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good afternoon thank you for joining us

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here today for today's mission status

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update of sts-135

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here with me today is the lead station

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flight director chris edelen he'll begin

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with a few remarks and then we'll

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open the floor for some questions chris

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thank you amica

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well i'm pleased to report another good

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day in space today we followed up

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yesterday's successful eva with uh today

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a busy day of cargo transfer that was

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the theme for today the crew is now

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about halfway complete

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of unloading the

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rafaello multipurpose logistics module

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moving that cargo out of the the module

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and into the space station and bringing

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back the the spare parts the trash and

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the other

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various pieces of equipment that will be

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coming back to earth

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back into the logistics module so about

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halfway complete we're running ahead of

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the schedule

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as far as the the remainder of the

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mission is concerned for cargo trends

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for

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about halfway complete again we're right

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on schedule with that so today the crew

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of atlanta spent

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most of their day supporting cargo

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operations if you saw some of the

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downlink video you may have noticed

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that it's it's very cluttered in the

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logistics module there's bags and boxes

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everywhere just like at your house on

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moving day but it's a controlled chaos

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the the team here in houston is working

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very closely with the crew they've

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they've choreographed the movements of

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equipment

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in and out of the logistics module so

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that there's a place for everything and

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we're making sure very carefully that

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everything that we need to be resupplied

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on the station ends up on the station

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and everything that we want to come home

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raphaelo so we also had a great

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assistance today from our russian crew

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members onboard the space station they

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helped out with the cargo transfer task

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as well as satoshi furukawa our jaxa

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astronaut on the space station

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mike fossum today he went into our

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closet on the space station that's the

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permanent mating adapter number three

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that's attached to the tranquility

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module he went into that closet and

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retrieved an old piece of hardware

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that's no longer required it's the

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resistive exercise device or ired and

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it's a it was the early

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weight lifting or resistive exercise

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device that was used in the early days

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of the space station program to keep

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astronauts healthy he retrieved that old

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piece of hardware and it is also being

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moved back into the

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the logistics module for return that's

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going to free up a lot of storage space

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in in the permanent multi

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permanent mating adapter number three

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and we'll use that to improve our

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stowage situation on the space station

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so that was something that we took

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advantage of the extra day on the

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mission to add that activity that was

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not originally part of this flight plan

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atlantis

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is going to stay docked that allowed us

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to complete that activity

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ron guerin today he spent several hours

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working on the space station toilet the

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waste hygiene compartment whc he

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replaced several components there that

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give some noises and vibrations that

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were indicating that the those

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components were approaching their end of

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life and he replaced those and now

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reports that the space station toilet is

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working just fine so of course when you

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have a lot of company that brought up a

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bunch of food and fresh supplies you

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want to be good hosts and and have a

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toilet that works when they're there so

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uh we're pleased to report that the

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space station toilet is uh

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fully operational and we've even invited

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the shuttle crew members to use it if

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followed up on yesterday's spacewalk

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with uh some reports from the crew on

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have determined that there's no problems

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with the spacesuits and everything's

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good in that department we also today on

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the space station resumed processing of

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the urine processor apparatus

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as all of you know we do recycle urine

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this is an important technology that we

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are demonstrating and perfecting in low

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earth orbit so that it can be used on

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future missions into deep space it's

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vitally important that we recycle all

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our water all forms of our water because

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it's so heavy and you can't resupply a

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mission with water when you're far from

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the earth and it's very rare in the

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solar system so it's important that we

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have that system working we resumed

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processing today and that system was

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so just to give you a couple examples of

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some of the hardware that was moved over

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speaking of our urine recycling system

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recycle filter tank

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assemblies that are used to filter the

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urine and turn that into new drink into

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fresh drinking water we

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got a new spare wireless eva

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transceiver assembly which allows the

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space walking astronauts helmet cam to

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be transmitted to the monitors that that

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to the crew on board and to us on the

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ground so we've got now have us an

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additional spare we also

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for our urine processing apparatus and

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lots and lots of food and clothes so

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the crew is doing great we're not

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working any issues on atlantis and the

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space station is also in great shape

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for tomorrow's plan

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uh we're going to finally give the both

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the u.s and russian crew half a day off

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they're going to do half a day of

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transfer in the morning the russians

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will be working on

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replacing the gyroscope on their

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treadmill the tevus treadmill back in

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the service module and and then in the

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afternoon the crews will take take some

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well-deserved time off here on the

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so with that that's all i had i'll be

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glad to open up the floor for any

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okay and for those of you who are here

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the astronauts going from sort of the

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sublime of uh the spacewalk and some of

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maybe more work a day uh seeming things

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life of an astronaut

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that is exactly right in fact uh i think

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amazing thing that a human being could

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possibly do to walk in the you know to

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float in the vacuum of space 240 miles

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above the earth and today he's basically

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rearranging a closet and his buddy is

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working on the toilet so yes that's

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hi robert perlman with collectspace.com

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um given this crew's tendency to want to

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work ahead and and be eager and getting

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ahead on their schedule

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working so hard is that they do want to

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of downtime and uh so i do not expect

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any problem at all tomorrow uh getting

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them to take a little bit of time off

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we're going to emphasize that in our

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morning tag up that they are actually

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running ahead of schedule there's no

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need at all for them to to work into

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their off-duty time and i'm sure they'll

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take advantage of it they've been going

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strong for uh you know for a week a week

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go ahead mark thanks uh mark caro for

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assembly and i wondered if that was a

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repair or maintenance and just sort of

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what they were troubleshooting

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july 4th weekend we did have a leak in

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part of the space station toilet the uh

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the pump separator motor had a leak and

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the urine processor and so we've been

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doing our urine processing to make sure

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that we're not over stressing any of the

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components in that and we and there was

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works its way out of the system so we

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process for almost four hours

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with no issues no odors reported and no

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anomalous indications on the uh on the

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gina cinceri abc news so tomorrow the

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crew is having a virtual dinner are you

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going to share in this dinner in mission

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control oh i hope they if they are

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having a virtual dinner i do hope we get

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a little bit of down link and they

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share in the fun and they'll typically

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food to the party like any good potluck

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food so yeah hopefully we'll take part

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hi irene klotz with reuters i know

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selection for the non-profit to run the

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national lab portion of iss and i was

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wondering if you had any thoughts on

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operationally what that will mean to

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okay uh well i'll hit the last part

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first

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on the shuttle we we used to fly

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occasionally would fly a payload

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specialist a non-astronaut that would be

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trained to operate experiments on a

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shuttle mission

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i'm not aware of any plans to do that on

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the space station but it's certainly not

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beyond the realm of possibility

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considering we've done it in the past as

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far as the announcement that you

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mentioned i did hear about that i don't

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have any uh in any detailed knowledge

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obviously we're focusing on the

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day-to-day operations of the mission but

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just to comment a little bit on where

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we're going with the space station um

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you know this being the last shuttle

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flight to the station means we're moving

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from

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an assembly phase and a resupply you

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know an intense resupply phase of lots

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and lots of spares more into a

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utilization phase where the focus is

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really going to be on science we we do a

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lot of science already on the station

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but we're expecting to increase the

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number of hours that the crew

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works science experiments and i think

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this announcement uh sort of heralds the

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beginning of that that really uh high

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utilization phase and i think uh you

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know the kind of research we're doing on

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the station um you know it really

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provides a lot of benefits uh for people

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on earth it's not just about you know

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how the astronauts adapt to space and

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improving equipment for space flight uh

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for example uh you know on the on the

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flight we're flying now on on atlantis

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we're flying uh

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an op an opti-cell processing module

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which is a cell biology experiment um

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and we're also flying 30 mice and these

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mice are they're having a therapeutic

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countermeasure for muscle atrophy so

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again the immediate application is for

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astronauts adapting to weightlessness

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and the muscle decay that we see in

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astronauts but there are applications

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for people that are on bed rest on the

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earth and and those with uh you know

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with with weak muscles that we can

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understand basically how the human body

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works because

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space is a very unique environment and

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it allows us to see the human body from

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a different vantage point so the life

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sciences research that we do on space

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space station is uh is very

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uh pertinent to life on earth as well as

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you know the studies of the heavens like

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for example the alpha magnetic magnetic

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spectrometer looking back into the into

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the past towards the big bang and

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looking for antimatter so it the space

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station is just such a unique

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asset a national asset that runs the

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gamut of many different disciplines of

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science so i'm excited that we're moving

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okay

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phillip sloss with nasaspaceflight.com

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um i think on mike's uh in in the flight

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plan for mike he when he was in uh

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doing the work on pma3 there was also a

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center disc cover install on the port i

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guess on the port hatch could you just

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explain um why he was doing that now and

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what that's for

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yes he was just doing that to to we

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wanted to make sure that the items

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inside the permanent mating adapter

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number three don't shift into the uh

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into the hatch mechanism envelope

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thanks

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hey mom can you have one more

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uh thanks mark caro for aviation week

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i'm going to go back to your report on

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the cargo transfers and see if i

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understood correctly did you say that

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half of the mplm and half of the mid

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deck have been

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transferred to the station side at this

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point

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or

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half of the gross half of the out we're

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halfway complete with the with the uh

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uh with the

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with the the number of hours that we

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expect so

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unloading the mplm is about a third of

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the hours that we've budgeted and

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reloading it is a little more a little

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more complicated and it's that's about

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two-thirds of the time that we've

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budgeted so of that total 100 time we're

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about 50

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completed so that means we've just about

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completely unloaded the mplm

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uh well let me let me go back we

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some of the items have not quite been

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unloaded from the mplm yet i don't have

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an exact number but we are in a mixed

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config where some items are still

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waiting to come out and many items to be

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returned are already in the

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so we're about halfway done in terms of

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the number of hours that we expect it

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will take and just uh just from a big

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picture sense going back to where you

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sort of anticipated

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you might be at this point which is

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almost the halfway point of the mission

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with the extension

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do you do you feel like you're on on

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pace to accomplish what you wanted

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within the time you have or

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is there still a lot of kind of pressure

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to

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yeah that's that's a fair question if we

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had not had the extension day

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we would obviously we would not be ahead

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of schedule and we would not have been

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able to do uh for example today we would

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not have been able to afford to have uh

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ron garan work on the space station

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toilet doing a little bit of preemptive

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maintenance that took about four hours

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we would not have done that we would

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have had him work in cargo transfer we

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would have had to have

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dedicated the crew

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more extensively to cargo transfer than

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we've been able to do so we've

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instead of

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using the extension day

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for all cargo transfer

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knowing that we're going to get the you

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know that we have the extension day and

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the plan we're going ahead and filling

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some of the days with other activities

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denise ciao at space.com um with the

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amount of cargo that atlantis brought up

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um and with a lot of it being for

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long-term use um has there been any

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problems with finding places to store

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all of this cargo yes

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yes that that has been a huge challenge

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you may recall back on

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sts-133 earlier this year discovery on

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her last flight brought up the

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the

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permanent storage you can call it a

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basement because it's on one of the

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lower hatches towards the earth and it

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is used just for storage and

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even with that big module just for

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storage

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after atlantis flight

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all of its

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rack storage spaces are going to be full

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and 14 out of the 16 racks will have

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cargo stacked on the front so it will be

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you know not difficult to get in and out

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of but it will certainly be congested

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and full of lots of spares and many of

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the other locations in space station

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have

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more cargo stored on it than was

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originally intended i mean ideally you'd

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have a nice clear path

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and open faces on the various science

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racks and and hardware racks to where

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you wouldn't have to move cargo around

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but because we have so much cargo stored

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on station intentionally

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it sometimes is difficult

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to access some of the racks that we that

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the crew needs to access and sometimes

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proves to be a challenge to access tools

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and other hardware that you need for

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maintenance tasks so stowage is a

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challenge um again one reason we're

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bulking up on our our cargo is because

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we're entering a new phase with shuttle

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being retired we're going to be

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dependent upon our commercial resupply

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vehicles

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spacex and orbital are both vying to to

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supply the space station they'll be

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coming online

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early in 2012 and uh as they go through

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their flight test program we wanted to

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make sure we had plenty of supplies on

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board in case they run into any problems

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and of course we're we're always going

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to be partly reliant on the russians

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with their supply craft as well as the

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europeans and japanese that uh that

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perform uh periodic

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resupply missions with unmanned

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spacecraft to the space station

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okay thank you bill

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bill harwood cbs

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just along those lines i was confused in

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the pre-flight briefings when mike

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suffordini said that the stuff coming up

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on this flight would add six months when

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you look at atv and htv progress

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um and everybody else we've been saying

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it's a year's worth of supplies and i'm

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confused about that um

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i mean when you're looking ahead to 2012

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what exactly

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are you getting with this flight versus

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what what how it's extending if we had

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just this flight and no other resupply

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missions we would not be able to make it

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through 2012. so this flight gets us

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through 2012 but also including

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specifically the russian progress

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contributions which the russians are are

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very key players and important players

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with cargo delivery

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with the progress is as well as as you

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know the crew delivery with the soyuz so

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progress plus atlantis gets us through

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2012 and i'm i believe the the htv and

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atv

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plans uh

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is that everybody here today

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so

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maybe let's go to the bone bridge i

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think um do we have marsha yes hi can

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you hear me yes we do

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yeah the exercise equipment that mike

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fossum bundled up

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for transfer to the cargo carrier that

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sounds pretty big

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how bulky is it how much space is it i'm

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you know just trying to get an idea of

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uh just a rough number uh approximately

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if you if you had a comparison if you

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were looking at that what would it

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remind you of all boxed up

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well let's see uh our standard

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cargo transfer bag that you might see on

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some of the video where the crew is

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moving those back and forth it's

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equivalent to about 10 of those so 10

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small suitcases or large handbags

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great thank you and

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just one quick question about the urine

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processor was anything done differently

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to try to

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get that smell out of the way or was it

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just a matter of letting it sit and let

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the air bubbles or whatever it was go

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through

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it was the latter we uh we just let it

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sit for a day primarily we didn't want

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to run a risk of uh of introducing any

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odors uh yesterday when the crew had a

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very busy day and a very stressful day

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of uh getting in their spacesuits

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getting ready for the spacewalk and uh

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performing the robotics operations there

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in the tranquility module which is right

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across the aisle from our urine

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processing apparatus so we stood down on

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any processing allowed the system to

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settle out and uh and and and then we

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reprocessed today uh we

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counted as a is good news that the odor

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didn't get released today but it may

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reappear tomorrow as this gas works

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through the system the engineers looking

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at the data do not see any

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abnormal indications so we really don't

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have a

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full understanding of whether all the

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gas made it out of the system or whether

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there still might be some some odor

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issues but again the crew said you know

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they could live with it they could deal

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with it it's just again it's not the

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kind of thing you want to have when you

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have house guests and you have a real

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busy schedule

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thanks a lot

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okay thank you chris

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and uh with that we'll conclude the

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today's mission briefing um

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we are the station crew has gone to bed

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at four o'clock atlantis cruises is

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going to bed just now and uh up next on

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nasa tv just a couple of programming

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notes uh launching our dreams it's a

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special space shuttle program video will

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air at 5 pm central time here on nasa

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television also flight day 6 highlights

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will begin airing at 6 pm

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these will be aired at the top of every

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hour

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and also a special video on the space

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shuttle

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narrated by william shatner and

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tomorrow there will be playback video

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from atlanta's solid rocket boosters on

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splashdown that will begin at 9 00 a.m

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and then there will be other replays

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after that throughout the day

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the next mission status briefing will be

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held here again tomorrow at 4 pm central

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time thank you chris and everyone for

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joining us here the tv schedule is now

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on revision f and can be found at

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www.nasa.gov

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shuttle tv

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hi i'm steve sides ruben de leon shanna

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andrew and i'm heidi brewer we are the

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instrumentation and communication