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good afternoon it's great to be back at

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the Cape Steve Lindsey the commander of

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133 and we're back here for a for

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another attempt at this we're pretty

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confident about this one I'd like to

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thank the team the shuttle team in

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particular all the folks here and

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working at all the centers across the

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country the the external tank problem

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we've been working for the last several

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months is probably one of the most

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difficult technical challenges we've

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faced in recent years but the team did a

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great job coming together figuring out a

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very difficult engineering problem

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coming up with a solution that I think

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gives us a really good tank to go launch

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with this week but they did a great job

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making all the repairs we had a great

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Flight Readiness review on Friday with

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and everybody's gota to make an attempt

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this week at the launch probably the

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second challenging thing to happen to us

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we lost tim kopra was injured and we

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lost Tim as a crew member here about

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four or five weeks ago so we've had a

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real challenging training flow to to try

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to bring Steve Bowen in and get him up

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to speed to take Tim's place but right

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here I would like to to thanked him for

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all that he's done for us and it's you

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know we're all disappointed that he's

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not going to be here but if it wasn't

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for Tim developing our EVs and doing a

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fantastic job with that as well as doing

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a great job as flight engineer on the

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flight deck in Assen and entry working

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with Nicole and Alan in that capacity we

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couldn't have pulled this off in four

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weeks of training to be ready to go but

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I'm happy to say that our training is

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complete we're ready to go

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steve bowen has jumped in to the crew

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and done just a fantastic job to to

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learn Tim's roles in the EVs and and

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Nicola now I've jumped up to the flight

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deck to take over Tim's roles there

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they've done a fantastic with job with

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that so we're ready to fly we're anxious

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for hopefully good weather and a good

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vehicle and an launch and go up to the

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space station so with that I'd like to

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introduce

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pilot eric boe good afternoon it's great

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to be bound here again looking forward

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to a great ride like to not only thank

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the people here at Kennedy Space Center

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but also the people back at Johnson

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Space Center for keeping us with our

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continuing training keeping our flow up

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getting Steve up to speed and really

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looking forward to a great launch now

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I'd like to introduce Alvin drew thanks

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Eric I'll also talk about our Mission

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Control team if had a few Delta since

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our last mission we've added a few

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vehicles to the foot to the

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configuration of ISS and a few new tasks

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and they've been working hard with us to

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make sure that that we've got a new flow

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that works with our current plan they've

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been spending lots of midnight oil and

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hopefully we'll get a good mission

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they'll get to take a rest after that

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with that I'd like to introduce our new

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mission specialists t-bone I've got big

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shoes to fill

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Tim and outputed did a great job pulling

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this all together well before I got

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involved and I hope to be able to

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execute the plan as well as I can and

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I'm sure I won't be able to fill out as

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well as Tim and Al could but we'll see

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how this works out and Mike Barratt is

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next thanks Steve it's really it's

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always a great thing to come back to KSC

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last night we were able to watch a

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station pass over Houston the conditions

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were perfect and it was just incredibly

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bright it's amazing thing to think that

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we put that up there

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piece by piece a lot of it from this

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very place and that we'll be chasing it

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down at the end of the week and we're

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really really looking forward to that so

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just nothing but gratitude for the teams

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here that helped put this program

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together and let me introduce the nicole

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stott hi as always it's great to be back

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in Florida

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KSC we are ready to go and it's evident

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from the flyby that we did of the pad on

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the way in that the team here did a

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really great job with the hands-on work

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to get discovery ready to go as well so