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good morning and welcome to today's

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sts-134 mission status briefing

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the work on board the shuttle endeavor

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has turned toward re-entry and landing

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we have with us entry flight director

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tony soccer this morning we'll start out

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with some opening remarks from tony and

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then we'll move on to our

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questions from our reporters tony all

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right well thanks kelly uh good morning

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to all

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we had a very busy and successful flight

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day 16 morning

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on board endeavor as the crew ready both

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the vehicle and themselves for the

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return home

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see today's activities uh the crew woke

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up about six o'clock p.m central time

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and hit the ground running as they do

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typically on the intermission minus one

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day and getting the activities ready

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today we did a checkout of the flight

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control systems and that was completed

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with no anomalies we also did a

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check out of all the critical rcs jets

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that we used for entry and that all went

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we all also went really well we did a uh

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l minus one comm checkout of the milo

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ground station at ksc and again uh

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usually we

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that went well we basically go down to

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that as the last part of entry

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the commander and pilot they did the

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training which they use a laptop

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application and practice landings

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throughout the day the crew did the

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standard cabin stow activities we also

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had the opportunity today to do a

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secondary payload of opportunity we call

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it the rambo ram burn observation it's a

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series of plus x jets that

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had some satellites taking a look at

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that

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later on today as the last part of

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getting the vehicle itself ready we're

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doing ku antenna stow

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and crew will go to bed about nine

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o'clock this morning

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see as far as

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the weather i know everybody keeps

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asking that weather is looking very

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promising for tomorrow

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the last the past few days the forecasts

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have been showing

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crosswinds above our flight rule limits

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for a nighttime landing

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and uh what has happened is uh

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uh i guess you say it looks very

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promising and uh we've been looking at

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it the last few days this high that

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we've had is set up and we've uh we're

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able to get a good trend uh last night

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and this evening

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and uh it's looking really well and

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hopefully that and we're very confident

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that trend is going to stay the same for

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tomorrow uh right now the forecasts are

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uh scattered at 2500

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we have winds coming out of zero eight

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zero at six peaking at ten giving us a

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crosswind of 10 knots which is uh far

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below what we were predicting a couple

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feeling pretty good about

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getting a better handle on the winds and

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feeling pretty good about where we're

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going tomorrow we did take an

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observation today

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at landing time and we would go with

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one thing that we are looking at there's

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a pocket of cold air being steered by

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possibly it'll give us some showers uh

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northeast of ksc but well outside our 30

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nautical mile circle that we're worried

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uh quickly the end of mission plus one

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forecast scattered at

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we got a winds coming out of zero nine

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zero eight peak to 12 and again the

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crosswind is at 11 knots below our

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as far as orbiter consumables we have

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enough on board to support out to end

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mission plus three with both the lyo and

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the cryo being the limiting uh

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it to you real quickly is the entry

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strategy of course for wednesday morning

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we'll be calling up ksc only

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try those two opportunities and if we

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did have to wave off

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the end of mission one plus one day

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would be pick em day and even though we

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have the end of mission plus three

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capability we decided just due to the

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duration of the mission probably be

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smart to get the crew uh

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down uh at the end of mission plus one

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and of course uh we're gonna make sure

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it's safe make sure we have good weather

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set up and such

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get my knives here real quick

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uh as far as tomorrow's activities

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or the today's activities later on this

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evening the crew will get up about five

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o'clock uh today tuesday do overprep is

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going to begin about and these are all

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central times georgia prep's going to be

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again about 10 30 this evening

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close the payload bay doors at around

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midnight and

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let's see our i should say 11 49 our

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first tig is around

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our first tig ksc 248 is around

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midnight 29 so 0029 central with the

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landing at 135 central

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in florida second opportunity if we

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needed it

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so i did have some ground tracks but i

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wasn't going to put them up unless folks

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wanted to look at them but basically uh

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that's all i have for you kellen thanks

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tony we've been airing those ground

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tracks all night and i'm sure you'll see

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them again so we'll go right to

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questions thanks very much for that

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opening uh robert

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hi robert perlman with collectspace.com

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um i realized that the the crosswinds

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looked less of an issue than they were

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before but can you just review what the

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crosswind limits are

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at the shuttle landing facility

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for night time there are 12

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knots and this may sound trivial but

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of it happening

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given visibility as they come in is

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there any chance the shuttle crew might

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see atlantis

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rolling out to the pad

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during their final approach

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you know i i really don't know i'm sure

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it'll be all lit up i think the the plan

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they land but if they are looking out

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disappointed because they're supposed to

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be focusing but i really don't know

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robert if uh how it all timed out i know

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that the rollout's going to happen

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8 o'clock or so it's where it starts so

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most likely they'll be by the time

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they'll be at the pad before uh and

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that's eight o'clock uh cassie time they

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should be at the pad

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and uh before the landing of endeavor

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all right we'll go now to questions on

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the phone bridge and we'll start with

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denise ciao

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hi um

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with the nighttime launch

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are the limitations for safety um much

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more conservative than if it were a

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i noticed he said the crosswinds are um

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different for daytime but are there

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other considerations that would be uh

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different for nighttime launches or

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nitrogen mining sorry uh

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there are a few things as far as landing

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gains and such of course we want to make

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sure we have

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xenon lights up and

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have enough of those to give the crew a

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good visibility for landing and of

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course at the slf we do have

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edge edge lighting on the runways which

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is required and we have some center line

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uh lighting which is not required as

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long as we have the edge stuff but there

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are a few more constraints just because

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of night time just to provide more

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visibility to the crew

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thanks and also um with atlantis's

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rollout if that should get delayed

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somehow is there um anything that and

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the endeavor crew would need to do or

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you got the flight controllers

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in order to

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have more safety precautions or does

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that not really get affected at all

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okay if that's all from denise we'll

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move now to marcia dunn

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yes hi um tony i was just wondering if

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you could give your thoughts please on

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the fact that endeavor won't be coming

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back to earth for the very last time

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i know that you guys have been asking

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folks a lot of those questions and

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like the last time when atlantis came

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home my focus right now is to make sure

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the crew gets home safely and i'm sure

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once we'll stop happens and we have a

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little bit time to think about it it'll

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all come to us how we feel but i really

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don't have any comments right now march

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on that just focused on what we're doing

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tomorrow morning all right thank you

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okay any further questions here in

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houston

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with not uh we'll wrap up our briefing a

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couple of programming notes uh starting

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at 5 30 a.m central time today we'll

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have some b-roll from expedition 27

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as exposition 26 27 flight engineer

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katie coleman gets ready for some

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interviews we'll have those live

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interviews beginning at 6 00 a.m central

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time

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and then endeavors crew sleep scheduled

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to begin at 8 56 a.m central time as

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they get

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and begin final preparations for landing