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thank you for joining us here at uh very

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pad 39a for this media question and

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astronauts for space shuttle discovery's

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sts-131 mission to the international

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space station i'll immediately turn this

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over now to the commander of sts-131

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thanks howard good morning it's uh great

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it's a little chilly but we're happy to

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be here and we're really looking forward

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to our training today and tomorrow in

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to see the fruits of the laborers of the

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the great folks here at the kennedy

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space center we really appreciate all

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the the hard hard work that went into

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hi i'm nancy atkinson from

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2011 proposed budget with the idea of

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how that went over in the astronaut

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rehearsal today and tomorrow and i'm so

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you know touched by the banner hanging

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on the discoveries we are behind your

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discovery so it's a teamwork so we are

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uh could each of you just say what are

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flight hardware getting to climb into

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discovery uh for the first time during

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thinking about the history and the point

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we have an opportunity to train and

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learn how to drive one of the tanks

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that's stationed here at the pad and so

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and it's very nice to face to the

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discovery and also meet a lot of people

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who make the discovery you know ready to

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my first time into space i got moved

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from 118 to up to sts-117 and did not

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and so this entire experience has been

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wonderful for me and to have the

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opportunity to see the shuttle roll from

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the opf to the vab and then to see the

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entire stack roll out to the pad it's

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just amazing and i'm truly blessed and

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i'd like to thank all the people that

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put this together because without them

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you know this program would be

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impossible it's all due to the people

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and their dedication and their

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professionalism that we get to do what

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we get to do so thank you very much

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hi you can just keep the mic right there

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i just have a real quick question for

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the load master

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mplm flights are always

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mpl inflights are always very busy you

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have an awful lot of equipment to move

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back and forth can you give us kind of a

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little overview of what some of the big

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ticket items are and major items are and

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and how you plan to execute that thank

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you

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yes uh stephanie wilson and i are the

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lord master of the mplm and we will

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deliver the new crew quarters where the

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expedition crews stay and also we will

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deliver wolf

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which is a laboratory of the window

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observation facility and some of the

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express racks and lots of you know

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supply items to the station to keep the

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station in good shape

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so this is huge work and it's also a

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team work

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uh todd halperson of florida today for

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dexter again um i'm wondering if you can

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talk about uh

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uh how important the terminal countdown

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demonstration test is to uh getting your

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crew and and the ksc launch team uh

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ready for april the fifth yeah good

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question todd it's a it's a great

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exercise

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it uh it allows us to interface with the

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flight hardware for the first time since

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our

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crew equipment interface test back in

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january

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obviously the first time we've seen

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ov-103 out here on the pad

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that allows us to get into this ship and

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then work with the launch team

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through a through a simulated launch

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count it allows us to exercise all of

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the things that we're going to do it

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also it gives us an opportunity to do an

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emergency egress and you know in the

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rare event that we have something we had

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to get out of the vehicle in a hurry it

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allows us to uh to exercise those

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okay i think that's all the questions we

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have and get you back to your training

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if we take a quick photo opportunity

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with you and then we'll get you back on

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right