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all right welcome back

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we got the

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sts-135 crew of atlantis here come on up

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commander chris ferguson

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pilot doug hurley

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mission specialist sandy magnus

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and mission specialist rex walheim

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commander it's all yours

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well hello kennedy space center it is so

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it is great to be here

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um it's great to be in sunny florida

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it's great to be in florida mike limebox

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said we there was no way we could land

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in california he wouldn't let us

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um

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you know we've uh we've tried to go the

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extra mile not just uh not just right

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now not just during the flight but even

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pre-flight to

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to express our gratitude on behalf of

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our entire office for everything that

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you have done out here

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the safety that you build into these

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vehicles the care the meticulous care

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that you take of these things you know

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as soon as we got in orbit i was

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absolutely amazed everything at atlantis

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works everything looks beautiful on the

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inside

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and uh it really i hope you all believe

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that every time we go we we take we try

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to take just a little bit of every one

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of you with us um i'd like to take a

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moment and let everyone just share a

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word or two so doug

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well like chris said uh

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you know our our one landing option was

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coming to florida we you know we wanted

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to get her back to you all uh rather

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than anywhere else so we we're just so

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glad to see everybody's face here it was

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great to land on the runway and

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as folks walked up to the orbiter waving

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at us it was just it was just you know

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felt like being home again so

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uh thanks for all that you do

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all that you've done over the last 30

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plus years

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you know the astronaut office is uh

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indebted to you all uh thank you so much

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hey i wanted to just to let you know

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what utmost respect we treated this

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vehicle with

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we've seen you firsthand at how you

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process this vehicle and how it is your

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baby

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the space flight business really does

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run in our blood it runs in your blood

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and it runs in our blood

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and we try to take care of that because

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we always know we're bringing this back

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to the kennedy space center and so we

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treat it with respect and it is clean

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and it is well cared for and we want to

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do that for you because we've done such

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a great job preparing it for us and we

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wanted to bring it back in that great

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condition so thanks for all you've done

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for us it's been an amazing adventure

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and next is mission specialist sandy

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you know what can i say you guys are

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such a special workforce there's no

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workforce like the space program

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workforce anywhere in the world

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the pride you take in your work the care

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you take in your work the dedication the

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passion you are what makes it possible

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for us to have these very challenging

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missions and succeed and we can't even

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thank you from enough from the bottom of

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our hearts for what you do i mean think

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about it you have to do

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everything right all of the time and you

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do and you make it look easy so thank

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you so much and take great pride in the

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30 years of successful missions that

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as a

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fresh off of the orbiter uh we we as the

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crew try to uh

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think of a an innovative way perhaps to

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express our our thanks uh to you and uh

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we we took this banner with us and this

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is our way of telling you that you guys

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rock

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and uh we're gonna we're gonna hold it

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up for you now hopefully uh you may have

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seen a shot or two of this on orbit

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we're gonna we're to present this ready

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we're going to present this

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perhaps to to mike or bob and as a just

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a small token of our appreciation for

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all you've done for us and all you've

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done for the orbiter thank you very much

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everybody and thank you again on behalf

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of the astronaut office and the crew for

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oh

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family

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no

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d boy you're difficult

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hey right there

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i wonder what's making this thing

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now goes

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hey

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wow

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oh