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hi

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i'm sts-131

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mission specialist naoko yamazaki

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so

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good morning discovery and a special

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good morning and thank you so much megan

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and all the great teams are nasa jackson

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and international partners

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special thanks to taiichi and youtube

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for selecting this beautiful music

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looking forward to another great day of

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that sounds great naoko your family is

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here and they're cheering

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oh that's great thanks

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this is mission control houston and you

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were listening as a spacecraft

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communicator megan macarthur called up

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to wake up discovery's crew and the song

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that was played was a pigeon and a boy

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and it's by japanese artist

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joe

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heiseichi and it was played for japan

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aerospace exploration agency astronaut

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as you can see the space station's

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robotic arms moved in now and has a grip

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on the multi-purpose logistics module

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inside the space station space shuttle's

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so i'd like to make sure you are happy

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and we are happy with that tension we

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consider it good

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confirming that they're ready to go on

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to the next step in their work to begin

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unpacking the

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multi-purpose logistics module from the

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yamazaki is uh joined inside the

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station's destiny laboratory at the

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robotic workstation by mission

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and helping them out with uh

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making sure they get good

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video views of the work that they're

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it's difficult to tell from this angle

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the team here on the ground reports that

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the unbirth of the

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mission specialist stephanie wilson and

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robotics workstation inside the

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station's destiny laboratory

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ton temporary module out of the

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and weighs a total right now of more

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than 13 tons

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six tons of that is cargo that

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the module is carrying up inside it

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and will be temporarily installed on the

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station's harmony node so that the crew

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inside the station can unpack all of

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that cargo get it inside

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the station that's

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cargo includes 16 racks four of which

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as i was saying uh four of those racks

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world observation research facility

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earth observation work that's done from

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experiment rack that will help improve

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or help prevent some of the muscle

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atrophy that generally occurs in

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astronauts when they live for a long

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and there's a new freezer for the

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international space station to keep

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the science experiments if they

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take part in cold and until they're

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and one other experiment right called

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express rack 7 that's a system that

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will provide several different science

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stored in racks and platform to be

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the team here on the ground reports that

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the robotic arm is in motion and moving

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yamazaki just about done with their

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robotics work for the day moving the

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space station robotic arm further away

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overnight position that'll be the end of

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robotics work for today but it'll be

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where it'll be helping transfer the new

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shuttle's cargo bay and onto a temporary

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and station houston on the big loop for

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robo we see the maneuver complete

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when you get to the safing switch in the

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procedure we need you to hold it for 20

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houston we understand when we apply

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safing you'd like us to hold the switch

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admission specialist stephanie wilson

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there talking with capcom mike jensen

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about the robotics work she and mission

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specialist naoko yamazaki have been

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working on they have the space station's

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robotic arm in place for what's going to

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be its overnight park position

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uh it's poised and ready to begin the

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first spacewalk of the mission which

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its job during that spacewalk is going

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to be to move the

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new ammonia tank assembly carried up by

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harmony side has already been opened and

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mission specialist clay anderson and

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station this is the time joiner morning

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good morning tom the international space

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clear we are ready for questions

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no that's what they're supposed to say

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and tom we're ready for your questions

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this is uh i assume this is commander

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alan poindexter he's the mission

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specialist and do you have uh uh

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hi tom how are you

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i'm doing very well and how's it how

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they're going very well it's a great day

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on the space station we were able to

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install our cargo carrier and we'll be

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delivering a great experiment to the

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radar antenna is everything all right

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everything's all right we'll be able to

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make it back just fine and especially

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now nasa has uh this this is the first

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crew in space with three female and two

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japanese astronauts in the crew did you

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get your hair done before you went up in

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pretty good and actually this is the

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third uh the third flight with three

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tracy caldwell on the international

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the business of uh space shuttling or

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being becoming an astronaut what was

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your what was your what what is your

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story where are you from what kind of

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science and i interviewed an astronomy

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professor in middle school and that was

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dedication so the young people out there

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they study hard and uh stick with it

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they can do it too

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i'm in orlando this morning with the

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census bureau we're counting we're

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counting right now have you filled out

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your census form before you went up in

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i did fill out my census form before

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coming to the space station but i did

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are a lot of parents who are listening

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right now and what can you tell the

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parents on how to encourage their kids

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absolutely as they encourage their

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children if they support them and expose

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them to different opportunities going to

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museums and going to airports

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all the opportunities that the school

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field trips have and just open

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opportunities to them then they will

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dream have big dreams and they can

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pursue whatever their hearts desire

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that's cool

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and uh do you have your ipod with you

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discovery iss this is wvit-tv how do you

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we read you loud and clear

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a lot of children say they want to be an

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astronaut when they grow up but a

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connecticut man is living the dream the

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space shuttle discovery rocketed into

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orbit on monday with 40 year old

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waterbury native rick mastracchio on

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i'm great i understand there's a delay

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we understand that but rick let's start

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off with you you played a special lead

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role on this trip so tell us more about

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hey i am one of the space walkers

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we'll finish up that task over

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two more space walks later on in the

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now stephanie you helped set a record

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for the most women in space at the same

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it's very historic

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we of course are very fortunate to have

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had many women come before us

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to uh

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fly in space and so we're very thankful

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for their contributions and their

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dedication to make it possible for uh

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for the ladies on this flight to have an

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opportunity we have many in the

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astronaut office that they're very

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supportive and are good mentors and so

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well you are making me extra proud alan

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this next question is for you the crew

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is on a 13-day mission what kind of work

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do you have planned i know you're very

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it's a really busy flight we in this to

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the three space walk that rick and clay

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are doing we have

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about 12 to 13 tons of cargo that we

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have to get across from the

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multi-purpose logistics module that's

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our cargo carrier that we brought up in

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our payload bay

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we attached it to the space station this

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morning stephanie and valko did

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and just a few minutes ago we opened a

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hatch for that cargo carrier

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and we're starting to pull supplies out

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now so for the next several days we'll

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uh we'll be transferring supplies

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science rack research equipment over the

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space station

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in addition to a new sleeping station

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nice now rick back to you growing up in

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waterbury i had to ask did you always

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i was interested in math and science and

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studying things and studying about space

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but i never really knew that i could

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become an astronaut until i was out of

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graduate school and i saw an

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advertisement in a magazine and decided

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to take a chance and nine years later i

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wonderful and the shuttle program comes

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to an end after nearly 30 years as

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shuttle astronauts will it be a sad day

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i don't consider it a sad day at all you

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know shuttle has left a great legacy uh

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throughout its history

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incredible things have done with the

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shuttle that

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probably could not have been done with

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any other vehicle when you think about

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the hubble space telescope and the

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service commissions to it

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and the assembly and uh

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and the building of the international

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space station

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and the use of the international space

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station

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the shuttle's left incredible legacy

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it's a very versatile vehicle and uh

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and uh i think it's time to celebrate

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the 30 years of flying the vehicle and

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you're right it's more of a celebration

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i have to ask each and every one of you

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what do you do on your downtime i'm just

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well one of the great things about being

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in space is being able to look at her

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and the view out the windows and so

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a lot of us spend time looking at earth

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yeah i have to agree we spend a lot of

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time looking out the window any spare

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time that we have which is not much i

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should say and then we just enjoy this

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enormous space station that we have this

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thing is incredible and it's just it's

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well i'm looking out the window here and

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it's nice but i don't think it's nice is

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what you have up there thank you all so

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much for your time

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discovery iss this is fox news radio how

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good morning we have you loud and clear

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first the practical stuff commander

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poindexter as we talk you've got a

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shuttle without a working ku antenna is

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not at all we've got a lot of a lot of

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capability and a lot of redundancy in

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our systems now we're docked to the

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international space station

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and we're able to use their

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communication systems to get our data

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and voice

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well for rick mastracchio you're doing

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three space walks on this mission and

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with the shuttle program winding down

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you're one of the more experienced nasa

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space walkers now most of us down here

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will never get the chance what does it

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the difficult feeling to describe

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the incredible views of the earth from

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inside a space suit are just

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they're just beautiful the earth is a

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beautiful place to look back upon and we

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spend a lot of effort trying to get off

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the planet and come into space but we

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always spend a lot of time looking back

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where we came from

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the space walks

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lot very difficult take a lot of

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physical and mental energy

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and there's a lot of a lot of risk out

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there so we train real hard and we do

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and stephanie wilson this is your third

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shuttle flight all on the discovery are

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you starting to feel a little attached

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definitely um discovery's been a great

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ship she served me well on two flights

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and we are having a little bit of

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trouble with the ku but otherwise she's

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a great vehicle the folks in florida at

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the kennedy space center did a great job

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going back to the commander first it was

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30 years ago this week that the first

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space shuttle took off from florida and

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landed a few hours later at edwards air

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force base took off

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131 flights later what have we learned

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and and what have we gained

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well uh that's a great question

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i could start with uh where we are today

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the international space station is a

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wonderful research facility and

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world-class laboratory here uh orbiting

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200 miles above the earth

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every day

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the combined weight of the

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shuttle and station is uh

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approaching a million pounds or just

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over a million pounds

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and it's a marvelous facility we have 13

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people on board right now and without

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the shuttle we would not have been able

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to build this facility the way we did

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you can also look back the hubble space

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telescope

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its deployment and the servicing

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missions to the hubble

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again

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all due to the versatility of the space

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shuttle we can we get the magnificent

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views and the great science and research

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that

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for all of you uh please as you know

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nasa's plans for the future have changed

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and those changes will affect the three

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of you very profoundly do you think this

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could be your last trip into space or do

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you think you'll be involved as the

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well i can't speak for the others but i

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certainly hope to return to space

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someday of course i'm not getting any

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younger

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but nasa will

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build a new vehicle in the upcoming

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and i agree with rick this is certainly

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a special experience and i hope to have

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another opportunity to perhaps be a

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member of a long duration flight on the

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one last question and that is there are

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youngsters who'll be listening to this

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what do you want to tell them if they're

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thinking they want to go into space give

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them some direction what should they be

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i think the best direction we can give

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our youngsters today

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is to dream big and follow those dreams

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work hard to attain your goals do

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something you enjoy

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and work very hard at it i think that's

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that's the key to success in life is to

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do something that you're happy with and

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work really hard at it and

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they should study hard uh getting ready

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for space that math and science are good

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uh good things to study engineering

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going into aviation through the military

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or other career fields are are very good

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and the most important thing is really

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to work hard try hard and to stick with

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yeah i think the commander and stephanie

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summed it up pretty well it find out

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find something you really enjoy work

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very hard at it be dedicated and put in

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an application for nasa and see what

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happens

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as you can see the hatches are open

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between the leonardo multipurpose

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logistics module and the harmony node

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the crew getting uh

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to work

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you can see all the cargo inside as

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we've been mentioning there's more than

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12 000 pounds of cargo and supplies and

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equipment

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inside leonardo all of that has to be

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moved out of it and across that hatchway

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the crew once they get everything moved

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across and put up where it needs to go

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we'll be busy

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stuffing leonardo full of different

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types of equipment and pieces of

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structure that have to come back home

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there will be

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4109 pounds of equipment that will

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be packed in there for the return ride

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back to earth

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inside leonardo which will be tucked

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the crew is going to be very busy over

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the next couple of days taking care of

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all of that they will have

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each and every night

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basically a conference call with the

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ground teams here to make sure that

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everything is

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taken care of that needs to be addressed

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during the cruise day

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and to make sure that the ground teams

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are following along that all the

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different logistics and inventory items

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everything that's inside of there has

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its own numbering system until an

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assignment in terms of

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where it was packed inside leonardo and

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also where it ultimately will be stored

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and airlock houston

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we are on board with you and we're ready

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yeah houston we already packed it up we

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took some photos uh sweet she took a

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couple of photos of it so they'll get

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downlinked there it's not a big deal

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just some of the paint was scratched we

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just want to make sure it gets

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okay and we copied this photo call

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earlier so

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sts-131 crew members rick mastracchio

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and clay anderson who are our two space

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walkers tomorrow

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as well as dottie metcalf lindenberger

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who will be serving as the

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intravehicular officer or the person who

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will be helping coordinate tomorrow's

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spacewalk with the crew members are

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continuing to work inside the quest

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there's jim dutton the sts-131 pilot

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you hear the ground team here in houston

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asking mastracchio about some video of

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an rga which looks like some paint came

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off of whenever they unpacked it

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this is a rate gyro assembly that the

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two spacewalkers will be installing

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it seems as whenever they pulled

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the wrapping off of it some of the paint

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came off it's not going to impact

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anything tomorrow at all but they wanted

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to go ahead and document it

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via photo or video

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so they took some pictures of it and

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we'll send those down to the ground just

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the two spacewalkers for tomorrow's

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activities are in the process of doing

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the

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all of this activity is done so that

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the two spacewalkers can avoid what is

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called the bend

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anyone who is familiar with any sort of

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diving

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knows about this effect

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but the reduced pressure allows all the

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nitrogen inside their bloodstreams to

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evacuate

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and then in the morning they have a

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shorter

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preparation phase as they get ready to

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kick off this first of the three

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there's sts-131 pilot jim dutton he as

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well as stephanie wilson will be

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piloting

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the station's robotic arm tomorrow

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during the spacewalk activities

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that arm is going to reach out and rick

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mastracchio and clay anderson will

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install the brand new ammonia tank

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assembly after it's been removed from

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discovery's payload babel put it on that

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arm

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and both the dutton and stephanie wilson

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will move it over toward an external

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stowage platform

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mr accio and anderson will make their

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way up there

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on the station structure

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they will grab another grapple bar

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install it on that ammonia tank assembly

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while it is attached to the station's

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robotic arm

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and then they will temporarily stow that

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entire assembly

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on a cargo attachment point

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outside the station where it will stay

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until the second spacewalk of the

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mission

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and during that time that ammonia tank

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assembly will be moved to its permanent

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and houston airlock for the camp out

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we'd like to start closing the node 1

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starboard hatch here in about one minute