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good morning thank you for joining us

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here at nasa's kennedy space center in

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florida for the space shuttle atlantis

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sts-132 pre-launch news conference

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joining me today is the chair of the

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mission management team mike moses good

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morning

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shuttle launch director mike leinbach

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good morning

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and sts-132 weather officer todd

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mcnamara good morning

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we'll hear from our panelists and then

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we'll take questions mr moses thanks

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kendrick

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well welcome everybody

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here to report uh

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the results of our l minus 2 mmt that's

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our mission management team meeting here

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on launch minus two days it's kind of

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the kickoff of the official mission

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management team

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as we get ready to go into the countdown

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and launch

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we really had nothing to talk about in

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i stretched the meeting out to 18

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minutes long today it was a it was a

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challenge but we managed to pull that

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off

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talked a little bit about the weather

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todd will cover that here today

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we talked about the systems mike gave us

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the status on the countdown he'll give

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you that update as well everything's

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looking great

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the vehicle is in great shape out on the

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pad we talked to the station team you

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know they just finished the relocation

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of the soyuz the

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21st over from the the fgb nader port

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which is where the the mrm module that

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we're bringing up is going to go and

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it's now back at the sm aft uh position

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so the iss is in good shape um all their

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criteria that they need to have

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satisfied before we're ready to launch

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have been met and so they're ready for

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our mission uh the crew's been doing

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good they're in good shape they've been

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flying the sta they're gonna have one

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more run tomorrow and they'll be ready

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to go

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and so from uh from a space shuttle

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program iss program standpoint we're

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ready to launch atlantis and get this

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mission underway

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um just to recap you know you've heard

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all the pre-mission briefings uh three

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evas on this flight the first one is

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basically getting uh some of the orus

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which are the orbital replacement units

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the spares

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off of one of the the payload

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racks that we're carrying up it's called

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an icc vld it's a deployable carrier

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it's going to go over to the station on

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flight day three after we dock

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the first dva they'll go out and they'll

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take off a ku band antenna that'll be

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used as a spare antenna to put that on

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the station and a transfer platform an

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enhanced transfer platform that goes on

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the spdm which is the special purpose

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dexterous manipulator the dexter

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robot arm that

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was launched back on sts-123

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built by canada

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to be the the station

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extra robotic hands and so we're going

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to give it a a new trench or a new

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stowage platform that's powered and and

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has a lot more capability than the one

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that's up there right now

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uh and then we start two evas so evas

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two and three will be battery

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replacements rnr's re remove and replace

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uh basically on sts-127 we removed six

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of the batteries from the p6 trust the

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port uh number six truss that was the

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first one that was launched way back

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and used as this initial solar

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platform for the station so their

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batteries are kind of at the end of

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their life we changed out six of them on

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sts-127 we'll change out the remaining

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six on this mission and bring those home

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and then the mrm which is the russian uh

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multi-purpose research module that's

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be installed on the fgb and i think

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hatches and do ingress they're not gonna

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do a full ingress that thing is packed

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to the gills with cargo inside and until

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the shuttle crew leaves there's not

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enough room on station to completely

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in the right place so they'll do a quick

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not going to do a whole lot of work

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the last thing to talk about is is the

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middeck science this mission's carrying

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up a whole lot of science in fact we we

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added a lot um we call it kind of sortie

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science that it's going to be done on

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the station but it's going to take

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advantage of the shuttle crew and the

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extra hands that are going to be around

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so we're flying a lot of science

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missions on the mid-deck they're going

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to go up be transferred over station be

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run and executed and then brought back

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down and returned on this mission so a

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couple of days worth of science

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operations in fact it's one of the

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reasons why if we find ourselves in a

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slip situation you'll see us talk about

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uh there's a sliver of window in june

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that we would probably not try to launch

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into and that's because there would only

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be a three person crew on station and

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and that would lose the ability to do

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that science that we're carrying up

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specifically on this mission for that

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purpose so so not to talk about the bad

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news of slipping because we're going to

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launch friday it's going to be perfect

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everything will be great but uh but it

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just wanted to highlight the science

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that we are taking up and the

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utilization we're doing on the station

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speaking of station i did want to to

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give a reminder to the fact that they're

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receiving a huge honor tomorrow night up

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in arlington uh they're they've received

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the 2009 collier trophy from the

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national aeronautics association as the

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as their their yearly winner being

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recognized for the accomplishment of

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building such a huge orbiting spacecraft

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with international cooperation and and

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promoting that national laboratory in

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space so a real honor for them and we're

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really proud of them to be uh be getting

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that award

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and then finally uh just to highlight

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of questions and everybody's been

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talking about it this is atlantis final

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planned mission um it's been a glorious

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career started back in 1985 actually

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construction started in the 80s

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and its first flight was in in 1985 so

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this will be the 32nd mission of

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atlantis and we're not taking a lot of

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time reflecting back here before launch

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but i'm sure once once she gets back

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we'll we'll have a few celebrations she

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is going to turn around and be processed

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for launch on need so it's not the end

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of the line atlantis is going to go back

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into the opf and start down mission

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processing and turn around in fact we

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have a full flow pulling rcc panels

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looking for corrosion doing all the

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things we would do as if we were truly

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going to launch sts 335 which is the

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rescue mission for our final shuttle

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be processed again but but uh probably

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won't see the pad again and so it's a

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bittersweet time but like i said we're

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the teams are focused on the launch here

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and we're not really looking back just

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yet we'll probably wait until we get uh

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get it safely home before we start doing

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that so that's all i had mike okay

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thanks mike well the countdown is going

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exceedingly well we're not tracking any

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issues right now at all that would

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prevent an on-time lift off friday

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morning as mike said team atlantis is

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really hitting hitting the stride right

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now we're clicking on all all night all

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no issues at the launch pad uh just

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quick reminder that we do have the delta

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on the range on the 20th and that says

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18th to get off the pad should we scrub

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friday morning friday afternoon on time

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a couple milestones in the countdown

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coming up we start the

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afternoon about noontime and the weather

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should be good for that you'll hear from

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todd here momentarily

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the rotating service structure

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retraction it's tomorrow evening about 5

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30 and then we clear the pad and begin

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loading the external tank about 5

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o'clock friday morning in preparation

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really really well in atlantis and the

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boosters in the tank and the ground

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support equipment the team is in great

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spirits and we're ready to

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give it our best shot friday todd

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good morning overall the weather looks

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favorable favorable not only for

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today and tomorrow but also for the

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at the satellite imagery you can see

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florida right now and that's due to a

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very strong high pressure center that

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high pressure center has been strong and

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dominant over us for at least three or

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four days now has been keeping all that

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nasty weather all the way out around

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well up to our north and west and that's

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days at least until monday so for the

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next 24 to 48 hours i'm looking for

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scattered skies with that high pressure

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center at the surface still dominating

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our weather pattern we'll see some

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clouds out over the water kind of moving

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onshore and for rss retract tomorrow

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kind of move onshore could be a spotty

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along the coast very very brief as those

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very favorable conditions for tanking an

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launch still the same type of conditions

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high pressure is going to dominate our

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area the high pressure center is going

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to be just to our north so we're going

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to see easterly winds peaking up right

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around 18 knots or so well below or

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the only concern i do have is that we

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could see some enhanced convergence in

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the low levels which makes those clouds

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strong easterly winds rather rapidly so

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be very brief but overall we're looking

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at the probability of ksc weather

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prohibiting launch

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of 30 percent at this time

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as far as a 24 and 48 hour slip if we

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would need that opportunity weather's

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still going to look good the high

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pressure is still going to dominate

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florida we're still going to see those

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easterly winds in the low levels and

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we're still going to see some of those

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clouds move from out over the water

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onshore

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we could see a little increase in the

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winds up to 20 knots on sunday and that

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could be an added increase in crosswind

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concerns so the probability of kc

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weather violating

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launch or prohibiting launch for

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saturday and sunday is also at 30

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percent due to those low cloud ceilings

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possibly moving in and on sunday the

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crosswinds

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as far as the abort landing sites here

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in the u.s the space flight meteorology

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group is forecasting great conditions

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friday saturday and sunday for both

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edwards and white sands and then as far

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as the overseas locations they are

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forecasting ceilings winds and showers

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within 20 to affect zaragoza and

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distress both monday tuesday and

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wednesday however morons looking very

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good all three days and that will be our

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one good towel site as far as weather is

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concerned for launch operations

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so overall right now we're sitting with

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high pressure over the top of us it's

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going to dominate us at least until

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monday we're going to see low clouds out

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over the water moving onshore we have a

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slight chance of some low clouds

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moving in and give us giving us a

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ceiling

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on friday saturday and sunday and

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because of that we have a 30 chance of

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ksc weather prohibiting launch kendriya

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thank you we'll now take questions when

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the microphone comes your way please

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state your name affiliation and to whom

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you're addressing your question uh start

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in the front with chris

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um chris gebhardt with nasa

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spaceflight.com uh with um

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i believe two for mike moses um the uh

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cscs timeline uh for station support for

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the 132 crew out through september how

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many day what's the limiting consumable

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and how many days do you have on that

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and to follow up

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see that for the contingencies uh safe

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haven uh consumables we have up on

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station they right now have uh food to

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support 125 days which is the duration

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that takes us to get to the the launch

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in september

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so we have that covered no problem

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the thing that that that does not assume

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is uh there are two progress resupply

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launches that occur between now and then

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and and for conservatism we as we don't

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assume that those are successful so we

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don't count those obviously we'd have

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two chances to send up uh progresses

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with with tons more supplies food

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whatever we needed so we'd have way more

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than that 125 days

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um and um in terms of the cryo load for

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atlantis fuel cells you know with with

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endeavor and discovery you get the added

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benefit of spitz up on station to draw

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power from that and with atlantis you

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don't

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i know this mission is packed to the

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gills a 12 plus zero plus two day flight

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um if you get off the ground on time

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with a full consumable load on board

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do you know how much wiggle room you

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expect to have in the cryos over that 12

364
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plus zero plus two day limit yeah let's

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see so we typically have about 96 hours

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of pet hold mike i don't remember the

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exact number this time so that that's

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that's the amount of time we can sit on

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the pad before we have to top off the

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tanks if we launched on time that's then

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available to use as orbit margin and it

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converts over to be

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pretty close to an extra day so it

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wouldn't take much we might actually

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already be there by the time we lift off

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to have an extra consumables day if

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needed

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no plans to use it there's nothing

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station needs to do it

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it's just it would put that plus one

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back in the bank if for some reason we

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did want to use it

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robert

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collectspace.com uh with a question for

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mike moses and mike leinbach um i don't

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know if it's normal for you you and your

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respective uh team members or colleagues

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to go out to rss but given that it is

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probably the last time that atlantis may

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sit on the pad do you plan to have

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spend some time uh

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observing the the orbiter as it's uh

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revealed for flight

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so first i'll let you know okay uh we

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have

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a couple ways to answer that question

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first of all personally i've already

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been out to the pad so i don't uh i

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don't plan to go out again plus we have

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a

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bill

402
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i don't know if this is a weather

403
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question or a mike moses question is the

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volcanic ash any issue at all if you

405
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guys ended up in a towel uh just we were

406
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talking about abort sites just then was

407
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just wondering yeah we've been talking

408
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about it um you know it i think

409
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currently it's causing some closures

410
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over in europe the projections we did

411
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talk to our forecasters those would be

412
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the guys back in houston with the space

413
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flight meteorology group

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they have the tools they would need to

415
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forecast if if we did have problems

416
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from an orbiter perspective it's

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probably not an impact to us since we

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come in at such high altitude

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um and and currently the ashes are

420
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pretty low altitude we're looking at

421
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what it would do to to uh the weather

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recon aircraft the search and rescue

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forces that kind of thing but but

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basically um the predictions are by

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friday it's going to not be a big threat

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to us and but we'll keep an eye on it

427
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we've been talking about it so but don't

428
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expect it to be an ops impact to us okay

429
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and since you went out of your way to

430
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talk about atlantis last flight um you

431
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know if you're a reporter and everybody

432
00:14:01,910 --> 00:13:59,920
talks about the last flight um and yet

433
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there seems to be this lingering thought

434
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that maybe it would actually fly one

435
00:14:06,629 --> 00:14:05,040
more time has that been ruled out at

436
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this point or is that still a

437
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theoretical possibility that

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in other words if i got to keep saying

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last planned flight or can i say it's

440
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the last flight it is the last planned

441
00:14:16,629 --> 00:14:14,959
flight you know we could go theoretical

442
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possibilities that we could we could be

443
00:14:20,629 --> 00:14:18,959
doing we could be stopping everything

444
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after this flight we could be flying for

445
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another 30 years but right no i know

446
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what you mean but so so we are planning

447
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in our current direction our current

448
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budget guidance is that

449
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sts-335 is the rescue mission and we're

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not launching it

451
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the possibility exists to turn that into

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an actual launch the hardware's here all

453
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it exists we are currently not doing

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that and so but somebody could tell us

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to but so i can't answer the question

456
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for you because it's not up to

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me todd

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todd halverson of florida today i have a

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couple for mike while you're not in

460
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the reflection mode yet i'm wondering if

461
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you can tell me what the mood is among

462
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the people who follow that 104

463
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tail number

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as you're approaching what could be the

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last play of atlantis

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um well you know we've contacted the

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some of the earlier flow directors for

468
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atlantis and see if they wanted to come

469
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out for the final launch that type of

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thing flow flow directors flow managers

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some of the key people along the way

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over the last 25 years that atlantis has

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been here

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as mike mentioned she started production

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30 years ago so it's been a good long

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run for atlantis um but no you know it

477
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it's the type of thing where where when

478
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you're alone and thinking about it yeah

479
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it kind of hits you but when you're on

480
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console like like me and my launch team

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we have a job to do and we're going to

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do that job i i think after launch

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they'll probably be a little a little

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tear in some people's eyes i think after

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landing there will be

486
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but then there'll be some celebrations

487
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too and that'll take care of all that

488
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for us

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and uh mike could you tell me how far in

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terms of processing you will be taking

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atlantis

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i know you have to prepare for that

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flight as if it's going to be a real

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flight

495
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but will it still be in the opf at the

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time of

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the last launch would it be in the vab

498
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if you slip till february would would

499
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you take it to the pad

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um i'm going to try to be as slippery on

501
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that answer as mike was on on his answer

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to bill

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if you could tell me one of the last

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launches i could tell you where atlantis

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is going to be

506
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right i'm not i'm not sure we're going

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to take it well into the processing flow

508
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because we have to and

509
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where it actually ends up when discovery

510
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launches and when endeavour launches

511
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you know we'll just have to see the the

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manifest is really kind of fluid right

513
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now based on uh based on a lot of

514
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different constraints coming our way so

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we're gonna we're gonna process it we're

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gonna hit it hard and heavy when she

517
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comes home and and be ready for whatever

518
00:16:51,590 --> 00:16:49,759
the program tells us to do but it i if i

519
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had if i if we had an answer for you

520
00:16:55,509 --> 00:16:53,600
we'd tell you honestly but we we just

521
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don't right now yeah but about the only

522
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thing i could offer is from a budget

523
00:17:01,269 --> 00:16:59,440
perspective we are budgeting that we uh

524
00:17:02,550 --> 00:17:01,279
we will ship all the srb segments here

525
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in fact the last set are coming at the

526
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end of this month

527
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the et will be here

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and that we are going to stack the srbs

529
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i don't know that we'll make it to et

530
00:17:12,789 --> 00:17:10,959
mate but we are planning to then have

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the ops budget to then de-stack those

532
00:17:16,710 --> 00:17:14,959
srbs so we're assuming that we're going

533
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to get that far but again it's like mike

534
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said it all depends on on where the

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vehicles happen to be in the flow with

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the launch dates as to what we actually

537
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end up doing

538
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marcia

539
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marshad associated press along that same

540
00:17:30,789 --> 00:17:28,640
theme um

541
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maybe both of the mikes how strong is

542
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the hope out there that there's going to

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be another

544
00:17:39,350 --> 00:17:36,960
flight of atlantis i mean is this

545
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talked about all the time on off hours

546
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or

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just

548
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how how much are the employees really

549
00:17:48,470 --> 00:17:45,600
hoping that that happens

550
00:17:50,950 --> 00:17:48,480
well my answer's cynical so you go first

551
00:17:53,190 --> 00:17:50,960
uh i'll talk about the the kfc workforce

552
00:17:55,750 --> 00:17:53,200
especially the 104 team i'm sure there's

553
00:17:57,669 --> 00:17:55,760
i know there's a lot of hope that we get

554
00:17:59,190 --> 00:17:57,679
another flight but there's also a lot of

555
00:18:01,669 --> 00:17:59,200
realism that that's not right now the

556
00:18:03,590 --> 00:18:01,679
plan and so while we can hope all we

557
00:18:05,990 --> 00:18:03,600
want we're in the processing mode for

558
00:18:07,990 --> 00:18:06,000
the for the lon only if that turns into

559
00:18:09,590 --> 00:18:08,000
real flight then so be it

560
00:18:11,669 --> 00:18:09,600
the atlantis team loves that ship and

561
00:18:13,830 --> 00:18:11,679
loves what they do so you bet they want

562
00:18:14,950 --> 00:18:13,840
to have another flight

563
00:18:15,909 --> 00:18:14,960
just don't know how it's going to turn

564
00:18:17,110 --> 00:18:15,919
out

565
00:18:18,390 --> 00:18:17,120
yeah that's all i was going to say too

566
00:18:20,549 --> 00:18:18,400
is you can't you can't blame anybody

567
00:18:21,669 --> 00:18:20,559
that works on it for hoping but from the

568
00:18:23,590 --> 00:18:21,679
just looking at all the different

569
00:18:25,830 --> 00:18:23,600
options and and how things go on the

570
00:18:27,909 --> 00:18:25,840
roller coaster just for the last year if

571
00:18:29,990 --> 00:18:27,919
not go back 30 years you just never know

572
00:18:31,590 --> 00:18:30,000
what's going to happen so so having hope

573
00:18:33,590 --> 00:18:31,600
is one thing but but

574
00:18:35,510 --> 00:18:33,600
holding on to it's a different thing so

575
00:18:37,110 --> 00:18:35,520
we just we're not really focused on that

576
00:18:38,950 --> 00:18:37,120
um and how many

577
00:18:40,789 --> 00:18:38,960
people have worked on atlanta's for this

578
00:18:43,190 --> 00:18:40,799
flow if you count everybody do you have

579
00:18:44,870 --> 00:18:43,200
any kind of estimate on numbers boy oh

580
00:18:46,390 --> 00:18:44,880
boy um

581
00:18:47,990 --> 00:18:46,400
i don't have that number off the top of

582
00:18:49,590 --> 00:18:48,000
my head um

583
00:18:50,950 --> 00:18:49,600
we can get that for you because it would

584
00:18:52,950 --> 00:18:50,960
include a heck of a lot of people it's

585
00:18:55,590 --> 00:18:52,960
not just the processing folks here

586
00:18:59,270 --> 00:18:56,950
we'd have to get that for him i'm sorry

587
00:19:01,270 --> 00:18:59,280
good to know and um i think last week

588
00:19:03,590 --> 00:19:01,280
bill gerstenmaier said that he'd like to

589
00:19:05,510 --> 00:19:03,600
know by the end of june what's going to

590
00:19:07,430 --> 00:19:05,520
happen regarding um

591
00:19:08,870 --> 00:19:07,440
atlantis and maybe an extra flight is

592
00:19:12,549 --> 00:19:08,880
that

593
00:19:14,549 --> 00:19:12,559
could you go from all sorts of point of

594
00:19:16,470 --> 00:19:14,559
views

595
00:19:18,870 --> 00:19:16,480
from a program perspective

596
00:19:21,110 --> 00:19:18,880
you know at some point the planning you

597
00:19:23,350 --> 00:19:21,120
know we need to start uh

598
00:19:24,950 --> 00:19:23,360
having a crew assigned for training to

599
00:19:27,350 --> 00:19:24,960
to switch the mission from a rescue

600
00:19:29,029 --> 00:19:27,360
mission to an actual execution so june

601
00:19:31,510 --> 00:19:29,039
is kind of where we're drawing our line

602
00:19:32,950 --> 00:19:31,520
it's it's a fairly soft line we could we

603
00:19:34,070 --> 00:19:32,960
could do some things to work around it

604
00:19:35,350 --> 00:19:34,080
depending on what content you put on

605
00:19:37,669 --> 00:19:35,360
that mission

606
00:19:39,110 --> 00:19:37,679
from a station perspective you'd need a

607
00:19:40,390 --> 00:19:39,120
fairly good amount of lead time to

608
00:19:41,909 --> 00:19:40,400
decide what hardware you were going to

609
00:19:43,750 --> 00:19:41,919
fly so that you make sure you procure it

610
00:19:46,230 --> 00:19:43,760
in time and it's it's here and processed

611
00:19:47,990 --> 00:19:46,240
and ready to go so june is about the

612
00:19:49,350 --> 00:19:48,000
time where we kind of say

613
00:19:51,110 --> 00:19:49,360
if we're really going to do it it's time

614
00:19:52,870 --> 00:19:51,120
to go get serious we could probably go a

615
00:19:54,390 --> 00:19:52,880
little longer than that but it would be

616
00:19:55,990 --> 00:19:54,400
nice to know by then

617
00:19:57,029 --> 00:19:56,000
june also kind of lines up within about

618
00:19:57,990 --> 00:19:57,039
the same time we're going to try to

619
00:19:59,350 --> 00:19:58,000
decide

620
00:20:01,350 --> 00:19:59,360
what we're going to be doing with launch

621
00:20:03,350 --> 00:20:01,360
dates for the next two missions once we

622
00:20:05,830 --> 00:20:03,360
get the payload assessments for both the

623
00:20:08,549 --> 00:20:05,840
the pmm module that's flying on sts-133

624
00:20:10,310 --> 00:20:08,559
and the ams module flying on sts-134

625
00:20:11,669 --> 00:20:10,320
will have had a chance to get that input

626
00:20:13,430 --> 00:20:11,679
back from the payload teams and digest

627
00:20:14,630 --> 00:20:13,440
it so june also is about the same time

628
00:20:16,630 --> 00:20:14,640
we're going to try to nail down the rest

629
00:20:18,149 --> 00:20:16,640
of our manifest so i think that's why

630
00:20:19,510 --> 00:20:18,159
gerstumar was thrown out june i don't

631
00:20:21,510 --> 00:20:19,520
think there's anything magic about that

632
00:20:24,070 --> 00:20:21,520
date but uh yeah the sooner we know the

633
00:20:26,549 --> 00:20:24,080
better that's for sure

634
00:20:28,070 --> 00:20:26,559
ken hi thank you ken kramer for space

635
00:20:30,710 --> 00:20:28,080
flight magazine and the planetary

636
00:20:32,149 --> 00:20:30,720
society first congratulations and uh to

637
00:20:33,350 --> 00:20:32,159
all of your team

638
00:20:35,350 --> 00:20:33,360
um

639
00:20:38,070 --> 00:20:35,360
what i have a few questions for you

640
00:20:40,230 --> 00:20:38,080
first um just to follow up again on the

641
00:20:42,710 --> 00:20:40,240
potential 135 have you stopped all

642
00:20:44,950 --> 00:20:42,720
planning for putting a hardware or what

643
00:20:47,110 --> 00:20:44,960
you would actually put on to that

644
00:20:49,110 --> 00:20:47,120
potential mission

645
00:20:50,789 --> 00:20:49,120
see we never we never took that much

646
00:20:51,510 --> 00:20:50,799
further than than what we would do from

647
00:20:57,350 --> 00:20:51,520
a

648
00:20:58,789 --> 00:20:57,360
design requirement document freeze point

649
00:21:00,870 --> 00:20:58,799
where we identify what goes in the

650
00:21:03,270 --> 00:21:00,880
payload bay that then kicks off a whole

651
00:21:05,270 --> 00:21:03,280
cycle of cargo drawings to lay out mass

652
00:21:07,430 --> 00:21:05,280
properties center gravities and all that

653
00:21:09,029 --> 00:21:07,440
stuff so we identified what that

654
00:21:11,590 --> 00:21:09,039
configuration would be but we haven't

655
00:21:13,990 --> 00:21:11,600
done anything to to procure purchase or

656
00:21:15,430 --> 00:21:14,000
load any of that hardware so so from

657
00:21:16,870 --> 00:21:15,440
that standpoint all we did was identify

658
00:21:18,950 --> 00:21:16,880
what potentially would fly on that

659
00:21:21,590 --> 00:21:18,960
mission and it was all driven not from a

660
00:21:23,669 --> 00:21:21,600
135 mission but a 335 you know if if we

661
00:21:25,110 --> 00:21:23,679
did do a crew rescue at the end of the

662
00:21:26,710 --> 00:21:25,120
station's lifetime

663
00:21:28,950 --> 00:21:26,720
it was deemed to be a good idea to make

664
00:21:30,710 --> 00:21:28,960
that an mplm flight so that we could

665
00:21:32,549 --> 00:21:30,720
resupply all the things we just

666
00:21:34,789 --> 00:21:32,559
scavenged off the station to keep our

667
00:21:36,310 --> 00:21:34,799
crew safe until the next uh until the

668
00:21:37,590 --> 00:21:36,320
rescue came so you'd like to be able to

669
00:21:39,350 --> 00:21:37,600
resupply it so they don't immediately

670
00:21:41,029 --> 00:21:39,360
have to then de-orbit or demand part of

671
00:21:43,110 --> 00:21:41,039
the space station not the orbit uh but

672
00:21:44,549 --> 00:21:43,120
deal with the crew and demand some of it

673
00:21:46,789 --> 00:21:44,559
if not all of it for a while while they

674
00:21:48,630 --> 00:21:46,799
went off and resupplied so that's where

675
00:21:50,310 --> 00:21:48,640
we went with that 335 mission planning

676
00:21:51,750 --> 00:21:50,320
so once you had an mplm identified in

677
00:21:53,510 --> 00:21:51,760
the cargo bay

678
00:21:56,470 --> 00:21:53,520
what you put in it whether it's food and

679
00:21:57,990 --> 00:21:56,480
clean socks or more food and clean socks

680
00:21:59,590 --> 00:21:58,000
it doesn't really matter and you buy

681
00:22:00,710 --> 00:21:59,600
some more time so

682
00:22:01,669 --> 00:22:00,720
i'm trying to answer the question

683
00:22:02,950 --> 00:22:01,679
without telling you that it makes it

684
00:22:05,350 --> 00:22:02,960
sound like we actually were planning to

685
00:22:07,430 --> 00:22:05,360
fly 135 if the planning was done as part

686
00:22:09,029 --> 00:22:07,440
of the rescue mission for 335 it just

687
00:22:10,830 --> 00:22:09,039
would would be kind of carried right

688
00:22:13,270 --> 00:22:10,840
over if you turn that into a real

689
00:22:14,710 --> 00:22:13,280
mission thank you now let me follow up

690
00:22:17,270 --> 00:22:14,720
on what you said at the beginning about

691
00:22:18,870 --> 00:22:17,280
uh mid deck science i think you said you

692
00:22:20,230 --> 00:22:18,880
put some things on at the last moment i

693
00:22:22,549 --> 00:22:20,240
wonder if you could describe a little

694
00:22:24,549 --> 00:22:22,559
bit what those science experiments were

695
00:22:26,710 --> 00:22:24,559
how much was the mass and the volume

696
00:22:28,310 --> 00:22:26,720
please yeah sure you know i i had i

697
00:22:30,310 --> 00:22:28,320
started to get ready for that but uh we

698
00:22:31,830 --> 00:22:30,320
normally have a press briefing for the

699
00:22:33,190 --> 00:22:31,840
with the science team that got ended up

700
00:22:34,630 --> 00:22:33,200
scheduled out so so what they're going

701
00:22:35,510 --> 00:22:34,640
to do is the pao folks are going to be

702
00:22:37,350 --> 00:22:35,520
able to talk to you over in the new

703
00:22:39,190 --> 00:22:37,360
press room about the exact science off

704
00:22:41,909 --> 00:22:39,200
the top of my head we're flying a lot of

705
00:22:43,750 --> 00:22:41,919
our our pathfinder national lab vaccines

706
00:22:46,549 --> 00:22:43,760
uh which are basically a batch of

707
00:22:48,549 --> 00:22:46,559
experiments that that you take up and uh

708
00:22:51,190 --> 00:22:48,559
and their various uh various cultures we

709
00:22:53,110 --> 00:22:51,200
had been working really hard on a

710
00:22:55,510 --> 00:22:53,120
salmonella vaccine lately i think this

711
00:22:58,630 --> 00:22:55,520
time we're flying up a variation of of a

712
00:22:59,350 --> 00:22:58,640
staff bacteria and you basically let it

713
00:23:00,950 --> 00:22:59,360
go

714
00:23:02,630 --> 00:23:00,960
you activate it in space you run it for

715
00:23:04,310 --> 00:23:02,640
so long and then you freeze it and you

716
00:23:06,310 --> 00:23:04,320
see how the how the cells and the

717
00:23:08,230 --> 00:23:06,320
different uh different

718
00:23:10,070 --> 00:23:08,240
treatments work and and acting and if

719
00:23:11,990 --> 00:23:10,080
zero gravity makes a difference for the

720
00:23:13,430 --> 00:23:12,000
salmonella vaccines we found great

721
00:23:15,029 --> 00:23:13,440
breakthroughs using that that technique

722
00:23:16,950 --> 00:23:15,039
so i know we're going to continue that

723
00:23:20,230 --> 00:23:16,960
with we call them the nlps the national

724
00:23:21,909 --> 00:23:20,240
lab pathfinders uh for vaccines

725
00:23:24,070 --> 00:23:21,919
there's a lot of other science that's

726
00:23:25,110 --> 00:23:24,080
going up a fair number of jaxa japanese

727
00:23:26,470 --> 00:23:25,120
payloads

728
00:23:27,990 --> 00:23:26,480
and i can't remember them off the top of

729
00:23:29,830 --> 00:23:28,000
my head and if i if i tried i'd be

730
00:23:31,510 --> 00:23:29,840
giving a disservice to the ones i forget

731
00:23:33,110 --> 00:23:31,520
so i'll let the pao folks give you a

732
00:23:34,950 --> 00:23:33,120
follow-up briefing to kind of fill in on

733
00:23:36,470 --> 00:23:34,960
the list it was about three pages long

734
00:23:38,070 --> 00:23:36,480
so it's a it's a healthy list of stuff

735
00:23:39,909 --> 00:23:38,080
we're flying

736
00:23:41,029 --> 00:23:39,919
and it wasn't so much last minute when i

737
00:23:43,110 --> 00:23:41,039
said last minute it was kind of like in

738
00:23:44,390 --> 00:23:43,120
the last three months that we decided to

739
00:23:46,070 --> 00:23:44,400
concentrate a little more on the science

740
00:23:48,950 --> 00:23:46,080
because we we had the performance to be

741
00:23:50,549 --> 00:23:48,960
able to do that on this mission

742
00:23:52,070 --> 00:23:50,559
chris you had a follow-up

743
00:23:55,110 --> 00:23:52,080
um yeah chris got part with nasa

744
00:23:56,390 --> 00:23:55,120
spaceflight.com again um

745
00:23:58,710 --> 00:23:56,400
in terms of the launch window for

746
00:23:59,990 --> 00:23:58,720
atlanta um i i understand you know the

747
00:24:01,909 --> 00:24:00,000
the cutouts that are involved from a

748
00:24:03,830 --> 00:24:01,919
beta angle from a dual docked ops and

749
00:24:06,549 --> 00:24:03,840
from the dell 10 maybe the spacex

750
00:24:08,230 --> 00:24:06,559
vehicle that's out there but um what is

751
00:24:09,830 --> 00:24:08,240
the current window and opportunities

752
00:24:11,669 --> 00:24:09,840
that you have and are you saying that

753
00:24:13,430 --> 00:24:11,679
you wouldn't would not

754
00:24:14,870 --> 00:24:13,440
take the opportunity this slide

755
00:24:17,190 --> 00:24:14,880
opportunity you have in june from the

756
00:24:19,350 --> 00:24:17,200
science standpoint

757
00:24:21,269 --> 00:24:19,360
yeah so in this current window we can go

758
00:24:23,110 --> 00:24:21,279
through the 22nd for beta angle the

759
00:24:25,430 --> 00:24:23,120
delta on the range uh limits us to the

760
00:24:26,710 --> 00:24:25,440
18th as our last launch attempt um and

761
00:24:28,230 --> 00:24:26,720
so we'd uh

762
00:24:29,909 --> 00:24:28,240
we had every every plan to respect that

763
00:24:30,950 --> 00:24:29,919
it all depends on when we get there and

764
00:24:32,549 --> 00:24:30,960
you know

765
00:24:34,789 --> 00:24:32,559
your mileage may vary when when we get

766
00:24:36,310 --> 00:24:34,799
to actual launches um we have a window

767
00:24:38,789 --> 00:24:36,320
that opens back up in june between a

768
00:24:39,909 --> 00:24:38,799
couple of dual dock ops operations um

769
00:24:41,990 --> 00:24:39,919
and and that's when we'd be at a

770
00:24:44,390 --> 00:24:42,000
three-man crew and for science so we we

771
00:24:46,470 --> 00:24:44,400
talked about it as a as an agency uh as

772
00:24:48,870 --> 00:24:46,480
a station program shuttle program uh

773
00:24:50,470 --> 00:24:48,880
rather as a somd

774
00:24:52,390 --> 00:24:50,480
and uh and decided that that's probably

775
00:24:53,990 --> 00:24:52,400
not worth taking due to the content we'd

776
00:24:56,230 --> 00:24:54,000
have to to give up on the mission that

777
00:24:57,909 --> 00:24:56,240
we added specifically to be able to do

778
00:24:59,909 --> 00:24:57,919
this flight and we just kind of decided

779
00:25:01,510 --> 00:24:59,919
that wasn't the right thing to do

780
00:25:03,510 --> 00:25:01,520
and so from that reason

781
00:25:04,789 --> 00:25:03,520
we probably skipped past that window now

782
00:25:06,549 --> 00:25:04,799
we're not there yet we don't know why we

783
00:25:08,390 --> 00:25:06,559
got there so you can't really say for

784
00:25:09,590 --> 00:25:08,400
sure but uh the plan would be that we

785
00:25:11,750 --> 00:25:09,600
wouldn't really talk about that window

786
00:25:13,430 --> 00:25:11,760
and that puts us into i think june 29th

787
00:25:14,710 --> 00:25:13,440
would be the first time back

788
00:25:17,029 --> 00:25:14,720
would be about the time we'd come back

789
00:25:18,470 --> 00:25:17,039
but again that's a beta angle dependent

790
00:25:19,990 --> 00:25:18,480
number and it all depends on what

791
00:25:21,909 --> 00:25:20,000
happens between now and then so rough

792
00:25:23,430 --> 00:25:21,919
ball park we're looking at july if we

793
00:25:25,110 --> 00:25:23,440
wanted to stand down

794
00:25:27,029 --> 00:25:25,120
my manifest guys coached me right before

795
00:25:28,470 --> 00:25:27,039
i came in here that that and not for the

796
00:25:29,990 --> 00:25:28,480
press conference but just for my own

797
00:25:31,590 --> 00:25:30,000
thinking on console that

798
00:25:33,029 --> 00:25:31,600
don't let yourself think that you know a

799
00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:33,039
slip out of these four or five days

800
00:25:36,870 --> 00:25:34,960
suddenly you're into july emotionally

801
00:25:38,310 --> 00:25:36,880
that seems like a really big deal and a

802
00:25:39,909 --> 00:25:38,320
really big hit that we we'd be talking

803
00:25:42,070 --> 00:25:39,919
about a launch date in july if we don't

804
00:25:43,430 --> 00:25:42,080
make this one in may but from a manifest

805
00:25:45,669 --> 00:25:43,440
perspective and impact to the next

806
00:25:46,950 --> 00:25:45,679
flights there is none and so the

807
00:25:48,950 --> 00:25:46,960
difference between launch and now and in

808
00:25:50,870 --> 00:25:48,960
july programmatically is not much

809
00:25:52,390 --> 00:25:50,880
different and so uh it's really just

810
00:25:53,430 --> 00:25:52,400
like we we had a couple weeks stand down

811
00:25:54,630 --> 00:25:53,440
and we came back it would be a little

812
00:25:56,710 --> 00:25:54,640
more than that for the vehicle sitting

813
00:25:59,350 --> 00:25:56,720
out at the pad but but other than that

814
00:26:00,149 --> 00:25:59,360
it's not a big deal to the programs

815
00:26:01,909 --> 00:26:00,159
bill

816
00:26:03,350 --> 00:26:01,919
well shoot not to talk about not making

817
00:26:05,029 --> 00:26:03,360
your window but if you don't make your

818
00:26:06,549 --> 00:26:05,039
window

819
00:26:08,549 --> 00:26:06,559
we were talking the other day about

820
00:26:10,149 --> 00:26:08,559
spacex and uh is there any issue with

821
00:26:11,909 --> 00:26:10,159
the shuttle being on the pad when a

822
00:26:13,669 --> 00:26:11,919
rocket that's never flown before takes

823
00:26:15,909 --> 00:26:13,679
off right beside it there any safety

824
00:26:17,510 --> 00:26:15,919
concerns or issues with your hardware

825
00:26:18,950 --> 00:26:17,520
let's see you know uh we had the same

826
00:26:20,549 --> 00:26:18,960
thing when one x launched and the

827
00:26:21,990 --> 00:26:20,559
shuttle was sitting on the pad or was

828
00:26:23,510 --> 00:26:22,000
going to be and we did all the right

829
00:26:26,149 --> 00:26:23,520
range safety assessments that those are

830
00:26:28,549 --> 00:26:26,159
being done again for for the falcon 9.

831
00:26:30,870 --> 00:26:28,559
um it's a little less risk to pad a than

832
00:26:32,470 --> 00:26:30,880
the uh than than pad b was with one x

833
00:26:33,990 --> 00:26:32,480
because they're a little further down

834
00:26:37,750 --> 00:26:34,000
from us but uh we are in their three

835
00:26:39,269 --> 00:26:37,760
sigma uh ellipse of of limit lines so we

836
00:26:40,950 --> 00:26:39,279
are impacted it's a pretty small risk

837
00:26:42,549 --> 00:26:40,960
we've looked at the numbers currently we

838
00:26:43,909 --> 00:26:42,559
have no plans to to do anything

839
00:26:46,470 --> 00:26:43,919
different and we'd be happy with that

840
00:26:47,750 --> 00:26:46,480
risk um as that math gets refined we'll

841
00:26:50,230 --> 00:26:47,760
keep an eye on it and make sure nothing

842
00:26:53,029 --> 00:26:50,240
changes but but no we don't have any any

843
00:26:54,789 --> 00:26:53,039
worries there chris

844
00:26:57,190 --> 00:26:54,799
one one more quick one about the window

845
00:26:59,029 --> 00:26:57,200
um you mentioned um you mentioned july

846
00:27:00,710 --> 00:26:59,039
if you missed this window completely

847
00:27:02,630 --> 00:27:00,720
into june july would be the next one but

848
00:27:04,149 --> 00:27:02,640
some just clicked on my mind that

849
00:27:07,190 --> 00:27:04,159
aren't all the russian docking ports

850
00:27:08,630 --> 00:27:07,200
where you'd be birthing mrm one two full

851
00:27:10,149 --> 00:27:08,640
in july

852
00:27:11,669 --> 00:27:10,159
yeah we'd have to uh we'd have to

853
00:27:12,950 --> 00:27:11,679
shuffle a fair number of the russian

854
00:27:14,710 --> 00:27:12,960
things which is one of the other reasons

855
00:27:16,549 --> 00:27:14,720
why we didn't want to go in the june

856
00:27:17,990 --> 00:27:16,559
window the replan to make all that work

857
00:27:19,830 --> 00:27:18,000
needs a little bit of time to happen so

858
00:27:21,029 --> 00:27:19,840
yeah i don't know the specific replan

859
00:27:23,350 --> 00:27:21,039
that would happen on the station side it

860
00:27:25,190 --> 00:27:23,360
would cause a fair bit of rework but

861
00:27:27,269 --> 00:27:25,200
that would be the next opportunity if we

862
00:27:30,149 --> 00:27:27,279
could make it work from a docking

863
00:27:32,710 --> 00:27:30,159
standpoint i think we'll go with ken and

864
00:27:35,029 --> 00:27:32,720
have this be our last question for um

865
00:27:37,110 --> 00:27:35,039
society for uh either of the mics i

866
00:27:39,190 --> 00:27:37,120
guess the question is about the uh the

867
00:27:40,470 --> 00:27:39,200
ku band antenna failure that you had on

868
00:27:42,310 --> 00:27:40,480
the last mission i wonder if you could

869
00:27:44,710 --> 00:27:42,320
talk a little bit about you know why

870
00:27:46,549 --> 00:27:44,720
that happened um was something missed

871
00:27:49,750 --> 00:27:46,559
and are there any changes you made in

872
00:27:51,669 --> 00:27:49,760
the processing or in shuttle operations

873
00:27:53,110 --> 00:27:51,679
for for this flight if it if it were to

874
00:27:55,830 --> 00:27:53,120
happen again would the astronauts be

875
00:27:57,510 --> 00:27:55,840
able to more quickly download the uh

876
00:27:59,430 --> 00:27:57,520
the video from the

877
00:28:01,110 --> 00:27:59,440
tiles so we talked that a fair bit in

878
00:28:03,029 --> 00:28:01,120
our flight readiness reviews

879
00:28:04,870 --> 00:28:03,039
the teams down here at kennedy were

880
00:28:06,470 --> 00:28:04,880
very quick to get into discovery and get

881
00:28:08,789 --> 00:28:06,480
the ku deployed out and be able to do

882
00:28:11,110 --> 00:28:08,799
some checkouts and rapidly found that

883
00:28:13,029 --> 00:28:11,120
system has a couple of boxes

884
00:28:14,549 --> 00:28:13,039
somewhere inside the avionics bays

885
00:28:15,830 --> 00:28:14,559
inside the shuttle

886
00:28:17,590 --> 00:28:15,840
down on the mid deck and some are

887
00:28:18,950 --> 00:28:17,600
outside as part of the ku antenna

888
00:28:21,669 --> 00:28:18,960
assembly we call those the deployed

889
00:28:24,070 --> 00:28:21,679
assembly that is outside um

890
00:28:26,230 --> 00:28:24,080
while we were in orbit with sts-131 we

891
00:28:27,909 --> 00:28:26,240
were pretty sure this failure was in a

892
00:28:29,669 --> 00:28:27,919
component called the exciter which

893
00:28:32,389 --> 00:28:29,679
basically adds the the signal into the

894
00:28:33,990 --> 00:28:32,399
ku system um and uh and it was either

895
00:28:36,149 --> 00:28:34,000
not receiving a signal from the boxes

896
00:28:37,990 --> 00:28:36,159
inside the shuttle or it itself outside

897
00:28:39,269 --> 00:28:38,000
had failed we were pretty sure it was

898
00:28:41,350 --> 00:28:39,279
the the outside thing because we've

899
00:28:44,230 --> 00:28:41,360
never seen any of the boxes inside fail

900
00:28:46,070 --> 00:28:44,240
before and on sts 92 we had had a ku

901
00:28:47,909 --> 00:28:46,080
failure that was due to a an exciter

902
00:28:50,149 --> 00:28:47,919
failure in the deployed assembly so we

903
00:28:51,590 --> 00:28:50,159
kind of had a failure at least that said

904
00:28:52,630 --> 00:28:51,600
that maybe that's what we got going on

905
00:28:53,990 --> 00:28:52,640
again here

906
00:28:55,269 --> 00:28:54,000
long story to say that the kennedy guys

907
00:28:57,269 --> 00:28:55,279
got in there very quickly and were able

908
00:28:59,190 --> 00:28:57,279
to test right away that the the outputs

909
00:29:01,110 --> 00:28:59,200
of those boxes inside were fine and that

910
00:29:03,590 --> 00:29:01,120
the failure was in fact uh in that

911
00:29:07,350 --> 00:29:03,600
exciter in the deployed assembly so it

912
00:29:10,070 --> 00:29:07,360
was a transistor and uh and and they uh

913
00:29:11,750 --> 00:29:10,080
they sent me an 8 meg file complete with

914
00:29:13,590 --> 00:29:11,760
detailed scanning electron microscope

915
00:29:15,830 --> 00:29:13,600
images where they cut the transistor in

916
00:29:17,750 --> 00:29:15,840
into many pieces and found that that two

917
00:29:19,269 --> 00:29:17,760
of the legs uh had come off one of the

918
00:29:20,470 --> 00:29:19,279
solder joints broke and when it popped

919
00:29:22,070 --> 00:29:20,480
off it probably cracked one of the other

920
00:29:24,070 --> 00:29:22,080
ones and it was probably just an

921
00:29:25,830 --> 00:29:24,080
original manufacturer that just had at

922
00:29:27,750 --> 00:29:25,840
the minimum margin on that on that

923
00:29:29,269 --> 00:29:27,760
component and and over time it just

924
00:29:31,669 --> 00:29:29,279
broke um so it doesn't look like

925
00:29:33,029 --> 00:29:31,679
anything other than than a than a single

926
00:29:34,950 --> 00:29:33,039
point kind of a light bulb failure with

927
00:29:36,549 --> 00:29:34,960
that transistor

928
00:29:37,669 --> 00:29:36,559
that said that that pretty much means we

929
00:29:39,269 --> 00:29:37,679
don't really have a good screen for

930
00:29:40,789 --> 00:29:39,279
those kind of failures we talked a lot

931
00:29:42,070 --> 00:29:40,799
even before we knew what the failure was

932
00:29:43,110 --> 00:29:42,080
what we would do different on this

933
00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:43,120
mission

934
00:29:47,350 --> 00:29:44,960
we could fly some spare boxes for those

935
00:29:49,269 --> 00:29:47,360
inside boxes uh they're rather bulky and

936
00:29:50,870 --> 00:29:49,279
hard to change out but they could

937
00:29:52,630 --> 00:29:50,880
but given the fact that we've never seen

938
00:29:54,549 --> 00:29:52,640
failures in those boxes before and now

939
00:29:56,870 --> 00:29:54,559
have yet a second confirmation that it

940
00:29:58,389 --> 00:29:56,880
was an outside box we didn't decide that

941
00:30:00,870 --> 00:29:58,399
there was enough of a buy down in risk

942
00:30:02,230 --> 00:30:00,880
to to bother flying spare boxes

943
00:30:03,510 --> 00:30:02,240
we talked about

944
00:30:05,510 --> 00:30:03,520
what we would do differently from a

945
00:30:08,310 --> 00:30:05,520
procedure standpoint mostly with regards

946
00:30:09,830 --> 00:30:08,320
to the inspection data and decided that

947
00:30:11,830 --> 00:30:09,840
the team really did come up with the

948
00:30:13,669 --> 00:30:11,840
plan in fact you know that was always

949
00:30:21,029 --> 00:30:13,679
the plan all along was if we had a ku

950
00:30:24,870 --> 00:30:22,950
risk that download ku would fail which

951
00:30:26,710 --> 00:30:24,880
was pretty small and the work needed to

952
00:30:28,070 --> 00:30:26,720
be done which was pretty big that was

953
00:30:29,669 --> 00:30:28,080
one of those deferred things we put the

954
00:30:31,750 --> 00:30:29,679
skeleton plan in place and called that

955
00:30:33,110 --> 00:30:31,760
good enough until we needed it and so

956
00:30:35,269 --> 00:30:33,120
they pulled it off the shelf on 131 and

957
00:30:36,789 --> 00:30:35,279
got it running right away and and got us

958
00:30:39,110 --> 00:30:36,799
all the data we needed we had about a

959
00:30:41,029 --> 00:30:39,120
24-hour delay on that initial inspection

960
00:30:42,310 --> 00:30:41,039
data and so that's all been polished and

961
00:30:43,669 --> 00:30:42,320
we asked the teams fresh off of doing

962
00:30:45,029 --> 00:30:43,679
that hey did you learn any lessons is

963
00:30:46,149 --> 00:30:45,039
there anything better and they came up

964
00:30:48,230 --> 00:30:46,159
with a couple ideas there's some

965
00:30:50,549 --> 00:30:48,240
different software that if they had

966
00:30:51,909 --> 00:30:50,559
their choice they'd like to fly if you

967
00:30:55,669 --> 00:30:51,919
remember the process was the crew

968
00:30:57,350 --> 00:30:55,679
records the imagery uh on a high def

969
00:30:59,669 --> 00:30:57,360
tape and then we had to have them play

970
00:31:01,110 --> 00:30:59,679
that and convert it to an avi movie file

971
00:31:03,110 --> 00:31:01,120
transfer that file over the station and

972
00:31:05,830 --> 00:31:03,120
download it a lot of the 3d imagery is

973
00:31:07,669 --> 00:31:05,840
embedded in the uh the 3d signals

974
00:31:09,110 --> 00:31:07,679
embedded in that imagery and downlinking

975
00:31:11,029 --> 00:31:09,120
being the station assets it would get

976
00:31:13,190 --> 00:31:11,039
lost and compressed so we had to get it

977
00:31:14,230 --> 00:31:13,200
into an avi file so the new software

978
00:31:15,350 --> 00:31:14,240
we're not going to fly at this time but

979
00:31:16,789 --> 00:31:15,360
we'll have it for next time would

980
00:31:18,310 --> 00:31:16,799
basically make that avi file

981
00:31:19,830 --> 00:31:18,320
automatically as it's recording the

982
00:31:21,669 --> 00:31:19,840
other imagery so that's a pretty good

983
00:31:22,789 --> 00:31:21,679
get ahead would save the crew time if we

984
00:31:24,230 --> 00:31:22,799
ever got there

985
00:31:25,509 --> 00:31:24,240
it would save about five or six hours of

986
00:31:27,990 --> 00:31:25,519
the crew having to manually convert

987
00:31:29,990 --> 00:31:28,000
those files um other than that we didn't

988
00:31:31,350 --> 00:31:30,000
really find any efficiencies that were

989
00:31:33,110 --> 00:31:31,360
that were really worth pursuing there

990
00:31:34,710 --> 00:31:33,120
were some pretty big drastic wins to

991
00:31:36,710 --> 00:31:34,720
completely re-architecture the way the

992
00:31:38,310 --> 00:31:36,720
station downlinks imagery uh that really

993
00:31:39,830 --> 00:31:38,320
wasn't worth doing or you could do the

994
00:31:41,590 --> 00:31:39,840
same thing rewire the shuttle to match

995
00:31:43,909 --> 00:31:41,600
the station's architecture and again

996
00:31:45,430 --> 00:31:43,919
that wasn't worth doing so we basically

997
00:31:47,669 --> 00:31:45,440
just polished our procedures and we'll

998
00:31:49,909 --> 00:31:47,679
do it again if we have to um failure

999
00:31:51,110 --> 00:31:49,919
rates on the ku were something in the uh

1000
00:31:53,350 --> 00:31:51,120
i can't even remember them so i better

1001
00:31:54,230 --> 00:31:53,360
not quote them um but it was pretty low

1002
00:31:55,750 --> 00:31:54,240
probability that we're going to have

1003
00:31:57,750 --> 00:31:55,760
this problem again but if it if it does

1004
00:31:59,350 --> 00:31:57,760
show up again we're good i think the

1005
00:32:01,990 --> 00:31:59,360
last part you're catching quinn yeah

1006
00:32:03,350 --> 00:32:02,000
question ken and i'm bearing in data was

1007
00:32:04,789 --> 00:32:03,360
did we screen anything differently and

1008
00:32:05,990 --> 00:32:04,799
we ran all the standard pre-flight tests

1009
00:32:07,750 --> 00:32:06,000
like i said it was kind of a light bulb

1010
00:32:10,230 --> 00:32:07,760
failure so there really wasn't anything

1011
00:32:12,549 --> 00:32:10,240
else to check extra on on atlantis

1012
00:32:13,830 --> 00:32:12,559
before it flew

1013
00:32:18,070 --> 00:32:13,840
you could tell i had a several day

1014
00:32:22,630 --> 00:32:20,710
well that will conclude the sts-132

1015
00:32:24,789 --> 00:32:22,640
pre-launch news conference please join

1016
00:32:26,710 --> 00:32:24,799
us here on nasa television tomorrow at

1017
00:32:28,710 --> 00:32:26,720
10 a.m eastern for the l minus one

1018
00:32:31,029 --> 00:32:28,720
countdown status briefing for more