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well good morning and welcome to our

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final mission status briefing for the

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space shuttle program with us today to

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discuss everything that has transpired

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during the overnight hours on the eve of

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atlantis landing is the entry flight

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director tony tsukacci tony

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thanks rob that's a lot of pressure of

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the last there but uh good morning

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everyone uh thanks for uh showing up

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here let's see uh as it's been the

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entire mission uh we had a very busy and

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successful flight day 13

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morning onboard atlantis the crew

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readied both themselves and the

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spacecraft for the return home

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see the crew woke up

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8 30 last night tuesday night and hit

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the ground running as typical as an

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intermission minus one day

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the commander pilot

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first completed the pilot ops the uh

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application laptop application that they

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can practice landings on as soon as that

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was completed

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went into the

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flight control systems checkout and

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all the systems checked out very well

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ready for entry tomorrow we also did a

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reaction control

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system jet checkout and all 38 jets

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primary jets that we checked out

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operated nominally

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see we

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also during the day we did a l minus one

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comm check using myla

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down at ksc and that all went very well

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see of course throughout the day on the

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intermission minus one activities the

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crew performs a cabin stow and just

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continues to get the

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vehicle ready uh

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for a landing let's see uh additional

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activity we did today uh probably saw

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the picosat deploy call it the jack in

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the box but basically it's a little

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um that has its own maneuvering

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capability and it'll uh perform some

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miniature tracking vehicle experiment

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that all went really well and also uh on

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the satellite they have a little digital

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camera that uh

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they were going to take pictures of the

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orbiter as they were deployed so

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hopefully once they

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contact the ground station they can get

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those down list and we can see what they

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look like

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as far as

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the activities that the crew is going to

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complete later on today they have l

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minus com checkout at dryden down at

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edwards make sure all those uh

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lines are up and ready to support if we

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ever need them and also the ku and

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tennistow

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see the crew goes to bed about 12 30 pm

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this afternoon and then they'll wake up

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later on

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8 30 for their entry day

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see uh as far as entry day activities uh

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you guys probably already got these

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times from kyle but i'll go ahead and

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repeat them again uh the orbit prep will

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palo bay door closing is going to be

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let's see as far as the

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first opportunity we're shooting for is

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a ksc orbit 200

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central time with a landing at 4 57 a.m

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5 57 of course at ksc the second

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see uh let's see we already showed the

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ground tracks that was great so let's

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the strategy well i'm sure all you guys

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been following pretty closely but

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the weather is looking very promising uh

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tomorrow

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uh morning

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the latest uh forecast we received

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you know of course everybody was talking

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about tropical storm brett a couple days

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ago but that's moved northeast out in

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the atlantic it's not going to pose any

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there may be some showers in the

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vicinity of ksc but the weather guy said

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those will clear out pretty quickly

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good weather that morning

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let's see right now the forecast is a

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few at 5 000 scattered at 25 000

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very good visibility and winds very low

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uh let's see uh end of mission mine or

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intermission plus one same forecast for

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but so we have a really really good shot

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to come home tomorrow morning of course

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i say that but you've heard me say this

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no matter what the forecast that ksc is

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it's always 50 50 so when we come in on

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console tomorrow we'll go ahead and see

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what the weather guys have for us and

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work it accordingly

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as far as uh orbiter consumable strategy

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consumables to support out to enemission

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plus two which is saturday

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based on all that right now our entry

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and for some reason we can't make it

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home tomorrow friday will be a pickum

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day basically that is we'll just take a

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look at the ksc weather edwards weather

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see how that looks and

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we'll for sure come home on friday

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just a quick uh

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observations that we had this morning at

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ksc very very good ops uh they were all

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and landing same um observation so again

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today look pretty good and we expect the

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same for tomorrow

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see and that's all i had rob uh to

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report so i'll take any questions okay

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we've got questions here in houston tony

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and a number of reporters on our phone

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bridge uh so we'll start off here robert

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okay

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hi robert perlman with collectspace.com

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uh with two questions um first given

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that you have consumables and i know we

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today saying they'd be happy to land in

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day or night um but if the if the

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commander were to call down tomorrow and

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the weather's solid let's go for a day

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landing would that affect your decision

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to wave off for the first rev uh no

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forward to that but

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just you guys all know the ksc weather

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and any minute it can change and if you

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have a good opportunity you're going to

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take it no matter if it's day or night

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leroy talk yesterday it's just

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you know whenever we have a good

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opportunity you never pass it up

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because you never know what that next

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so uh i would say that even if if the uh

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first opportunity was for casco that's

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one we're going for

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you're planning to

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to deliver some closing remarks uh to

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atlantis is down on the ground

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what you've been doing to prepare for

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those remarks if anything

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or have you written them or are you

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from the moment

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uh no i i've written them down because i

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to capture that moment i had all the

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and i know that i'm not the greatest

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person doing speeches so i wanted to

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make sure i had it written down and made

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sure i again captured everything it's a

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very historical event but of course my

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get the crew home safely but

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we'll sit down and give us some closing

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remarks to the folks

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what is uh could you just uh run through

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the the forecast for the other kona

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sites for edwards and northrup let's see

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uh edwards uh is basically uh sky clear

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thanks and then i had a question about

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the the timeline for today uh pre-flight

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the crew talked about this day having

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pretty much no white space and

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white space on the board uh even going

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into today how would you assess the the

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work capacity on this flight uh you know

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sure that this last mission is a a

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complete success

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pre-flight they just said you know we're

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going to keep pressing we're going to do

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um you know work as hard as we can

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because we want to make sure it's a

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success you know last night we put them

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to bed a half an hour early and they

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they have a two hour three or two and a

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half hour post sleep they had today well

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they decided that instead of you know

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getting all their post sleep in there

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they wanted to press on with the pilot

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ops and just get ahead of the timeline

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okay time to go to the phone bridge we

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have a number of reporters lined up and

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we'll start off with marcia dunn marcia

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yes good morning can you hear me sure

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yes uh tony um there were some moving

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know you still have landing to focus on

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but surely

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you must have been feeling some

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sentiments at that time well you know i

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don't think you'd be human if you didn't

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feel something and every time you feel

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something you have to remember that you

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know this thing's not over yet

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but i tell you what i know marsha you

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guys been asking me this man since 132

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about you know the end of the program

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and how you're feeling and

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basically you've given me the

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opportunity to to say something here and

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i and i haven't written down to make

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sure again that i don't mess this up but

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uh

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let's see

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well as they say all good things must

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come to an end let's see uh for me it's

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been an unbelievable journey on a

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magnificent flying machine i'm very

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proud to have been part of the shuttle

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team

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i've been blessed to have supported

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sts-1

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as a flight controller and have the

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honor to be the entry flight director

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for sts-135

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so you can see i've been here for a

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while

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my congratulations and thanks go to all

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the thousands of dedicated and

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passionate team members

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who have made the shuttle program the

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success it has been and contributed to

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the legacy that it leaves behind it's

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because of their blood sweat and tears

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that we can say mission complete

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it's time to celebrate this amazing

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accomplishment

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and look forward to the future uh

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godspeed to all

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so that's what my thoughts were about

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this and i'm sure post landing uh

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we'll have a uh some additional things

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but you guys must know that we do have a

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motto uh

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on in the mission control center that

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flight controllers don't cry so we're

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going to make sure we keep that

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thank you very much

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hi thanks um

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deniseciousnews.com um over the past

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couple days um i know the flight

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dynamics officer has been sort of

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reworking very slightly the landing time

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i wonder if you could explain um the

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main

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things that go into how they decide what

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the blinding time will be thanks let's

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see the main influence uh

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um from tweaking them a couple minutes

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here and there was the uh sep three burn

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that we performed this morning uh to get

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it set up for the uh picosat deploy

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so they were just determining the right

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delta v and of course uh uh

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raising the basket lowering the orbit

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and that's just going to change the tigs

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for the deorbit burn that was the main

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okay i think uh excuse me next up is leo

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enright

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uh thanks kyle and i didn't i don't

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really want to push this too far but i'm

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still not clear why

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um you can't land on the second attempt

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tomorrow being from television i'm

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interested in in pictures and i wonder

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if can you explain a little bit more why

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you're so adamant and leroy was so out

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of it yesterday that you take every

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opportunity is this a major safety issue

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and if i could just a second brief

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question whether the

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uh whether people in central america

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will be able to see the shuttle as it uh

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as it re-enters in the morning i'll

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answer your last question uh yes they'll

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be able to see the uh uh

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the vehicle as it comes over with the uh

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um

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of course the uh trail of uh plasma

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coming behind it

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uh i'll answer your first question is uh

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you know i always think about uh uh

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you know about walking a mile in a man's

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shoes uh you know you sit at the entry

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flight director console and there's a

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lot of things you have to worry about

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and uh

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worrying about

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there's a lot of different things you

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have to worry about making sure the

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vehicle is in a good config making sure

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get the crew and

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you step back and look at this and as

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nice as it would be to land at the

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daytime to uh you know get some very

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good pictures uh you never want to give

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up opportunity it's just like uh you

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know hey let me just you know this is

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not a good enough uh setup for me or

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whatever i want to wait to hear and then

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you i mean like i talked before you've

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always seen the kfc weather just get

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worse even though the forecast says hey

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it's going to be

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sky clear and you don't know when so

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when you're sitting at that console and

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you have the opportunity to come home

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you take it day or night so uh

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you know i know a lot of folks want to

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see this but it you know again it's just

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you when you have that opportunity and

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it all looks good and it's safe to come

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okay bill harwood is next

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hey thanks tony uh

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i'll ask you yet another uh reporter

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emotion question but maybe in a slightly

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different way

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you know the ascent entry team in

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mission control has really been the tip

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of the spear

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through the history of manned space

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flight in this country they're all going

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to walk out that door tomorrow for the

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last time and it's not clear to me

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anyway whether you'll ever have or even

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need a team like that again

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what are your thoughts about that

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on the eve of this final landing what

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would you say to the team what do you

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say to the country about a team like

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that

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and its end

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uh you know

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our hope is that this is not at the end

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um you know

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everyone keeps asking the crew us that

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question

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we know there's going to be a rough spot

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for a while but we hope

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that when we do get a good plan a good

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direction a good mission that

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we can come back in here and do what

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we've been doing for the past 30 years

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and for the shuttle and you know the

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years before that with uh mercury gemini

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you know it's it's tough to think about

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that you know all this experience

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um

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you know all these years of experience

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of walking out the door without using it

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we have high hopes bill and uh

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we're gonna uh continue to uh

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look towards the future and hopefully we

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can utilize all this experience that we

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have

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thanks tony good luck with entry thank

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you sir

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next up is mark caro mark

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yes thank you um i just wanted to to see

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uh um if you had any updates on the tps

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survey

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from yesterday um if it all

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don't look good

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let's see mark when we were on console

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uh the

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tick folks did report that they were

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completed 100 percent of all review of

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the imagery

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nothing stood out at that point in time

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but of course they got to go through

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their standard process

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speak with the management team and such

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and i think that's earlier today that

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they're going to

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come back with the final assessment but

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we we did know that they completed it

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and we're just standing by to see what

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the final report is

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okay thank you and i had a weather

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question as well

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tomorrow for florida it sounds like the

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forecast is basically the same for both

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landing opportunities but i wanted to

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make sure if that was your sense of it

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as well uh yes sir

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thank you very much

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okay

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we have irene klotz on the line

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thanks rob um tony that did the landing

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time change again now is it back to the

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5 56 uh

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from yesterday's 557 did i hear that

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right uh no it's still around 5 57.

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and i mean it's rounding up a couple of

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seconds short of that yeah rounding up

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to that

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okay so main gear main gear touchdown is

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still 5 56 and some number of seconds

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it's 5 56 58 right now irene

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okay i just round up thanks very much i

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round up because that's too many numbers

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for me tony rounds up we round down so

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you don't miss anything yeah the editors

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do something else so just want to

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clarify that thanks

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bye

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you're welcome

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gina are you there

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okay i don't think we have gina on the

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guess not any questions back here before

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we close robert

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just uh hi robert prowling with

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collectspace.com with just one follow-up

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um you mentioned a tradition of not

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crying in mission control there have

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been other traditions in the past of uh

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on landings of american flags or cigars

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or other things like that do you have

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any plans to pass out anything to your

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team

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right now no you know of course we can't

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smoke in the control center anymore you

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know and uh but

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i think one of the things that

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i'm going to try to do is

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you know again

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it is a historical moment but we still

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need to make sure we get this crew

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safely off the vehicle and we get the

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crew safer hand over to ksc

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once we get that complete i think one of

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the things that i really want to do is

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get the entire team up in the uh the

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flight control room the white ficker and

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just have us all sit there soak it in

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and just watch the crew walk around and

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congratulate on each other on a job well

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okay i think that wraps up all of our

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questions we'll close with a few

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programming notes the sts-135 ascent

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imagery highlights replay that you've

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been seeing over the last day we'll have

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two more replays of that at 9 00 a.m and

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10 a.m central time

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as tony mentioned the crew begins at

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sleep period at 12 29 pm central uh our

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flight day highlights begin at 2 p.m

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central time today we're on rev n as in

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nancy of the tv schedule the crew will

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wake up at 8 29 pm central time tonight

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to begin de-orbit preparations for the

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final landing in space shuttle program