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good morning thank you for joining us

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here at nasa kennedy space center's

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launch pad 39a the sts-130 crew is here

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for their terminal countdown

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demonstration test and would like to

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answer a few questions it's my pleasure

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to introduce the commander of space

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shuttle endeavor commander george zamka

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thanks andrea

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boy good morning great to see you all

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another great morning here at the

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kennedy space center we've had a great

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trip so far

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today as you can see we're here

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at the

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launch pad and we're going to do some

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emergency drill training today just so

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we don't have to worry about things on

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launch day

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and we're ready to take any questions

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hi good morning i'm james dean from

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florida today

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good morning you guys are are kicking

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off what obviously could be a historic

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year for the program um first of the

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last five flights if uh things fly out

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on time this year and finishing station

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assembly so i'm just wondering how much

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for colonel zamka or whomever would like

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to comment how much is that on your mind

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as you prepare for your final flight and

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um one of the last

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uh major construction missions for the

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station james i think i'm going to give

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that to our senior veteran flyer steve

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thanks i think

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you know we're we're thinking about

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sts-130 every minute of every day but it

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occurs to me having worked on the space

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shuttle a really long time

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um

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that when we come back

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the reality of what this year really

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means to the space shuttle program is

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going to kind of set in and it's

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bittersweet you know we all love the

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shuttle look at that grand thing look

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what human beings can do

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and uh

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but you know what

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the history of space travel has shown

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that when one program ends the next

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program is even more exciting and more

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motivating and more compelling to go

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into the future than the one before it

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and we

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don't know exactly what's going to

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happen after the shuttle but we do

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for for kay

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you have

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strong ties to this community as you

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said when you arrived

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still considering merritt island one of

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your homes so just wondering if you

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could talk about

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the excitement of returning again as an

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astronaut preparing to fly into space

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and but also at

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a fairly difficult time as you know for

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the center in the community

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where i imagine many people that that

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you may know many of people who work

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here

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could face layoffs as the program winds

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oh yeah it is great to be back it feels

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like i'm coming home i see so many

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familiar faces and i just feel so

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fortunate to have this experience to

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come from the workforce at the kennedy

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space center and knowing the people that

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work here and also just what it takes to

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process this fantastic vehicle to be

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able to put it into space and conduct

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the complicated missions that that were

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able to perform with this

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so it's just such a

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fantastic experience for me to be able

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to see the other end of it the

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portion of being able to fly this

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yeah we know there's obviously changes

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coming and i know there are a lot of

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concerns among the workforce but these

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folks are strong and they believe in

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space and space exploration and they're

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going to be here to support whatever

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programs are are going to follow on so

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i know a lot of folks are concerned but

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i think that everything will work out

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just fine

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justin ray with

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spaceflightnow.com i guess for the

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commander what is your confidence level

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if the new ammonia hoses are going to be

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ready in time for you guys to to go

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launch on february 7th and and and to do

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a full duration flight wow great

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question uh let me hand that to our lead

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that is a great question and we've been

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kind of following these ammonia lines

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and the story associated with them for

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13 months i think

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folks who are paying close attention

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right now haven't really heard the

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entire story so we've been we've been

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watching them closely for a long time

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last weekend our crew was up to

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huntsville

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at marshall actually getting a chance to

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see the first line as it was coming

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together and actually put it on a test

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rig to make sure that it was going to do

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the job that it was intended we're

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expecting this saturday to fly up and

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see all four lines in a pretty good

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configuration pretty flight

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representative i mean those lines after

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that will actually come down here to the

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case ksc space center for uh for

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processing and installation into the

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orbiter and so right now the schedule

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appears for that set of lines to be a

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couple of days ahead our original plan

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was to do our fit check and our

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opportunity with them next weekend but

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they're they're ahead now and we'll be

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able to do that this saturday which is a

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great news as you you may know the

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program's also pursuing a second set of

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lines that would allow us to

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launch at a slightly slightly delayed

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launch date with a full full capability

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for node three so the program's pursuing

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two courses but plan one that we're

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moving forward with right now is

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actually ahead of schedule like i said

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giving us that chance to do a fit check

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a week early and that's really good news

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as we move forward to flight

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the microphone can you just sort of give

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us a snapshot of each of your three evas

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your content changed given the the

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changes in the and the ammonia jumpers

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questions to ask the the first one kind

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of the official content for our flight

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has been relatively fixed that's one of

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the nice things about bringing a new

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module and a big construction flight to

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the space station if we're bringing node

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entail taking care of node three and

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getting it on board the uh the space

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station so our first spacewalk will uh

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involve nick patrick and i heading out

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lab thermal control system so that we'll

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will actually have cooling and allow

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able to open the windows and complete

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the outfitting of all three of those

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shuttle itself a little bit basic how

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rocket and uh during the launch phase uh

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the commander colonel zamka and myself

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are both trained to fly it manually

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normally the computers fly it for the

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ascent but but we can take over and fly

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familiar with that and then the third

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for landing and again the commander and

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pilot both do a lot of training for that

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practicing landing here at the shuttle

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dives to get ready for the landing day

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gulfstream too it's a about a

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them to deploy in flight so the engines

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jet than it is a normal airplane

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overruns here but we do land a lot

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faster than normal airliners so it's

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nice to have that long piece of concrete

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in front of us just a quick one for

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nicholas i notice you're interested in

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flying yourself what do you fly in the

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in the uk

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i uh i learned to fly in the royal air

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force volunteer reserve at university a

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british aerospace british aerospace

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bulldog team arc one um i came back to

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the states uh to grad school and uh

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obviously i've stayed here ever since

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before i got assigned to this flight i

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used to spend time as a flight

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instructor and i like to fly uh all

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kinds of light aircraft and helicopters

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um chris gebhardt with

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nasaspaceflight.com with uh one for

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terry i believe um could you describe

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some of the robotics operations that are

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going to be used on this mission in

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terms of getting the node and cupola

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into their correct positions sure

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there's a lot of robotics going on in

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the flight and actually everybody on the

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crew will be doing parts of them at

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times

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we use the shuttle arm mainly for

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inspection so we'll grab the the boom

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and use that to inspect the shuttle

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before we dock and after we undock the

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the main meat of the robotics once we

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once we are docked we'll be using the

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station arm the ssrms

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first of all to grab node three during

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the first spacewalk

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kay and i are doing a lot of the station

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arm work together we're going to grab

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node 3 pull it out of the shuttle

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payload bay and attach it to the

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side the left side or the port side of

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the station

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and then we're going to use the same arm

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on a different day to grab the cupola

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which is launched on the end of node

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three and it has to be launched there

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because that's the only way that it fits

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in the shuttle payload bay we're going

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to take it off the end of the node and

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then attach it to the bottom of the node

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so it'll be facing the earth and it'll

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also have a good view of most of the

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station

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and then later in the flight bob and

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nick are going to take that same arm the

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big station arm and grab what's called

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pma3 it's an uh an adapter that allows

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the shuttle to dock to the station it's

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one of our three pmas they're going to

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grab that and move it so those are the

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main station robotic operations that

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we're doing

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um and for the entire crew what sort of

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in-flight experiments are you going to

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be doing on this flight

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flight experiment said bobber nick

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uh we've got uh

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we've got the well let me give this to

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we actually have a limited number of

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payloads on this on this flight we

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actually have a cells and viruses

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experiment uh that will will launch in

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the middeck we actually won't have it

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powered so we won't be taking care of

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cells on on the way uphill we'll swap

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that apparatus out with one that's on

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board the space station nick's actually

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going to perform that swap out to

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provide them with a new

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incubator if you will to have on orbit

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on the on the space station we're also

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going to be flying a a freezer a a

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glacier is the payload name so as you

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can imagine it's probably pretty cold on

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the inside but we'll be flying that up

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with with some samples inside um in a uh

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also in a cold bag that will get

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transferred over to the space station

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then we'll bring back some frozen

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biological samples from the the station

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crew primarily medical data that's been

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collected on the on the crew members

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hi i'm sandra frederick from the

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washington times this question is for

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terry

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you you mentioned you've spent a lot of

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time in training um but you haven't

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really seen the shuttle up close what

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was your first impression of the

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endeavor and are you flying anything

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from home

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this is a beautiful vehicle we have a

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great view here

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it's just amazing to to see the space

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shuttle i think what stands out to me is

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how big it is uh when you walk up to it

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it's just such a large

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vehicle the external tank the solid

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rocket boosters it's amazing to think of

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that vehicle weighing you know almost 4

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million pounds it's just impressive

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and yes i am flying a few things from

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maryland

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one of the things is from the aberdeen

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ironbirds

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i've got something from my high school

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oakland mills high school a banner from

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them

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and uh so a few momentum mementos from

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maryland

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the next question uh question is for

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hi there you're the veteran on the on

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the three flights that you've been on

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have been all on discovery so you're

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going on endeavor for the first time uh

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is she any different than

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than discovery yeah in a way i'm a i

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guess i'm a rookie aren't i'm an

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endeavor rookie

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yeah first time flyer on endeavor um

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yeah i'm all excited to uh to fly

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another space shuttle i haven't seen

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much of her tomorrow i get to climb in

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uh

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when she's pretty much in the flight

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config and take a look around and i'm

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kind of curious myself to see if i

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notice any differences between discovery

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and endeavor but

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it's amazing that we have even more than

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one of these things isn't it

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that's all the time we have for

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questions if we could have you stand

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just for a moment for a photo