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hi i'm mike massimino for the past few

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shuttle flights we've taken you behind

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the scenes to meet the crews as they

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train for their flights and the people

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around the country who make those

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missions fly but there's a lot of

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footage that we haven't shown you yet so

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we'd like to take you back to some of

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our recent flights and introduce you to

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more of the people who do everything at

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nasa we hope you enjoy this episode of

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we're here in the mission control center

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you're supporting sts-131 you're a

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two-time shuttle commander and two-time

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shuttle pilot so you've flown in space

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four times what were you doing here

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today though with these guys what was

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going on so today i was the asset entry

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uh capcom for sts-131 crew and we had

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way too many malfunctions uh sim

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supervisor really hammered

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the crew and a mission control team with

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about 11 independent failures but

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the team handled it well and the crew

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executed all their procedures perfectly

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so it was a good day

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we're uh handing over to the orbit two

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teams and uh and uh we're in good shape

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for orbit operations this is one of our

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final uh simulations uh before the

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actual launch and you'll be here of

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course doing your job for the actual

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and then it'll be also their capcom for

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their their orbit uh i'll be the shuttle

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orbit one uh capcom this works out

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extremely uh well because uh the

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the uh 131 mission is very similar to

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the mission we just flew on

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sts-128 so i i'm familiar with all their

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tasks and ready to uh support uh

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anything that might come up with the

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promotion that's true and you mentioned

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failures when you've been you've been on

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the flight deck for as a commander or

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pilot for four launches and how many you

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know how many times you've been in here

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for a launch as a as a capcom

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i'm not exactly sure but a lot right

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okay so have you ever seen anything on

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in flight that's like i mean the sims

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are always worse than the flight right

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fortunately the sims are so far uh worse

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than the flight for the most part and

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that's a good thing but uh we do believe

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that uh practicing all these uh

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malfunctions

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is useful uh training to uh get us ready

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it stresses the team and the crew and

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gets us ready for the real thing we have

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had a few malfunctions for real right

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and so uh we were well prepared to

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handle those all right but there is such

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a thing as excess and sometimes some

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soups do get a little carried away and

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we understand that all right man i know

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i know you got to go but if you don't

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mind you tell me some interesting stuff

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as we would because we're handing over

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you were telling me what was going on

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you talked about some of the cool stuff

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you've done uh earlier we were looking

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at the shuttle flying over baja right in

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the sim and you mentioned you at one

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point in your life you actually raced in

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baja i did i was on pit crew

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since i was about 15 years old down

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there in baja for the goodyear pit crew

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yeah and uh

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and then i had the opportunity later on

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it was part of a racing team and i was a

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driver and raced in the uh baja

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1000 uh race in the baja 500 and some

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other races and then some other desert

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races in

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california and arizona so it's always

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interesting to me when

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we fly overhead and the space shuttle to

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look down there and see the places where

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we chewed up a little dirt down there

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yeah

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did that get you now you flew f.a teams

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and then you flew space so i know you

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feel a lot of other stuff too but did

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that racing you can get you ready for

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what you're going fast in those other

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vehicles yeah you know there's a lot of

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uh racers have to improvise uh uh you

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know you have a plan for the race but

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things always happen with the with the

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race cars uh with the pits and so you

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improvise and adapt and overcome and uh

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so i think racing prepared me very well

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for a service in the marine corps

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and also for at nasa to uh fly uh on the

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space shuttle cool stuff man it's all

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good all right you're the flight

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director for this sts-131 crew what do

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you think of these guys and gals it's a

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mixed crew we've got guys in yours

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crew discovery is awesome looking

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forward to work with uh dex and the rest

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of discovery

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this is going to be one of the

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the big logistics flights to round out

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station before the end of the shuttle

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program and i know these guys are ready

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to go do it all right so with the clocks

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and and you come right down here to work

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or did you do something else i uh well i

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grew up on a dairy farm all right uh so

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i guess i basically grew up into a job

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there family-owned farm operation yeah

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and uh were you supposed to stay there

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and work the farm yeah and you you're

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screwing around by coming over here is

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that what happened my dad was mad as

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hell wanted to really go to engineering

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school yeah and my brother and i left

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the farm and moved down here but i went

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to engineering school at clarkson got a

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bachelor's yeah while i was there i did

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an internship uh

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with the johnson space center here in

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houston and yeah working on shuttle

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software cool to have stuff and uh just

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kind of came down here and fell in love

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with the uh the people in the work and

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it's been 16 years wow and you said your

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brother now i know your brother is a

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diver out at the pool right he works as

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a doctor he claims that you dragged him

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down here is that true uh

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to make a long story short i was

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looking forward to coming down here and

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he was working as an auto mechanic in

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town all right and i basically said one

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day i got the job offer i went in at

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lunchtime and told him uh hey i'm going

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to houston and i jokingly said i could

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use a roommate

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and he came home at the end of the day

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and said i gave my two weeks notice i'm

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going to houston with you wow we dumped

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that on our parents yeah the same day

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they lost both their hard hands on the

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farm

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we moved to houston i was gonna say city

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both of you cut out on the farm so who's

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running a farm

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uh my parents sold it in 1999 so uh they

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ran it themselves for six years oh my

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goodness

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yeah that's

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more than a full-time job and yeah

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they live in town now

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we're in town yeah richfield springs new

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york in new york okay it's like 14 miles

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from cooperstown okay and a small town

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what are you looking for i'm looking for

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a tile damage what's your name dan

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keenan ken keenan dan dan yeah i'm a

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tile guy

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tps engineer

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i just had the tile done in my kitchen

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oh did you really can you do that too uh

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i can do that for you i'll do it yeah

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you're good no but what are you doing

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same so now i have to i found one that

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had a little

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minor gang and i'm trying to track it

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down and find it did you write down the

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name geographically okay

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all right

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you got to be smart for this job then

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no i got through that hoop somehow

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i've got plenty of film you've got good

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eyes

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i'll find it here shortly

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how was things how are things with you

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well everything's good man i got no

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complaints i'm glad i got open plates

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what are these guys doing over here

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let's go look

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oh they're uh they pulled the carrier

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panel off that's a what does he got or

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what a carrier panel with bib on it

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flexible insulation blanket all right

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all right and they got the paper so and

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terry white's here so we're should be

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here oh jerry's a match so i mean he is

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the man he's the mayor of this place at

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least i think so all right so what they

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did is they pulled it off right here

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oh okay

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yeah why did they do that what'd they do

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terry what happened

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that's where we're actually gonna lift

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the orbiter when we get into the opf

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that's kidding me is that right there it

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actually we're going to lift it with the

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floor lifts but that's where we attach

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it to the big side jacks yeah that's

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where the little hole right there yeah

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that's a similar zoom in on that one

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that's the same with the guys right up

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there's a guy going in there what's he

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looking for birds

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before they put this in there and then

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we'll actually put the attachment on the

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jack into that to support the orbiter

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for the next several months while we

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work on it my goodness that's the same

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thing that's amazing that says right

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there how famous i think the point we

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used to lift at the vertical assembly

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building no no kidding yeah

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that's so that's a pretty strong there

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if you want to do you want me to get

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your permission to go up there

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look at it

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look at that it looks good to me

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look at it climbing up on the space

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shuttle can you imagine

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look how cool this is

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you guys like doing this stuff oh yeah

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sometimes you get to see all of it

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because the structure yeah yeah exactly

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what's gonna happen now you guys are

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gonna uh

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uh tow it is that right it's gonna get

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towed

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and then it's gonna get uh picked up uh

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over by the slf there by all right that

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one's just gonna tow it all the way into

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opf oh yeah it goes it doesn't go up on

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it'll go in there and then there's three

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floor lifts that'll lift it

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hydraulically to the maintenance height

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we'll attach it here and then we'll

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disassembling from this flight and get

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the last of the astronauts effects out

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and the payload customers want their

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stuff out then we'll start gaining

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access to the vehicle to start taking

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you know got to put all the platforms in

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it's going so slow you know we went a

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few a few hours ago i was going 17 500

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miles an hour yeah and now it's just

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going uh

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that's what it's crawling 33 miles an

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hour

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it's crawling

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how many miles i got on it you know

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i didn't read it

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before this fight

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almost 120 now right that'd be about

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that 119 100 800

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all right

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wow