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ready for the event we're ready WB and

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GTV this Houston please call Atlantis

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Atlantis is s this is wbng TV how do you

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hear me the ISS has you loud and clear

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how us good afternoon Atlantis you know

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the launch was a success the docking was

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just so emotional for everyone here how

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was this mission been so far I got one

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word for you really busy we've we've had

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a great time we've got some great

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station hosts up here and we're just

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trying to get them all stocked up for

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when you're up there is it all work and

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no play or do you get some down time to

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but we're working really hard to try and

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get ahead of it so when we get our half

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day off we can actually take the day off

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and and look out the window the views

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from the cupola are truly spectacular

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and that's probably where you'll find us

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are there any mementos that you plan to

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take home from this final mission well I

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think we we plan to bring more up and

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then we do to bring back you know most

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of the things that are up here on

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station we're bringing up for a reason

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and they need them but we all bring some

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personal mementos on each shuttle flight

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and you know we have miss souvenirs and

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for folks who have really worked hard

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this next question is for pilot Doug

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Hurley we are here in the southern tier

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of New York it's you're at tioga county

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native graduate of a we go free academy

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what is this area in the southern tier

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of New York mean to you well it's it's

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my hometown it'll always be my home I

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get back there whenever I can and just

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you know this crew you're really an

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inspiration to everywhere across the

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United States but especially kids what

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advice you have for kids wanting to get

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into NASA and get in the field well I

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think our advice would be just work

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really hard in school especially in

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science and math because that's very

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very important in in this business and

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and then keep after your dreams you

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never know you know I dreamed of

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becoming an astronaut a long time ago

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and it really that was possible but I

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kept after it and and sure enough we

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were able to I think a lot of the

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stories it just takes a lot of

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persistence a lot of hard work so I've

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been listening over the last couple of

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days and i really enjoy those morning

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songs with the wake-up call where do

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these come from and how do you choose i

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mean you had Chumbawamba you had Elton

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bit about that actually normally our

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families pick out during a normal

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mission our families will pick out our

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wakeup music for us and some of it comes

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as a little bit of a surprise this

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missions a little special in the NASA

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songs from various different artists and

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we're still waiting to hear what the

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rest of them are but it's been really

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fun you know wake up every morning to a

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different song and it sort of sets the

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mood for the day what do you plan to do

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days away and you're focused on your

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mission they are right now but any plan

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for when you actually touch ground here

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at home what's the first things you want

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to do well I think all of us will

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probably savor the moment for a few

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minutes maybe and then I think all of us

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are really looking forward to getting

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outside and kind of sharing it with all

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the great folks at Kennedy Space Center

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and then a few hours later getting to

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see our family and friends I think

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you you're the last pilot to shuttle

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these emissions what are your plans

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where do you go from here well my first

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priority is obviously to be to complete

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this mission successfully and help out

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everybody here on the ISS and my

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crewmates and then once we get back on

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the ground spend a little time with

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family and friends and then from there

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vehicle for NASA we're going to help out

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our commercial partners so there's a lot

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to look forward to is a bright future in

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space flight so far this final mission

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has been nothing but a success do you

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see the last 30 years of NASA being just

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yeah I'll tell you it's a it's a

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fantastic world up here and if I could

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convey 11 message to you it would be

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when you stand poised about 600 feet

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underneath the International Space

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Station and look up and see that grand

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thing pass over you it is really

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spectacular you know NASA's past 30

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years of space shuttle you know when

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it's all done we have the space station

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to show for it we have tremendous

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observatories in space it's been a great

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program atlanta's ifs thank you so much

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from wbng thank you from everyone in the

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southern tier keep up the great work and

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we'll see you later atlantis ISS this is

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portion of the event please stand by for

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a voice check from WIC zee TV hello how

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this is the International Space Station

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we have you loud and clear hi thanks so

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much how you guys doing we're doing fine

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how's it going down there in Binghamton

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it's doing pretty well natsu cloudy for

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one well first up I have a question I've

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a few questions from some people in the

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area and then i have my my questions

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here first off i want to know and this

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is for everyone you know the four of you

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how does it feel be part of history you

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know being one of the few people to

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venture off into a space shuttle you

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know you know we kind of we kind of

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don't think about it like that this is

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sort of our normal job and occasionally

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you just have to stop and I remember

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when I lived here on the space station I

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got so much into the work and getting

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things done every now had to stop and

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think about where I was it's like oh my

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gosh I'm flooding in it a big huge

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building you don't 200 miles above the

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earth and this is really special and and

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so you know when you're doing your day

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to day job you can't really think about

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it in those kinds of terms but all of us

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are honored to be a part of this mission

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and we're doing our best to leave the

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station in a good configuration when we

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leave and do you know what what's next

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for NASA at all will there be anything

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replacing the space shuttle yes we're a

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very hard at work on that right now but

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the NASA is really looking forward

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trying to go to the next level we we're

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right now the space shuttle comes here

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the International Space Station and will

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continue to man the space station

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continue to do research now that the

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space station is built and beyond that

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our access to space we're going to try

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to get a vehicle that can go beyond

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low-earth orbit and and we're going to

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and forth to some of the commercial

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providers so we're kind of trying to

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transition to a more commercial approach

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for the low Earth orbit but for the real

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true exploration beyond low Earth orbit

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we're trying to develop our own vehicle

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think it was several things it was you

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know college professors that got you

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interested in a particular subject it

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was coaches that got you interested in

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being part of a team it was you know

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flying fighters and then being able to

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be a test pilot you know so it was a

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number of different things that got me

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interested in it was also a love of

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airplanes so a lot of different things

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station and this question is for anyone

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who wants to answer this is from Eli

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he's little boy not here in vessel he

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wants to know where you guys sleep do

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you sleep in bunks on the floor or do

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you float well we actually sleep in just

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sleep floating in space we have sleeping

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bags that will unroll and will usually

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perhaps but we'll just stretch it

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sleep like that it's very comfortable

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things every day just like you change

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different subjects in your classes at

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so we're learning a vast array of new

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things and it's fun to do that and

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you'll be having a big feast you know

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with the public NASA is planning so I

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there at Kennedy Space Center but you

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sure that we get to share it with all

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the great folks down at Kennedy Space

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Center and thank them for their 30 years

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of work on this awesome space shuttle

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vehicle that we got the fly all right

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thank you guys so much good luck with

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the rest your mission and we're all

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proud of you down here well thanks a lot

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and just like to say hi to all my family

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and friends back in binghamton atlantis

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glory of being an astronaut you get a

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most glorious day but the work that has

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to be done well I'll tell you you pretty

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much hit the nail on the head there that

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is exactly what we're doing we have we

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have a lot a lot of stuff we need to

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supply the International Space Station

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with to sustain them for about a year so

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a lot of its food a lot of its clothing

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a lot of it is spare parts and hauling

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out in the in the other direction I

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wouldn't call it garbage it's it's

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mostly broken things it's things that

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need to go back to the ground they want

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to take a look at it they want to know

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why it failed so they can make it better

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the next time they send it up all right

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specialist Magnus I'd like to ask you a

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question how are you and how are the

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others from your observation reacting to

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this being the last shuttle mission what

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are the emotions as you look about

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knowing that it's not going to happen

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again well you know that's something

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we've been dealing with the whole

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training flow we've we've had a lot of

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last events you know last training event

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in the motion based simulator the last

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training event and building nine where

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our full-scale mock-up SAR the last

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interaction was some of the great people

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at Kennedy Space Center and as we've

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gotten closer and closer to launch it

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it's hitting it hit us more and more

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powerfully that this really was it and I

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think after we get back down to the

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ground after landing it's going to hit

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us really hard and I think we're all

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going to have a really hard time leaving

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the shuttle and doing the walk around

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and greeting the people down there and

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and just closing out the program that

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way I mean will be really excited that

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the hopefully the mission went well but

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will be very sad too because it was a

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a pilot early a question for you if I

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could America is watching this space

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shuttle mission more intensely than any

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in years many years is the historic

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aspect of this mission on your minds how

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do you go about your day with that

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present to be real honest with you I

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don't think it is we you know I think

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most of us our whole lives have been

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very focused and goal-oriented and this

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is just one more of those things that

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we're doing you know we're so focused on

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the task you're doing that particular

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minute or that particular hour and then

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you know task after task and a you know

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EDA that we did yesterday and transfer

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that we're doing today you know it keeps

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us so focused that we we tend not to I

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think look at the big picture as much

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and I and I think we're kind of all

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telling ourselves that you know we'll

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have time to kind of reflect on this

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this whole event this whole happening

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that we that we've gone through for the

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last nine months and hopefully be able

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to share it and articulate it with

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everybody else and finally for

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specialists Walheim if I could the local

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boy who made so good I just wanted to

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ask you with that last spacewalk

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yesterday you're you're someone who has

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done several of those as that was going

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on last one with the shuttle your

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thoughts and your emotions what was it

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it was a wonderful sight it was that it

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was a pleasure to be a part of it and it

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was kind of unique for me because I've

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been outside on spacewalks 45 times but

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it's been about nine years since I've

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been inside while the spacewalk is going

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on so when those guys come right up to

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the window in the spacesuit it's just a

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real sci-fi type of look and it was it

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was very interesting and it was it was a

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lot of hard work and I was really proud

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of the the spacewalkers Ron Garan and

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Mike Fossum he did an awesome job got

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all their tasks done even got a bonus

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one done and another one for you a

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specialist Walheim now that there are

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going to be no more shuttles to fly what

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becomes of someone who was known for his

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flying on the shuttles what are you

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well for me I just want to continue to

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be involved in in the program at NASA

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we've got continuing operations here on

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the space station the space station is

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now complete we can end the assembly

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phase now we're entering the the

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utilization phase where we can do that

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groundbreaking research to find new ways

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to treat diseases find out new ways to

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help us to be able to stay in space

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longer our human body and then we're

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also going to try to go beyond low-earth

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orbit so I think that's really exciting

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building a new system to to get past the

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space stations out to it up to you know

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the the outside of the moon or to a

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straight or maybe to Mars one day and so

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we've got to build those systems and I

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want to be involved in helping to build

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those but we only have it maybe 20

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seconds for your answer and I hope

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that's fair but I was wondering if you

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could say to young people who still

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think about going into space we're

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talking about Mars we're talking about

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meteors what is it what gives you the

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most excitement when you are up there or

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going up there where is that that major

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rush well that I would have to give that

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two things number one is launched any

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time you get slung off the planet from

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zero to 17,000 miles an hour and eight

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and a half minutes you can't help but

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get in an adrenaline rush and that is

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absolutely spectacular and then when you

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get up here just looking back on the

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earth that 220 miles down and a couple

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days ago had a chance to see California

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from space again and I could see the

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bear it was little bit foggy but I could

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see the outline of it and to think I was

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a kid down there many years ago looking

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up at the airplanes and dreaming to fly

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in one day and here i am on the

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International Space Station cruising

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along at Mach 25 it's just amazing and

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if I can do it anybody can do it it's it

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really is dreams do come true with a

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little bit persistence and some hard

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all right to all of you thank you so

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much America is watching and look

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forward to seeing you back here next

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week yeah we appreciate that and I just

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wanted to say hi to all my my friends in

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and and folks I know and my relatives in

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Atlantis ISS this is Houston ACR that

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concludes the event thank you thank you

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