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good morning and happy Thanksgiving
Columbia good morning Houston Morning
America active morning the world Happy
Thanksgiving
stand by Columbia the next voice you'll
hear be the president United States
tomorrow good evening Happy Thanksgiving
I just wanted to call you to salute your
sacrifice and thank you for what you're
doing and graduate you on Monday
satellite recovery and you know how
important your work is to the
International Space Station and to our
entire effort and I can't tell you how
grateful I am I'm in Camp David now and
with all my family and a lot of our
friends and we're all looking at you on
the direct channel and you look great we
really feel great and of course we miss
our own families down on earth but the
six of us up here are a family in itself
so we're enjoying this Thanksgiving Day
also well we've got a lot to be thankful
for down here and one of the things we
have to be thankful for is if we have
people like you doing the work you're
doing and we're very grateful to you
your smiles make my day and I I hope
you'll have a great successful voyage
and we look forward to seeing you back
here thank you very much sir and of
course we couldn't do it with all the
thousands of men and women in the United
States and in other countries helping
support the space shuttle program and of
course in the future of the
International Space Station
we'll keep supporting it you keep doing
your job and we'll see you back here
thank you very much sir goodbye bye
Happy Thanksgiving
Thanks
this downlink video that we're receiving
from onboard Columbia right now is
recording of what's going on with the W
FCI or wedding characteristics of a
miscible experiment
alum BIA Houston were ready to take the
downlink of pep video at this time as
it's convenient we are thank you very
much
this is Mission Control Houston this is
videotape from the crew of the spacewalk
that was shot during that spacewalk as
it occurred Sunday evening
this videotape playback is was requested
by the Eevee a team here in Mission
Control as part of the development
flight test team to gather some
additional data on activities that
occurred during the spacewalk this is
Winton Scott as he was attempting to
soft dock the large orbital replacement
unit simulator into the end effector of
the small crane that he and when tuck
out joy operated during the spacewalk