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well good afternoon everybody welcome to

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nasa's johnson space center happy sunday

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it's uh flight day 10 aboard the space

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shuttle atlantis and the international

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space station and here to talk about all

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the activities going on aboard the

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international space station with the

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final hours of the joint uh mission is

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chris edelen he is the lead flight

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director for the international space

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station part of this

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sts-135 utilization logistics flight 7

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mission i'll turn it over to chris and

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let him brief you on all the activities

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and then we'll take questions chris

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thanks call

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well the crew had another very busy day

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in space today aboard the international

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space station and the space shuttle

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atlantis they reached a key milestone

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today in that the rafaello logistics

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module was uh was closed out all the

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cargo that has been coming up to space

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station has been transferred over that

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was actually completed a couple days ago

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and today they've they've packed rafaela

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with all the return cargo that's going

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to be coming back to earth

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the just for the numbers out there we

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delivered

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9403 pounds of cargo

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in the multi-purpose logistics module up

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to the station and we are returning 5666

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pounds of cargo inside the logistics

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module so all that is packed up and uh

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if you saw any of the video today from

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the crew

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the modules is real clean and

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everything's neatly put away in the

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proper place strapped down for entry in

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the shuttle later this week and the crew

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also installed the control and power

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assemblies which are the silver

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controllers there at the hatch leading

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into the multi-purpose logistics module

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those will be used tomorrow to drive the

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bolts of course once the hatches are

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closed and they'll drive the bolts to

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release

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the logistics module and then cindy

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magnus and doug hurley will use the

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station robotic arm to transfer that

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logistics module from the node to 2

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earth-facing port back into the payload

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bay of atlantis so

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we're very pleased with the crew's

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progress on mplm transfer today

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the other big part of the cargo

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plan for this mission is to transfer our

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mid-deck payload as you can recall uh

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several shuttle crew members will

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typically sit on the mid-deck of a space

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shuttle uh during launch and landing in

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this case with only four crew member we

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had an empty mid deck so we were able to

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uh to fly up about 2 000 pounds of

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supplies including the packing material

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and and the support structure so we are

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about 84 percent complete with our

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mid-deck transfer we are showing

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positive margins on the crew timeline to

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get that transfer completed by tomorrow

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morning

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some of the items that are being

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late in the mission they consist of the

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science samples a lot of these samples

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have to remain cold and in support of

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that we did transfer a glacier

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refrigerator from the shuttle mid deck

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to the space station to provide a new

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essentially a new science refrigerator

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to the space station and one of the

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existing glaciers is coming back

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on the mid deck of atlantis full of

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science samples for return and tomorrow

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we will uh the crew will transfer the

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remaining science samples

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another couple of noteworthy mid-deck

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payloads that were transferred today ron

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garan today performed

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a removal of the mass spectrometer in

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our mass constituent analyzer it's it's

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a a device in the us laboratory that

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that samples the air from different

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parts of space station and it can

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determine what the constituents are

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whether they be water vapor co2 and

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other gases and o2 of course so uh that

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uh has been broken uh for sever for for

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atmosphere iraq and he has packaged that

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up and transferred that to the mid-deck

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of atlantis for return

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yesterday sergei volkov one of our

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cosmonauts aboard the international

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he performed some work on the treadmill

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the tvis treadmill down the russian

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segment that was yesterday and the day

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before he uh one of the things he did

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was remove the gyroscope that was

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suspect he removed that that has been

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placed in the mid deck for return and he

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installed a new gyroscope and then

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another controller upstream of the

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gyroscope that did fix the problem we

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now have a good good treadmill for the

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russian cosmonauts down in the service

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module and of course the us ground

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specialists were of uh

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key members of that troubleshooting plan

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designed and built in the u.s and it's

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russian segment some time ago so

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all around good work and good results

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so uh with that tomorrow again we'll be

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uh returning the mplm to the payload bay

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we will be completing the mid deck

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transfers and then at the end of the day

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the crews will uh will shake hands

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and say their farewells and close the

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close the hatch and then atlantis will

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undock early tuesday morning and that's

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all i have for the status and i'll be

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glad to open it up for questions

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okay great we'll start here

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uh if you don't mind walk step up to

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that microphone so everybody on the net

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watching can hear you and we'll start

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with mark uh mark crowe for aviation

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week and i just wonder if there's

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anything you're still really evaluating

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on whether to send back or not

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on the shuttle one place or the other

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we are pretty much closed out our

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paperwork for return one item that we're

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considering is whether we might

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grab a few of the extra camera lenses on

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the shuttle and bring those back there's

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also a laser range finder that we were

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considering to uh to return the shuttle

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has two of those and we were considering

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perhaps leaving one of those onboard the

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international space station so that

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paperwork will get closed out overnight

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hi robert perelman with collectspace.com

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uh can you give a rough idea maybe by

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the contents of raphael now is it mostly

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trash is it mostly equipment to be

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reused how does it break down between

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the types of items that are coming back

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to earth i do not have a percentage

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mechanical system every oru an orbital

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replacement unit that comes up to the

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station comes up in protective foam so

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there's a lot of foam that takes up a

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lot of volume on station and that was

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flight was to uh to bring down trash and

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especially foam because it takes up so

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much volume there is a lot of just

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broken items and of course some items

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clara moskowitz for space.com i

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understand the crew had some off-duty

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time today and i just wonder if you can

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give us an idea of some of the

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activities that are available to them on

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their day off i mean did they call home

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or watch movies anything like that well

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unfortunately today it uh appeared to me

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from the the video downlink that they

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their off-duty time they uh this was a

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big job to get this mplm loaded up and

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the timeline tomorrow is very tight they

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preparation to close the hatch and

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there's not any spare time tomorrow to

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finish things up and the crew used a lot

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of their spare time today to make sure

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that everything was in place in the

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resources on the space station off-duty

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time crews love looking out the window

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a great view of the world they can use

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the internet phone to call home if we

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music and and hang out with their

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friends you know so typical kind of

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thanks irene klotz with reuters um

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that uh that mass spectrometer are you

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both of them are not functioning right

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now so we're having to rely on russian

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equipment to be able to to determine you

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know the components in the atmosphere on

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space station as well as handheld

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devices that we can use so uh since both

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mass spectrometer assembly we do want to

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understand what uh you know what is

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spare we have one on board

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that we can use and actually we have one

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that may be functional but we're afraid

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to use it because we don't want to we

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so we have spares on board we just want

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to analyze the failure that actually

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occurred before we commit to using that

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hardware on board but eventually we

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could refly those thanks and after the

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eva there was some discussion about

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leaving up an emu versus bringing it

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back the i think ron guerin was

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saying that their druthers was to leave

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it there even though it you all wanted

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to or there was some discussion to bring

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it back and repair it and refly so do

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you know what the upshot of that was and

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how have you been kind of deciding what

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to bring back and repair not knowing

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with the commercial resupply and how's

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that how's that been kind of working out

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as you make your way through the end of

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this flight

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okay uh just to specifically address the

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the emu yes uh ron garan's

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emu

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was a bit of a tight fit that was known

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going into the uh his emu as a spacesuit

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by the way that was known to be a tight

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fit for him he did report that it

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he he had some trouble at just a few

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points in the eva actually being able to

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move his his arm through the full range

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of motion and the ground teams were

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initially concerned that that could have

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indicated a problem with the bearings

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and the shoulder one of the shoulder

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joints we did have a conference with him

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and get the details on on what what he

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observed and we actually had him uh

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you know

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examine the spacesuit and move it

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through its full range of motion in the

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airlock comparing against the other

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spacesuit to make sure that it was

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absolutely fine and the ground team and

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the crew did reach the unanimous

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conclusion that it was just fine it was

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more of a fit issue where a couple you

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know orientations it was hard to move it

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so uh that spacesuit that he used

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is in the shuttle it has been resized

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for rex walheim if it's required for a

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contingency eva and everybody's is

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comfortable that that suit will be

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perfectly usable

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if it's required and of course replacing

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that one on the spacesuit is a brand new

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what we call a mega plus which has been

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upgraded to last anywhere from three to

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six years so it'll give us a good good

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lifetime so

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the decision process we went through the

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spacesuit is similar to what we do with

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any piece of equipment it's a real

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whenever there's problems with equipment

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we always make a real careful evaluation

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whether it's better to leave it on board

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if we perhaps can can address any issues

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with onboard maintenance or whether we

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should bring it home and you're right

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the fact that you know we're somewhat

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limited in how we can deliver cargo to

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space station

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requires us to carefully weigh the pros

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and cons and and really we have to do

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that on a case-by-case basis with each

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piece of hardware

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thanks and um

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the last question i had was just uh as

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the as your shifts are starting to

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dwindle in numbers now

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has there have you noticed anything just

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kind of different the mood and mission

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control are people

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starting to kind of get their arms

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around the idea that this is the end

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thanks actually um

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we we've been very busy uh working the

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flight and and most of the time uh we're

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just answering the questions from the

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crew and and working through the

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replanting issues for the timeline but i

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actually had a dream last night that i

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was in mission control and

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looking at the downlink video and seeing

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the beautiful wings of atlantis you know

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docked to the front of the space station

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and

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in my dream when i woke up i realized

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hey i really do need to savor these

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moments because this will be the last

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time we see a you know likely it'll be

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the last time we ever see a a big winged

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vehicle like that uh docked to the space

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station so i pointed that out to the

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team to make sure that they you know as

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time permits of course to take a few

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moments to to really savor these these

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moments because you know it'll

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definitely be something to tell your

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grandchildren about and hopefully when

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you tell your grandchildren about it uh

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it might be over a phone link to a to a

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space spacecraft somewhere in deep space

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but even though we're losing the shuttle

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um we're looking forward to seeing some

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new vehicles come up the space station

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uh we're looking forward to you know the

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commercial providers uh that that are

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now finalizing their vehicles and and in

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the test phase and beginning to do uh

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flight testing we're looking forward to

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seeing those new vehicles different

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shapes arriving on space station and uh

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so

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you know it'll be it'll be an exciting

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dana

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uh genus gina cinceri abc news we've

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seen that uh sandy and satoshi are

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really following the soccer game even

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though it'll be they'll be sleeping

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tonight can you upload video to them and

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how will you get them updates

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we uh we do routinely provide video for

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our space station crew they can provide

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uh inputs to a team of support folks on

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the ground that that

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that

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they tell them what their favorite tv

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shows are and we do try to tape those

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and provide of course on a delayed basis

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uh we'll uplink that through our high

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gain ku band antenna our dish antenna

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the game uh i expect will probably

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tape that and send that up as well

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although i think

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right now that the crew has got a very

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busy day tomorrow they're not going to

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have any time to watch it tomorrow and

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they better not stay up all night and

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watch it either because they've got way

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anybody else yeah phil

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phillips lost with nasa spaceflight.com

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i had a question uh on the tvs gyro um

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last time you were here i think you said

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there was still some uncertainty about

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whether the problems with with the gyro

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or with something else in the system and

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maybe i missed it in the commentary in

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the air to ground but could you just

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review what happened in terms of the

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troubleshooting there okay

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just to summarize

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two days ago

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sergey vocal replaced the gyroscope in

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the treadmill the treadmill down in the

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russian segment and that did not work it

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powered on but did not spin up

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so um yesterday we had him replace the

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vibration isolation system controller

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the vis controller which was the next

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component upstream and we also had him

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replace the the cable as well so we

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basically worked from the gyroscope

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upstream and when he replaced the this

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controller that did the trick that fixed

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it and we had him test the treadmill he

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did some more testing today and we

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verified we've got a good treadmill and

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it's good to go so we are returning

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the failed vis controller to the ground

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and the gyroscope that was previously

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i don't have the exact date that it

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failed but it was earlier this month

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approximately april time frame that will

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be brought back to the ground there was

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some discussion of whether we should

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leave it on board or not because now it

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appears that the vis controller was at

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least part of the problem but um when it

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failed it the crew had reported that it

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made up somewhat of a grinding sound and

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it spun down very quickly so it

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indicated there could be a problem with

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the bearings now we can do bearing

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repair in orbit but as you can imagine

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that that is that is potentially a very

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uh messy uh

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problem so we'd rather go and get that

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unit on the ground

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with the vis controller we can set those

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up in our ground uh our ground unit and

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test those and then if the bearings need

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to be repacked we'll do that on the

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ground and then make that unit available

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for launch again of course since this is

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now russian hardware it will be the

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russians responsibility to launch it but

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we'll uh we'll go ahead and and do the

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troubleshooting and do any repairs uh as

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necessary on the ground

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hi i'm pete crow grove sun daily um

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given that a significant amount of

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what's coming back down is trash and

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foam and one thing in another um i'm

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curious how you get to such a precise uh

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figure down to the pound and perhaps

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down to the ounce i got it how you know

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what you took out but how are you

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figuring out what you're bringing back

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down well we are nasa so we do work in

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exact numbers rounding is definitely not

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in our dna uh around here but um

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you know every item on the space station

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is tracked we have a database

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that tracks where every item is of

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course what the mass was because

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anything you launch into space that you

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know mass and volume are the the two

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most important uh physical

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characteristics in order to physically

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fit it into a spacecraft and get it off

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the ground so we keep all those in an

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extensive database and when we tell the

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true to crew to transfer an item uh we

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you know we have the mass and they can

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add them all up in spreadsheets i have

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to admit i also sometimes roll my eyes

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when i see the weight for a cd or a dvd

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okay i think we've got a couple of folks

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on the phone bridge uh bill harwood cbs

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news are you there bill

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yeah i'm here kyle thanks um chris i

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just want to follow up on one of irene's

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questions about uh

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that's your thoughts here as this is

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winding down i mean the mplm's done

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yeoman's work on the station i think

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they told sandy taking up 150 tons or

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something like that over his career and

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20 tons back to earth i mean that's

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going to be a big loss to you guys you

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know commercial cargo or not um i know

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you're still looking at the end of the

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mission and getting everything done but

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you know any thoughts you had on on on

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the roll this is all played and keeping

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station resupplied i'd appreciate thanks

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that's that's a good question bill um

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when when the space station was first

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being built obviously it couldn't have

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been done without the space shuttle i

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mean the space shuttle's payload bays is

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enormous and nothing nothing matches it

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so you know the shuttle was absolutely

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essential for the assembly of the big

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modules and truss segments on the space

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station uh with the mplms we've been

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able to bring up not only spare parts

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but we brought up you know big rack

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units the big refrigerator size units

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that plug in but now that we've got all

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of that hardware in place and we've got

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lots of spares you know

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the past several years of shuttle

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flights we've we've flown up many

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external spares they're all they're

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stationed and positioned all throughout

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the outside of the space station we've

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got all these spares in place the space

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station program is actually in very good

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shape now for the retirement of the

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space shuttle if you look at the uh what

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what sustaining logistics are required

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we can support that uh but we do need

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our our us commercial cargo providers to

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uh you know to to be

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brought online next year i mean that

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will be absolutely essential and you

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know if if if they fail in in their

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effort to to reach the space station

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then then the the program will have to

552
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find another source to uh to uh keep the

553
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supplies going or we'll have to consider

554
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scaling back the number of crew and then

555
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the amount of science that we're doing

556
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on space station so our commercial

557
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providers uh you know understand this

558
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responsibility and and they're uh

559
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they're savoring the chance now to get

560
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to step in to fill the shoes that the

561
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shuttle has filled but uh

562
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the numbers have been analyzed and it is

563
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not only possible but it is it is

564
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anything else bill

565
00:20:19,830 --> 00:20:18,230
how about uh james dean are you on james

566
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yeah kyle thank you james dean with

567
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florida today

568
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chris uh what one more way of asking the

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uh

570
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this this car goes

571
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um

572
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down mass specifically could you speak a

573
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little bit to the challenge of losing

574
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that capability for a while and wondered

575
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if you could compare uh the capability

576
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you'll ultimately gain hopefully with

577
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dragon to uh

578
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to what you're putting into you know

579
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either the mid deck or the mplm

580
00:20:48,630 --> 00:20:45,840
well dragon does have as you alluded to

581
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dragon can bring back supplies it will

582
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parachute down into the ocean as they

583
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demonstrated on their previous mission

584
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so we can bring back science samples on

585
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dragon we have multiple vehicles we can

586
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use to get rid of trash whether it be a

587
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russian progress

588
00:21:07,430 --> 00:21:02,799
supply ship with

589
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a japanese htv supply ship or a european

590
00:21:13,990 --> 00:21:10,799
atv so any one of those can be used to

591
00:21:15,830 --> 00:21:14,000
empty out the uh the trash type cargo

592
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that gets burned up in the atmosphere

593
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when the craft re-enters the atmosphere

594
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so

595
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the models have all been run we can

596
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maintain safe

597
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sustainable space station operations out

598
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through 2020 with

599
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that mix of russian japanese european

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and american spacecraft i don't have any

601
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exact numbers for you on on you know

602
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what the contribution for each of those

603
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are

604
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thanks and just another question on

605
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things kind of winding to an end i just

606
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wondered if you're thinking that uh

607
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this farewell ceremony tomorrow is going

608
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to be kind of hard to watch uh something

609
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uh you know difficult to see the last

610
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shuttle crew

611
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uh exiting the station hatches for the

612
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last time and

613
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also i was wondering if you know if um

614
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is this the last time that

615
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we'll ever see more than six people

616
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together on station or are there plans

617
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to uh you know eventually later

618
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even if not for long duration for short

619
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trips to have bigger crowds at one time

620
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okay well i fully expect when we have

621
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commercial vehicles providing crew

622
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transport to the space station that that

623
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we will see

624
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you know crews of of six or more

625
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especially when they're doing crew

626
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rotation perhaps we certainly have the

627
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docking ports to support it of course

628
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without a specific vehicle being defined

629
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we have no traffic models so can't

630
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answer the questions specifically but

631
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you know it it may be or it may not be

632
00:22:45,830 --> 00:22:42,960
um well will tomorrow's ceremony be

633
00:22:47,669 --> 00:22:45,840
especially poignant i'm sure it will um

634
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for the crew and the folks on the ground

635
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especially our space shuttle flight

636
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control team and engineers that have

637
00:22:54,390 --> 00:22:52,320
supported the space shuttle over the

638
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years uh you know seeing the space

639
00:22:58,310 --> 00:22:56,320
shuttle being retired is is like seeing

640
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a good friend retiring someone who's uh

641
00:23:04,070 --> 00:23:02,559
put in many years of service and uh so

642
00:23:07,029 --> 00:23:04,080
you know it's always sad when you see

643
00:23:09,190 --> 00:23:07,039
someone retire but uh you also you know

644
00:23:10,789 --> 00:23:09,200
look forward to you know new people

645
00:23:12,390 --> 00:23:10,799
coming online and it does create

646
00:23:14,789 --> 00:23:12,400
opportunities with shuttle retirement

647
00:23:16,870 --> 00:23:14,799
for new vehicles to come online to to

648
00:23:18,870 --> 00:23:16,880
service the space station but for the

649
00:23:21,029 --> 00:23:18,880
for the space station team uh

650
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you know we're looking forward to moving

651
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from the space shuttle era where it was

652
00:23:28,230 --> 00:23:26,159
focused on assembly operations to now

653
00:23:30,230 --> 00:23:28,240
the space station is is completely built

654
00:23:32,710 --> 00:23:30,240
the shuttle was uh was the key enabler

655
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for that and now we've got this amazing

656
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yeah we call it a world-class facility

657
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but really it's beyond world class

658
00:23:39,990 --> 00:23:38,320
because it's out of this world and it's

659
00:23:42,789 --> 00:23:40,000
you know it's it's an international

660
00:23:44,950 --> 00:23:42,799
facility you know with six people living

661
00:23:47,190 --> 00:23:44,960
240 miles up in the sky i mean that's

662
00:23:49,110 --> 00:23:47,200
just an amazing concept you know in

663
00:23:51,750 --> 00:23:49,120
terms of human history and it's this

664
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research base where you know

665
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amazing science operations are going to

666
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be performed and we'll learn how to how

667
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to survive in the harsh environment of

668
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space and apply that knowledge back to

669
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earth so you know it the the future is

670
00:24:06,710 --> 00:24:04,720
exciting and uh yeah we're optimistic

671
00:24:08,070 --> 00:24:06,720
about where we're going and uh yeah

672
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we'll have a lot of

673
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near-term science operations planned uh

674
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once atlantis departs we'll we'll be

675
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getting busy with uh with science

676
00:24:21,990 --> 00:24:19,590
see that all james

677
00:24:24,470 --> 00:24:22,000
yes thank you okay we're back here

678
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anybody have any uh wrap ups

679
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okay uh let's see a couple of quick

680
00:24:30,630 --> 00:24:29,360
programming notes hopefully uh after the

681
00:24:32,390 --> 00:24:30,640
briefing of course we'll head back to

682
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mission control but then we'll have the

683
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flight day 10 highlights that starts at

684
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3 central 4 eastern today

685
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then we'll play the features that you

686
00:24:43,669 --> 00:24:41,840
might have seen if you haven't the space

687
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shuttle feature narrated by william

688
00:24:48,630 --> 00:24:46,720
shatner is up this evening at 7 pm

689
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central then the launching our dream

690
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space shuttle program video at 8.

691
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we'll have an iss flight director update

692
00:24:57,029 --> 00:24:55,520
from the public affairs council again i

693
00:24:59,669 --> 00:24:57,039
think that's again with courtney

694
00:25:02,870 --> 00:24:59,679
mcmillan when she gets off console

695
00:25:04,789 --> 00:25:02,880
that's a little after 9 p.m central

696
00:25:06,310 --> 00:25:04,799
wake up call tonight for atlantis and

697
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the international space station crew is

698
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at 9 29 central 10 29 eastern they'll

699
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get into that busy day of activity that

700
00:25:16,630 --> 00:25:15,279
chris laid out for you and

701
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the two crews of course will bid

702
00:25:19,590 --> 00:25:18,240
farewell and close the hatches as you

703
00:25:20,950 --> 00:25:19,600
heard a little after eight o'clock

704
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tomorrow morning

705
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and

706
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go to bed about one o'clock monday

707
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afternoon

708
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so with that we'll uh close the briefing

709
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thanks to chris and thanks to everybody

710
00:25:33,750 --> 00:25:32,320
else for showing up today we'll head

711
00:25:38,230 --> 00:25:33,760
back to mission control and back to

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hi i'm steve sides reuben de leon shanna

713
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andrew and i'm heidi brewer we are the

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instrumentation and communication