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well good evening it's wonderful to be

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here at the Kennedy Space Center it's

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great to see you it's a beautiful

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evening and this is a very special trip

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for us it marks the transition for us

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from flight preparation and training to

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the operational stage of our flight

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we're looking forward to flying this

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flight here in just a few weeks this

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week we're going to do several things

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we're going to start by tonight

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doing some landings training Terry and I

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will do some and then later in the week

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we're going to see endeavour in its

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launch configuration we'll see the node

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3 tranquility module and the cupola

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attached to it in the payload Bay we're

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also going to get some range briefs and

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some briefs on the status of Endeavour

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which has been a great vehicle and it

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sounds like it's in great shape we are

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also going to practice our launch count

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at the end of the week and that will

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involve the team here at the Cape and

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also our launch team back in Houston so

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we're looking forward to that and what

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I'm gonna do is I'm gonna let each of

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the crew members introduce themselves to

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you and I'm gonna start off with our

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pilot terry virts hello i'm terry virts

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from columbia maryland and i'm really

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excited to be here this is my first

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countdown test and i'm looking forward

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to a good week of training and going

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through all the practice countdown for

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the first time and next up is kay hire

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our mission specialist one it's good to

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be back at KSC I'm Kay hire originally

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from Mobile Alabama but also consider

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Merritt Island Florida homes so great to

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be here and really looking forward to

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working with all the the great hardware

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that's been prepared for us here folks

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have worked really hard and we're very

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happy to be able to take this fantastic

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vehicle on orbit so next up is mission

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specialist 2 Steve Robinson I'm Steve

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Robinson from Sacramento California

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really glad to be here we just flew over

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endeavour out on the pad there and she

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looks just beautiful we can't wait to

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borrow her for a couple of weeks next

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step is ms3 Nick Patrick thank you Steve

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I'm Nicholas Patrick originally from

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North Yorkshire in the UK but I've been

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here in the States for about 20 years

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I'm very excited to be back at KSC for

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my second tcdt it's always a fun and

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exciting week and like Steve I'm looking

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forward to borrowing endeavour for a few

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weeks early next month next up is our

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ms3 Bob Bank ms4 sorry Bob Behnken well

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thank you Nick

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I'm Bob Behnken like like Nick said I'm

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from st. Louis Missouri and I'll be one

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of the spacewalkers with Nick on this

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upcoming flight here I'm really excited

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to get launched here in February and

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take a Dever back into orbit endeavour

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was the vehicle that I flew on my my

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last flight and I'm sure it'll give us a

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just as good of a ride as she did last

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time so with that thank you guys for

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thanks very much hope to see some you be