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endeavor iss this is kxtv tv how do you

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iss and endeavor have you loud and clear

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good to hear well

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greetings from sacramento california

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we feel a personal connection to steve

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robinson who's from sacramento so steve

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i'd like to begin with you and hear your

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thoughts on the shuttle program ending

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this year but still leaving behind a

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remarkable legacy in the space station

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and the hubble telescope is this mission

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well hello sacramento my hometown and uh

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i'd like you to meet

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all my good crewmates and friends here

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from the shuttle endeavor and the space

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thanks for visiting us and uh i couldn't

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have said it any better myself this

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wonderful legacy of the shuttle program

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is this unbelievable space station when

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we approached it yesterday from uh from

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to look up and see what humankind could

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just almost impossible to believe it

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seemed like science fiction and now here

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living on board and that truly is the

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amazing legacy of the space shuttle

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steve this will be a decade when more

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humans even civilians get to experience

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do you find looking down on earth from

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even more than your own patriotic

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feelings which are also very strong

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this year it's possible that the next

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astronauts launched from american soil

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spacecraft built by a private company

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developed with the help of nasa are we

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on the brink of a new era in space

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flight a new role for nasa but also one

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that might see even greater resources

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every era is a new era groundbreaking

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pioneering and trail blazing it's things

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russian soyuz vehicles is is definitely

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disappointment over the cancellation of

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your reaction to that and do you think

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this mission and we're there in spirit

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thank you very much great questions so

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event please stand by for a voice check

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great my first question is for kay hire

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the mobile native we want to know what

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international effort and especially a

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motivated to find your passion find your

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dream and find your calling and work

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from murphy high school and miss francis

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have that good solid background so that

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when these fantastic opportunities open

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for people that they can take advantage

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thanks so much and so long from the

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endeavor iss this is houston acr that

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endeavor iss this is kmox radio how do

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kmx mlx radio we have you loud and clear

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excellent endeavor thank you all for

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your time with us tonight and i want to

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start with mission specialist bob bankin

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who has a connection to our kmox

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listening audience in st louis being a

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hometown guy and bob talk about how

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special it was for you to be in the

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cockpit during that last night launch of

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well first of all i'd like to just uh

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say hello to everyone back in st louis

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and particularly all my family and

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friends that are still there

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as far as night launches go this was my

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second night launch

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so it was pretty exciting to have the

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opportunity

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to go out at night and then see the the

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sky all lit up in the pictures of course

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my first flight when we launched at

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night we actually went into a cloud deck

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after about 20 seconds and so all the

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folks who had come to see the launch

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actually didn't get to see very much

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because we had disappeared behind the

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clouds but from what i'm told in the

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pictures i've seen this one was really

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spectacular and they were able to see

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the the shuttle all the way through

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almost to the point that we shut off the

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main engines and so that had to be

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really exciting for the folks who had

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the opportunity to come down and see one

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of the shuttle launches before the

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shuttle program

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ends here

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this year or next year

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and bob we understand you had some

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unscheduled excitement with the power

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harness on your spacesuit talk about

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what happened and how you were working

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well it turns out that the spacesuit

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that we brought up with us

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wasn't able to get power from the

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battery pack that rides underneath the

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backpack that you see on the spacesuit

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up to the tv system that allows the

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ground and the folks inside the space

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shuttle to actually see what's going on

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basically be additional eyes looking

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over my shoulder while we're out on the

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space walks and so what we had to do uh

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george zamka and suici naguchi another

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crew member who's probably not on the

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video right now but who's also living up

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here on the international space station

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as part of the station crew swapped out

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to another

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suit for me so i'm basically going out

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with a different suit that doesn't have

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that power harness in it so it shouldn't

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give us any more trouble

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good news there and this is for shuttle

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pilot terry virts terry originally from

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maryland in your home state right now is

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under blizzard conditions i'm just

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curious what does a blizzard look like

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hi uh i have heard about that in fact

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several of my friends were not able to

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make it to the launch because they got

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several feet of snow

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and uh just a little while ago i was

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down in the russian segment talking with

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the cosmonauts here and we looked out as

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we flew over russia

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and it was very white

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one of my first views of the earth just

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a few minutes after we got into space

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and the main engines cut off

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i looked out and i could see the alps

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going underneath and they were snow

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covered and it's beautiful the earth

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looks different than what i had imagined

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it looks it's more spectacular probably

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than you can even put into words

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and i think there's more color to it

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more tones and it it just looks

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um amazing

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that's great and in addition to being a

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resupply mission this is also the

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delivery of tranquility node talk about

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what is involved in installing that node

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on the iss and what it's going to do

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the

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actually we have two nodes two modules

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we brought up tranquility which is node

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three and then we also have the cupola

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so the first task tomorrow bob and nick

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will be going outside to do a spacewalk

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and they're gonna unplug the node from

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and then kate hire myself we're going to

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move

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the two nodes with the big robotic arm

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we're going to move it and attach it to

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the left side or the port side of the

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space station

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and then over the coming days we're

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going to open the hatches and go inside

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and steve robinson and george zamka

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and among others are going to go inside

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and connect the wires and harnesses

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and get it outfitted from the inside

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and bob and nick will have two

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additional evas to do after we get it

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set up to get the modules in their final

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configuration on the outside

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and this is for shuttle commander george

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zamka george you've been here before and

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here you are at iss again talk about the

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shuttle's legacy as its missions come to

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a close later on this year and the the

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legacy in as concerns

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its relationship with the international

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sure i think to start with you have to

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remember when the shuttle began it was a

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pretty aggressive idea to take a

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space vehicle that would take off uh

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like a rocket and then transform itself

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into a spaceship complete with a robotic

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arm and an air lock in space

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be able to deliver a lot of cargo up

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and then land like an airplane and it's

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been doing that uh for a long time and

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it's been doing it with grit and with

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people that are very talented and and

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very focused on

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the space mission for the united states

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so to see it go it's it's going to be a

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sad thing but i think what we're going

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to see is a

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a system to replace the

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capabilities that the shuttle has we'll

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just we're just going to end up doing it

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a little bit differently but

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we're all very fortunate to have ridden

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aboard the shuttle it's been a

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tremendous vehicle

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thank you and one last for mission

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specialist steve robinson a lot of

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people follow the space program to be

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sure you've also got followers of your

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rock band max q and for folks who want

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to know when and where your next gig is

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going to be how soon are you going to be

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oh i don't have to wait till i get back

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to earth there's a guitar right about 50

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feet from me down there in the uh node

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and my poor crewmates here are going to

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get tortured here one of these days

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so

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thanks for asking and welcome aboard the

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international space station

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endeavour thank you so much for all of