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look at me

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good to go

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there's a lot of minute

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thank you

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um

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the teams in houston are ready the space

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station is ready for you

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enjoy your expedition and take good care

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thanks for coming and sharing the

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adventure of being here with the rest of

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i know you are praying every day

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love you guys have a good

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love you point

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babies

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so

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as well

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that is his first time up in space he

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had never planned to be in space he's

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trying to study medicine but when he

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realized all the things that could be

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discovered up uh in orbit he said that

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it was something he just absolutely had

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to do

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so now that you have it three men on

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their way into kevin you want to know

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mike stefferdini international space

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station program manager mike on a starry

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night a thunderous start for the next

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trio of residents for the international

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space station your thoughts as the soyuz

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rocketed away from baikonur well every

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one of these

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these flights

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cause you to look to what we're about to

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go do

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now we have this very large space

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station so i know the crew the three

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crew that are on orbit are extremely

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busy

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so part of my thoughts with the crew

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about to receive three friends that also

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offload a lot of the work that they're

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gonna do but also this this period of

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time as we've mentioned earlier is a

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very historic time for the for the iss

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program as we we usher in uh the last uh

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shuttle flight in the history of that uh

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uh and uh with some luck perhaps while

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this crew is up there will usher in the

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first commercial

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uh resupply flight so

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um as many of the increments are on iss

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this one has uh quite a bit of historic

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value

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and uh and it you think about that as

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you watch this beautiful rocket go up

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into the sky and take our next three

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crude iss

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and in that regard almost no time to

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breathe for the for this trio uh once

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week with progresses and then

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preparations for the final shuttle

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mission as you mentioned

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how busy how challenging is the next

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month or two for for this new crew well

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you said it right we've uh because of

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the way things have slipped over the

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last few months things are kind of

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stacked up but we've got time for

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everything uh but we don't have a lot of

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to get acclimated uh right after the

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crew gets on board we continue with our

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reboost we're going to raise the iss to

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the highest altitude it's ever been we

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that has to get completed by about the

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in order for me to for us to prep that

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vehicle for its departure on the 20th

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and immediately after that that then we

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will begin getting ready for our shuttle

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flight in the middle of that we're

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trying to manage all of our work so that

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we can get as much research done as

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possible because many of the

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research on iss right now have samples

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they want to return and and our last

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opportunity that to do that before

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spacex starts flying is with ulf7 so

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we're very very busy uh getting to ulf7

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what i what i like to refer to as a more

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uh focused uh operation of iss away from

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the assembly life that we've been living

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where we set aside the time that

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research is uh allocated and the system

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guys figure out how to operate the iss

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with what's left which is the exact

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opposite of where we've been all the way

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bill gerstenmaier the associate

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administrator for space operations out

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of nasa headquarters bill here in

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baikonur again

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just never gets dull does it watching

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yeah there's not much i can add what a

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beautiful launch it was today you could

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really see the rocket for a long time

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just a beautiful sight watching it

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launch into the clear clear evening

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tonight and it's also kind of unique at

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least it seems to me to be actually nice

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and warm at the time of launch instead

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of being in kind of a chilly conditions

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but just a beautiful beautiful launch

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and they never get old

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we talked about this before but a

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pivotal launch as well uh at a momentous

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time in transition for nasa and for

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space station and i'm just wondering

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what your thoughts are as you saw

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astronauts and cosmonauts head for the

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space station

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yeah it is pretty amazing time you know

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as they're you know as our rockets

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launching we're at the cape actually

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starting to load hypergolic propellants

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into the shuttle to get ready for the

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july 8th launch so it's amazing we're

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down at the cape getting the shuttle

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ready to launch on its its final flight

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and then i think when this crew gets on

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orbit the time between when they get on

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orbit to win the shuttle arrives and

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docks is not a very long period of time

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and we have a lot of work for the crew

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on orbit to do once they get onboard

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space station lots of activities get

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prepared for the shuttle arrival and

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it'll be a very busy time for this crew

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once they get on orbit so it'll be great

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to see the space station size increase

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from three to six and we'll kind of pick

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up research here for a little bit and

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also do quite a bit of preparation for

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the final shuttle flight so it's a

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pretty dynamic time in space flight with

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occurring and there's a progress launch

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coming up as well in that same period so

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what a dynamic time for us especially