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and the way the sunlight plays upon her

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hey

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she's close to me

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softly smile i know she must be

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she goes with me

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for you bjarni you probably guessed that

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and uh

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we know you're thinking a lot about

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vibrations these days and uh may all

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thanks mark just took a little while to

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figure that out kind of slow up here but

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hopefully we'll be back in business with

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sounds good

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colonel brown good morning and thank you

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good morning to you and it's uh

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definitely a pleasure we always love to

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talk to the folks

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let me ask you first of all how long

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have you folks been up this morning i

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understand the beach boys the sound of

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the beach boys at least awakened you a

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little earlier this morning how long

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well we just been up a couple three

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hours now we're just finishing up on our

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post leap activities which is basically

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getting up and getting reconfigured for

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the day's work

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and matter of fact we're just starting

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uh some of our robot robot arm

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operations in just a few moments

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well actually today is a new sequence of

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uh testing uh we're gonna detach the

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orbital replacement unit one more time

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today

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but the new part is uh the ground is

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going to uplink commands to the robot

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arm

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and they're going to control it from the

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ground pretty much and we're going to be

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on the ass flight deck of the orbiter

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watching the uh arm and uh we're kind of

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like these safety observers and the

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let me ask you i understand that

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the german satellite that you launched

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came within one and a half miles of a

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500 piece of

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space junk up there in orbit how close

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was that and how serious a problem was

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well actually um there's obviously a lot

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of debris up here in space we've been

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coming into space uh our country and

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other countries for many years so there

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is a lot of debris up here

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we do track that debris and we try to

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maintain our distance from that

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i read the news this morning obviously

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and saw that

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it wasn't any danger to the orbiter

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obviously they had a little bit of

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concern for the satellite but once they

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uh got the tracking down and narrowed it

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down exactly where it was going it uh it

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was okay that as far as i know they did

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not have to maneuver the crystal

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satellite around to uh

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to miss the uh the piece of hardware but

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they could have done that if they really

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needed to

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but i read down here that had they in

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fact collided it would have been

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disastrous for that satellite is that

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well satellites were built to operate in

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vacuum and in space they're not very

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structurally sound meaning that anything

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that collides with orbiting body is

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probably going to do severe damage

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just because of the speeds that are

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traveling and if they're coming from

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different directions you almost double

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that speed

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okay let me the this satellite that is

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out there is i understand is doing

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research on the ozone layers of the

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earth uh tell me a little bit about that

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and why that is significant for for

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well we're trying to learn as much as we

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can about the earth's atmosphere and how

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we as humans affect that atmosphere

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this satellite flew back in 1994 on the

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sts-66 shuttle mission i had a chance to

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take part in that mission also and we

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gathered a lot of data about the ozone

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the upper level structure of the

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atmosphere

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and this mission we're going to do the

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same but they've incorporated a new

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twist to their satellite

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they're able to maneuver their satellite

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and yaw it left and right to be able to

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cover more of the earth's surface so

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we'll be able to map more of the ozone

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and the upper level chemicals and

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structures of the atmosphere than we did

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in 1994. now when you put all that data

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together we're trying to understand how

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the earth's atmosphere evolves over time

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and how we as humans affect that

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atmosphere obviously we need that

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atmosphere to survive and and if we are

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doing something that we think may be

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hurting it we need to figure out a

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better way of doing it

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and the other thing you learn from space

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up in the shuttle if you look out at the

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earth's limb the little layer of

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atmosphere around the shuttle or excuse

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me around the earth

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from the shuttle

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you uh you realize how fragile the earth

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really is the atmosphere because it's a

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very thin

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body of material that envelops the earth

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and protects us from all the harmful

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emissions from outer space

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what's on tap for today specifically

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well a lot of the day will be done with

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little small robot arm that we have on

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board we'll be working on that we also

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have the mid deck experiments going on

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bds which is working with cell growth

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uh right to my uh my left here you can't

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see just out of the photo uh bjarney

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trigevison our canadian payload

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specialist is working hard on his uh

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microgravity isolation mount experiment

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we're just busy as bees up here i this

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was my fourth flight and um

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still awed by how busy we've been on

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this flight and uh and it seems to

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continue from day to day so we're very

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happy to be at work and

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time up here is very valuable so we like

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and discovery houston we do have video

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okay bill welcome aboard

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we'll give you a couple minutes of

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flight deck