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good afternoon everybody and welcome to

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nasa's johnson space center for today's

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mission status briefing uh following

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along with discovery's arrival at the

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international space station as part of

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the sts-133 mission joining us is brian

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lenny he's the lead flight director for

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discovery's voyage to the iss and he'll

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talk about his shift today

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what occurred obviously and then look

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ahead at what's in store for the next

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day aboard the orbiting joint complex

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i'll turn it over to brian okay thank

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you kyle well good afternoon thank you

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for being here as kyle said it's been a

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great day in space the crew has done a

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fabulous job i'll walk through some of

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the activities that went on today as

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well as talk about how systems are doing

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first off the crew got up about

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5 50 this morning just before 6 a.m

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central time

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they did their typical post-sleep

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activities

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and then we followed up with a couple of

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big rendezvous burns i say big because

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we went from an orbit of about 120

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nautical miles and all the way up to

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about 190 miles and a one rev transfer

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with a couple of burns there and that

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set us up for the rendezvous and then

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the docking

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all of which went really well the

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rendezvous itself was flowing really

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well all the burns all the manual

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maneuvers all the activities the crew

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did a fabulous job

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accomplishing all those things i didn't

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get any numbers in terms of propellant

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consumption but

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for my observations everything went

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really really well

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the manual phase we did the the r bar

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pitch maneuver once we got in close and

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got some good pictures we hope i expect

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of the bottom of the space shuttle those

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were being downlinked as i was coming

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over here

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and we'll get a folks we'll get a good

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look at those tonight

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uh as as they come in

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and then uh once the rendezvous pitch

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maneuver was complete or our bar pitch

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maneuver was complete the crew flew up

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to the v-bar the velocity vector of the

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space station and flew it on in for

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docking

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the all the flying the manual flying

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again went really well

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there were no issues at all with any of

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the assistance on board

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discovery she performed quite well as

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once we got docked

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it took a little bit longer than we

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would have liked for the hard mate to

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complete when the order discovery came

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in we got what we call a soft dock and

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then it took about an extra 30 40

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minutes to get to fully hard mated and

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i'll go into why here in a few minutes

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but first i'll go ahead and cover the

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rest of the activities for today

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for today you probably saw the crew was

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opening the hatch they're coming in

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they're going to do their safety

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briefing and then they're going right

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into their robotic operations that are

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scheduled for today today was a very

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busy day and we knew that going into it

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this is probably our one day in the

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timeline that was pretty aggressively

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scheduled on the timeline purpose

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so the crew is going to go in and the

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purpose of the rest of today's install

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the elc number four out on the starboard

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truss

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to do that they're going to pluck it out

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of the payload bay with the space

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station robotic arm then they're that's

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going to present it to the shuttle

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they'll do a hand off to the shuttle

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robotic arm and then while the shuttle

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robotic arm is holding the payload the

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space station robotic arm is going to do

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a walk off from the node 2

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and inchworm over to the mbs and then

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space shuttle robotic arm will hand it

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back to the space station arm

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and then the space station robotic arm

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will continue with the installation out

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at the s3 location

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the crew that's doing this is nicole

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stott and mike barrett are doing all of

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the ssrms ops the station arm ops and

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once it's out at the proper location it

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will be attached with the common

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attached system that has and katie and

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paulo will execute the procedures to do

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the full hookup for that element out

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they should complete all those things uh

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just about an hour or so before sleep

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for the timeline we were about 40

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minutes late or so getting hard mate the

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crew made up probably half of that

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getting the hatch open so i would

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anticipate things go well and they will

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still be able to get everything done

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today and good good amount of time and

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be able to get all mated up

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before they go to bed

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for the docking the thing that delayed

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us a little bit some of you probably saw

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once we got to a soft mate we the ring

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that the orbiter contacts

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the station with and then we try to

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retract that ring

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and the mechanical systems that do that

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bring it in slowly and carefully and it

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wants to be aligned we want it to be

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aligned well with the docking interface

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what happened to us this time is

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it took a little bit longer and the

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rates on the vehicle were such that we

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tilted over pitched over if you will a

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little bit and then the gravity gradient

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what we call the gravity gradient the

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forces from the earth from the gravity

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pull a little bit differently on the

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different masses of the vehicle believe

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it or not so the forces on the shuttle

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caused it to pitch a little bit more

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which uh differently than the space

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station the result is is that the uh

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alignment system or the the docking

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system gets a little bit out of a line

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so we got to wait until we kind of swing

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and in this case we the shuttle came in

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in this direction we got docked on the

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soft mate and then it kind of swung all

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the way around

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the forces were reversed and we had

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enough time for the docking system did

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its passive alignment and kind of fixed

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itself and got itself aligned again and

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then we're able to do the re final

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retraction and get all hard mated that

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activity added about 40 minutes it's

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as these things work out or half a rev

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excuse me as these things work out and

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we have seen it a couple of times before

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a number of times earlier in the space

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station program

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and then we kind of changed our

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procedures and how we do those

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alignments and retractions and recently

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perhaps it was an endeavor thing

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same issue perhaps that's not such a

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good suspicion anymore but we'll

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continue to look at that

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the overall impact to us is is nil

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timeline uh the crew will likely make

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that up uh and if they don't well we do

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have a contingency plan in place that if

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we didn't get all the way mated and uh

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doc with the elc tonight

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that we could just leave it at the

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pre-installed position overnight and

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then pick that activity up in the

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morning so there's a fair amount of

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margin in the timeline to deal with

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a big contingency like that i said it

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was an aggressive timeline for tonight

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but there's margin tomorrow that we can

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we're going to need to do that i think

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that the folks will get it all taken

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care of on board and as you saw when

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they came in the door on the tvs the

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crew looked like they were doing great

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listening to them all day long they're

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in great shape great spirits and

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obviously very happy to be on board the

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station uh maybe go have some snacks

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with their friends like a pineapple or

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something good like that we'll see

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that's about all i got for today or if

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y'all have any questions i'd be happy to

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talk about that

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okay great any questions

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hi robert perlman with

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collectspace.com um before you even got

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there the crew was running i guess about

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four minutes behind in the docking

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schedules they made up for and then some

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um i was just curious what caused that

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well the docking is all manual activity

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right the fly-in the fly around all that

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stuff so the times we put in there are

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all estimates so plus or minus a few

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minutes to me is still on time

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uh it's like if you say well it's going

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to take me 10 minutes to drive across

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little different style that'll change

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to us it's no impact we know all that

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anything else

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uh let's say we have a couple folks on

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the phone bridge we'll start with marcia

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yes hi can you hear me yep

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yes um brian i'm just wondering the

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slight misalignment does does that have

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anything to do with the i guess it

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doesn't have anything then to do with

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the size of the space station or with

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all those vessels stock there i would

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agree it does not have anything to do

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with that

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the misalignment when we docked we got

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lined up just fine and and it's more

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just the vehicle is very large station

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is very large now and as we as as the

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small rates on the vehicle

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allowed it i guess i was going this way

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earlier allowed it to pitch over a

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again the gravity gradient just

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accelerated that and also kind of

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contorted or twisted or just misaligned

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it a little bit more and it's just a

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little bit but it was enough that

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it was a line such that we didn't want

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to pull it together and not have a good

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had it back as early as sts-105 i think

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someone told me and again the procedures

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back then were a little bit different

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would it happen again if we ran those

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same procedures i'm not sure we think

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what we do today is better

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now i would say it's just the way it is

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it's physics and we got to deal with

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that and we have procedures to deal with

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that

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do you have any idea of how many

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the numbers of pictures photos that were

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downloaded following the rpm maneuver no

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i don't i'm sorry a bunch um

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the cruise usually takes on the order of

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90 or 100 if i remember right but

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they try and get two or three shots of

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each location on the shuttle so they get

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a bunch and we'll have that number for

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you tomorrow though great thank you and

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last one for me is there anything new on

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the

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debris report from launch day

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uh let's see from launch day no i don't

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know leroy had larry kane had the

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mission management team today from what

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i understand there wasn't much reported

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at that time although i was busy doing

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the rendezvous at the time

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they will get more status as they go

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the timeline for those activities as we

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explained yesterday is tonight they'll

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have their what we call the focused

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inspection meeting which just means that

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the folks have had a time to look at all

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the pieces of imagery from the

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launch day to flight day to inspection

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to the arbor pitch maneuver pictures we

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take and downlink tonight today they'll

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have a chance to look at all those

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things and be able to determine if

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there's some place that we're really

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worried about and from what i'm hearing

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right now no one obviously is saying any

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such thing but we'll have that official

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meeting tonight and then mmt will

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discuss it tomorrow and as need be for

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subsequent days as well

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thank you that's all for me

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okay thanks marcia let's see james dean

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florida today are you on

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yes uh thank you kyle

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ryan i know you've been

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focused on the work at hand but just

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wondered if you could share any thoughts

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on

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seeing discovery docked for what should

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be the last time and and um

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as well um just the uh

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weakness this time of joining all the

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other vehicles

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okay well yeah sure discovery is a

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fabulous a glamorous vehicle if you will

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discovery's done a lot of great things

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for us and it's wonderful to see

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discovery back at the international

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space station

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i did delay coming over here for 15

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minutes so i could see that my crew come

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into space station because it was a

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personal thing i wanted to see them

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there and i also knew that you guys

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wanted to see that instead of me

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so i really did want to see that it's

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good to see our guys on board it's good

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to see the spaceship there and to see

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the whole stack up there is uh it's all

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thanks um

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transfer on the tv schedule and

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and then just one other question was uh

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following up again on the fly around i

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wonder if he could just

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uh tell us kind of what

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is left to be um

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decided to you know i know i know the

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approval is not expected till monday or

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tuesday but you know what what are the

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outstanding issues that have to be

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um

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that haven't yet been covered

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thank you

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okay for flight day four you're right

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it's mostly a transfer and prepare for

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the evas the next day we'll go into camp

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out in the evening of course they'll do

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a bunch of transfer operations during

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the day

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no real big ticket items at one point in

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the timeline that was the day we did the

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pm install but do the activity as an eva

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one we push the pima install to flight

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day six so

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no real

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single big-ticket items if you will but

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tomorrow is a big transfer day crew gets

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situated there in space station and be

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ready to go with the evas on flight day

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five for the fly about i call it the fly

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about to distinguish from fly around

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which is what the shuttle does after

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undock

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just to keep things straight in my mind

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when i speak with people

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uh what is left uh well when we launched

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i kind of unplugged for that

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conversation and left that to the

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mission management team i know that the

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and the other engineering teams working

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all the analysis going on i know that

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the

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station engineering team has to do on a

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regular basis for events like this is

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still in work and we knew that would

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take time

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it's just a partially iterative process

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but once they have a solution they like

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then they got to go do some more

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thorough analysis on that to make sure

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it's going all the solar array

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positioning and things like that are

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going to be satisfactory so we knew that

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part would take a while

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in fact it might not even be done by

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flight day six uh the reality is that

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may go a little bit longer and that's

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okay because

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our expectation with the mission

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management teams is that they would

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authorize assuming they get there when

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they have these discussions if they

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authorize the ops teams to go ahead and

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do this

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we will wait for that analysis of course

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and if it came back it's not good or

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that there was a problem that could veto

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the activity itself

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don't expect that folks are working on

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that but that is one reality of the

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timeline and the path we're on

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as far as other folks so the engineering

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the space station engineering folks are

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off looking at the things that they have

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to do for these type of events in

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particular with solar rays but in

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addition our russian partners are also

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off working on the 24s making sure

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they're comfortable with it doing this

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activity with the trajectory the crew is

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being asked to do

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and all the training and fly-about

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activities that they would have to do

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during the activity

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the

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early discussions obviously we laid out

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a plan

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here's how it would go happen and the

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russians have done that for us now teams

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on all sides are looking at it making

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sure it's a good plan and that

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there's nothing that we're missing in

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all that and that it's going to be safe

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to go do so that is all in work and

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again i think all those reports are

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going to feed back into the mission

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management teams over the next couple of

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days again i've asked that they provide

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us a response no later than flight day

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six so we have plenty of time to work it

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anything else james

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thank you very much

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okay thank you okay we're back here any

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wrap-ups from anybody

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okay uh we'll end with the usual couple

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of programming notes um

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crew heads to bed a little before 10 p.m

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central time we'll start our flight day

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3

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highlights obviously that'll focus on

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all of the footage that

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the crew has shot and what you saw of

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rendezvous and docking

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wake up sunday is 5 53 a.m central time

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and the crew will have its first

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in-flight interview with a number of

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news organizations

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tomorrow and there is a mission status

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briefing scheduled late tomorrow morning

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and then

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the mmt of course meets again at one

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o'clock and we will have a post mmt

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press conference tomorrow as well that

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currently is scheduled for 3 pm central

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so stay tuned for all of that we're

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operating off of revision c on the

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mission television schedule so be sure

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to check that out it changes frequently

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and you see that there on the bottom of

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your screen so check that out along with

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all of the other mission coverage out on

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www.nasa.gov