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16th of january 2009

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and magically on our schedules uh

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something popped up and there was this

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video tour of the international space

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station

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and uh what that means is that you're

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getting the straight skinny

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uh the dirty laundry and everything we

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didn't have a chance to clean up and

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also we're in the middle of remodeling

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sts-126 also known as the ulf2 mission

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came up about six or seven weeks ago and

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we're still putting everything together

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putting it away so things are a little

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bit cluttered up here certainly not

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dirty we clean it all the time but it's

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a little bit cluttered so you're going

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to get a chance to see that

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but along the way you'll get to see real

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life of what the international space

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station is like and you can see how

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proud i am my crew is and and the entire

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space station team is of our beautiful

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international space station and get

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ready because it's big and so we're very

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pleased to be able to show you this

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okay here we are at the very front end

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of the international space station uh

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this is uh the uh forward end of node

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two

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and uh this is uh right behind this

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hatch is uh the pma the pressurized

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mating adapter uh to which is space

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shuttle docks uh whenever the next space

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shuttle comes we're about one month away

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from uh the the 15a mission sts-119 with

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lee archambault and tony antonelli and

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the rest of their great crew

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you can see we have our flags up here at

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the most forward part it's a 15 nation

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partnership this international space

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station

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so uh we'll start with uh the node two

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we will uh

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stop at the kibo

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module here the japanese pressurized

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module in the japanese logistics

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we'll stop back there in a second we'll

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take a look in the columbus module pride

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of the european space agency and our

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pride too

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and then you can look down the stack

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and you can see uh several other modules

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and uh and even into the a little bit

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into the functional cargo block the fgb

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and then the service module so it's a

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it's a really big space station that we

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got

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so

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let's start off right here with our new

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modules this is node two

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harmony

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and it was recently brought up it's been

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up here for maybe about one year

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and uh we can see from harmony

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pma

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and the gem

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so

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and an interim resistive exercise device

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until we get the advanced resistive

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exercise device up and running we get to

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use eye red until a red is good

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and then there's a hatch below a little

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window that you can see out see our

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and uh that's uh

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that's node two

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as we fly into the japanese experimental

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module the gem also known as

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the kibo

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you can see it's the biggest module

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aboard the space station and that's in

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fact it even says so here there's a

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sorry for moving the camera so fast

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but it says

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right here

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welcome to kibo please enjoy and relax

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in this brand new the most spacious and

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quietest room in the iss

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along the floor we're holding we're

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temporarily stowing some panels

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including the cabin which is going to be

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you can see here

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this is the sibo rack

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which is for cell biology

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and then we have a fluid rack

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urutai

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so these are the two main japanese

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science racks that are up here now

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behind these panels here

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is nothing it's the actual shell of the

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spacecraft

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and you can see uh there's wires and a

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few wires back there

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and if we're lucky we'll see a shell

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heater these orange strips and they keep

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this the actual uh

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body of the space station from freezing

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or getting really cold

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by running electrical current and

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keeping everything warm with the heaters

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okay we'll stop right here real quick

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and take a look on

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the floor

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on the deck they call it this is the

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minus 80 lab freezer melfi

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and we use that a lot we store a lot of

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our biological samples urine and blood

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and on the ceiling

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uh we have the ics

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and prox

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rack

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operations it's going to be used for the

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h2 uh excuse me htv which is the h2

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um transfer vehicle

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and uh also icu ics is a a com system uh

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that's

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japan is gonna have up and running once

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the external platform is out there so

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okay and we have the air lock here

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which we haven't used yet but it's ready

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to go once you expose facilities there

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the airlock will be great because then

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you can

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take something uh put something in the

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airlock and then outside is a robot arm

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that can take it and put it on the

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outside back porch

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now sandy and i just reconfigured this

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robotics workstation it looks a little

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bit cabley today but it's not so bad

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we're actually gonna run a test on

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monday using up all the using the the

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backup robotics control uh blocks so we

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actually had to

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re redo a lot of cables today and it

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so here are the backup boxes that we

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worked on

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let's take a quick look out the window

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before it gets dark outside we're going

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around uh not every the world every 90

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minutes

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so uh it gets uh we can see a lot of

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sunrises and sunsets

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oh my goodness it's beautiful up there

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so this is looking out the porch side of

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the space station and we're actually

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also on the front side so front port

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side of the space station

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let's take a look what we can see up

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there you can see the robot arm i was

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talking about the gem rms

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those orange sinks are the solar arrays

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on the on the port side

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and you can see we have a full set and

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uh 15a sts-119 is going to be bringing

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these uh the last solar array on the

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starboard side

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and take a look there's our blue view

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beautiful blue planet there

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and uh looking at this and where we are

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i'd say we're over the uh

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south indian ocean you can actually see

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some icebergs down there so we're

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actually probably between

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africa and antarctica you can actually

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see the different shades of the blue

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water

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so that's the view we get to see every

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day up here it's pretty nice

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window shutter the japanese guys always

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think it's fun when we talk about

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closing the window it's like no no

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closing the shutter because the window

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should never be open

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now we're gonna float up

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one of the few modules that actually

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goes

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up and that's the

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uh japanese

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or the gem logistics platform the jlp

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it's very empty in here very few

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handrails to grab on with your toes or

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we have a few zero-g stowage racks

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right in here

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we also have a few of these uh they're

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called soft dummy panels which there's

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nothing behind

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and it's a pretty uh

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pretty nice closet up here in space

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then if you look down

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you can see the deck the air lock there

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on the porch side

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and we'll just float on right down

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okay so now fly with me we're going to

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go to the

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we're going to go to the columbus