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the reins of the International Space

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Station were passed from expedition 25

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Commander Doug Wheelock to expedition 26

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commander Scott Kelly in a ceremony

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aboard the complex November 24th the

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other station crew members looked on

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Wheelock shannon walker and fewer door

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your chicken will return to Earth in

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their soyuz tma 19 spacecraft November

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25th for a parachute assisted landing on

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the steppes of Kazakhstan hi and welcome

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aboard the International Space Station

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i'm doug wheelock commander of

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expedition 25 aboard the space station

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and this evening we're going to change

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command to expedition 26 and its new

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commander Scott Kelly and crewmates

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Sasha calorie and also oleg skripochka

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and just wanted to say a few words but

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before we go through the ceremony but

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it's been a it's been a great ride and I

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think Shannon and Fielder and I when we

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launched back in June we came up here

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with great expectations and and although

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the expedit expectations were were met

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and somewhat beyond they were totally

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different the way that our mission

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played out was was in a lot of ways

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different than what we had planned but

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it was very very exciting we saw a lot

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of exciting things happening with the

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advent of the of the full utilization of

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the space station as orbiting science

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laboratory and that's come to full

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fruition for us now as we've got just

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over 130 experiments going on board and

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it's just been a real thrill to be able

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to work with all of the scientists and

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engineers and researchers on the ground

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in the performance and execution of

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these of these scientific experiments

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and then we've had we've had some

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challenges in the way of maintenance and

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things in the past of several weeks and

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months events that really challenges as

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a crew challenges as they as a team with

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our ground support teams and we've come

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through it

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a better station and a better crew for

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it and I just wanted to say a brief

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thank you to our exhibition 24 crew who

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got us really off on a great foot Tracy

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Caldwell Dyson of course our sky

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commander Sasha Schwartz off and Mikhail

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Kornienko that they had a soft landing

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back several months ago and and they

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left the station to us in great shape

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and and we intend to pass it over to to

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the expedition 26 crew in the same in

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the same manner so Scott it's my great

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honor and pleasure to relinquish command

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of the the International Space Station

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to you my friend and crew mate thank you

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Doug I assume command it's a real honor

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and a privilege to take command of this

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great ship the International Space

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Station and i look forward to leading

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the expedition 26 crew on a great

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mission thank you just a few brief words

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of thanks on this eve of thanksgiving in

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the States we wanted to say thank you to

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our ground support teams to our control

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center in houston and all the great work

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the long hours the thousands and

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thousands of meetings that you guys

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suffered through for the cause of this

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this great flying machine and the safety

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of our crew we really appreciate that

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and to our team in Huntsville all the

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tremendous payloads that you've had for

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us and the great work that we've done

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with you in the different laboratories

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throughout the last several months to

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our team in Oprah often huffin near

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Munich in and just a real thrill working

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in the Columbus laboratory and it's just

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a bright shiny laboratory and just

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tremendous things going on there we're

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very excited about the future of the

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science going on in the Columbus

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laboratory and then to our friends at

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scuba our training team and our control

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teams there in tsukuba japan and the

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beautiful gem module the JPM and they'll

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the great experiments going on the route

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i and seibel racks

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and all the great training that you had

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for us also to our team hsg in that soup

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and Moscow your support in your

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interface that you run for us on a daily

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basis between between our ground support

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team in Moscow and and controllers in

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Mission Control in Houston we appreciate

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all your great support you are the

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silent heroes for us in the in this in

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this effort to to really build a

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world-class orbiting laboratory and of

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course to to our friends at the soup and

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Moscow and the ground support team and

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the controllers there it's been a real

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thrill to work with you as well so on

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behalf of the expedition 25 crew thank

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you so much for everything you've done

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for us and making this a terrific

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success over the past several months and

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we look forward to seeing you very soon

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on the ground the United States Navy has

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a lot of traditions and one is how we

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end change of command ceremony and

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that's with a phrase carry out the plan

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of the day which for us today is going

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to be an early thanksgiving dinner thank