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good afternoon everyone this is our post

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landing

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news conference with the sts-132

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and here with us

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is ken ham the commander from the

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mission he will

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make a few comments and

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very shortly thereafter we will take

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questions from the media present so ken

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in a very short sentence

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we're thrilled

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accomplished the mission that was put in

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front of us

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and a long time ago when we were first

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assigned as a crew

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one of our goals

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as we laid them out for the year in

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front of us was to uh to have fun and to

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include everyone on the ground team

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in our fun and hopefully

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bleed some of the enthusiasm we have for

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space flight into the rest of the world

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since we've been back we've been hearing

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stories about how folks have been having

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fun and enjoyed watching us have fun

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and that's really important to us so

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from that perspective we're thrilled

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on the real serious side

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we uh we brought a russian module up did

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something that has never been done

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before by birthing that

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module with a russian docking system on

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a robotic arm to the international space

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and these great guys next to me

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that might be the only time i call you

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did some great space walking

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tony did some great iv and

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pierce down there did

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some incredible arm operations

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supporting all three evas

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piers was

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the guy on this flight that had more eva

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experience than anybody and now he's a

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that's true isn't it yeah he still has

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more eva experience than anyone else on

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an accomplished robotics arm specialist

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which i think is pretty darn cool

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and speaking of uh of pierce

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sir i think you have

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for the record and in front of everybody

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i'd like to thank my family and my wife

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in particular for putting up with months

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and months of absences

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and grumpiness

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while we got ready for this meeting and

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also for a fantastic selection of wake

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up music which i unfortunately missed by

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being in the wrong module at the wrong

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but my commander felt that i owed that

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and my wife thank you

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when the microphone comes with you we'll

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start here with james

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james dean florida today um if if not

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commander and pilot who might have been

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think about atlantis uh history and

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career as you were coming in for landing

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whether or not we know it's the last

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well i didn't have much time to think

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about it today to be honest with you

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we were pretty busy

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getting her ready to come home and then

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put the orange suits on and strap it in

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and bringing her back from mach 25 we

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just inched up over mach 25 before we

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started slowing down again

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to think about it reflect about it talk

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and uh it was a real honor to be

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on the last flight if uh if this turns

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and we're happy to bring her back home

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as you've flown both your missions on

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how it will loom in in your career

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and your your spectacles uh a third

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flight so uh um

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but atlantis treated us very well i mean

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just worked perfectly we were saying in

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the uh on the deorbit burn on the way

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of what the burn was supposed to be and

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performed flawlessly and then let us do

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assigned to do to take things up and uh

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million miles is a lot of miles how did

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atlantis look with all that mileage on

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had a chance to get out

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to the runway when she was still on the

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runway but just absolutely fabulous

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i don't know how old your car is

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i ended up with a new one this summer

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when the government wanted

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wanted my old truck real bad

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flying because i was

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still worried about hawks landing but um

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here to talk to y'all and

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hi clara moskowitz with space.com

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um i know a lot of you actually are

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the space station before and um

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when but there are some definite changes

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tidy uh and they've got it very well

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organized so it was a very comfortable

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of uh the whole span of the earth rather

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spacewalks the cupola is an unbelievably

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uh sort of the flip side of that

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commander and see if i'm allowed to say

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experience going out the airlock over

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inside all the labs just incredible

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capability and a lot of room to actually

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was able to fly in space because there's

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so much room up there just to go but you

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the different modules and it's just like

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sharing the fun we definitely saw that

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hi evan brown from fox news radio um

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looking at your next career moves or how

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many of you are hoping for 135 and

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trying to get your name on the list

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i'll speak for myself there's no way in

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the world they're gonna let i'll speak

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for all of us there's no way in the

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world

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they're going to let any of us be on

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that mission we are available however we

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are at however

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need one more chance to get it right

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that's all

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justin ray with spaceflightnow.com i

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guess for anyone that wants to take it

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after 12 days up there what are some of

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the lasting memories that you're going

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to

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i guess i should answer one yeah it's

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all yours

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good question no uh

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there were two points that i really

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thought were quite amazing we went all

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the way out to the p6 trust to work on

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the batteries and uh

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went on the back side of the truss and

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so i was back there all alone

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it's just you're so far away at that

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point from the living portion of the

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space station it's it's quite amazing to

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look back and see the

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just the size you know from the outside

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you can't take it all in from out there

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you have to turn your head it's so huge

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uh my previous flight

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the only addition since then was another

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truss and uh

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but it it's it's just feels bigger it

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feels more complete

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and the other time was i was sitting on

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top of the boom after we had installed

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the antenna

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waiting for some direction as to what to

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do next so i had about i don't know 20

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30 minutes

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sitting there basically laying on my

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back

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watching the world go by past the

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russian segment

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and i was just thinking how in the world

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did i end up here this is just

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unbelievable it just seems totally

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surreal

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and a lot of fun at the same time that's

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any additional questions out here

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and for the commander could you just

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talk a little bit about entry and

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landing today how

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how it went and uh yeah

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yeah well it was smooth as silk and i

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don't i'm not talking about my landing

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i'm talking about uh the whole entry

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profile it was a nice day to come home

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but uh what was absolutely remarkable

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was we were going through the high mach

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numbers that's the the low 20s or so

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in what we call the plasma region where

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you are quite literally on the inside of

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a fireball

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on my last mission that happened in the

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daylight and you could sort of see a

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faint pink glow over the nose

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this time it happened at night

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and we were clearly riding on the inside

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of a fireball and it was absolutely

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spectacular the windows all of them were

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bright brilliant orange

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out the overhead windows we could see

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i don't know if there are vortices or

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bursts of plasma kind of shedding off

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the the

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the top of the orbiter but one of the

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neatest things was we flew right into

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sunrise in this high mach number region

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and sunrise from space is absolutely

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spectacular every one of them is

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it always starts with this beautiful

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blue colored arc on the limb of the

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earth

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and what was neat in this case was we

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could see that blue color kind of

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burning through the orange tony saw it

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first because we were rolled a certain

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way and he said holy cow you can see the

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sunrise through the fireball i'm like

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wag you know i couldn't see over to his

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side and then the orbiter rolled and

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sure enough i could see it on myself

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like holy cow you can see that sunrise

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through the fireball

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so it was visually overwhelming it was

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just amazing

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okay we'll take one more question and

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that's going to wrap it up

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right here um when uh robert with

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collectspace.com again uh

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when i we spoke preflight uh

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ken um when we spoke preflight you said

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that landing might be bittersweet

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because it marked the end of the fun so

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sort of

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is it is it the end of the fun and uh

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was there a tinted regret that the rain

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didn't keep you in space an extra day

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i'm not sure an extra day would have

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made that much of a difference to be

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honest

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the fun is really these five guys next

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to me and we're going to be around

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together for quite a while longer and

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we're going to continue to have fun

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but it uh

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it certainly did strike me walking

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around the orbiter today

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that

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i probably just did the coolest thing

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i'll ever do in my life

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and uh and it's over it's behind me it's

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great it's a great memory and it's

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nothing that i feel bad about

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it was just one of those moments kind of

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walking around looking at the at the

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spectacular airplane knowing that it's

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over

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it's human nature it's okay

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all right that's going to conclude our

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briefing and our