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endeavor iss this is houston are you

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we are ready for the event

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associated press this is houston please

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call endeavour iss for a voice check

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endeavor station this is the associated

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got you loud and clear hello marcia

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good morning uh colonel verse captain

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heyer um talking to you this morning

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from the launching site

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both of you tell me about your new room

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tranquility what's the first impressions

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we're able to go inside node 3

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tranquility for the first time today and

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and k and i got the chance to go inside

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of the cupola and it's just a great

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place it's when k and i got the chance

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and just a really nice module i'll let

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it's so great to see it up here in space

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of course we saw it when it was still at

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the kennedy space center before it

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launched it looks a lot different here

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especially now that we can float all

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over and use the entire volume instead

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of just in one 1g you're pretty much

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restricted to just a floor being a floor

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but i will tell you we're filling it up

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we're loading all kinds of equipment in

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so it's going to look very different in

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does it have that new room or new car

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smell and feel to it and

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comfortable in there just a little bit

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it it definitely has the new spaceship

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it when we first opened it up it had the

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same temperature as the station and then

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we were in there it started to get warm

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as we were all working doing a lot of

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physical work in there

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and we didn't have all the ventilation

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feel more like the rest of the station

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but it had a unique smell um

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almost a space smell to it

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are you still limited to four uh people

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seemed like there was some sluggish

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airflow going on has that been resolved

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and do you still have to wear goggles

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well that's correct when we first went

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ventilation set up inside node three it

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make sure it was safe make sure there

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no particles floating around that might

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that we can have and they're working at

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one time until we can get the

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station crew these guys are real pros

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anything so that that requires some

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pictures of the international space

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station every crew sends down just

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phenomenal images but to see it for real

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definition and here it is it's it's just

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with the shuttle uh error winding down

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have your do you have different a

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as being part of history

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you know marsha when we um attached node

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three and cupla the thing that that

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reminds me of is finishing the

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that was a huge project that america

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international project we had workers

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putting note 3 and tranquility on and

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station but it really i think it's the

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beginning of a future space exploration

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that a long time from now we'll look

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back on and and see in a similar vein

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well i'm just wondering is my last

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question will the astronauts will the

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two crews be doing anything special for

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valentine's day tomorrow maybe sharing a

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thanks for reminding me

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that's pretty funny because i was saying

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earlier uh today that i didn't even

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really remember what day of the week it

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everything up here is all about either

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greenwich mean time or mission elapsed

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time so uh that's that's how our days

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are built and uh we have to actually

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remind ourselves every now and then of

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uh what day it is so yes thanks for the

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well happy valentine's day too it's easy

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valentine's day because my wife's

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birthday is tomorrow so i have a

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birthday and a valentine's day and it's

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well that's great well i'm told i need

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good luck to all of you and godspeed on

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endeavor iss this is houston acr that

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of the event please stand by for a voice

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endeavor iss this is cbs news how do you

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loud and clear hello bill

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hey terry hi kay it's uh great to see

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today they tell us that when the station

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americans should be really proud of for

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japan europe russia there's been many

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a a lot of folks should be really proud

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shift in emphasis either if you have any

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the future but i know that we have a

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difficult thing to do it's a very

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complex machine maybe the most complex

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hard to get into space so you're

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do what needs to be done both unmanned

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i'm going to pass that one over to kay

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sorry about that bill we had a uh a

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little interference here with another

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communication going on uh could you

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it is so difficult to get into space the

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sheer challenge of all of this how

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confident you guys are that private

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industry can step up both with unmanned

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cargo craft and the manned craft you'll

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well you know again

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uh this is a phenomenal team and nasa

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challenges in the past i remember when

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we ended the apollo program and it took

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a while for us to to get the shuttle

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program launched but people were working

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on it so i think that this is really

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going to lead to

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better things just as we stepped up from

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apollo to shuttle in the international

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space station this is just a phase that

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we must go through sometimes

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it would have been nice to have it maybe

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a little smoother but

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this is something that we will meet at

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this challenge nasa and its entire

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international team

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will make sure that we fly safely and

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we're going to come up with something

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great i'm sure that the next program is

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going to be wonderful

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well thanks a lot guys they tell me i

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got a wrap so have a safe flight and

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we'll look forward to seeing you back on

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thanks a lot we'll see you

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endeavor iss this is houston acr that

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concludes the cbs news portion of the

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event please stand by for a voice check

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from reuters

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endeavor iss this is reuters how do you

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were you loud and clear how do you read

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us

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very good thank you colonel verts

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captain higher it's chris baltimore with

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reuters in houston uh it's been a while

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since both of you have been on orbit uh

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how has the experience been different

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well this is my first time and uh it's

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been

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amazing it's different than what i

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thought it would be um a lot better and

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and it really when you hear

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indescribable that's really true um

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because you just can't put words to it

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the the earth looks different than what

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i thought it would look it has more

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colors to it

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and more tones and it

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it was just surprising i've been

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looking at pictures of the earth for my

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whole life and and it was really

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surprising to see it especially the

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first few days in orbit there was a

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thin moon out and um

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i just saw some amazing things the east

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coast of the us at night flew over

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israel and jerusalem one night with the

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moon setting right above it and so those

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images are are going to stick with me

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forever the other thing that's different

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and

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a lot of fun to get used to is just

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floating and learning to not there's a

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natural reaction that your body wants to

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push and touch and grab things and

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whenever you do that you end up doing

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you know doing that and floating up just

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with a really small push

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so you really have to learn it's like

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learning how to walk again only you have

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to learn in a few hours or a few days

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instead of years

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thank you a question for captain heyer

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uh the the shuttle program is is nearing

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its retirement with the four remaining

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missions after this one uh for you and

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your team members is this a feeling more

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well i'll tell you i think it's going to

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hit me a little bit more after we land

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we have been so focused on sts-130 and

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this flight and the task that we have to

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accomplish on this flight that we

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haven't really had a lot of time to

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reflect about it but i'm sure that uh

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when i get back and the reality of only

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four more flights sets in it's it's

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going to feel a little strange but it's

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also an exciting time because it means

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that we're moving on to something else

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so i'm pretty excited to see what's

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thank you a question for colonel verts

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after uh the shuttle is retired current

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plans call for u.s astronauts to reach

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the space station via privately run

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space taxis

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is this a viable plan to you and do you

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think that private industry can uphold

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the same standards of quality and safety

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has um you know my focus for last year

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has been on training for this flight so

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i haven't i'm not familiar at all with

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what plans uh the commercial companies

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may have for building it um i was aware

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of orion and i worked on that some

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but i'm sure that nasa is going to hold

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them to a very high standard uh that

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they're

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it'll be safe it'll it'll uh work to the

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best of our abilities to make it work so

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i'm confident that nasa will make sure

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that there's high safety standards but i

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haven't had a chance to i'm not familiar

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with what types of designs or plans that

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thank you and maybe a question for both

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both of you uh

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the current uh nasa budget does away uh

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with the the constellation program to

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put an american vehicle on the moon uh

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what's your take on this uh this

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priority shift uh

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well i have to echo what uh terry virts

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just told you and that's that we have

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been so focused on sts-130

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that uh personally uh for me and i'm

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sure for the rest of our crew that we

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really haven't even been reading the

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news or looking at the details of all of

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that i know there's a lot of

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discussion going on about that right now

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but i'm really just not up to speed on

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that but we can sure talk about this

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mission sts-130 and what we're going to

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accomplish while we're here at the

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uh you bet maybe uh you could give me a

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few impressions about the new uh

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tranquility mode and node and uh

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what what it's looking like and how it's

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terry grappled the node

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it's position final position that it's

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in now

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it is docked to the port side or the

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left side of the international space

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station we were able able to open the

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hatch and go in today and starting off

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it was dark and just a little bit

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stuffy if you will because there was no

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uh air circulation going on and we're in

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the process of setting all that up so as

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we are going in there now and bringing

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new equipment inside we are wearing

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little headlamps and carrying

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flashlights and and little portable fans

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and until we get everything all up and

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running but that's going to be soon

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and it's just going to be a fantastic

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module for

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the folks on the international space

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very good i know that uh your crew is

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working some issues with uh uh getting

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the uh the proper um equipment for uh

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sealing the the cupola onto the

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tranquility node do you envision that

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creating any problems for uh

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completing that that part of the

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yes we just noticed um there's a cover

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that we were going to put on the outside

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hatch of mode three and we cover that

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hatch up

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as we move the cupola off of it and then

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we're going to move another module

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called pma3 onto that location

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and the ground is deciding right now how

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they want to proceed in fact that just

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happened as you know a few hours ago

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while kay and i were installing it we

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found out that it didn't fit

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i think that the the plan i think

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there's a few options but i'm not sure

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how we're going to proceed but uh

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there's no immediate the both modules

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are in great shape and so it's just a

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matter of deciding how we're going to

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proceed at this point

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well colonel verts captain heyer it's

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been a pleasure thank you so much for

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thanks a lot and uh i hope you're having

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a great time back there on earth

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thanks a lot and

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deborah iss this is houston acr that

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and thank you associated press cbs news

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and reuters endeavor iss we're now