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endeavor iss this is houston are you

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not quite ready we are ready for the

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gannett this is houston please call

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endeavour iss for a voice check

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endeavor iss this is ganette how do you

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loud and clear todd how may

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we hear you well this is todd halberson

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for florida today usa today and gannett

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newspapers and television stations

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around the country box let's get right

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to it you'll be doing the fly around of

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a day or so

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how big a deal is that to you personally

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and could you give us an idea of what

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well the station is huge todd

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um it's much bigger than i expected you

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uh and a few other items and and this is

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a huge complex uh this node right behind

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me uh node one has five different ports

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portals from which to you can go into

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work the fly around so that yes we want

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to conserve gas but i'm going to use

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you and commander kelly will be pulling

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why that uh detailed test objective is

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endeavour iss this is houston acr please

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this morning we are getting a special

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it's a pleasure to be here danielle

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how is the mission going

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hey greg tell me how does it feel to be

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all right greg well thanks so much for

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endeavor iss this is voa washington how

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i uh read you loud and clear how me

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loud and clear sir

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welcome uh to voice of america

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wanted to uh since this is radio wanted

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what is it like to look at the earth

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it's absolutely incredible david i'll

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an astronaut you're really focused on

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getting things uh done right

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cupola and so uh looking at the earth

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long lake in traverse city

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it chokes me up to thinking about it i

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flew right over it yesterday and got

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some great photos of a wonderful place

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do you think of earth any differently

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yes i i think that has to be true you

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know when you look at the earth uh from

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space

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you kind of you recognize a few things

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you recognize how vast our planet is and

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how many different cultures there are

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and different um

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ecosystems and you you look down at the

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sahara desert and you look in the

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northern uh portion of our country

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uh and you look at all the lights all

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over and you know that you could you

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have to know the sense that we have

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really

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civilized this planet however you also

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on the same token understand and

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appreciate how fragile the planet is

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when you look at the earth

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earth's horizon and and see the the

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thickness of the atmosphere it's just

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like

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it's it's not even the thickness of an

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orange peel and so that fragile

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that fragile atmosphere um makes me want

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to

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think greener and do greener things and

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makes me better understand why it's so

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important for us to take care of our

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planet

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what inspired you to get involved in the

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well my very first inspiration happened

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when i was seven years old so that kind

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of dates me david um

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when i was seven in 1969 i was in uh in

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michigan uh in a different city carroll

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michigan uh watching a black and white

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tv uh with my grandparents and and my

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brother and sister and my parents and we

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watched the the first lunar landing and

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uh my brother and i thought wow that

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would be a really cool thing to do it

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was always a dream but i was always

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interested in science and airplanes when

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i was in high school and wanted to go

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fly and go work for the air force

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and uh and then this was really uh the

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ultimate um

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dream of mine that became reality just

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by uh trying trying to to do the things

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that i loved doing that was flying and

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what do you miss the most on earth when

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you're in space is it a favorite food is

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it your family is it your hometown what

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i think it's my friends and family i've

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got some very close friends

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um all

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all over the world

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and uh and i love my family dearly we're

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very close

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and i ha including all my extended

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family members you know when we have

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launches it's kind of like a big wedding

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because you get all your family and

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friends coming to the launch and we

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actually had two launch attempts well

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the second one was successful the first

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one we got scrubbed

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and so this whole launch process has

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enabled me to communicate with a lot of

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old friends and family members that i

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haven't been in touch with so yeah i

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what's the one thing you'll remember

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most about uh either this mission in

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i think what i'll miss uh most about

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the space program at this point is the

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space shuttle because for certain i know

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that i'm not going to get another chance

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to fly the space shuttle space shuttle

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is a wonderful vehicle a magnificent

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design and although 30 years old

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she's the workhorse of moving things up

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and down to and from the space station

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once the space shuttle retires after

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next flight sts-135 the final space

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shuttle flight

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we're going to lose capability uh in

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moving things up to space we have the

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russians with the soyuz we're working on

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new designs but but we're going to

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any surprises this mission any any wows

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you know uh most assets there are some

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uh malfunctions i remember my last

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flight sts-123

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we lifted off the launch pad did the

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roll program and right there we got a

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master alarm and it was in one of the

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systems uh as a pilot that i monitor

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so i was a little bit like a deer

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staring at headlights for a few seconds

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because i only expected to get a master

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alarm uh

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in the simulator but not on my first

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space shuttle flight

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this flight however although

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all of us talked about how we would

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probably have something that would break

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on the way up nothing did

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everything operated absolutely perfectly

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and there were no cautions no warnings

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nothing and the external tank uh

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separation was nominal so everything was

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picture perfect nominal

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all the way to the space station and so

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i i was really impressed i was surprised

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that nothing broke now we have had some

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minor malfunctions we've had some com

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problems

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on the space shuttle mid deck and a few

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other items but they've all been

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anything special you want to say on this

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you know i hope everybody's having a

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good time back at uh planet earth um i

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am having a wonderful memorial day

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weekend here in space

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it's bittersweet right now we're teaming

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with activity though not doing space

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walks not doing robotics but we're

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spending our final hours the whole crew

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together with the space station my

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shuttle crew as well as the whole space

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station crew we're working uh fixing

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things we've got some guys who have been

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uh on the space station for uh a

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combined total of 18 months that are

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fixing an important part of the space

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station right now and then other guys

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are doing their part to get as much done

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as possible to spend these moments uh

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as as best as we can

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for the final day and a half but it's

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bittersweet and we're gonna undock in

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all right thank you very much that is

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colonel gregory johnson on board the

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thank you it's been a pleasure talking

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to you

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endeavor iss this is houston acr that

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all right thank you

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and thank you gannette kprc-tv and voice

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of america endeavor iss we are now