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endeavor for a voice check this is

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houston please call endeavor for a voice

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endeavor this is kpix tv how do you hear

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we read you loud and clear how else

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you get the slay of the land

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sounds good thank you that's my

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okay it sounds like we have a little bit

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so we've had eight wake ups and in that

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endeavour this is houston acr that

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night at 18t park giants take on the

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endeavor this is kgo tv how do you hear

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weekend and into next monday which is

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stand by i'm gonna get the uh anchor

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pill as a way please stand by you'll be

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interviewing dan ashley all right

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the shuttle endeavor as you know is

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thank you for being with us can you hear

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celebration but right now we're just

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kelly is on board how is he doing and

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him because of what happened with his

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commander he's an amazing commander i

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responsive to everything that that his

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wife gabby needs but he's also doesn't

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uh leave us in any way

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uncommanded he's a strong commander he's

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a capable commander and uh and he's he

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okay i i have no doubt that that is the

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case gentlemen thank you so much greg

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johnson on your right and mission

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specialist greg chamatov on board the

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space shuttle endeavor thank you both

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for the privilege to talk with you have

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a safe trip back home and good luck with

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endeavor this is houston acr that

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concludes the kgo portion of the event

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please stand by for a voice check from

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endeavor this is kfbk how do you hear me

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we read you loud and clear i think

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there's a slight voice delay

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that there is but we'll continue on and

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we would like to uh well again greetings

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from planet earth and thanks for taking

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time out of your busy schedule to talk

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with us today we are talking with

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commander greg johnson who is the pilot

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of this mission and mission specialist

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greg shamatoff who as i understand greg

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area

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yeah that's right i grew up in san jose

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um actually uh moved there from canada

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when i was very young my dad felt that

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california was the land of opportunity

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and for me obviously that worked out

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very nicely

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and i have a lot of family a lot of

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friends there and looking forward to

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seeing them after the mission

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a lot of them came to see the launch

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you know and i went to school in

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california cal poly and so a lot of a

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lot of ties to the entire area

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now question for both of you gentlemen

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uh for those of us and i'm i'm one of

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them who grew up watching the apollo

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missions

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of course skylab and then the the

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beginnings of the shuttle missions

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describe what it's like to be in space

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to be on one of these missions to be one

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of the very few people in the world to

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well i'll start off by saying uh it's a

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great honor and privilege and i know

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there are a whole bunch of people

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uh that would just love to be up here so

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because of that

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i cherish every single moment you know

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being in space being weightless is an

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adventure in and of itself everything in

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life is fun sleeping eating working

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joking around with your buddies

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i the space station now is huge you can

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get lost in it i make wrong turns now

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that we've got

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five different modules connected at one

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juncture so uh it's a great honor and

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privilege to be in space and uh and i

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love it and i'm gonna let uh taz add to

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well you know as box said it's it's

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really an honor and you really feel that

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i mean it's a lot of work to prepare for

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everything that we do

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and uh you know for example the

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spacewalks we're doing on this mission i

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mean there's an incredible team you know

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behind everything we're doing up here

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and uh to be the one to get to do it

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it's an incredible privilege

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uh the one thing that you know we feel

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really uh good about doing is getting to

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share the the the time up here with with

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uh everyone else like we're doing right

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now because i mean this is all we can do

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i wish everybody could be up here

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someday that may be true but uh now what

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we can do is you know try to share our

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experience with everybody and we come

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back we can also you know

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travel around and do the same thing we

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really look forward to doing that

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commander johnson you guys mentioned the

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the spacewalking we know that on sunday

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one of the astronauts ran into a little

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bit of trouble while working on the

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solar power system for the the space

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station that had to have been a pretty

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yes that was uh drew feustel and i was

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talking to him about his uh metabolic

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rates and uh we believe that there was a

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pretty good spike

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when things weren't going quite as

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planned

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but that's how these guys are trained

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we've choreographed each of the four

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spacewalks

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in the neutral buoyancy lab at johnson

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space center in that huge pool

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uh that's about 40 feet deep that has

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one-to-one scaling of the space station

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but these guys can handle anything

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taz went out on his very first spacewalk

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uh our our second spacewalk of the

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mission but his first spacewalk and i'd

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yeah that was amazing um that as box

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said that was my first spacewalk and you

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know that's a dream come true too i look

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forward to that my whole life and um and

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uh just an amazing thing to be doing you

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know it it's you know it's it's right

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out of science fiction but you're here

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you are and it's real i mean this is

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something that humans can actually do

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um you know it's it's amazing to be you

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know holding onto a handrail and looking

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down at your feet and there's the earth

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220 miles below beautiful and and

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spinning by but we're very busy we have

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a very uh as box said we have a very

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detailed uh plan of what we're doing out

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there and we're very focused on it and

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um you know we're kind of racing time to

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make sure we get everything done

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so uh so far it's gone really really

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well even the event that you mentioned

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um i think you know i know drew and mike

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were out on that spacewalk and i was

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right right here choreographing zero for

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them and um you know we were removing

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panels in order to lubricate one of the

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solar alpha solar rotary joints for the

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solar panels and uh the bolts were not

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behaving as expected and they did a

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great job handling all that and really

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we got everything done uh you know and

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we brought in a panel that you know had

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some bad bolts but it worked out just

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fine

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all right well gentlemen commander greg

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johnson mission specialist greg

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shamatoff unless there's any chance you

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can beam me up i guess we're finished

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well we'd love to share this with you

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this is a an outstanding uh spaceship

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we're really honored to be on her last

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voyage

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25th mission of endeavor and then the

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space shuttle will retire

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we have one more space shuttle mission

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after this sts-135 and everybody be sure

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to watch that launch if you haven't seen

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endeavor this is houston acr thank you

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thank you california endeavor we are now