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don't let it go

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good morning gentlemen welcome to up to

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the minute

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good morning

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thanks for talking with us this morning

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commander if i can address the first

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question to you we talk about the loss

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of the spartan nasa managers have now

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concluded there is no second chance for

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deployment are you a little bit

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disappointed this didn't turn out the

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well oh sure we're always a little bit

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disappointed if we don't get the full

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mission accomplishment

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but we did retrieve the satellite after

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the little glitch we had on flight day

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two and so the important thing is we're

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bringing spartan back down to earth and

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i'll get to fly another day

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specialist scott the spartan satellite

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was important for a lot of different

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reasons including observations to help

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improve the accuracy of another

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satellite how big a setback do you think

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well i'm sure it's somewhat of a

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satellite but

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not to be flip or facetious we think

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it's more important to get the

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spacecraft back get it back safely

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refurbishing flag again i mean after all

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the sun will be there and we don't want

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to risk losing the satellite all

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together

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it's interesting commander this is the

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first time we've had a chance really to

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talk with you about what has happened

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with it nasa has said they aren't quite

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sure why we did lose the satellite that

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a signal was not received have you up

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there been able to talk amongst

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yourselves find out what didn't go right

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we're really not sure and we'll wait

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till we have all the facts on on the

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ground

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it didn't do its normal programming and

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then we gave a little slight uh

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bump when we were retrieving it and that

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put it into a spin

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but we'll wait till we get all the facts

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and talk to all the folks on the ground

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and put the story together

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i imagine astronaut chevrolet is a

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little bit

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disappointed as well but it didn't go

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casey is a trooper she's a very good

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operator very good mission specialist

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do you know if the command was sent or

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nasa was telling us from houston that

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possibly the computer did not send that

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we don't know somehow the command didn't

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get sent how that

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occurred we're really not sure at this

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time

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okay for astronaut scott you and your

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japanese compatriot taco doi spent eight

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hours walking in space actually last

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week to retrieve spartan to carry out

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some of the other tests we did cancel a

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few tests though would you like to go

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back out again nasa i know has not yet

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made that decision would you like to

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take another crack at it

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well i'll tell you what i don't think

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there's an asteroid in it well that

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would not jump at the chance to go

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outside and if they should decide to do

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it the cow and i are ready to go

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we accomplished i think most of the edft

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or the eva objective there's a few

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things that we could do if we went back

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out and we keep our fingers crossed

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they'll give us another opportunity

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tell me about this small basketball

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sized camera that you would have taken

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out there and taken a look at give me

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give me a quick thumbnail about the

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camera itself

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sure it's called air cam sprint it's a

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little bigger than a basketball size of

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a medicine ball i guess it has two

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cameras inside it also has a controlling

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system it's blown much like you fly a

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radio controlled airplane i would have

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released the sprint from outside the

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shuttle and our pilot steve lindsey

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would have piloted it from here on the

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flight deck he had a test program

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written up a certain uh procedural a

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certain point he would have taken

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obviously this camera would uh beam back

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photos of pictures television pictures

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of the outside of the shuttle and of

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course it would be useful in inspecting

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the outside of a space shuttle or space

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station or whatever

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not to forget our guest leonardo cadeny

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from the russian space program excuse me

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sir i know it's your first shuttle

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flight you trained for so many years on

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the russian shuttle to go up there you

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were working with the growth of plants i

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know that later this afternoon you're

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going to be talking to school children

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here in the united states tell me a

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little bit about the project you're

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working on and what you hope to tell the

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20 years i was a cosmonaut of former

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commander of bran

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but right now i had

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a cosmonaut of ukraine

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go through the new role maneuver tell us

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how that worked i know it's been a

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couple of days since the first roll do

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you think it's going to become easy

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enough to do standard in the future for

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well the role the heads up that you're

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referring to happens about six minutes

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into the asset of course the ascent

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takes eight and a half minutes

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and it's meant so that we have earlier

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communications with the satellite and it

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will become the standard for all uh

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shuttle missions uh it really went very

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smoothly i couldn't really tell that the

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shuttle was moving it wasn't a violent

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maneuver it was very smooth one to two

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degrees per second just a little bit of

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slight transverse acceleration through

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the chest but

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the engineers did a lot of hard work a

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lot of study and it paid off

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from up there i know that you can't see

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actually el nino but we talk about it so

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much here on earth can you see the

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effects these huge fires in australia

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right now what does that look like as

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well they did brief us about the el nino

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effects nasa's take different pictures

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some places it's wetter some places it's

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drier indonesia is a little bit drier

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it passes over australia we haven't

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noticed a whole lot of fires yet just

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due to our ground track

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but the earth observation folks on the

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ground keep us informed and we try to

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take as many

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pictures of the events as possible

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and microgravity i know that's another

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ongoing

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experiment in space what's been the

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actually the microgravity experiments

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are going on very well today we're we're

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processing the particle engulfing and

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pushing experiment and also we have some

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enclosed lamina flame experiments going

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on this afternoon we did wedding

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characteristics of emissibles on

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yesterday and the day before yesterday

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and the principal investigators on the

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ground are quite happy with what they're

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seeing and that i can tell you

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commander kevin cragel mission

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specialist winston scott payload

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specialist lina kadena we thank you very

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much for joining us this morning on up

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thank you it's been our pleasure

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how long will the experiment with the

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experiment this experiment

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starts before the flight

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in space

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are you conducting presently

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wrapper experiment

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we are growing some plants on the

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what are the future applications of the

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from the technical point of view the

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experiment was prepared and the most

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is being monitored by the computers

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including temperature and all the

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there are special devices used in order

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to monitor the process of growing the

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there is also a freezer involved where