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station this is houston are you ready

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associated press this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is the associated press how

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how do you read us

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well good morning good morning everyone

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marcia dunn here speaking to you from

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the national space symposium at colorado

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uh obviously the big news is tomorrow's

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two space anniversaries

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commander kondratyev how do you plan to

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celebrate tomorrow on the space station

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and what are your thoughts on the eve of

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i thank you tomorrow

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i appreciate it all the people are not

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and who would like

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than has been done will be done

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and and sir how do you expect to

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celebrate tomorrow on the space station

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thank you uh for katie and ron um it's

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the first shuttle flight what are your

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your thoughts on the eve of that

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anniversary as well as the gagarin

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it's what people are supposed to do

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exploration was part of life my dad was

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could you comment please yeah it was a

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astronaut but i kind of lost that dream

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science courses and and you know that

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of the importance of the space program

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where the shuttles will go in retirement

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fly around it's a very good idea

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surrounded endeavors commander mark

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well thank you on my behalf god speed

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and happy cosmonautics day tomorrow and

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of the event please stand by for a voice

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station this is bill harwood cbs news

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really do love clear sir onboard the

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thank you very much and i appreciate you

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orbit turn that over to commercial

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enterprises and to get on to what nasa

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really designed for and that's

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exploration and pushing that envelope

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and going farther and farther

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for katie coleman you know what the way

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he phrased looking at the space shuttle

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you know i always tell folks that it

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might be time to replace it but

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everyone's going to miss it when it's

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what do you think of the legacy the

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sts-1 well we're right now you know

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sitting in a or floating in in a module

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that was brought up on the station on

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the shuttle as well as many other parts

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of the station here and

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there's just too many things to count i

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myself was on a mission where we

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launched the chandra x-ray observatory

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and i still get little emails every

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single week telling me what kinds of

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images chandra is bringing back and what

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we've learned about dark matter black

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holes and our very own universe and so i

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think that these these things that we uh

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have gained from the shuttle are um

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intangible and and yet so important and

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one of the most important is what it

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what the space program does for our

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young people it makes them want to know

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things and be curious and sign up for

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math and science so that they can be

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part of the the bigger future and so

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when i see a space shuttle i really see

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the the younger generation inspired by

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that and i see

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i see our future

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richer for it so i'm sad to see the the

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space shuttles go and at the same time

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i'm looking forward to the next steps

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you know katie i was uh watching 2001 a

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space odyssey for about the 50th time

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the other night and

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i was struck by how believable that

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vision of giant space stations and moon

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bases was back in 1968 are you

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disappointed humanity hasn't done more

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steps and there's a lot of small steps

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that are necessary and i will say it's

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frustrating um sometimes and you know

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even here on board we'd like to do some

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things right away but actually it takes

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a lot of you know small steps to make

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sure that everything is lined up and in

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the right place and that we're able to

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do things safely and actually in a way

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that's going to make them work and you

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know by nature i think all of us as

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astronauts are somewhat impatient and

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want to make a lot of things happen but

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we have to

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be a little patient so i would like to i

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would wish that we had gone further and

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and i think that's just human nature and

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i'm sure that we're going to go further

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but both the small steps and the large

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steps are important you can't get around

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thanks and the last one here and we may

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lose your answer i'm told because of

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coverage issues but um you know may 5th

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is the 50th anniversary of alan

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shepard's flight in mercury and that's

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kind of gotten lost in the in the yuri

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anniversary and the shuttle anniversary

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just wondering if either the u.s

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astronauts had any thoughts about alan

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important

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milestone to recognize as well because

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that's really you know where we as a

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nation got our start and what came out

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of that first step was landing men on

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the moon and

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the space shuttle and the space station

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so i think it's a very significant event

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you associated press and cbs news