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good morning and welcome to today's

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mission management brief mission

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management team briefing here with us

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today we have leroy kane chairman of the

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mission management team to tell us about

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today's meeting we'll take some opening

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remarks and then have questions

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okay thank you brandi well good morning

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it is very nice to be with you here this

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morning as we wrap up

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the mission of atlantis i know that you

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had several briefers

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here in in recent days to talk about the

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docked mission and the successes of the

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doc mission i don't

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have too much to add to that

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except to say that

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we're extremely pleased of course with

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the accomplishments on the docked

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mission

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certainly uh achieved and and in fact uh

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exceeded

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our expectations as far as uh as far as

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the objectives and the goals that we had

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for uh for this mission so

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we're uh we're very very happy about

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that um

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as far as the shuttle uh the atlantis uh

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is uh performing uh

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quite well

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the the team is in the midst of

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preparing the vehicle

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and the system's uh reconfiguring from

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an on-orbit uh orbiting spacecraft to

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get it ready for entry and landing

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as early as wednesday

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and so today in the mission management

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team we reviewed the status of the

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we are working any new issues or have

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any new problems or anomalies

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atlantis is just in great shape the crew

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on orbit is doing very well

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they completed the

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our final inspection that's where the

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crew

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does a final inspection of the heat

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shield of the vehicle and so the team

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analyze that data in the next

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18 24 hours here and then we'll discuss

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the results of that

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probably as early as the mission

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management team tomorrow morning

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so we aren't working any issues we're

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extremely pleased with uh with how the

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mission is going overall it's been an

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outstanding effort again

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by this uh very expansive integrated

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team uh to include the folks on the

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ground as well as crew on orbit and all

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the team around the world that helps us

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pull off these docked missions so

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we're back now very focused again on

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getting atlantis back home safely with

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the atlanta's crew

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the team is uh as well on their way to

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doing that as we left the briefing today

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so with that i would be happy to take

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any questions

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okay we'll start with questions here in

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if there are any and then we have

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bumbridge just take your name and

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affiliation first please hi robert

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perlman with collectspace.com um

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knowing that you haven't had a chance to

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review the data from the late inspection

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yet but

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assuming that it all comes back clean

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would you say this has been the cleanest

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atlantis or for the shuttle program or

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as one of the cleanest flights it seems

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that there were very minor problems if

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yeah that's fair fair characterization

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it's certainly

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you know cleanest that's hard to make

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assessment at least until we get the

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but certainly it is in the family of the

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the cleanest

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best performing orbiters that we've had

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in the past uh you know six eight

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um to include all of the missions in the

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where the the vehicle performance has

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just been outstanding

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and as far as clean in terms of the of

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the the heat shield and all the

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overwhelmingly excellent performance in

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all of the flight elements to include

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help a lot with respect to

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these very complicated dock missions

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when we have to worry less about the

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vehicle on orbit and and in the systems

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issues associated with anything like

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that so

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certainly in the family of of the

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that's about the most i can say about it

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until we get her back on the ground

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assuming that you're going out to

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florida to watch atlantis land

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the crew after after they're back on the

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an extra significance to the touchdown

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majestic every landing is pretty special

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atlantis and the crew back safely uh

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we'll know at some point in our future

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whether or not this is the last flight

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i'll know that for sure when when

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atlanta shows up in a museum somewhere

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we're just focused on this mission and

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okay i think that was the last question

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here in the room we'll go now to the

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okay uh let's go instead first to marcia

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can you hear me yes

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um speaking of taking them one at a time

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there are two on the books left leroy

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and could you just sort of give a status

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update on where they stand not just

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regarding shuttle processing but

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of september 16th that's on

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still in in the midst of evaluating the

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overall manifest for the payload and the

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the of the manifest for sts-133

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aspects that play into our manifest

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decision so we're currently still

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thanks hailey right um i was just

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wondering if uh there's been any changes

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in plans with the swap of 133 and 134

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about leaving the um the orbiter boom

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plans um it'll still be uh you know the

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last mission or the last planned mission

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that we intend to do that so

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next up tarik mali

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thank you very much it's uh tariq malik

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from space.com and leroy and uh forgive

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the work to be done on atlantis after uh

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flights and still keep it on the books

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to be the yellow end for the mission

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before we get too much further along

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thanks and i guess just a quick

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follow-up because i think in the past uh

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july would you be able to go then before

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um i guess hitting that benchmark thanks

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at our plan for sts-133

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hey thanks very much and leroy i don't

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answered it thanks

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