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with the launch of sts-129

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and its crew of six astronauts space

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shuttle atlantis will embark on an

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11-day mission as astronauts begin

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stocking the station for life after

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as the number of remaining countdowns

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grows smaller nasa has begun the

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transition from building the

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international space station to

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sustaining and utilizing it after the

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space shuttle fleet is retired

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this 31st mission to the iss marks the

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end of another era as the sts-129 crew

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picks up the last crew member scheduled

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to be brought home from the station on

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after atlantis docks with the iss the

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crew of sts-129 will transfer two

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express logistics carriers to the

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station the two elcs hold large orbital

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replacement units or orus

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some orus will be installed during the

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mission's three spacewalks while others

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are critical spare parts left behind on

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the crew of

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sts-129 is an even mix of three

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previously flown astronauts and three

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marine colonel charlie hobaugh will be

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making his third space flight as he

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commands the sts-129 crew

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on his last mission hobart flew as the

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pilot of sts-118

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i've got a very uh

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by the five crew members on the court

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group and then of course we pick up

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nicole to come home

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navy captain barry wilmore will make his

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first journey into space as the pilot of

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wilmore will be responsible for robotic

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station arms and he will fly the orbiter

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as it undocks from station near the end

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former national football league draft

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pick leland melvin will fly with the

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atlantis crew as mission specialist one

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sts-129 is his second space flight he

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first flew aboard sts-122 in 2008.

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melvin will serve as this mission's

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robotics lead

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mission specialist 2 is marine

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lieutenant colonel randy bresnik on

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sts-129 his first base flight bresnik

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will work outside iss during two

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different spacewalks

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retired navy captain mike foreman

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mission specialist 3 will be riding

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uphill a second time after first flying

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on sts-123

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foreman will exit the space station's

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hatch for two evas as the lead

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dr bobby satcher is mission specialist

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a key objective during sts-129

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the first of six remaining flights

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before the shuttle is retired is to

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bring home current iss flight engineer

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nicole stott stott has been a resident

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a replacement for her so once we bring

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on station will be up and down on soyuz

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so that ends that that rotation as

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bolts batteries everything else that

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to get those attached to stations so

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shuttle goes away when it retires we'll

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have up a lot of spare parts like

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carry several mid deck payloads these

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spinal elongation experiment that

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the schedule for

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sts-129 features two days of robotics

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ahead and install that first express

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timeline as the iv intravehicular

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payload which is the s-band antenna

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melvin and wilmore will fly satcher and

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eight features satcher and bresnik they

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will install the oxygen hp gt the high

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i think history will look very fondly

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upon the international space station as

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you know the greatest engineering marvel

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of its time

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you don't look back at the pyramids or

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the eiffel tower the empire state

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nobody talks about their cost um yes um

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you know that's certainly a factor

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that's important but

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when you look back it's it's the

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the idea the audacity of the challenge

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that you accept to take on as an end

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user i get you know i get to sit up on

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the point and when this thing blasts off

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and and and goes up into orbit to the

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international space station and to be

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honest with you there's many of those

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people that work long hard hours

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that have more time

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invested than i have these people are

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passionate about their jobs and i am

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grateful that they are the flight itself

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is just a snapshot in time and there's

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i i'll always cherish and remember but

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not only your crewmates and spouses

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friends families that are a direct part

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of your crew

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the flight directors of flight control

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team the people at kennedy that support

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the tens of thousands of people that go

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i do