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good afternoon thank you for joining us

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for today's sts-134 crew news conference

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we'll begin with crew introductions and

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then take questions mark kelly a captain

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in the u.s navy will serve as a

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commander for this final mission of

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space shuttle endeavor mark was selected

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to join the astronaut corps in 1996 he

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has flown on three prior space shuttle

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missions sts-108 in 2001

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sts-121 in 2006 and sts-124 in 2008.

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we'll now turn it over to mark to

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introduce his crew all right well thank

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you for coming here today i'm going to

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introduce my crew in a second

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uh it's great to be here with them today

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uh they're very talented group and i'm

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happy to have them on this crew with me

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it's a bittersweet privilege to be

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taking endeavor

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on its last flight delivering the last

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major piece to the iss

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we'll talk more about that mission and

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the payloads shortly but i want to first

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say a couple words about the recovery of

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my wife congresswoman gabrielle giffords

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as her doctors described in her last

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press conference on march 11 she's doing

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remarkably well

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she's improving every day

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and in the realm of brain injuries that

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is very significant and pretty rare

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she's starting to walk

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talk

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more more every day and she's starting

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to process some of the tragedy

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that

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we all went through in january she's

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going through that

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as we speak

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despite that she remains in a very good

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mood

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she spends most of her day in therapy

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enjoys brief visits from friends and

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colleagues

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she was really happy to see my brother

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last week

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after he returned from space

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she gets staff briefings from her staff

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when they're in town on what's going on

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with her office in the district and

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what's going on in congress

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i see her every morning before i go to

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work and when i come home from work at

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the end of at the end of my day

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i've said uh on a few occasions that i'd

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like her to attend the launch

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she wants to attend she's been looking

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forward to this for a long time as

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nasa's

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congress you know she was really looking

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forward to having the opportunity to be

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there and i think there's a pretty good

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chance that's going to happen

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we still don't know for sure and i'm

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just awaiting

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today i'd like to talk about sts-134

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it's an important mission

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we've been training for this flight for

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over 18 months

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i know you guys have a lot of questions

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about it i'd like

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you to respect the fact that this is

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about sts-134

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and it's not about my wife's recovery

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i'll be happy to take those questions

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about my anything in my personal life

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i'll be happy to talk about that but

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that's at a later time and we could

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coordinate that through

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through gabrielle's office

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before i continue i want to tell you a

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little bit about my crew

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sitting to my left

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is greg johnson

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greg strapped me in for my first flight

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sts-108 a long time ago he's a retired

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colonel in the u.s air force he's our

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pilot he was a pilot on sts-123

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he's a graduate of the u.s air force

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academy columbia university and the

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university of texas

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in the air force he was an f-15e strike

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eagle pilot he flew in operation desert

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storm and southern watch

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um i probably passed him in the middle

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of the night over iraq a long time ago

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he's also an air force test pilot

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to greg's left is mike fink

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mike is a colonel in the u.s air force

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he's a graduate of both mit and stanford

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he flew on expedition 9 and was the

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commander of expedition 18. he's done

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six russian spacewalks

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he's uh one of our three spacewalkers

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for this mission

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uh on flight day 12 of our flight mike

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is going to surpass peggy whitson as

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being the american with the most time

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it'll be somewhere north of uh 380 days

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and that's going to happen on flight day

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next to mike is roberto vittori he's a

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colonel in the italian air force he's an

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isa astronaut but he's on a mission for

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the italian space agency he's a graduate

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of the italian air force academy

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uh the university of naples and the

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university of perugia

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he's also a graduate of the us naval

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test pilot school and i first met

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roberto when we were both test pilots in

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patuxent river maryland

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roberto's flown uh two flights on the

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soyuz up to the space station so this

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will be his first flight on the space

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uh next to mike is drew feustel uh

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drew was our lead space walker for this

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he flew on

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sts-125 doing multiple spacewalks for

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the last repair of the hubble space

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drew is a graduate of purdue university

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and also of queens university in ontario

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and has a phd in geology

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he worked for exxon exxon mobil as a

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ms4 next to drew is greg chamitoff

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greg and i flew together in sts-124

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where i closed the hatch on him and

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nobody showed up for six months

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so he's flown

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a six-month mission to the iss he's a

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graduate of both caltech and mit

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has a phd in aeronautics and

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astronautics

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and i'm looking forward to getting the

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opportunity to fly with greg

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again he'll be doing a couple space

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walks as well on this mission

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sts-134 we're bringing up the alpha

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pretty sophisticated payload

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it's been in development for 16 years

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it's going to look for any matter dark

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it's a collaboration from 16 different

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countries with 600 scientists so we're

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what this means for science aboard the

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iss and and for you know real science on

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of critical spare parts uh called elc3

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it's got um a bunch of components that

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can be used on the outside of the space

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station if we have future failures so it

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puts us in a good position for life on

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sts-134 will be the final

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so it's going to be the final time that

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doing four of those it's also the 25th

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that we're looking forward to using for

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so now i'd like to open it up to uh

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questions i'm going to turn it back over

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to nicole for that thank you mark as a

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reminder this briefing is to focus on

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the 134 mission as we have a limited

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time with the crew you'll be limited to

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one question each and please keep them

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focused on the mission we will start

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with questions here at the johnson space

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center and if time permits we'll take

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headquarters and we'll start at this

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bill horowitz cbs for the commander uh

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the last time we saw you was on february

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how the training is gone after taking a

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bit of a layoff and i need to ask one

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second question which is kind of a

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follow-up from your introductory marks

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you were saying that you'd be happy to

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chat later down the road but to go

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through the representative's office is

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that is that the way that works as

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opposed to going through nasa to arrange

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interviews yeah i think for something

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that's regard to my personal life which

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i think most people want to focus

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on on my wife in that case i think it's

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appropriate to probably go through her

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office because it concerns her

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wasn't really you know jammed up in any

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way it's been a reasonable

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training flow we've completed everything

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all right thank you over here mark this

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is for you greg dobbs with net

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television

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since there was a time when

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endeavour was going to go up while your

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brother was on the crew on station can

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you now reveal what pranks what tricks

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the two of you as identical twins were

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going to play on everybody else that's a

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that's a good question you know we

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we've been asked to do this switch

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places thing since we were in

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kindergarten and we've always resisted

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it so we actually did have something set

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up where when we were closing the hatch

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and this would upset mcc i think a

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little bit unless they were on to us but

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my plan was to change shirts shaved my

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mustache he had a fake one

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i'd get back into the orbiter they think

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they they you know somebody would have

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thought that was him and i was on the on

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the iss so that was the plan

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all right over here uh gina cinceri abc

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news i'm going to throw this one to mike

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fink we got a very thorough briefing

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about alpha magnetic spectrometer i'm

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looking for a civilian definition if

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you're willing to give that to me

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universe as we know it we a few years

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trying to trying to get uh a little bit

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better acquainted and uh with the

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universe and maybe you know nail down a

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few parameters uh the hubble space

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telescope help us understand the age of

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the universe but it also opened up a new

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pandora's box it turns out that 85

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percent of the universe we don't

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understand we don't understand why

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galaxies just don't fly apart and now

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you know we're all the physicists are

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really scratching their heads and we

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have the really great opportunity and dr

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ting foresaw this and has worked along

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with his team for a long long time and

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you know making an international

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coalition to go out and find out what's

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really happening out there and we're the

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delivery guys we're going to take really

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good care of that 1 billion dollar

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plus

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maybe billion euros kind of a really

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precious

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commodity this alpha magnetic

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spectrometer and it's going to look out

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there it's just going to be facing out

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into the heavens and seeing what it can

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see some of the world's most advanced uh

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particle detectors the ones that they

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developed at cern there they were made

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space flight ready by a a great team and

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we're just looking forward to seeing

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what it what it shows what the future

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holds what our universe is really about

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thank you over here marcia done

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associated press for the commander

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have you found it more difficult than

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you might have envisioned to focus on

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your mission this close to flight when

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you're

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trying best as you can to split your

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time between

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work and and your family

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i'm not splitting my time so i'm here

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during the day or whenever you know i'm

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scheduled for training but uh no it's

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not not difficult to focus i've

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been through this you know it's my

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fourth flight so i'm spending as much

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time as i would

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focused on the mission

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as if this never even happened to to my

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shanleyan from nbc news on that same

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note you've described being by your

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wife's side every day during her

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recovery so during this mission how will

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it be for you to be apart from her for

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this period of time

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it's always difficult you know from

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being i mean i think i speak for all of

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us that it's difficult to be away from

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home and away from your spouses but

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there are people in the military that

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you know deploy for

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long much longer periods of time and

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expedition crew members like

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like mike

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and greg who have spent you know mike

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has spent over a year in space in greg

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six months so unique situation it is

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okay next

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hi clara moskowitz with space.com and

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for the commander um can you talk about

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the legacy of endeavor

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during its last mission as compared to

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the other orbiters

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well

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you know i

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who else has flown on endeavor here

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boxes flown on endeavor

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taz has flown so three three out of six

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of us have flown on endeavor so it's you

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know it's pretty close to to you know my

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heart as it's the first space shuttle i

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flew on

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in 2001 so

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i'm glad it's

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you know the the one i'm going to fly in

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last it's the baby of the fleet

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it's uh coming up on 19 years in service

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the 25th flight

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25 is a good round number to end on

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hi mike cronin from the daily this is

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for uh commander and mike fink uh how

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does it feel to

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be the commander of the mission where

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one of your crew members will set the

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american record

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for

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that mean to you to be able to do this

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with this group of people

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well for me it's great to to do this

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with mike we're classmates

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astronaut classmates you know coming

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here in 1996 so i'm happy to be on the

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flight that he becomes the u.s record

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holder mike

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yeah it was funny because uh i

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anticipated this question a little bit

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but i hadn't really thought about it too

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much i was thinking more of you know my

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friends here this first time that drew's

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gonna see the space station after he

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went up on a hubble space mission and uh

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and uh greg shamatoff 201st guy to do a

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spacewalk and and roberto here i mean

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he's been on the space station but this

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is our first shuttle flight even though

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we both flew twice on soyuz and uh my my

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great test pilot friend here box and and

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uh all the great things that he brings

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to our team and so that's really what

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i've i've thought about more than uh

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time because you know this record it's

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going to go away and the russians they

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have uh you know sergey kriekov 803 days

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in space so 380 is not uh it's not even

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halfway there yet

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i want to say that it's good that people

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brought this up because now we can think

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of some way to commemorate it

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you know actually though spanky uh will

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have spent more time in space than

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endeavour did in her entire career so

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more than the rest of us put together

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all right next question eric yeah eric

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berger with the houston chronicle not

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sure which of the

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i know there's four of you that are

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dealing with the ams uh sort of

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installation i think on flight day four

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one of you maybe could talk about

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the challenge of moving this two billion

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dollar instrument that has all these

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detectors in it is fragile and it's been

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17 years in the making and ensuring you

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get it what is sort of the trickiest

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part of that and sort of is it with

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trepidation that you approach that that

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task box

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we uh practiced the maneuver yesterday

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actually

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two guys in the shuttle will

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unbirth ams

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and then bring it to a kind of

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intermediate handoff position at which

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time two of us uh

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operating the station arm will grab it

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and install it on the on the space

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station

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um it's gonna be a very slow maneuver

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it's a very carefully uh choreographed

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maneuver

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all four of us are working all of it

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so

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when

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roberto

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uh is he's he's at the helm uh bringing

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it out of the shuttle's payload bay

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and

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we'll be using our station cameras to

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help him out to do that task and then

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likewise when taz and i are working on

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the space station arms side uh we'll be

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using their cameras to to make it work

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there's a series of of checkpoints along

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the way

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where we're keeping each other safe and

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backing each other up and then once

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it's up on top of the truss

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we'll attach it and

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turn it

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go on phillip sloss with

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nasaspaceflight.com

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i had a question about the

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the storm rendezvous after undock and

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and kind of your roles uh during that

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and sort of compare and contrast the

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rendezvous that you're going to be doing

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on flight day three

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with the rendezvous that you're going to

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be doing on on

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post on dock is are do your roles change

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i mean i know

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uh

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greg you're going to be or box you're

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going to be flying the the the fly

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around but do you sort of switch roles

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after you back after you do your step

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two burn and then do the re-rendezvous

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well let me let me just say our roles

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for the rendezvous part don't change but

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for the storm stuff i want to let drew

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answer that question because he's

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responsible for that payload so we can

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you know the way storm is working is uh

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the system is has never really been

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calibrated for what its job is which is

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to do this approach the space station so

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initially on the on the first rendezvous

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the sensors will be on i'll be

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monitoring the software that is uh is

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running the device and uh the uh the

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ground team will use that information on

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the initial rendezvous to help calibrate

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the sensors for um the fly you know the

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fly around uh on the when we depart and

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when we when we do the re-rendezvous so

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our rolls are identical as mark pointed

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out for the rendezvous and for the fly

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around and rerun if we all maintain the

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same roles um the whole flight crew is

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really involved in um in the in the

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re-rendezvous

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if if we're not actually working sensors

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or uh um you know actually flying the

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rendezvous someone's taking pictures so

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you know and all of that is part of the

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um the way we're gonna do this uh but

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essentially um the storm software is

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running itself i do some initialization

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uh of the of the

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of the code

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to make sure that it's operating

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properly and everybody's been trained to

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some level on how to monitor what the

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feedback is on the

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on the computer screen to know if the

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the system's failing but it's

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essentially my job to to really watch

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what's happening with the software and

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and help the ground understand if they

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don't have the insight that they expect

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uh to be able to respond and make sure

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that the hardware works on the way back

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in so that ultimately when it's used as

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a rendezvous device or on a newer

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vehicle the system will be fully

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calibrated and they'd have a good

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understanding of how well it's going to

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hi robert perlman with collectspace.com

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about a week before your you take off

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nasa administrator

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charlie bolden is going to announce

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where endeavour and the other orbiters

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are going to go for their retirement um

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i wonder if if each or any of you have

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strong feelings of where it should go

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where endeavour should go

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and

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in a general sense when they do install

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endeavor in a museum after your flight

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how do you want your mission to be

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described on the placard that will

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how about greg down at the end you want

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to take that one yeah i got the hard

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question wait for me for the hard

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question uh you know endeavors kind of a

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special meaning to me because as

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mark mentioned when he dropped me off

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and closed the hatch

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six months later

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endeavour pulled into formation with the

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space station below while mike and i

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were taking pictures of it out the

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window and that has to be one of the

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most most emotional moments for me and

555
00:19:51,270 --> 00:19:49,679
the whole mission was seeing this

556
00:19:52,870 --> 00:19:51,280
amazing spaceship come up and pull up to

557
00:19:54,549 --> 00:19:52,880
the space station that i knew was going

558
00:19:55,430 --> 00:19:54,559
to be my ride home and

559
00:19:56,230 --> 00:19:55,440
and

560
00:19:58,070 --> 00:19:56,240
you know

561
00:20:00,549 --> 00:19:58,080
get to go back home to my family after

562
00:20:02,470 --> 00:20:00,559
after amazing time up there

563
00:20:03,669 --> 00:20:02,480
endeavor was the first

564
00:20:05,750 --> 00:20:03,679
shuttle that brought a piece of the

565
00:20:08,070 --> 00:20:05,760
space station you know to space uh

566
00:20:09,590 --> 00:20:08,080
connected node one to fgb and now it's

567
00:20:11,430 --> 00:20:09,600
gonna be there for the very last

568
00:20:13,830 --> 00:20:11,440
external major hardware that we bring up

569
00:20:15,830 --> 00:20:13,840
so in a sense it's bookending the entire

570
00:20:18,149 --> 00:20:15,840
construction of the space station

571
00:20:19,909 --> 00:20:18,159
and uh you know that that's a legacy for

572
00:20:21,590 --> 00:20:19,919
the whole space shuttle program not just

573
00:20:24,470 --> 00:20:21,600
for endeavor but i think that's you know

574
00:20:27,350 --> 00:20:24,480
that's the legacy that it leaves behind

575
00:20:31,590 --> 00:20:29,909
jill tulk with bay area houston magazine

576
00:20:34,070 --> 00:20:31,600
question for drew

577
00:20:35,590 --> 00:20:34,080
this is your first flight to station

578
00:20:37,350 --> 00:20:35,600
although of course not your first flight

579
00:20:39,430 --> 00:20:37,360
on shuttle what's been the most

580
00:20:42,070 --> 00:20:39,440
challenging part and the most rewarding

581
00:20:44,390 --> 00:20:42,080
part to wrap your mind around training

582
00:20:45,750 --> 00:20:44,400
for station as opposed to go seeing a

583
00:20:48,149 --> 00:20:45,760
telescope instead

584
00:20:49,750 --> 00:20:48,159
um well the most challenging part is uh

585
00:20:50,710 --> 00:20:49,760
trying not to get lost on the space

586
00:20:52,390 --> 00:20:50,720
station

587
00:20:54,549 --> 00:20:52,400
uh it's quite a bit bigger than hubble

588
00:20:56,070 --> 00:20:54,559
hubble was relatively easy in that sense

589
00:20:58,070 --> 00:20:56,080
because it was sort of like having uh

590
00:21:00,310 --> 00:20:58,080
some hardware in the trunk of your car

591
00:21:02,549 --> 00:21:00,320
uh space station is uh there's quite a

592
00:21:04,710 --> 00:21:02,559
bit more room to roam out there and and

593
00:21:06,630 --> 00:21:04,720
it is easy to get disoriented because

594
00:21:09,350 --> 00:21:06,640
things look very similar when your face

595
00:21:11,590 --> 00:21:09,360
is up against the truss

596
00:21:13,590 --> 00:21:11,600
but it's it's exciting for me i can't

597
00:21:15,190 --> 00:21:13,600
wait to see it

598
00:21:16,549 --> 00:21:15,200
it will be able to cover a lot more

599
00:21:19,669 --> 00:21:16,559
distance

600
00:21:22,070 --> 00:21:19,679
not as much you know fine motor skills

601
00:21:23,909 --> 00:21:22,080
required i think for us some of the work

602
00:21:25,909 --> 00:21:23,919
that we did on hubble but certainly some

603
00:21:28,789 --> 00:21:25,919
important work that's required for the

604
00:21:30,789 --> 00:21:28,799
space station to give it you know that

605
00:21:33,430 --> 00:21:30,799
long life that we need to keep it in

606
00:21:35,430 --> 00:21:33,440
service and um i'm just really excited

607
00:21:37,510 --> 00:21:35,440
to be able to go outside with uh with

608
00:21:39,190 --> 00:21:37,520
greg and mike and and share some great

609
00:21:40,870 --> 00:21:39,200
experiences and get some amazing views

610
00:21:42,710 --> 00:21:40,880
of the planet and the space station

611
00:21:45,270 --> 00:21:42,720
itself and we hope to be able to take

612
00:21:46,310 --> 00:21:45,280
some some spectacular photos while we're

613
00:21:49,430 --> 00:21:46,320
out there

614
00:21:50,390 --> 00:21:49,440
to sort of commemorate you know the last

615
00:21:52,390 --> 00:21:50,400
the last

616
00:21:55,830 --> 00:21:52,400
shuttle-based evas from the station and

617
00:21:57,590 --> 00:21:55,840
get a great view of of the space station

618
00:21:59,270 --> 00:21:57,600
at its completion

619
00:22:01,590 --> 00:21:59,280
and those pictures are unique that you

620
00:22:02,710 --> 00:22:01,600
really can only get as an eva crew

621
00:22:04,230 --> 00:22:02,720
member when you're out on the end of the

622
00:22:05,909 --> 00:22:04,240
trust so

623
00:22:07,750 --> 00:22:05,919
it's been exciting and fun and we're

624
00:22:10,070 --> 00:22:07,760
looking forward to it

625
00:22:11,510 --> 00:22:10,080
and keen with harvard journalism five of

626
00:22:13,590 --> 00:22:11,520
you are fathers

627
00:22:15,190 --> 00:22:13,600
this is the last shuttle missions

628
00:22:17,350 --> 00:22:15,200
currently scheduled for an academic

629
00:22:19,350 --> 00:22:17,360
school year if you could address school

630
00:22:21,510 --> 00:22:19,360
children what fascinates you most about

631
00:22:23,510 --> 00:22:21,520
and sucks you most about this mission

632
00:22:25,669 --> 00:22:23,520
and what do you see for young people as

633
00:22:27,510 --> 00:22:25,679
their legacy what do you envision for

634
00:22:29,190 --> 00:22:27,520
them as the next generation of space

635
00:22:30,470 --> 00:22:29,200
explorers

636
00:22:31,830 --> 00:22:30,480
roberto

637
00:22:33,750 --> 00:22:31,840
can you take that

638
00:22:38,950 --> 00:22:33,760
yeah mark you didn't say that i can only

639
00:22:45,270 --> 00:22:41,830
or bing bing is i can enlarge it to

640
00:22:50,870 --> 00:22:48,789
well this is uh the last shuttle flight

641
00:22:52,710 --> 00:22:50,880
last flight for endeavor but it's my

642
00:22:53,590 --> 00:22:52,720
first shuttle flight i'm very excited

643
00:22:55,270 --> 00:22:53,600
about

644
00:22:55,990 --> 00:22:55,280
i have three children

645
00:22:58,390 --> 00:22:56,000
and

646
00:23:01,350 --> 00:22:58,400
i share with them my excitement

647
00:23:04,470 --> 00:23:01,360
for a mission that despite it is

648
00:23:07,190 --> 00:23:04,480
presented as the last one in my eyes is

649
00:23:09,909 --> 00:23:07,200
one of the milestones for transportation

650
00:23:12,310 --> 00:23:09,919
or future generation the shuttle for me

651
00:23:14,789 --> 00:23:12,320
is nothing else than the

652
00:23:17,190 --> 00:23:14,799
the father of anything that will fly in

653
00:23:19,510 --> 00:23:17,200
the future at hypersonic speed and will

654
00:23:22,149 --> 00:23:19,520
make our world much smaller

655
00:23:24,470 --> 00:23:22,159
so i look with excitement to this

656
00:23:26,789 --> 00:23:24,480
mission and i try to share my excitement

657
00:23:30,470 --> 00:23:26,799
to my kids and any other

658
00:23:33,029 --> 00:23:30,480
child i have opportunity to talk to

659
00:23:35,350 --> 00:23:33,039
irene klotz with reuters um mark thanks

660
00:23:37,590 --> 00:23:35,360
for the update about your wife i think

661
00:23:38,950 --> 00:23:37,600
she's been on a lot of people's minds

662
00:23:40,630 --> 00:23:38,960
and um

663
00:23:42,630 --> 00:23:40,640
forget this question but i guess i'm

664
00:23:44,310 --> 00:23:42,640
just curious why you had um a

665
00:23:47,029 --> 00:23:44,320
last-minute change of heart and uh

666
00:23:50,710 --> 00:23:47,039
canceled your round-robin interviews

667
00:23:52,470 --> 00:23:50,720
um well i expected to get that question

668
00:23:55,669 --> 00:23:52,480
because i mean the main reason is

669
00:23:57,510 --> 00:23:55,679
because i anticipated that

670
00:23:58,630 --> 00:23:57,520
i would likely get a lot of questions

671
00:24:00,390 --> 00:23:58,640
about her

672
00:24:02,470 --> 00:24:00,400
which i wanted to address just in a

673
00:24:04,950 --> 00:24:02,480
statement and i feel that you know

674
00:24:06,549 --> 00:24:04,960
pretty much anything about the mission i

675
00:24:08,950 --> 00:24:06,559
can you know i can

676
00:24:11,190 --> 00:24:08,960
we can cover right here so that's that's

677
00:24:13,669 --> 00:24:11,200
basically the reason

678
00:24:15,830 --> 00:24:13,679
all right uh genius and sarah abc news

679
00:24:17,590 --> 00:24:15,840
with question for greg

680
00:24:19,909 --> 00:24:17,600
the commander on drew's mission told me

681
00:24:20,950 --> 00:24:19,919
that the pilot's doing all the work on

682
00:24:22,310 --> 00:24:20,960
launch

683
00:24:27,990 --> 00:24:22,320
can you tell me what the commander

684
00:24:33,110 --> 00:24:30,789
the first commander that i flew with dom

685
00:24:35,350 --> 00:24:33,120
gory also happened to be

686
00:24:37,430 --> 00:24:35,360
mark's first commander

687
00:24:39,029 --> 00:24:37,440
and we used to joke with dom we used to

688
00:24:41,669 --> 00:24:39,039
call him gator

689
00:24:44,390 --> 00:24:41,679
because all he did was float around and

690
00:24:48,470 --> 00:24:45,110
but

691
00:24:50,710 --> 00:24:48,480
no the commander's job uh is a very

692
00:24:54,390 --> 00:24:50,720
complicated job especially for this

693
00:24:55,830 --> 00:24:54,400
flight uh we have a group that is come

694
00:24:57,430 --> 00:24:55,840
from a lot of different backgrounds a

695
00:25:00,230 --> 00:24:57,440
lot of experience

696
00:25:03,029 --> 00:25:00,240
and when you get uh various uh

697
00:25:04,950 --> 00:25:03,039
experience from different sources

698
00:25:07,269 --> 00:25:04,960
it's it's hard to

699
00:25:08,149 --> 00:25:07,279
build that team together to to do

700
00:25:09,990 --> 00:25:08,159
something

701
00:25:11,909 --> 00:25:10,000
uh without a lot of

702
00:25:12,870 --> 00:25:11,919
you know dissension from the ranks and

703
00:25:14,549 --> 00:25:12,880
so

704
00:25:15,830 --> 00:25:14,559
i think mark's done a great job doing

705
00:25:17,190 --> 00:25:15,840
that you know we've had a little extra

706
00:25:19,110 --> 00:25:17,200
time to build this team but we have a

707
00:25:21,830 --> 00:25:19,120
very very strong team and so the

708
00:25:23,350 --> 00:25:21,840
commander sets the tone for the mission

709
00:25:25,830 --> 00:25:23,360
and ultimately the commander is

710
00:25:28,310 --> 00:25:25,840
responsible for everything that happens

711
00:25:30,390 --> 00:25:28,320
on the mission now as a pilot yeah i

712
00:25:32,310 --> 00:25:30,400
have a lot of fun things to do i want to

713
00:25:33,750 --> 00:25:32,320
make sure that everybody gets fed that

714
00:25:35,269 --> 00:25:33,760
all the uh

715
00:25:38,149 --> 00:25:35,279
the trash is taken care of that the

716
00:25:41,110 --> 00:25:38,159
toilet operates perfectly and then for

717
00:25:43,909 --> 00:25:41,120
ascen and entry and rendezvous i'll be

718
00:25:45,029 --> 00:25:43,919
backing up mark along the way so um you

719
00:25:46,789 --> 00:25:45,039
know it's a team effort but the

720
00:25:48,390 --> 00:25:46,799
commander kind of keeps things going in

721
00:25:50,950 --> 00:25:48,400
the proper direction and that's really

722
00:25:51,909 --> 00:25:50,960
my view as mark's role

723
00:25:53,590 --> 00:25:51,919
okay

724
00:25:54,870 --> 00:25:53,600
max hoffman with german broadcaster

725
00:25:56,630 --> 00:25:54,880
deutsche welle this is a question for

726
00:25:57,990 --> 00:25:56,640
the commander you've been up there a

727
00:25:59,669 --> 00:25:58,000
couple of times on a shuttle how do you

728
00:26:01,909 --> 00:25:59,679
feel about this being definitely the

729
00:26:03,990 --> 00:26:01,919
last time up there on a shuttle

730
00:26:07,190 --> 00:26:04,000
um so yeah this is my

731
00:26:08,710 --> 00:26:07,200
fourth um flight to isf on the space

732
00:26:10,870 --> 00:26:08,720
shuttle it's kind of sad to see the

733
00:26:12,630 --> 00:26:10,880
space shuttle retired it's been an

734
00:26:15,029 --> 00:26:12,640
incredible

735
00:26:17,909 --> 00:26:15,039
success over a long period of time and

736
00:26:19,029 --> 00:26:17,919
it's it brings a capability that's

737
00:26:20,950 --> 00:26:19,039
you know that certainly we're not going

738
00:26:23,430 --> 00:26:20,960
to replace with the next vehicle so it's

739
00:26:25,590 --> 00:26:23,440
it's sad to see it see it go i think

740
00:26:27,510 --> 00:26:25,600
it's probably the right time to to

741
00:26:29,430 --> 00:26:27,520
retire the shuttle and move on to

742
00:26:31,909 --> 00:26:29,440
something else so we can get

743
00:26:33,750 --> 00:26:31,919
at a low earth orbit and start to

744
00:26:34,870 --> 00:26:33,760
explore the solar system again so even

745
00:26:36,950 --> 00:26:34,880
though it's

746
00:26:39,110 --> 00:26:36,960
it's kind of sad it's exciting to do

747
00:26:41,430 --> 00:26:39,120
something new

748
00:26:43,750 --> 00:26:41,440
hi elizabeth saab with the daily um

749
00:26:45,669 --> 00:26:43,760
commander kelly on your previous flights

750
00:26:47,510 --> 00:26:45,679
you've had the song a beautiful day to

751
00:26:49,430 --> 00:26:47,520
wake up to in the morning do you guys

752
00:26:51,430 --> 00:26:49,440
have a song that you're gonna take up

753
00:26:53,990 --> 00:26:51,440
there with you to wake yourselves up in

754
00:26:58,390 --> 00:26:55,990
hey drew um you know true why don't you

755
00:27:00,870 --> 00:26:58,400
take that minor surprise

756
00:27:04,070 --> 00:27:00,880
i don't want to talk about wake up songs

757
00:27:06,149 --> 00:27:04,080
but uh can i answer that right now

758
00:27:07,990 --> 00:27:06,159
we do we do all have uh we do all have

759
00:27:10,070 --> 00:27:08,000
uh some wake up songs some of us have

760
00:27:12,310 --> 00:27:10,080
surprise wake up songs if you know what

761
00:27:14,149 --> 00:27:12,320
mine is don't tell me um

762
00:27:17,350 --> 00:27:14,159
but everybody has selected a few songs

763
00:27:19,350 --> 00:27:17,360
and we also have um so winners of a

764
00:27:21,190 --> 00:27:19,360
contest right that were selected the

765
00:27:23,110 --> 00:27:21,200
people original composers that wrote

766
00:27:25,669 --> 00:27:23,120
songs for the space

767
00:27:28,230 --> 00:27:25,679
as wake up music and i believe two of

768
00:27:29,909 --> 00:27:28,240
those songs am i right mark nicole will

769
00:27:30,710 --> 00:27:29,919
be played on our mission

770
00:27:32,310 --> 00:27:30,720
and

771
00:27:34,470 --> 00:27:32,320
about in the last two days so we all

772
00:27:36,070 --> 00:27:34,480
have music that we have either selected

773
00:27:39,269 --> 00:27:36,080
or had selected for us and then there's

774
00:27:41,909 --> 00:27:39,279
the additional the additional songs

775
00:27:43,669 --> 00:27:41,919
uh jim oberg over here in nbc

776
00:27:45,350 --> 00:27:43,679
you have other responsibilities too of

777
00:27:47,510 --> 00:27:45,360
course besides all these records

778
00:27:49,430 --> 00:27:47,520
record-breaking flights and last flights

779
00:27:51,669 --> 00:27:49,440
and one of them is as the point of of

780
00:27:53,029 --> 00:27:51,679
the spear of a much bigger team

781
00:27:54,870 --> 00:27:53,039
people you're working with are facing

782
00:27:56,630 --> 00:27:54,880
some other tensions of their own how

783
00:27:58,549 --> 00:27:56,640
have you in terms of of of the near

784
00:28:00,070 --> 00:27:58,559
future of their careers how have you

785
00:28:02,389 --> 00:28:00,080
been working with with your people who

786
00:28:04,470 --> 00:28:02,399
support you to encourage them and help

787
00:28:06,870 --> 00:28:04,480
them keep their their heads in the game

788
00:28:10,149 --> 00:28:08,070
well a

789
00:28:12,389 --> 00:28:10,159
uh training for a shuttle mission is

790
00:28:14,630 --> 00:28:12,399
very uh very planned out over a long

791
00:28:17,190 --> 00:28:14,640
period of time so there's uh you know

792
00:28:19,269 --> 00:28:17,200
there's stuff that uh that we do to try

793
00:28:20,950 --> 00:28:19,279
to support our team you know we have

794
00:28:23,590 --> 00:28:20,960
social events with them

795
00:28:25,110 --> 00:28:23,600
um we take trips to florida on occasion

796
00:28:26,549 --> 00:28:25,120
to support the

797
00:28:28,389 --> 00:28:26,559
the great group of folks there that

798
00:28:30,470 --> 00:28:28,399
processes the vehicle get gets it ready

799
00:28:32,789 --> 00:28:30,480
for launch we've got a large team of

800
00:28:34,389 --> 00:28:32,799
people in mission control and as you

801
00:28:35,750 --> 00:28:34,399
said jim you know some of those folks

802
00:28:37,990 --> 00:28:35,760
are going to be they're going to be out

803
00:28:40,230 --> 00:28:38,000
of work here shortly um

804
00:28:42,830 --> 00:28:40,240
they're all professionals i mean we're

805
00:28:45,510 --> 00:28:42,840
certainly very sympathetic and

806
00:28:47,110 --> 00:28:45,520
um we talked to those folks every day

807
00:28:48,950 --> 00:28:47,120
you had a conversation with lisa

808
00:28:50,630 --> 00:28:48,960
martinetti two days ago who's worked

809
00:28:51,590 --> 00:28:50,640
here for

810
00:28:53,750 --> 00:28:51,600
um

811
00:28:55,990 --> 00:28:53,760
i think more than 19 years

812
00:28:59,029 --> 00:28:56,000
and you know she's dedicated her life to

813
00:29:01,909 --> 00:28:59,039
to to space flight and she's got a very

814
00:29:03,750 --> 00:29:01,919
positive outlook on it as as

815
00:29:06,070 --> 00:29:03,760
as do other people and there'll be

816
00:29:06,950 --> 00:29:06,080
opportunities out there the workforce

817
00:29:09,750 --> 00:29:06,960
here

818
00:29:11,269 --> 00:29:09,760
is a incredibly talented group of people

819
00:29:13,750 --> 00:29:11,279
and i'm sure they're gonna the folks

820
00:29:15,190 --> 00:29:13,760
that decide to maybe go in another

821
00:29:17,510 --> 00:29:15,200
another direction are going to do some

822
00:29:18,630 --> 00:29:17,520
great things

823
00:29:19,990 --> 00:29:18,640
all right with that we're going to

824
00:29:24,389 --> 00:29:20,000
switch over to kennedy space center

825
00:29:29,110 --> 00:29:26,389
hi this is michelle spitzer with florida

826
00:29:31,110 --> 00:29:29,120
today can summer all of you talk about

827
00:29:32,470 --> 00:29:31,120
what it means to be part of endeavour's

828
00:29:34,549 --> 00:29:32,480
final flight

829
00:29:37,669 --> 00:29:34,559
and will any of you be bringing up any

830
00:29:38,710 --> 00:29:37,679
trinkets to commemorate this last flight

831
00:29:40,149 --> 00:29:38,720
anything

832
00:29:42,149 --> 00:29:40,159
to remind you of your family while

833
00:29:43,350 --> 00:29:42,159
you're up there

834
00:29:45,909 --> 00:29:43,360
greg

835
00:29:46,950 --> 00:29:45,919
why do you want to take that sure

836
00:29:50,070 --> 00:29:46,960
um

837
00:29:51,190 --> 00:29:50,080
yeah i'm taking a couple of things for

838
00:29:53,430 --> 00:29:51,200
my kids

839
00:29:55,750 --> 00:29:53,440
i have two kids that are six years old a

840
00:29:57,590 --> 00:29:55,760
girl and a boy and um they they were

841
00:30:00,230 --> 00:29:57,600
very young when i had was on my last

842
00:30:01,750 --> 00:30:00,240
flight so um they they necessarily

843
00:30:03,269 --> 00:30:01,760
understand exactly what was going on and

844
00:30:05,190 --> 00:30:03,279
this time they have a much better idea

845
00:30:07,830 --> 00:30:05,200
so um i've got a

846
00:30:10,470 --> 00:30:07,840
i've got a it's kind of funny i've got a

847
00:30:12,549 --> 00:30:10,480
little seal but but my daughter named

848
00:30:14,389 --> 00:30:12,559
the sealed porcupine so it's porcupine

849
00:30:15,909 --> 00:30:14,399
that's going up and another little

850
00:30:17,350 --> 00:30:15,919
penguin my son wanted me to bring named

851
00:30:19,110 --> 00:30:17,360
zach

852
00:30:20,789 --> 00:30:19,120
and i've got uh some other things you

853
00:30:22,549 --> 00:30:20,799
know for different organizations that i

854
00:30:24,310 --> 00:30:22,559
that i've been a part of the boy scouts

855
00:30:26,389 --> 00:30:24,320
of america they've they made a patch

856
00:30:29,110 --> 00:30:26,399
special for our flight that i'm i'll be

857
00:30:35,750 --> 00:30:29,120
carrying and a few other special things

858
00:30:41,029 --> 00:30:38,950
uh todd halverson of florida today um

859
00:30:41,750 --> 00:30:41,039
mark you kind of touched on this earlier

860
00:30:44,389 --> 00:30:41,760
but

861
00:30:47,350 --> 00:30:44,399
i was i was wondering if you could um

862
00:30:49,029 --> 00:30:47,360
give us your thoughts on how long it'll

863
00:30:52,389 --> 00:30:49,039
be until

864
00:30:53,830 --> 00:30:52,399
there is another uh vehicle space

865
00:30:56,230 --> 00:30:53,840
vehicle that has

866
00:30:59,430 --> 00:30:56,240
all the capabilities that the

867
00:31:04,389 --> 00:31:01,590
well this you know the space shuttle can

868
00:31:06,789 --> 00:31:04,399
take a very large payload into orbit it

869
00:31:08,870 --> 00:31:06,799
can support multiple spacewalks has a

870
00:31:10,950 --> 00:31:08,880
robotic arm capability it can retrieve

871
00:31:12,070 --> 00:31:10,960
satellites it can dock to a space

872
00:31:14,870 --> 00:31:12,080
station

873
00:31:16,230 --> 00:31:14,880
uh it can carry a crew of seven

874
00:31:17,669 --> 00:31:16,240
astronauts

875
00:31:20,230 --> 00:31:17,679
so we don't have anything on the drawing

876
00:31:21,830 --> 00:31:20,240
board that'll that'll do that but you

877
00:31:24,149 --> 00:31:21,840
know that or that vehicle was designed

878
00:31:25,750 --> 00:31:24,159
to work in low earth orbit our next

879
00:31:27,509 --> 00:31:25,760
vehicle is going to be designed to not

880
00:31:29,590 --> 00:31:27,519
only get people to and from the space

881
00:31:32,149 --> 00:31:29,600
station but to also

882
00:31:34,549 --> 00:31:32,159
possibly go on to to the moon maybe be

883
00:31:37,029 --> 00:31:34,559
used in an architecture that

884
00:31:37,990 --> 00:31:37,039
would possibly get us to mars at some

885
00:31:40,149 --> 00:31:38,000
point

886
00:31:41,509 --> 00:31:40,159
so

887
00:31:43,190 --> 00:31:41,519
you know i i

888
00:31:46,070 --> 00:31:43,200
i think it's impossible for me or

889
00:31:47,909 --> 00:31:46,080
anybody else to say when we would build

890
00:31:49,669 --> 00:31:47,919
a vehicle that would have the same

891
00:31:53,430 --> 00:31:49,679
capabilities as a space shuttle i think

892
00:31:56,310 --> 00:31:54,789
okay we're turning back here to the

893
00:31:58,710 --> 00:31:56,320
johnson space center

894
00:32:00,950 --> 00:31:58,720
irene klotz with reuters i'm curious if

895
00:32:05,029 --> 00:32:00,960
any of you um have any strong feelings

896
00:32:06,710 --> 00:32:05,039
yay or nay about um a possible career

897
00:32:09,590 --> 00:32:06,720
with one of the commercial space

898
00:32:11,669 --> 00:32:09,600
companies as an astronaut or some

899
00:32:16,310 --> 00:32:11,679
position outside

900
00:32:20,389 --> 00:32:19,029
anybody want to take that spanky sure

901
00:32:26,070 --> 00:32:20,399
uh

902
00:32:29,509 --> 00:32:26,080
and

903
00:32:31,509 --> 00:32:29,519
professional astronauts are

904
00:32:34,230 --> 00:32:31,519
are thinking hey what what does the

905
00:32:37,430 --> 00:32:34,240
future hold and uh the commercial space

906
00:32:39,509 --> 00:32:37,440
is uh as it progresses as it matures is

907
00:32:40,870 --> 00:32:39,519
uh going to start sending up you know

908
00:32:43,909 --> 00:32:40,880
other astronauts who aren't nasa

909
00:32:47,110 --> 00:32:43,919
astronauts and uh and open up a whole

910
00:32:49,029 --> 00:32:47,120
new pardon the phrase frontier

911
00:32:50,630 --> 00:32:49,039
for us to go explore and i think each

912
00:32:52,389 --> 00:32:50,640
and every one of us has

913
00:32:54,870 --> 00:32:52,399
have thought about that hey will that

914
00:32:56,389 --> 00:32:54,880
fit for me will that fit with my family

915
00:32:58,789 --> 00:32:56,399
it may be a little more dangerous maybe

916
00:33:00,470 --> 00:32:58,799
more lucrative it may be the same same

917
00:33:03,110 --> 00:33:00,480
kind of job and just as exciting as what

918
00:33:05,590 --> 00:33:03,120
we're doing now it may be more exciting

919
00:33:08,470 --> 00:33:05,600
you know we it's it's unknown

920
00:33:09,909 --> 00:33:08,480
but it's uh i think the original pilots

921
00:33:12,470 --> 00:33:09,919
who were flying airplanes were all

922
00:33:14,630 --> 00:33:12,480
military pilots and then we opened up

923
00:33:16,230 --> 00:33:14,640
you know in the 1920s to commercial

924
00:33:17,669 --> 00:33:16,240
aviation and all of a sudden we had a

925
00:33:19,509 --> 00:33:17,679
whole bunch of pilots and i'm looking

926
00:33:21,590 --> 00:33:19,519
forward to the day where we have a whole

927
00:33:23,669 --> 00:33:21,600
bunch of astronauts and

928
00:33:25,669 --> 00:33:23,679
that people barely remember the guys

929
00:33:27,830 --> 00:33:25,679
that flew for 380 days or barely

930
00:33:29,509 --> 00:33:27,840
remember the 201st astronaut to take a

931
00:33:31,269 --> 00:33:29,519
spacewalk because that's what we're

932
00:33:33,430 --> 00:33:31,279
that's what we're doing and and hoping

933
00:33:35,190 --> 00:33:33,440
that's a big american industry out there

934
00:33:37,029 --> 00:33:35,200
providing jobs for all of us we're going

935
00:33:39,029 --> 00:33:37,039
to need our training teams and we're

936
00:33:41,909 --> 00:33:39,039
trained by the best so hopefully this

937
00:33:44,870 --> 00:33:41,919
opens up a new opportunity for not just

938
00:33:47,750 --> 00:33:44,880
us nasa types but uh for the population

939
00:33:49,750 --> 00:33:47,760
at large won't that be exciting

940
00:33:53,110 --> 00:33:49,760
okay and we have time for one last

941
00:33:54,950 --> 00:33:53,120
question here over on the left

942
00:33:55,990 --> 00:33:54,960
that's bill harwood again for scott i'm

943
00:33:59,110 --> 00:33:56,000
scott

944
00:34:02,149 --> 00:33:59,120
well you do look like your brother

945
00:34:03,430 --> 00:34:02,159
we're not allowed to do that anymore

946
00:34:05,269 --> 00:34:03,440
next question

947
00:34:07,909 --> 00:34:05,279
okay somebody else gets that last

948
00:34:11,190 --> 00:34:09,669
well you do look alike so i guess i get

949
00:34:12,389 --> 00:34:11,200
to be forgiven for that uh i just was

950
00:34:13,669 --> 00:34:12,399
revisiting my first question i was

951
00:34:15,829 --> 00:34:13,679
asking i asked you about training when

952
00:34:17,270 --> 00:34:15,839
you came back into this flow and i was i

953
00:34:19,430 --> 00:34:17,280
guess what i was wondering was really

954
00:34:21,750 --> 00:34:19,440
was not not what you had actually done

955
00:34:22,950 --> 00:34:21,760
wise but um you know for all the obvious

956
00:34:24,470 --> 00:34:22,960
reasons you've had a more challenging

957
00:34:26,069 --> 00:34:24,480
flow than most commanders just because

958
00:34:27,669 --> 00:34:26,079
of distractions i'll use that word

959
00:34:29,510 --> 00:34:27,679
better than anything else

960
00:34:31,109 --> 00:34:29,520
how has that been for you i mean i know

961
00:34:33,270 --> 00:34:31,119
that you guys compartmentalize you've

962
00:34:34,629 --> 00:34:33,280
said that before as a military man

963
00:34:36,230 --> 00:34:34,639
but but it does seem like a more

964
00:34:37,909 --> 00:34:36,240
challenging flow for all of those

965
00:34:40,069 --> 00:34:37,919
reasons for you personally

966
00:34:41,829 --> 00:34:40,079
and it does reflect on 134 how how has

967
00:34:43,430 --> 00:34:41,839
that gone for you in terms of dealing

968
00:34:45,829 --> 00:34:43,440
with all that well i think it would have

969
00:34:47,990 --> 00:34:45,839
been really challenging if this was my

970
00:34:49,829 --> 00:34:48,000
first shuttle flight or if it was my

971
00:34:51,109 --> 00:34:49,839
even my first flight as the commander of

972
00:34:53,669 --> 00:34:51,119
the space shuttle

973
00:34:55,190 --> 00:34:53,679
but just coming off of doing this with

974
00:34:57,589 --> 00:34:55,200
sts-124

975
00:34:59,589 --> 00:34:57,599
which is a very complicated mission

976
00:35:00,870 --> 00:34:59,599
you know very uh you know sophisticated

977
00:35:02,390 --> 00:35:00,880
payload bringing up the japanese

978
00:35:04,710 --> 00:35:02,400
laboratory you know having that

979
00:35:06,069 --> 00:35:04,720
experience certainly makes it

980
00:35:08,310 --> 00:35:06,079
um

981
00:35:10,069 --> 00:35:08,320
very manageable to be able to handle

982
00:35:13,829 --> 00:35:10,079
what's going on in my personal life and

983
00:35:15,430 --> 00:35:13,839
focusing on the mission i mean i've

984
00:35:16,390 --> 00:35:15,440
you know i've given this mission

985
00:35:19,349 --> 00:35:16,400
everything

986
00:35:20,550 --> 00:35:19,359
i would have if uh the events of january

987
00:35:22,310 --> 00:35:20,560
did not happen

988
00:35:23,510 --> 00:35:22,320
so i'm very focused we're very prepared

989
00:35:25,030 --> 00:35:23,520
as a crew

990
00:35:26,069 --> 00:35:25,040
we've got a little bit more training to

991
00:35:27,589 --> 00:35:26,079
go

992
00:35:29,990 --> 00:35:27,599
uh when we get back from terminal

993
00:35:32,310 --> 00:35:30,000
countdown tests next friday we basically

994
00:35:34,710 --> 00:35:32,320
have one full week here

995
00:35:36,069 --> 00:35:34,720
uh in the office and doing some training

996
00:35:37,990 --> 00:35:36,079
and then the following week we go into

997
00:35:39,990 --> 00:35:38,000
quarantine so we're getting pretty close

998
00:35:43,750 --> 00:35:40,000
to the end and we're ready to we're

999
00:35:45,510 --> 00:35:43,760
ready to do this and excited about it

1000
00:35:46,790 --> 00:35:45,520
thank you with that that wraps up our

1001
00:35:48,790 --> 00:35:46,800
briefing a reminder you can find out

1002
00:35:51,150 --> 00:35:48,800
more about the sts-134 mission on our