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room for one more

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all right so tell me where we are mike

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well we're in the

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fireman ford launch control center it's

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where we launch all the shuttles out of

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right in this room in this room this is

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the place this is my console here the

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launch director's connection launch

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director there's ray j holding up your

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sign there launch right here this is

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where you said it worked with all you

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guys when i talked to you guys it's from

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this console here you talking on the

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phone well you got you got a little

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headset no you got your headset on okay

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okay

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all right um

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got the test test director the test

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conductors down here all right and then

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all the system engineers out on the

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floor of the firing room all the name

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propulsion guys and fuel cell guys all

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the system engineers are out on the

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floor okay

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and they all we can see it through a

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test conductor to a test director yeah

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ultimately

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all right

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okay and then this bubble over here room

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on the left that's mission management

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team bubble

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mike moses now nowadays and his team

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and then the bubble over here is a vip

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area for our administrator and center

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directors and

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ron o'connor head of safety and uh vips

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essentially sitting there on one side

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okay

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and the launch pad is out there

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let's see if i can get it i'm having

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trouble focusing on that

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all right there it is okay all right

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i've got two questions for you mike

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one is is that i notice when you're

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sitting there your chair is this way and

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all your displays are over here facing

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this way with a room

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but the spaceship is out there

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the opposite direction what's the story

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shouldn't you be looking out there as a

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video do you flip around that you like

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make the call and then get out there you

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don't want the guys to be distracted

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what's the story when you guys lift off

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i watch you go right yeah i want to

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watch the launch so you do turn around

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over here i'm watching my displays but

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you don't want anyone else to look is

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that what this do you want them to know

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is there a reason for that because you

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want to looking at their displays you

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know when i'm looking at the big

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fireworks going on over here all right

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all right i'm concentrating on that

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on the display okay

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and then uh no the last the last five

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minutes last nine minutes of counter so

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i'm watching my displays watching the

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various okay you know parameters on

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board the shuttle company

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start up and all that stuff

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pressurization of the tanks okay then it

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lifts off now i'm very much watching the

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watching the show and the whole room is

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as well or they they turn it once it

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clears the tower or something that they

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turn around and look it's very quiet in

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here we don't celebrate until you guys

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reach orbit right um

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they're watching their displays

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first four and a half minutes in case we

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got an rtls

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i see but after rtls then essentially

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our job is done completely done and

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we're just watching watching the

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ascendant uh we're watching the down

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link and getting all the data all right

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we're watching the guys in houston take

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care of the ship

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launch site because it may be coming

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back here

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once it clears the tower houston

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controls but you still got to be ready

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for it to come back here they're

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controlling in houston no question about

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that but if we do get an rtls well then

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you know our guys are of the slf kick

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into action ready to go and you guys

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will have working we're still supporting

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jsc at that at that point okay that's

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still one of the flight regimes okay

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interesting and my last question for you

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mike

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where's the big red button that you

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since you're the launch director you get

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to hit the button right is there there

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is no big red button is there you have a

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small red but i saw this one here and i

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thought well maybe this is it no that's

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not it but come on man that ain't it

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it's all but you know for the people

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watching it's all computer control

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computer control but uh everyone every

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one of the engineers in the room and

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test conductors and test director myself

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we can we can stop the launch all the

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way down t0 if we had to

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with a manual call we always have that

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capability for the human intervention if

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we need it yeah

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hasn't happened hope it doesn't happen

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but the theory is you know the

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ground law sequencer here is mimicking

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the redundant set on board the order as

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long as they to stay in sync we haven't

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violated any lcc's

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you guys are gone

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and this is a pretty cool job you love

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it i know we talked about this before

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how much you love what you do did you

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did you did you think you'd be doing

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this when you were a little kid did you

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play like what no no you know

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charlie over there did you play like

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play with uh a little the model rockets

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when you were kids or anything did you

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was there anything no no i was a

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virginia boy you know and just got

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really really lucky in my career and

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always been interested in space and

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space travel yeah and uh no i just got

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really really lucky yeah it's as simple

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as that well we've talked about this

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before too and how as astronauts we're

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very grateful we have

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you folks here looking out for us and

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making sure that it is the right

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decision

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to go and uh i know it's very serious we

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have fun but we're taking a very serious

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job i mean it's a fun job but but

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there's a lot of responsibility you guys

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aren't going to fly unless we're 100

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convinced it's created to go the only

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thing you might need for visibility is

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to clean up some of the bird poop that

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you have on the window here that's a

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that's one of our preps for long is that

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what that's right

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you got to get a guy to clean probably

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want to wait until right before launch

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launch mine is one of these birds you

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know they dig yeah they'll yeah all

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well thanks for letting us in here mike