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guess what

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good morning thank you for joining us

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here at nasa's kennedy space center in

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florida for space shuttle endeavors

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sts-134 post landing crew news

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conference it is my pleasure to

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introduce you to the sts-134 crew and

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commander it is uh

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commander mark kelly

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hello everyone

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thanks for

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coming out very early in the morning at

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2 30 when we landed if you were there

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and thanks for uh waiting

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uh sorry it took us so long we were

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doing some medical tests and some

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medical experiments one of our crew

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members greg chamatov is still

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in the process of doing that so he's not

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going to be able to be with us today

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uh at first like to introduce the rest

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of my crew

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to my left greg johnson our pilot

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former air force colonel f-15 pilot this

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is his second flight

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second flight on endeavour and second

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landing at night

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mike fink u.s air force colonel

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as well

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um mike

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u.s record holder for time and space he

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previously did two long duration

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flights uh flying up and down on the

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russian soyuz

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and then colonel roberto vittori of the

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italian air force

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who is

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uh with aussie but on a mission for the

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european space agency

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roberto and i actually

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have known each other the longest having

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served at the naval test center patuxent

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river

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at the u.s naval test pilot school

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probably 15 years ago now

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and then drew feustel our lead

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spacewalker who led three of the

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spacewalks

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during this mission and

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supervised all four of them

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um really critical member of this crew

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we did four evas

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which are very as you many of you know

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are very very high risk things to do

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and they went

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uh flawlessly

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and we got everything done that we

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we installed the alpha men alpha

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magnetic spectrometer on flight day

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for the mission which was a pretty

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exciting milestone for us

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it'll be a new day for astrophysics in

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space to have

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a very high tech cosmic particle

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detector outside the earth's atmosphere

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dr ting

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and his team of over 600 scientists and

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engineers

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are now really really busy

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analyzing

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50 million particles a day

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i have no idea how they do that how do

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but now i guess we'll just take go

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do i get to pick

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and i'll ask it fast commander kelly

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peter king from cbs news radio

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we'll get this one hopefully out of the

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did you truly say to your wife in your

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first conversation i'm back and how did

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that first conversation go how did she

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sound to you well i haven't spoken to

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no because she's probably still sleeping

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and you know she's in the hospital and i

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don't want to wake her up so i just

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actually sent her mother an email

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and said the first thing i do when i

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leave this press conference let me know

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if she's awake and then i'm going to

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on the same thread but what are you

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do you think she got up to watch on tv

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what are you thinking i don't know i you

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her come down here is because it was

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really late in the night and what she's

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going through now is a very you know

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challenging and difficult thing very

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busy schedule it certainly would be

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disruptive we all have kids right now

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that are just crashed from being up all

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night and for anybody you know just

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anybody in this room for us it's it's

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kind of easy because we've sleep shifted

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uh what i'm going to say to her you know

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you know that we really miss her and

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can't wait to get back there tomorrow to

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spending time with time with our

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evan brown fox news radio um colonel

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vittori um you're gonna be the or you

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are the the last um non-nasa astronaut

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to fly on a space shuttle um

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space agency and so on and so forth

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shuttle's been a fundamental part of

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everything that we have done europe in

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first year but since the very beginning

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of the shadow era and obviously for me

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it's a privilege to be the last one on

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shadow on board of endeavor the flight

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has been spectacular

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almost double the size that i had seen

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node 3 node 2 and everything else that

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one way or the other went through the

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european space agency and the italian

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honored and privileged to have this i've

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had this opportunity and grateful to

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question for commander kelly i first saw

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you and your crew here at august 26 2010

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at the shuttle landing facility when ams

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how committed and focused you were on

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uh many that we certainly can't share

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you know are these you know the four

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these flights are really really hard to

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probably one of the most experienced

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robotic arm operators that the space

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group of people that are just so

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accomplished and so experienced and

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job a lot easier to have guys like this

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um todd halverson of florida today i

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guess we're mark kelly um

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uh the content in these missions has

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what your perception is on on how much

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more complex these missions have become

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humanly possible to squeeze any more

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into a mission than you guys seem to

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that flight schedule's been written it's

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we wake up and we go to work and we do

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genus and sari abc news for drew and

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because that was the ammonia day we knew

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that we had to you know finish the task

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and see it through to completion so um

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it was tough i think mike's going to

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lose a few fingernails over this and i

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certainly have some beat up hands

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but we both uh you know i was fortunate

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that mark supported us staying out there

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and getting the job done uh we knew we

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had a day off ahead of us uh the next

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day and so uh everything sort of came

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together

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and um

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you know sometimes uh looking forward

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you don't see the path through to the

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end but looking back i see how um it was

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almost fortuitous that we had that day

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off and and we were able to have uh eva2

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land on that day that allowed us to go

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late and i'm just happy that we were

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able to see it through and and really

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overall over the four evas we only left

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one thing out on the table which was a a

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cable that we didn't deploy and

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that's a fairly

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straightforward task that can be left

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for others to do so so the content was

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was packed we planned it that way we

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trained for a year and a half uh to make

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sure that we optimized every moment of

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the evas and i think uh you know luckily

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we were successful in doing that uh with

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the teamwork between uh you know the

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whole crew

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the support of the crew and the three

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spacewalkers so it worked out well

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me three

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james dean with florida today i was

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wondering if any of you guys

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got to stay up to see that soyuz depart

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uh if so

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how neat of an experience was that or or

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how

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eager you see that that photo that

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hopefully will come out

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with with you guys there you know on the

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outpost uh the only time that that

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picture with a shuttle there will ever

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be seen

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if they did they were not following the

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now we were we were we were

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asleep uh that was her sleep time it was

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right in the middle of our sleep time

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and and we really didn't have a chance

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to um watch it as much as we wanted to

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uh we just had to get our rest because

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it was a sprint the whole mission was a

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sprint we needed our rest and we're

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definitely looking forward to that that

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photo coming out

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we also took a a similar photo uh

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through some careful pre-planning we

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took a very nice uh

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fish eye lens on on our last part of our

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last dva

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greg shamatoff was able to sit on top of

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the world on top of the space station

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and look back and we have a couple

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really nice shots of we can see the end

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to end of the space station the shuttle

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on one side the european automated

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transfer vehicle on the other side the

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american segment the russian segment the

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european japanese and and it is just

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really a stunning picture and i think

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greg said some nice words so and we got

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to see that for real it's not the only

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picture that's going to see but i think

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when paulo took the shots from the soyuz

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are going to be spectacular and i think

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we all should be really impressed how

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big and magnificent that space station

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is we saw it on the rendezvous on the

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rendezvous and the excuse me undocking

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and then the re-rendezvous for the storm

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and we were just uh you know we're kind

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of older uh shall we say not jaded guys

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but yeah we're not easily impressed

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anymore if we've been there done that we

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were impressed we were excited like

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five-year-olds at a roller coaster park

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a brian locke stone county leader uh if

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this shuttle program wasn't winding down

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endeavour did so well uh with uh no

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problems do you feel that there would be

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well you know we made a decision some

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time ago to retire the space shuttle

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on this schedule

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to use

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build a new vehicle to go on and do

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exploration to have a

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you know a simpler safer spacecraft i

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love the space shuttle i mean i'd fly it

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you know just probably just like jerry

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here i'd fly it as much as i possibly

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could i'd probably go out there

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every couple months if i could have the

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opportunity to fly on the space shuttle

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but it's uh 30 years old

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and

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you know we can

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we you know we we've got to

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you know grow and adapt and build new

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things and

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it's going to be

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probably five or six years maybe seven

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you know before we have a new us

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spacecraft to take crew members first to

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and from the international space station

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and then hopefully outside of low earth

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orbit but but we'll get there so this

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was the plan

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um but you know personally yeah i would

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i would love to

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you know fly the space shuttle every

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denise childhood space.com question from

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mike fink um you're a very experienced

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space flier and obviously on this

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mission set the record um a new record

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for the most number of days the us

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astronaut has been in space

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but this is also your first space

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shuttle mission i was wondering if you

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could describe what that experience was

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like and especially in light of the fact

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that it was endeavors last

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oh boy yeah

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both myself and ricky bobby here roberto

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we um

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we

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both flew twice on the soyuz and that

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was uh that was pretty spectacular it

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was pretty amazing going through the the

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russian program and both of us served as

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flight engineers got to push a lot of

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buttons running the checklist in russian

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language

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and uh that was uh that was pretty you

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know magnificent and we definitely

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treasure that but uh getting a chance to

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fly on the space shuttle uh it was a

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dream of mine and i couldn't have asked

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to do it with a better group of of guys

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here on our crew and a better uh

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couldn't have asked for a better ground

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support team so it was everything i

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dreamed of when i was that you know

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eight or nine year old kid that wanted

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to fly in this new space shuttle thing

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it wasn't even built yet you know it was

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and i was still being in the planning

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and that's all i wanted to do i made a

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t-shirt with a space shuttle on it with

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markers because they weren't they

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weren't out in the stores yet and i

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still have that t-shirt and uh and you

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know childhood dreams don't always come

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true and sometimes real life comes in

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but

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man this dream

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i mean the reality was better than the

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dream i mean can you believe that i mean

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it was so incredible and we just landed

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a few hours ago and i'm still just

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basking in like i can't believe it was

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so surreal how wonderful that was so i'm

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thankful to my crewmates for supporting

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me and and helping helping uh get

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through these uh this really difficult

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and tough mission what we got we got

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through it and did it really well it was

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the last question with ken

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uh ken kramer for space flight magazine

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for drew you've worked on shuttle

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missions on both to the hubble space

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telescope and to the international space

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station can you compare and contrast the

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challenges and the excitement of those

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very different missions

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uh well the space station's quite a bit

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bigger than hubble and uh

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that's for sure

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um you know that my

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i guess you could you know talk about

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the eva experience and that was uh you

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know for hubble we parked it in in the

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trunk you know in the payload bay the

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space shuttle and we worked there in

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close quarters and um the feeling of

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being there working on hubble although

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the tasks were intense and very detailed

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and

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very technical

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and we did you know five space walks

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back to back that made the schedule very

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hectic

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however on space station

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um space station is very large and

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there's a lot you know long distance to

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move over so that that creates you know

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that's a lot of effort in and of itself

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spending that time moving across the

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space station and doing that work so

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they're both very challenging

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in different ways

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very fatiguing uh any eva you do

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any work that's done outside in a space

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suit is fatiguing and uh so to compare

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them is really just to compare the

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relative size of the uh

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of the two spacecraft you know the

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satellite versus you know telescope

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versus the space station um but the work

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this still wears you out after six or

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eight hours the feeling's the same when

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you're coming back in the door you're

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sort of sad that it's over but happy to

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thank done

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this will conclude continuing coverage

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of the sts-134 mission for more

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information on the space shuttle program

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sts-134 or space shuttle endeavor please

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