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so

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hello everybody welcome welcome to ksc

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it is as it always is great to be out

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here

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you know and i would like to thank the

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media for uh for putting such a good

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foot forward and bringing the the

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message of the space program home to the

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folks uh you know we count on you to

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deliver the message and you've just done

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an absolutely wonderful job

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um you've carried on the tradition of

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welcoming the crews out here to florida

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you know way back since uh way back

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since the apollo days so we do

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appreciate you your interest and and

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everything you do to like i said take

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the message forward sts-135

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notable significant for several reasons

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not the least of which it's the last

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flight and i don't think that comes as a

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surprise to anybody

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you know as

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i think i speak on behalf of the crew

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everyone in the astronaut office and i'm

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sure everybody here at ksc that we're

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just trying to savor the moment

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as

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you know our children and our children's

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children ask us we want to be able to

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say we remember when we remember when

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there was a space shuttle and like i

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said we're savoring every moment trying

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to take it all in and looking forward to

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uh to an incredible mission

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um of course this is a uh it's it's a

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significant mission in addition because

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usually standing next to the commander

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here are at least uh

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oh five or six other people

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of course this is a crew of four

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and uh we got a busy mission but we're

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gonna do it with uh with the crew of

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four we're gonna do a fantastic job all

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the way over to my right uh sandy magnus

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she's ms-1 for the mission

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sandy flew on sts 112 she graduated

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university of missouri

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rolla of course she did a four and a

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half increment on the space station so

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she is our she's our resident expert

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while we're up there

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she's going to be our our transfers are

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our person who's uh

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who takes charge of emptying and

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refilling the mplm

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um and uh we're looking uh we're really

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happy to have her on the crew and

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looking forward to uh to a great uh mplm

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evolution to my right is uh doug

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hurley's a colonel in the marine corps

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this is doug's second flight flew on sts

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127.

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doug is all things robotic on this

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flight he's a pdrs he's ssrms he's going

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to make it all happen and of course he's

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going to cover me hopefully most of the

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time while we're up there as well

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to my left rex walheim rex is ms2 he's

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in charge of keeping doug and i honest

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for asset and entry

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rex wreck has a unique role in this

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flight and he's usually the the go-to

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eva guy in this case uh he is going to

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be supporting uh the eva in the form of

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iv or the choreographer for an eva that

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will take place by the space station's

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crew

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a graduate of university of california

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we uh

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we're incredibly proud to represent this

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uh the final flight um you know another

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common thread common question that we

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get is well uh you know what what comes

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after the shuttle program

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um nasa has a big announcement as i

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understand plan for july 8th i think

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it'll have something to do with what's

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been called to this point the heavy lift

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vehicle

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of course we have our we have our

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commercial partners uh our four

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commercial partners that we're working

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with to get astronauts back and forth to

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low earth orbit but i think you can be

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absolutely sure of one thing and that is

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that if you take the fact that we have

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been sustaining a human presence on the

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international space station for the last

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10 years

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that uh that we

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the international community american

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astronauts have a full-time presence in

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space and regardless of what transpires

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over the next several years and we'll go

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through i'm sure a few gyrations uh

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we're going to have a nice solid program

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in place to go back and forth again to

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the space station and then hopefully

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beyond low earth orbit so

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we look forward to having you along with

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us for some of the events over the next

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few days and

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we'll see you back here uh just in a

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short week and a half or so of course

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for launch which comes up

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pretty quickly right behind tcdt so

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group out

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thank you