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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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status briefing of the sts-132 space

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shuttle mission to the international

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space station this is flight day seven

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of the flight and with us we have the

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lead space shuttle flight director to

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give us the status of the day's

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activities mike serafin so i'll turn it

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over to mike for opening comments and

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then we'll take questions

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thanks kylie

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on this seventh day of the flight of

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atlantis to the international space

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station the crew is taking a

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well-deserved break they spent their

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morning

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uh performing some preparatory

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activities for their third and final

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space walk on board the international

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flight day eight tomorrow they'll go out

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and complete all the primary mission

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objectives that we set out for

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on this mission and that will lead up to

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the return of the cargo carrier on

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flight day nine

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this morning the team spent a little bit

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of time

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on the ground working with the crew of

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atlantis and the international space

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station to review

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some changes to our third and final

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spacewalk and i'll detail those changes

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in a moment

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on board the international space station

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the team is also working on the water

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dispenser problem uh if you recall the

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international space station is not

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dispensing hot water and it's it's fully

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functional and capable of dispensing

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ambient water the team thinks that

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there's a circuit breaker that may have

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blown or be out of config and they're

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working on a procedure to try to recover

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the hot water no earlier than tomorrow

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onboard atlantis we're not working any

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new problems

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gave us some trouble during our second

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day the mission with the post launch

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inspection activities to review the

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status of atlantis heat shield

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and they performed another checkout a

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series of three checkouts

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two during the spacewalk and then a

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third after the spacewalk was complete

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and they just took it through the full

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range of motion at the low rate and the

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high rate and

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the camera is fully functional and we

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expect that to perform uh as if there

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were no problems

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orbiter boom and the laser dynamic range

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image or the ldri

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or whether we ought to modify the plan

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to perform that survey while docked to

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the international space station and

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should make a decision either today or

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uh or shortly uh in the before we undock

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decision from our mission management

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not to change the altitude of the

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shuttle propellant so our plan right now

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and there was also a decision to

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transfer some 70 pounds of excess oxygen

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pounds of that will go into the high

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space station or use during upcoming

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spacewalks where the international space

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immediately there the remainder will be

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for the third spacewalk we've

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start that off by installing an ammonia

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task if necessary of cooling the

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right now there's no expected use of

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that particular jumper but we're going

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to install that just to expedite use if

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that's necessary in the future

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we'll remove and replace the two

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batteries that we brought up the two

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brand new batteries to the port 6

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battery channel that

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we we knew we had to complete in our on

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once that's complete the crew

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mike good and garrett reisman will wrap

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worksite way out on the port end of the

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the international space station's truss

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bring some tools that they've stowed

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outside their inboard of the rotary

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joint rotary joint on the

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on the solar arrays and that'll allow

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future spacewalks to be expedited from

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removal and replacement of those two

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remaining batteries will allow return of

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the cargo carrier back or insta

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installation the cargo carrier back onto

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the mobile transporter on flight day

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eight we'll translate that overnight

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and remove it on flight day nine using

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of the truss and then put it back in the

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after those activities are complete we

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plan to go into the shuttle's payload

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bay and retrieve a grapple fixture that

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install that on the zarya module and

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that'll allow us to base the station's

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on the zarya module should we decide to

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we do have a couple of get ahead tasks

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that we talked about with this crew and

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they're ready to go off and and perform

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insulation on the oru temp platform that

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go down and put that into a

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proper position so that it doesn't

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then they'll go ahead and retrieve some

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tools out of the airlock itself and then

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changes but because of the excellent

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the crew of atlantis did yesterday

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during their second spacewalk they

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actually got a head one battery and it

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allows us a little bit of margarine and

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a little bit of opportunity to get ahead

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on our third and final spacewalk

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inside mission control we spent a little

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bit of time today celebrating one of our

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flight controllers a mission controller

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by the name of lonnie schmidt who works

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in the propulsion systems is working his

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100th mission he's our first member of

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the century club in mission control

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lonnie has worked at the prop systems

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in various capacities and today was his

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100th mission

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and we just were proud to have them

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the the day-in day-out stress of being a

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flight controller in mission control

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and the shift hours are something that

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folks do get to experience from time to

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it's very very rare that somebody does

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it as long and as well as lonnie does it

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in mission control with folks that have

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had an opportunity to work with them

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past and present so with that i'm happy

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to take any questions

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okay we'll start here at the johnson

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thanks mark caro for aviation week i had

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heat shield inspection strategy and i

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the pre-landing and just kind of combine

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one final inspection if you could sort

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that out please

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assessment team and the team is

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environment that could occur and are

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precision required the team is just off

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the problem that we experienced earlier

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than planned or whether it's appropriate

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undocking and that risk trade is being

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assessed by the mission management team

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and i had to follow up on a different

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topic the space walk tomorrow will you

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go ahead and use the six and a half

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hours that you planned or are you

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hour duration uh we do not plan to

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grapple fixture retrieval if we're close

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time frame and and tell uh mike good and

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mission as far as the spacewalks are

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concerned if we have an opportunity to

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to perform some of the get-ahead tasks

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by staging tools outside in the toolbox

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of mark's questions um is the

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tps and the rcc are they cleared for

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whether it was a crew member on the uh

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the

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station's robotic arm

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during the spacewalk or from the

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external cameras have cleared the

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the vehicle for entry

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from an accident debris standpoint

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um well i guess that's my question i

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don't understand why they're still

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looking at doing a docked inspection i

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mean if it's cleared for entry

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what is the why would you need to do a

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dock inspection i just don't understand

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that thanks

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the

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sub-optimal

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when you factor into the fact the

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the line of sight relative to the camera

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that in the on the fixed boom that was

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assessing the heat shield

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could not pan until so we didn't get as

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close a survey as we would normally uh

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hope for and then

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some of the areas that we didn't see

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using the the boom sensor

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using the sensor pack 2 in the digital

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camera on board

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didn't have direct line of sight so we

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had to use

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alternative assets space station assets

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rendezvous pitch maneuver or eva

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photos from our

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from previous spacewalks and those are

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taken from a further distance using a

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different camera type and again it was

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just line of sight lighting and there's

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some small quantifiable risk that comes

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with

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not having a perfect

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perpendicular line of sight with perfect

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lighting that the team is off assessing

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and whether or not

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there's some residual risk associated

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with that relative to

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accent debris

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the team is comfortable with what we've

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seen and there's no reason to suspect a

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problem with the the heat shield onboard

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atlantis from the uh launch environment

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and they're just talking about what

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residual risk remains because of the way

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that we had to inspect the vehicle

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hi robert perelman with collectspace.com

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today's execute package makes mention of

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a spacesuit swap for

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garrett riesman or at least particularly

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his uh using his backup gloves for eva3

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um were his gloves damaged during the

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previous cva or what was the reason for

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the swap

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there was a a fit problem with garrett's

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previous gloves and it just had to do

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with uh

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where the glove was

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pressing against his hand and just over

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you know the course of the the seven ish

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hours that he was in the suit it just

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got to be uncomfortable and

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he just opted to swap over to his uh

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backup gloves in in the hope that they

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okay that's all the questions here we'll

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go to the reporters on the line we have

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two uh first clara moskowitz please

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yeah hi uh before the launch we heard

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about a number of science experiments

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that were being packed aboard atlantis

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and i was just hoping to get an update

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on how those were going and also i think

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we heard that it was possible there

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might have been a change to which

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experiments were being brought back down

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to earth and when

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the uh the experiments are obviously

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ongoing on board the international space

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station we transferred the vast majority

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of them from atlantis over to iss and

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they're in the incubators and other

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other laboratory assets onboard the

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space station there's a japanese

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experiment a fish scale experiment

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there's a vaccine experiment and a

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number of other what we call sortie

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payloads which fly up and back on the

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same

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duration experiments and

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they're all proceeding just fine and

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we expect to complete the vast majority

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of those shortly before undocking and

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then they'll secure the experiment to

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basically stop

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uh and suspend whatever science is going

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on uh either through cold stowage or

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through some chemical process and then

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once they get on the ground they'll

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compare those with experiments on the

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ground

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you'll have to we'll have to wait until

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after the flight to find out the final

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results of those from the payload

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investigators

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to this point everything is has

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proceeded fine uh the discussion about

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leaving

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science on board the international space

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station was a

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discussion that pertained to what items

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do we want to return

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relative to the minimum or the limited

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stowage that we have on board atlantis

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in the mid deck cargo area that we that

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we have available to us and there's only

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so much volume and weight that you can

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return and there was some discussion

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about whether it was appropriate to

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return the regenerative life support

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equipment

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specifically the urine processing uh

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filters and other equipment used to

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process urine onboard the international

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space station to make water out of that

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and again it was just a trade-off

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discussion

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we are planning to return all the

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science that we had launched with on

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this flight and that was that discussion

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has been had and right now there are no

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changes to what we had planned

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pre-flight

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okay thanks that's it for me okay and

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uh thanks todd alberson of florida today

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i have a couple if i could the first one

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i was wondering um

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how many areas of the

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thermal thermal protection system

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have not yet been

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imaged i remember on flight day two i

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don't think they were able to get the

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crew cabin and parts of the left wing

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and i was wondering what areas or how

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many areas still uh require imagery

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we've gotten imagery of all of the areas

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on atlantis the uh

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discussed earlier some of them didn't

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have the best lighting we can actually

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see the the tile or see the rcc

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uh it's just it's not the exact

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lighting or conditions that we would

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like to see

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our second day of the mission we did not

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have imagery of the

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the top side of the reinforced carbon uh

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that sits underneath the payload bay

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door area on the

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on the starboard side the area that's

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along the uh

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what they call the chine which is where

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the wing merges out of the body of

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atlantis and before it becomes the

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reinforced carbon and then the size of

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the crew cabin and then the top of the

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port wing during the rendezvous pitch

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maneuver they managed to get the vast

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majority of that and then following that

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we used some external cameras on board

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the international space station as well

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as some photos from the first spacewalk

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when garrett was riding the station's

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robotic arm

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and the command and control mdm

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basically halted the robotic arm

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movement for some period of time when it

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when it had a a computer crash and

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he just sat up there and took some great

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photos of the top side of the reinforced

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carbon onboard atlantis and we got those

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bonus images to the ground and the team

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was able to see everything that they

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thanks very much and i also was

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wondering if you've had any

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significant indications from

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the wing leading edge

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sensors

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right now there aren't any indications

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from the wing leading edge sensors that

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would cause us

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concern relative to orbital debris or

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acid debris

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there were some signatures from the

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launch environment that we saw that

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caused us to

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provide

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greater scrutiny relative to the

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inspection imagery that we got on our

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second day of the mission and the team

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was able to clear all those indications

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and basically verified that it was

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either just ascent vibration or the

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paddle the panels themselves

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just moving together slightly causing a

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signature that the wing leading edge

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sensor may measure

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that just tells you how sensitive that

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the sensors are in those particular

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locations and not necessarily that

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there's a problem

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but the team did go off and make sure

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that the sensor signatures for the

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panels in question did not have damage

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and and again all those have been

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cleared

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thanks very much that's it for me

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okay are there any follow-ups here

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okay seeing none we'll go ahead and go

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back to mission control the next

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briefing would be after tomorrow's

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spacewalk and

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