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well good morning to you from NASA's

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Johnson Space Center in Houston and

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welcome to today's mission status

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briefing as we take a look at sts-132

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Atlantis's crew is now focused on the to

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landing opportunities tomorrow at the

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Kennedy Space Center and here to give us

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more details about what's ahead for the

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shuttle is the entry flight director

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Tony so catchy go ahead Tony alright

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thanks Josh and good morning to all well

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Lana Center crew had a very successful

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flight 812 morning they started readying

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themselves for their return trip home

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crew woke up about eleven-thirty Monday

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night and I hit the ground running what

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we did basically is typical in the

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mission minus 1 activities we did the

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flight control system check out and that

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went well with no anomalies so the

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flight control system is ready for entry

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we also did a reaction control jet a hot

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fire and again all the Jets operated as

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expected so we have all that capability

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to support entry tomorrow CDR and pilot

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also did perform landing simulations

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they have a application on board they

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call pilot and they get to practice

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doing landings and basically get that

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field back in there are focused back in

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their mind after a long doc mission of

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course also standard end emission minus

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1 activities where we do the cabin stow

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and get all the field configured and all

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the things put away to support entry

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this afternoon is pretty light beside

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the cabin still there's one secondary

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payload of opportunity guys a simplex

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burn so two ohm's engine burn about 10

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seconds and basically what that does

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they do that over specific ground site

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and they're looking for atmospheric

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disturbances caused by the OMB's engines

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exhaust and then we thought went out

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when that is complete the crew goes to

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bed around 320 this afternoon one of the

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things that for the late inspection the

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teams did review the ldr I imagery and

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preliminary assessment shows that

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there's no issues with the TPS and of

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course they'll be discussing that at the

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mmt later on this morning and then

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they'll give the official go for on the

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vehicles go for entry but again they're

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still crossing the T's and dotting the

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i's to make sure they've checked

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everything one thing I want to talk

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about and I know a lot of you folks been

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asking this the past few days about the

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weather so I'll give you a quick summary

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about that there's this morning we had a

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upper level low come through a que se

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and we had the rain as you probably saw

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this morning and that's expected to move

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out today but there is a roll out in the

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Atlantic and it's forecasted to be about

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300 400 miles on northeast of KSC and of

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course that's going to have an influence

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on the KSC weather tomorrow morning

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let's see basically there's a chance of

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showers within 30 mile circle and of

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course you know you all know that it's

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KSC so it's a 50-50 chance no matter

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what the forecast says and we're going

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to continue to watch at one of the good

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things is that you know been watching

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the trends for a while and their

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training favorably so our hope is when

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we come in this evening or tomorrow

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morning things will still be trending in

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a good direction and we won't have to

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work at that hard but again it's KSC and

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we'll get what we get when we get there

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in the morning as far as the orbiter

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consumables we have enough consumables

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to support out to an emission plus three

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as you heard both vallejo and the cryo

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two are the limiting consumers for that

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as far as the landing strategy myself

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and the teams put together with the end

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emission plus three in the current

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forecasts weather forecasts that we have

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and kind of what just talked about

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earlier is that tomorrow will be trying

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a casi only and if for some reason we

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have to wave off the plan is a Cassie

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only on Thursday but of course and will

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Casey only on Thursday and then pick'em

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day would be on Friday and emission plus

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two but as we wave off of course we'll

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reevaluate the weather

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and determine that maybe we want to move

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up the pick'em day maybe one day early

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depending on how the forecasts are and

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the rest of the sites let's see that's

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basically all ahead for you guys today

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oh I'm sorry let me talk about our

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landing opportunities that I never

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tantly over there tomorrow's activities

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the crew will wake up at around eleven

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thirty this evening and the orbit prep

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will begin around 241 a.m. central time

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we're going to close the payload bay

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doors at around four o'clock central

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time in the morning and our goal is to

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hit the first KSC opportunity KSC 186

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and the tig for that is around 641

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central with the landing around 748

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let's see if we can put the ground track

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alright I could talk about it before

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while it's getting up there okay

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basically the ground track is going to

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take us over Honduras and Nicaragua and

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Central America and then of course we're

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going to go over the Caribbean and Cuba

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and then once we get to Florida we'll be

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right over the Florida Everglades over

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Lake Okeechobee and then of course run

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parallel to the coast before we do our

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landing at KSC and right now based on

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the weather and what the winds are

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showing KSC 33 runway looks like the one

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the prime runway will be shooting for

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tomorrow let's see if we wanted for some

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reason we cannot make that opportunity

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we have KSC 187 and that tick is at 817

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central and the landing is at nine 23

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seeing basically that's all I have for

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you guys and I'll take whatever

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questions we have okay we'll start off

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with questions from here in Houston will

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go to the phone lines in just a few

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minutes go ahead hi Robert Pearlman with

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collectspace.com this crew has been

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getting ahead of schedule a lot it seems

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throughout the whole mission they've

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been running terribly ahead of schedule

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do you have we have words to them

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tomorrow about not getting too far ahead

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in the deorbit preps or do you do you

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think everything will just they'll just

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work on schedule no basically the

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deorbit prep time frame is pretty busy

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for all the crew members so it'll keep

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on the schedule they know everyone has

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something to do throughout that whole

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four hours so they won't be and might be

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one little task here or there but there

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are a lot of things that we have to have

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time on because based on thermal and

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cooling capability with the fest and all

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that so basically they'll be on time for

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the timeline and since the crew this

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morning reminded us that this was the

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possible final flight of Atlantis I

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wonder from your perspective as the

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flight director on console when Atlantis

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touches down

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is there a sense of do you think you'll

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have a sense of pride a sense of sorrow

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what would be your personal feelings

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watching atlantis come in for what might

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be its final landing I you know one

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thing I wanted to say for all of us it's

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been a great ride but you've heard it

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from all my buddies that our focus right

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now is to get the crew safely on the

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ground and and complete the remaining

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two scheduled missions and the way I

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look at it we'll have time to celebrate

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after we get the final wheel stop

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whenever that is hopefully a little bit

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later than sooner and then be able to

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talk about it but right now our focus is

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on what we need for me tomorrow make

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sure they get safely in the ground and

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then for the rest of the team completing

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the remainder of the flights that we

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have is that it from here okay now we'll

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go to the phone lines I think we have

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Marsha done with the associated press go

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ahead Marshall yes I'm wondering what

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the weather outlook is for Kennedy Space

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Center beyond tomorrow and how's the

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forecast looks in California let's see I

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talked about that a little bit earlier

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but you know it's it's KSC and there's a

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low parked out in the Atlantic north

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northeast of que se and that's going to

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have a influence on the weather and you

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know we're going into it 5050 and then

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as we get in tonight we'll see what the

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actual conditions are and we'll work it

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accordingly I mean I keep saying this

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and but it is KSC and we'll get what we

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get when we come in and we'll work

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whatever we need to let's see as far as

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Edwards Edwards tomorrow since we're not

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going there and really to be honest with

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you there is some chance of showers

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concern but I haven't really put a lot

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of focus on that since we're just

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looking at KSC right now I'm tomorrow

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what's the outlook for both places

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beyond tomorrow beyond tomorrow KSC

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moves up for further north and Edwards

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is looking good also thank you very much

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you're welcome okay Tareq Malik of space

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com go ahead thank you

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tell me I guess just to follow up with

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the reentry is plans going for for later

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this week I'm just curious if says that

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that that expected improvement in

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weather is what gives you confidence to

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to not call up Edwards for both days or

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if it's just a you know Atlantis has the

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consumable so that allows you to make

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that case the only decision for the

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first two learning opportunity it's a

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more than an omission plus three

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capability because you know normally all

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things considered being equal we just

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try for KSC the first day and that's

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what if we just have any mission plus

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two capability but again it all depends

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on what the weather showing and what the

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forecasts are for the other sites things

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are looking really well and like I said

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support the KSC for the first two days

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and then pick them for the third but

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again as we as we do we'll just continue

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to reevaluate if in fact we should wave

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off okay that may be it from Tareq bill

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Harwood with CBS News go ahead yeah

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thanks Tony I just want to make sure I

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understood the forecast and make sure

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that if the forecast has been updated I

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just want to make sure I knew that the

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last one I saw from SMG it was chance of

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showers both Wednesday and Thursday and

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it looked like it didnt really improve

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where they were no constraints until

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friday is that does that what you're

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talking about yes sir well i think they

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updated it I don't know when you got

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your latest but I think they were going

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to remove the chance of showers on

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Thursday but I have to double check bill

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because I I was still looking at the the

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old one okay it's not one more for me at

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you if you tried both opportunities both

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days I assume you have enough water to

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do that all the way down to friday if

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you had to yeah we have a7 opportunities

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worth of water so for the first two day

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ever if we should have to waive off we

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and then go to the next day we'd use up

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for those so again pick'em day would be

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water to utilize so we're pretty good

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okay that's set on the phone lines back

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here in Houston any follow-ups at all

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okay seeing none the crew is going to go

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to bed at 320 p.m. central time today

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that will wrap up today's flight day and

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they're going to wake up later on today

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here on earth at eleven-twenty p.m.

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central time and that will be landing

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day for the crew of Atlantis tony and

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his entry team will be on console around

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midnight and of course has Tony her

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talked about there's two different

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landing opportunities tomorrow at the

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Kennedy Space Center another crew right

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before this briefing sent down some

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words about their flight of Atlantis

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taking a look at this 30-second final

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flight of this orbiter we're going to

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show you that next here on NASA

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television and thanks for joining us

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here we are on the flight deck of

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Atlantis again with the entire sts-132

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crew we have undocked from international

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space station yesterday spent the day

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inspecting Atlantis's thermal protection

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system and we didn't see anything wrong

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at all which is no surprise and tomorrow

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we're going to pack up the ship to come

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home to Florida the next day I'm going

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to hand them up Mike to Atlantis is

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thanks Huck Atlantis is just a fabulous

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ship she was a fabulous ship in the

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beginning and continues to be just

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absolutely amazing if this ends up being

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special answers last flight got an

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American flag here that we're honored to

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fly this American flag flew on

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Atlantis's first light sts 51 Jay and

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I'll hand the mic over to Navy captain

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it's a real honor to be walk among the

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191 crew members that have float on

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Atlantis and her over 300 days in over

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120 million miles Alanis is actually

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named after a ship of research and

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discovery from a place i happen to study

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Wintle oceanographic institute and she

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has definitely learned up the doctor her

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name over the past 20 years or so fierce

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Allen who has done as always that

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Atlantis is absolutely my favorite

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shuttle overflowing on to but she's got

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my favorite

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I hope that when she lands successfully

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from the line of these guys have fun to

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do there she go somewhere and get the

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respect she deserves as a ship of

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exploration people like to visit ships

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like the constellation Constitution see

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where they've been in what they've done

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i'm garrett reisman mission specialist

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on this plate and when I was looked at

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as an astronaut back in 1998 there are

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four of us in our class that we're

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living in the Southern California area

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and we got together to visit Atlantis

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we're invited to come up while she was

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in for overhaul and palm down and when

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the four of us got together one of the

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other astronauts was also tracy caldwell

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who was just went this on the space

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station so we were reminiscing about

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this just the other night and we got

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together saw atlantis and we all got so

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very excited about but we were about to

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do becoming astronauts and seeing the

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tender loving care that she was given

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there in palmdale by all the people that

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worked on her it was hard to believe

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that here I would be some ten years

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later flying on what could be her last

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flight but she's been an amazing ship

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and it's an honor to have served upon

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and here is an Air Force criminal

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thanks Garrett I've been lucky enough to

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have to shuttle flights folk lamont

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Atlanta so it's also my favorite space

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shuttle Atlantis has been on 32 flights

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now we're on 32 number 32 and perhaps

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the final flight of Atlantis she's been

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to many different destinations I was

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lucky enough to go to both the Hubble

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Space Telescope and in a space station

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she's also been a mirror and many other

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different places so she's well-traveled

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and she's served many of us well and we

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look forward to bring her home safe and

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going to visitors someday on the ground

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so from the entire crew from sts-132