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good morning and welcome to the flight

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day nine mission status briefing

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atlantis's crew is in their final full

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day in orbit and here to tell us about

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that we have the lead sts-132

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shuttle flight director mike serafin

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start with opening remarks and then take

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questions mike thank you brandi

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day nine of the sts-132 mission

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represents a welcome shift in the flight

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of atlantis to the international space

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station

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today uh the crew completed all of their

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primary mission objectives uh

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with the return of the integrated cargo

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carrier

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and the six old batteries from the port

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six location on the international space

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station's

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channel so we've got the integrated

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cargo carrier back in the payload bay

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we've got three very successful space

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walks under our belt

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and the rossvet module has been

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installed on the international space

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station so now the mission shifts to

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returning atlantis home

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the robotics workstation and all the

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robotics that we worried about leading

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into this mission

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were just handled in an exceptional

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manner by the crew of atlantis as well

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as the crew of the international space

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station coming into this mission we

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talked about nine of the 12 days of this

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mission were populated with very heavily

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integrated and choreographed robotics

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today the the crew of atlantis and the

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international space station took a few

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moments to complement the folks that

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helped plan all the robotics on this

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mission as well as the folks that built

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and delivered the cupola and the

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robotics workstation associated with it

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and i'll just second their words that

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all of that was done in an outstanding

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manner canada arm 2 performed in a

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fantastic fashion it was all over the

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exterior the international space station

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this mission it was

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reaching down into the payload bay to

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remove cargo as well as put it back

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it moved from the center of the truss

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back to the russian segment over to the

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far port side of the truss and then back

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to the center of the international space

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station and again it was just an

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outstanding piece of machinery and the

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man and machine interface that

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supported it at the cupola and the

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cupola robotics workstation just worked

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in a in a fantastic fashion during the

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uh the afternoon uh today on the ninth

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day of the mission the crew has some

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off-duty time

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their last opportunity to take a break

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bringing atlantis home um tomorrow

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they're gonna start with the final

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transfer activities and get the last

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remaining cargo off of the international

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space station that they plan to return

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in atlanta's mid deck in cargo stowage

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they'll transfer the suits that they use

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back into atlantis and

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we'll perform a a final verification

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make sure all the science and transfer

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items are back across the hatch and

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around midday they'll close hatches

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perform some leak checks and then if all

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goes as planned we'll undock atlantis

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from the international space station at

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around 10 22 central tomorrow following

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undock the pilot tony antonelli will

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perform a one lap fly around a full 360

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and we should get some outstanding views

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of the international space station for

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engineering data as well as a good view

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of the rossvet module that was recently

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today the crew also spent some time

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performing a variety of science

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experiments they did some measurements

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uh with an experiment called spinal

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where they measured their spinal growth

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did that in a seating in a standing

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atlantis as well as the crew members

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u.s segment on the international space

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station provided measurement data that

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there were also a couple of other

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experiments that were performed today

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some of the cold stowage that was taken

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the flight day 10 activities we'll press

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orbital debris inspection a

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sweeps with the orbiter boom on the 11th

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away the shuttle's robotic arm and the

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boom for a final time and that will wrap

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the international space station is much

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better off at this point for the crew of

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atlantis for having been there

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right now they're in the process of

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transferring some 70 pounds of oxygen

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oxygen transfer system has a small

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hiccup in it that the engineering team

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nitrogen from the shuttle into the high

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space station and 1200 of 1300 pounds of

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hundred pounds will be transferred

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prior to undocking again a lot of cargo

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has gone across the hatches and folks

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crew of atlantis will wrap it up

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on board the international space station

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the rossvet module they're in the

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process of integrating that with the

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center in moscow the hatches have been

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those particulates are cleaned out of

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ducting either later today or tomorrow

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lead to some final stages of integrating

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rossvat with the international space

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station so with that the mission is

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proceeding very well both the crews are

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are happy and healthy and looking

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forward to a final closure of this joint

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mission tomorrow and i'd be happy to

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the room and then i think we have a

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as well you can state your name and

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affiliation before your question that'd

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be great thanks

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hi robert perlman with space.com and

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we spent some time over the last week

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reinforced carbon surveys as we would on

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that we or the delta flight day 2

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tile are ready to go and we just need to

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been given any instruction to try to

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capture atlantis um as well just for

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aesthetic reasons and historical reasons

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hi phillips loss with

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nasaspaceflight.com um on the

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on the oxygen transfer uh to the high

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pressure gas tanks um how much uh how

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any consumables that were unable to

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transfer

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to the international space station would

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just augment the consumables margin that

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we already have on board atlantis so

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right now we've got uh roughly a day of

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margin above the the two

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extension dates that we normally protect

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after undock so we actually have three

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extension days worth of capability so

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anything that we're unable to transfer

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to the international space station would

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be above the three days and it would we

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would have to make up a lot of margin in

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order to get a fourth day

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right now we've transferred just shy of

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20 pounds

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of the 70 that we planned to transfer

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the international space station and a

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group of engineers and and

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specialists are off reviewing the

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problem with the oxygen transfer system

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and and we expect them to uh

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to either have a plan for us this

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afternoon or basically just say that

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we won't be able to resolve the problem

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here in the next day before we close

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hatches and and atlantis needs to depart

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in which case we'll be able to get about

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half of the planned amount transferred

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to the international space station

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okay i think that's all in the room so

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we'll start now with the phone bridge

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questions

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up first is charles atkinson

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good morning carl jackson with

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facebooknews.com did you cover why there

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are three days between undocking and

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on this particular mission

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prior to launch we worked with the crew

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of atlantis and uh

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we as a team agreed that the best plan

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for the mission given how heavily uh

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choreographed and populated the mission

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was with three spacewalks and all the

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robotics that we knew we had ahead of us

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that

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ideally what we would do was undock at

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the end of a day

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and then

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pick up the next day with the standard

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inspection activities the following day

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pick up with the standard

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pre-entry checkouts the flight control

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system checkout and the communication

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systems checkout and cabin stowage and

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then land the day after that

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in the past we have

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closed hatches undocked and

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done late inspection on one day or

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closed hatches gone into the crew sleep

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cycle and then undocked and then done

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the inspection and what that does is it

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creates a very long intensive day for

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the crew

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for the late inspection day and there

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are a lot of critical activities that go

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on and and

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again just due to the amount of work

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leading up to those events on this

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mission the the team felt the best and

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most appropriate course of action was to

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undock um

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basically three days before we land and

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and we've been able to maintain that

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plan that we haven't had any major

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contingencies come along during the

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mission it would cause us to want to

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compress the the undocking to landing

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time frame so we've got a little bit

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more timeline available and a little bit

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more margin in the mission available to

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to off load or

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load level the work after undocking so

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that was a welcome change that we made

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to the mission

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okay thank you and one final one uh

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have the six volt batteries on the icc

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were there any other cargo that was the

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type turned on

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your question was uh kind of broken but

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i think you asked was there any

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additional cargo returned on the

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integrated cargo carrier and the answer

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is no we're just returning the six

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old batteries off of the port six truss

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and

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that's the only thing that is on the

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cargo carrier at this time

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okay thanks so much

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okay next up we have irene klotz

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thanks very much um i was wondering if

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you had any more information about

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anything being transferred back

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to the from the station to the shuttle

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in the mid deck

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yeah regarding a mid-deck transfer we

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have all of the spacesuits that we used

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on board the international space station

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from its airlock there's some

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peripheral equipment that goes with the

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suits

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there's a large number of

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stowage items that

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the international space station program

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wants us to return including some

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water processing and urine processing

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equipment some samples

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of both pre-processed and post-processed

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water to just maintain baseline

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information here on the ground

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there's a lot of just

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various trash items that the shuttle is

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able to return some old discarded foam

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some old clothing

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dry trash and a number of other items

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we're also returning a large number of

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experiments uh and uh all the uh

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all the co cold stowage that we're able

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to out of the uh out of the freezers on

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board the international space station to

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uh support the uh the laboratory uh that

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the international space station is and

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make the best use of it

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thanks and what does the station use the

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pressurized oxygen and nitrogen for

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please

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the international space station uses the

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oxygen and nitrogen that we transfer

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for

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management of the atmosphere that you

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know the space station

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pressurized modules uh provide a shirt

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sleeve living environment for the

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the astronauts and cosmonauts that live

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on board

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any oxygen or nitrogen that we send

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across either through the hatches via

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what we call a stack repress which just

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over time the the pressurized volume

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tends to tends to bleed down because

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you're either doing space walks and

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opening the hatch and just a small

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amount of the atmosphere bleeds out into

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the vacuum of space

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or

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you use it just through

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the crew members just breathing it in

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and then

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pulling it out of the atmosphere via

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your carbon dioxide removal assembly or

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other systems

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so it basically replaces some of that

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or

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while the shuttle is not present and

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there are high pressure oxygen tanks

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onboard the international space station

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when the crew members are in their suits

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they br they breathe pure oxygen in a in

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a reduced pressure environment so that

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oxygen goes from the high pressure tanks

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through an umbilical into the suits

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to provide the the oxygen necessary to

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do a spacewalk

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thank you

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okay i think that was it on the

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phone bridge and we have more one more

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question here in the room

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hello uh peter ellwood sudden fm in

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australia um

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could you just talk a little bit about

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how well uh atlantis has has performed

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thus far on it on what's likely to be

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its uh final mission and also a kind of

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a personal question as a

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lead flight director for the shuttle do

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you get an opportunity to watch launches

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and landings at ksc and are you planning

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atlantis has been a remarkable vehicle

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and and

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is a remarkable vehicle that we have on

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orbit right now we had a few minor

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glitches earlier in the mission but

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those glitches weren't anything that the

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team here on the ground or the

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astronauts

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on board the atlantis and the

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international space station haven't been

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able to recover from if you recall

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earlier in the mission we had a problem

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with the the boom sensor and the ability

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to pan and tilt a camera and some

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sensors on the end of it

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the team basically went out and and did

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a quick and easy task via spacewalk and

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you know there are a few others

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smaller glitches that have occurred

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throughout this mission but atlantis

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being a well-designed and a

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well-engineered vehicle and just having

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outstanding maintenance at the kennedy

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space center continues to perform

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extremely well

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and

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we just are grateful for that

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and and know that we have the right

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folks working prior to launch and during

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the mission on on

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her maintenance

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in terms of the ability to to watch the

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launches and landings um i i did not

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have an opportunity to watch the launch

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in person

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my shift as a lead flight director

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typically starts some 14 to 16 hours

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after launch and you know the launch

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site is at the kennedy space center in

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florida and my uh my job managing the

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mission control team here in houston

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houston just doesn't afford much of an

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opportunity to to go watch a launch fly

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back be rested and ready to go

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for uh for the job and tasks that i have

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to do

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on the second day of the mission

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my job as a lead flight director is done

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on late inspection day which is the 11th

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day of the mission we're going to land

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on the 13th day and i do have an

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opportunity to go to the landing and i

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very much look forward to seeing

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atlantis come home

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hopefully mid next week to the kennedy

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space center

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i uh

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had a talk with the flow director angie

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brewer prior to uh prior to the launch

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of atlantis and i promised i'd give her

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back

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in the same condition that we got her

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and and we've come very close to that

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and i look forward to to greeting her

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and her team out at the kennedy space

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center and fulfilling that promise

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i also look forward to greeting the crew

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of atlantis when they get off the ship

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and just just being there to watch that

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okay i think that was the last of the

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questions so we'll go back now to live

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mission coverage

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atlanta's crew of course is in their

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off-duty period at this point they'll be

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going to sleep at 3 50 p.m central time

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and then we'll begin playing the flight

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day highlights for the day at the top of

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every hour from then until crew wake up

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at 11 50 p.m tonight

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they'll be getting ready for undocking

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tomorrow which is scheduled for 10 22

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a.m which will be after the joint crew

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news conference at 5 25 a.m

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and after their farewell ceremony at 7

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10 a.m of course you can keep up with