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hey can you guys hear me

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sorry for the noise out here today we

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weren't expecting that

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it's great uh to see all you folks out

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here greeting us

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at the kennedy space center

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uh we're really happy to be here today

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it's a beautiful day we got a chance to

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take a look at the orbiter as we flew

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over first the field and then over the

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pad

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it's great to see endeavor all ready to

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go again

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endeavor has had a pretty amazing career

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it's been flying now for 18 years uh

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this is going to be endeavor's 25th

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flight

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of it i'm going to introduce folks here

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very briefly our pilot

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greg johnson ms-1 mike fink ms2 roberto

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vittori ms3 drew feustel and ms-4 greg

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we're really ready to do this on friday

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it looks like we're going to have some

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great weather

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we've got a great couple payloads on

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board in the alpha magnetic spectrometer

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dr ting and his team has been working on

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this

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particle physics experiment for

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uh well over a decade now it's a

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collaboration of 16 different countries

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60 universities 600 physicists

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we are excited to be a part of that

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we're also carrying

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elc

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this logistics platform that's bringing

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some critical spare parts up to the

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space station we're going to do

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four space walks a lot of transfer of

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cargo and it's really an exciting flight

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for us

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we're really happy to see our family

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members here today

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they made it down a little bit ahead of

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it's also aiden and aries ari's birthday

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today so it's a good birthday present

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for him to get those guys to get a

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chance to come down to florida

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i'm personally

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looking forward to my wife

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congresswoman gabrielle giffords

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getting here

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pretty soon

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to be here in time for our uh our launch

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on friday it's something she's been

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looking forward to for a long time she's

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been working really hard to make sure

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that her doctors would permit her to

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come

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and she's uh

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you know more than medically ready to be

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here and she's excited about making this

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we're going to take endeavor

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out for

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a couple more probably about five or six

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million more miles it's already got

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about 110 miles on us on it

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and after 25 flights we will hopefully

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land here

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on this runway

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and then endeavor is done with its

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service to

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to the country

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over the years endeavors had thousands

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and thousands of very dedicated

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government and contractor employees

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working on it and we want to thank every

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one of them

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for the hard work

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that they've done to get this vehicle

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ready time and time again

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when endeavor came into existence

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it was initially just a

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bunch of spare parts that were left over

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so after the challenger accident when we

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decided to build another orbiter they

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started with the spare parts

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since endeavour's first flight to this

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flight it's had

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a really outstanding career

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my crew and i are really excited to be a

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part of that we're looking forward to

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launching

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on friday and again we want to thank all

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the folks here at the kennedy space

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center that got this vehicle ready and

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all the folks at the johnson space

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center that operated and trained us for

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get up here

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