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good morning and welcome to today's

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sts-134 mission status briefing uh we're

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here with derek hassman the lead flight

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director for the mission and uh we'll

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start off with comments from derek and

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then move on to our questions from

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reporters derek okay thanks kelly good

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morning everyone

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good to be here again today

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wrapping up another busy on a busy day

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on the on the space station the shuttle

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endeavour

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one of the reasons we added the extra

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extension days to the mission was to uh

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work on station and and get a head task

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that would put us in the best position

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uh for both the uh the stage and then

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sts-135 coming up in july and one one of

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the critical items that we wanted to get

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repaired that i've talked to talked

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about in previous briefings is the

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carbon dioxide removal assembly or sidra

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it's a piece of hardware that wasn't

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engineered or designed to be repaired on

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orbit but over the last several years

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we've had a number of different issues

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with the unit and uh we've come a long

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way in terms of our ability to to repair

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cdr on orbit you probably saw some of

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the the great video that the crew

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downlinked from the gym module whether

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they were doing the actual repairs

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and it kind of gives you a feel for the

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complexity and just the the access

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challenges that that the crew has with

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the number of valves and tubing and the

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thick insulation etc so

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were working on the carbon dioxide

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removal assembly most of the day um when

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i left mission control they were a

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little bit behind we were going to see

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where they were going to get uh before

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they called it a night and then

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potentially

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rescheduled additional time tomorrow for

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them to finish out that work but as we

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discussed before the goal is to change

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out one of the two

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cartridges or beds that remove co2 in

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that node three carbon dioxide removal

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assembly put it put a new bed in there

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and then get the entire unit installed

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back into its uh

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to its home in the node 3

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module so we're probably hours away from

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finishing that when i left and my

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expectation is that when i come on ship

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tomorrow we'll have that seizure work

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done so that's another big objective

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behind us

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in addition to the seizure work both

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crews continued on on their transfer

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work moving items back and forth from

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when when i checked in before i left uh

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the report was that we're about 66

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percent done with the total uh

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transfer work and that was before we

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tagged up with the crew at the end of

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the day we have normally planned taga

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briefs the ground on the progress made

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today so i would expect that once they

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factor in that brief we'll be right on

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the timeline we've got a number of hours

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scheduled in the timeline tomorrow

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in addition to the seizure work and

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we also did a lot of work in the joint

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airlock uh one of the things we have to

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do on every shuttle mission is to get

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the the shuttle crews emu's or

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spacesuits ready for return on the

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orbiter uh for this particular mission

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drew feustel and mike fink are the

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designated astronauts that would perform

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a contingency spacewalk if one was

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required after undock so one of the

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things we have to do toward the end each

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of these missions is to prepare

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their their spacesuits for a return on

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another technique that we use in order

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to change out new hardware new spacesuit

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suits and installed those parts on suits

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that would stay on station we in turn

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suits so in the end you have two

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complete functional emus or spacesuits

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that will return on on shuttle available

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with insert still serviceable but older

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end of the day we had two good space

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poison fink those will get transferred

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in addition as another get ahead looking

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ahead to sts-135 where we talked before

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about the fact that there will be a

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space welcome 135 but it will be

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specifically mike fossum and ron garan

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expertise available is that we

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configured the space suit that mike

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the theme of the day was maintenance on

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another uh another busy productive day

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let's see looking looking ahead we just

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wrapped up flight day 13. flight day 14

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the emphasis is on last minute transfer

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and transfer of payloads and and other

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cargo that has to be done at the last

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minute um for reasons driven by science

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so with that uh kelly that concludes my

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with questions in houston please state

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your name and affiliation before you

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hi rob perlman with collectspace.com

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with a couple of questions

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regarding transfer has a decision been

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made about bringing down the um

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the egf from the boom uh inside endeavor

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or will it wait for sts-135 yeah that's

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a good question the efgf which uh

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for eva4 we decided not to defer the

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assembly we made a decision that that

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delay finishing the task the the repair

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if they can't get this done today and

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support that thanks

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immediate urgency but it's it'd be nice

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denise ciao with space.com um i know the

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decision was made early not to add an

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but looking at the timeline and the way

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it's laying out we've gotten all the

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work we got done and and all the high

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priority objectives that are behind us

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okay uh seeing no other questions right

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uh yeah thanks derek just two quick ones

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for me i i've just missed this is it the

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desiccant bed of the absorbent bed that

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rates that we expected and all of that's

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the ogs work and uh the activation went

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well the ogs is now available for oxygen

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thanks and again back to cedar just i'm

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just making sure i understand the

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innards of this thing you have two beds

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is that how that works that's true but

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yeah and i need to go verify this but

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it's just i believe it's all one unit

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todd are you there

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well i sure am can you hear me we can

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hear you now okay todd halverson of

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florida today um derek i was just

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wondering uh what your thoughts are

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the opportunity during the upcoming fly

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um you know the the fly around photos

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are always spectacular just amazing

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views of the space station and you know

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every time i see a picture from that

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perspective it kind of

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you know it reminds you just everything

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we've accomplished over the past number

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of years

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and i don't know if you've seen them yet

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but the uh

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the pictures that greg shamatoff took

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from the from the top of elc3 with the

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fisheye lens are out there now too and i

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mean those are some of the most amazing

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photographs i've ever seen so you know

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anytime you see something like that uh

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it just kind of makes you pause and and

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appreciate uh just everything that we've

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and if i could follow that real quickly

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um i i'm i'm wondering what your your

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thoughts are you've been you've been

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with nasa i think since 1990 uh

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way back when and you've been through

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this entire process of not only the

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redesigns of space station but the

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actual assembly of the

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massive vehicle and i i'm wondering if

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um you have any particular thoughts uh

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now that you actually are at

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assembly complete it's been a long time

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coming

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you know there's been a lot of ups and

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especially i think i mentioned it before

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but especially in the early 90s

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you know when it seemed like there was a

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cycle every two years of a bottoms-up

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redesign

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you know i had i had doubts that we'd

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ever get any any hardware launched quite

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you know it was um

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it was an amazing thing just to be

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involved in the first the first launch

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of u.s hardware sts-88

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and uh and there was a period there from

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1998 to 2003 where we went from you know

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questions about the program even

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happening and congressional votes you

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know yearly about whether the cancel

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station but then you look at what we

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accomplished from 1998 to 2002 2003 you

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know once we got the laboratory module

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launched i mean that that was a period

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that i remember looking back on and just

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being amazed

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by how much we we'd accomplished over

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that period and then you know after that

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you know unfortunately it or fortunately

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i guess it it becomes somewhat like

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clockwork and routine you know we've got

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so many good people so many qualified

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engineers so many smart folks that are

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willing to work all the details that um

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you know you just uh you pick the team

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you plug them in and they go off and do

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what it is that they're so good at doing

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one of the downsides of what we do is

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that ultimately when you actually

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execute the mission it all ends up

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looking so easy that people take it for

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granted you know and that goes

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from from ksc to launching or to um

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getting the shuttle ready to go and then

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the actual launch to all the on orbit

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operations

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the rendezvous and docking

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all the spacewalks all the robotics you

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know these are things that the 10 15

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years ago we we hadn't thought about

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doing and now you know we have four and

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five evas

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parallel activities going on inside so

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it's just um you know it's a tribute to

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really the people both that at nasa

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centers all over the country and then to

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thanks derek that's all from me

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okay any further follow-ups back here in

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houston

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seeing none we'll uh wrap up this

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briefing and thank everyone from coming

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just a couple of programming notes the

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uh the crews are starting to shift their

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schedules again so the station crews

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sleep shifts scheduled to begin at 10 26

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a.m today and that's central time uh and

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then the endeavor crew sleep will begin

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half an hour later at 10 56 a.m

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and then we'll have our international

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space station flight director update

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coming up at 3 45 pm this afternoon

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so with that uh we'll send you back to

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mission control and a reminder that

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those great photos derek we're talking

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about are available on the nasa website