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well good afternoon everybody and

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welcome to nasa's johnson space center

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we're here for the post mission

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management team press briefing the first

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of several that we'll conduct throughout

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mission to the international space

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station the sts-135 flight

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joining us is the chairman of the mmt

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leroy kane he's also the deputy manager

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of the space shuttle program he'll tell

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you all about the mmt meeting today and

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then we'll throw it open for questions

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with that alternative with leroy

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okay thank you kyle and good afternoon

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it's great to be here

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we i want to start out by

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congratulating the entire space shuttle

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program team and the folks across the

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country that make it possible for us to

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execute these missions

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the

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launch yesterday was flawless and since

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then

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atlantis has been performing outstanding

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on orbit

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but the entire team that prepared

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atlantis and the entire sts vehicle to

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be ready to fly yesterday deserves a

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great

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pat on the back they work very hard as

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they always do

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we've been determined to finish strong

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and this is a good beginning of

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finishing strong on this last mission so

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just a great job by the entire

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processing team down at the kennedy

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space center a fantastic job by the

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entire engineering and safety teams who

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who got us prepared to go fly this

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mission we did have coming off of

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we had a few issues not even issues but

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we had a few items things that we needed

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to disposition and

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work through and the team did their

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usual outstanding

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rigorous job and

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due diligence

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and allowing us to be able to

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disposition those items and be able to

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go fly again

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and so again

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between the folks that prepare the

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vehicle and and the the rest of the team

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who prepare the crew and the flight

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control team and the launch team

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the engineering team that helps us work

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through the issues in the safety team

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just across the board uh just

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a fantastic effort by the entire team

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and again in keeping with our

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our uh our promise to ourselves really

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um to uh to finish strong this was a a

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great first step we really put a uh our

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best foot forward on this mission in

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terms of the way we started off the

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mission yesterday

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in in the launch of atlantis the um

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the team had to work through a couple

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issues and i know you probably talked

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heard some talk about those but the the

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mission operations team did an

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outstanding job

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and evaluating the weather

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and uh the launch team the same thing

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for the launch weather uh as it turned

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out the uh the weather turned out to be

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a little bit more of a challenge for the

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the landing the abort landing

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um scenarios and so the the mission ops

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team here in houston is responsible for

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those aspects of the of the launch

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in the landing weather decisions and so

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just a great job by that team as well in

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terms of us being able to get launched

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a hearty congratulations to the entire

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team we couldn't be happier

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with the way we started off this mission

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team today it was a fairly brief

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discussion because as i said atlantis is

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performing outstanding on orbit

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the crew is doing great they're in great

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spirits they're in great health in fact

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they canceled their uh normally

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private medical conference that that

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and today was a great day for them on

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orbit they've completed all their tasks

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activities in preparation for rendezvous

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so all of the survey activity went quite

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timeline the entire time today

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with respect to all the imagery data

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that we expect to have at this point so

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the crew is is at a very full and busy

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but very productive day and

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and they've been ahead of the timeline

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anomalies we don't have any anomalies we

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don't have any significant issues in so

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don't have anything in that regard to

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talk about and didn't have anything to

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talk about in the mmt on those items

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rendezvous and docking

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vehicle is doing great the team on the

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questions kyle okay great

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exercise but uh

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phone bridge and start with mark hey

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thank you uh mark caro for aviation week

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for the mmt to have all the imagery uh

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ahead of that timeline in this

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focus inspection evaluation meeting for

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extending the mission one day sort of it

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program would very much like us to

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extend today if if at all possible

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that are able to do the work on hand

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to utilize our four-person crew albeit

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possibility of being able to extend and

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wondering if there was a need to have a

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focused inspection where that would fit

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we have

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in in

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sort of

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a standby version of the flight plan we

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have it penciled in on flight day six

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and so that looks like the best place to

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do it relative to the other activities

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that we have planned

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um and just to follow up i was wondering

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if you could explain um how challenging

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it is to do the inspections from today

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with a four-person crew as opposed to

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six or seven

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well that's a good question because as

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you know we normally do have some more

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hands on board and uh

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but i'm happy to report that our

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four-person crew is is performing um

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quite well as i mentioned earlier and uh

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staying ahead of the timeline and that's

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saying a lot for flight day two flight

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day two

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is one of the most challenging days of

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the mission in terms of all of the

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activities that are required to be

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completed

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and

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been able to do that throughout the day

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and stay ahead of the timeline

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there's a there are a lot of things that

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have to be set up in terms of

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cameras and positioning for the robotics

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work

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scan the entire leading edge and the

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nose cap and do all of the cabin surveys

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that we do

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with the with the robotics and the

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cameras and so

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it is a difficult thing to do with only

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a couple of people

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and um normally we have a couple more

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people that are able to look over their

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shoulder and

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and and in addition to doing some other

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activities that are necessary on flight

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day two flight day two is a little bit

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like

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the follow-up of of setting up the

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campsite that you started at the end of

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flight day one when you got on orbit so

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there's a lot of activity that has to

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take place

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the inspection activity not withstanding

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and so

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again outstanding performance by the

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crew

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and um they've they've managed to

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complete a very very challenging task

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with fewer hands than we normally do and

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they and they've done it uh without a

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let's go to the phone bridge and you

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guys can think up some more questions

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for our spelling bee microphone there

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uh let's see seth bornstein associated

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press are you on the line seth

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thank you i had seth bornstein at ap

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leroy um

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you talked about um you know no

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anomalies at all on the list

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especially given you know how you had a

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a few

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last second

359
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issues with the beanie cap and

360
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everything how unusual is this to be

361
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such a clean flight

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with um you know the crew getting such a

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head start on everything have you seen

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this

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everything looking so positive

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i mean just so clean in the first full

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day of flight before

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um because i know you've had a lot more

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uh

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time

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on this side than quasi and also

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it's i mean does it seem like atlanta

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certainly doesn't look and act like a

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ship ready for retirement

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what do you think this means

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let's see your first question seth um

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you know we we have been uh very

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fortunate and i use the word fortunate

379
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it really is a tribute to the teams that

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prepare these vehicles and the teams

381
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that

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the missions from a training standpoint

383
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we've been very um very fortunate

384
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for the last several missions really the

385
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the

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orbiters

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so i'm not at all surprised that

388
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atlantis has performed this well and

389
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we're only a day plus into the mission

390
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here i don't want to get ahead of

391
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ourselves but

392
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getting through launch and ascent and

393
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orbit insertion and getting to this

394
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point in the mission

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as flawlessly as as we have is uh

396
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is no small feat and so it is something

397
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to say that atlantis performance has

398
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been this outstanding

399
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um

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and but we've seen it before on the

401
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other vehicles and we've seen other

402
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crews perform the way this crew has

403
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performed on flight day two

404
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it's just that it is one of our most

405
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difficult days and so if there are any

406
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other little glitches that go on

407
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sometimes we have cable issues with

408
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laptop computers or we have

409
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other issues associated with getting the

410
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things set up as i mentioned setting up

411
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the campsite if you want to think about

412
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it that way we've had other little

413
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nuisance kind of things

414
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which aren't in and of themselves

415
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big problems or issues but every one of

416
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those little things takes a little bit

417
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of time

418
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and time is the is the essence of the

419
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real challenges that you that you have

420
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on flight day two so it takes a little

421
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bit of good fortune from that standpoint

422
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and then a lot of hard work before you

423
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ever go fly

424
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by the vast majority of the team that

425
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you don't get an opportunity to talk to

426
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you don't see them generally

427
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but they're out there and they're behind

428
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the scenes and they're really the ones

429
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that are responsible for us being able

430
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to execute like this

431
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uh as far as atlantis performing like

432
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this and getting ready to retire

433
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we've said from the beginning that that

434
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we are are

435
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dedicated and determined to finishing

436
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strong we wanted the last

437
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flight to be to be the safest flight

438
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that we fly we wanted the performance of

439
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the vehicle to be as good as it's ever

440
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been we wanted the team to be able to

441
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execute at a level that

442
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as high or higher than we've ever been

443
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able to execute and that has been what

444
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we've dedicated ourselves to as a team

445
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and and i think you're seeing that play

446
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out i think you you saw it in in the the

447
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final mission of endeavor and the same

448
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thing for discovery in the last few

449
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months here

450
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and so i'm very pleased that we've

451
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gotten to this point we have a long ways

452
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to go this is an extremely challenging

453
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mission

454
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a lot of people

455
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mistake this because it's a

456
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whether it's because it's a final

457
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mission or because it's an mplm and it

458
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doesn't have a big payload that we're

459
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that we're going to leave on station in

460
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terms of

461
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like an ams or

462
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or an assembly type mission

463
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it's a very challenging and extremely

464
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important mission to the space station

465
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program and to the international

466
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partners so we have

467
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that entire mission in front of us

468
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and we understand i think the challenges

469
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associated with getting it done with our

470
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four-person crew

471
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and so again i'm very pleased at the

472
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start we've had here

473
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and

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atlanta's performing the way atlantis

475
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has to this point

476
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being part of the equation is

477
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is

478
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a combination again of hard work and

479
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good fortune

480
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and

481
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it it is what we were determined to do

482
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in terms of of being able to finish

483
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strong so

484
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this is what i expected

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and um

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and and i i look forward to the to the

487
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the rest of the mission and uh and

488
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anything else thank you no that's it

489
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thanks okay robert perlman collect space

490
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are you on

491
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i am thanks

492
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um leroy i think there was uh some talk

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prior to the launch a few weeks prior to

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the launch

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about um extending the time that the

496
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external tank camera was on to sort of

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follow it into re-entry was that done

498
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and did you get that footage and what it

499
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looked like

500
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it was done in fact the another thing

501
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the team accomplished in a very short

502
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period of time we we kind of

503
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we kind of pulled that on him a little

504
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late in the game in terms of of making

505
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that request and so

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um but in their usual um their usual

507
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fashion they they did an outstanding job

508
00:17:13,990 --> 00:17:12,000
in terms of

509
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of being able to configure the systems

510
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before we flew uh to allow us to do that

511
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and what we're talking about is the the

512
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feed line camera that we normally have

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video

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from

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during the uh the uphill ascent into

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orbit phase

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and then so that we don't transmit over

518
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parts of the world that

519
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don't normally want us to have those

520
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kind of rf signals transmitted we turn

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it off and uh and

522
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and in this case we asked if we could

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leave it on longer so that we'd be able

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to see the re-entry of the external tank

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and

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the team was able to configure the

527
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systems to be able to do that

528
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we were able to our network team uh jim

529
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bongiter and his team of folks and kathy

530
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sham

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really just won't be on the call in

532
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terms of being able to provide some

533
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capability on the ground with a station

534
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at diego garcia that could receive this

535
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information

536
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as it turns out the the results i think

537
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are going to be about what we expected

538
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which is

539
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when the tank gets to this point and

540
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it's in its entry and re-entry

541
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into the atmosphere it's it's tumbling

542
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by this time and so and the lighting is

543
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somewhat questionable which again

544
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would be expected

545
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so

546
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the the information that i have is that

547
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we have captured the data

548
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from diego garcia

549
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it is going to be questionable in terms

550
00:18:37,830 --> 00:18:36,000
of usefulness because of the motion of

551
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the tank and because of the lighting but

552
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we haven't had any experts been able to

553
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look at it yet and we won't have that

554
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unfortunately for probably a couple of

555
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weeks

556
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and so that's not something that we'll

557
00:18:52,230 --> 00:18:50,870
it's possible but it's just not likely

558
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that we'll see that by the time we

559
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finish this mission

560
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but it was a best effort to begin with

561
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and so we'll see what we see when we get

562
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the dvd

563
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but that's the status of it as it stands

564
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thank you

565
00:19:11,430 --> 00:19:10,640
okay bill harwood cbs news are you on

566
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bill

567
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yeah i'm on but uh leroy i have no

568
00:19:18,230 --> 00:19:15,520
questions thank you very much okay

569
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okay we're back here anybody have any

570
00:19:21,430 --> 00:19:19,760
follow-ups yeah

571
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just a quick follow on the on the et

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camera what

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there were no airborne assets or any

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other assets besides diego garcia that

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were

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available for this correct okay thank

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you

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okay uh seeing no more questions just a

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couple of quick programming notes as

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leroy mentioned the crew heads to bed

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about 6 30 and of course we'll do the

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flight day

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highlights package starting at 8 o'clock

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central time

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on the hour except for the one time that

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we will play the space shuttle program

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video the launching our dreams

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if you haven't seen it it's about 30

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minutes it's quite good atlanta stocks

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to the station just after 10 sunday

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morning of course you'll see all of that

592
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on nasa tv our next mission status

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briefing is after that at 12 30 sunday

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and the mmt will meet again at one and

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then we'll be back here at three o'clock

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again tomorrow afternoon with another

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mmt update

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and

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team is

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watching over the rest of the cruise day

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and

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the crew wake up time tomorrow is 2 29

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a.m sunday central 3 29 a.m eastern

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so we'll head back to mission control

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i'm tony machadore i'm kenneth edwards

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i'm todd kwasny i'm amy berzinski i'm

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steven zinter we're the odin flight