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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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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 uh pierce do you know what

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and they're filtering the air and then

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they close the hatch gently they close

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the house shelly and i think we're going

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to get a sneak preview in about an hour

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or so so right so we're hoping to go in

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there and

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well for the commander you must be very

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pleased with the way the mission has

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gone so far if you could touch on that

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and i was also wondering if you could

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give your best sales pitch for atlantis

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yeah that's a good one the second part

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yeah to answer your first question i am

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absolutely super pleased the first eva

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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 uh spacewalkers back in

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the airlock and get through eva3 and

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finish up all of our tasks and hopefully

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take care of some uh some extra tasks

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that we weren't really planning on which

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would be good for space station

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uh 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 uh

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we wear them out during the day and then

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we uh rest them up for a day and then

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pretty good pace for them uh they are

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geared up and ready to go uh we're still

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working on gathering all the tools and

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the different tasks that we're going to

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execute they got so much done on eva2

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we're adding more to their plate and

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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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we had him in the window and he got to

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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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and i'll do something on video later on

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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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take my word for it

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i believe you

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um and for tracy i'm wondering um ola

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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 suici and also olek

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their report is it's a bit heartbreaking

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what tony was talking about we've been

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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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it basically all in all it's a day to

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atlantis iss this is houston acr that

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concludes the associated press portion

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of the event please stand by for a voice

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atlantis iss this is fox news radio how

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we hear you loud and clear

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great 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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international space station i'm evan

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brown fox news radio in miami and above

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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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the space station crew welcome to the

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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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of something historic and this is the

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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 uh and won't

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absolutely dictate that it's atlanta's

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last flight and we'll let the program

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managers decide whether she's going to

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fly again but she's holding up great

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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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royal society of london the oldest

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isaac newton's apple tree and that's the

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hearing the debates about how nasa will

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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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them to keep this dream alive then i

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all aboard the space shuttle atlantis

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uh final mission of space shuttle

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next week and there are two more flights

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of the shuttles left each one for

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discovery and endeavor

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atlantis iss this is houston acr that

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concludes the fox news radio portion of

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the event please stand by for a voice

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check from cbs news

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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 has been going you expressed

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some 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 as

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you remember from our conversation a few

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weeks ago

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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 uh 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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and got us well ahead of our timeline

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everybody on board here last night as

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well as our ground team we had 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 gonna stay

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focused and get through the next few

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days and uh and hopefully call this one

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a good one

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hey thanks a lot let me ask one of

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pierre 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 question about it uh tracy and i

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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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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 um it's a

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great addition uh to the space station

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and especially for our russian segment

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and i think that we can look forward to

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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

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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 uh 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 we've got

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some tools inside that we're gonna go uh

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so we're gonna 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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back on the russian segment fgb

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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 teams

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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 uh tracy what's it

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like to launch on a soyuz and and how

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tough has it been or maybe touched the

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wrong word 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 uh and not the least of which is

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the 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 all that is

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familiar uh to launch and live in

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baikonur for uh two weeks and also leave

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your home in houston and family and

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friends months 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

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and there's a lot more yawning involved

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in the launch as well as more g's being

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pulled

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the life on board uh the the soyuz is of

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course different than shuttle uh you

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have much more cozy quarters and uh but

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much

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fewer people to uh to share that with

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it's

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i could go on and on the differences are

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very unique and

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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

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a ride that i'll never forget living on

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board the space station i've i was

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warned by those who have come before me

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and spent uh many months here on station

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that it takes about uh you know three or

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three weeks to actually

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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 utilizing this place for

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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 uh 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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some great answers this morning from cbs

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news it's peter king and bill harwood

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wishing you a godspeed and a safe rest

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of the flight we'll see when you're back

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atlantis is is houston acr that

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thank you associated press fox news

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radio and cbs news atlanta station we