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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 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 uh

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one of the things we always have in the

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back of our mind is uh is are we gonna

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end 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 uh we had a uh we had a

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nice pre-dawn landing um

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i'll just pass it down the line here

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real quick to my left sandy magnus ms

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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 mid

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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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that these guys did we were able to get

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all that cargo transferred and then more

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cargo transferred back to the mplm and

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yeah i just have to say it was such a

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pleasure to be on the international

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space station again that that 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 uh 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

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i just want to say what an honor it has

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been to be part of the space shuttle

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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 every you know us 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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great undocking and fly around you saw

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and i'm sure it looked pretty and you uh

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and you saw pictures of it but it was uh

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pretty challenging inside and mr marine

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here was calm as a cucumber as all

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running the show and uh and he did a

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great job so with that doug thanks rex

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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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till dusk literally up there and uh

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i think we left the station better than

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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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other than to just say the commander but

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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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just you know kept us going in the right

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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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i'd like to do it again with him

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sooner rather than later

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thanks doug

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all right with that we'll take questions

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please be sure to give your name an

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affiliation when the microphone comes to

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you and we'll start down here in the

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marcia done associated press we just

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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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i i think uh what i'd say is we each got

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certain times where you have to do

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nothing but concentrate and you can't

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site it was it was dark

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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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mission you were at and what your job

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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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back i want you to look ahead because

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every 10 years or so we interviewed gene

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cernan on the anniversary of him being

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the last man to walk on the moon in 10

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years when you come back as the last

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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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is i know where i hope will be as to

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given everything that i know today i

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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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vehicles that are being considered right

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well-traveled path i think that we're

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spending either short or perhaps long

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the whole airline industry the whole

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aviation industry got started

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mourning if you will but you know that's

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goodbye to a good friend

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we'll start looking forward and we'll uh

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we'll make it happen again

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them uh in their museum homes it'll be

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have a perspective of someone who's

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to go and kind of see it through other

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people's eyes as they've chosen to

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flight magazine room for 4x um before

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when it it actually started to sink in

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sooner than i thought it would uh it was

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um in flight ever like i was talking

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about earlier every once in a while it

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would it would start to sink in and it

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was uh it was

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like mostly in the quiet times like the

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other time was when we're we're on the

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mid deck of the space shuttle where we

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kind of live and live

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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 uh that

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we were the last crew that lived down

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there and uh i'm sure uh doug can point

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out my peach apricot stains on the

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hi evan brown fox news radio um how did

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atlantis perform on her on her final

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trip uh she went up came back she landed

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being towed back

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what shape is 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 gpcs 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 uh

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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 and that's really frankly the

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only thing i can think of that was even

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oh that doesn't work or that doesn't i

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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 deck's 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 gc gpc four and

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then just i think chris described them

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as 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 so 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 this

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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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it's 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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we

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up to up to the the ground processing

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crew to decide what to do with what we

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left behind but we left

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we left an inscription

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a little plaque and uh it was basically

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a tribute to the the people who had

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worked on the space shuttle program

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since the day one thanking them for

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their

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you know just let them know how much we

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thought about the work that they do 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 sometimes it's a little bit of

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an effort to get out here and give them

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the thanks and the praise they deserve

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and we try to go the extra yard and for

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the record i did clean up my peach

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mostly

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the pilot made

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all right them lock delaware county

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times near philadelphia

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uh now that the wheels have stopped uh

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when one sts-135 is mentioned what will

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be 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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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 uh

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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 which

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seems like the rules of the game are

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changing both in terms of the spacecraft

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that 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

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increases and so that would require a

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whole different type of skill 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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of skill sets for that i think you'll

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see 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 uh on

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the subject of commitment question for

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doug hurley

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you each individually said yes you'd be

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a member of sts-135 crew what happens

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from today what things do you continue

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to do as a crew what's happening in the

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near future for you together

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uh

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i think

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today we're probably gonna 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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i think that's generally what we'll be

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doing over the next uh probably 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 you can give us a quick one we'll

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james dean with florida today i had a

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question for doug as well um you waited

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a very long time for your first flight i

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believe it was like nine years and um i

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just wondered if hopefully it's not that

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long for the next one

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but did that experience give you any

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kind of perspective

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uh any lessons learned in terms of

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patience 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. um yeah that for my class the

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timing was not very good for flying

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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

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it 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

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all right well that's all the time that

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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 just close the

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thanks

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nothing changed

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