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endeavour I assess this is NPR how do

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that's really that's what we want to

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talk about Katie Collman Scott Simon how

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are you I am great it's nice to hear

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your voice in this way I listen to NPR

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up here they send it up every day to me

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oh thank you tell us about the mission

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premier physics experiment that's

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supported by 16 different countries 600

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physicists I mean it's big pretty big

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projects managed out in CERN Switzerland

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of people for a long time and today with

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science Cady Coleman what what do you do

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with your time up there well I don't

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mean this is a big big place Scott and I

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are here talking and nobody else oh no I

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talking here and nobody else in the

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station could hear us you know I

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future for NASA Cady Coleman when you

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hard life is down on the planet for so

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hear me we've you loud and clear Marcia

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how to hear us just fine hello speaking

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commander Kelly congratulations on a

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successful flight so far I'll start out

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members but for Katie and the other five

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space station crew members thank you i'm

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also for you mark appreciate the

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comments about your wife in Congress she

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was one of the last holdouts for

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constellation and expressed concerns

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over the shift to a commercial crew do

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you share those concerns and you think

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the country is moving in the right

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direction in space yeah you're right she

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was she was a late hold out you know

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gave a speech on the floor in favor of

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constellation but at the same time you

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know she understood the importance of

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commercialization she was looking for a

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balanced approach and you know we

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haven't chatted about this recently but

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it's going there's some been some really

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valuable tests that some companies have

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done that have been you know some pretty

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good results and you know over the next

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few years we're going to see you know

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we're going to hopefully see some of

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these new space companies do really

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really well and I know she's excited

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about that and looking forward to it

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thank you and for Katie a couple

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questions for you first of all how's it

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been having these early risers as

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houseguests is this duel shift plan

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it's working out great they were they

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were totally quiet it was like any other

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morning on the space station you know I

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set my alarm and got up and realized

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that they'd been up for hours but we

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have really great sleep stations that

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are very sound proof and implicitly work

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hard so we're pretty tired I think it

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works out just fine good thank you how

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hard it is it going to be for the

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remaining station crew members to keep

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the outpost going particularly with the

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shuttle crew aboard as guests we know

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this the shuttle crew it's like you know

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there's guests that are just not guests

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two of them have flown before on station

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and all of them just have a really great

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attitude about working together and I

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think that makes it a lot easier for the

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43 folks that will remain Ron and Sasha

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and Andre and so you know it is more

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work and actually Paulo and I if you

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took our vote we would stay and make

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sure that we saw them off and then go

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back home but this is just the way the

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vehicles lineup and Ron's been here for

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a while and he knows the ropes and if

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you know I think it just turns into a

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bunch of people working together making

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the best of it and it'll be fine thanks

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how important are these last EVs by

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shuttle crew members for ISS operations

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after the shuttles retired well we've

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got a you know number of tasks over four

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EV A's we've got you know any TVA as you

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probably know we've got two spacewalking

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crew members outside for about six to

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six and a half hours getting the space

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station in a good configuration to to

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proceed without the availability of the

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space shuttle we're going to fly sts-135

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in june hopefully that's the current or

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july rather and and then after that

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there won't be any shuttle base TVA's

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well you have an airlock will be going

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out the station airlock here tomorrow

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space station crew members are all

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trained to do EBA and we'll probably see

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some station TVA's in the future but

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we're just with our 40 days this this

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week and next week we're trying to get

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the station in a really good config

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I'm told we're out of time good luck

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with the rest admission and safe landing

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Katie thanks very much endeavour ISS

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this is Houston ACR that concludes the

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Reuters portioning the event please

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stand by for a voice check from fox news

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channel not to confirm UC berkeley law

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professor Goodwin Liu is up for a spot

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on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

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but he is fiercely opposed by

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conservatives and it appears the

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Republican may have the votes for a

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successful filibuster Byron York chief

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political correspondent for the

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washington examiner joins us now hi

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Byron good morning so they say that this

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confirmation fight could be more

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bruising than that of either Elena Kagan

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or Sonia Sotomayor what do Republicans

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object to about Lou well they think he's

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kind of the role model of left-wing

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judicial activism he's a University of

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California Berkeley good morning mr.

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Kelly and this is Coleman hello very

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very liberal positions they are

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particular yeah Coleman we've got you

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loud and clear supreme court justice sec

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excellent thank you Bill Hemmer will

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talk to you in two minutes you would

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plunge us back into the days when police

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could just shoot fleeing suspects and

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all all sorts of other things so they're

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they're kind of offended but I have to

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tell you this is what goes around comes

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around this goes back to 2003 when

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Democrats filibustered a whole slate of

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ten Bush judicials of appeals court

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nominees now Republicans are getting

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some of their revenge so you're saying

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basically it's payback time it

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absolutely is so Republicans were you

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may remember Republicans were outraged

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at this is really quite unprecedented

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for Democrats to filibuster a slate of

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ten nominees and they had some one of

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these gangs they had a gang of 14

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agreement where they basically agreed to

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let most of the bush not all but most of

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the bush nominees through and then they

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said they would only use filibusters in

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the future in extraordinary

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circumstances but they left it up to

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each senator to define what

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extraordinary circumstances are now

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we've got a lot of Republicans saying

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for the first time that they're going to

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filibuster on Obama judicial nominee it

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sure looks like it will see what happens

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today Byron York

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for coming up Thanks hey Allison were

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going to space all right 220 miles above

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mother earth the International Space

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Station now circling the globe as

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endeavour makes the u.s. second to last

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mission ever for a shuttle program the

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commander is getting some good news

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about his wife Congresswoman Gabrielle

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Giffords back on earth and with me now

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Mark Kelly along with cady coleman a

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flight engineer and I'm told to say the

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following there is a bit of a delay here

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we're very excited to have you both but

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station this is the Fox News Channel how

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do you hear me yeah we began you loud

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and clear terrific mark and hello to you

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how's Gabby doing and what did her

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well our flight day doesn't line up too

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well with the United States we launched

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about nine in the morning I talked to

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her mom and her chief of staff and my

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brother late in the day while the father

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surgery was still going on I got an

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email from her neurosurgeon yesterday

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and it went great I mean as well as he

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could expect and she's recovering and

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will be back at the rehab rehab hospital

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sometime today or tomorrow that is

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outstanding news I know you mr. and I'm

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certain she misses you too you know it

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lifts off I was down there in Florida

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and you said during liftoff in part you

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said it is in the DNA of our great

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country to reach for the stars and

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explore and then you said we must not

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stop what do you mean by that mark well

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i think you know we have a vibrant space

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program but it's not something i think

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we should take for granted we're going

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to continue to operate the space station

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here for a lot of years through through

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2020 and maybe beyond that and my point

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is is that i think it's really really

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valid valuable to not only the american

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people but everybody on the planet so

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it's something we need to continue focus

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many would argue that we should not end

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the shuttle program at the height of his

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success right now and not rely on the

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Russians for a period that may last as

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many as

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10 years you agree with that well the

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end of the shuttle program is a

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bittersweet thing I mean the Space

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Shuttle has been flying for 30 years

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it's been an incredible ship it's done a

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lot for our nation but it is about the

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its 30 years old and at some point we

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got to decide to move on to a new

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vehicle and a vehicle that we can one

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day use for exploration and hopefully

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we'll move in that direction we're

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building a heavy lift vehicle we're

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contracting with some private companies

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for some commercial capability to access

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low-earth orbit and it's a you know

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we're still still moving forward

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unfortunately we're not going to have a

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US crude vehicle for the immediate

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future but that's not going to be

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forever and we've had gaps like this

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before I know you have Gaby's band on

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your wrist and you're wearing the

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wedding ring around your neck and can

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you show our audience us that and while

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you do that Katie I want to know what

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kind of a shuttle made he is up there in

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the International Space Station well

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this shuttle crew is great to have on

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board they they came right in and got to

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work and they made their plans really

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clear to us so that we could be part of

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what they're doing and you know if

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they're just they're great guests to

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have they don't behave like guests they

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behave like family and it's I think

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we're doing some really important things

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this week with them and getting a lot a

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lot of things done to make this station

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a place that we can do science for the

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years to come and so it sits near and

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dear to all of our hearts to get that

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done and we're doing it together like a

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both you thank you kitty thank you Mark

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back in a moment no thank you endeavour