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hi i'm barrett tobias and i'm amari

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forestill and we're the ecos flight

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controllers for the final shuttle

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from launch complex 39 at the kennedy

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space center in florida

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this is shuttle launch control at

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t-minus three hours and holding

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and we're now in the final five hours of

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the countdown for the launch of the last

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flight of the space shuttle program and

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space shuttle atlantis on sts-135

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this is the

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135th launch of the space shuttle

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program the 33rd launch of space shuttle

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atlantis it's 12th to the international

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space station

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and overall the 37th flight to the

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international space station by the space

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shuttle

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this is currently planned as a 12-day

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mission that would have the landing at

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kennedy space center occurring on july

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here's our

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commander chris ferguson he's in the

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suit up room

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he's

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commander on this flight and

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going over to

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this is his second trip into space

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he completed his first space flight on

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sts-122 and he's logged more than 376

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and here is mission specialist number

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one sandy magnus

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this is her

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third space flight she spent more than

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four months in space aboard the

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international space station

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she flew on

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sts-112 logged 11 days in space and then

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uh four and a half months

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after uh being on board the space

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station

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as a member of the expedition

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18 crew

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this is rex walheim

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he's our mission specialist number two

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he's making his

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third space flight he's spent more than

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24 days in space

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on sts-110 and sts-122 and he's had five

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and here they come

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crew going down the

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elevator where they'll be greeted by

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employees from kennedy space center and

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members of the news media

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this is the same

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elevator has been used by the astronauts

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hey

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this is shuttle launch control t minus

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two hours 38 minutes 26 seconds and

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the

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astrovan is now

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the crew will be disembarking in just

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about five minutes they'll be headed up

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to the white room to begin boarding our

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commander as his customary will be first

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crew is uh

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doing what many of the crews like to do

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before they go up and board they like

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five minutes or so to go up on the pad

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take a look at atlantis pose for some

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pictures in front of the shuttle before

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and then head

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commander chris ferguson and pilot doug

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hurley will enter the white room shortly

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our mission specialists sandy magnus and

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rex walheim will probably

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wait outside a little bit and take the

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time to look around enjoy the view from

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the flight crew is now in the white room

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of the orbiter access arm

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members of the closeout crew are in the

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white coveralls and

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the astronauts of course are in the

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orange pressure suits the closeout crew

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will be assisting the astronauts with

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their helmets and other equipment as

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closeout crew is scheduled to seal the

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orbiter access hatch at 6 56 a.m but

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up to an hour later if that's really

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joining us right now here in the

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firing room

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nasa to become a nasa astronaut in 1996

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and he was pilot on sts-102 in 2001 and

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sts-14 in 2005.

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and i'll tell you just a little bit

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about the closeout crew here the

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closeout crew has been existence

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obviously since the beginning of the

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shuttle and they're just an outstanding

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they've been together for a long time we

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might not even see him here for a little

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while but travis thompson's the lead

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he's number one they all have numbers on

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the back of their gear and on their hats

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and things like that and number one is

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called the ovcc orbital vehicle closeout

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he's been the crew lead uh has 28 years

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on this team this is an incredibly

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experienced and dedicated team that gets

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the people on the orbiter and travis is

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in charge of the whole thing and not

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only is he in charge of this one but

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he's in charge of the whole uh whole

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we can see here chris ferguson getting

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put into a seat

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and the folks that are helping him get

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in their seat there are uh number two if

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you can see the number two on him is

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randy bresnik he's actually uh a marine

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uh marine corps colonel he's one of our

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astronauts you can see him in the one

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and uh randy is actually getting on

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there to help out with the

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communications sections and all those

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kind of things but the guy running the

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drew billingsley who's number three

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and you can see him kind of climbing all

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they are complete doug has gotten in

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from the mid deck and you kind of have

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to go in through the mid deck through

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the hatch and in the mid deck you kind

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of take a right about a 90 degree right

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which normally when you're vertical

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you'd be climbing the ladder in this

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case you're going right and then you

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actually crawl on the aft panels and you

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can see that randy's actually standing

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on the aft panels there as he gets folks

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ready to get in in the vehicle so we've

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got uh things down there that protect

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the off panels a certain place where you

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can stand like you notice for instance

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randy's not standing on the switches we

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can't stand there but it's kind of

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intricate you have to weave your way

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around and so you come in the hatch you

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turn to your right for about 90 degrees

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aft panels half lower panels of the

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flight deck and then you climb up on the

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mission specialist two seat and then you

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have to get yourself up in the pilot or

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commander seat so these are the hardest

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two seats to get into and it's kind of a

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monkey bar thing there's a grip up there

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that they grab with their hands and then

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they put their feet up there and

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oftentimes you'll see that the

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technicians either drew or randy helping

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them get their feet up there and get all

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situated and then the critical thing is

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is getting yourself on the the parachute

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correctly you want to get yourself all

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the way down in the seat as far as to

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the seat pan as you can because the

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shoulder straps of the parachute can be

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painful if you don't get a little bit

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those a little bit loose you want to

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make sure you're as far down to the seat

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pan as possible so you see a lot of

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adjustments here

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where they're pushing on them and

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pulling on people and getting them in

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the right place and it's kind of a

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manhandling task obviously with the suit

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the suit weighs a lot it usually weighs

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about 50 to 60 pounds and so they're

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creating a lot of extra weight and it's

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bulky and it's it's hard to get where

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you want to go and that's why we have so

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you can see back in the white room here

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you can see sandy saying goodbye

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everybody everybody gets pretty close

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like i talked these guys are really

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proud of the job they did we actually

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got a nice shot there of number six and

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number six is the the guy that's not usc

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is actually nasa quality so usa has the

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contract to do all the operations there

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in the white room make sure everything's

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done right they're the guys getting all

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the equipment out of the vehicle they're

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the ones taking care of the hatch

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they're the ones taking care of all the

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crew equipment that has to go in but

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nasa has their own representative out

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there in this case it's jack burritt

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he's a number six on your screen before

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25 years in the space program he's done

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15 launches and his job is really to

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check everything else that's being done

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he's got the checklist that he looks at

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and he watches over and behind and goes

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after and makes sure that everything

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that the usa technicians do is

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absolutely perfect

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so sandy's in the back on the right and

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rex walheim is right in the center

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between the commander and the pilot is

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that is correct yeah the center seat

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which is actually where randy's standing

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right now he's actually standing on the

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seat that rex is going to go into

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and what he's doing is he's actually

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throwing some switches for the pilot

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commander make sure they can reach and

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make sure that they're in the correct

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configuration because there's a few

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switches that need to be thrown as well

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as checking the caution and warning

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system before they're done strapping

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things in

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see how the white one that's chris

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myrgan number five you get travis number

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one and they're just getting wrecked in

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hopefully if things go well today this

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will be the last astronaut you'll see uh

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climbing into a vehicle to go fly in

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space on the shuttle

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you can see both doug and uh fergie in

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the front are both completely set up

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with their gloves they've got their

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helmets they've already done that

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pressure check i was talking to you

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about where they fill up the suit uh

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completely and and get that all done

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you can see sandy back there is doing

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her final adjustment she's getting her

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microphones her booms they come off the

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comm cap all set there

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randy's kind of going up above her now

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once drew gets done drew's responsible

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for making sure all the connections are

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once he's done like i said everything

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gets double checked then randy will come

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by after him he'll chuck all those

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connections and then he'll ask the

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astronaut so he's talking to sandy right

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now he'll be asking her to check all her

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connections you know show me where your

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harness connection is show me where your

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bladder connections are for your uh your

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lumbar support the bladder for the

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lumbar support show me where your green

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apple is the green apple is the

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emergency oxygen they fly with and so on

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their right hip we've seen it a couple

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times with doug

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you can see um

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a green apple there as we call if you

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pull that out then you get an emergency

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supply of oxygen that goes into your

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suit so um

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randy is busy talking with sandy and

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making sure she can feel all those

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connections are all set for her she's

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all set and he's doing that ms1 this is

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otc i got too loud and clear how many

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and have you loud and close now

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good morning

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and attention all personnel this is the

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entity conducting the launch status

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check verify ready to resume count and

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go for launch otc otc is go tbc thank

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you booster go ptc ptc's go lps lps is

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good houston flight houston flight uh if

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you give me if you pull me at the end i

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would appreciate it stand by

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yes sir we'll pull you later

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mila milo

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stm stm is going safety console fifth

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cost for let's go spe sp is go lrd lrd

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is go sro at the rose go you have a

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range clear launch and cdr

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cdi is go

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and launch director ntd our launch team

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is ready to proceed with the exception

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of flight who still needs a little bit

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more time to make his evaluations on

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rtls weather

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i copy that i'll do my poll this time kc

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chief processing engineer verify no

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constraints for launch no constraints

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thank you steve kfc safety mission

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safety and mission insurance cisco mike

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thank you terry payload launch manager

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hey mike on behalf of the iss ground

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processing team want to say thanks to

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you and the shuttle team it's been a

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great partnership and we are go thank

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you bill appreciate that range weather

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march weather has no constraints for

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launch thank you kathy atlantis flow

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director

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on behalf of the government from kfc

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federal processing

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thank you angie

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opps manager

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see mike uh waiting to get final go from

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flight here let's hear what he says and

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atlantis launch director air-to-ground

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one

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atlantis go

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okay fergie uh we're starting to feel

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pretty good down here on the ground

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about this one today so on behalf of the

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greatest team in the world

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good luck to you and your crew on the

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final flight of this true american icon

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and so for the final time fergie

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doug

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sanding rex good luck godspeed and have

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a little fun up there

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hey thanks to you and your team mike

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until the very end you all made it look

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easy

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the shuttle's always going to be a

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reflection of what a great nation can do

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when it dares to be bold and commits to

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follow through

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without ending the journey today mike

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we're completing a chapter of a journey

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that will never end

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you and the thousands of men and women

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who gave their hearts souls and their

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lives for the cause of exploration have

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rewritten history

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let's light this fire one more time mike

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and witness this great nation at its

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best the crew of atlantis is ready for

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launch

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thank you sir we'll get you going here

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in a couple of minutes

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ntd houston slide on 212.

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go ahead fight for the record i'm go

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copies and launch director that is our

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entire launch team we are ready to

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proceed at this time i copy that ops

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manager

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yes sir he discussed it with the mmt

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and the flight director

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we are going to take a waiver to the

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rtls forecast no go

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based on uh

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the potential that there will be light

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precip if we ended up in an rtls if

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they've looked at that

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chances of thundershowers are very low

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and i believe that's an acceptable risk

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we have plenty of energy we only need

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one end of the runway on the rtls i

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think we got some sound rationale here

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to take that waiver on the rtls forecast

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being no go so with that uh we are clear

391
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networking which is your good launch

392
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okay thank you mike appreciate that and

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fergie you heard those words so uh we'll

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get you

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going here shortly good luck guys

396
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fantastic news thanks mike

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entity without you were clear to launch

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atlanta

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the countdown clock will resume on my

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mark

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three

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two

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one

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mark

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t minus nine minutes and counting

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plt otc connect essential buses to fuel

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cells for your checklist

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armory track

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atlantis this otc this day has been over

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30 years in the making there have been

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many fabulous missions throughout the

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years on behalf of ksc launch teams past

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and present we salute the entire

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astronaut corps for their dedication not

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only for our expanded knowledge of the

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universe but for the improvements you

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have contributed to on earth have an

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fantastic words roberta thank you very

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much

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great to your team thank you sir

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orbiter test conductor roberta wyrick

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plp otc perform apu pre-start

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tlt three great packs

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plt otc perform ap start

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flight crew otc close unlock your visors

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t-minus two minutes

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lh2 pressurization

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p-minus 40 seconds handing off to

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atlantis computers at t-minus 31.

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b minus 35

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33.

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31 seconds due to a failure

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and we have had a failure

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uh

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guys to go do the

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verification for the lcc please

437
00:20:09,510 --> 00:20:07,590
the ltc yeah we need to verify using a

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camera and we're

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positioning camera 62 right now okay let

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00:20:15,990 --> 00:20:14,000
us know the center 62 is swung over and

441
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you can verify lcc for gva retract

442
00:20:21,750 --> 00:20:18,080
please

443
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this is cmec we verify uh retracted

444
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all right nfpe and ntd ste concurs they

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satisfy the requirements of gsc13 prepon

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contingency i'm go

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okay i copy and launch director yes sir

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and off to atlantis computers has

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occurred

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solid rocket booster nozzle steering

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check and work

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firing chain is armed

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go for main engine start

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t-minus ten nine

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eight

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seven

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six

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five

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all three engines up and burning

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two

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one

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zero and lift off the final liftoff of

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atlantis on the shoulders of the space

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roger roll atlantis

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houston now controlling the flight of

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atlantis the space shuttle spreads its

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wings one final time for the start of a

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24 seconds into the flight road program

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complete atlantis now heads down wings

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level on the proper alignment for its

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eight and a half minute ride to orbit

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four and a half million pounds of

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hardware and humans taking aim on the

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40 seconds into the flight the three

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liquid fuel main engines throttling back

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to 72 percent of rated performance in

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the bucket reducing stress on the

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shuttle as it goes transonic for the

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engine is now revving up standing by for

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atlantis go add throttle up no action

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that call from capcom barry wilmore a

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transducer instrumentation only no

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atlantis now 15 miles in altitude

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already 16 miles downrange from the

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kennedy space center one minute 40

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seconds into the flight

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atlantis flexing its muscles one final

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atlantis traveling almost 2600 miles an

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hour 21 miles in altitude 24 miles

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downrange standing by for solid rocket

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booster officer confirms staging a good

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solid rocket booster separation guidance

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now converging the main engine steering

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the shuttle on a pinpoint path to its

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preliminary orbit two minutes 20 seconds

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into the flight atlantis already

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traveling 3 200 miles an hour 35 miles

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8 minutes 15 seconds into the flight

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standing by for main engine cut off

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that'll be followed a few seconds later

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by the separation of the external fuel

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booster officer confirms main engine

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cutoff

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for the last time the space shuttle's

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main engines have fallen silent as the

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shuttle slips into the final chapter of

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a storied 30-year adventure

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now standing by for external tank

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atlantis off the tank

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commander chris ferguson will be

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maneuvering atlantis now into an

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orientation to enable sandy magnus to

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capture digital still imagery of the

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external fuel tank as it drifts away

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ohm's one is not required your

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preliminary owns two tig 37 minutes

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atlantis houston we're back with you

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00:25:00,470 --> 00:24:57,919
after after an unexpected extended time

519
00:25:02,470 --> 00:25:00,480
off the tail how do you copy

520
00:25:04,070 --> 00:25:02,480
hey we got you a sort of rowdy houston

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00:25:06,549 --> 00:25:04,080
but legible you want to go ahead with

522
00:25:09,029 --> 00:25:06,559
your tag up

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00:25:10,710 --> 00:25:09,039
okay hopefully it'll stay with us

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here's what i have for you

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our energy observations are ongoing but

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so far we see nothing that would

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indicate any concern for the vehicle or

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00:25:20,789 --> 00:25:19,200
success of the mission

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00:25:24,070 --> 00:25:20,799
we've also taken a quick look at our

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cryo margins with h2 being the limiter

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and we see about 23 hours of margin so

532
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almost a full day so there's some good

533
00:25:31,990 --> 00:25:29,760
news there

534
00:25:33,190 --> 00:25:32,000
we'll take your window report when you

535
00:25:34,710 --> 00:25:33,200
have it

536
00:25:36,950 --> 00:25:34,720
and i personally want to let you know

537
00:25:38,630 --> 00:25:36,960
that was a beautiful launch and

538
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from where we were and of course those

539
00:25:42,549 --> 00:25:40,960
folks in florida had a great show

540
00:25:44,070 --> 00:25:42,559
and all of us here are pretty envious of

541
00:25:45,990 --> 00:25:44,080
your view as you pop through that cloud

542
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deck

543
00:25:51,990 --> 00:25:48,880
okay uh copy and if you wanted a bottoms

544
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report we went in at about 20 000 and

545
00:25:57,110 --> 00:25:53,840
out about um

546
00:25:59,909 --> 00:25:57,120
about a nanosecond later

547
00:26:01,350 --> 00:25:59,919
that's what we expected

548
00:26:02,789 --> 00:26:01,360
uh we are coming to the end of the

549
00:26:04,789 --> 00:26:02,799
ascent team we're in the process of

550
00:26:06,470 --> 00:26:04,799
turning over to your orbit two team and

551
00:26:07,669 --> 00:26:06,480
uh we twisted richard's arm and instead

552
00:26:10,549 --> 00:26:07,679
of talking through me we're gonna let

553
00:26:12,390 --> 00:26:10,559
him say a few words himself

554
00:26:14,310 --> 00:26:12,400
let's see fergie uh just wanted to say

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00:26:17,669 --> 00:26:14,320
congratulations to you chunky sandy and

556
00:26:19,269 --> 00:26:17,679
rex uh on a spectacular ascent

557
00:26:20,950 --> 00:26:19,279
um

558
00:26:22,390 --> 00:26:20,960
as butch just said the essen team is

559
00:26:24,390 --> 00:26:22,400
signing off right now we just wanted to

560
00:26:27,110 --> 00:26:24,400
wish you all of our best

561
00:26:29,350 --> 00:26:27,120
and that we are are with you

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as you accomplish your historic flight

563
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hey richard uh i'll tell you the honor

564
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has been all ours i mean you know we're

565
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one of the fortunate few who get a

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chance to see the world from this

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perspective um

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and uh i do i want to thank you guys and

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boy i'll tell you i cannot wait to hear

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the story uh both a coming out of the

571
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t-minus nine hold and b at t-minus 31

572
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seconds i'm sure there were a few folks

573
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on the edge of their seats down there

574
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um you know if i could just pass to you

575
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and your team i know uh we're going to

576
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see a few of you for entry

577
00:27:03,909 --> 00:27:02,480
i would like to uh just kind of you know

578
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recognize a few folks that have been

579
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just key to this program for years and

580
00:27:08,710 --> 00:27:07,360
years uh the first one being mark

581
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mcdonald i don't think we're gonna see

582
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him for uh for entry

583
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uh tom arnold of course uh king of the

584
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boosters and uh

585
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uh joe jones i don't think we're gonna

586
00:27:24,950 --> 00:27:19,360
see you for entry either you guys are

587
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you guys are all heroes in our mind if

588
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for the uh you certainly deserve a

589
00:27:33,190 --> 00:27:31,440
round of applause and i'd like you to

590
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stand up and take one right now if you

591
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could it's been just a pleasure of a

592
00:27:52,870 --> 00:27:51,430
wow fergie those were great i think i

593
00:27:54,470 --> 00:27:52,880
heard one or two people clapping there

594
00:27:56,149 --> 00:27:54,480
that's wonderful

595
00:27:58,389 --> 00:27:56,159
i may have gotten a couple of claps in

596
00:28:00,149 --> 00:27:58,399
here fergie those were awesome words uh

597
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you guys have a tremendous flight we

598
00:28:02,789 --> 00:28:01,600
will be watching

599
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thanks and i'm going to address the team

600
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got speed richard

601
00:28:17,110 --> 00:28:15,350
and we've got our onboard video now live

602
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onboard space shuttle atlantis these are

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the first views of the cruise that we're

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getting

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you can see sandy magnus there on the

606
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far left hand side as we talked about

607
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before she's going to be sort of the

608
00:28:28,549 --> 00:28:26,559
load master during this flight she's got

609
00:28:29,830 --> 00:28:28,559
quite a bit of responsibility

610
00:28:31,669 --> 00:28:29,840
getting all the different payloads and

611
00:28:32,950 --> 00:28:31,679
cargo moved across the hatches there's

612
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quite a bit that's going over to the

613
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space station

614
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and a little bit coming home on board

615
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atlantis

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not only will the crew take care of 25

617
00:28:46,230 --> 00:28:43,600
478 pounds of cargo inside the

618
00:28:47,590 --> 00:28:46,240
multi-purpose logistics module

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but there's also quite a bit of cargo

620
00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:50,120
located on atlantis mid deck there's

621
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2281 pounds

622
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a little more than a ton

623
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so they will move all of that across to

624
00:28:58,389 --> 00:28:56,880
the international space station locate

625
00:29:00,590 --> 00:28:58,399
the places for it

626
00:29:03,510 --> 00:29:00,600
and then onboard the station is 1

627
00:29:05,750 --> 00:29:03,520
564 pounds of cargo that's going to be

628
00:29:07,909 --> 00:29:05,760
moved back from the station

629
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over to atlantis mid deck for the ride

630
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if you look closely you can see the test

631
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out

632
00:29:25,350 --> 00:29:23,600
of the latches on the end of the

633
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shuttle's robotic arm

634
00:29:28,710 --> 00:29:27,039
it's merely three cables that basically

635
00:29:30,310 --> 00:29:28,720
snap together and grab onto something a

636
00:29:31,750 --> 00:29:30,320
lot of people always ask us exactly how

637
00:29:33,029 --> 00:29:31,760
the robotic arm

638
00:29:34,389 --> 00:29:33,039
latches onto something but you saw it

639
00:29:35,350 --> 00:29:34,399
happen just there it's fairly quick but

640
00:29:37,110 --> 00:29:35,360
those three

641
00:29:39,269 --> 00:29:37,120
snares basically pull across each other

642
00:29:40,950 --> 00:29:39,279
and pull taut