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copy mike stand by

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station houston on one mike um what you

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okay great and i'm taking

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atlantis iss this is houston are you

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yes we're ready for the event

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wbbm tv this is mission control houston

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hello check can you hear me

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yes we can hear you loud and clear how

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i can hear you perfectly wow that's

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amazing it's so good to see all of you i

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want to thank you for talking to us and

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i want to start by asking questions to

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sandra if possible because we know she's

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from down state illinois

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sandra how meaningful is it for you to

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launch the training during most of our

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preparation time i hadn't really thought

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about it but i i will tell you it's an

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honor to be a part of any shuttle crew

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and this one is is really special

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wow it sure is what's next for the space

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program and what is the impact for

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future generations without the space

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big capability we're going to miss up

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and that's being able to return items

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there was a pump a critical pump that

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failed and we're going to bring it home

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so the engineers can take a look at it

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anymore but we are building new rockets

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your careers what what is your next um

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least so we've got opportunities there

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sending citizens private citizens into

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space uh what do you feel about that you

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guys are moving forward in advancing

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science how do you feel about just us

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profession and also just people in

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general who are interested in the space

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very remote chance or a remote idea

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guys were very busy and didn't really

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realize that the the space shuttle has

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30-year career and we're very very proud

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of it and so i i plan on uh when we get

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everybody who's worked so hard on this

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program to uh to celebrate the great

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achievements over the last 30 years

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atlantis iss this is houston acr that

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it's july 14th sounds good stand by

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morning cam cook thank you for joining

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us it's 6 26 right now this is an

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incredible pictures of the crew members

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of the space shuttle atlantis well this

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talking to the shuttle crew live about

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their historic mission atlantis iss this

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we hear you good morning gentlemen thank

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you know we intend to go back to the

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moon and mars what would you say is the

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crowning achievements of the space

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shuttle we love you we're pleased to

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armstrong's landing on the moon um as it

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as it was we've extended one day we'll

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be landing on july 21st a significant

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day nonetheless and uh i put some

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thought into uh how we're going to

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reflect on the moment uh and uh perhaps

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we'll just save that so that we'll stop

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all right fantastic thank you very much

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thank you so much we are talking live to

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the astronauts there uh notice the cal

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cow fan in the back we appreciate that

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here in the bay area thank you very much

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for joining us today and have a safe

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thank you so very much have a great day

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atlantis iss this is houston acr that

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concludes the ktvu tv portion of the

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event please stand by for a voice check

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let's go to space what do you say let's

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do it all right here we go the

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astronauts of the shuttle atlantis are

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making history right now on the

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shuttle's last mission in space you know

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that and they are about to join us live

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in fact i think we have them at the

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international space station

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and there they are

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just floating there hi welcome to

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hey it's it's great to be here my

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hometown of philly how you doing

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good that's great commander we're so

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happy and proud of you now we may talk

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to the rest of the crew too but we're

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going to concentrate on

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commander ferguson here we'll get to

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everybody eventually i'm trying to look

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at you and look at

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so

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when did you first

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get involved in space

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that's awesome

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you know philly's own willow or will

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smith's kid

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what's the thing with her song

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i whip my hair back and forth where's my

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hair back and forth that's the first

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time you've seen somebody with their

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hair back and forth from space anyway

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commander ferguson when did you first

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have the dream of going to space from

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living in philadelphia

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grew up in the northeast there i went to

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saint martha's grade school archbishop

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bryant high school and i think it was

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somewhere in there i had some real

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motivational teachers who got me

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interested in science and taught me a

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little bit about aviation i thought well

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you know maybe i'd like to fly airplanes

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someday one thing led to another i

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always had a fascination with the with

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the early astronauts and the apollo

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program and you know lo and behold you

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just you put your nose to the grindstone

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and you keep your dreams alive and you

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end up in interesting places someday

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you're here i'm telling you i've done a

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lot of these interviews as well a few of

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them from space the technology now is

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amazing the picture guys

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you look like you're in a studio maybe

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in omaha nebraska or something the shot

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is so clear is this a hoax are you

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really in space still

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hair

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i don't know we're gonna have to do

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oh yeah i can do that watch this

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can everybody float around for it that

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was really cool chris

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i think i think sandy's hair is pretty

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much a dead giveaway

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it is oh there you go there's a pose for

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you right there

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that is so cool well which way is the is

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the space station are you standing are

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actually uh we're in we're in the

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japanese module right now this is one of

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several modules the space station is

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really it's an incredibly large vehicle

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it's uh weighs over a million pounds

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right now and uh you know if you have

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one of the unique opportunities like we

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have to you know

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be a thousand feet below and look up at

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this tremendous vehicle it's just all

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inspiring it's hard to believe that

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mankind has built this and we get to

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live in it for a couple weeks it's great

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you know every now and then you can see

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the space shuttle go over philadelphia

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what are you looking at right now like

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for instance right now where are you

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uh we're actually

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uh we're like i said we're floating in

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the japanese module which is one of the

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wings that sits off the side of the

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space station of course it's a series of

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tubes that stick together but when you

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see the space station fly over it's a

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very bright light what you're usually

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seeing is the reflection off the large

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solar arrays that are about 300 feet

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yeah so where is the space station right

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wow that's a real good question we

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we actually have this uh real neat

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computer application that tells us where

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we are in the world because sometimes

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just by looking out the window you can't

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tell

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but right now we don't have it up so

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honest to goodness we can't tell you

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where we are over the earth but if we

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went to a window we could find out well

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listen to this

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i've been told you're over the northeast

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atlantic

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you know rex here is just an expert in

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geography and all he has to go down to

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uh the cupola which is a kind of like a

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fishbowl if you will to allow us to look

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out the bottom of the space station and

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rex can usually pick out exactly where

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we are at any given moment

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that's kind of cool i'll say did you

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take any tasty cakes uh tasty cakes up

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there and if you did which one do you

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like one do you like you know first

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thing we're gonna do is maybe get sandy

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go back and open one of these windows

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behind us we'll let you look out the

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window a little bit did i take any tasty

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cakes unfortunately no but believe me i

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okay now we have some video of you of uh

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you folks eating breakfast what did you

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have for breakfast

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uh

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i'll tell you what let me pass the

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microphone around a little bit yeah this

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is doug hurley the pilot let's talk to

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uh let's see would i i had uh oatmeal

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with brown sugar this morning and i

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think uh

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somebody else had eggs and i don't

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remember what rex had a sausage patty

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and a sausage patty so you know pretty

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good

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now we don't we a lot of our meals are

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kind of you know similar to military

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meals ready to eat so they're in pouches

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or bags and some of them you have to add

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water to and we have a a small oven in

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the shuttle where we can heat things up

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both

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you know food and we can get hot or cold

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water out of the dispenser right above

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it so uh it's a pretty nice setup and

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the food is uh is really really good

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sandy your face is turning red is is

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that the blood runner for rushing to

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your head and what are you looking at

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a lot of water most of the time when you

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look out the window up here there's just

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a lot of water and occasionally you'll

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go over a continent uh you know only

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takes us 90 minutes to go around the

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world and so we get a sunset in the

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sunrise about every 45 minutes when

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you're over the sahara it's very very

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dramatic there's a lot of browns and

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oranges and tans and beiges it's really

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beautiful the caribbean is really

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beautiful but right now we just see a

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lot of water out the window

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yeah

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you know as bette miller once said

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from a distance

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no i won't sing so

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so i always wonder what you wear but

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we've had some people tweet us this

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morning want to know by the way

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congratulations they say to commander

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ferguson we're all proud of you uh

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everybody whoever went to archbishop

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ryan

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uh high school so that's one thing uh

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i'm not gonna ask this but they always

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ask you how do you go to the bathroom

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stuff like that you want a notion my

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co-anchor chanel marie jones

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wants to know

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how do you go to the bathroom you go in

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let's just say it involves airflow

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rather than gravity i will just leave it

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thank you all very much well we didn't

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talk to rex uh all right thank you all

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very much and con congratulations

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especially to our commander chris

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hello to my family and friends in

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philadelphia drexel university

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archbishop ryan go philly that's right

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can i tell you i'm not even kidding this

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makes me want to go back to school and

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atlantis iss this is houston thanks so

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thank you that concludes the event

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thank you wbbm tv ktvu tv and wtxftv

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atlantis iss we are now resuming

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good

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hey

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okay

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this is mission control houston five

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days 22 hours 17 minutes into the flight

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of atlantis to the international space

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station

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with the completion of our second set of

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interviews with atlantis astronauts now

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complete

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we will

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look forward in about

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14 minutes to the first airing of

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the video

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that was acquired through cameras on the

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solid rocket boosters the solid rocket

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booster video that was acquired for

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atlantis final launch on the last launch

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in shuttle program history

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last friday at 10 29 a.m central time

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from the kennedy space center

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again the

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sts-135 solid rocket booster video

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from last friday's launch of atlantis to

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be played for the first time at 9

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central time there are replays of this

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scheduled throughout the course of the

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here in the shuttle flight control room

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a shift handover has just begun as the

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orbit 2 team led by flight director rick

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lebrode working bankers hours during

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this mission

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about to take over from the lead shuttle

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flight control team the orbit one team

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that has been on console since 12 30

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as the crew members press into the

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second half of their day this will be

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off-duty time for the 10 crew members on

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this is uh the first opportunity since

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atlantis docked to the station sunday

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morning for the crew members to catch up

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on some work

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to essentially relax and take a breather

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and enjoy the view of earth from orbit

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with their station counterparts

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commander chris ferguson in the

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foreground pilot doug hurley in the

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background down in the mid deck of

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atlantis where they have been working

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with some of the stowage activities for

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the shuttle station complex is orbiting

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246 miles above the earth crossing over

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the sahara desert

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moving from northwest to southeast

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across the eastern portion of africa

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soon to cross over into the

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indian ocean

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once again the crew members have been

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working uh over the past several hours

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on continuing the cargo transfer of

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items from the rafaello multipurpose

548
00:34:25,510 --> 00:34:23,520
logistics module that is mated

549
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to the earth-facing side of the harmony

550
00:34:29,750 --> 00:34:27,280
module of the international space

551
00:34:33,270 --> 00:34:29,760
station all of that cargo transfer

552
00:34:35,909 --> 00:34:33,280
moving from the cargo module itself onto

553
00:34:37,510 --> 00:34:35,919
the station that will provide a year's

554
00:34:40,389 --> 00:34:37,520
worth of uh

555
00:34:41,750 --> 00:34:40,399
stockpiling for the station crews uh

556
00:34:44,389 --> 00:34:41,760
including the current crew the

557
00:34:46,950 --> 00:34:44,399
expedition 28 crew the commander of the

558
00:34:49,349 --> 00:34:46,960
station andre barasenka along with his

559
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russian crewmates alexander samokutyayev

560
00:34:52,950 --> 00:34:51,040
and sergey volkov

561
00:34:56,310 --> 00:34:52,960
japanese flight engineer satoshi

562
00:35:14,069 --> 00:34:56,320
furukawa and nasa flight engineers ron

563
00:35:18,230 --> 00:35:16,630
on the big loop um i was looking at the

564
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procedure and all it really says is

565
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apply the clear pen

566
00:35:24,230 --> 00:35:22,640
to the sensor uh so i guess i wanted to

567
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make sure

568
00:35:26,710 --> 00:35:25,359
i guess i wanted to figure out what

569
00:35:33,829 --> 00:35:26,720
exactly that means i'm looking at the

570
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i'm not really sure what i'm looking at

571
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actually so it looks it's black and it's

572
00:35:40,150 --> 00:35:38,800
kind of a cloth like surface and i'm i'm

573
00:35:42,630 --> 00:35:40,160
not really sure

574
00:35:45,829 --> 00:35:42,640
uh how that has got like attached to it

575
00:35:49,990 --> 00:35:45,839
it picks up dust off of the sensor or

576
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checking

577
00:38:56,310 --> 00:38:53,710
this is mission control houston sailing

578
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245 miles above the earth at a speed of

579
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5 miles a second the shuttle station

580
00:39:03,190 --> 00:39:01,200
complex has passed just south of the

581
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saudi peninsula skirting the east coast

582
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of africa

583
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moving from northwest to southeast in an

584
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orbit inclined 51.6 degrees to either

585
00:39:17,030 --> 00:39:14,470
everything going extremely well on board

586
00:39:18,950 --> 00:39:17,040
the two spacecraft this has been a day

587
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so far devoted to some in-flight

588
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the continuation of the transfer of

589
00:39:29,990 --> 00:39:28,400
cargo from the rafael

590
00:39:31,829 --> 00:39:30,000
logistics module over to the

591
00:39:32,630 --> 00:39:31,839
international space station and now the

592
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crew

593
00:39:37,910 --> 00:39:35,599
plans to enjoy some off-duty time

594
00:39:40,870 --> 00:39:37,920
cleaning that that you're working on is

595
00:39:43,829 --> 00:39:40,880
the in step

596
00:39:46,150 --> 00:39:43,839
three you're going to

597
00:39:48,150 --> 00:39:46,160
put the sensor clear loop

598
00:39:49,829 --> 00:39:48,160
over where the lens

599
00:39:52,470 --> 00:39:49,839
mounted

600
00:39:54,710 --> 00:39:52,480
and then the sensor clear pin

601
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would be put in the window of the loop

602
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and then you gently dab

603
00:40:07,510 --> 00:40:05,349
that all sounds great except you set me

604
00:40:09,349 --> 00:40:07,520
up in the message that the loop uh

605
00:40:12,069 --> 00:40:09,359
battery was not working and i should use

606
00:40:14,309 --> 00:40:12,079
a headlamp for the illumination but it

607
00:40:16,790 --> 00:40:14,319
sounds like big picture of the dad the

608
00:40:18,390 --> 00:40:16,800
end of this pen gets flat very gently

609
00:40:19,829 --> 00:40:18,400
dabbed on the sensor and that will pick

610
00:40:28,230 --> 00:40:19,839
up whatever debris is on there is that

611
00:40:32,630 --> 00:40:30,150
this conversation uh taking place

612
00:40:35,670 --> 00:40:32,640
between sandy magnus and the station

613
00:40:38,630 --> 00:40:35,680
capcom rob hayhurst involves

614
00:40:40,630 --> 00:40:38,640
a slightly uh leaking

615
00:40:43,030 --> 00:40:40,640
one of the water bags that the crew is

616
00:40:45,589 --> 00:40:43,040
filling up for transfer over to the

617
00:40:47,829 --> 00:40:45,599
international space station a slight

618
00:40:50,710 --> 00:40:47,839
leak at the point at which the bag is

619
00:40:55,190 --> 00:40:54,230
magnus plans to use some towels to dab

620
00:40:58,150 --> 00:40:55,200
off

621
00:41:00,790 --> 00:40:58,160
the leaky portion and to seal that up so

622
00:41:02,470 --> 00:41:00,800
that the bag can be usable over on the

623
00:41:04,870 --> 00:41:02,480
station's side one of

624
00:41:06,870 --> 00:41:04,880
a multiple number of bags that are being

625
00:41:10,550 --> 00:41:06,880
filled up with water and brought over to

626
00:41:15,349 --> 00:41:12,550
one reminder programming note coming up

627
00:41:17,270 --> 00:41:15,359
in four minutes uh we will air the solid

628
00:41:19,109 --> 00:41:17,280
rocket booster video from the boosters

629
00:41:20,790 --> 00:41:19,119
that helped propel atlantis to orbit

630
00:41:21,829 --> 00:41:20,800
last friday from the kennedy space

631
00:41:23,750 --> 00:41:21,839
center

632
00:41:26,390 --> 00:41:23,760
the solid rocket booster video with

633
00:41:29,990 --> 00:41:26,400
multiple views uh spectacular views of

634
00:41:32,950 --> 00:41:30,000
uh the launch of atlantis and the uh srb

635
00:41:35,190 --> 00:41:32,960
separation and uh very good

636
00:41:38,150 --> 00:41:35,200
the eventual splashdown of

637
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those boosters in the atlantic is 32

638
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minutes in length coming up at the top

639
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of the hour at 9 central time 10 eastern