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you want to turn it vertically

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sts-133 mission specialist nicole stott

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pull barely a month back from orbit

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yourself ron garan your colleague and

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host friend

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ready to fly to the International Space

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Station that you just came back from and

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lived on not long ago your thoughts as

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you stand on this place in history today

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I don't know it's to me it's pretty

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impressive overall I you know the thing

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that stands out that most for me I think

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is that it is Ron's launch and getting

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to be here as his friend you know to

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support him and his family but you know

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you look at this rocket that says kid

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Garen on the side and 50th anniversary

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at all you know it all starts to come

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together you know even though I was just

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in space the thought of all the history

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that's gone into bringing us here today

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and the fact that we as international

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partners are very very happily standing

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here together to get ready for this

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launch and it's very impressive and not

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the least of which 30th anniversary is

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faise shuttle so the juxtaposition of

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shuttle and Soyuz your thoughts on that

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yeah I think you know that's interesting

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as well that you know as countries how

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we've kind of evolved to this point and

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I just got back on Mikey mentioned on

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133 on the last flight of the space

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shuttle Discovery which you know people

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are using this word bittersweet and I

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can't quite go there to me it's a little

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bit more like bitter sad but I you know

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we stand here ready for a Soyuz launch

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where we as partners are continuing to

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fly together to go to the space station

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and you know in hopes that that will

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continue for some time while we get

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ready again as the United States to come

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up with a new vehicle to transport us to

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station and beyond

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Ron's been trading for quite a while for

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this moment he's looking forward to it

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how do you think he's going to do for

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his six months and all that I think he's

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gonna do great

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we spent eighteen days actually on the

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NEEMO mission on one of the underwater

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missions together and I can tell you

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he's going to have a great time on

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station it's such a beautiful place to

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appreciate not only space from but our

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own planet from and I think he's going

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to take a lot of that in and and come

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back a happier guy who's the Deputy

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Director for flight crew operations for

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space pacing Mike behind the Soyuz

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rocket and blazing with Google you name

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and likeness on the side for the 50th

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anniversary just one week shy of a half

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on the eve of this launch of another

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crew to the space station

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Roberts it always has two parallel

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meanings here I mean one hand over here

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like we always are every two to four

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months watching a rollout that you know

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Russ cosmos does with such precision and

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consistency on the other hand as you say

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50 years and it's a huge milestone it's

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hard to grasp what that means while

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you're standing here but in the future

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we're all gonna look back on this moment

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anniversary of the first shuttle flight

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it's always interesting how the two

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programs fold into one another in this

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moment in history that's it is very

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interesting and as you know you know

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we've got a an interesting moment coming

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up here between the progress and so you

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and the shuttle and whether or not we

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can deconflict those things so as we

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have more and more traffic to the

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station that gets more and more confused

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more and more difficult to separate and

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I think we'll be intertwined you know at

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least through this summer ron garan

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you've talked to him

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houses level of preparation for what

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will be a complex

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honey is a solid guy he's ready he's

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been looking forward to this for a long

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time he's very professional he knows

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what he's doing

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we have full confidence and how complex

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will this have here four Lots going on

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when we starting as you said with the

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anniversary events which will be you

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know a certain type of distraction form

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on orbit on the other hand a real

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critical issue during this period is

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going to be crew time you know we just

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don't have enough time between all the

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visitor vehicles all the maintenance

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required for the ecosystems and then you

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know that the leftover time so to speak

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for utilization which we really want to

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increase the focus on because we're

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transitioning from the assembly phase to

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the utilization face so he's going to