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weather channel this is houston please

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discovery this is the weather channel

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we hear you loud and clear welcome

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all right great thanks guys for joining

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joining us today

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um i guess tomorrow's the first of uh

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two historic space uh walks um how do

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our preparation begins years in advance

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uh when we first show up here for our

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candidate training uh we spend time in

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what's called a neutral buoyancy

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laboratory it's a giant pool

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uh with a one-to-one mock-up of the

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we use uh the same suits that we use for

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our spacewalks in the pool

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and it gives us the advantage of being

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able to work and where we're floating as

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if we're in zero gravity

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once we get a mission assigned we

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actually go over the choreography

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of what the different tasks will be and

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we'll run through those five or six

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let's just kind of on a normal day what

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well a normal day on the space station

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and on shuttle are very so we have a big

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that's going to hold the equipment on

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pmm which is a big container that we're

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of things that we do from the day to day

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each of our days is different but

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what do you hope to accomplish from this

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express logistics carrier which we did

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with spares for the external space

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station and deliver the permanent

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multi-purpose module that that eric just

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pressurized module that will be as badly

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addition we're doing some space walks

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to do some cleanup activities some more

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assembly work and a lot of robotics

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operations to support that so i would

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to uh is to outfit the station best we

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can here as we approach the end of the

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shuttle program get as much up mass as

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to them and situate the space station to

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to keep flying out to 2020.

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on board any special items kind of you

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manifested items which uh steve and eric

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the things like the the big modules and

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that kind of thing but we also have uh

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food items that we bring we've got uh

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that uh hopefully we'll enjoy on flight

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special foods from the ground and then

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is just an amazing place to be and it's

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the stuff that's around you here that i

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2009 and i loved it up here i didn't

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a lot of meaning it's a return and just

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getting back to this magnificent stack

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but as steve said that we're bringing

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the assembly of the station to a close

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we're delivering the last u.s module up

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less and this this mission kind of marks

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a turning point where from now on we're

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mostly using the station to get science

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to get a lot of engineering know-how to

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hopefully enable us to go further one

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all right thanks guys we're proud of you

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discovery iss this is houston acr that

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concludes the weather channel portion of

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the event please stand by for a voice

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discovery iss this is wbz radio how do

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we hear you loud and clear welcome

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aboard the international space station

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glad to be here i'd like to begin with a

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question for shuttle commander stephen

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lindsay it's now day four of your

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scheduled 12-day shuttle mission you've

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logistics module for doing more

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robonaut 2 is a uh is essentially it's

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motors but it's a uh

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bringing it up here is uh they're going

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to install it and they're going to start

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science with it and uh and then a lot of

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operations with it to determine in the

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thursday what were your thoughts his

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last flight of the discovery as well as

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the tremendous folks on the ground that

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have been helped out thousands and

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thousands of work workers have really

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her three times now and she's just great

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shelburne falls first katie i saw in one

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flute in space continuing to keep up

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camaraderie if you will aboard the space

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lonely until you got here and it's just

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scheduled outline what you are are your

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but the sun's setting so i couldn't see

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the ground but it was one of those

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events where they could see the space

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station passing overhead as i was

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outside so i waved down to my sister who

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i know was outside waving back up

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my last question is for shuttle

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commander stephen lindsey discovery is

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going to be housed at the smithsonian

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you have such extensive knowledge of the

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shuttle if you were going to play tour

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guide what would you most want to show

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that's a good question um

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i guess i guess what i would really want

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is i would want visitors to get a

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perspective of the shuttle like we have

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um

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the uh

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to me it's uh if you're gonna display

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one of these ideally what i like is i

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like an opportunity for people to be

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able to not only get up close and

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personal look around the outside of the

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vehicle but but maybe take a walk

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through the payload bay and see what's

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out in the payload bay where all the

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cargo that we carry because there's

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there's not a vehicle uh that's ever

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been able to lift as much as we can into

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low earth orbit and i don't think there

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will be for quite some time in the

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future um but i also like them to be

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able to get on board in the mid deck and

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the flight deck and experience what it's

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like to uh to fly the vehicle as well as

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what it's like to uh to live in the

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vehicle because we not only obviously

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fly it and take it up to space but we

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live in it uh for days on end um so i

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guess what i'd really like is though for

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the way to be displayed display in such

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a way and i'm not sure how to do this

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such that everybody can walk through and

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get a sense of what it was like to fly

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and what it's like to

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to live in this spacecraft in space

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well thank you all for your time we wish

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you a successful mission aboard

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thank you very much

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discovery iss this is houston acr that

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concludes the wbz radio portion of the

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event please stand by for a voice check

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discovery iss this is wsb-tv how do you

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we hear you loud and clear welcome

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aboard the international space station

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it is an honor to be here thank you very

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much it sounds like you all had a long

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first night on this mission i want to

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hear all about that in a minute but

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first i want to ask atlanta's hometown

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hero colonel eric bowe the pilot of the

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shuttle about that 360 degree backflip

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you performed with the shuttle before

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connecting to the space station how do

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you practice that and how did things

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well actually we were really commenting

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we practice it a lot of times in the

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simulator but when you see it in real

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life it looks a lot different the the

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the how big the space station is

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incredible we we come up to 600 feet

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below the space station and then we

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basically just pitch

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around 360 degrees and you get some

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really good views from the space shuttle

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you see it out the front windows out the

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back windows and up through the top

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windows and it's truly a sight to see

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and when you add in the effect that you

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have the earth going on on underneath

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you it's really amazing

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and how did things look under there

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yeah everything looks great and uh we're

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everything's looking great on our side

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as well and we're getting ready to put

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the pmm on here shortly so let's uh add

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that last piece on the u.s side and

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station

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quite a move there commander lindsey

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what happened last night what major

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milestones do you want to accomplish on

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oh um well we went a little late last

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night uh once we got uh docked and i

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think we talked pretty close to on time

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um

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we have we basically have to retract the

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docking ring which which brings the

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space station space shuttle together so

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we can form a pressure seal

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and uh it was a little misaligned which

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is fairly common so it took us a little

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bit longer than we expected to get fully

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docked and pressurized and gets the

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hatches open but the first activity we

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needed to do the big one was to install

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the express logistics carrier which is a

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a carrier that carries external payloads

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on the outside of the space station uh

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in in spares things like that so we had

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to install that robotically which

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required what's called a a double uh

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double walk off of arms where we used

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both the shuttle and the station arm to

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do it so it was a complex robotic

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scenario we had to go through we got a

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late start and as a result we got a late

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finish but

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we really wanted to get it done last

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night and so uh we all elected to stay

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up just a little bit late to get it done

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and i'm and i'm and i'm happy to say

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that was successful

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wonderful news you all look great

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considering that and uh colonel beau

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this is discovery's last flight so

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what's next for you along with all the

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other crew members and for the shuttle

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that's a great question you know there's

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there's uh

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you know for the future after the

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shuttle those things are being worked

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out right now decisions are being made

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on high for future vehicles we're

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looking at commercial vehicles to carry

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astronauts up to the space station

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obviously we'll continue coming up to

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the space station on board soyuz's as

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far as me personally that's one of the

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things yeah i would love to have the

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chance to fly on uh up to uh space

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station and get the chance to live up

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here

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like katie and scott for

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up to six months that would be a great

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opportunity but obviously there's a lot

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of other people who'd like to do that as

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well so have to see how those things

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work out you know it's one of the

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mysteries in life so an astronaut is how

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you get assigned a mission so if i'm

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lucky enough i'd like to do it again

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fantastic well with moves like that i'm

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sure you'll get your chance uh this last

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question to anybody who wants to chime

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in here but i remember the first shuttle

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flight back in 1981 my three daughters

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don't they have no idea do you think

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space travel is getting to be old news

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what's next for nasa after the shuttle

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well i think the objective that nasa set

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out back in 58

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was that that space travel shouldn't

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really be news after a while it should

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be part of our routine existence and so

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to think that we've had the space

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station continually inhabited for the

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last 10 years so there are fifth graders

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who've never known the space station not

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to be in space with astronauts on board

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i think is a major success a milestone

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for nasa

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so what i look forward to in the future

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is when space travel becomes routine uh

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just as back in the 1930s only

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daredevils and barnstormers took to the

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skies and now we have everybody flying

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around in airlines at some point and uh

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before these children become old uh we

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should have routine travel people above

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the planet here and above earth here and

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maybe traveling out to the moon uh for

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nasa i think the push out into the solar

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system is what's next for us to go to

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the moon

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go to mars the asteroid belt to go and

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explore to push out the frontiers which

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we've been doing since 1958

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commander lindsay i know i'm running out

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of time but tell us finally

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what you hope the shuttle will be

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remembered uh how it will be remembered

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i think it's uh the unique thing about

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the shuttle is its ability to uh to

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carry a large payloads and people into

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space and back it's been a workhorse for

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uh nearly 30 years i guess now and uh

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i think what it'll be remembered for the

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way i think about the shuttle when you

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really look at it and what we've done

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with it the the space shuttle can do

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everything except leave low earth orbit

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it can carry payloads and people into

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space we can do science with it we dock

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with space stations we turned it into

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orbiting laboratory laboratories we've

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done extensive robotics operations as

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well as spacewalks with it and so if you

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really look what the shuttle can do

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it can do everything you can think of

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pretty much in space and it lands on a

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runway and so i think the class of

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spacecraft will see in the future again

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someday i don't know when but i think

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it's going to be a long long time before

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we see a vehicle that can lift and do as

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many things as the shuttle can so i

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think it'll be remembered

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fondly as is a great success and

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a in a great design

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that will probably be repeated in the

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future

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commander colonel everybody on board

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thank you very much have a safe trip

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thank you enjoy talking to you

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discovery iss this is houston acr that

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concludes the wsb tv portion of the

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event please stand by for a voice check

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from wtvt tv

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discovery iss this is wtvt tv how do you

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we hear you loud and clear welcome

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aboard the international space station

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thank you so much for having us uh we

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really appreciate you taking out your

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time

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first of all what is it like knowing

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this is the very last mission for

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well discovery is a really historic

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vehicle a lot of ways it took its name

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from a lot of ships of exploration over

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many centuries and it comes with a

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pretty rich heritage and it's really

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lived up to that

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and when you think about when you retire

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a vehicle usually it's when it's old and

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dilapidated but discoveries at the top

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of her game

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she just performed magnificently getting

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us up here and that's pretty much what

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you need for space flight it's a it's

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where technology has to work it's

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cutting edge and discovery's still doing

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that so i think we're all going to be

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kind of sad to see it go

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but i think it

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needs to be replaced by something that

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can do more things different things and

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we're going to remember discovery and

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all the shuttle fleet i think is the

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most capable vehicles that have ever

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flown in space

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well tomorrow is uh the your mission's

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first big spacewalk and this is the

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question is from mission specialist

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steve bowen you were a late cover to

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this mission since timothy copper broke

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his leg before the mission did he give

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actually tim's been uh integral to my

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learning the space walks he's been out

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there at our nbl runs i've visited him

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several times talked to him on the phone

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trying to make sure i understand the

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procedures uh you know you come in late

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and tim and al had already choreographed

548
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these procedures were ready to run them

549
00:22:14,549 --> 00:22:12,880
months ago

550
00:22:16,310 --> 00:22:14,559
before the first delay

551
00:22:18,789 --> 00:22:16,320
so stepping in late

552
00:22:22,070 --> 00:22:18,799
i'm relying on their choreography

553
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and uh so i'm learning from them

554
00:22:25,110 --> 00:22:23,440
well this question is for mission

555
00:22:26,950 --> 00:22:25,120
specialist nicole stott we're very proud

556
00:22:28,870 --> 00:22:26,960
to have you with our hometown astronaut

557
00:22:33,909 --> 00:22:28,880
is your family keeping tabs on you and

558
00:22:37,750 --> 00:22:35,909
yeah of course they're keeping tabs on

559
00:22:39,350 --> 00:22:37,760
me and thanks for following the missions

560
00:22:41,590 --> 00:22:39,360
again um

561
00:22:44,390 --> 00:22:41,600
we have a number of ways to communicate

562
00:22:46,789 --> 00:22:44,400
from up here one is uh via email which

563
00:22:49,590 --> 00:22:46,799
we uh uplink and downlink several times

564
00:22:51,190 --> 00:22:49,600
a day so we use that but also uh now

565
00:22:52,470 --> 00:22:51,200
that we're here with the space station

566
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we have

567
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an ip phone basically a phone through

568
00:22:58,630 --> 00:22:56,159
the computer and the satellite system

569
00:23:00,470 --> 00:22:58,640
that we can use to call home and that's

570
00:23:03,029 --> 00:23:00,480
that's probably the best way along with

571
00:23:05,590 --> 00:23:03,039
uh the coverage from nasa tv but

572
00:23:07,430 --> 00:23:05,600
really uh really uh a good platform up

573
00:23:08,470 --> 00:23:07,440
here for uh staying in touch with your

574
00:23:10,070 --> 00:23:08,480
family

575
00:23:11,270 --> 00:23:10,080
well nicole do you think growing up in

576
00:23:12,950 --> 00:23:11,280
florida made you more interested in

577
00:23:18,950 --> 00:23:12,960
space since you were geographically so

578
00:23:23,190 --> 00:23:21,110
yeah i i think that it probably did it

579
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um it certainly uh puts it right out

580
00:23:26,870 --> 00:23:24,640
there for you you can't help but be

581
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excited about uh opportunities that you

582
00:23:30,789 --> 00:23:28,960
have right there for yourself to to see

583
00:23:33,430 --> 00:23:30,799
launches to know that the kennedy space

584
00:23:35,029 --> 00:23:33,440
center is over there and and i was very

585
00:23:37,909 --> 00:23:35,039
fortunate as well to have a father who

586
00:23:39,510 --> 00:23:37,919
was um very passionate about flying and

587
00:23:41,269 --> 00:23:39,520
got me interested in that which then

588
00:23:42,789 --> 00:23:41,279
kind of evolved into the space flight

589
00:23:43,990 --> 00:23:42,799
thing as well so

590
00:23:44,870 --> 00:23:44,000
i think being in florida definitely

591
00:23:46,070 --> 00:23:44,880
helped

592
00:23:47,269 --> 00:23:46,080
very nice is there anything you'd like

593
00:23:51,830 --> 00:23:47,279
to say to your family and friends in

594
00:23:55,430 --> 00:23:53,830
well i'd like to say uh thanks again to

595
00:23:57,269 --> 00:23:55,440
all of them all of you that i know are

596
00:23:58,789 --> 00:23:57,279
watching launch and that will continue

597
00:24:01,350 --> 00:23:58,799
to follow the mission until we're safely

598
00:24:02,789 --> 00:24:01,360
back there with you and um we look

599
00:24:05,590 --> 00:24:02,799
forward to seeing you in a couple weeks

600
00:24:07,510 --> 00:24:05,600
and keep an eye on nasa tv and um your

601
00:24:10,230 --> 00:24:07,520
new station as well for what's going on

602
00:24:11,430 --> 00:24:10,240
up here oh well thank you very much um

603
00:24:13,110 --> 00:24:11,440
we have a question for everybody what's

604
00:24:15,510 --> 00:24:13,120
it like staying at the international

605
00:24:17,669 --> 00:24:15,520
space station is it more like a motel 6

606
00:24:21,190 --> 00:24:17,679
or more like the ritz what's the heck up

607
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:25,430
ritz baby

608
00:24:28,950 --> 00:24:27,190
very nice and one more question do you

609
00:24:30,230 --> 00:24:28,960
uh do you guys have the ability to watch

610
00:24:31,590 --> 00:24:30,240
the oscars tonight or are you even

611
00:24:33,909 --> 00:24:31,600
interested will you be watching if you

612
00:24:35,190 --> 00:24:33,919
can or is it mostly just get updates or

613
00:24:39,510 --> 00:24:35,200
how do you guys get information like

614
00:24:43,590 --> 00:24:41,909
yeah we could actually watch it

615
00:24:45,269 --> 00:24:43,600
while we have the

616
00:24:47,669 --> 00:24:45,279
satellite coverage which is probably

617
00:24:49,269 --> 00:24:47,679
about 45 minutes an hour so if we if we

618
00:24:52,549 --> 00:24:49,279
chose to we could have the ground send

619
00:24:53,350 --> 00:24:52,559
it up over a computer software program

620
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and

621
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i really didn't wasn't aware that it was

622
00:24:58,470 --> 00:24:57,039
tonight but

623
00:25:00,390 --> 00:24:58,480
potentially

624
00:25:02,789 --> 00:25:00,400
we could we could watch it if we weren't

625
00:25:04,549 --> 00:25:02,799
uh working

626
00:25:05,909 --> 00:25:04,559
sure i'm sure it's not the

627
00:25:07,669 --> 00:25:05,919
most trusting thing on your mind right

628
00:25:08,870 --> 00:25:07,679
now but uh we thank you for your time we

629
00:25:10,310 --> 00:25:08,880
hope you guys have a successful mission

630
00:25:14,070 --> 00:25:10,320
thank you for taking the time out to be

631
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:20,070
very welcome

632
00:25:32,549 --> 00:25:23,269
discovery iss this is houston acr thank

633
00:25:36,630 --> 00:25:34,230
here we go

634
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and thanks to the weather channel wbz

635
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radio wsb tv and wtvt tv