discovery houston just let you know that

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the ground is about to initiate a fuel

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cell purge and with that

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the planning shift is heading off and

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wayne hale is here and

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billy mack will be talking to you and

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for us it was rather exciting to have

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the opportunity

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to talk to you

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at the beginning of your wake up and

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okay mark uh we copy that we appreciate

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all y'all's work through the night to

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replay our days i know we have some busy

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days and y'all go through a lot of

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efforts with the fao and

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all the different payloads to try to get

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it all organized and we sure do

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appreciate that too bad we don't get to

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talk to you a little bit more before you

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sign off but i know you're ready to go

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hello

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us we read new uh loud claire

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i see you pretty well you know you're

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seems to having fun you look pretty good

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from up from here how we

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well with this inclination we've gone

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have many many passes over canada so far

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we'll have many more and i've had a

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fabulous look at

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most parts of canada now good shots of

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vancouver calgary and edmonton beautiful

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uh view of montreal this morning

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and maritimes a couple days ago so we've

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had a great time

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looking at canada from up here

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good i'm very happy for you you have

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been a very patient man you're a bit

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like me you had to wait 14 years before

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you managed to go there i had to wait 30

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that's why you're leading us and i'm

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just a follower i'm only halfway behind

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you there

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so uh

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you're doing some pretty important

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experiment uh

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there for for us can you describe some

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for other canadians who are watching

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sure in fact the main experiments that

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i'm involved in up here is testing what

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we call the microgravity vibration

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isolation mode

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and this is a system that isolates

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experiments fluid physics material

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science experiments protein crystal

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growth experiments of the type that

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we're going to do on the space station

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starting sometime after next year it

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isolates them from the vibrations that

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experiments into the nice environment

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here in space to add to the kind of

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things you can do at laps on the ground

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just cleans the environment up for the

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experiments uh just that last little

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tweak to get it right down to the micro

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experiment with some students from

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saskatchewan the other day

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so was it all right yes there was 20

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students that talked to me a day or two

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good set of questions all ready to go

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and i enjoyed that very much

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good then are you using canadarm

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being used in this trip so do you use

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the very first day of the flight uh you

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launch the crystal spa satellite which

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atmosphere to better understand the

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dynamics of the upper atmosphere and the

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we will use it again towards the end of

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the visor retrieve that and in between

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well hey there's a great privilege for

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me to be able to be up here representing

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enjoyed the work with the space agency

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for a number of years getting up there

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and i think it's a great privilege to uh

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i'm very honored to be up here

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representing canada and we do get a

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chance to talk to marco now and again

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mark i know now and again uh he's

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actually uh the capcom on the planning

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shift and so we typically get to say

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speak a little bit to him in the evening

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two or three in the morning your time

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so i wish you a very safe return and

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you would say hello to your fellow uh

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astronauts who are

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americans and uh you know we're very

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pleased to see a canadian with them and

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we can work with the americans very well

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mount and the fluid physics experiments

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done in collaboration with our nasa

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with the support of nasa so it's a

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with nasa and i'm sure it'll continue

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for the years to come as we get into the

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so have a safe journey my friend

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thank you

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astronaut steve robinson used the

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special telescope uh to zoom in on hale

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bop steve tell us about that first about

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that telescope and what are we learning

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about comet hail bob that was so

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exciting to all of us when we saw it

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from earth that uh we we couldn't learn

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right right in here right in this area

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shuttle with and this is a telescope

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with about a seven inch uh diameter

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mirror uh or lens that is and it

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a half feet long and just about the

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diameter of the window we point the

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whole shuttle we don't point just the

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telescope we point the whole shuttle of

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the ultraviolet spectrum and that is

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something we cannot do from earth

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the ultraviolet spectrum of astronomical

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bodies like the comet hail bob

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join in with questions and we've got a

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great one from a 12 year old aaron

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hendry sent us an email asking if hale

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eric that's an excellent question and

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brightly and it had a longer tail

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uh now it's about twice as far away from

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the sun as it was then so it's not as

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bright the tail is not as big but still

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space because the atmosphere doesn't

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diffuse the light and also you don't

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earth so many so so fast that you can

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i know you'll appreciate this eric

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thanks steve one of the main purposes of

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robot arm i call it the mini arm it goes

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out at the end of i guess the other

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robot arm it would be attached to the

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international space station someday to

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repair and replace pieces of the new

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do it what do you think of the robot arm

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first time you're right this is the uh

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the prototype for this small fine arm as

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it's called it will go on the end of a

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experiment module when the international

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point so this is in a few years from now

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fine arms so it's quite dexterous in

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other words it could do a lot of things

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six degrees of freedom in the joints in

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other words you can move it around just

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about like your arm it's almost hard to

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talk about the arm without taking your

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arm out and moving it around because

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that's just about what you do with the

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hand controllers

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training for the flight we've gone to

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the tokyo area twice to train on the

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japanese hardware we have lots of

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japanese software and hardware here in

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houston or down in houston that we've

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trained on for many months and finally

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it's been a really great experience to

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in in final form for the international

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me just say that we've learned a lot

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about the arm yes a couple of surprises

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but in general it's really worked great

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a fine piece of engineering this viewer

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wants to know what kind of philosophical

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thoughts come to mind when you're in

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space maybe thoughts that wouldn't come

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that's an easy one john lots of them do

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when you look out the window the first

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time you look out there

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to me the first thing that really

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occurred to me was how small each of us

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humans really are the heavens

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are very large they're huge

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and the earth is huge

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and when we're on the ground we tend to

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think

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you know we're busy and we're

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responsible and we have lots to do and

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we tend to think that we're the center

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of importance and you sort of have to

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let me tell you when you get ready for a

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space flight you realize that first of

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all

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thousands of people are helping you get

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ready for the flight and assuring your

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safety and doing the engineering and all

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the checks and you're the beneficiary of

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that then you get up above the earth you

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look down on the beautiful earth

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and you see evidence of

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of mankind down on the earth both good

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and bad and you look out in the heavens

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you see the comet you see the moon you

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see the stars

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rising and setting over the earth's limb