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hi i'm steve bowen from the crew of

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to survive

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to it

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good morning atlantis and a special good

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good morning houston it's uh

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kind of ironic but i guess my work is

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starting i've had my fun for the past

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few days since i've been up here and uh

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now i got to do some real work and i

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want to thank my family for uh picking

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you're looking from a camera across the

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station's truss segment

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at portions of the u.s segment of the

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international space station and the

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russian segment appropriately in the

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center the newest module of the

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it will serve as a

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docking port it provides some additional

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as a docking port for future russian

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visiting vehicles such as the soyuz

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spacecraft and the

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and the progress resupply vehicle a

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progress you saw at the far end

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docked to the station as well

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this the remaining portions of the u.s

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segment and the other international

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partners of the international space

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station in the far left

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extending toward the cameras the

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columbus module of the european space

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talked to the harmony

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module harmony is a connecting node that

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provides six additional docking ports

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it is mounted to the us laboratory

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on the far side of of harmony

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portions of which you can see is the

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japanese experiment module the largest

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science laboratory of the international

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it has a

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stowage compartment and also its own

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used for multiple outside activities

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associated with assembly and maintenance

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atlanta station this is houston are you

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we are ready for the event

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associated press this is mission control

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houston please call atlantis station for

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a voice check

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iss this is the associated press

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we hear you loud and clear is this

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marcia yes it is good morning everybody

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from the kennedy space center

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i'm wondering if any of you have had a

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chance to peek into the new russian

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well honestly they're opening the hatch

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today and pierce do you know what time

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they're opening it

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they're filtering the air and then they

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close the hatch so gently they close the

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house shelly and i think we're going to

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get a sneak preview in about an hour or

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so is that right so

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we're hoping to go in there and

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well for the commander um you must be

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very pleased with the way the mission

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has gone so far if you could touch on

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that and i was also wondering if you

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could give your best sales pitch for

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yeah that's a good one the second part

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yeah uh to answer your first question i

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am absolutely super pleased uh the first

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went well and that was good because it

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had potential to not go well

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the mrm one install went perfectly

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which as you remember from our

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conversation i was a little nervous

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and the eva yesterday went better than

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anyone could have imagined so we are now

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ahead on our eva tasks we got our

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and uh and we're all feeling pretty darn

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good we're gonna refocus again tonight

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when we put two spacewalkers back in the

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airlock and get through eva3 and finish

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up all of our tasks and hopefully take

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care of some some extra tasks that we

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weren't really planning on which would

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be good for a space station

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for tony i'm wondering how tired are

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your space walkers since you're the one

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in keeping track of them and are they

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pretty pumped up for tomorrow's grand

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yeah they're uh they're not too tired

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we're still working on gathering all the

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tools and the different tasks that we're

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going to execute they got so much done

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we're putting that story together now

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for peers i'm wondering have you had a

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chance to take out the piece of wood

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from sir isaac newton's apple tree or

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his picture maybe even had a little

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cupola and so isaac absolutely loved it

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watch his little wood chip float by and

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ponder the laws of gravitation and

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everything so i think it was a treat for

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him and i'll do something on video later

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on for the royal society and for the

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national academy

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you don't happen to have any of that

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there with you now do you that you could

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i'm afraid not that was just a dry run

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someone else had a video camera so it's

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just me and sir isaac you'll have to

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oil spill in the gulf of mexico and i'm

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wondering have you had a chance to see

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it and or maybe anybody else on the crew

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well i wish i have had a chance to look

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moment but unfortunately i haven't but

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some of my crewmates uh suici and also

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been taking pictures and marking the

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their report is it's a bit heartbreaking

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take a break uh and recharge our

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batteries kind of like what tony was

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talking about we've been hitting it

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the things you just mentioned like look

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at the earth and see some of the more

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more amazing sights that are down there

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atlantis iss this is fox news radio how

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right we're going to pause briefly to

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allow our affiliates to join our

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this is a fox news radio special a live

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conversation with astronauts aboard

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space shuttle atlantis and the

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us is ken ham commander of atlantis

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mission pilot tony antonelli pierce

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sellers the mission specialist and tracy

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four of you good morning and since we're

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on radio i ask that you please identify

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yourselves each time you begin speaking

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and to our listeners please understand

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question and answer uh you're all part

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very last or likely the very last flight

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of atlantis what's it like to know that

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you'll be the last group to work with

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well hey thanks for having us on your

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radio show this is uh tony antonelli um

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atlantis is holding up great she's a

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fantastic ship and uh

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commander ken ham here will have a

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flawless landing and

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it won't absolutely dictate that it's

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atlantis last flight and we'll let the

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program managers decide whether she's

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going to fly again but she's holding up

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schedules i i see something on there

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called crew off duty time and what what

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got to provide some some great views can

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any of you see your hometowns and have

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yeah the cupola this is piers sellers

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cupola for a couple of days uh working

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a the belly turret on the station this

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little glass bubble hanging underneath

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and you can see the whole world float by

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you can see it coming at you from one

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direction go past underneath and go away

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incredible it's like being an imax

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seen it and they say it's really large

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uh pierce i'm glad you spoke up because

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as the rest of us can tell you're you're

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british born and a nasa astronaut and

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we're told that you have a special piece

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of wood that you carried up from earth

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and wondering if you could tell us about

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it and uh and and why exactly it's up

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could fly something for them that's the

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royal society of london the oldest

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scientific society in the world and i

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thought they were going to give me

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something but they sent me a piece of

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isaac newton's apple tree and that's the

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apple tree under which he was sitting

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when the apple fell off and he said ah

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will give him something more to think

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about i think

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because it's floating around it's not

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so the apple isn't hitting his head this

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that's right isaac and the apple are

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just floating around the earth inside

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and for the one of the four of you who

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is a long-term uh uh crew member on the

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space station that would be uh tracy

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caldwell uh dyson uh you are about to

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get a voice over ip telephone installed

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up there we're told that's got to make

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well

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currently we have a

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internet protocol phone that

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enables us to reach home and

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talk to loved ones

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anytime we have ku band and satellites

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lining up and it is it's an

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extraordinary asset that we have

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i think the shuttle crew also can

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vouch that when they're here visiting

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it's a great part of the mission

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and uh an often used uh asset during

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off-duty time as well as those

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brief moments you have in between

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activities it's

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it's amazing that we're here and it's

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a treasure that we get to share it with

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you know and with the shuttle program

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apparently ending i'm sure you're all

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hearing the debates about how nasa will

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proceed and obviously today's children

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will be tomorrow's astronauts

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do any of you have thoughts for the

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children who may want to have a future

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well this is tracy caldwell dyson uh

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i think

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it'd be important to hear from one of

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our shuttle crew members but from my

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it's it's with our kids and

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this dream will only continue if it's in

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their hearts too and if um

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if they only realize that it's up to

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them to keep this dream alive then i

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think that it will live on um because

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they need to realize that they're just

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as powerful as this program is today and

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if they

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embrace it as we have

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to make it what it is today then i

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all right well thank you all very much

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that would be ken ham tony antonelli

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pierce sellers and tracy caldwell dyson

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all aboard the space shuttle atlantis

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and the international space station

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thank you for taking time with us

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this has been a live conversation with

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those astronauts at the space station

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and the shuttle which will likely be the

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final mission of space shuttle atlantis

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she's due to return to earth next week

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and there are two more flights of the

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shuttles left each one for discovery and

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endeavor

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station iss good morning this is cbs

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news how do you hear me

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and clear

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good morning everyone it's peter king in

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florida bill harwood is at jsc in

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houston and bill's got the first

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question for you yeah hey guys it's

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great to see you and i'd like to start

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with ken ham if i could and

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ken since you're the one who's upside

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down today you must have a unique

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perspective on things so give me your

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view the commander's view of how the

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mission's been going you expressed some

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concern uh before launch about the

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complexity of it and how everything had

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to happen

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right on time and it seems to have done

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yeah bill good to talk to you again uh

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as you remember from our conversation a

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few weeks ago

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uh as i went through the all of the inc

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intricacies of the operation that had to

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happen to get mrm docked and talking to

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space station i started scaring myself

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talking to you

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and making sure that that happened

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yesterday with the crew and everybody

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working together everyone on the ground

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turned out to be absolutely fantastic we

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were

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elated i'm sorry not yesterday the day

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before but the spacewalk we did

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yesterday

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was another difficult spacewalk

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and the boys outside performed

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flawlessly

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and got us well ahead of our timeline uh

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everybody on board here last night as

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well as our ground team we had a a nice

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conference with them

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yesterday evening

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we were all

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absolutely thrilled at how this mission

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is going so far so we're just going to

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stay focused and get through the next

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few days and

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hopefully call this one a good one

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hey thanks a lot let me ask one of

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pierce sellers if i could real quick

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appears you said before launch you were

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looking forward to robotic operations

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from inside the cupola and i'm just

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wondering

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how reality has played out is it really

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that much better

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hey no no question about it uh tracy and

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i have been sitting in this little glass

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bubble that hangs underneath the space

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station

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and you can see everything uh you know

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you can see big chunks of station you

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can see the shuttle docked to one end

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and the arm stretched out in front of

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you and it makes it so much easier to

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figure out what's going on with the arm

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which is like a big monstrous crane

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you can actually see what it's doing and

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go and grab things with it and

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much better than watching it all on tv i

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can tell you

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it's peter king back in florida and this

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is for tracy since you're the space

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station crew member here you've just

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gotten a new russian mini research

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module you've opened up the hatch for

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the first time this morning tell us a

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little bit about

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that and what it's capable of doing what

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like

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i think

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the answer to that is yet to come the

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russian

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crewmates have just opened up the hatch

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and looked inside and i went back to

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get an update and it sounds like

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it's full of stuff and not the least of

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which are hardware that must be removed

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before they can actually get to all of

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the goods that they're to bring out to

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the space station so i think there's a

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little bit of work to be done before we

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can go in and start enjoying it and

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utilizing it for the laboratory that

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it's intended to be but it's

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it's a great addition uh to the space

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station and especially for our russian

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segment and i think that we can look

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forward to some

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relief in terms of stowage as well as

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some extra

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space to do

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the very valuable experiments that we've

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brought on board

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well speaking of jam-packed the first

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two evas have been jam-packed for tony

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antonelli is uh since you're the

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spacewalk choreographer you're already

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ahead on the battery installed so what

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are what are some of the other things

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you hope that eva can accomplish

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yeah the only thing i hope they

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accomplish is back in safe

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i kind of feel a little bit responsible

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for them when they're outside the the

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team however is trying to get a lot of

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extra work done and so they're putting

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that list together right now

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we've got some tools inside that we're

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going to go

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so we're going to finish the last two

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batteries we got a grapple fixture in

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our in the atlantis's payload bay that

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we're going to bring inside to later

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install

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uh back on the russian segment fgb

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um that's our regular plan test and then

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some of the get-aheads are resupply some

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of the toolboxes that are outside

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basically just like you would at home

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you end up using all your tools and they

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don't all end up right back in their

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slots in the toolboxes so we're going to

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do some of that cleanup

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we've got some ammonia jumpers to

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connect and a few other things that the

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ground team's uh

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putting together for us and we'll spend

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the afternoon studying that up so we're

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ready to do it tomorrow

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that's bill harwood again with a quick

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one for tracy and tracy what's it like

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to launch on soyuz and and how tough has

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it been or maybe touched the wrong word

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what's it been like

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adjusting to life in space full-time

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operations aboard the space station just

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wondering about being away from your

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oh well it's hard to put all of that in

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a nutshell i'll tell you that launching

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on a soyuz is

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i'd say a

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bit different from launching on a

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shuttle

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and not the least of which is the

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environment that you're in

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having launched on a shuttle and being

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in florida and surrounded by

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all that is familiar

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to launch and live in baikonur for two

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weeks and also leave your home in

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houston and family and friends months

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prior to that

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really makes the mission start a lot

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earlier than the moment that the rocket

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lights i can tell you that the soyuz

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itself is

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a very robust vehicle and it's very

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interesting the differences between

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a solid

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rocket like the shuttle launches with

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and the liquid engines of a soyuz rocket

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and the fact that the soyuz actually

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hangs on its launch pad rather than

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bolted to it also

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creates an interesting sensation the

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moment of liftoff and there's a lot more

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yawning involved in the the launch as

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well as more g's being pulled

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the life on board uh the

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soyuz is of course different than

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shuttle

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you have much more cozy quarters and but

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much

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fewer people to uh to share that with

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uh it's um i could go on and on the

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differences are very unique and um

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very

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curious as well

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but suffice it to say that it is a

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vehicle that i felt very safe in and a

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ride that i'll never forget living on

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board the space station i was warned by

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those who have come before me and spent

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many months here on station that it

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takes about uh you know three or three

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weeks to actually um

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uh kind of feel your legs out you know

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aren't under you anymore and to start

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actually uh utilizing this place for uh

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what it is a floating laboratory but

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it's not until about the six week period

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which i'm reaching now where you

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actually feel like you got a handle on

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the place and so um and i and i do feel

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a lot uh more

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skilled at moving around the this very

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large

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ship

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than i did when i first got here of

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course

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and i'm in awe every day

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of what

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our

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countries have accomplished and feel

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very privileged being here

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well atlantis and iss thanks so much for

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uh some great answers this morning from

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cbs news it's peter king and bill

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harwood wishing you uh godspeed and a

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safe rest of the flight we'll see when

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the crew has been working to open up the

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hatch between the brand new rossvet

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module

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and the rest of the international space

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station right now you're seeing the

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layout

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of the station in its current

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configuration

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they've reported they've seen some metal

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shavings floating around inside mrm1 and

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what it sounds like the crew was talking

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about was

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as they move things around inside this

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brand new module that's when the

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shavings they saw

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were released into the environment

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oleg kotov the expedition 23 commander

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reported that those metal shavings are

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limited to the inside of mrm1 or

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rossvent

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so the russian flight control team has

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asked them to stand down

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uh from the remainder of the day's

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activities so that they can analyze it

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overnight and figure out uh what they

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want the crew to do

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this is one of the reasons why the crew

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members both russian and american and

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all the other international partners do

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wear protective masks and

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other items whenever they open up brand

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new modules

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as we talked about yesterday

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as you can imagine

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anything that may be hiding back in

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those modules whether it be dust or

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these metal shavings or whatever

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uh maybe uh inside there once you get up

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into space and if there's no gravity all

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of that comes floating out so that's one

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of the reasons why the crew members

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always wear

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masks whenever they first go into a

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brand new module and verify that the

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environment

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so the team here will take a look at it

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as well as the team in russia

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they may simply ask the crew to use the

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onboard vacuum cleaner to suck up those

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metal shavings and to get them out of

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but other than that the crew is enjoying