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good morning thank you for joining us

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here at nasa's kennedy space center in

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florida for space shuttle endeavors

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sts-134 pre-countdown status briefing

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joining me today is jeremy graber nasa

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test director good morning

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joe delai sts-134 payload manager

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good morning

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and kathy winters shuttle weather

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officer good morning

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we'll hear from our panelists and then

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we'll take some questions jeremy thanks

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kandra good morning everyone

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as always it's great to be here to talk

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about the launch countdown

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specifically scs 134 and our

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preparations for

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the 25th and final launch of space

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shuttle endeavor

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teams here at kennedy space center and

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at nasa centers around the country

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have been working for over a year to get

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endeavour ready for the sjs 134 mission

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our preparations for launch countdown

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are all complete or currently in work

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and we're not working any any issues at

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this time

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let's see over the past 10 days we've

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completed some major milestones we

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installed the ordinance into

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uh for the vehicle last week on monday

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and tuesday

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we pressurized our orbiter maneuvering

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system and

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main propulsion system high pressure

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tanks last week

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we completed the closeout of our orbiter

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aft compartments on friday

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and finally today endeavors payload bay

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doors are in the process of being uh

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closed for flight and we've we've just

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finished up our final preparations for

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the uh alpha

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magnetic spectrometer payload and uh joe

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we'll we'll give you some more details

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about that here in a little in a little

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the sts-134 flight crew is on their way

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here to kennedy space center markelly

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and his crew are very excited to get

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here and they're ready for us to pick up

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with our

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launch countdown activities

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for today we'll pick up with our call to

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stations for launch countdown at 1 30

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and the countdown clock will begin start

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uh we'll be in begin counting excuse me

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at two o'clock

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that'll be followed by the checkout of

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our and configuration of endeavors

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avionics systems

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and then we'll proceed into several

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other vehicle and ground system

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verifications and validations

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all leading up to our first major

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milestone which is the loading of

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endeavour's onboard liquid oxygen and

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liquid hydrogen

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tanks

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and those are used for our electrical

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power generation system and that loading

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will start tomorrow at 11 30 in the

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morning and finish up around 1800

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as we move into early thursday morning

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we'll pick up with our space shuttle

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and that'll be followed by the checkout

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of our orbiter and ground communications

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network at 1 30 pm

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and the retraction of our rotating

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service structure is scheduled for 7 pm

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on thursday evening

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as we move into friday morning early on

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friday we'll be

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beginning our clearing of the launch pad

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in preparation for our external tank

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loading and we expect the start of

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friday morning and that three-hour

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operation finish up around 9 22

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at which time we'll send our final

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inspection team

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out to the launch pad to conduct their

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inspection as well as our closeout crew

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and then we'll proceed down to our

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launch window and for friday our launch

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as typical for an international space

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it's about 10 minutes in length

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it opens at 3 42 p.m on friday afternoon

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for any subsequent attempts we do have

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flight day 3 and flight day 4 rendezvous

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capability starting with our launch

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attempt on saturday the 30th

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and if we were to use that it would give

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us the capability capability of about

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three additional minutes to our launch

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we are currently billed for a 14-day

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mission with two contingency days and

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program is interested in potentially

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extending the mission and they'll talk

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about that once we're on orbit the end

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of mission currently is planned here at

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kennedy space center for 9 29 a.m

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on friday may 13th and if we did extend

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by an additional day that would be on

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saturday at 9 52 a.m

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in summary

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all of our vehicle and ground systems

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are ready uh the sts-134 flight crew

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endeavor and the launch team here at

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kennedy space center are all ready to

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we're looking forward to getting sts-134

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launch countdown underway leading to a

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spectacular friday afternoon launch of

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endeavour and the ams2 payload thank you

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thank you joe

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okay thank you good morning

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okay my name is uh joe duly and i'm the

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nasa kc

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mission manager for ulf6

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and of course this thursday i think at

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10 o'clock i'll have a very detailed

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briefing

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on our payloads

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okay so this thursday as i mentioned

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around 10 o'clock we will have a

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detailed briefing of the payloads for

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this mission we're very excited about

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this mission but i do want to spend a

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just uh talking to you about the

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payloads

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so we're all very excited about the

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launch this friday all the years i've

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been here this probably the most one of

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the most complicated missions i've

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worked on and yet the most exciting

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from the picture you can see we have ams

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towards the aft of the orbiter payload

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bay and the deck

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deck 3 is in the center and we're also

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carrying up the missy and storm payloads

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the weight of the ams

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and as jeremy slater the uh as he stated

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the uh flight is going to be 14 days and

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so deck 3 will be installed on the p3

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and then ams will come out and it will

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be stalled on the s3 truss

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and this is just a picture that's

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showing the deck with the 10 orbital

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replacement units that will be bringing

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and again i'm going a lot more detail

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and this is ams that as it was seen in

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payload processing facility sspf where

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so payloads are closed for flight um

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we're not working any issues

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and we're ready to support lunch

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and i look forward to seeing you guys

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and i look forward to the

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payload briefing at the l minus one

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well weather is almost like summertime

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atmosphere we have a lot of cumulus

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clouds outside and even some coastal

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showers that are coming in on shore we

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also have a sea breeze developing today

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even pop up with the afternoon sea

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breeze both today and tomorrow our main

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concern is a frontal frontal boundary

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that's going to be moving into the area

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on thursday it's not going to be a

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problem for launch it should be moved

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through and the good thing about it will

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be that it will actually clear things

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out for launch but the problem will be

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evening we'll probably be dealing with

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some thunderstorms in the area and

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thunderstorm could be severe due to the

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fact we may also set up a sea breeze in

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the frontal boundary and an afternoon

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sea breeze both coming together

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late in the day on thursday so for

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pre-launch preparations or maybe some

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concerns thursday evening but as we get

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move through and we'll have some cloudy

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push from the upper levels and then

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to be affecting us it's just adding some

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increased moisture in the area and

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that's just giving us a very summertime

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the moisture feeding in from off the

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looking at our tanking forecast you can

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see that for tanking weather looks good

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the front should be moved through by

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this time you can see there's some

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cloudy conditions expected though still

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a tanking time but there's no lightning

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expected to be in the area i only put a

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five percent chance of ksc weather

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prohibiting tanking just in the event

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that frontal boundary happens to linger

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a little bit longer

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for our launch forecast the the front

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should be walt down to the southeast and

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so with that our only concern will be

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that the winds start to turn around a

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little bit more from the north northeast

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concern although right now it's still

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northerly enough that it doesn't look

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like it's going to be an issue it's

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right on the edge though and so with

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that we move the 20 chance of ksc

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weather prohibiting launch usually we

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this situation where we can go up to

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17 knots if the aircraft is getting

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conditions on their approaches so right

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be just a little bit choppy out there so

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it's going to be a five to six foot seas

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but overall should not be an issue for

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u.s there are some windy conditions

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expected both at edwards and at northrop

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and northrop the crosswind is expected

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to be 32 knots so pretty significant

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weather there at northrop but

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edward's still within constraints

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and space flight meteorology group is

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forecasting

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some bad conditions both as aragosa and

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marone with chance for showers within 20

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and for istras though the weather does

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look good

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the talc

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sites are probably best on this first

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day but estrus is looking good on day

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one

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if you do happen to delay 24 hours the

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winds actually come a little bit more

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easterly on this day so there is more of

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a crosswind concern with winds

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the crosswind component

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being a little bit stronger given that

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it's more of an easterly wind so with

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that we did increase the probability to

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a 30 percent chance of ksc weather

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prohibiting launch

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smg's is forecasting again windy

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conditions at northrop field on day two

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with a crosswind of 26 knots but edwards

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is still within constraints

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and the town sites get a little bit

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worse on a day two two to a front in the

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area but the estrus again is still one

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and for the 48 hour forecast the winds

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come more southeasterly so the weather

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the crosswind conditions actually

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improve so our concern on this day would

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just be more showers coming in or not

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excuse me not showers but cumulus cloud

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potential coming in off the water or a

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low cloud ceiling but overall the

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conditions look favorable on day three

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so just a 20 percent chance of ksc

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weather prohibiting launch

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the abort landing sites improved

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significantly on day three with good

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weather at both edwards and northrop and

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space flight meteorology group is still

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forecasting chance for showers and then

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20 at both zaragoza and maroon

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but uh istres again still looks like a

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good towel site all three days

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so overall our main concern for launch

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day is going to be cross winds and

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there's a twin just a 20 chance of ksi

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weather prohibiting launch

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the main thing will just be if we want

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to get that frontal system through us on

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thursday evening and still be able to

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complete all of our pre-launch

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thank you we'll now take questions when

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a microphone comes your way please state

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your name affiliation and to whom you're

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addressing your question we'll start

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over here with marcia

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marcia done associated press for mr

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graber

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if you could just talk about the

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excitement the anticipation of having

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the president and his family come

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congresswoman giffords and how you as a

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team

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might be planning to really stay focused

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despite all the hubbub surrounding all

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of that

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well well it is exciting to have uh

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those special guests that you mentioned

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um i know

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the the launch team particularly

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we've really worked very hard to make

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sure that all of that excitement and

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those potential

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different things that might be going on

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because of those visits

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don't impact the launch team at all

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a lot of the organization and

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coordination that we've done with the

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different uh folks that we needed to for

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those visits

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are very aware of the fact that we've

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got a job to go do we've got a a launch

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to go

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successfully and safely

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accomplish on friday and they don't want

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to interfere with that whatsoever so

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from a launch countdown perspective

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there won't be any impact to the launch

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team and the job they have to go do

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that being said it's always great to

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have

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to to see a space shuttle launch i know

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with friends of mine and and other

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opportunities to get somebody who's

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never seen a launch before that

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opportunity it really is a

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a life-changing experience and i think

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it's a great opportunity for those

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a real quick technical follow-up um if

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the weather is bad thursday how late

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could you delay

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rss roll back before it would start to

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impact the tanking time

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well we we have some uh um contingency

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time built into our schedule um each

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launch countdown is uh is an individual

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experience and and so really we have to

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see how that plays out i'm hoping that

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the the weather forecast won't be quite

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as uh as rough as as uh kathy has uh has

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put out there and that there might be

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some opportunities of windows for us to

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get some of the preparation work done

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between thunderstorms um that being said

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we'll we'll see what the the

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weather of the day gives us and we'll

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make sure we do as much as we can ahead

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of time so that we can be poised to pick

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right back up with the work after the

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storms are cleared

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there's definitely

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some contingency time in there

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i can't give you an exact number but it

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is with hours that we can

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affect that and again

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uh we'll put that story together for the

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launch director early on friday morning

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when we have our external take weather

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briefing and we'll we'll uh present

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those details to the program and and

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we'll go make the decision on how we'll

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proceed throughout the rest of the day

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on friday

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bill

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talking about crowds that are expected

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for this launch and i know there's been

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some talk about whether or not you can

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even do a 24-hour scrub because of the

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time it's going to take the launch team

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to get home and get back where does that

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discussion stand right now

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well

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like everything else it's it's very

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dependent on uh the situation of the day

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and so um

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that our going in philosophy is we're

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gonna take a look at what the conditions

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give us and that is

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what the scrub condition is when it

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occurs and and

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make the smart decision our our leaders

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will

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all of the details of the day

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and understand if it makes sense to do a

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48 or a 24

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and

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we have some going in ideas about what

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we think that is but again we'll we'll

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take that information um as we get it on

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launch day and and go from there

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well what are your going in ideas about

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well there there is a

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time frame about the l minus four uh

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time frame that

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yes launch minus four hours that

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basically

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if you look at it it may be is an

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opportunity to be a line that you say

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before this we do it 24 after

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maybe we do a 48 but but we're not

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locked into that philosophy we we we

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understand that that's maybe our going

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in but we need to look at what happens

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on the day to understand if that is uh

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the way that we're going to handle it

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that day

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okay

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todd please

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uh todd halverson of florida today for

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uh jeremy um could you give us an idea

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of our or

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what your launch opportunities are for

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the next

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several days in other words there's a

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range conflict out there on may the 6th

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how many attempts can you get in between

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now and then and what does the launch

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calendar if you will look like in may

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because i believe there's a soyuz

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returning and a soyuz going up and then

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a big beta angle cut out and it does not

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look like you're going to have a lot of

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opportunity in may and i'm just trying

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to figure out what the situation is

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well you're absolutely right there's

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it's a busy schedule uh for launches

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here in may uh for for our opportunities

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we

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have four opportunities to launch within

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six days

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so um

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with the atlas launch

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scheduled for may 5th i'm sorry may 6th

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we have to give them a day to

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reconfigure the range so we have

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opportunities up through may 4th

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uh 29th through the 4th then we get one

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day on may the 8th

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and that assumes that the atlas launched

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on time if they use their

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optional second day then we'd lose the

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8th

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our next opportunity would start on may

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10th and takes us almost through the end

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of the month out to the 26th we have the

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capability to go launch in that time

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frame so when you look at when you look

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at it it seems like there's a lot but we

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really

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we always try to plan for having four

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launch attempts in six days five six

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days and based on where we are we've got

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that and and we're confident that in

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that time frame we've got good

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opportunity to get off the ground

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uh thanks and just one clarification on

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that um does that mean that uh soyuz

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returning from station around mid-month

519
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does not uh you know hamper you guys in

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terms of being able to launch and get

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docked and the other question i had is

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whether or not nasa has sought out or

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gotten any

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estimate on how many people are expected

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to be on the space coast to watch this

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launch

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for your first question uh

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the

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undock and and return and and

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and our launch uh

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there are many ways for them to go

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deconflict that work and so i think that

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um i think

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based on the information that we've got

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at this point that i think we would be

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have we would have the opportunity to go

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launch in that time frame um as far as

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visitors um to the local area

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i've heard

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several different estimates but it's

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if you were here for sts-133 and

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understood that

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the estimate is that it'll be more how

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much more i i can't really tell you but

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clara

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i'm not sure if this is for jeremy or

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kathy but i was hoping you could clarify

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the rss retract weather constraints a

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little bit more can you do it in the

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rain just not thunder or you know what

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exactly are the constraints and also the

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crosswind constraints for launch just a

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little bit more details on why that's a

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constraint

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okay i can i can cover the weather

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constraints for rss3 track we want no

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more than a 20 percent chance of

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lightning within five nautical miles for

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our accessory tracks also

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heavy rain could be an issue not so much

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for the actual operation but there's a

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lot of people that are out there during

563
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that operation so it becomes it can

564
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become a worker safety

565
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issue so those are going to be our main

566
00:19:36,230 --> 00:19:34,559
concerns there's a very high wind

567
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constraint i don't have it from me but i

568
00:19:39,270 --> 00:19:37,840
think it's like 40 knots sustained wind

569
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so that's not usually the issue it's

570
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usually lightning or heavy rain

571
00:19:48,150 --> 00:19:45,200
the crosswind constraint is 15 knots we

572
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can get some help up to 17 knots if the

573
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aircraft the the shuttle training

574
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aircraft is

575
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doing approaches and getting good uh

576
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performance and so that all comes from

577
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the pilot who will be reporting that

578
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back to the weather coordinator in the

579
00:20:04,230 --> 00:20:02,080
firing room to uh and and reporting it

580
00:20:05,510 --> 00:20:04,240
back to the flight director also

581
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so that's the kind of information

582
00:20:08,870 --> 00:20:07,200
that'll be shared and and to determine

583
00:20:12,549 --> 00:20:08,880
if the crosswinds will will allow the

584
00:20:16,549 --> 00:20:14,710
i covered that all correctly jeremy yeah

585
00:20:18,630 --> 00:20:16,559
yeah you definitely did and and i mean

586
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the the main point that uh that kathy

587
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made was you know worker safety that

588
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it's also vehicle safety you know the

589
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whole reason when we rotate the rss back

590
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is we have many observers up there to

591
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make sure that everything's moving as it

592
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should and so if you do have those heavy

593
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rains you want to make sure that the

594
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folks are safe and that they can do

595
00:20:40,710 --> 00:20:36,799
their jobs appropriately and if they

596
00:20:44,870 --> 00:20:42,789
hi ken crain with space flight magazine

597
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for uh joe duly please can you just go

598
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in any payload related activities that

599
00:20:51,990 --> 00:20:49,600
you have today and tomorrow any late

600
00:20:53,350 --> 00:20:52,000
stow experiments thank you

601
00:20:55,990 --> 00:20:53,360
okay we um

602
00:20:58,549 --> 00:20:56,000
we did complete our closeouts yesterday

603
00:21:00,710 --> 00:20:58,559
and that went fine no issues there

604
00:21:02,789 --> 00:21:00,720
of course we're supporting uh

605
00:21:05,190 --> 00:21:02,799
the payload bay door closure the

606
00:21:07,270 --> 00:21:05,200
activity that's going on this morning

607
00:21:08,710 --> 00:21:07,280
and we have um

608
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and i'll go a little more detail on l

609
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minus one but we do have our our midtech

610
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activity

611
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and we have uh

612
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two two am gonna be powered glacier and

613
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i hope i answered your question

614
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thanks

615
00:21:35,990 --> 00:21:33,600
um irene klotz with reuters uh for

616
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jeremy um how many launch attempts can

617
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be made and still preserve the option

618
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for the

619
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well we've got uh

620
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our hold times for our

621
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liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen for

622
00:21:52,549 --> 00:21:50,480
our uh

623
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onboard tanks is really what drives that

624
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and we've got seven uh

625
00:22:00,149 --> 00:21:57,360
seven days of hold time for for the

626
00:22:01,909 --> 00:22:00,159
hydrogen side and 12 days on the oxygen

627
00:22:03,669 --> 00:22:01,919
side and really

628
00:22:06,310 --> 00:22:03,679
all of our launch attempts

629
00:22:08,230 --> 00:22:06,320
that we have in in that initial uh

630
00:22:09,750 --> 00:22:08,240
window uh the four launch attempts in

631
00:22:12,070 --> 00:22:09,760
six days

632
00:22:14,230 --> 00:22:12,080
would all then be able to go support

633
00:22:16,230 --> 00:22:14,240
those additional uh

634
00:22:17,029 --> 00:22:16,240
two extension days so

635
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so

636
00:22:19,510 --> 00:22:18,640
any of the days up through may the

637
00:22:20,950 --> 00:22:19,520
fourth

638
00:22:23,669 --> 00:22:20,960
if we launch on any of those we'd still

639
00:22:26,710 --> 00:22:23,679
have that capability

640
00:22:27,590 --> 00:22:26,720
and for joe were there any um relatively

641
00:22:29,029 --> 00:22:27,600
late

642
00:22:31,750 --> 00:22:29,039
additions

643
00:22:34,070 --> 00:22:31,760
from the station program to

644
00:22:35,990 --> 00:22:34,080
fly on shuttle and if so can you give us

645
00:22:37,909 --> 00:22:36,000
a little idea of what some of those

646
00:22:39,830 --> 00:22:37,919
might be

647
00:22:41,510 --> 00:22:39,840
i haven't um i have not heard of any

648
00:22:42,390 --> 00:22:41,520
like you're talking mid deck item stored

649
00:22:44,230 --> 00:22:42,400
items

650
00:22:46,950 --> 00:22:44,240
um

651
00:22:51,029 --> 00:22:46,960
no the my list hasn't changed recently

652
00:22:53,350 --> 00:22:51,039
and um no late ones that i'm aware of

653
00:22:54,950 --> 00:22:53,360
no everything's nominal and we have a

654
00:22:58,870 --> 00:22:54,960
list of candidates and we're processing

655
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:03,270
are there any further questions

656
00:23:08,630 --> 00:23:05,590
that will conclude today's pre-countdown

657
00:23:11,430 --> 00:23:08,640
status briefing as jeremy mentioned the

658
00:23:13,909 --> 00:23:11,440
six astronauts for the sts-134 mission

659
00:23:15,990 --> 00:23:13,919
have departed ellington field in texas

660
00:23:18,310 --> 00:23:16,000
and are on their way here and they are

661
00:23:22,149 --> 00:23:18,320
expected to arrive at approximately 12

662
00:23:24,870 --> 00:23:22,159
15 pm eastern time that will be shown

663
00:23:26,549 --> 00:23:24,880
live on nasa television again as a

664
00:23:29,029 --> 00:23:26,559
reminder the countdown will officially

665
00:23:31,110 --> 00:23:29,039
begin at 2 pm eastern that will not be

666
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shown live on nasa tv for more