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people stay

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we are

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one more song

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good morning discovery uh

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as ecom pointed out that music is really

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for the planning shift because we're

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gonna have to stay and finish the

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uh good morning mark uh and to the

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planning shift

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we were hoping maybe that bit for us

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that we'd stay a little bit longer but

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too bad for you guys

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i hate to break it to you kurt but we're

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still talking nominal mission duration

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well we'd just like to welcome everyone

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to the mid deck of the space shuttle

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discovery

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uh we're on our 124th orbit around the

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we the mission has been going great

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we've completed

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eight days of intense payload operations

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uh the kit folks at ksc has given us a

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great vehicle in discovery she has

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operated flawlessly for the last eight

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days and just to let you know where we

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are we're currently 160 nautical miles

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above the earth surface of the earth and

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we're in the south pacific

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and during the press conference we'll be

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pressed passing across south america and

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northern europe

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and jscpo we're ready for questions

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this is marcia dunn of the associated

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press uh for one or more of the rookies

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i'm wondering what your biggest surprise

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about space flight has been so far and

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i'm thinking more of the day-to-day

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stuff not necessarily the scientific

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this is steve robinson i'm a rookie and

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i think one of the biggest surprises has

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certainly been the uh

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uh how much fun and how how initially

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awkward it could be floating around in

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in in the free fall situation that we

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have here and and also how efficient it

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can be for storing things it's been uh

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uh we're really going to miss that when

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and i'm robert i think the biggest

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surprise for me was just

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how the day-to-day activities change you

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know getting getting up in the morning

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and washing and getting ready for the

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day is a lot different here in space

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obviously there are things that you know

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that we kind of take for granted when

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we're in gravity like

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so that doesn't happen here so you do

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that a little bit differently and and

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the whole morning routine changes

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tremendously that was the biggest

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is that beyond a trick within uh i guess

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what i will add to that is after about

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five or six days up here you get kind of

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uh used to the funny attitudes up here

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where up can be anywhere and don't could

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be anywhere and get used to working

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upside down and whatever and it feels

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kind of natural after five or six days

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japanese investigators say this is the

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last space test of the mfd and i'm

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wondering do you think it's ready for

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when it flies next time on the

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international space station could you

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oh i'd give it an a plus it's

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really been fun for steve and i to fly

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the arm through all the different

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scenarios that we have and it's

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performed very well and there are some

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things we really could not even test on

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the ground some of the compliance

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functions and we sort of feel like test

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pilots up here trying out the arm and we

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taken it to the edge of its envelope and

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tested every possible mode and i think

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we have a lot of good data and we still

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are learning a lot about it and we'll be

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ready for international space station

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this is seth bornstein from the orlando

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sentinel actually if jan can if you can

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keep this just to follow up on that

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uh there have been so you know you've

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had little problems with the computer

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commands and you've had sort of stop and

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go with the arm has that at all been

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frustrating or annoying

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something happens like that but

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of this hardware and it's performed very

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well and in the compliance mode the

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flexible compliance mode is something we

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had the surprises so we we really uh

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didn't know what to expect there and the

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fact that we we had to uh play with arm

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a little bit more to get it to do what

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we wanted to do really uh was not a

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worry to us it's something that

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was kind of interesting to see how the

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different compliance modes worked

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as far as the ground commanding

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only missed one ride at the end

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when we lost the computer lock so we

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proved that the ground commanding works

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a real triumph to command the arm from

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the ground and uh that really proves

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that we'll be ready for that for

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international space station so the few

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and one for kurt brown there

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uh there's a long streak now going this

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year and into much of last year for

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first day landings uh first attempt

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first day attempt landings at ksc with

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diversions to california do you feel

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under pressure that uh you're gonna have

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to land

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here at ksc on the first day and and why

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do you think it is that uh

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shuttles keep um aren't

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being waived off for weather much and

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well probably the the pressure's not on

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me it may be on mission control they do

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all the real weather investigation prior

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to giving us a go for the orbit burn but

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we obviously trust their judgment quite

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well and uh and we'll be ready to go

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wherever they send us um i don't want to

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say we're just lucky but uh obviously

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every subtle landing that we do we

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always look at the weather very

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very strongly so that we understand what

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it will do within the next hour so after

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the burn so

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you have to give a lot of credit to our

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space meteorology group they do a great

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job at looking at the weather

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forecasting it and

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i think they're they're just that good

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if they give us a go for the orbit we

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can we can come on in there

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pete altery with the west kentucky news

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uh for briarni um as a principal

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investigator on the uh the mims

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i was wondering if you could comment on

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the uh the status and the effectiveness

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of both the units that are now on orbit

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how the mir unit

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is its results have impacted on what you

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you uh
united mirror's been up there for about