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good afternoon thank you for joining us

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for today's news conference with the

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sts-130 crew we'll start with

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introductions and then questions from

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the media at various nasa centers i'd

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like to introduce commander george zamka

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george was born in jersey city new

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jersey and raised in new york city

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irvington new york

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medellin columbia and rochester hills

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michigan he holds degrees from the

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united states naval academy and florida

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institute of technology he was

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commissioned as a second lieutenant in

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the united states marine corps after

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graduating from the united states naval

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academy and is currently a colonel in

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the u.s marine corps george was selected

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as a nasa astronaut candidate in june

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1998. his first space flight was sts-120

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in october of 2007 where he served as a

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pilot for the 15 day long mission to

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deliver the no two harmony module to the

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international space station george

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thank you nicole

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welcome to the sts-130 crew press

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conference we've got a great mission in

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front of us and we're very anxious to

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get started

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one thing that i want to get out of the

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way is that we have heard in vague terms

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about the activity in washington

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regarding the budget

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we have been focused on our mission

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and any questions

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regarding that matter will be answered

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in that way

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there's a space shuttle with four

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million pounds of propellant and

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international payload strapped to it and

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thousands of bits of hardware to handle

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all with our names on it at pad 39a at

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the cape we've been preparing ourselves

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for this mission for a year and arguably

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we've been preparing for it for most of

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our lives and we get one chance to get

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it right so if you can't understand that

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that has our total focus and attention

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we've not explained our situation as

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astronauts well to

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we are extremely

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fortunate to have been assigned to this

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mission flying in space is a dream for

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all of us and the mission of bringing up

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tranquility and the cupola up to the

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space station is a extra special prize

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that we are particularly humbled and

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grateful for

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thanks to all of the designers planners

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technicians flight controllers and

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trainers

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that have gotten the hardware in us this

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and it's near time for us to take the

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baton and achieve the moment that we

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have all been working for

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we've got a few large themes for our

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the attachment of tranquility and the

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cupola which will change the way

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astronauts live and work on the space

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we've got the supporting evas which

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include the highly choreographed laying

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out and installing of the external

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ammonia lines and the moving of the

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throughout the station into node three

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each of these themes has its challenges

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and disciplines with which this crew

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have become familiar with and trained

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for in the last year

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we're looking forward to seeing how our

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planning and preparation meets with the

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reality of the situation on orbit

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i'd like to take one moment and thank

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the ammonia host team for doing an

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especially great job in generating and

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testing some critical hoses for us in a

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very short amount of time those hoses

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are arguably the heart of this assembly

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mission and without them we'd be having

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a very different discussion today about

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what we were going to do and probably

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not even meeting with you today

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that team went out of their way to allow

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us to verify the fidelity of our

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simulations in the neutral buoyancy

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laboratory so that we knew that when we

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were in space those hoses would attach

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the way we expected them to

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i'd like to introduce the the crew to

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you starting with our pilot colonel

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terry verts of the united states air

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terry was born in baltimore maryland and

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grew up in nearby columbia where on cold

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clear days he may have heard the ringing

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of the chapel bell from the u.s naval

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academy just down the road

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so upon graduation from high school he

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went across country to the air force

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academy and graduated in 1989 with a

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degree in mathematics he went on to fly

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world terry is an extremely capable

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pilot very smart and proactive

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knows all the ins and outs of his side

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of the cockpit and his own tendencies he

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all appropriate times

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which helps us all get along the way get

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on our flight he'll be the lead space

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moving tranquility and the cupola to

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their final homes

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next is our mission specialist one kay

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kaye was born and raised in mobile

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alabama near the naval air station in

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pensacola where all naval aviators get

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kate was one of the early women to enter

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the naval academy and although she

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doesn't care to wear the mantle she has

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quietly and successfully set a pattern

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for other young women to follow that

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want to serve their country in the navy

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she is a captain in the naval reserves

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and has formidable organizational and

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she's somewhat of a walking rolodex able

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to remember facts and details that most

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but that she has used to get us through

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she is the primary shuttle arm operator

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on our flight and is our cupola

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next decay is steve robinson our ms2

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and was blessed with a curiosity and a

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willingness to learn that shows in the

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many adventures experiences and areas of

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expertise that he has

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name any town and steve has either pump

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gas fixed an airplane run a software

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company or raised a bear cub from

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the the cub part i made up

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he has degrees from uc davis and

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sacramento this will be his fourth space

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flight and he has no apparent limit to

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the amount of detail that he can absorb

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he makes a lot of spreadsheets

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outsized left brain lobe he is also a

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rock musician and plays a mean lead

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guitar in the astronaut band on our

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flight we are using steve's spacewalking

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experience by having him dispatch our

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deck as the intravehicular coordinator

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steve is also our expert on bringing

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tranquility to life after she's birthed

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that's nick patrick

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nick was born in north yorkshire

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near london and was raised there and in

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nick has made multiple trips across the

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atlantic while growing up and holds

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we try to get nick to say words like

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issue just because he makes them sound

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better but often he'll just snicker at

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nick worked on boeing airplanes and has

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a keen sense of the human interaction

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with vehicles as well as a slightly

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everything which is great for a crew

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like ours that is worried about missing

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nick is our ev2 and will be attaching

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he will also be moving pma3 out to the

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colonel bob becken who is also our ev1

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bob was born in crib corps outside st

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louis missouri and has degrees from

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bob was an air force f-22 engineer

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it's a very serious and complex

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discipline requiring forethought but

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bob is always way ahead of events

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he's a great communicator having built

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thank you so much george for those

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of the room if you can uh please state

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your name and affiliation uh phil

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a pretty challenging flight it's a

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critical module to get up on board it

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electrical data all that stuff and then

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the cupola which strikes me as a really

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interesting piece of hardware if you

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is challenging and it's unique in the

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sense that we are bringing up

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go up there and find out how to uh

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interact with our station crew members

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which have their operating methods well

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established they've been up there they

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know that station very well we're going

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that we'll be using to move those racks

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but we haven't worked with the racks the

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way they have so in a sense we're going

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up there we'll have to build a team very

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quickly and learn how to work together

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to establish

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node three in its uh permanent

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configuration

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but is the baseland plan going in not to

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move any racks and then is it is it

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looking like you got to have a mission

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extension day to get the racks in there

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are you thinking you can do it during

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the the nominal yeah well the baseline

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up up until a week ago was for us to to

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move those on flight day eight and uh

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what we're going to do now is we're

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going to try to get some uh

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processing out of the the upa and get

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that done and we're hoping to get those

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racks moved in on to what would be a new

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flight day 11.

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so it's still out there we're trained

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for it

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we consider ourselves on standby ready

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to execute that plan

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and we think we're going to get there

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genius and sarah abc news for nick

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patrick and bob banken which spacewalks

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do you think will be the most

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well i guess um i guess for for nick

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maybe the i don't want to speak for him

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but maybe the first one would be the

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most challenging because this will be

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his first opportunity to go out of the

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hatch and perform a spacewalk so i would

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imagine there'll be a lot of new things

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to see

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and to be distracted by maybe during

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that first spacewalk so that's probably

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the one he's looking the most forward to

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and might consider the most challenging

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physically i think the second spacewalk

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where we actually route the ammonia

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lines and the associated mli that

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protects those ammonia lines to keep

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them warm if we ever did have to shut

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down one of the loops will be very

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physically challenging and it's a very

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complex and we're really counting on

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steve robinson to walk us through all

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the steps and keep us from missing

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anything as we execute that one i think

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that's probably the the most challenging

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one

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more challenge for us which is the third

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eva it's also a very full eva and it

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will be our third one we'll be the most

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tired for that one so i think we'll have

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to keep our vigilance up to make sure

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other follow-ups go ahead

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hi robert perlman with collectspace.com

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uh a question for all of you since uh

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weather permitting you'll be launching

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on super bowl sunday uh where do you all

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fall in terms of uh rooting for teams

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and

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um are you all unanimous for the saints

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i can answer part of that i grew up from

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in baltimore so i grew up with colts

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banners and stuff in my bedroom so i've

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been a colts fan and uh but my son is a

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big saints fan ever since reggie bush

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went there so we kind of have both fans

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both sides of the super bowl covered in

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i'm hoping my family will be glued to

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uh eric berger with the houston

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chronicle it seems unlikely but in case

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there is uh a repair to a heat shield

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warranted outside the vehicle would

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steve go out and do that repair or what

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no

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we're built uh

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on this mission to have uh two

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spacewalkers and that's nick and bob and

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and uh steve is is our iv and he's uh

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uh he's very very important in that role

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and uh

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so where something uh like that to

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happen we'd have to do a repair outside

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we'd use

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steve's experience inside to make sure

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that bob and nick

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affected great techniques and a good

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all right center

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hi greg dobbs with hd net television uh

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commander you said that the installation

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of tranquility and the cupola will

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change your words change the way

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astronauts on the station live and work

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would you expand on that oh sure uh well

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it'll it'll make it easier for them for

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one thing currently we have a lot of

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those

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uh life support racks uh spread

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throughout the station and uh they're in

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the locations where uh crew members are

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either doing scientific experiments or

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exercising or eating or or other things

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and then the volume in which they're

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doing all that is is very small

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once those racks have been moved into

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tranquility

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they will be out of the laboratory

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spaces so the labs can be for science

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and

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tranquility will become the home for the

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the water regeneration system and

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the atmospheric revitalization and in

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the in those sites and also exercise the

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uh in its final configuration the uh the

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a red and and t2 will be in there so uh

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from that end uh that'll be a big change

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for the astronauts the other one is just

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having the cupola on the underside of

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tranquility uh to have direct views for

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their uh robotic operations

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and uh also just a great window on the

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world to be able to look outside it'll

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be kind of a hemispheric

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uh place where they can look out and see

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up here on the front row

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this is jill tulk i'm representing two

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different entities from the bay area bay

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area houston magazine and also the la

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mirinda sun in the east bay area of san

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francisco a dual question for both nick

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and steve

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from a human interest perspective how is

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130 different or similar than your

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adventures on 114 and 116 respectively

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especially considering the the timeline

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they're very different missions

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116 uh was among other things a crew

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rotation mission we took sunny williams

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up and uh

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that consumed some of our time i wasn't

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doing any of the spacewalks on that

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mission so for me personally this is a a

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very different experience both in

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training and in

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and in execution but i think overall

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they'll be uh fairly similar in that

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there'll be a a lot of drama in space

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we're doing exciting things on both

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missions um

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the cupola and node three are probably a

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little bit more exciting than p5 was so

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that should be more fun to watch but i

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would say the the i hope the experience

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will be just as good on this mission i

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i'm not letting nick speak before me

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my last mission was the return to flight

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mission um and uh today's a great day to

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remember uh

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how we how we got to that state and it

446
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was a very successful mission but there

447
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was a lot unknown we did an awful lot of

448
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things that were brand new you know we

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came up to the station for the first

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time did that big flip over so that we

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could inspect it but you know the first

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time we had the boom and inspected

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ourselves and first time we did any kind

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of repair on the heat

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heat shield and there are many new

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things that we had a lot of questions

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about um

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and uh it was a big resupply mission

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because nobody'd been to the space

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station for a long time this one's very

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different this is a this is a big

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construction mission we're gonna go and

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add not just a new room on the house

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um but probably the most complex room on

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the house that you know as you've heard

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us talk it's going to be a real

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challenging mission space

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shuttle crews don't normally do this we

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normally add on the room that gets sort

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of outfitted

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um later so these two guys are going

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outside to hook it up the rest of the

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four of us are inside hooking it up and

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uh so that that makes it a very unusual

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mission in the whole not just our own

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but in the whole string of nasal shuttle

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thanks for that i have a

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kind of a little bit of a follow-up for

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you steve

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earlier this month there was a

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presentation about the apollo 11 rocks

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and the everest rock that was retrieved

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by your

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crewmate on sts-95 so here it is that

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particular

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payload you might say is going up to be

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installed into cupola so what are your

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thoughts and feelings about that where

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it kind of follows along with what you

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just said about

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things progressing

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imagine

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being in the cupola

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and

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looking out this huge series of windows

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and looking at the moon and having a

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piece of the moon right next to you

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what's that going to be like i have no

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idea i'll come back and tell you it

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hi

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and i have a question for um nick and

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bob for the spacewalks

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you guys are the only spacewalkers on

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this flight you're doing all three

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spacewalks and you've done all kinds of

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training knowing what technical steps

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you have to do what kind of endurance

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training do you do so that you don't by

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the end of that third spacewalk

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feel completely wiped out what kind of

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things do you do to keep yourself

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both of us spend a fair amount of time

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at the gym in preparation for this but

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the the best way to prepare for

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spacewalks is to do spacewalks and we

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have the neutral buoyancy laboratory

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that facility provides us an excellent

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opportunity to understand the level of

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fatigue that your body is going to see

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as you go through the walks and one of

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the things we've been very careful about

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as we've uh designed the training for

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this mission is to make sure that we had

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those spacewalks close enough together

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when we did them in the training

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laboratory that we would get that same

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level of fatigue by the time the third

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run ran around we'd have that same level

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of fatigue that we should expect on

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orbit and we would learn how our bodies

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responded to it and also the way that we

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needed to react whether it was to slow

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down a little bit or to back each other

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up a little bit more those sorts of

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things so we we tried to build the

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training template to give us two or

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three opportunities like that with uh

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runs really close together to simulate

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the on-orbit experience

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my experience from my last flight having

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done three ebas

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on the previous mission was that uh

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being able to see that in the nbl really

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did prepare me well for the the time on

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orbit and i'll uh i'll leave it to nick

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to see what he's expecting i guess here

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i i'm imagining from my experience in

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the nbl

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that three evas almost back to back with

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just a day or two between each of them

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is a bit like going to the gym

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three days in a row or three days a week

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and exercising exactly the same muscle

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groups and maybe exercising them quite a

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lot

556
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you start out with some eggs and

557
00:19:26,789 --> 00:19:24,320
and hopefully those don't grow to the

558
00:19:29,110 --> 00:19:26,799
point at which your your uh capability

559
00:19:30,630 --> 00:19:29,120
is limited and my experience

560
00:19:32,230 --> 00:19:30,640
and i think it was bob's too and from

561
00:19:33,430 --> 00:19:32,240
our practice doing this in the nbl is

562
00:19:35,190 --> 00:19:33,440
that

563
00:19:37,190 --> 00:19:35,200
these evas really are going to be

564
00:19:38,950 --> 00:19:37,200
manageable space the way they are i need

565
00:19:40,470 --> 00:19:38,960
to say thanks to steve because when we

566
00:19:41,190 --> 00:19:40,480
were first assigned to this mission and

567
00:19:42,870 --> 00:19:41,200
uh

568
00:19:45,590 --> 00:19:42,880
we found out i would i was doing some of

569
00:19:48,549 --> 00:19:45,600
these evas with bob steve gave me his uh

570
00:19:50,549 --> 00:19:48,559
hand exerciser from sts-114 and i'd been

571
00:19:52,070 --> 00:19:50,559
carrying that with me in my car so

572
00:19:54,070 --> 00:19:52,080
hopefully we're well prepared i think we

573
00:19:55,750 --> 00:19:54,080
are and that's just happening i can

574
00:19:57,830 --> 00:19:55,760
speak for these guys these are even even

575
00:20:03,190 --> 00:19:57,840
though they went to you know mit and

576
00:20:07,510 --> 00:20:05,270
uh but uh you know it is it's kind of

577
00:20:09,590 --> 00:20:07,520
like going to the gym all day uh while

578
00:20:10,870 --> 00:20:09,600
you're currently at the same time in a

579
00:20:13,350 --> 00:20:10,880
chess tournament

580
00:20:15,510 --> 00:20:13,360
it's a very very uh um

581
00:20:17,430 --> 00:20:15,520
challenging mental exercise and to plan

582
00:20:19,110 --> 00:20:17,440
ahead every second and these guys are

583
00:20:21,830 --> 00:20:19,120
the best you're gonna see they're really

584
00:20:23,029 --> 00:20:21,840
awesome at that and so that's a good

585
00:20:24,710 --> 00:20:23,039
point when i get out of the pool i know

586
00:20:27,110 --> 00:20:24,720
my brain is generally more tired than my

587
00:20:29,590 --> 00:20:27,120
arms so

588
00:20:32,149 --> 00:20:29,600
okay next question

589
00:20:35,270 --> 00:20:32,159
i'm cece varela with univision national

590
00:20:37,990 --> 00:20:35,280
news this is for commander samkha

591
00:20:41,190 --> 00:20:38,000
you are the only one who has latino

592
00:20:43,669 --> 00:20:41,200
blood in you and i'm sure all latinos

593
00:20:46,149 --> 00:20:43,679
have great expectations especially when

594
00:20:49,350 --> 00:20:46,159
they see somebody going

595
00:20:51,190 --> 00:20:49,360
into space what can you tell them what

596
00:20:53,430 --> 00:20:51,200
are you bringing with you

597
00:20:54,549 --> 00:20:53,440
in this mission uh what part of our

598
00:20:55,909 --> 00:20:54,559
latino

599
00:20:58,149 --> 00:20:55,919
traditions

600
00:21:01,590 --> 00:20:58,159
education background

601
00:21:04,230 --> 00:21:01,600
are you bringing or taking with you

602
00:21:06,390 --> 00:21:04,240
sure i guess uh

603
00:21:07,669 --> 00:21:06,400
the the part of my latino background

604
00:21:10,549 --> 00:21:07,679
that i bring up with me comes from my

605
00:21:13,110 --> 00:21:10,559
mother who was born in bogota colombia

606
00:21:14,390 --> 00:21:13,120
uh she was she came to the united states

607
00:21:16,470 --> 00:21:14,400
and her profession was as a

608
00:21:18,390 --> 00:21:16,480
cytopathologist so she was involved in

609
00:21:20,630 --> 00:21:18,400
sciences and got me interested in

610
00:21:22,710 --> 00:21:20,640
sciences when i was young and

611
00:21:24,470 --> 00:21:22,720
she also gave me the the discipline to

612
00:21:26,789 --> 00:21:24,480
study hard and persevere when when

613
00:21:27,669 --> 00:21:26,799
things weren't going my way so

614
00:21:32,549 --> 00:21:27,679
from

615
00:21:34,710 --> 00:21:32,559
what got me through school and

616
00:21:37,270 --> 00:21:34,720
got me working hard enough where i could

617
00:21:40,070 --> 00:21:37,280
do something like this someday

618
00:21:41,510 --> 00:21:40,080
i've got a lot of cousins

619
00:21:43,350 --> 00:21:41,520
that are

620
00:21:45,190 --> 00:21:43,360
watching and i'm hoping i don't let them

621
00:21:46,870 --> 00:21:45,200
down i don't think i will and

622
00:21:49,669 --> 00:21:46,880
uh

623
00:21:52,630 --> 00:21:49,679
and we we're bringing some special items

624
00:21:55,270 --> 00:21:52,640
up uh uh some personal mementos and and

625
00:21:59,029 --> 00:21:55,280
also some other items uh that will come

626
00:22:00,149 --> 00:21:59,039
to space and come back with me okay

627
00:22:01,190 --> 00:22:00,159
next question i believe here on the

628
00:22:03,190 --> 00:22:01,200
right

629
00:22:04,230 --> 00:22:03,200
jim albert with nbc news and good to see

630
00:22:06,870 --> 00:22:04,240
you all here

631
00:22:08,549 --> 00:22:06,880
for kay as the cupola specialist you're

632
00:22:09,830 --> 00:22:08,559
going to be the first one there to get

633
00:22:12,070 --> 00:22:09,840
the views probably the first one to put

634
00:22:13,270 --> 00:22:12,080
your nose on the glass but but you're

635
00:22:15,110 --> 00:22:13,280
going to enjoy it but how are you going

636
00:22:16,950 --> 00:22:15,120
to share those views with us on the

637
00:22:18,549 --> 00:22:16,960
ground what kind of tv views do you plan

638
00:22:20,470 --> 00:22:18,559
how much are you going to bring us along

639
00:22:21,750 --> 00:22:20,480
vicariously with the views that you

640
00:22:24,070 --> 00:22:21,760
expect to get

641
00:22:25,909 --> 00:22:24,080
right well when we very first go in

642
00:22:27,350 --> 00:22:25,919
there obviously the shutters will be

643
00:22:29,510 --> 00:22:27,360
closed on the windows so we won't

644
00:22:32,149 --> 00:22:29,520
actually be able to see out and we have

645
00:22:33,750 --> 00:22:32,159
a lot of equipment we have to rearrange

646
00:22:35,830 --> 00:22:33,760
inside the cupola

647
00:22:38,149 --> 00:22:35,840
actually we very first install node

648
00:22:39,990 --> 00:22:38,159
three the cupola is on the port end and

649
00:22:42,710 --> 00:22:40,000
we'll be moving it a couple of days

650
00:22:44,310 --> 00:22:42,720
later to the uh nader or the bottom if

651
00:22:46,789 --> 00:22:44,320
you will of the space station so that

652
00:22:49,110 --> 00:22:46,799
the the largest window the cupola will

653
00:22:51,029 --> 00:22:49,120
face down towards the earth that's the

654
00:22:52,789 --> 00:22:51,039
axial window number seven and then we'll

655
00:22:54,950 --> 00:22:52,799
have six windows that are around the

656
00:22:57,990 --> 00:22:54,960
radius of the cupola to be able to look

657
00:22:59,750 --> 00:22:58,000
out in those other angle views so it's

658
00:23:01,270 --> 00:22:59,760
actually later in the mission that we'll

659
00:23:03,830 --> 00:23:01,280
eventually get to the point where we can

660
00:23:05,350 --> 00:23:03,840
open the shutters uh the our space

661
00:23:07,830 --> 00:23:05,360
walkers will be

662
00:23:10,310 --> 00:23:07,840
releasing some launch restraint bolts

663
00:23:11,909 --> 00:23:10,320
that are on holding the shutters closed

664
00:23:13,190 --> 00:23:11,919
because of the vibrations that we see

665
00:23:14,870 --> 00:23:13,200
during launch

666
00:23:17,590 --> 00:23:14,880
and we're done with those by the time

667
00:23:20,070 --> 00:23:17,600
we've got it installed on spacewalk eva

668
00:23:21,990 --> 00:23:20,080
number three they'll be removing those

669
00:23:23,669 --> 00:23:22,000
bolts and we'll be able to test and

670
00:23:25,750 --> 00:23:23,679
operate the shutters and see our first

671
00:23:28,470 --> 00:23:25,760
views we will definitely be bringing

672
00:23:30,710 --> 00:23:28,480
along some still cameras as well as

673
00:23:32,950 --> 00:23:30,720
video cameras to try to

674
00:23:35,430 --> 00:23:32,960
capture those views as best we can to

675
00:23:36,390 --> 00:23:35,440
share with you but i can guarantee you

676
00:23:38,789 --> 00:23:36,400
it's

677
00:23:41,190 --> 00:23:38,799
we can provide high definition pictures

678
00:23:43,029 --> 00:23:41,200
but it's still never like the real thing

679
00:23:44,390 --> 00:23:43,039
of actually being there and having the

680
00:23:46,390 --> 00:23:44,400
full expanse

681
00:23:49,590 --> 00:23:46,400
spread out in front of us so we'll try

682
00:23:52,149 --> 00:23:49,600
to share it as best we can and

683
00:23:54,630 --> 00:23:52,159
let you see the views uh

684
00:23:56,870 --> 00:23:54,640
as soon as we can

685
00:23:58,870 --> 00:23:56,880
as the rookie on the flight you'll be

686
00:24:01,110 --> 00:23:58,880
using that window too sure and to look

687
00:24:03,269 --> 00:24:01,120
for things what kind of advice have all

688
00:24:04,870 --> 00:24:03,279
the veteran crew members been giving you

689
00:24:06,470 --> 00:24:04,880
and how much of that advice do you think

690
00:24:09,350 --> 00:24:06,480
was is useful to you what do you how

691
00:24:13,190 --> 00:24:11,830
right that's that's the challenge is uh

692
00:24:15,190 --> 00:24:13,200
finding out what they were telling me

693
00:24:16,549 --> 00:24:15,200
was true and what wasn't true but uh

694
00:24:18,630 --> 00:24:16,559
they've been great i've gotten a lot of

695
00:24:21,510 --> 00:24:18,640
good words i think steve probably gave

696
00:24:23,430 --> 00:24:21,520
me the best advice and and uh he said in

697
00:24:25,350 --> 00:24:23,440
your first day in space

698
00:24:27,269 --> 00:24:25,360
you learn more than it's like learning

699
00:24:30,390 --> 00:24:27,279
your entire lifetime of experiences at

700
00:24:31,990 --> 00:24:30,400
learning how to walk and move and and

701
00:24:34,149 --> 00:24:32,000
just really daily things that you take

702
00:24:35,669 --> 00:24:34,159
for granted here on earth you can take a

703
00:24:37,510 --> 00:24:35,679
bottle of water and you set it there and

704
00:24:39,029 --> 00:24:37,520
you don't think about it but in space

705
00:24:40,230 --> 00:24:39,039
you have to think about

706
00:24:41,190 --> 00:24:40,240
are you going to use velcro are you

707
00:24:42,310 --> 00:24:41,200
going to have a tether are you just

708
00:24:44,310 --> 00:24:42,320
going to let it float for a second

709
00:24:45,990 --> 00:24:44,320
before you have to grab it again and

710
00:24:47,190 --> 00:24:46,000
and when you push off the wall you don't

711
00:24:48,470 --> 00:24:47,200
want to push too hard because then

712
00:24:49,510 --> 00:24:48,480
you'll go flying and you'll bonk your

713
00:24:50,470 --> 00:24:49,520
head so

714
00:24:52,230 --> 00:24:50,480
um

715
00:24:53,750 --> 00:24:52,240
really little basic things that we all

716
00:24:54,950 --> 00:24:53,760
learned when we were one year old you

717
00:24:56,789 --> 00:24:54,960
have to learn

718
00:24:58,230 --> 00:24:56,799
and everybody says that you learn it

719
00:25:00,789 --> 00:24:58,240
very quickly in the in the first few

720
00:25:02,789 --> 00:25:00,799
days so i think that's that's going to

721
00:25:04,789 --> 00:25:02,799
be a lot of fun learning how to exist in

722
00:25:06,149 --> 00:25:04,799
outer space is going to be very cool

723
00:25:07,669 --> 00:25:06,159
one last question

724
00:25:09,590 --> 00:25:07,679
some of you may say yes but i don't

725
00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:09,600
think most of you will

726
00:25:12,310 --> 00:25:11,120
you're trading on this flight you're

727
00:25:14,470 --> 00:25:12,320
training on this flight you're focused

728
00:25:16,230 --> 00:25:14,480
on it and and without any questions

729
00:25:18,070 --> 00:25:16,240
about budget or futures

730
00:25:28,149 --> 00:25:18,080
how many of you expect this to be your

731
00:25:36,149 --> 00:25:30,630
i'm glad to see no hands

732
00:25:41,029 --> 00:25:38,789
um i'm just for k i'm marianne dyson

733
00:25:42,789 --> 00:25:41,039
with national space society you're a

734
00:25:44,870 --> 00:25:42,799
role model for young women and i wonder

735
00:25:46,549 --> 00:25:44,880
if you have some advice for those women

736
00:25:48,789 --> 00:25:46,559
who would like to become shuttle arm

737
00:25:51,669 --> 00:25:48,799
operators or are well stationed arm

738
00:25:54,310 --> 00:25:51,679
operators someday um if are there some

739
00:25:56,390 --> 00:25:54,320
computer games they might want to play

740
00:25:57,909 --> 00:25:56,400
does uh

741
00:26:00,630 --> 00:25:57,919
you know um

742
00:26:02,549 --> 00:26:00,640
i've had so many opportunities i i feel

743
00:26:04,789 --> 00:26:02,559
very fortunate first of all to be a part

744
00:26:06,230 --> 00:26:04,799
of this mission it's just fantastic with

745
00:26:08,230 --> 00:26:06,240
not only the great crew that you see

746
00:26:09,990 --> 00:26:08,240
sitting up here but all the people that

747
00:26:13,269 --> 00:26:10,000
are supporting us

748
00:26:15,350 --> 00:26:13,279
as nasa and as our contractors all

749
00:26:16,630 --> 00:26:15,360
across the country not only here at the

750
00:26:19,750 --> 00:26:16,640
johnson space center at the kennedy

751
00:26:22,149 --> 00:26:19,760
space center marshall space center it's

752
00:26:24,390 --> 00:26:22,159
just such a tremendous team and to be

753
00:26:26,710 --> 00:26:24,400
able to be a part of this working

754
00:26:29,590 --> 00:26:26,720
towards this challenging mission

755
00:26:32,149 --> 00:26:29,600
it's it's very exciting and this

756
00:26:34,549 --> 00:26:32,159
opportunity i could not have predicted

757
00:26:37,110 --> 00:26:34,559
years ago so the advice that i might

758
00:26:39,190 --> 00:26:37,120
give is be ready for opportunities that

759
00:26:41,110 --> 00:26:39,200
you can't even forecast and the way to

760
00:26:42,870 --> 00:26:41,120
be ready is to

761
00:26:45,110 --> 00:26:42,880
start early studying the math and

762
00:26:47,029 --> 00:26:45,120
science making sure that you get a good

763
00:26:48,950 --> 00:26:47,039
educational background that can take you

764
00:26:52,470 --> 00:26:48,960
in whatever direction

765
00:26:53,669 --> 00:26:52,480
may come available to you later on

766
00:26:55,110 --> 00:26:53,679
okay with that we're going to switch

767
00:26:59,190 --> 00:26:55,120
over to kennedy space center and take

768
00:27:02,390 --> 00:27:00,710
hello this is marcia dunham the

769
00:27:04,149 --> 00:27:02,400
associated press

770
00:27:06,390 --> 00:27:04,159
this is the last big construction

771
00:27:08,630 --> 00:27:06,400
mission the last major piece to be

772
00:27:11,190 --> 00:27:08,640
assembled and i'm wondering as you're

773
00:27:13,269 --> 00:27:11,200
leaving once your work is completed you

774
00:27:15,190 --> 00:27:13,279
anticipate a sense of sadness about this

775
00:27:17,669 --> 00:27:15,200
all that the you know the shuttle

776
00:27:25,590 --> 00:27:17,679
program is winding down and its job is

777
00:27:28,310 --> 00:27:26,950
we're all looking at each other marcia

778
00:27:30,630 --> 00:27:28,320
trying to decide now how are we going to

779
00:27:32,710 --> 00:27:30,640
answer this

780
00:27:34,149 --> 00:27:32,720
you know what

781
00:27:36,070 --> 00:27:34,159
i've been with nasa for a long time i

782
00:27:38,549 --> 00:27:36,080
started working for nasa when we were

783
00:27:39,909 --> 00:27:38,559
still designing the space shuttle

784
00:27:42,310 --> 00:27:39,919
and

785
00:27:44,230 --> 00:27:42,320
i think when we pull away from the space

786
00:27:46,070 --> 00:27:44,240
station and look at that

787
00:27:48,789 --> 00:27:46,080
amazing structure that human beings have

788
00:27:50,630 --> 00:27:48,799
put together you think about the

789
00:27:51,590 --> 00:27:50,640
audacity and the confidence that it

790
00:27:54,070 --> 00:27:51,600
takes

791
00:27:55,750 --> 00:27:54,080
to do something that crazy and

792
00:27:58,149 --> 00:27:55,760
successfully have put it together i

793
00:28:00,389 --> 00:27:58,159
think our feeling is going to be of of

794
00:28:03,029 --> 00:28:00,399
pride

795
00:28:05,029 --> 00:28:03,039
a feeling of generations of of engineers

796
00:28:07,669 --> 00:28:05,039
and hard-working people um having done a

797
00:28:09,190 --> 00:28:07,679
job very very well

798
00:28:11,190 --> 00:28:09,200
and most importantly opened up a

799
00:28:13,510 --> 00:28:11,200
laboratory to discover things we just

800
00:28:15,430 --> 00:28:13,520
don't yet know

801
00:28:18,149 --> 00:28:15,440
how could you feel anything but but

802
00:28:19,830 --> 00:28:18,159
thrilled and very proud

803
00:28:21,110 --> 00:28:19,840
to have done something like that so i

804
00:28:24,710 --> 00:28:21,120
think that's probably more like how

805
00:28:29,590 --> 00:28:26,470
thank you and and i wonder what the

806
00:28:31,430 --> 00:28:29,600
protocol is for who and how many can be

807
00:28:33,350 --> 00:28:31,440
inside the cupola when the shutters are

808
00:28:35,269 --> 00:28:33,360
open do you all plan to squish in as

809
00:28:37,510 --> 00:28:35,279
many as possible or

810
00:28:41,190 --> 00:28:37,520
um how do you think that all play out

811
00:28:42,789 --> 00:28:41,200
who gets to have ringside seats

812
00:28:45,190 --> 00:28:42,799
there's not actually a rule on how many

813
00:28:46,630 --> 00:28:45,200
people we can have in there once node 3

814
00:28:48,549 --> 00:28:46,640
is up and working it's going to take a

815
00:28:51,430 --> 00:28:48,559
few days to get the module activated to

816
00:28:52,470 --> 00:28:51,440
have the air fans and filters working

817
00:28:54,630 --> 00:28:52,480
until that time we will have

818
00:28:56,070 --> 00:28:54,640
restrictions but one after

819
00:28:57,590 --> 00:28:56,080
two or three days when it's all hooked

820
00:28:59,029 --> 00:28:57,600
up and running

821
00:29:00,710 --> 00:28:59,039
i think it's going to be up to us to

822
00:29:02,789 --> 00:29:00,720
make sure that that we're safe and that

823
00:29:04,950 --> 00:29:02,799
we have a reasonable number of people

824
00:29:05,830 --> 00:29:04,960
in there and i know that a lot of folks

825
00:29:11,430 --> 00:29:05,840
are going to want to go down there and

826
00:29:16,789 --> 00:29:14,470
todd halverson of florida today um i

827
00:29:19,669 --> 00:29:16,799
think a couple of you are uh graduates

828
00:29:22,470 --> 00:29:19,679
of florida institute of technology and

829
00:29:25,269 --> 00:29:22,480
i'm wondering if uh whom ever

830
00:29:26,549 --> 00:29:25,279
uh has a degree from f.i.t could talk

831
00:29:28,070 --> 00:29:26,559
about

832
00:29:30,070 --> 00:29:28,080
when and

833
00:29:33,190 --> 00:29:30,080
why they went there and what the

834
00:29:38,149 --> 00:29:35,669
i can start with that one i actually

835
00:29:40,310 --> 00:29:38,159
started at florida institut institute of

836
00:29:42,230 --> 00:29:40,320
technology right after i left full-time

837
00:29:44,630 --> 00:29:42,240
active duty with the navy i started

838
00:29:46,070 --> 00:29:44,640
working on my master's degree before i

839
00:29:48,389 --> 00:29:46,080
actually started working at the kennedy

840
00:29:50,470 --> 00:29:48,399
space center and somewhere in the middle

841
00:29:52,789 --> 00:29:50,480
of my first quarter

842
00:29:54,710 --> 00:29:52,799
working or studying at florida institute

843
00:29:58,630 --> 00:29:54,720
of technology i got hired on at the

844
00:30:00,549 --> 00:29:58,640
kennedy space center and was able to

845
00:30:02,470 --> 00:30:00,559
accomplish both at the same time i was

846
00:30:04,549 --> 00:30:02,480
going to school at night and working at

847
00:30:07,110 --> 00:30:04,559
kennedy space around the space shuttle

848
00:30:09,510 --> 00:30:07,120
as a as an engineer and

849
00:30:10,630 --> 00:30:09,520
i went there because they had a great

850
00:30:14,149 --> 00:30:10,640
program

851
00:30:15,909 --> 00:30:14,159
in focusing on space technology and at

852
00:30:18,310 --> 00:30:15,919
that time it was hard to find that type

853
00:30:23,269 --> 00:30:18,320
of degree so it worked out very well for

854
00:30:27,029 --> 00:30:25,269
for me it was uh

855
00:30:28,950 --> 00:30:27,039
going to the the satellite campus that

856
00:30:31,269 --> 00:30:28,960
was at the patuxent river

857
00:30:32,630 --> 00:30:31,279
naval air station and uh i a lot of my

858
00:30:34,389 --> 00:30:32,640
professors were some of the engineers

859
00:30:36,549 --> 00:30:34,399
that i saw around the facility there and

860
00:30:38,710 --> 00:30:36,559
so that made learning uh particularly

861
00:30:40,470 --> 00:30:38,720
enjoyable having uh some of the

862
00:30:42,789 --> 00:30:40,480
harder concepts explained by people that

863
00:30:46,950 --> 00:30:42,799
i knew so well so it was a great place

864
00:30:53,590 --> 00:30:50,789
uh thanks and um kay of course is uh the

865
00:30:55,830 --> 00:30:53,600
first former kennedy space center worker

866
00:30:58,630 --> 00:30:55,840
to be uh selected as an astronaut in

867
00:31:01,750 --> 00:30:58,640
flying space and i and i'm wondering if

868
00:31:04,870 --> 00:31:01,760
uh uh zambo or

869
00:31:07,029 --> 00:31:04,880
others could uh tell me uh describe her

870
00:31:09,750 --> 00:31:07,039
personality for me and what she's like

871
00:31:15,269 --> 00:31:10,630
i

872
00:31:19,669 --> 00:31:17,509
actually you know as as part of the eva

873
00:31:21,430 --> 00:31:19,679
crew um our training is actually quite a

874
00:31:22,950 --> 00:31:21,440
bit different than the folks who are

875
00:31:24,789 --> 00:31:22,960
focusing more on the flight deck and i

876
00:31:26,470 --> 00:31:24,799
know that uh uh steve has been the

877
00:31:28,789 --> 00:31:26,480
person who's kind of cross pollinated

878
00:31:30,950 --> 00:31:28,799
between those uh those two sides of uh

879
00:31:32,549 --> 00:31:30,960
our activities so we don't we don't

880
00:31:34,070 --> 00:31:32,559
spend a lot of time with that with kay

881
00:31:36,070 --> 00:31:34,080
throughout the inter the training flow

882
00:31:38,630 --> 00:31:36,080
for this mission but i think both uh

883
00:31:40,549 --> 00:31:38,640
nick and i you know look to kay as that

884
00:31:42,549 --> 00:31:40,559
person who always has that extra bit of

885
00:31:44,149 --> 00:31:42,559
information someplace either buried in

886
00:31:45,909 --> 00:31:44,159
her head or buried in a piece of paper

887
00:31:47,990 --> 00:31:45,919
that she's got in her crew notebook just

888
00:31:50,310 --> 00:31:48,000
ready to pull it out and give us that

889
00:31:52,070 --> 00:31:50,320
that little extra bit of a bit of

890
00:31:53,990 --> 00:31:52,080
information so that we'll be ready to do

891
00:31:56,230 --> 00:31:54,000
our jobs even better and so we've had

892
00:31:57,669 --> 00:31:56,240
her out at the nbl a couple of times and

893
00:31:59,430 --> 00:31:57,679
she's uh she's

894
00:32:01,110 --> 00:31:59,440
taken an active interest in the

895
00:32:03,190 --> 00:32:01,120
activities that we've done out there

896
00:32:05,430 --> 00:32:03,200
even even though that isn't her primary

897
00:32:07,029 --> 00:32:05,440
responsibility on the mission and we

898
00:32:09,669 --> 00:32:07,039
appreciate that as well so those two

899
00:32:11,830 --> 00:32:09,679
things i think are probably the the the

900
00:32:13,590 --> 00:32:11,840
characteristics of k that i think are

901
00:32:15,669 --> 00:32:13,600
most shining and and make her a great

902
00:32:17,750 --> 00:32:15,679
crew member for us to work with

903
00:32:19,830 --> 00:32:17,760
do you notice that there's only six

904
00:32:21,190 --> 00:32:19,840
people on this crew not the normal seven

905
00:32:23,590 --> 00:32:21,200
that's because k zone we didn't need

906
00:32:28,149 --> 00:32:23,600
something

907
00:32:32,470 --> 00:32:30,870
that's great and and kay um i'm just

908
00:32:33,830 --> 00:32:32,480
going to put you on the spot and you're

909
00:32:35,190 --> 00:32:33,840
going to probably hate me for it but

910
00:32:38,149 --> 00:32:35,200
let's go ahead

911
00:32:41,190 --> 00:32:38,159
why don't you uh tell me your

912
00:32:42,950 --> 00:32:41,200
favorite kennedy space center anecdote

913
00:32:45,350 --> 00:32:42,960
uh your favorite funny story about

914
00:32:46,950 --> 00:32:45,360
working at kennedy space center

915
00:32:48,789 --> 00:32:46,960
wow okay i'm gonna have to get back to

916
00:32:50,470 --> 00:32:48,799
you on that one uh

917
00:32:51,669 --> 00:32:50,480
i don't have one that just pops into my

918
00:32:53,430 --> 00:32:51,679
head um

919
00:32:56,149 --> 00:32:53,440
i will share though when i very first

920
00:32:58,630 --> 00:32:56,159
hired on at the kennedy space center the

921
00:33:02,070 --> 00:32:58,640
first launch i was able to watch in the

922
00:33:03,669 --> 00:33:02,080
spring of 1989

923
00:33:05,430 --> 00:33:03,679
i remember we had we were actually

924
00:33:08,310 --> 00:33:05,440
working that day so we walked outside of

925
00:33:10,230 --> 00:33:08,320
our office building to watch the final

926
00:33:11,029 --> 00:33:10,240
part of the launch countdown and watch

927
00:33:16,950 --> 00:33:11,039
the

928
00:33:18,389 --> 00:33:16,960
cheering and i

929
00:33:20,630 --> 00:33:18,399
looked around and i was the only

930
00:33:22,789 --> 00:33:20,640
employee that was actually cheering

931
00:33:24,470 --> 00:33:22,799
because every other employee out there

932
00:33:27,190 --> 00:33:24,480
holds their breath

933
00:33:28,870 --> 00:33:27,200
and not just until the solids come off

934
00:33:30,710 --> 00:33:28,880
actually they wait until the solids come

935
00:33:32,470 --> 00:33:30,720
off and then they breathe but they don't

936
00:33:34,789 --> 00:33:32,480
cheer then either they wait all the way

937
00:33:37,350 --> 00:33:34,799
until main engine cutoff or miko and

938
00:33:39,590 --> 00:33:37,360
that's when the actual employees cheer

939
00:33:40,870 --> 00:33:39,600
so i i thought that was kind of unusual

940
00:33:43,029 --> 00:33:40,880
and if you watch folks that are

941
00:33:44,470 --> 00:33:43,039
attending launches their first launch

942
00:33:46,310 --> 00:33:44,480
they most

943
00:33:48,070 --> 00:33:46,320
outside folks that don't work in the

944
00:33:50,870 --> 00:33:48,080
program will do that they'll cheer as

945
00:33:52,630 --> 00:33:50,880
soon as it lifts off so i learned the

946
00:33:55,110 --> 00:33:52,640
protocol if you will from that very

947
00:33:56,870 --> 00:33:55,120
first launch

948
00:33:58,310 --> 00:33:56,880
i have an anecdote about k2 i think we

949
00:34:00,470 --> 00:33:58,320
all do

950
00:34:02,630 --> 00:34:00,480
we uh kay and i have probably spent the

951
00:34:04,630 --> 00:34:02,640
most time together on the crew we went

952
00:34:06,710 --> 00:34:04,640
to canada about a year and a half ago

953
00:34:08,550 --> 00:34:06,720
for arm training and and we're doing all

954
00:34:10,310 --> 00:34:08,560
the arm operations together and then

955
00:34:11,990 --> 00:34:10,320
we're doing a lot of the internal

956
00:34:14,310 --> 00:34:12,000
outfitting together so we've done a lot

957
00:34:16,310 --> 00:34:14,320
of training together and um what bob

958
00:34:18,069 --> 00:34:16,320
said is we'll be in a sim and someone

959
00:34:19,909 --> 00:34:18,079
will say hey what what are we doing next

960
00:34:21,510 --> 00:34:19,919
wednesday and then this schedule pops

961
00:34:23,270 --> 00:34:21,520
out and kay's got the schedule for next

962
00:34:24,710 --> 00:34:23,280
wednesday or what happens when this

963
00:34:25,829 --> 00:34:24,720
electrical bus breaks and then kate

964
00:34:26,869 --> 00:34:25,839
brings it out and she has the

965
00:34:28,470 --> 00:34:26,879
information

966
00:34:30,069 --> 00:34:28,480
but the other thing about k and you're

967
00:34:31,589 --> 00:34:30,079
talking about ksc

968
00:34:33,349 --> 00:34:31,599
is the nasa space center there in

969
00:34:35,990 --> 00:34:33,359
florida where we launched from

970
00:34:38,069 --> 00:34:36,000
and we jokingly jokingly call it k space

971
00:34:39,829 --> 00:34:38,079
center because it's every time we go

972
00:34:41,430 --> 00:34:39,839
there and there's tens of thousands of

973
00:34:42,790 --> 00:34:41,440
people who work there everybody knows k

974
00:34:43,669 --> 00:34:42,800
and they all run up and give her a hug

975
00:34:45,349 --> 00:34:43,679
so

976
00:34:48,230 --> 00:34:45,359
that's what i think that's what ksc

977
00:34:49,669 --> 00:34:48,240
stands for

978
00:34:50,950 --> 00:34:49,679
okay with that that wraps up our

979
00:34:52,310 --> 00:34:50,960
questions from kennedy space center

980
00:34:56,550 --> 00:34:52,320
we'll now switch over to headquarters to

981
00:35:00,870 --> 00:34:58,710
thank you this is uh tarik malik with

982
00:35:03,910 --> 00:35:00,880
space.com i've got a few questions my

983
00:35:06,550 --> 00:35:03,920
first actually is also for uh uh for kay

984
00:35:08,470 --> 00:35:06,560
uh okay you have a the unique uh uh i

985
00:35:10,630 --> 00:35:08,480
guess opportunity on this mission you're

986
00:35:12,150 --> 00:35:10,640
a veteran space flier but you're uh

987
00:35:14,230 --> 00:35:12,160
headed for the space station now i'm

988
00:35:16,470 --> 00:35:14,240
just kind of curious what your thoughts

989
00:35:18,150 --> 00:35:16,480
are um i guess having that

990
00:35:19,109 --> 00:35:18,160
that orbiter only

991
00:35:21,349 --> 00:35:19,119
flight

992
00:35:23,030 --> 00:35:21,359
knowing that there's this vast football

993
00:35:25,270 --> 00:35:23,040
field sized uh

994
00:35:26,710 --> 00:35:25,280
vehicle that you're going to now

995
00:35:28,630 --> 00:35:26,720
oh thanks that's a great question

996
00:35:30,790 --> 00:35:28,640
because uh that is something i'm

997
00:35:33,190 --> 00:35:30,800
definitely looking forward to my first

998
00:35:36,150 --> 00:35:33,200
flight was with a space lab neural lab

999
00:35:38,230 --> 00:35:36,160
on sts 90. and that was a fantastic

1000
00:35:40,390 --> 00:35:38,240
mission we had 26 primary experiments

1001
00:35:43,109 --> 00:35:40,400
and we had this lab up and running just

1002
00:35:45,190 --> 00:35:43,119
conducting just incredible science on

1003
00:35:46,710 --> 00:35:45,200
orbit but to go up to the international

1004
00:35:48,630 --> 00:35:46,720
space station where we have this

1005
00:35:50,870 --> 00:35:48,640
tremendous facility that's so much

1006
00:35:53,430 --> 00:35:50,880
larger and has so many greater

1007
00:35:56,230 --> 00:35:53,440
capabilities and ongoing science that's

1008
00:35:58,790 --> 00:35:56,240
going on there and the future science

1009
00:36:00,870 --> 00:35:58,800
that will occur there it's it's just a

1010
00:36:03,030 --> 00:36:00,880
tremendous exciting thing to be able to

1011
00:36:05,030 --> 00:36:03,040
see that and to be a part of that and to

1012
00:36:11,349 --> 00:36:05,040
know that we have that available to the

1013
00:36:16,710 --> 00:36:14,790
thanks and for uh for terry verse um as

1014
00:36:18,630 --> 00:36:16,720
uh the first time space player in the

1015
00:36:20,710 --> 00:36:18,640
crew you mentioned earlier what you're

1016
00:36:22,390 --> 00:36:20,720
looking forward to for experiencing i

1017
00:36:23,910 --> 00:36:22,400
guess life in space but i'm wondering if

1018
00:36:26,870 --> 00:36:23,920
there's one

1019
00:36:28,550 --> 00:36:26,880
task or moment that that you've got

1020
00:36:30,470 --> 00:36:28,560
maybe your name label on that's a terry

1021
00:36:32,630 --> 00:36:30,480
verts moment if it's just getting into

1022
00:36:33,430 --> 00:36:32,640
space the first time or adding a 40 000

1023
00:36:35,670 --> 00:36:33,440
pound

1024
00:36:37,750 --> 00:36:35,680
room to the station with the robotic arm

1025
00:36:40,630 --> 00:36:37,760
um if you can give me an idea of that

1026
00:36:42,950 --> 00:36:40,640
thanks

1027
00:36:44,390 --> 00:36:42,960
my crewmates are all giving me ideas

1028
00:36:45,829 --> 00:36:44,400
things like putting a landing gear down

1029
00:36:47,670 --> 00:36:45,839
at the end of the mission that's going

1030
00:36:49,510 --> 00:36:47,680
to be an important task that i have but

1031
00:36:50,950 --> 00:36:49,520
the uh

1032
00:36:53,270 --> 00:36:50,960
there's going to be so many things on

1033
00:36:54,870 --> 00:36:53,280
this flight i told um my wife when i got

1034
00:36:56,550 --> 00:36:54,880
assigned to the flight that

1035
00:36:58,230 --> 00:36:56,560
if there if i had to pick one flight to

1036
00:36:59,990 --> 00:36:58,240
get assigned to this would be it because

1037
00:37:00,710 --> 00:37:00,000
of the crew that we have and because of

1038
00:37:04,630 --> 00:37:00,720
the

1039
00:37:06,550 --> 00:37:04,640
it's rare to bring up one module and we

1040
00:37:08,150 --> 00:37:06,560
get to bring up two and activate them

1041
00:37:09,829 --> 00:37:08,160
both

1042
00:37:11,829 --> 00:37:09,839
but i think the one thing that i'm

1043
00:37:13,829 --> 00:37:11,839
really looking forward to and i know

1044
00:37:15,190 --> 00:37:13,839
all my crewmates are also is getting a

1045
00:37:16,550 --> 00:37:15,200
chance to look out of the cupola with

1046
00:37:18,150 --> 00:37:16,560
the seven windows and the view that

1047
00:37:19,829 --> 00:37:18,160
we're going to get there

1048
00:37:21,190 --> 00:37:19,839
every view that i get will be my first

1049
00:37:22,790 --> 00:37:21,200
and i'll it'll be great but i think

1050
00:37:26,150 --> 00:37:22,800
that's going to be really special to see

1051
00:37:27,589 --> 00:37:26,160
that view of the earth and of space and

1052
00:37:29,430 --> 00:37:27,599
hopefully get some good pictures of

1053
00:37:30,550 --> 00:37:29,440
maybe sunrises and sunsets that kind of

1054
00:37:35,510 --> 00:37:30,560
thing out of the cupola that's going to

1055
00:37:39,750 --> 00:37:37,349
thanks man uh my last question i think

1056
00:37:42,230 --> 00:37:39,760
is for for you commander zamka uh this

1057
00:37:44,069 --> 00:37:42,240
is the last planned uh night launch of

1058
00:37:46,150 --> 00:37:44,079
the shuttle with just five more uh left

1059
00:37:47,829 --> 00:37:46,160
on the on the docket um and i'm just

1060
00:37:49,990 --> 00:37:47,839
wondering what your uh what you're

1061
00:37:53,349 --> 00:37:50,000
hoping folks that come out to see it

1062
00:37:55,589 --> 00:37:53,359
are going to get a chance to see

1063
00:37:57,910 --> 00:37:55,599
oh well well uh

1064
00:37:59,750 --> 00:37:57,920
tarika for me i i'm kind of happy it's a

1065
00:38:02,550 --> 00:37:59,760
night launch and a night landing i

1066
00:38:06,630 --> 00:38:04,230
flying career in the marines at flying

1067
00:38:08,950 --> 00:38:06,640
a6s which was a a nighttime kind of

1068
00:38:11,270 --> 00:38:08,960
airplane so i've got some friends back

1069
00:38:14,069 --> 00:38:11,280
from from those days that'll uh

1070
00:38:16,310 --> 00:38:14,079
uh watch the launch and uh and share

1071
00:38:18,790 --> 00:38:16,320
that excitement with me uh it should be

1072
00:38:22,069 --> 00:38:18,800
spectacular it'll be

1073
00:38:24,069 --> 00:38:22,079
it'll be dark all around and i think

1074
00:38:25,990 --> 00:38:24,079
from the one

1075
00:38:28,630 --> 00:38:26,000
launch that i've seen

1076
00:38:30,870 --> 00:38:28,640
there'll be a sequence of first very

1077
00:38:32,950 --> 00:38:30,880
bright light from the solids lighting

1078
00:38:34,069 --> 00:38:32,960
and then sometime later they'll be the

1079
00:38:35,589 --> 00:38:34,079
rumble

1080
00:38:38,150 --> 00:38:35,599
as the sound finally reaches uh the

1081
00:38:39,589 --> 00:38:38,160
crowds that are there and uh it's uh

1082
00:38:41,829 --> 00:38:39,599
it's gonna light up the ground around

1083
00:38:43,589 --> 00:38:41,839
him and then it'll climb up into the sky

1084
00:38:45,430 --> 00:38:43,599
should be able to see it i think as far

1085
00:38:47,190 --> 00:38:45,440
as the carolinas if the if the sky

1086
00:38:50,870 --> 00:38:47,200
allows it so

1087
00:38:53,589 --> 00:38:52,230
okay that's our last question from

1088
00:38:56,950 --> 00:38:53,599
headquarters we'll return here to the

1089
00:38:58,870 --> 00:38:56,960
johnson space center for follow-ups

1090
00:39:02,150 --> 00:38:58,880
jill tulk representing bay area houston

1091
00:39:04,790 --> 00:39:02,160
magazine with the question for nick

1092
00:39:07,030 --> 00:39:04,800
you enjoy private flying very much and

1093
00:39:10,550 --> 00:39:07,040
it's been part of your

1094
00:39:12,390 --> 00:39:10,560
work history before you came to nasa

1095
00:39:14,310 --> 00:39:12,400
if you want please describe and wax

1096
00:39:15,990 --> 00:39:14,320
poetically about your experience that

1097
00:39:18,470 --> 00:39:16,000
you're going to have

1098
00:39:20,950 --> 00:39:18,480
out there after you open the hatch just

1099
00:39:24,630 --> 00:39:20,960
your suit and plexiglas

1100
00:39:27,190 --> 00:39:24,640
i'll try and wax and not wait until um

1101
00:39:29,829 --> 00:39:27,200
i think the the the emu that bob and i

1102
00:39:31,270 --> 00:39:29,839
have been training to to fly essentially

1103
00:39:33,109 --> 00:39:31,280
for this mission and that steve has

1104
00:39:35,670 --> 00:39:33,119
experienced flying is is really like a

1105
00:39:37,270 --> 00:39:35,680
little spacecraft it's uh got its own

1106
00:39:40,710 --> 00:39:37,280
life support system its engine if you

1107
00:39:42,790 --> 00:39:40,720
will its engines are really our arms but

1108
00:39:44,550 --> 00:39:42,800
when you're out there you have the

1109
00:39:46,150 --> 00:39:44,560
responsibility of being a

1110
00:39:48,870 --> 00:39:46,160
the pilot of your own spacecraft just

1111
00:39:49,750 --> 00:39:48,880
for a few minutes a few hours um

1112
00:39:51,750 --> 00:39:49,760
and

1113
00:39:53,910 --> 00:39:51,760
i i hope that my private flying

1114
00:39:56,069 --> 00:39:53,920
experience has helped get me to the

1115
00:39:57,589 --> 00:39:56,079
point where i'm ready for that challenge

1116
00:39:59,190 --> 00:39:57,599
um

1117
00:40:02,470 --> 00:39:59,200
the military folks in our crew have a

1118
00:40:04,710 --> 00:40:02,480
really long and great history of uh

1119
00:40:07,109 --> 00:40:04,720
flying um they get here through test

1120
00:40:08,950 --> 00:40:07,119
pilot school and and all sorts of things

1121
00:40:10,790 --> 00:40:08,960
and those of us who are civilians have

1122
00:40:12,550 --> 00:40:10,800
to kind of get that experience on our

1123
00:40:13,589 --> 00:40:12,560
own and it's a very important experience

1124
00:40:15,109 --> 00:40:13,599
if you want to come here and be an

1125
00:40:18,710 --> 00:40:15,119
operator as steve knows because he's

1126
00:40:20,870 --> 00:40:18,720
also a big private pilot

1127
00:40:23,670 --> 00:40:20,880
i think it's invaluable for us it helps

1128
00:40:24,630 --> 00:40:23,680
bridge the gap between being academic or

1129
00:40:27,030 --> 00:40:24,640
even

1130
00:40:28,470 --> 00:40:27,040
working engineers and being operational

1131
00:40:30,230 --> 00:40:28,480
people ready to handle something like

1132
00:40:33,190 --> 00:40:30,240
the flight deck of a space shuttle or an

1133
00:40:37,510 --> 00:40:35,109
okay next question

1134
00:40:39,030 --> 00:40:37,520
uh greg dobbs with hd net television and

1135
00:40:40,950 --> 00:40:39,040
steve already

1136
00:40:43,430 --> 00:40:40,960
preempted the question about a crew of

1137
00:40:45,510 --> 00:40:43,440
six versus seven and your answer for why

1138
00:40:47,910 --> 00:40:45,520
there's a crew of six is k

1139
00:40:51,430 --> 00:40:47,920
but is there any other part of the

1140
00:40:53,190 --> 00:40:51,440
answer to uh six versus seven

1141
00:40:54,630 --> 00:40:53,200
i think there's an official line that i

1142
00:40:57,349 --> 00:40:54,640
mean that was the truth but george will

1143
00:41:01,030 --> 00:40:57,359
give you the official one

1144
00:41:02,790 --> 00:41:01,040
i was i how'd you like that thank you

1145
00:41:05,349 --> 00:41:02,800
did that very well thank you for the

1146
00:41:07,430 --> 00:41:05,359
toss steve

1147
00:41:09,670 --> 00:41:07,440
what it comes down to these days is uh

1148
00:41:11,190 --> 00:41:09,680
is getting uh supplies and equipment up

1149
00:41:13,910 --> 00:41:11,200
to the space station

1150
00:41:15,030 --> 00:41:13,920
uh and we are when we launch on february

1151
00:41:17,270 --> 00:41:15,040
7th we're going to be packed to the

1152
00:41:19,190 --> 00:41:17,280
gills with uh

1153
00:41:20,550 --> 00:41:19,200
with replacement parts that are needed

1154
00:41:23,030 --> 00:41:20,560
up on the space station as well as

1155
00:41:24,870 --> 00:41:23,040
supplies to take care of our our crew

1156
00:41:27,030 --> 00:41:24,880
member friends that are up there

1157
00:41:28,390 --> 00:41:27,040
and uh the mission that we have can be

1158
00:41:29,750 --> 00:41:28,400
can be done with six it's going to be

1159
00:41:31,750 --> 00:41:29,760
very tight we're going to be missing

1160
00:41:34,309 --> 00:41:31,760
some things that we normally do have

1161
00:41:36,069 --> 00:41:34,319
with seven an extra set of hands to help

1162
00:41:38,150 --> 00:41:36,079
uh kind of fill in

1163
00:41:39,349 --> 00:41:38,160
uh in areas where uh we didn't have

1164
00:41:41,670 --> 00:41:39,359
enough

1165
00:41:43,510 --> 00:41:41,680
people to do the tasks uh we lose a

1166
00:41:44,390 --> 00:41:43,520
little bit of flexibility

1167
00:41:46,230 --> 00:41:44,400
and we're gonna be a little bit

1168
00:41:47,750 --> 00:41:46,240
stretched on our timeline but uh but

1169
00:41:49,270 --> 00:41:47,760
we'll be able to do we've we've figured

1170
00:41:51,270 --> 00:41:49,280
all that out and i think we're gonna

1171
00:41:53,109 --> 00:41:51,280
we're gonna do just fine once we get up

1172
00:41:54,390 --> 00:41:53,119
to the space station we join a much

1173
00:41:56,390 --> 00:41:54,400
bigger team

1174
00:41:58,069 --> 00:41:56,400
and uh

1175
00:42:00,550 --> 00:41:58,079
with that bigger team we'll be able to

1176
00:42:03,190 --> 00:42:00,560
uh to adapt to the uh

1177
00:42:04,790 --> 00:42:03,200
in fact we've only got six

1178
00:42:07,670 --> 00:42:04,800
may i ask a follow-up

1179
00:42:10,470 --> 00:42:07,680
is it as simple then as saying that uh

1180
00:42:12,710 --> 00:42:10,480
you you you acquire additional cubic

1181
00:42:13,829 --> 00:42:12,720
volume inside

1182
00:42:15,990 --> 00:42:13,839
uh

1183
00:42:17,910 --> 00:42:16,000
the crew quarters that are not occupied

1184
00:42:20,870 --> 00:42:17,920
by the the gear and the physical

1185
00:42:23,349 --> 00:42:20,880
presence of a seventh uh crew well every

1186
00:42:25,910 --> 00:42:23,359
crew member requires a certain amount of

1187
00:42:27,270 --> 00:42:25,920
supplies

1188
00:42:28,790 --> 00:42:27,280
and a

1189
00:42:31,270 --> 00:42:28,800
certain amount of

1190
00:42:33,270 --> 00:42:31,280
life support and i think the number is

1191
00:42:35,589 --> 00:42:33,280
roughly i will say a thousand pounds i

1192
00:42:36,710 --> 00:42:35,599
have a finer number but i i'd be more

1193
00:42:38,470 --> 00:42:36,720
wrong than

1194
00:42:40,309 --> 00:42:38,480
helping by estimating any further than

1195
00:42:42,069 --> 00:42:40,319
that but

1196
00:42:44,230 --> 00:42:42,079
that thousand pounds

1197
00:42:45,750 --> 00:42:44,240
is very valuable to the space station

1198
00:42:47,270 --> 00:42:45,760
for instance uh

1199
00:42:49,990 --> 00:42:47,280
the sieger bed that we're taking up

1200
00:42:51,430 --> 00:42:50,000
there is probably on the order of of

1201
00:42:53,430 --> 00:42:51,440
about that weight

1202
00:42:55,109 --> 00:42:53,440
and um and some of the other items that

1203
00:42:56,550 --> 00:42:55,119
we're taking up there are crucial to the

1204
00:42:58,069 --> 00:42:56,560
space station that's where things are

1205
00:43:00,390 --> 00:42:58,079
coming down these days as the space

1206
00:43:05,109 --> 00:43:00,400
shuttle program is kind of coming toward

1207
00:43:09,270 --> 00:43:07,190
this is jill tulk with bayer houston

1208
00:43:11,349 --> 00:43:09,280
magazine question for terry and bob i

1209
00:43:13,829 --> 00:43:11,359
believe the two of you were classmates

1210
00:43:15,670 --> 00:43:13,839
at edwards at the test pilot school

1211
00:43:17,589 --> 00:43:15,680
so there's obviously some familiarity

1212
00:43:20,230 --> 00:43:17,599
there do you have any jokes or anecdotes

1213
00:43:22,230 --> 00:43:20,240
that you want to share or could share

1214
00:43:23,990 --> 00:43:22,240
or just want to comment on the

1215
00:43:26,069 --> 00:43:24,000
experience of being able to fly together

1216
00:43:26,790 --> 00:43:26,079
on orbit

1217
00:43:28,710 --> 00:43:26,800
um

1218
00:43:31,430 --> 00:43:28,720
i'll start off i'll let bob finish we we

1219
00:43:33,349 --> 00:43:31,440
were classmates in 1998 we went to

1220
00:43:35,190 --> 00:43:33,359
edwards air force base together

1221
00:43:36,950 --> 00:43:35,200
and i was fortunate enough i got to sit

1222
00:43:37,990 --> 00:43:36,960
next to bob through test pilot school so

1223
00:43:39,670 --> 00:43:38,000
he helped me

1224
00:43:40,790 --> 00:43:39,680
make it through graduate

1225
00:43:42,470 --> 00:43:40,800
and uh

1226
00:43:44,150 --> 00:43:42,480
and it's very cool it's a lot of fun to

1227
00:43:45,510 --> 00:43:44,160
get to fly with him a lot of our

1228
00:43:47,670 --> 00:43:45,520
classmates are going to be there from

1229
00:43:49,270 --> 00:43:47,680
our test pilot school class and and so

1230
00:43:50,550 --> 00:43:49,280
there's been a lot of excitement and

1231
00:43:51,910 --> 00:43:50,560
among the common friends that we have

1232
00:43:54,069 --> 00:43:51,920
from that background

1233
00:43:55,750 --> 00:43:54,079
and i'm sure there's a lot of stories

1234
00:43:57,670 --> 00:43:55,760
i'm not sure that we want to share very

1235
00:43:59,190 --> 00:43:57,680
many of them i'll let bob see if he can

1236
00:44:00,630 --> 00:43:59,200
think of one

1237
00:44:02,309 --> 00:44:00,640
well i do know that uh you know i can

1238
00:44:04,390 --> 00:44:02,319
also confirm that terry burts and i

1239
00:44:06,150 --> 00:44:04,400
attended 98 bravo

1240
00:44:07,910 --> 00:44:06,160
at the air force test pilot school at

1241
00:44:09,589 --> 00:44:07,920
edwards air force base

1242
00:44:11,349 --> 00:44:09,599
we had a great time together and as

1243
00:44:13,109 --> 00:44:11,359
terry mentioned i think we both leaned

1244
00:44:15,030 --> 00:44:13,119
on each other throughout the year we did

1245
00:44:16,470 --> 00:44:15,040
sit next to each other you know i sat

1246
00:44:18,550 --> 00:44:16,480
next to terry

1247
00:44:20,950 --> 00:44:18,560
right after the the birth of his first

1248
00:44:22,790 --> 00:44:20,960
child and i watched him struggle with uh

1249
00:44:24,950 --> 00:44:22,800
sleepless nights i think and uh coming

1250
00:44:26,550 --> 00:44:24,960
into school the next day and we worked

1251
00:44:28,150 --> 00:44:26,560
together to kind of make sure we were

1252
00:44:30,069 --> 00:44:28,160
both ready for any of the events that

1253
00:44:32,390 --> 00:44:30,079
turned up uh while we were out there we

1254
00:44:34,230 --> 00:44:32,400
did do our i can't remember which check

1255
00:44:36,309 --> 00:44:34,240
right it was but we flew a c-130

1256
00:44:37,990 --> 00:44:36,319
together with terry as the pilot and me

1257
00:44:39,910 --> 00:44:38,000
as the test conductor directing him what

1258
00:44:41,349 --> 00:44:39,920
to do and i remember that experience

1259
00:44:43,349 --> 00:44:41,359
that really finally and that's probably

1260
00:44:44,710 --> 00:44:43,359
the first opportunity other than sitting

1261
00:44:46,390 --> 00:44:44,720
next to each other that i actually had a

1262
00:44:48,710 --> 00:44:46,400
chance to work operationally with

1263
00:44:50,230 --> 00:44:48,720
operationally with terry and i haven't

1264
00:44:51,670 --> 00:44:50,240
had much of an opportunity to do that

1265
00:44:53,510 --> 00:44:51,680
here at uh

1266
00:44:55,030 --> 00:44:53,520
in houston until we got assigned

1267
00:44:56,550 --> 00:44:55,040
together on this mission and i'm really

1268
00:44:58,069 --> 00:44:56,560
thankful for the opportunity for it to

1269
00:44:59,990 --> 00:44:58,079
come full circle and have that

1270
00:45:03,430 --> 00:45:00,000
opportunity to do

1271
00:45:07,109 --> 00:45:05,270
okay any remaining follow follow-ups

1272
00:45:08,630 --> 00:45:07,119
here at jsc

1273
00:45:10,470 --> 00:45:08,640
okay with that that will conclude our