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good afternoon and welcome to nasa's

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johnson space center for today's mission

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management team briefing for the sts-132

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flight for the briefing we have leroy

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kane who is the chairman of the mission

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management team and also the deputy

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program manager for the space shuttle

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program so we'll open up with comments

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from leroy and then take questions

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okay thank you kylie

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well it's really great to be back in

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orbit atlantis and the atlantis crew are

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doing very well today

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we had just a flawless uh launch

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and ascent yesterday from the kennedy

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space center and the crew got on orbit

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and proceeded into their flight day one

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activities

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orbiter has been performing

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exceptionally well

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and and the crew today

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was into their normal flight day 2

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activities to include

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system and

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their normal preparation for rendezvous

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and docking with the international space

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station tomorrow so

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all of that is is ongoing

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and we're looking forward to to being

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back at space station tomorrow

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in the mission management team today we

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had we talked about a couple of items

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one of the items has to do with the

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inspection system

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that we use

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to to look at

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in this case atlantis thermal protection

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system

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attach to the orbiter robot arm

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the orbiter boom system on the end of

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that boom extension

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there is a sensor package a suite of

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sensors actually

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there's a there's a camera a digital

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as well as a laser imaging system

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the laser imaging system has a pan tilt

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system that's used so that we can move

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it around and and scan the various areas

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that we're looking at

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the issue is with that pan tilt system

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specifically the tilt

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it appears that there is a cable that is

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out of configuration

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in a way such that it is causing some

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interference when we try to tilt that

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unit

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and so the team worked through this

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problem this morning as the crew got

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into the uh the inspection procedures

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and they very quickly determined that uh

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with without going outside there wasn't

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going to be any way to

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to rectify this problem and so they

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downloaded to uh

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to using the digital camera to do the uh

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the inspections

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and that is a procedure that

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the crew is trained to do and

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it's a published procedure it's part of

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the flight rules

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that we've documented before the mission

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so that in the event we have a problem

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we just go ahead and do the scans using

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the digital camera system

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as a result of that part of

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the impact will be that we were not able

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to get the

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the port wing completely scanned today

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and so while we normally like to get all

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starboard wing the nose cap and the port

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areas where the reinforced carbon carbon

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is as part of this flight day two

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inspection we normally try to get that

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all done

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we weren't able to complete that so

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we will complete

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the scans and do inspect complete the

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inspection of the port wing

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once we get in dot once we get docked to

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the international space station

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and that will that will be sometime in

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the coming days and so the the team is

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off working the forward plan for exactly

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which systems we want to use to complete

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that inspection

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and uh and where it'll fit best into the

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timeline

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and we don't we don't have any issues

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with that it'll just be a timeline

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impact at this point

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the other topic that we talked a little

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bit about is and i think you may have

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heard that the space station for the

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last couple of days has been working

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to be concerned with and that sometimes

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we have to do maneuvers

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and in this case the space station

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program has been looking at an object

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that they were alerted to

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and so they've got a plan to do a debris

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avoidance movement maneuver tonight

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the time of closest approach is actually

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would be after atlantis shows up

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tomorrow and and after we dock

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sometime in the hour or hour and a half

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after we dock would be the time of

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closest approach if they should not do

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any kind of

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debris avoidance maneuvers so um they've

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elected to go ahead and do a maneuver

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and uh proactively get us out of the

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um we might be at some risk of of uh

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of having uh an object come closer to us

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than what we would like so

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they have not made a final decision to

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do the maneuver they have all the plans

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to execute the maneuver if they decide

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they need it they'll they'll take a

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little bit more time and get

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some more vectors and a little bit more

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data on the time of closest approach

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predictions for

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for the missed distance and then they'll

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compare that to their flight rules and

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they'll make a final decision

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and if they should do the maneuver it

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will be tonight it'll be

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sometime between eight and nine pm

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central time if they if they decide to

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execute the maneuver so

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that's not an impact for us

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as far as the shuttle is concerned

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whatever the resulting state vectors are

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we'll determine that

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later tonight and in the morning as we

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do as part of our ongoing process part

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of the ongoing tracking process for both

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vehicles as we prepare

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for the rendezvous and docking tomorrow

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really not an issue but just a topic of

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discussion and more for awareness for us

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other than those two items the

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as i said the orbiter is performing

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exceedingly well we know from some of

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of the of the other flight elements to

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uh and the shuttle main engines um the

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space shuttle main engines we know that

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the performance of all the propulsion

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elements looks very good

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um and so we'll obviously look more at

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that as we go through the mission and in

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post flight but preliminarily it looks

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like the performance overall

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of the entire sts vehicle was uh was

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very very good so

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we're again glad to be here on orbit and

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and looking forward to to getting docked

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with space station tomorrow and getting

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on with the work of this mission

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and i'd be happy to take any questions

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thank you leroy we'll start with

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questions here at the johnson space

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center go ahead oh thank you mark caro

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for aviation week

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think i do what you said about forward

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actually use the boom sensor system

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after they've docked to look at the wing

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or some other technique

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we won't use the boom sensor system

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the there are several options

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to include that

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in this case can do since it's the port

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camera so it's really a good bit simpler

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you've used a lot of time to sort of

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motion and the proximity and i wonder if

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didn't side fast enough i'm just trying

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to sort of explain why it takes this

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long in this case to really make a

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decision as to whether you need to

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different these uh in some cases these

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the tracking and the consistency of the

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when you begin to to try to compare

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the state vectors or the position in

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between the objects of concern in this

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case this piece of debris being one of

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being the other object when you when you

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that that really are very much alike

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as much data

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as we can and make a decision

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as late as we can

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safely

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as to whether or not we need to move

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maneuver out of the way or not and i say

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we track the objects

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we nasa don't track the objects we are

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made aware of objects

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as they are tracked by other

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by other entities so

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that's kind of how the process works in

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this case

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there are enough variables with this

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object apparently

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that make it a little bit more difficult

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to

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it's also possible that since it's not

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easy to maneuver the space station um

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it's not easy

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in terms of being able to make the

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decision because of what it costs you to

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do it potentially

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you want to take as much time as you can

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and you want to make sure that you

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really need to maneuver before you do

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so there are a lot of factors mark and

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i couldn't say for sure in this case

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which one of those factors would be

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question

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phillips loss with nasa spaceflight.com

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uh first question is uh what's what's

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your decision time for the for the

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debris avoidance maneuver tonight

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the decision time is really in this case

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since the shuttle is coming

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to station

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we don't want to perturb the rendezvous

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profile any more than is necessary

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so we have what's called an nh burn

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that's a big burn

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uh big in terms of the importance of it

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relative to the the success of the

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rendezvous

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and that burn right now is scheduled for

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about four o'clock in the morning local

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time tomorrow

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our flight rules say that we want to

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um if necessary

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station should should do a maneuver no

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later than eight hours prior to that

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burn

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that eight hours is based on the amount

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of time it takes for the flight dynamics

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officers to track out

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any differences or changes in the state

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vector between the shuttle and the space

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station so that we can we can

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successfully set up the

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maneuvers and the burns that are

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required for us to catch up to station

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and

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do

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so

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if you back up that time frame

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that gets you to about 8 pm

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local time tonight

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however that's just the time to actually

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execute the burn

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in order for station

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to execute a burn there's a number of

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configuration changes that they need to

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make

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things like

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feathering the solar arrays and

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different systems configurations that

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they'll

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a burn so if they're going to do a burn

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no later than 8 pm tonight they really

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need to make a decision about two or

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three hours before that or about two

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revs if you will before that so decision

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time for the burn last decision time is

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uh is really about 5 p.m

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tonight so in in less than a couple

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hours here we'll know whether or not

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they're going to do the maneuver

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thanks i actually answered one of my

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rendezvous questions for tomorrow is

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whether you're doing nh and nc4

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um

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on the uh again on the

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possible conjunction

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is how has the

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categorization of this object

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is it i mean i've heard it classified as

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yellow or red

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in some cases is that is that where you

387
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are right now is there any trend you

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know

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getting farther away from the from your

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box

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i would say

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based on the latest information that i

393
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have as of a couple hours ago it's

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trending in the direction of goodness

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when

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and we first started talking about it

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before we launched on friday on thursday

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evening

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we were in the in the yellow to red

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the the missed distance

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and the criteria that we use in the

402
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flight rules to be able to determine if

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we have to do a maneuver or not

404
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since that time

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it apparently we've moved more in the

406
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yellow to green range

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i think if you had to say today

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based on where we are

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i believe that

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that station alone

411
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not to include the plan for the shuttle

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to come and dock if we weren't coming to

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dock i think they would be closer to be

414
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in green that is to say the missed

415
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distance would be great enough

416
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but we changed the vector and the

417
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position and the orientation

418
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um and the missed distance just by by

419
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virtue of the physical act of docking

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with the space station and in so doing

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um it moves us into the yellow region i

422
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believe so it's close enough that it's

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somewhere in the yellow moving toward

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green

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and as i said they'll they'll make a

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decision based on all of the data that's

427
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any more questions here

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i

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further up than

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until where it hits this cable it's not

431
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the cable is in a position it's not

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supposed to be in

433
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and it's not allowing the the the unit

434
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to tilt up in the up in the up direction

435
00:16:24,870 --> 00:16:22,720
we can tilt full down but we can't tilt

436
00:16:27,910 --> 00:16:24,880
past a certain angle and it's because

437
00:16:29,189 --> 00:16:27,920
this cable is is uh is binding

438
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um

439
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so

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it's it's basically in a position it's

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not supposed to be in

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and wasn't intended to be in

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in terms of the function of the of the

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is that it hit for now okay we'll take

445
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some questions from the folks on the

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line first up is robert perlman

447
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please hi can you hear me yes

448
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claire

449
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go ahead um okay uh

450
00:17:00,069 --> 00:16:58,240
just um two quick robert perlman with

451
00:17:02,790 --> 00:17:00,079
collectspace.com with just two status

452
00:17:05,270 --> 00:17:02,800
questions um if you know the the status

453
00:17:06,870 --> 00:17:05,280
of srb recovery and

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also the

455
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status of the pad after launch if it

456
00:17:17,669 --> 00:17:15,990
let's see i don't have a launch pad

457
00:17:19,990 --> 00:17:17,679
status

458
00:17:22,069 --> 00:17:20,000
which is actually a good thing because

459
00:17:23,750 --> 00:17:22,079
if we had had any significant damage i

460
00:17:24,630 --> 00:17:23,760
would be able to tell you that because i

461
00:17:31,510 --> 00:17:24,640
would

462
00:17:33,430 --> 00:17:31,520
no news on the pad is good news and and

463
00:17:35,669 --> 00:17:33,440
of course in a couple of days we'll have

464
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some details on the launch pad

465
00:17:41,350 --> 00:17:38,880
as far as the srb and recovery um

466
00:17:43,029 --> 00:17:41,360
the everything is gone nominal so far

467
00:17:45,270 --> 00:17:43,039
whether ships are concerned and in terms

468
00:17:47,510 --> 00:17:45,280
of having the boosters in tow

469
00:17:49,190 --> 00:17:47,520
the plan is to do slip operations on

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monday

471
00:17:55,590 --> 00:17:51,520
and open assessment for the solid rocket

472
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next on the line is marcia dunn please

473
00:18:03,750 --> 00:18:01,440
yes hi um if you determine that a

474
00:18:05,750 --> 00:18:03,760
station maneuver is needed would that be

475
00:18:10,390 --> 00:18:05,760
done by russian flight controllers or

476
00:18:17,430 --> 00:18:14,549
um i'm not sure marcia the the station

477
00:18:19,830 --> 00:18:17,440
ops team would would handle that between

478
00:18:21,750 --> 00:18:19,840
uh here in houston and in the houston

479
00:18:24,630 --> 00:18:21,760
support group in moscow

480
00:18:28,390 --> 00:18:24,640
and and the russian uh controllers

481
00:18:30,390 --> 00:18:28,400
the uh as you may know in this case the

482
00:18:32,870 --> 00:18:30,400
station maneuver will be done using the

483
00:18:33,909 --> 00:18:32,880
thrusters that are on the progress

484
00:18:36,710 --> 00:18:33,919
module

485
00:18:38,470 --> 00:18:36,720
so i imagine as in the case with most of

486
00:18:39,830 --> 00:18:38,480
the station operations it'll be a joint

487
00:18:42,150 --> 00:18:39,840
effort

488
00:18:44,390 --> 00:18:42,160
and i'm wondering if have you ever had

489
00:18:47,110 --> 00:18:44,400
to steer the station out of the way

490
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uh once the shuttle's been launched

491
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i know that i think a year and a half

492
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ago

493
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one such maneuver was called off but i

494
00:18:55,190 --> 00:18:53,039
can't recall

495
00:18:58,310 --> 00:18:55,200
ever having to move the station like

496
00:19:00,070 --> 00:18:58,320
this with a shuttle on the way

497
00:19:02,549 --> 00:19:00,080
my memory is about the same as yours i

498
00:19:05,270 --> 00:19:02,559
would say um in that i know we've

499
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discussed the maneuvers before

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after launch and before docking

501
00:19:11,430 --> 00:19:09,679
i don't recall that we've ever actually

502
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executed one

503
00:19:14,549 --> 00:19:13,120
but i have to go back and look marcia i

504
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just don't remember

505
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and lastly

506
00:19:20,870 --> 00:19:18,559
any more news on the number of

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pieces of debris seen coming off the

508
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tank during liftoff i think we heard

509
00:19:27,750 --> 00:19:25,600
about a couple yesterday

510
00:19:30,710 --> 00:19:27,760
and i don't have any updates from that

511
00:19:33,029 --> 00:19:30,720
um we're a little bit early and

512
00:19:34,070 --> 00:19:33,039
i do know that um

513
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the

514
00:19:40,950 --> 00:19:38,480
ascent video

515
00:19:42,710 --> 00:19:40,960
the external tank performance looked

516
00:19:45,669 --> 00:19:42,720
looked very very good

517
00:19:48,710 --> 00:19:45,679
and as did the other propulsion elements

518
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but we did see a few a few

519
00:19:52,950 --> 00:19:49,760
debris

520
00:19:54,950 --> 00:19:52,960
items and then we saw a little bit

521
00:19:57,190 --> 00:19:54,960
of

522
00:19:59,190 --> 00:19:57,200
places where we lost some foam

523
00:20:01,190 --> 00:19:59,200
in the external tank video imagery but

524
00:20:02,710 --> 00:20:01,200
that's all very preliminary so i don't

525
00:20:04,149 --> 00:20:02,720
have an update from what you heard

526
00:20:07,510 --> 00:20:04,159
yesterday marcia but we'll have it in a

527
00:20:11,909 --> 00:20:07,520
couple of days probably thanks a lot

528
00:20:15,990 --> 00:20:14,390
uh thanks todd halberson of florida

529
00:20:18,070 --> 00:20:16,000
today um

530
00:20:19,909 --> 00:20:18,080
we were i was wondering mike sheriff and

531
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i didn't have any information on the

532
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shape size or origin

533
00:20:26,630 --> 00:20:24,240
of this piece of debris and i just

534
00:20:30,710 --> 00:20:26,640
wanted to check and see whether you had

535
00:20:35,190 --> 00:20:33,590
uh no i don't i don't have details on

536
00:20:36,310 --> 00:20:35,200
the object

537
00:20:38,950 --> 00:20:36,320
okay

538
00:20:41,669 --> 00:20:38,960
and um

539
00:20:44,470 --> 00:20:41,679
i assume but i just want to confirm that

540
00:20:49,510 --> 00:20:44,480
once a decision is made would that be uh

541
00:20:54,710 --> 00:20:53,190
well the uh if the crew is still up yeah

542
00:20:55,830 --> 00:20:54,720
we'll we'll tell them what we're doing

543
00:20:57,510 --> 00:20:55,840
obviously

544
00:20:59,990 --> 00:20:57,520
um the station crew

545
00:21:01,270 --> 00:21:00,000
certainly will know but the shuttle crew

546
00:21:02,470 --> 00:21:01,280
um

547
00:21:03,909 --> 00:21:02,480
it's uh

548
00:21:05,990 --> 00:21:03,919
it's possible that they'll be in their

549
00:21:07,510 --> 00:21:06,000
pre-sleep period so the team may or may

550
00:21:09,510 --> 00:21:07,520
not call it up to them

551
00:21:11,590 --> 00:21:09,520
in any case uh before they start their

552
00:21:13,110 --> 00:21:11,600
rendezvous operations in the morning

553
00:21:14,230 --> 00:21:13,120
they'll know whether or not station did

554
00:21:16,230 --> 00:21:14,240
a maneuver

555
00:21:17,909 --> 00:21:16,240
it really is transparent to the shuttle

556
00:21:19,590 --> 00:21:17,919
crew

557
00:21:22,950 --> 00:21:19,600
they're going to perform the burns and

558
00:21:25,590 --> 00:21:22,960
the maneuvers uh per the procedures and

559
00:21:27,190 --> 00:21:25,600
and per the advisory data that they get

560
00:21:29,110 --> 00:21:27,200
uplinked from the mission control here

561
00:21:31,669 --> 00:21:29,120
in houston

562
00:21:33,029 --> 00:21:31,679
so it it really will be situational

563
00:21:35,990 --> 00:21:33,039
awareness for them

564
00:21:37,110 --> 00:21:36,000
um not something they necessarily

565
00:21:38,630 --> 00:21:37,120
need to be aware of it's not going to

566
00:21:40,710 --> 00:21:38,640
change anything they do it'll change

567
00:21:43,430 --> 00:21:40,720
what happens on the ground in terms of

568
00:21:45,430 --> 00:21:43,440
the tracking and and building the uh

569
00:21:47,430 --> 00:21:45,440
the advisory data for the burns and the

570
00:21:50,390 --> 00:21:47,440
maneuvers but we'll tell them if if uh

571
00:21:52,070 --> 00:21:50,400
if they're not already sleeping

572
00:21:55,669 --> 00:21:52,080
yeah i guess these next two are for

573
00:21:56,830 --> 00:21:55,679
kylie if um the crew is asleep will um

574
00:21:59,909 --> 00:21:56,840
your

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00:22:01,909 --> 00:21:59,919
commentator uh fill us in on a decision

576
00:22:03,510 --> 00:22:01,919
when it's made yes

577
00:22:06,789 --> 00:22:03,520
that's the plan

578
00:22:07,909 --> 00:22:06,799
okay and then i was just curious if

579
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they

580
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decide to do a maneuver and do a

581
00:22:13,909 --> 00:22:10,559
maneuver

582
00:22:14,950 --> 00:22:13,919
i'm assuming that that would um change

583
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uh

584
00:22:20,470 --> 00:22:17,120
the citing opportunities that you have

585
00:22:22,950 --> 00:22:20,480
left listed on your website um

586
00:22:24,950 --> 00:22:22,960
for various passes over

587
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billions of cities in the

588
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us and elsewhere and i'm i'm wondering

589
00:22:32,789 --> 00:22:29,919
if that is the case how soon

590
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uh those siding opportunities uh would

591
00:22:37,430 --> 00:22:35,120
be updated after

592
00:22:38,870 --> 00:22:37,440
a maneuver

593
00:22:41,830 --> 00:22:38,880
we'll have to take a look at that with

594
00:22:43,350 --> 00:22:41,840
the maneuver about 8 pm central time

595
00:22:45,029 --> 00:22:43,360
that's about around the time a lot of

596
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the sightings were this evening for the

597
00:22:48,470 --> 00:22:46,799
u.s cities if i remember correctly but

598
00:22:50,070 --> 00:22:48,480
we'll look at that and see if that can

599
00:22:51,909 --> 00:22:50,080
be updated

600
00:22:53,510 --> 00:22:51,919
and i was thinking about the

601
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you know rest of the mission too there

602
00:22:56,710 --> 00:22:54,559
are

603
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many passes i think about eight down

604
00:23:01,270 --> 00:22:58,720
here at the cape and i know people are

605
00:23:03,669 --> 00:23:01,280
going to want to go outside and watch if

606
00:23:04,710 --> 00:23:03,679
they can uh so

607
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um

608
00:23:10,149 --> 00:23:06,400
we'll be looking for an update anyway

609
00:23:15,110 --> 00:23:13,270
okay next on the line is bill harwood

610
00:23:17,270 --> 00:23:15,120
yeah hi bill howard with cbs news leroy

611
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on the on the port wing if you did it

612
00:23:22,630 --> 00:23:20,559
with the end effector camera on the srms

613
00:23:23,750 --> 00:23:22,640
i mean don't you lose something from not

614
00:23:25,750 --> 00:23:23,760
using the

615
00:23:27,669 --> 00:23:25,760
the normal sensor suite i mean what is

616
00:23:30,950 --> 00:23:27,679
how is that okay i guess is what i'm i'm

617
00:23:33,990 --> 00:23:32,390
yeah bill this is something that we've

618
00:23:35,990 --> 00:23:34,000
looked at uh going all the way back to

619
00:23:38,710 --> 00:23:36,000
return to flight and

620
00:23:40,789 --> 00:23:38,720
we are able to get

621
00:23:44,230 --> 00:23:40,799
with a great enough fidelity

622
00:23:46,070 --> 00:23:44,240
on the port wing using that system

623
00:23:47,669 --> 00:23:46,080
the what we need to see in the scans

624
00:23:49,750 --> 00:23:47,679
that we do of the of the leading edge

625
00:23:51,909 --> 00:23:49,760
and the upper surfaces

626
00:23:52,630 --> 00:23:51,919
just behind the reinforced carbon carbon

627
00:23:54,310 --> 00:23:52,640
so

628
00:23:55,029 --> 00:23:54,320
there's no issue with that in terms of

629
00:23:57,830 --> 00:23:55,039
our

630
00:23:59,269 --> 00:23:57,840
uh minimum criteria and and the fidelity

631
00:24:00,470 --> 00:23:59,279
of being able to look

632
00:24:03,510 --> 00:24:00,480
um

633
00:24:05,830 --> 00:24:03,520
for our safe entry criteria if you will

634
00:24:08,230 --> 00:24:05,840
in addition to that i should say we are

635
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looking at the possibility of

636
00:24:11,590 --> 00:24:10,000
getting some uh

637
00:24:12,549 --> 00:24:11,600
higher resolution

638
00:24:14,789 --> 00:24:12,559
um

639
00:24:17,190 --> 00:24:14,799
pictures from from some of the cameras

640
00:24:19,110 --> 00:24:17,200
on station when we do our our normal rpm

641
00:24:20,789 --> 00:24:19,120
maneuver

642
00:24:22,950 --> 00:24:20,799
and so that will just be

643
00:24:25,190 --> 00:24:22,960
icing on the cake if if we can get that

644
00:24:26,789 --> 00:24:25,200
will just be some additional data for us

645
00:24:33,110 --> 00:24:26,799
and we are looking at the possibility of

646
00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:38,149
do you have another question bill

647
00:24:38,159 --> 00:24:41,990
okay any follow-ups here

648
00:24:45,669 --> 00:24:43,669
seeing none we'll go ahead and go back

649
00:24:47,510 --> 00:24:45,679
to mission control so we can stay tuned

650
00:24:49,350 --> 00:24:47,520
to the news this evening as the crew

651
00:24:52,070 --> 00:24:49,360
wraps up the work onboard the space

652
00:24:54,789 --> 00:24:52,080
shuttle and you can also keep updated on