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a mission to build resupply and to do

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research for the international space

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well it's always exciting when you're

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getting a new vehicle

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the space shuttle is really unique

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it still is the only spacecraft that's

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ever been built by people

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that takes off

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goes or goes into orbit

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and performs a big job up there and then

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flies back and lands and gets ready to

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go on another mission so it was a very

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exciting thing to have a new vehicle

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like atlantis

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i think the most important one the one

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that i've been

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very proud of to be a part of is the

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hubble mission that we did on sts-125

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just the the science alone from hubble

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is amazing and just to be able to you

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know take all the hardware up and the

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astronauts up and be part of the repair

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effort and the servicing effort was

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well it's going to be great to be back

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on atlantis i'm very excited about

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getting to another opportunity to fly

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on board atlantis

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i flew it on my only other mission up to

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the the hubble servicing mission

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and now to be able to get to another

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ride on atlantis but up to the space

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station

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um it's going to be

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it's going to be incredible i'll be

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excited as i always am but i you know

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i don't relax until after mikko and that

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you know it's going to be an emotional

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day

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and i think it's going to be bittersweet

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kind of flying off into the sunset in

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one respect but um

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but we're still doing you know important

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good work uh we're taking up this

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russian module that's uh

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actually it's its name in russian means

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dawn so

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in one way we're flying off into the

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sunset but we're still

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you know doing important work and

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and it's the

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you know providing more capability to

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we we love all the shuttles

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and uh

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but when you start working exclusively

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on them when you're responsible for them

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you kind of grow attached to

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your shuttle one of the things that i

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get to do when i uh when it the vehicle

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lands at dryden which it's done a couple

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times since i've been the flow director

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is to i get to ride on the pathfinder

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back with the vehicle and stopping over

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at all the places that we stop over

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um

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we literally stop traffic on roads i

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mean interstates people pull over when

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they see the shuttle on top of the on

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top of the sca

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and just

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are just in awe i mean they just cannot

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get enough of it and you know that to me

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you know when people see it sometimes

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it's out of sight out of mind but when

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this could be the last flight of

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atlantis and so

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we're we're going to do our best to pay

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tribute to atlantis not just for this

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flight but for its its whole

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you know all the flights that it's been

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on and all the things that it's done and

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you have to say

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you know what a magnificent vehicle it