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hi I'm Mike Fincke on the sts-134 crew

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good morning here's a message from all

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the children and the USA thank you for

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you

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here is my

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good morning endeavour good morning and

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it's good flight day 16 we're looking

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forward to another busy day and

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hopefully getting home tomorrow

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that song was the second-place winner in

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the wakeup music contest by the

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Plunkett's called dreams you give and it

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received something like over 600,000

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votes so congratulations to Brian

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Plunkett from halfway Missouri true you

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have you certainly walked in space

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before would you think about this trip

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and what's it going to feel like when

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you when you can't fly in these shuttles

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again well it's a little bit of a

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bittersweet end I was happy to have the

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opportunity to do the three the three

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spacewalks that I did both with the Greg

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Chema top and Mike Fink and happy that

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all four of them were very successful

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and I can tell you in reference to the

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previous question the view from out

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there was spectacular when you can see

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the earth below and you're holding on to

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a piece of the structure up high above

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the space station and to see the horizon

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out there with all that Hardware beneath

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you and understand what we've done as a

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nation and as a world to build that

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International Space Station it's

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spectacular so it's bittersweet to know

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that it's sort of coming to an end and

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that we all have varying futures ahead

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of us but it'll be interesting to see

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what what that brings for all of us in

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the development of space the space

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program mike you set a new record 380

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days in space how can anybody possibly

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beat you well the Russians have had

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people in space for you know update you

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know 800 days in their career so I got a

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long way to go and but I'm sure there's

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other people who are gonna fly in our

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office more than one long-duration space

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mission and I hope my record is soon

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broken and I hope it just becomes a kind

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of a ripple in the whole scheme of

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history as humans go on Americans go on

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to explore the rest of the solar

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system but in the meantime I'm glad to

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share the moments with these guys all

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right you asked or not all right you got

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about 10 seconds to explain to me

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exactly what the Alpha Magnetic

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Spectrometer does for us and trying to

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find the origins of the universe

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go ahead well it's you know it's there's

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some really amazing things that that

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it's trying to figure out you know

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Hubble Hubble for us one of the

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important things Hubble figured out was

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that the universe is not only expanding

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but it had at an accelerated rate and

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our understanding of how that could be

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with with mass you know what mass tracks

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should be pulling things back together

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we clearly don't understand the mass

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that's out there and about 4% of the

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masses that is the matter that we

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understand and then there's other kinds

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of matter that we're trying to figure

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out and one of those we call dark matter

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because physicists don't really

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understand what it is and this is a

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understanding what the universe is the

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universe we live in how it all got here

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how it was formed these are fundamental

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questions and this is what AMS is going

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to be trying to understand for us and

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Mark is as the commander you've had a

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very emotional trip up there with with

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Gabby now on the recovery back here and

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on earth how's it been for you well the

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missions gone great it's it's nice that

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on the space station there's an internet

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phone available we actually had pulled

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the computer over here and we had a

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headset and this mic as a matter of fact

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and it was nice to be able to call her

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each day after about flight day four of

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the flight she had her surgery a couple

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days after we launched and that that one

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really well so it was nice to be able to

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talk to her haven't been able since we

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since we undocked but I will you know

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shortly after I land so I'm really

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really looking forward to seeing her

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the sense that you got a cranioplasty

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put on there's called back on does she

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do you see a big change in her less pain

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anything else different well there's

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always issues with the recovering from

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surgery I could tell a difference on on

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the phone when speaking to her so that's

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that's all positive and a recovery is

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going really really well she'll be doing

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rehab you know for some

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continuing period of time but at some

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point pretty soon she'll become an

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outpatient so we're we're really looking

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forward to that and it's all really

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encouraging you made your decision to go

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up into space while she's still going

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into surgery I can only assume that that

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was a very good decision for you to do

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yeah I think it was the right decision

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it she was ready for the surgery the

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timing you know worked out where her

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doctor ideally wanted to do it soon

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after I launched and yeah I really trust

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him and her mom was there and her dad

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and you know other family members so was

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it was good timing so I didn't want to

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hold it up bye-bye this spaceflight so

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we decided to go ahead with it and in in

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hindsight it was the absolutely the

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right decision well this is the last

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mission for the endeavor and the second

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to the last shuttle mission ever would

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dissolve what does all this mean for you

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well after endeavour comes to a stop on

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the runway tomorrow hopefully in Florida

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it'll it'll head off to a museum

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certainly bittersweet the Space Shuttle

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has been the workhorse of the u.s. space

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program for better than 30 years now so

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it'll be sad to see see it retired but

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you know we are looking forward to new

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spacecraft and new destinations and we

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were all excited about the future for

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the rest of you guys what are you most

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looking forward to having being finished

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with this mission and what has it been

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like to look out at the world those

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spacewalks must have been something it

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has been my first experience with the

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space shuttle I flew before on the

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Russian side this has been a very unique

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experience to stay and to work with my

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crew the mission is coming to an end I'm

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very pleased the way I went and I look

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forward to see my wife what area in my

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three kids

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Eduardo Davide Enrico would they will be

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waiting for me together with all the

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other families at the Kennedy Space

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out there on a spacewalk because there's

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just a you know quarter inch of

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the universe and

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and you can look down and see our planet

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zoom by at 17,500 miles an hour and you

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can see the rest of the cosmos in front

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of you but mainly we look at our work

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but it's a really breathtaking view and

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along with the guys inside helping us

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out and even taking pictures it was

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definitely an enjoyable experience but

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one thing I always want to make sure is

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everyone knows it is not easy that's

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never there's never an easy spacewalk

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they're all really difficult I sometimes

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like at least in my mind think it's just

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as tough to climb Mount Everest as it is

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to go on a spacewalk Mike if I got the

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steps right here you've had 26 hours on

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six spacewalks during your career I'm

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just wondering I know it's work out

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there and your time is limited and

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you've got a lot to get done but knowing

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that you won't be flying off the side of

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a shuttle again did you take any extra

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time on this trip just to reflect just

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to have a nostalgic moment yes I

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absolutely did each time you get to do a

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spacewalk it's uh it's a lot of work but

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it's also very much a blessing and since

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on our mission so it's a total of nine

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think I'd ever do get to do one but it's

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always good especially near the end of

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spacewalk when you know you got most of

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your tasks and just you'll hold on tight

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and look out over the over the edge and

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look at the planet Earth go by or look

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up and see the moon and the stars and

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the planets and look forward to where

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we're going to be going next

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Greg Johnson's 4,000 hours 40 different

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aircraft on your second space flight

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we're obviously in a transition a lot of

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questions about the future of the

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American manned space program what goes

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through your mind when you're zipping

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around you disconnect from the space

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station and now you're preparing to come

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home well what occurs to me is how

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special it is yesterday we did undock

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and fly around and the space station was

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absolutely spectacular this mission we

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put the final touches as far as the

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Assembly of the space

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nation so we can declare the space

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station complete and in doing so the

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space station is so huge that even when

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we back off to 600 feet we can barely

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field of view as we traveled all the way

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around the space station we were taking

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wonderful photographs and and so being a

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part of this mission and being a part of

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the completion of the space station and

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can't think of a better thing than an

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aviator would like to be a part of in

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his career

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do you have commander Kelly to you at

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any any apprehension as we go through

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this transition you're the second last

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shuttle flight the final mission will

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take place just a few weeks down the

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road any apprehension that in this

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period of transition something will be

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lost whether it's scientific discovery

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or just the great sense of adventure

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that is manned spaceflight I don't think

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the adventure will be lost I think

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what's always at risk is as we

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transition to a new new program and a

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new vehicle there's going to be a period

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of time when Americans aren't flying on

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us spacecraft so that's a challenge you

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know people leave you know engineers and

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operations people will move on and do

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other things so it's the it's the

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corporate memory that I think I'm most

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worried about as people go but you know

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over time we'll get the right mix of

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people and NASA has an incredible work

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force

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it's very talented and you know from the

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late 1950s to today we take on great

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challenges and we've we've we've never

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failed so you know I think that the

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future is bright there's going to be a

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period of time where we're going to

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develop our next generation of launch

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vehicles and it'll be a you know a

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challenging transition but I expect you

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know great things some of NASA's legends

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some astronauts have written a letter to

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NASA the last couple of days and to

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President Obama they include Gene Cernan

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Neil Armstrong and Jim Lovell who say

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that human spaceflight program is in

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arrey and if you agree with that given

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the the state of where NASA is going now

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are you concerned about the future of

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human spaceflight

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concerned about about the future I mean

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this is our careers it's been our

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careers for a long period of time and

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it's a difficult transition period we're

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going to retire the space shuttle it's

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going to take us probably five or six

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years to have a new spacecraft ready to

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launch u.s. crew members on in that

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period of time we'll continue to fly on

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the Russian Soyuz we have a very capable

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space station that we're going to

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continue to operate the u.s. segment of

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the space station it's a very capable

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laboratory we have a European lab a

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Japanese lab on board but you know

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transitions are sometimes difficult but

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you know we have confidence in in NASA

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and NASA management that that you know

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we'll steer through this period of time

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and come out on the other side with a

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really vibrant space program hopefully

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we'll get an opportunity to go back to

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the moon or go on to Mars

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an asteroid I mean we're we're really

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excited about the future and Colonel

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Johnson if I get one last question in

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I'll ask you bittersweet as you watch

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the endeavour program come to an end

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it's very bittersweet this wonderful

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vehicle has gone on 24 previous Shuttle

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missions where the 25th it's the newest

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of the shuttle fleet and I just love

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this vehicle I fell in love with this

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vehicle the first time I got to fly

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three years ago on sts-123 she's

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performed magnificently absolutely no

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warnings or cautions on the way up

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nothing broke this this vehicle is a

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wonderful machine and it's an honor and

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a privilege for each one of us to be

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part of her final flight captain Kelly

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Colonel Johnson you're getting ready to

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put endeavour down for her very last

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time what's going through your heads how

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big of a moment is this for you guys

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both as astronauts and pilots and and

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who gets to have their hand on the stick

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for this and and and what our folks do

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you folks like you guys do next without

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a space shuttle to fly yes it's always a

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big moment in the mission the Space

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Shuttle is a big

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Lichter there's no engines for landing I

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mean we have this incredible amount of

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thrust and power for liftoff and then we

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glide home very steep glide slope Space

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Shuttle has really short and stubby

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wings so we practice the landing a lot

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and I'll do the landing tomorrow it'll

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be about two in the morning we're hoping

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for good weather but it's it's it's a

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big moment in the mission to get safely

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back to earth I think everybody I think

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these guys are looking forward to a soft

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landing I'm gonna try to give them one

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we are we're going to have a night

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landing tomorrow morning or super late

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at night depending on how you look at it

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and my previous flight we had a night

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landing as well this will be Marc's

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first night landing so as his pilot my

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job is to contribute in any way that I

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can to back him up and support the

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landing we're both trained almost one

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might say over train because we've been

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training for many many years to land of

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shuttles and I'm looking forward to this

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landing at Kennedy Space Center early

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Wednesday morning didn't we already free

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can you start alright endeavour yeah we

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this is Mission Control Houston we can

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see that exert power you know one is up

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and running because there's hydraulic

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pressure flowing through the lines that

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are controlling the Elavon so we're

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watching that live picture from the

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payload bay cameras of the space shuttle

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Endeavour as the flight control surfaces

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are checked out once the space shuttle

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reaches what's known as entry interface

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about five minutes before landing they

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will be significant error dynamic

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pressure on the control surfaces that

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they'll be able to control endeavours

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descent through the atmosphere toward

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the runway at Kennedy Space Center in

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Florida this is part of the standard

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check out of all of the flight control

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systems aboard the space shuttle prior

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to every landing the point at which the

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shuttle reaches that entry interface or

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enough aerodynamic pressure to use these

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control surfaces is about four hundred

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thousand feet up and about five thousand

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miles from the landing site at that

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point the spaceship will be traveling

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about twenty five thousand feet per

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second which is about 1,700 miles an

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hi I'm Mark Kelly commander of space

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shuttle Endeavour my first of four space

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flights was as endeavours pilot an STS

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108 in December 2001

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this is endeavours last flight and

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certainly my last shuttle flight as well

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we left the station with new spare parts

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supplies and an advanced scientific

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instrument called the Alpha Magnetic

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Spectrometer AMS is already at work

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gathering information that could improve

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our understanding of the universe the

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two billion dollar instrument weighs 15

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thousand pounds and involved a

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collaboration with more than 600

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scientists and engineers from 60

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institutions in 16 countries this

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cooperation illustrates a legacy of

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endeavour the space shuttle and the

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space station the international

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collaboration that exploration and

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utilization of space has become

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endeavour is a proud name born by a

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number of ships few were less racy but

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more able than Explorer James Cook's

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endeavour the endeavour cooked

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used on his first voyage of exploration

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was built to haul coal like those on

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which Cook had served as a Merchant

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Marine officer

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it was Blount bowed slow yet reliable

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strong and able to take a lot of

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punishment it would survive grounding on

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Australia's Great Barrier Reef that

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would have sunk most ships of its day in

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some ways it reminds us of our own

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endeavor our mission is returning from

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the International Space Station after

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endeavours 12th visit to the orbiting

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laboratory there people from many

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nations have served continuously in

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successive crews since November of 2000

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teaching and learning from one another

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about interactions and about how best to

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do things in this harsh environment

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endeavour flew the first space station

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assembly mission STS 88 the first

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Japanese component of the space station

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was taken by endeavour to the station in

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March 2008 it also delivered node 3

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tranquility and the cupola the robotic

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work station with six windows to the ISS

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in February of 2010 a spacecraft that

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was partly a collection of spare parts

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endeavour also features advanced new

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hardware that helped improve safety and

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performance of other orbiters when it

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was later incorporated into them

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endeavour ovie 105 authorized by

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congress in august 1987 as a replacement

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for challenger was named through a

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national competition of elementary and

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secondary school students endeavour was

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delivered to the Kennedy Space Center on

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May 7 1991 and launched first into space

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on May 7 1992 endeavours sts-118 launch

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on August 8 2007 was its first in four

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years after a lengthy modernization

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following the loss of space shuttle

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Columbia this flight was commanded by my

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brother Scott Kelly when we launched on

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STS 134 endeavour already had traveled

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almost a hundred and sixteen point four

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million miles in space on 24 of previous

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flights it had spent 283 days in space

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in orbit of the earth four thousand four

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hundred and twenty three times we are

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adding significantly to that total it

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has taken 133 individuals into space

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some of them more than once

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astronauts are just the tip of a very

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large iceberg behind us are thousands of

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people civil servants contractors

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suppliers their dedicated hard-working

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folks who believe deeply in what we do

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they train us to do our jobs

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they build repair and maintain our

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spacecraft and their equipment they

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manage our missions launch us and

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control our flights they support us in

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many many ways we believe deeply in them

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enough to trust them with our lives

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we've talked a lot about endeavour the

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Space Shuttle in the past now that we've

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looked back let's take a moment to look

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ahead the retirement of Endeavour and

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the shuttle fleet will not end the human

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need to explore it is and always will be

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part of who we are the United States

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will build other spaceships better than

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those of today even if they are years in

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the future they will nevertheless

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increase our knowledge of the world

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generate an enormous benefit to our

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economy and inspire our children we

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can't know when they will come about or

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what they will be but perhaps one of

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those new vehicles of exploration will

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be named endeavour and maybe it will

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take humans to other planets or even

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more distant world circling other stars

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it could bear a no prouder or more

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fitting name I hear we had just departed

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from the International Space Station

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we're sitting here in endeavours airlock

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and we've got two of our spacesuits here

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that we used for the work that we did

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16-day mission and we're happy to be

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part of endeavours legacy and round out

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the final spacewalks on the space

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shuttle era endeavour started off with

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some spectacular spacewalks on its

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maiden voyage and it ended with our four

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spacewalks and we hope that the tools

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the techniques that we've learned over

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the years especially here with endeavour

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is will be applicable for all the

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spacewalks that we're going to be doing

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on asteroids Moon and Mars it has been

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an honor for me to the amount of sts-134

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on the last shuttle flight of the of

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endeavour

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it's also the end

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the Assembly of international space day

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that's been a

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they're working for me to see that our

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presence as European Space Agency

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strong Columbus VMM no.3 cupola and many

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other components are coming from

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and from Europe we are coming back from

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both of endeavor to make final landing

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and there will be the last landing of

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this incredible machine

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I do not believe

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flights similar to the one that I

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experienced I truly believe that the

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legacy with legacy will continue

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and everything that we have learned from

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all the shuttles including and better

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would be the base of the transportation

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of future generation what does endeavor

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mean to me what am I thinking about

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endeavour on the night here before

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landing endeavours very special shift to

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me a couple years ago I was on the

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station for six months and was dropped

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off by discovery and never saw another

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vehicle of this size I saw a lot of

548
00:24:26,909 --> 00:24:21,940
traffic up there with progress and and

549
00:24:29,340 --> 00:24:26,919
Soyuz and an ATV come and go but after

550
00:24:32,230 --> 00:24:29,350
six months on the space station I was

551
00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:32,240
had a wonderful time and

552
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:34,370
the mission went really well and if his

553
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:36,530
company was time to come home and my

554
00:24:41,470 --> 00:24:39,410
ride home was gonna be endeavor and I'll

555
00:24:43,330 --> 00:24:41,480
never forget the moment that never

556
00:24:45,010 --> 00:24:43,340
pulled into formation right below the

557
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:45,020
space station we were over in the

558
00:24:47,050 --> 00:24:46,610
service module taking pictures of

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00:24:49,660 --> 00:24:47,060
Endeavour

560
00:24:50,890 --> 00:24:49,670
and this massive spaceship came up you

561
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:50,900
know after six months I've seen nothing

562
00:24:54,970 --> 00:24:53,690
like that and flew into formation with

563
00:24:57,070 --> 00:24:54,980
the space station it was just a

564
00:24:58,630 --> 00:24:57,080
beautiful beautiful unbelievable sight

565
00:25:00,550 --> 00:24:58,640
you know the other night I was looking

566
00:25:02,830 --> 00:25:00,560
at the whole space station from the

567
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:02,840
cupola late at night and I saw Endeavour

568
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:06,650
in a lit-up but over the earth you know

569
00:25:10,570 --> 00:25:08,690
at night and I took some some some

570
00:25:13,180 --> 00:25:10,580
pictures with us with a star background

571
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:13,190
it's just a beautiful spaceship and it

572
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:15,290
really belongs here it's just you see it

573
00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:17,210
attached to the space station it just

574
00:25:24,670 --> 00:25:19,310
really looks like it belongs here

575
00:25:27,580 --> 00:25:24,680
belongs in space and so it's it is a

576
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:27,590
little bit hard to see in a spaceship

577
00:25:31,150 --> 00:25:29,690
like this being retired and we know that

578
00:25:32,890 --> 00:25:31,160
you know more is going to come in the

579
00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:32,900
future and the end features can be very

580
00:25:36,940 --> 00:25:34,910
exciting but I think the legacy for

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00:25:40,060 --> 00:25:36,950
endeavour is exactly what it was doing

582
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:40,070
here on the space station endeavours my

583
00:25:45,460 --> 00:25:43,610
bookends the space station assembly you

584
00:25:46,810 --> 00:25:45,470
know the first flight that was here to

585
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:46,820
assemble part of the space station was

586
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:48,410
endeavour and now here on the last

587
00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:50,330
flight she was here for the final

588
00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:52,310
assembly and the space station is

589
00:25:56,140 --> 00:25:54,230
complete and although endeavour is

590
00:25:58,150 --> 00:25:56,150
retiring it's a new beginning and the

591
00:26:00,310 --> 00:25:58,160
space station now is a place where we're

592
00:26:02,110 --> 00:26:00,320
going to do the research and and

593
00:26:03,230 --> 00:26:02,120
practice with the new systems of life

594
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:03,240
support and

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00:26:07,940 --> 00:26:05,730
and everything we need to do to be able

596
00:26:09,140 --> 00:26:07,950
to explore further and it can tough

597
00:26:11,750 --> 00:26:09,150
science up here that will take us

598
00:26:14,299 --> 00:26:11,760
further so the space station is our new

599
00:26:16,820 --> 00:26:14,309
foothold on the future and that's a big

600
00:26:19,430 --> 00:26:16,830
legacy that endeavour has and as well as

601
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:19,440
the whole space shuttle program and so

602
00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:22,890
this is what I think about as we come to

603
00:26:28,700 --> 00:26:24,710
land endeavour

604
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:28,710
when I first became an astronaut over a

605
00:26:36,590 --> 00:26:32,010
decade ago one of my very first Jobs was

606
00:26:39,410 --> 00:26:36,600
to go to the Cape and prepare the space

607
00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:39,420
shuttles for launch and landing and so

608
00:26:42,530 --> 00:26:41,130
we spent a lot of time in all the

609
00:26:47,270 --> 00:26:42,540
different orbiters and discovery

610
00:26:48,890 --> 00:26:47,280
Atlantis and Columbia but endeavour was

611
00:26:50,690 --> 00:26:48,900
always my favorite and I think endeavour

612
00:26:53,210 --> 00:26:50,700
was my favorite because it was the

613
00:26:55,220 --> 00:26:53,220
newest of the orbiters smelled a lot

614
00:26:57,710 --> 00:26:55,230
more like a new car than some of the

615
00:27:00,200 --> 00:26:57,720
other more seasoned orbiters getting

616
00:27:04,460 --> 00:27:00,210
this second fight in endeavour and being

617
00:27:07,430 --> 00:27:04,470
on her final flight is amazing to me

618
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:07,440
this 25th flight of Endeavour one of the

619
00:27:12,549 --> 00:27:10,650
more significant missions I would claim

620
00:27:15,380 --> 00:27:12,559
in the Assembly of the space station

621
00:27:17,900 --> 00:27:15,390
partly because we brought up the AMS the

622
00:27:21,169 --> 00:27:17,910
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer which is an

623
00:27:22,820 --> 00:27:21,179
amazing scientific experiment that will

624
00:27:27,740 --> 00:27:22,830
help scientists better understand our

625
00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:27,750
universe but also it was the 25th flight

626
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:29,190
of Endeavour and the final flight of

627
00:27:32,299 --> 00:27:29,610
Endeavour

628
00:27:35,930 --> 00:27:32,309
and so being on this mission was a great

629
00:27:38,750 --> 00:27:35,940
honor and privilege to me if you asked

630
00:27:41,330 --> 00:27:38,760
me what I think endeavours legacy would

631
00:27:44,990 --> 00:27:41,340
be I'd have to say well first being a

632
00:27:47,780 --> 00:27:45,000
part of the mainstay the workhorse of

633
00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:47,790
the space program the space shuttle for

634
00:27:52,910 --> 00:27:50,130
the last 30 years endeavour was a big

635
00:27:55,010 --> 00:27:52,920
part of that but also endeavour had the

636
00:27:57,110 --> 00:27:55,020
unique distinction of bringing up the

637
00:28:00,669 --> 00:27:57,120
very first piece of the International

638
00:28:05,030 --> 00:28:00,679
Space Station and then by installing the

639
00:28:07,460 --> 00:28:05,040
orbiter boom system on top for use

640
00:28:10,310 --> 00:28:07,470
through the station's arm to extend its

641
00:28:12,980 --> 00:28:10,320
robotic arm the Endeavour brought up the

642
00:28:14,990 --> 00:28:12,990
last piece of the space station as well

643
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:15,000
so I think endeavour

644
00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:17,970
this legacy would be that she was a very

645
00:28:23,740 --> 00:28:20,370
important part of the Assembly of the

646
00:28:27,140 --> 00:28:23,750
space station from beginning to end and

647
00:28:29,570 --> 00:28:27,150
also to me personally because I had my

648
00:28:32,430 --> 00:28:29,580
first date on endeavour and I'm having