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cbs news this is houston please call

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station for a voice check

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thanks houston station good morning this

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cbs news is the international space

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station welcome on board we hear you

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loud and clear well good morning and

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it's great to be aboard this is peter

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king bill harwood will be joining me in

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just a couple of seconds and we want to

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start with commander frank dewina

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congratulations uh first of all for

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becoming

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the first european space agency

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commander i'd love for you to talk to us

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about the importance of the milestone

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well for me it's of course a big honor

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to be the first european space station

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commander but more so i think it's very

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important for the european astronaut

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corps

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i only can get this function because all

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the people that preceded me in the

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europeans and space flight did an

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excellent job and we have built up a lot

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of expertise in the european astronaut

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corps but also in the european space

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agency we have our own transportation

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vehicle atv that deliver goods to the

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space station we have our module here

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columbus that is attached to the

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international space station so it's

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really uh good for isa that we can all

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now also get this function as a

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commander of the international space

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station and also i think for the

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partnership it's very good because i

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hope soon after me also we will have

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representatives from csa and from japan

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the jaxa space agency become commander

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of this the international space station

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and it's really a sign that this

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international corporation this wonderful

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project of the international space

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station really works on all levels

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barrett mike for so long we've heard

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about how the six-person expanded crew

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would make it so much easier to do much

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more science rather than just keeping

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the station flying how's that working

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out and can you give us a couple of

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well i think that's been absolutely the

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case i was here during expedition 19 and

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we were working pretty hard uh trying to

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get ready for six person crew parley and

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just trying to do the scheduled

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maintenance and getting the station

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ready for the increased payloads

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activities and our worlds got better

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once we went to six person crew we could

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become immediately more productive and

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improved which means that we had a very

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good pace that we could sustain for the

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remaining uh four and a half months or

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so there are times here when all of us

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are working totally different payloads

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and the only challenge we have is just

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the number of communication lines we

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have to the ground but when you hear all

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the calm going to the jaxa center in

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japan to huntsville uh here in the u.s

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uh to uh coal cc and in europe and then

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russia you get an idea that this is a

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very vibrant platform with a lot going

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kennedy space center let me let me stick

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with you mike for a few moments if i

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could uh you're coming home in a couple

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of days so let me ask the standard

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reporter questions uh what are you going

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to miss

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and what are you looking forward to the

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well i really going to miss this station

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there's a couple of aspects of it

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float and fly fairly proficiently it

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takes a little bit of time to to really

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lusa would call deep adaptation to

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spaceflight really does take some time

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and i think i've finally gotten there

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and the earth views are just amazing and

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i'm going to miss those

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as much as anything i'm going to miss

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the times around the galley table with

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this crew that we've had up here we've

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just really worked well together and had

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a tremendous fun amount of fun up here

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but the big magnet on the ground of

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course is my family i have a kind of a

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wonderful crazy family that i've really

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missed a lot and i'm looking forward to

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getting back with them

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hey a couple more from me for you real

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quick you guys were checking out the

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tma-14 vehicle the other day and i saw

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mention of some issue with posigrade

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thrusters that's not any kind of a

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problem for you guys is it for undocking

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the technical aspects of that issue but

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change to our plans our undocking is on

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time our deorbit burn is nominal so uh

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okay and one last one from me for mike

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re-adaptation process interesting what

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good a shape as i could be up here we've

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which i've been working on fairly

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months and it's the first time that

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we've really had that kind of loading in

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the bike and i've tried to hit every

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session of exercise i can

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and i think i'm about as good as i can

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be i'm not a young guy anymore and

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there are certainly some challenges

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associated with reentry and getting back

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to the gravity vector but i'm certainly

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going to give it my best shot and

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hopefully go through it okay and as

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guys this is peter again and this

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question is for nicole nicole of course

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uh a former uh worker at kennedy space

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center and with a shuttle program

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winding down right now layoffs have

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but at atk and you tower they make the

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srbs for the shuttle can you talk to us

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a little bit about the institutional

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memory and the importance of that and

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the experience for people who may be

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and the importance of that as nasa moves

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the institutional memory is uh hugely

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impact by looking towards the the future

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programs and utilizing those skills as

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often that you get to find out that

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you're making another space flight while

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you're making one yet a couple weeks ago

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that's exactly what happened what was it

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the final planned shuttle crew while

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to the mission and we look forward to

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everyone knows what a wonderful vehicle

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this is bill again let me ask this

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morning he wishes he could stay for a

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guys then had to go off and do some

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experiments on quote the loss of dignity

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science and technology but that's not

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space program there's a large arts uh

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so uh if we can reach out to them and

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explain why it's important to uh venture

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through uh gifted people like gila

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this time i will be gone the uh the

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winter and uh spring last time it was

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the basically the summer and fall so

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i'll miss the the other half of the

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events that happened in the year so that

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means that

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we'll have missed everybody's birthday

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at least once anniversary of course

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births and

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other events that happen and it's always

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tough to for all of us

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to miss those things on board we've got

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a lot of resources on board that help us

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stay in touch with our family and

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friends

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so that we can at least vicariously

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participate in those events so that

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helps a lot

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well thanks very much to all of you and

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and mike a safe ride home in a couple of

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days and we'll talk with you again soon

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thank you very much