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well we're going to make this very brief

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because the the crews anxious to get out

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of here and go meet the families and

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everything but want to thank everybody

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for coming out especially want to thank

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Steve in the crew for an absolutely

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incredible flight this is the if I if my

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numbers are correct it's the 39th flight

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on on discovery discovery has a very

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special place for me and for Bob Cabana

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over here because we both had an

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opportunity to fly on it twice and so

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this is very bittersweet for all of us I

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want want to thank all of you for

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continuing to support the space program

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the way you have and I'm just going to

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try it over to Steve and let Steve make

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wow it's great to be back I am so

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thankful that we got to land back here

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at Kennedy Space Center to the home of

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discovery Charlie mentioned 39 flights

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we believe if we did our math right

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which we may not have this is 365 days

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on orbit for discovery an entire year in

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space discovery launched and came back

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on this flight just like my previous two

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flights on discovery with absolutely no

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liens against your no single system with

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any problems whatsoever and if you think

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about a vehicle that's 26 27 years old

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been flying for that long to come back

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perfect I have never seen an airplane be

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able to do that but because of the

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Kennedy Space Center workforce here that

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takes care of this vehicle it came back

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as perfect on his final flight as it did

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on his first flight I'm extremely proud

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of this crew here my crew did a

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fantastic job the ground teams did a

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fantastic job we accomplished every

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objective we set out to do then and plus

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a whole bunch more but it was these

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folks on orbit that did it and I'm

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extremely proud of them and the job that

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they did as Charlie mentioned it's a

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pretty bittersweet moment for all of us

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it's as the minutes pass time getting

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actually getting sadder and sadder about

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this being the last fight and I know I

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know all the folks involved in shuttle

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we're going to feel the same way but to

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kind of end this i would like to thank

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Bob Cabana in the Kennedy Space Center

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for giving us just a fantastic vehicle

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to fly it was a privilege to to be able

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to be in charge of her for just a couple

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of weeks and I'm sad to give her back

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but I could imagine giving her back into

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better hands in this group right here