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thank you

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my slack

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um

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opie elementary did i pronounce that

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welcome

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i want to start off by uh

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saying a few words you know i had the

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privilege my soul thank

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the team you know we tried to launch

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discovery

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in november we found some cracks on the

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external tank

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and i can't say enough about the

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professional job that all of the

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engineers at nasa did

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determining what was the root cause of

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those cracks and coming up with a fix

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from launch to landing we landed a

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vehicle that had absolutely nothing

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wrong with it every single system and

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backup system was working perfectly and

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if you think about a vehicle that's 26

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27 years old that is just a remarkable

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achievement and it's a testimony to not

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only the people that maintain it and

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take care of it at kennedy space center

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so it's testimony to all of you who

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operate that vehicle and so

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your applause goes out to you for that

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because you guys made it happen so thank

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what's really unique about a space

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station mission is you go up there you

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take a shuttle team you take a space

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station team

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you put them together and you become one

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crew for about seven days and uh

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and when you become a team like that you

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can get a lot done and uh they were a

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pleasure to work with they enabled us

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they put up with us trash in their space

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station like having you know six

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relatives living in your house for two

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weeks it can't be very fun but they put

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up with us and uh we appreciate all of

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that and let me say one thing about the

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whole crew

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i don't think i don't think a crew could

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have executed a mission more perfectly

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than these folks right here um they were

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pretty much flawless throughout the

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flight in and

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to all you guys it was a privilege to

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serve with you and an honor to serve

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with you and i do it again in a