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oh it's okay you can applaud uh

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not an order it's gonna confuse

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good enough

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good afternoon everyone this is our

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post landing news conference with

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atlantis astronauts

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and we'll start with some comments from

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the crew and then we'll take questions

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so we'll turn it over now to our

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commander chris first chris

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uh well hello as uh i think we're elated

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to be back here in florida um the

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weather was perfect today you know one

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of the things we always have in the back

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of our mind is uh is are we going to end

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up back in florida we end up in

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california

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um mike leinbach the launch director

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before we launched said you may not go

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to california so we had to come back to

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florida fortunately the weather

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cooperated and we had a we had a nice

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pre-dawn landing

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i'll just pass it down the line here

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real quick to my left sandy magnus

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ms-1

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she was the chief loadmaster she had to

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haul all the heavy stuff on and out of

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the mplm she did everything from

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robotics to taking care of us on the

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mid-deck

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and she was just a tremendous asset to

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this crew and i'm proud to have called

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her my crewmate sandy

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yeah the mission was incredibly busy uh

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we knew it was going to be incredibly

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busy when we started we had a we got

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tons of help from the space station crew

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and uh with their help and all the great

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work that these guys did we were able to

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get all that cargo transferred and then

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more cargo transferred back to the mplm

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and yeah i just have to say it was such

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a pleasure to be on the international

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space station again that that's such a

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magical wonderful place

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and in some ways i felt like i'd never

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left but it's even bigger than it was

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two years ago it's just a spectacular

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on my left is mission specialist too rex

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wilheim and he was our eva guru and

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transfer

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guru as well you did he did a lot in the

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mplm that you may or may not have seen

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on the camera but he was in there every

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day practically when he wasn't doing eva

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stuff and and it's been a real fun

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flying with rex who are classmates and

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it's been really great sharing this

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experience with him

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thanks sandy and basically for transfer

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i did just did what sandy said to do and

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that's pretty much what all we did and

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uh it was it was a it was a it was an

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absolutely great experience it was uh

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tremendously busy as sandy said i think

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you've heard that before um i just want

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to say what an honor it has been to be

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part of the space shuttle program

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i started 26 years ago as a back room

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for the max flight controller and i have

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loved every minute that i've been part

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of the space program it's been such an

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honor and uh it runs in the blood i

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think everyone you know is here when you

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talk to people here at the kennedy space

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center at the johnson space center that

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it just runs in the blood

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and uh it's just everybody just wants to

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be a part of it and we understand it's

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time to transition but we're going to

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cherish every minute of it

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um it i do want to thank all the folks

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who on the ground who helped us out here

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at the kennedy space center to get us

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off in a very exciting launch and to and

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to recover us on on a wonderful landing

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and then also the mission control and

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all the folks at the other space flight

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centers who helped us during the mission

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and on my left is uh pilot doug hurley

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doug was uh the the chief of the great

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undocking and fly around you saw and i'm

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sure it looked pretty and you uh and you

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saw pictures of it but it was uh pretty

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challenging inside and mr marine here

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was calm as a cucumber as all things

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were uh were lining up and and as we

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was just uh running the show and and he

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did a great job so with that doug thanks

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we are glad to be back here in florida

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it felt like about a two-month mission

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crammed into 13 days we we ran from dawn

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we found it and uh i think we've got

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them set up for the for the long haul

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anyway fergie never gets introduced so

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the glue that kind of kept us together

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pressures and the emails that only chris

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that he dealt with and there was

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negative uh to the rest of us and he

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direction and you know he's yeah you

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know we can't say enough about sandy but

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we also can't say enough about chris he

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he just was a great guy to work for and

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doug all right with that we'll take

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questions please be sure to give your

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name an affiliation when the microphone

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comes to you and we'll start down here

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in the front with marcia

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marcia done associated press we just

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heard from mike leinbach the tears were

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flowing on the runway when you guys came

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in i'd like to know if tears were

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that atlantis is departing it just that

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know there are other parts that really

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choke people up too and it's just it

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take the big picture and it would it

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radio and thanks for answering the same

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hundreds of questions

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hundreds of times instead of looking

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every 10 years or so we interview gene

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cernan on the anniversary of him being

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shuttle crew for the anniversary where

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do you think we will be not where you

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hope will be but where do you think

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we'll be in terms of the u.s in human

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space uh flight and exploration

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traversing back and forth to low earth

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orbit uh with uh one of the four or five

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the whole airline industry the whole

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aviation industry got started

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goodbye to a good friend

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we'll start looking forward and we'll

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have a perspective of someone who's

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other people's eyes as they've chosen to

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display it and and watch people i think

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flight magazine room for 4x um before

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sink in sooner than i thought it would

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uh it was um in flight like i was

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talking about earlier every once in a

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while it would it would start to sink in

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and it was uh it was like mostly in the

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quiet times like the other time was when

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we were we're on the mid-deck of the

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space shuttle where we kind of live and

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live in uh and sleep and

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uh i was down there just thinking about

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all the other crews that have gone

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before me and you're thinking this is

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the last time and uh

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someone was asking us whether we would

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go to visit the atlantis in the museum

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something and i certainly plan to i plan

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to go with my my kids and and take them

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and show them when it's on displaying a

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beautiful uh place here at the kennedy

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space center and think back that that we

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were the last crew that lived on there

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and i'm sure

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doug can point out my peach apricot

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stains on the lockers too and everything

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hi evan brown fox news radio

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how did atlantis perform on her on her

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final trip uh she went up came back she

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landed being towed back uh what shape is

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she in and uh

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if by some magical reason there were

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another set of srbs in an external tank

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and they said go fly could she do it

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doug yeah most definitely um

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everything we asked of her she gave us

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it

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other than the

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we we had a wake-up call in the middle

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of the night uh one of the gpc's got a

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little cranky but

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that happens i mean

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everything worked just like it was

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supposed to and

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chris and rex and i got a little

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practice with some malfunction

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procedures to get the gpcs back in order

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but that i mean that was not a big deal

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and it was probably made

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probably a bigger deal down here than it

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really was up there

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but the funniest thing about that that

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one and that's really frankly the only

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thing i can think of that was even

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oh that doesn't work or that doesn't

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mean light switch everything worked

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perfectly

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but it was just the the memory i'll have

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of that is you know the alarm went off

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you know we're all in our sleeping bags

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the mid dark and

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chris and i pop out of our sleeping bags

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and we look at each other and go what

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was that

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and then and then and then it

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we get our sleeping bags we go up to the

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flight deck we turn on a display and we

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sort out that it was gpc four and then

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just i think chris described them as

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gophers coming out of their holes

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rex pops up pops up the ladder hey

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what's going on and then sandy who was

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sleeping on space station popped up

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after that so it was that is that's

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gonna what do we say well everybody

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please just go back to bed we'll take

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care of that we got it

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but uh no angie brewer and her team had

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atlantis ready to go and i guarantee you

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60 days from now she could go again

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right here hi robert perlman with

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collectspace.com um

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rex's apricot stains notwithstanding um

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did you as a crew leave anything of

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yourselves on board atlantis before

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leaving perhaps like the final four

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inscription that you did on the

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simulators back in houston

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uh we

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we did we left a little something we

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didn't want to make it permanent we

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certainly didn't want to we didn't want

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to deface atlantis we wanted to leave it

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up to up to the ground processing crew

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to decide what to do with what we left

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behind but we left

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um we left an inscription um a little

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plaque and uh it was basically a tribute

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to the the people who had worked on the

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space shuttle program since the day one

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thanking them for their for their

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dedication and uh to uh

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you know just let them know how much we

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thought about the work they do uh from

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the from the astronauts from the people

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who get to operate the vehicle that they

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maintain you know a lot of people think

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the astronauts live here in florida and

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we rub elbows with these

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folks every day but we don't we live far

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away and it's sometimes it's a it's a

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little bit of an effort to get out here

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and give them the thanks and the praise

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they deserve and

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we try to go the extra yard and for the

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record i did clean up my peach apricot

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mostly

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the pilot made them

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all right brian lock delaware county

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times near philadelphia

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now that the wheels have stopped when

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one sts-135 is mentioned what will be

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your most memorable moment of that

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flight and what would be your most

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memorable moment of all your flights

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oh wow

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that's hard one

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well

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you know probably not one you would

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think

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when the when the countdown clock stops

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at 31 seconds and somebody says the

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clock is stopped due to a malfunction

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that tends to

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the first question that comes to mind is

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well what kind of malfunction

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um

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you know

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and that's that's just the pilot's

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perspective i think if i had to look at

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it from uh you know the layman's

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perspective you know that just the image

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of the space station up there and

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unfortunately we cannot convey

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you know if you've seen pictures but the

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pictures just do not

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capture the majesty of what

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humans have built in low earth orbit i

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mean this is just an immense vehicle and

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people are just living and working in it

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like it's earth only they float from

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module to module it's almost a surreal

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experience and that that's probably my

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my most

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touchy-feely memory

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frank moriarty new jersey monthly to

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continue the northeast area and chris

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the eagles hats for you but the question

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is for sandy uh you have more space

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flight time in orbit than the rest of

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the crew and with the conclusion of this

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mission in the shuttle program it seems

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like the rules of the game are changing

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both in terms of the spacecraft that

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will be used in the years to come

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as well as the inception of commercial

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crew low earth orbit operations

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contrasting with nasa's plans for uh

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deep space exploration do you foresee a

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time when and there may be different

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career paths for astronauts based on low

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earth operations versus deep space is it

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getting to a point where that may be a

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consideration you have to decide which

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direction you want to go in yeah i think

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that's a conceivable idea because as you

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get more access to low earth orbit of

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course the the scope of missions

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possible increases and so that would

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require a whole different type of skill

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set so

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it's it becomes i i hate to say this but

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it becomes kind of a less of an

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exploration and more of a utilization

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whereas the deep space missions are more

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of an exploration flavor and that

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requires different skill sets so i think

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just as when the shuttle came online

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you saw an expansion of the types of

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opportunities available for people you

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know we now needed scientists and and

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medical doctors and a wider variety of

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skill sets for that i think you'll see

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the same thing here during this

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transition so

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every little leap broadens the

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possibilities for for people to go to

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space

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and we have time for just one final

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question right here

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mark ratterman from talking space

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on the subject of commitment question

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for doug hurley

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you each individually said yes you'd be

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a member of sts-135 crew

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what happens from today what things do

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you continue to do as a crew what's

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happening in the near future for you

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together

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uh

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i think

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today we're probably going to go out and

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get a nice meal somewhere and then head

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back to houston tomorrow

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say hi to the folks back there and then

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we start in debriefs on monday physicals

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and debriefs again we had some medical

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stuff earlier so

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we'll probably be pretty busy the

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debrief process usually takes a couple

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weeks and then there's some post-flight

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pr appearances that that we'll do after

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that so

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we we've got a few more months i think

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together which is great because it would

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be hard to kind of stop it right now so

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um

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i think that's generally what we'll be

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doing over the next uh probably a couple

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three months

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okay we've got just about a minute james

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if if you can give us a quick one we'll

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here

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james dean with florida today i had a

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question for doug as well

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you waited a very long time for your

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first flight i believe it was like nine

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years and

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i just wondered if hopefully it's not

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that long for the next one but did that

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experience give you any kind of

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perspective

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any lessons learned in terms of patience

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perseverance that you think

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might help

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you and the rest of the astronaut corps

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anyone else involved with the program to

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to kind of deal with what might the gap

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that's to come

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yeah well

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i mean we're still going to fly people

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obviously the rate's going to be three

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or four a year rather than

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30 or 40.

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yeah that for my class the timing was

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not very good for flying quickly

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but there were folks in rex and sandy's

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class that waited 10 11 years so it

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definitely builds

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some perseverance if you didn't have any

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although frankly most of us didn't get

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here because we you know didn't have any

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perseverance but uh

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yeah it it definitely

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you know it's worth the wait but it's

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you know you've got to put the effort in

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as well but uh

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you know hopefully if i fly again i i

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yeah waiting another nine years to fly

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again would be would be harder rather

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than easier but uh you know the the

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opportunity to go beyond low earth orbit

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or do a six-month expedition is

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is a great opportunity as well and you

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know you just put your time in and and

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do your job well and

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you know

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good things come so i think i'll leave

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it at that all right well that's all the

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time that we have with our

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atlantis crew today so that will

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conclude this briefing and would like to

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thank the crew very much for coming

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and thank you very much this concludes

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the