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peggy whitson chief of the astronaut

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office once again in baikonur but in

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short contrast to recent launches a

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picture postcard day for the launch

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coming up in the wee hours wednesday

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what are your thoughts here as we embark

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on yet another mission but this time the

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mission that re-ups the crew to six and

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closes out the space shuttle here

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well this is an exciting mission mike

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fossum satoshi furukawa and sergei

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volkov are going to join the three crew

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that are already on orbit

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getting us back up to akuro6 we're

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excited about it they will be actually

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in this next month preparing for the

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last shuttle flight sts-135's arrival in

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and all the activities are pretty much a

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prelude to that uh shuttle uh launch

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because this uh space station crew mike

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fossum and ron garan who's already on

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orbit are going to actually be

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performing the eba during the sts-135

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mission so that's kind of a unique

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novelty for this mission in addition to

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the fact that obviously it's the last

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shuttle mission

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fossum in the last two weeks here in

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baikonur has almost been like a kid in a

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candy store you've talked to him what

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what are his thoughts his feelings uh

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just about on the eve of launch oh he's

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really ready to go he's looking forward

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to the mission uh they have a great crew

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they have great camaraderie in this crew

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and i'm looking forward to just their

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interactions with the ground i hope

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they'll enjoy them as much as we have

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during their training flow

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obviously everybody talks about this

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bittersweet transition moment in history

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what are your thoughts as

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pretty soon we are to depend on the

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soyuz for the next foreseeable future in

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the near future exclusively for rides up

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and down well the soyuz is a very

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reliable vehicle and

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you know we have a good partnership

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worked out with our russian counterparts

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i think it'll work out we are hoping for

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you know a replacement to fill our gap

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on the u.s side as soon as possible

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mike safradini international space

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station program manager mike

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welcome to baikonur as always uh today

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another rollout for another upcoming

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launch

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this particular time in the wake of one

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shuttle mission on the cusp of the final

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shuttle mission coming up in a few weeks

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well there's rob as you know there's

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this period of time in the program where

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all of those had to fit in sequence and

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the last steps in this this relatively

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tight period we have this launch of the

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crew to iss and shortly thereafter we'll

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have on the 20th of

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june the departure of the atv which has

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done a great job for us on iss and here

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in the last few days on orbit taker

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it will take the iss to the highest

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of a kind of challenging period we've

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shuttle flight to iss and so this

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particular crew

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will see that historic event occur in

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the iss program of course iss wouldn't

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maintain the station without the without

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assembly purposes

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uh so in spite of the fact that we can

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uh we'll we'll miss her uh greatly and

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this crew will see that last flight and

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it's maybe not a sad moment but it's a

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it's a moment where we kind of reflect

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back and go yes assembly is complete

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phase of the program which is why we we

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built the iss in the first place

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once mike fossum and satoshi furukawa

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and sergey volkov reached the station

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you have a rather sublime blend of

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veteran and first-time flyers but a

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tremendous amount of experience

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what challenges will they face during

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the bulk of their half year in orbit

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that will span into the late fall time

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this is a great time

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we're gonna the last shuttle flight

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brings up an enormous amount of crew

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supplies to uh

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to get us a year

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almost a year's worth of supplies to

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work with the uh with the shuttle crew

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to do the exchange of all the components

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small this time real the smallest crew

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we've ever flown to iss for crew and so

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with the transfer and it's atlantis

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which doesn't have the capability stay

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on orbit as long as the other vehicles

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add extra tasks to help us do all the

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transfers we need to do to get all of

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supplies out of the mplm and all of the

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components we want to take home in the

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mpl and the npl and back in the payload

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bay but after that they're going to

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whole process to more of a utilization

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capability and so they're going to help

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us with this transition

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where we're going to start thinking more

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of allocating time to utilization and

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all the systems work will have to fit

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within what's left whereas up into this

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what was left and so this is a major

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transition for us as a program and the

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crew will

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that of course the last thing is i i

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i'm cautiously optimistic by the end of

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their increment they will see the first

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commercial vehicle fly

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over the top challenging in terms of

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crew time and and capability it will be

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a first and uh and with like all firsts

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it can it can have its surprises and so

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docking when it when it does occur late

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how the timetable is going for the

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development of spacex's dragon and

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orbital sciences cygnus spacecraft and

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whether or not

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frankly you feel confident that they're

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baton here

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online in time

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spacecraft we interact with them every

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and very dedicated who are building

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what appear to be tremendous spacecraft

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however even the most experienced

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companies uh will will project a date

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system will come online you see it in

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the aircraft industry is the one i can

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think of off top of my head that we hear

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the most of but miss their dates so

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while i expect this to slip to the right

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some i do expect them to to come to iss

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in the in the near future and one of the

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reasons why we flew sts-135 was to give

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us the additional supplies on orbit in

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case they do tend to slip to the right a

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little bit today they're both shooting

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for the end of

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this calendar year

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optimistic they'll make that however we

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have about a year's worth of margin in

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case they they hit snags along the way

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normal kinds of things you you see in

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developing new spacecraft which we you

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so i i do expect them to be there they

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but we've got the margin in the systems

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to let them to take the time they need

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to to do it right and

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ultimately get to iss on a regular basis

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and finally of course we're here in

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baikonur because the soyuz ready to

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once again our ticket to fly for the

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near future anyway up and down to

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a new head of roast cosmos there is

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how how are you viewing that change this

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transition period in terms of the

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you know as in any

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system the the head of the system can

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can make cause changes effect changes

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but down and then you have a technical

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team here that's been doing soyuz

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launches

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safely for many many many years and and

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what i see around me is a very focused

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team

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what i have heard of about the the

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inputs from the from the new leader uh

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vladimir putin is uh

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is all good i mean he's he's keeping the

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team focused he's not

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talking about dramatic changes to the

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guys down and in here

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that do the day-to-day work so i would

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expect this this flight to be just like

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every other flight

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the soyuz is incredibly robust design

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the team that does this work gets her

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ready for launch and launches and

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operates her to docking

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is a is a talented dedicated team and so

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i expect this flight to be like every

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other one we've enjoyed

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with the possible exceptions the weather

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bill gerstenmaier nasa's associate

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administrator for space operations here

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in baikonur bill

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another rollout today is another crew is

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on the verge of augmenting the space

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station back to six crew members

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your thoughts today as you saw the roll

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out to the pad

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and your thoughts on the criticality of

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this launch at this time of transition

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yeah i guess again

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my initial thoughts were the weather was

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just phenomenal today it was a very

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pretty day

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for the roll out

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again the vehicle looked in tremendous

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shape and ready to go fly which is a

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real tribute to our russian partners of

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continuing to support the iss as we

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added

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the additional soyuz to keep the crew

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compliment at six i also think about the

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crew on board space station that are

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currently at three with ron being our

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single person on the iss and i think

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it'll be exciting to get another crew

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member to get mike up there with him to

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continue with utilization so i look very

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much forward to this next phase when we

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get two u.s crew members back on orbit

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and we pick up that pace of utilization

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back on space station

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you know you look at the rollout today

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uh you look at the the operation which

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has replicated itself for five decades

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now

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and at this time

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where so many vehicles have come and

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gone and this choreography that we've

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talked about before

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shuttle missions

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cargo vehicles flying back and forth

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the city in the sky that people call the

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international space station this has

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been a fairly remarkable first half of

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the year has it not yeah i think when i

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just look at the vehicle traffic that's

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occurred this first portion of the year

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it's it's pretty amazing

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you know the last shuttle flight was

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very demanding with the four spacewalks

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adding the ams to space station was a

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big deal um still the the progresses

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that are coming and going the atv that's

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currently docked there's just recently a

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fairly large uh maneuver to reboost the

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space station with the atv that entire

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choreography and and working all this

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out just kind of

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passes underneath the horizon and folks

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don't see what's really going on or

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appreciate the complexity of what's

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happening in space but the teams have

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done a tremendous job of staying focused

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kind of keeping things moving forward

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really planning to do the utilization

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and operations

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i think it's also interesting in the

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soyuz even though it looks like it's a

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repetitive kind of thing we're seeing

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the new generation of soyuz vehicles

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come online the digital soyuz so even

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though it looks to us from the outside

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it's just kind of the same vehicle

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things appear repetitive that's not the

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case at all the russians are continuing

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to upgrade continuing to modernize

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continue to look at the ways the

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vehicles operate and make improvements

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so i think that's important for us to

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remember in the space flight community

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that we stay sharp and we stay good by

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putting some new changes in continuing

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to upgrade modernize in small areas and

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keep moving forward so so just as the

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russians are making small incremental

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changes that aren't very obvious to us

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those are very important to the overall

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health of the station and you see the

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same thing on board station you know

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mike is redoing a bunch of components on

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station we're going to increase our

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bandwidth next year so we can bring more

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data down et cetera so

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these look like static activities but

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they are really not they're continuing

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to grow and continue to expand and

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continue to get more capabilities so

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again it's a pretty amazing period this

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first portion of 2011 as we as we kind

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of really execute all the things that we

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talked about doing in the years past

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and the multinational facet of space

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station again receives an

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exclamation point with the arrival of

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satoshi furukawa the japanese are

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extremely excited about his presence on

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board and

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again if you look at the complexion of

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how station

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from crew to crew from mission to

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mission uh it it is a fairly remarkable

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activity yeah it's pretty amazing you

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know when i came down here and all the

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japanese journalists were here for

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satoshi's flight it's pretty exciting

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seeing the excitement of them who come

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down here to see the launch to kind of

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see it through their eyes you know i've

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had the luxury and privilege of being

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here for many times to see the launches

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so in a way i kind of

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see them as almost a normal event but

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then when i see the reactions of the

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japanese journalists and the families

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and the japanese management to this

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activity i see it through a different

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light and i see that excitement again

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come back about what we're doing and it

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reminds me of of how special what we're

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doing in space and these launch

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activities really are so the chance to

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have work with international partners

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and bring them in and get to see their

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new excitement in this activity is