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wpvi tv this is mission control houston

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atlantis iss this is wpvi in

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philadelphia how do you hear me

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hey we have you loud and clear on the

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commander chris ferguson we recognize

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you very well you are a philadelphia

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native you have so many friends family

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and fans here in our region anything

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i'd like to give a big shout out to my

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friends at drexel university archbishop

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bryant high school and of course the

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street i grew up on amity road hello

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commander this is your third space

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flight this is your second space flight

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as commander second on atlantis does it

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well i'll tell you you know the moment

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the hatch is open after we dock with the

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international space station and you're

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allowed to come in and roam around uh

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it's just like being home again it's uh

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it's a wonderful place it's a magical

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place up here and no i'll tell you space

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flight never gets old it's a great

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commander we know that you're a big

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phillies fan and we understand that one

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of the earlier flights you took up a

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chase utley jersey with you did you take

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any philadelphia memorabilia with you

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as a matter of fact i did and we have

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stowed away in the mid another jersey

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i'll leave that

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name to be determined but uh i hope to

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see the fills in the world series and

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that'd be a great time to return it back

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copy that commander now you have your

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crew with you and we

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see the experience of zero gravity

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obviously uh to the crew do you ever get

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sick of the commander talking about the

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yeah as a san francisco giants fan i do

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get a little tired but we'll let him

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have his way here he's the commander

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that is one

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dig into a phillies fan oh boy uh back

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to the commander if i could this shuttle

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program is ending and as you know nasa

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never went ahead to replace the shuttle

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generally how do you feel about the fact

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that this is coming to an end and

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there's nothing to replace the shuttle

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well first my comment on the the fact

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that the shuttle program is coming to an

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end i'll tell you it's uh from the heart

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of a pilot who just loves flying

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airplanes and basically anything that

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has wings it's going to be it's going to

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be sad to retire the shuttle

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that said it's had a very long and

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storied career it's been with us since

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1981 it's done tremendous things not the

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least of west has built this fantastic

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complex that we're able to to float

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around in and that humans have been

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living in non-stop for over 10 years now

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now that said we do we're going to have

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a gap we're going to have a time where

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astronauts from u.s soil but that will

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come to an end five perhaps six years

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some commercial companies that are

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working on that will will give us that

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capability back again so you know it'll

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you will command atlantis to its

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scheduled landing on thursday july

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the day of course that neil armstrong

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landed and buzz aldrin landed on the

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moon back in 1969 so if we had landed on

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july 20th i think it would have been a

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little bit easier but we'll work on

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something profound and we promise we'll

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have we'll have some good words to

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reflect upon to remember the space

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will have done it three times once you

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do land what is worse going up or coming

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qualify it because we know we're leaving

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it's sure a kick in the pants and every

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time i've experienced and i think i know

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if i can speak on behalf of my crew uh

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every time we launch in a shuttle

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an astronaut rock band which makes you

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the coolest astronaut ever do you

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ever but no i don't practice my

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rudiments uh we have we have a great

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support the the space program and we

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going to have a little more time on our

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commander and crew have a safe flight

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and a safe return to the united states

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thank you so much for talking to us here

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atlantis iss this is houston acr that

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concludes the wpvi tv portion of the

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copy that standby revoked mike dinardo

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kow newstime 8 10. this is day number

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eight of the last space shuttle mission

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shuttle atlantis with its four

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florida a week ago they're scheduled to

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atlantis iss this is kyw news radio in

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hello kyw news radio you're aboard the

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thank you so much for joining us this

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morning we appreciate it this is carol

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mckenzie here at kyw news radio uh

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captain ferguson native son of

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captain you've been having some

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significant computer problems how are

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computer problems first the good news is

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every one can fly the uh the space

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have all five for uh re-entry uh coming

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uh captain ferguson harry donahue here

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your crew i'm not sure if we have

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your third shuttle flight what's

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crew of six uh or seven and uh by the

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maybe whoever wants to answer this

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wondering reception better than it is on

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iphones with us believe it or not is uh

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as uh phones per se so it's sort of in

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iphones but for right now they're just

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wondering what kind of apps you had up

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clever people that flap here from time

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commander i want to ask you a little bit

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about your philly connection we know

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with the p and it is for a a key player

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able to uh take a trip up there and

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to him it's some home game in the not

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too far distant future i'll reserve that

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mystery player until we uh until we

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manage to get it back to you oh come on

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chris uh we we know you're from

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philadelphia the northeast st martha's

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elementary school and archbishop ryan

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high school up there on academy road

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i was wondering were you a listener when

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we used to close schools in philadelphia

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every morning my alarm would go off and

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kyw news radio would come on and i would

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listen for the school closing so i've

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been with you for about 50 years now and

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i still listen when i come back to the

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philadelphia area and i can't help it my

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mother-in-law always has kyw on

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well we appreciate listeners whether

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they're in the northeast or in outer

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space like you are this morning to the

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crew of atlantis from us thanks very

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much congratulations

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and uh well we understand we still have

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another minute or two carol okay so

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chris we understand that you play with a

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rock and roll band called max q

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so since you're such a fan of kyw news

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there are only a few drummers who can

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sing well in this world and i am not one

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well maybe you can maybe give a hint to

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uh somebody else on your crew up there

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and help them out with the old kyw

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kyw news radio 1060.

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that was awesome that's not bad for a

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drummer or even a singer we really

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appreciate that

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a question for you sandy um this this

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shuttle brings brings the shuttle pro

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this um flight brings a shuttle program

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to an end 30 years

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a lot of young people have been inspired

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by the shuttle program so now that i

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guess what's going forward what will be

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the inspiration for young men and women

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who who have an interest in this type of

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well first i'd like to point them all to

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the international space station you know

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we've had people living here for about a

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little over 10 years now and and we're

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doing all kinds of science and

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interesting technology development up

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here and you get to stay here for six

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months when you live here and it's a

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completely different experience than a

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shuttle mission so that's certainly

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something uh any young person should aim

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to do because it's it's a really really

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interesting experience i lived here for

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four and a half months and further on

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we're going to be moving out of low

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earth orbit now you know the shuttles

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are designed to work in low earth orbit

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and so we're going to be building

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vehicles that can go beyond that to the

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moon or mars or an asteroid so that's

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certainly uh on the horizons for the

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young people who are interested in this

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type of profession

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all right and you have this is day eight

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with the uh shuttle atlantis and you are

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scheduled to return to earth when next

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yeah i'm pretty sure it's going to be

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early thursday morning if if my math

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serves correctly we work on a little bit

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of a different time clock up here but i

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think it is early thursday

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all right well congratulations again we

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wish you best for the remaining part of

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your mission and thanks for everything

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you do for nasa and for the united

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states thanks to the crew and good luck

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thanks kyw

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atlantis iss this is houston acr that

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concludes the kyw radio portion of the

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event we will rejoin you after a brief

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atlantis iss this is houston acr

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we are now back with you please stand by

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for a voice check from reuters

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iss this is irene klotz with reuters how

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hello irene we have you loud and clear

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on the international space station

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thanks very much the first two questions

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i have are for you commander

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when you got jarred awake last night for

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the computer shutdown did it take you a

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few seconds to remember where you are or

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does your sleep body stay with you while

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you uh your space body stay with you

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irene that's an excellent assessment

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just like on earth when you wake up or

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somebody wakes you up in the middle of

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the night you open your eyes and you

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wonder where you are but uh we had our

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gyros caged pretty quickly and uh the

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great folks on the ground helped us help

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to solve the problem uh with our general

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purpose computer last night thanks i

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understand you're going to be speaking

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with president obama later today if he

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asks you what you think he needs to do

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to keep the space program relevant in

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people's lives what would you tell him

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well i think uh probably number one on

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the

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inspiration that uh doing amazing things

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up in space provides for uh young men

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and women

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i became involved in the space program

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because i remember watching neil armstro

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armstrong walk on the moon in 1969 and

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it was just through following the apollo

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program in the gemini program that i

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developed just a keen interest in

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science and math and flight and it just

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it propelled me on a career that took me

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through naval aviation and then on to

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the the space program so if for no other

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reason

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we need we need to to inspire

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generations that that will follow us to

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do wonderful things like this and plus

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we need to explore we're

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we're explorers by nature we need to

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leave low earth orbit again and go back

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to the moon or an asteroid or mars we

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need to have a destination it's in our

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destiny

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thank you for sandy

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can you paint us a little word picture

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of what the iss looks like with all the

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stuff you've brought floating around

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there and the rooting around to find the

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sorry about that irene in a word it's

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crowded up here

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almost every module has these white we

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call them cargo transfer bags or ctbs

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stuck with bungees to the front of

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panels the pmm which is the permanent

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stowage module that was brought up a

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couple flights ago

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if you look in through the hatch the pmm

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all you will see are white bags stuck to

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walls because there's not enough space

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for some of the things that we brought

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up to go behind the racks or behind or

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inside the stowage area so it's sort of

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a sea of white bags floating around and

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we're hoping to help straighten it up a

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little bit before we leave

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thank you um for rex about a week and a

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half before you launched the first

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module of china's space station reach

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the launch site

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if they're able to get it into orbit and

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to staff it don't you think it'd be kind

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oh absolutely you know it

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in space is one of the biggest

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international brotherhoods they have you

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know here we are a crew of of different

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countries we have you know american

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astronauts and and russian astronauts

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and japanese astronauts we all work

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together as one big team we work

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together we solve problems together we

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laugh together we eat together it is the

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best example of international

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cooperation i know of and it's at the

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working level and i think that kind of

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works its way up to other parts of the

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country so

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china venus base i think is a great

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thing i think the more nations that get

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in space the uh the better cooperation

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we'll have with each other

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thank you um for doug how comfortable

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are you that the iss is going to be the

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human us human space flight program for

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oh completely uh you know we've got some

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great folks that work in the uh

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international space station program and

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uh you know there's been just extensive

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planning to get the uh station and and

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and this posture for the next decade

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we've got several automated vehicles

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that can resupply we've got commercial

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providers that are going to be coming

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online in a year or so to provide the

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cargo as well and eventually

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crew support taking us back and forth so

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uh the iss is in great hands it's a

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great crew on board and uh you know the

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future couldn't look any brighter

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thanks also for you i was just wondering

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if you were surprised that you launched

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on the first try considering the

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weather at ksc and then that last minute

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yeah i uh i had thought i had brought my

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uh 127 karma along with me there for a

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few uh you know when we walked out and

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uh you know while we were strapping in

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and we were getting updates uh

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while we were laying on our backs and

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then uh and then we

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we got the go and uh and then the next

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thing happened at 31 seconds so i was

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thinking oh no but it just worked out so

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good um we couldn't be happier it was

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great for our family our friends and all

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the guests and then the uh i guess close

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to a million people that were watching

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us so

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uh it's always great to launch on the

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first first try and i'm glad to finally

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be able to say i did that

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thanks and for any of you uh have you if

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any of you guys run into robonaut and if

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so what's it doing

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rope we we have robonaut is hiding

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because of all the all the company we

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brought him in the sea of bags but uh

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he'll probably come out to do some work

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after we're gone

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thanks that's all the time we have

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atlantis iss this is houston acr thank

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thank you wpvi tv

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kyw radio and reuters elena cyss we are