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cbs radio this is mission control

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houston please call the atlantis crew on

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iss for a voice check hey good morning

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atlantis crew this is cbs news radio at

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kennedy space center how do you hear us

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we have you loud and clear at the

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kennedy space center well good morning

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uh commander chris ferguson pilot marine

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troll doug hurley it's peter king and

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bill harwood at ksc and bill's got our

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first question well it's just an obvious

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question right off the bat guys first of

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all great to see you again uh yeah i

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know you got gpc4 back up and running

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can you give us some sense of how that's

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doing and you're confident that that

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guy's gonna hang in there you're

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confident that that guy's gonna hang in

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there uh well it actually failed last

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night i think it was about an hour and a

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half after we fell asleep the alarm went

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had that uh had that bright-eyed sort of

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bushy-tailed look and

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raced up to the flight deck

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i'll tell you the folks on the ground

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did a nice job helping us get through

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that we brought up another gpc to help

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us out with the functions that 4 was

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produced that was performing and

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we we got it hopefully back up and

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running this morning so it's hanging in

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there and we're we're confident it's

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going to work for entry for us commander

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nasa audio has asked us to ask you to

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turn off the pike every time you finish

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your answer

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this year

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thanks and uh it's bill harwood again

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and i want to shift gears i mean that's

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the nuts and bolts of the computer thing

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this morning but you know i was driving

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in this morning and i wonder if you guys

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if the reality of this is set in you've

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been asked these questions a million

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times about this being the last shuttle

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flight the end of an era and all of that

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you've been so focused on the mission i

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doubt you spent a lot of time thinking

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about that but

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you're the tip of the spear and i think

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a lot of folks will be curious i mean is

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is this something that sunk in yet that

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well you know i'll tell you bill we

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talked a little bit about this

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pre-mission but uh as we uh you know of

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course we got a busy timeline and

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there's not a whole lot of time to think

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about it but we realize as we go from

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module to module here i mean literally

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we've reached the point where we're

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saying okay it's the last train out of

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town is there anything else that needs

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to go back uh to uh to the kennedy space

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center back to houston before the before

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the shuttle program wraps up here and

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when you say things like that i think

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the reality of it really begins to sink

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in you know this is really the last

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train out of town and uh you know of

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course uh we're gonna stay focused and

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very busy up until we undock but uh you

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know it's beginning to sink in i

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mentioned that to you earlier that i

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don't think the full uh magnitude of

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everything is really going to hit us

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until after the wheel stop

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this is peter and following up on that

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question you know everybody has asked

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every question under the sun about what

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it feels like to be flying this last

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mission i'm just wondering from both of

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you does this feel any different than

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yeah that's a that's a good question

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peter

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and i honestly think this one has been

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busier which is uh which which surprises

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the obvious reason is we have three less

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sets of hands to to help out and i think

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that for me is the biggest surprise

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well i'll tell you uh after uh after

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getting back here it is it's a very

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familiar environment this is the third

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a certain extent this has been

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incredibly busy

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can run over the mplm or our cargo

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module and you can always find something

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to do and uh even when there's nothing

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closet which is the permanent logistics

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module that they have here and you can

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there there is an awful lot of work left

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to do here and the days you know it's

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week since we launched and the days are

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we got a lot to do in the next few days

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but we're looking forward to undocking

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and especially that great view of the

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fly around and i guess my question uh to

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follow that up with is is staying so

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busy keeping you from from thinking

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about you know what this all means at

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this point you're just concentrated on

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yeah that's actually a really good

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summary you know we're kind of in the on

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orbit mode right here now uh in that

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light just a few days ago we were asked

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to downlink a few

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videos that i think were embargoed on

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the ground which means they'll be for

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future playback but they're all to

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commemorate

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of course there's a lot of folks that

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both at the kennedy space center and at

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the johnson space center who will

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shortly uh be losing their jobs and to

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to thank them for everything they've

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done so we have those sobering events uh

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peppered throughout our timeline that

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help us uh you know remind us that uh

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that this is really uh this is just

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commanders bill harwood again you just

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where i've been for several days and i

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have to tell you the mood there is

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silver is probably putting it

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depressed i think there's a feeling of

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abandonment perhaps it's not so much the

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end of shuttle but the gap before

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there's going to be anything else what

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guys all the folks who've trained you

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the years and made it happen

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couple weeks before launch and i was

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actually very encouraged to hear that

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there's some hardware for uh for

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the orion mpcv that's due for delivery

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plans as well so i think that that that

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sobering attitude that you may sense is

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a really just a prelude you know

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everything they've worked on for the

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last 30 years is coming to a close but

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the pieces and everyone will see that we

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really do have some vibrant programs out

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it's tough but you know it's it's kind

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of one of those wake type things you

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before you can really put on a new

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uh commander ferguson and uh pilot doug

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hurley thank you so much for the answers

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this morning safe rest of the flight we

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thanks so much for spending time with us

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concludes the cbs radio portion of the

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event please stand by for a voice check

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crew this is philadelphia can you hear

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hey philadelphia we have you loud and

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clear aboard the international space

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that's great to see you kyw how's all my

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terrific you'll be speaking with yuki

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and by we're 10 seconds away

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well the space shuttle atlantis is the

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final shuttle mission and it's in orbit

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right now and as you know shuttle

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commander chris ferguson graduated from

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archbishop ryan high school and drexel

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university chris and the shuttle's pilot

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international space station to talk

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hey good morning to all our folks in

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philadelphia how are you doing

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there you go

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not bad doing fantastic please assess

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the mission thus far how it's going

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everything going to plan so great to see

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oh absolutely we've had we've had a

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great time up here uh from the the last

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that the ground control folks told us

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we're well ahead in what we call

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transfer the very act of getting all of

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our cargo the ten thousand pounds of

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food and supplies that we brought up to

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sustain the international space station

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we're well ahead in in transferring that

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computers but we're recovering from them

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as well so yeah you know if i had to

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well chris uh uk and i were joking that

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we read that you guys got a chance to

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sleep in for about an hour and we were

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joking that we could not sleep in if we

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knew that something was wrong with the

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well the first thing they had us do

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after we woke up was get to work trying

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i'll tell you we got a great support

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team on in houston on ground control

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there and they did a great job we got

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the computer up and running and we think

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it's going to work good for uh re-entry

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now doug i understand that you are from

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new york how does a new york area fan

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uh it's going pretty well we've we've

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yankees and the phillies but uh nothing

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nothing that resulted in any fisticuffs

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all right let's keep it that way and

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gentlemen when the shuttle lands and

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step in in space exploration and what do

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the next decade so we've got folks

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our orion mpcv uh

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crew vehicle that we're working on at

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nasa we've got commercial providers uh

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eventually working on uh commercial

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transportation to and from the

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international space station and uh you

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know i think chris and i just you know

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we would like to contribute wherever we

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can we love the space business uh you

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know we've flown our entire lives and uh

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we'd like to continue uh supporting that

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beautiful chris we just have to sort of

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double check something yuki had some

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people talking to him on facebook and

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they mentioned that you may have talked

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at the youtube concert yesterday did you

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fan i actually i'm a huge youtube fan

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and uh i don't know if we talked at the

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u2 concert but we did have uh there has

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been youtube's been a huge

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uh proponent of the space program and i

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know that they've been involved with

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uplinks and downlinks many times in the

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that's fantastic and before we go

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i know of course we've all said that

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you've graduated archbishop ryan high

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school drexel university and when it

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comes to those two schools and your

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family how did that moment those moments

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back then prepare you for what's going

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i got a wonderful education there in

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philadelphia that's where i developed a

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love of science and math drexel

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university and actually i have a little

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piece of the fells planetarium from the

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franklin institute on board so all

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places i love to spend time when i was a

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child and developed like i said a love

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of flying and a love of math and science

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so it's a great city great city for

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oh gentlemen we thank you so much for

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your efforts and your contributions to

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the space program to you and the team

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and the rest of every everyone up there

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continued success and keep those yankees

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phillies conversations to a minimum

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we'll see you when you get back down on

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terra farmer take care godspeed take

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have a great day

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atlantis iss this is houston acr that

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concludes the kyw tv portion of the

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event please stand by for a voice check

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from the associated press

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atlanta station this is the associated

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we have you loud and clear aboard the

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international space station

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well good morning uh

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talking to you from the kennedy space

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center today my first question for you

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commander i'm wondering how unsettling

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was it to be awakened by the alarms last

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night and how worried are you about the

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general state of the computers

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considering this is the second such

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yeah it's kind of interesting uh you

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know of course the alarm went off about

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an hour or so after we fell asleep and i

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think that that's when you're in your

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deepest state of sleep so we all woke up

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and looked at one another and you know

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we're wondering really what was going on

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but we were up in the flight deck in no

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time and

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i'll tell you the ground support team on

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the ground there

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you know the orbit three shift who

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usually works while we're sleeping they

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were all over the problem and they had

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us put some corrective action and we

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were back in bed in probably about a

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half hour or so and then this morning

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we

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control folks in houston uh got that

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general purpose computer up and running

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so we're out very optimistic it's going

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to work for entry of course we had an

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earlier problem with one of our gpcs as

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well so

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we're doing well here and i'm confident

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everything's going to look good when we

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undock in a couple days

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well thank you i know the two crews

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gathered last night aboard atlantis for

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a special dinner was that the

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all-american meal with the chicken and

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beef brisket and was there any chat

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during the dinner about this being the

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last shuttle flight i'm just wondering

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if that sort of put a damper on the

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you know first of all it was a fantastic

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meal we shared it with our

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our american uh japanese and russian

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counterparts uh on the mid-deck and uh

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you know we're we're friends from a long

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time back so we shared you know more

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memories of uh of our early years in the

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astronaut office we it's one of the few

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opportunities we get to talk to our

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russian partners and and uh share

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experiences that we've had in common

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with spacewalks and uh some of the

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operations that we've done together um

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we did reminisce a little bit about

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the upcoming end of the the the shuttle

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program as a matter of fact i do recall

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saying hey you know this is the last

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joint meal that we're ever going to have

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aboard a space shuttle and

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you know we all it's it's a little bit

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of a a sobering somber moment but at the

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same time we're extremely fortunate to

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have had 37 missions i think to the

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international space station now so we're

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very lucky to have done this

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and was that the all-american meal you

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absolutely uh i think it included like

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you said chicken beef brisket there was

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a lot of corn on the menu we had some

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great appetizers and then we had good

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old-fashioned apple pie for dessert

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well that sounds pretty good for space

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another question for either of you or

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both yesterday nasa announced that steve

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lindsay's last day at work is today and

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i'm wondering do you anticipate a lot

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more astronaut departures in the coming

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weeks following your mission and

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what about you two are you both going to

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be sticking around

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yeah it's a good question um i i think

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it's really based on uh each individual

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within the office and you know what

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their family's uh desires are where they

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want to live and what they want to do

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you know after they've decided they've

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done what they wanted to do in the

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astronaut office you know we we have a

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typical attrition of you know six to

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eight people a year and and i think

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we're pretty much following that

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uh you know for me personally you know

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and we talked about this before i'd love

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to stay around and help out you know we

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we still have

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plenty of flying opportunities aboard

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the international space station and then

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you know we've got a chance to develop a

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new vehicle that's going to go beyond

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low earth orbit so i mean

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from my standpoint it's it's a pretty

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exciting time to be here and uh and

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continue to contribute and use the

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experience that we've gained on these

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shuttle flights to press forward

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commander you're you haven't changed

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no i have uh i have no plans uh the last

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nine months have been extraordinarily

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focused on this mission and this mission

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alone um you know with regard to the

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attrition um

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a lot of our office uh probably about a

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third of our office

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was uh former military pilots and uh you

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know pilots like to do what pilots like

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to do and that's fly airplanes and there

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will be a gap here of

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several years where uh you know a pilot

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is going to want to do what a pilot

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wants to do and i can certainly

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understand everybody has their own

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personal preferences

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and there'll be a little bit of lull in

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piloting activity until we get our next

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spacecraft so uh you know in the interim

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i can understand why people make the

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choices that they do

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i'm wondering uh

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i know there are several more days left

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in your flight but so far if you each

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had to choose what is the one highlight

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of your mission the memory that you're

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going to take back with you and keep

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well i i actually have two um the first

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would be the uh

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the eva we did the other day where uh

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sandy and i were uh running the space

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station robotic arm from the cupola and

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to have both mike and ron fly right out

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in front of us you know within

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feet

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uh you know it just it really seemed

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like it was out of a science fiction

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movie you know you could see the

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expression on their faces as they're

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riding the arm wherever they were going

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and it was just uh you know it's kind of

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seared into my memory and then the other

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one actually happened last night uh we

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were flying uh

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west of australia kind of at the bottom

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of our orbit and uh

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saw an incredible uh southern lights uh

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aurora uh and it was the best one i've

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seen uh in in my two space flights and

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it was just unbelievable the view we had

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i'll uh i'll share my personal uh

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uh moment and it was the same one i had

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on my last flight uh you know as you uh

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as we rendezvous with the space station

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you approach it from below and you pause

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there uh to do uh the rotation maneuver

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and it's just that moment as you're

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poised there beneath this incredibly uh

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mammoth space station and it really is

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it's just a feeling of of of awe and

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you're humbled by what humans can create

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when they work together to do things in

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space it's just it's a it's an

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um it's an incredibly memorable moment

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and i will never ever ever uh duplicate

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it or forget it

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well thank thank you very much both of

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you god godspeed to you and your crew

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atlantis iss this is houston acr thank

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thank you cbs radio kywtv

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and the associated press atlantis crew

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on the iss we are now resuming