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happy birthday

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thank you that was yesterday wasn't it

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hey just just like last time here comes

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the noise here in a few seconds hey just

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want to say uh thanks for coming out

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it's great to be back

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uh couldn't really see the orbiter but

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i'm sure it's out there four days from

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now

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actually pretty much exactly four days

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from now we should all be

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strapped in

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and ready to go

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hopefully the weather will be good mike

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limbach just told us that the vehicle is

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in great condition we really appreciate

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all the hard work by the

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the team that's worked over the last

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couple weeks to get

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uh shuttle endeavor ready

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at least get him turned around so the

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noise is

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pointing in the other direction uh we're

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all going to say a few words here i'm

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just going to turn it over to our pilot

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how are you all doing today

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i can't think of a more perfect way to

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spend my birthday than to come here and

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fly over here with my crew and get ready

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to fly endeavor next week you know we

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get a lot of attention as the crew these

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guys standing next to me but you know

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the real heroes

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as

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uh crowd are the folks here at ksc

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who've been supporting the space shuttle

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uh for launches repairs uh maintenance

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and protecting it for the last 30 years

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hats off to dana hutcherson and her team

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for preparing endeavor for this flow

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and finally a special thanks for the apu

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team for all the hard work you've done

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getting us to this point you know kudos

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for solving it and uh getting us back on

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track

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so uh next i'd like to turn the

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microphone over to colonel mike fink

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he'll be ms-1 going up and down on the

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flight deck robotics three evas

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and you know added to our two weeks on

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orbit he'll

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add his other 365 plus days to become

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the new record holder for an american

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yeah our crew

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and the team here at kennedy space

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center

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as well as the entire nasa family is

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incredibly humbled and proud to be able

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to take

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the alpha magnetic spectrometer into low

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earth orbit and to install it aboard our

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beautiful international space station

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professor sam ting and his team of

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international scientists and engineers

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have worked

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a really long time and really hard to uh

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to get to this point and we congratulate

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them

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and we all have great anticipation for

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the amazing insight to the world the

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universe around us that the ams is going

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to provide and we feel that the

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ams along with the international space

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station are great symbols

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of what

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we human beings across planet earth can

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do when we work together constructively

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and our crew is uh very proud to be part

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of this great endeavor

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this is uh next is uh colonel roberto

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vittori from the italian air force

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he's an incredible test pilot as well as

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uh twice uh flown on the soyuz

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ricky bobby

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i have been asked to address a few words

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in my native language that is italian

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and i'm doing that with pleasure son

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astronauta

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espacial european colonel de la notre

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minitare pero na importante missioned

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european

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it is now my pleasure to leave the

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microphone to drew feustel

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thank you roberto and thanks to all of

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you for coming out today

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as evie won for the mission i am

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confident to report that my team

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including mike fink and greg shamatoff

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are ready for the four challenging evas

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that we have planned for the mission

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we've logged over 200 hours in the

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neutral buoyancy lab at the johnson

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space center planning for the 26 hours

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of tasks on orbit we'd like to thank the

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folks at the johnson space center

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particularly those at the neutral

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buoyancy laboratory for supporting our

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training during that time we'd also like

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to thank the engineers and technicians

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at jsc and those at the kennedy space

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center here for getting our eva hardware

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ready for the mission

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and um

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it's an honor to be here and we look

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forward to uh for carrying out these

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tasks on orbit next i'd like to uh hand

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the microphone over to uh greg shamatoff

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uh an experienced long-duration space

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station crew member and a great

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scientist and someone with whom i'll be

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privileged to uh to share his first

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thanks drew

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well we as you can tell we're all very

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very excited to be here and to be

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getting this message started

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as part of all the activities you've

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heard about here there's a lot of

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robotics on this mission too

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box is our lead

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robotics

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guru

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all of us have some hand in robotics

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throughout the mission

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the of course installing the ams the elc

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and inspecting the tiles on the shuttle

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and supporting the evas a lot of

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robotics we have a great team on the

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ground supporting us we really

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appreciate all they've done to prepare

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the mission

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uh just a word about elc we have a lot

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of cargo transfer important supplies

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critical spares to deliver to the

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station

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on elc there's some spare antennas

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extra oxygen we have a lot of internal

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critical stuff and that we're

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transferring and all this is you know

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for the longevity of the station after

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the shuttle program uh finishes

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and um

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like to mention also other science it's

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a short mission we do have other science

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on the mission ams of course is our star

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traction

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bringing up a new missy experiment

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radiation in space we're installing that

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there's a relative navigation experiment

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we're going to be running that'll

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improve navigation for future spacecraft

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and we have a host of other biological

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chemical and other experiments a lot of

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italian experiments

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that

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roberto will be doing on this flight

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there's a lot of folks of course at ksc

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and at houston supporting but especially

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for this mission there's folks all

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around the world supporting this mission

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so we're really appreciative of our

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colleagues and we're also um very proud

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to be part of this team so before i

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handle mike back to mark here

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uh i'd like to say on behalf of all of

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us uh we all know mark's been through a

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lot you know the past few months

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he's done an incredible job keeping

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track of all the details of this mission

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i flew with him on once sts-124 he's

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truly an amazing commander and all of us

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feel that we're really really lucky to

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have him guide us through this complex

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mission

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thanks greg appreciate that well thanks

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for coming folks uh

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we are really

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excited to be here excited to launch

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hopefully on monday if the weather holds

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our families will be down later in the

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week you know normally we would have

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them come down

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typically on the same day we come down

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but

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all of our kids we have all of them are

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in school and

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they missed a lot of school last week

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and we we couldn't

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let that happen again so they'll be down

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over the weekend even though i'm sure

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they'd rather be here in florida now

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but it's good for us to be down here box

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and i have a couple stas this week we'll

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all go out to the orbiter check some

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cables

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check some other stuff at the pad and

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then get ready and continue our sleep

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shift uh today we woke up what time 1am

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and we'll be waking up uh midnight

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tonight to get ready for a launch that

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starts uh liftoff at 8 56 in the morning

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on monday but once again thank you very