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good morning columbia and especially to

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lean it today with a little music to

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our pleasure leonid

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a happy thanksgiving to you this day is

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a big family event throughout the united

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well thank you uh happy thanksgiving to

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you we're gonna celebrate it here and

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right after this interview with a meal

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of turkey and cranberry sauce and some

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pumpkin cookies and pecan pies about as

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traditional as you can get being 150

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as i was saying it's a family day and

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all of you guys are family men i

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understand

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have you been able to speak to the folks

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as a matter of fact we were able to

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speak to the folks back home we had some

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of us had family conferences yesterday

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and some of us had family conferences

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this morning and i tell you being away

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from home uh it's always nice to be able

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to uh to talk to the family and know

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that they're doing well and to maintain

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those ties with the folks back home

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i'd like to stay with you uh winston

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scott and uh also to taco toy this

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shuttle flight has been a little more

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exciting probably expected you had to do

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a space walk to retrieve the spartan

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observatory

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you were doing that what were your

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well we um trying to uh capture the

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spartans so i was just thinking how to

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capture this southern satellite and uh

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we are worried about uh

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at the spot and of light

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that attitude because we didn't know

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whether that it has it had an easier

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attitude for us to capture or it might

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be very difficult so that was the only

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concern but at that time we were just

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determined to capture this upright

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right

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going to you commander kriegel you uh it

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was your job to steer the shuttle for

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that operation um what were you

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well of course my primary concern is the

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safety of my crew

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which is always is

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but the flying qualities of the shuttle

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are really

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very nice so believe it or not

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being able to fly the satellite within

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just a foot of both west and takao was

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really quite an easy task

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have a shuttle only a foot away

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i'm sorry you're waking up can you uh

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say that question again please

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i was asking mr scott and mr doy if they

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were at all frightened having the

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as a matter of fact i mean

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that was some excellent flying that

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kevin did and while we were standing out

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there with the satellite just a few feet

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i at least wasn't uh

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afraid at all it was very very

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comfortable i was more concerned about

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handling that large mass you know

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spartan is about 4 000 pounds which is

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more than most automobiles way and to be

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able to capture something like that

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manually oriented and birth it was was

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more of a concern of mine than uh

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than the flying it was really some

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outstanding uh flying on kevin's park

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congratulations to you on that

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successful space walk but i understand

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that you're conserving fuel right now

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for a possible re-launch of the spartan

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observatory is that affecting your

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day-to-day operations the microgravity

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well the folks on the ground are doing

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most of the hard work carrying out ways

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that we can get all the science that we

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plan to do and also conserve fuel

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they're just doing uh using their bag of

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um and hopefully we'll have enough fuel

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do another spacewalk or hopefully deploy

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the spartan satellite and get one of the

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primary objectives of this mission out

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of the way

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another primary objective was to

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test out a prototype

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free floating television camera i

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understand it's about the size of a

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basketball

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is that still going to happen or has

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that been put off because of the

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little bit bigger than a basketball or a

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beach ball and it's a free flyer that

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pilot steve lindsay is planning to fly

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but it needs to be deployed uh during

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so this particular spacewalk the time

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that we spent capturing the spartan ate

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so unless uh we get to go to do another

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space walk we'll have to save that

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particular experiment for another flight

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why is the spartan observatory so

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important to this mission what does it

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be looking at the sun which of course

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wind and temperatures and try to

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understand those characteristics

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and particularly solar flares we know

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solar flares affects life on earth it

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affects our satellites that we tend to

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depend on day-to-day but really it's

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trying to understand that a celestial

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everywhere here on the earth

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always very interested in life up there

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in space and this particular mission on

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this uh shuttle columbia is particularly

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remarkable because it's very

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international um i'd like to ask how

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that's working out does that affect the

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yeah i'm very lucky that i am a member

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of this international uh

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and we are having fun exchanging uh our

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native foods or uh discussing uh

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in uh native languages sometimes

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and uh it's it's just fascinating to

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other people with different cultures and

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it's a way that space dinner should be

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in the future

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all right i should mention that apart

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from commander kriegel and winston scott

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and taco toy that we're seeing we're

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talking to you right now there's also

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kalpana chawla who's originally indian i

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have they been uh have they been

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contributing also with their uh with

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insights from what they've learned in

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fact that during our evening meal last

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some hungarian folk songs and we all had

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to all have a ball and leonard is doing

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the same thing he's teaching us

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some greetings in uh his native language

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from the ukraine so we all are learning

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a lot from each other and just having a

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great i'd like to go back to taka takao

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flight how do you feel for this first

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i really enjoyed being out there

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activity i believe that it's short for

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um back to commander kriegel i'd like to

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how do you look at this mission do you

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think it's been a success despite the

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well each mission holds little surprises

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human space flight is the ability

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of people to adapt we had a little

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difficulties to overcome we overcame

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them through teamwork here on the

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orbiter and also several hundred people

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together with a plan

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communicated that plan to us

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so that we could recapture

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satellites so i really think it's

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and that the versatility of humans

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congratulations to you on that and we've

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spoken a little bit about the solar

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material science experiments in this uh

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midday it's called the mic uh

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intake roblox experiment actually they

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a combustion science to uh

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the interface phenomenon so we are

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make them smaller more reliable

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that in electronics along the same lines

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measures temperatures to a very very

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small degree and we're using this again

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to be able to make things smaller we're

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doing a lot of material science that's

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of understand how they join together

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is a combined u.s french experiment

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again showing the international flavor

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of both this mission

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and the space shuttle and the