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oh i'm a rocket man

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and i think it's gonna be a long long

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time to touch down brings me right i get

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i'm burning

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good morning atlantis this is elton john

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we wish you much success on your mission

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and a huge thank you to all the men and

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women at nasa who worked on the shuttle

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for the last three decades

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hey good morning houston elton john

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music legend wow that is absolutely

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fantastic we are absolutely honored that

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you took the time to uh

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join the crew this morning and wake us

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up we've invited the space station crew

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over here we were all over uh to listen

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to the occasion

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you know i think it just illustrates the

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far reaching

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uh both

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both legendary 30 years of shuttle

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flight and also the amount of people

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globally that have been affected by the

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shuttle program itself

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thank you so much elton for taking again

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the time to join us this morning and

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it's great to be here great to be in

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space

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atlantis houston we agree with you 100

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and it's great to be with you working

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for another day

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the shuttle crew commander chris

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ferguson pilot doug hurley and mission

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specialists sandy magnus and rex walheim

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are emerging from a post-sleep period in

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which they've had an opportunity to

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review their morning messages get a bite

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to eat and gear up for a busy day of

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transfer work transfer is the name of

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the game today as it will be for the

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next several days as the crew presses

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ahead to complete the transfer of almost

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five tons of supplies from rafaello to

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the international space station that

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will help fortify the complex for the

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next 12 months

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atlantis iss this is wbng tv when you're

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up there is it all work and no play or

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do you get some down time to enjoy

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yourselves on this final mission

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well we haven't had much down time yet

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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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on flight day 8 when we have our time

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what advice do you have for kids wanting

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to get into nasa and get in the

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field well i think our advice would be

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just to work really hard in school

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especially in science and math because

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that's very very important in this

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business and then keep after your dreams

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you never know uh you know i dreamed of

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becoming an astronaut a long time ago i

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never really thought was possible but i

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kept after it and

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and sure enough we were able to i think

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a lot of us have those stories it just

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takes a lot of persistence a lot of hard

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work

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atlantis iss this is kgo tv commander

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ferguson if i can start with you

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i guess today would be oh the glory of

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being an astronaut you get to move stuff

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into the

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international space station and drag the

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garbage out not the most glorious day

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well i'll tell you you pretty much hit

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the nail on the head there that is

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exactly what we're doing we have we have

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a lot of a lot of stuff we need to

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supply this international space station

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with to sustain them for about a year so

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a lot of it's food a lot of it's

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clothing a lot of it is spare parts and

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hauling out in the in the other

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direction i wouldn't call it garbage

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it's mostly broken things it's things

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that need to go back to the ground they

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want to take a look at it they want to

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know why it failed so they can make make

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it better the next time they send it up

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a pilot hurley a question for you if i

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could

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america is watching this space shuttle

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mission more intensely than

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any in

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years many years

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is the historic aspect of this mission

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on your minds how do you go about your

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day with that

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uh to be real honest with you i don't

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think it is we

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i think most of us our whole lives have

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been very focused and goal-oriented and

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this is just one more of those things

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that we're doing you know we're so

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focused on the task you're doing

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that particular minute or that

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particular hour and then you know task

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after task and uh you know eva that we

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did yesterday and transfer that we're

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doing today

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you know it keeps us so focused that we

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we tend not to i think look at the big

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picture as much and i and i think we're

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kind of all telling ourselves that you

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know we'll have time to kind of reflect

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on this uh

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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 uh and and hopefully be