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well good afternoon today we are here in

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tranquility standing above the cupola

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to formally open the cupola for use by

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other crews that will be here up on the

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space station

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and arguably mankind has been after this

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view for centuries this perspective this

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view of the world

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and we finally have it and we are going

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and now we on the station crew are

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especially happy to get this uh

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to be able to enjoy this i know for me

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personally it's a milestone uh that i

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will remember uh for the rest of my life

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uh

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in terms of the experience on the

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station because it culminates so much it

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culminates in just a beautiful view a

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window on the world that we haven't had

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before it culminates

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just about the assembly completed the

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space station getting us to full

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capability so this cupola means a whole

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lot

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uh we also want to take this um a moment

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to uh to remember um a friend and a

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co-worker and fellow astronaut lacy

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beach uh who dedicated uh was really

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dedicated to the early development of

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the cupola and its vision uh on the

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international space station

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and we would like to

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to leave his path

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in memory of him and um and dedicated to

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him as well as a picture on board the

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space station the patch will be in the

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cupola and the uh and the photograph of

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we also have one more item to put in the

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cupola today

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these are some moon rocks uh that were

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picked up on apollo 11 and returned to

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her

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and later carried to the summit of mount

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everest by scott barazinski

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and so these moon rocks have had quite a

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journey and they will continue their

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journey for

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uh

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very short amount of time

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uh they will be placed in the cupola as

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a reminder of man's reach

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and man's grit as they go out and

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so with that george how about if you uh

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and here we go the cupola is open for

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business right all right everybody

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this is mission control houston station

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commander jeff williams and shuttle

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commander george zamka have

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dedicated the cupola and opened it up

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for business for each of the crew

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members 11 crew members on board to fly

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in and

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take a look out the windows

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the station and shuttle complex is

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orbiting 220 statute miles above the

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as the crew members take a look

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as we continue to watch the crew members

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look through the cupola window

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station commander jeff williams had

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indicated that the cupola was

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being dedicated to

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astronaut charles lacey beach

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he was selected as an astronaut in may

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and died in houston in 1995 of cancer

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this is the formal ceremony

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thank you very much jeff and we weren't

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around when they

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were at promontory utah to drive in the

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final spike at the intercontinental

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railroad and none of us were able to be

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there when they switched on the dynamos

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at the hoover dam

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and we weren't around when they topped

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out the steel on the empire state

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building

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but i think i speak for the whole flight

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control team in houston and the flight

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control teams around the world that

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we're really pleased to be in work in

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the last two weeks when we attached the

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final module to the u.s segment

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and the 1 million pound space station

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uh and that was built by thousands of

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people around the world so

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we only wish that we could be up there

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and we share those sediments as well how

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and uh

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our gratitude uh our tremendous

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gratitude goes out to the entire

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international partnership and teams like

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you said around the world that make this

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thing possible it's something that

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everybody is

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a part of a very unique uh

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piece of history

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and we are all honored to uh

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to be part of it and we

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we

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want to recognize the many people um on

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those teams not only the op centers

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which we've really enjoyed working with

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the last uh uh

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week and a half or so

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you guys have been tremendous and we

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thank you for that we also thank the

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people that are behind the scenes and

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the engineering teams and the design

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centers around the world doing the real

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time support and operations and working

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through the problems and issues which

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you you do very well that's what we're

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best at when we work uh when we run into

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the unexpected uh and work through them

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and uh our congratulations to everybody

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in our hats off to everybody thank you

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for your service to uh uh to humankind

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and and and congratulations on being

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part of this

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great words jeff

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the expedition 22 and sts-130 crews have

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inaugurated the use of the cupola on

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board the international space station

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as the complex is orbiting 220 statute