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deputy chief astronaut mike barratt Mike

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Soyuz vehicle on the launch pad here in

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Baikonur after very very careful

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meticulous preparation this will be the

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first launch of an American astronaut of

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the post shuttle era your thoughts are

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the significance and the importance of

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this moment well there's a lot of

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reasons to be significant for this new

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launch here obviously with the shuttles

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passing the shuttle did what it was

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designed to do which was to build the

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International Space Station so now we're

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turning our our attentions towards

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utilization and this world-class

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laboratory that's in space pretty much

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starting now will be dedicated almost

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completely to producing science and

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technology and everything that we wanted

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to get the experience of human space

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flight and the knowledge to stay long

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periods and expect people to be healthy

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up there and then very productive so

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it's a big time for us right now to see

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his transition to that era just a few

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months ago the Russians had the setback

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when they so used rooster the loss of

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the unmanned progress he recently

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successfully launched a progress to the

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station what is your level of confidence

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and your thoughts about how quickly they

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recovered from well obviously to get to

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this point to have the soyuz tma-22 on

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the launch pad and ready to go a lot of

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people gathered a lot of technicians and

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very smart people got together to this

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incident that happened with the progress

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and I think an unprecedented response

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really was mounted to figure this out

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whole engine blocks numbers of engines

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that have been produced were recalled

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and examined and tested and i think that

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the engines that we have now here on the

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third stage of this rocket are probably

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those were most confident in at any

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other launch i think with the

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reliability record with the soyuz over

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these past decades i think we're very

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confident between that record and the

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effort that these guys put into it that

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this should be a very safe launch the

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long months of training for Denver

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bank now at an end what is his level of

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preparedness what's his food as he

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prepares for launch and how complicated

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will disagreement I was a great question

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obviously we're a few weeks later than

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we expected to be and i would say that

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Dan is about as prepared as anybody has

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ever been before going to the

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International Space Station because

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we've used that time to do further

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training and with the current

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circumstance so be a very short hand

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over time as we call it between the off

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going crew and dad and his crew so we've

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had to maximize training to the extent

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possible the folks on board Noah Satoshi

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and Mike Fossum and Sergei Volkov

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they've all sent down training videos

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and essentially instructions to make

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that as efficient as possible I think

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Dan and his crew are incredibly ready to

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go as far as their mission every mission

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is complex up there one of the things

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they're going to need to do is back out

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of some of the D crewing activities that

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we've been doing in the off chance that

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we weren't able to watch the Soyuz on

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time we wanted to be sure that the

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station was ready to work on man

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essentially to be an autonomous vehicle

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for a while that took a lot to do and

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they'll have to undo some of that work

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but then they'll get down to the work of

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doing science and that's of course what

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the station was built for it won't be

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long before they'll be joined by the

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next crew in December that'll bring us

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back up to the full crew complement of

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six and again the station can really

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no nurse admire the associate

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administrator for human exploration

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operations built

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so use on the pad ready to launch on

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November 14 this will be the first

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launch of an American post-shock your

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thoughts on the significance and how

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critical this time is

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get the station back to a six person

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operation and all the increment work

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you know is that is I think about it you

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know we've been flying onda soy use for

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a pretty extended period of time even

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while the shuttle is flying so I don't

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see it as a big difference is this is

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the first American post shuttle to go

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fly but but I still look at what the

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Russians are doing and getting the

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rocket ready to go fly after the

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progress failure and they've done a

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tremendous job of really investigating

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and thoroughly understanding what's

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going on and they're ready to go fly

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today and it's a really amazing to see

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the teams working here on the rocket

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getting it unbolt of getting it erected

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to see the Russians going through

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step-by-step getting a rocket prepared

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and they're doing a great job today so

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I'm very impressed with what I see with

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the Russians and their teamwork in

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preparation for today only three months

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have passed since the progress accident

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very aggressive work that the road

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into the posture that we're at today two

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launches and a landing now within a five

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week period your thoughts on what this

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moment I'm represents in terms of the

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aggressiveness of what the Russians are

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it's a pretty pretty intense launch

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tempo they have planned for themselves

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here but again you know I don't sense

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any rushing or anything being cut in

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terms of preparation and preparedness

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again the Russians are very methodical

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moving forward kind of step by step and

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you know even as they prepare the rocket

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today and they do the unbolting and they

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do the hydraulic lifts and they do the

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activities they're pretty pretty

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standard pretty step by step just kind

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of moving forward making steady progress

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Mike Fossum and his crew on orbit had a

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slightly different from in Oakland past

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three months and they had bargained for

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now for he and his crewmates coming up

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how critical and difficult Willis period

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and quick transition from one again that

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the things that you don't get to see is

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how much preparation went into this

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handover period you know there's about

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four days when they'll actually get a

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chance to hand over from one crew to the

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next but they've done a lot of

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preparation on orbit they you know Mike

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Fossum downlink some high definition

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video to the crew so they could actually

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see what it's going to be like to be on

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board space station they they showed

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them some things that they're going to

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have to do in terms of maintenance to

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get prepared so where the normal

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handover would have been more

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face-to-face they actually did some

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remotely by planning ahead and working

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with the Mission Operations seem to be

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prepared so you know it looks easy when

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we see it from the outside and see it

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get executed but if you look behind the

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scenes and you see all the preparation

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and the thought that went into this to

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make it work that smooth that's a

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testimony to what we're really doing to

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get prepared so this extra preparation

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they did the extra crew conferences the

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extra talking back and forth have been

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tremendously helpful and should set us

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well to be ready for this pretty short

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spaceflight as the year ends into a new

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year here between utilization the advent

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of commercial vehicles standing in the

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wings basically ready to come online to

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service the station how do you view this

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transitional period away from the

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shuttle into how the future again we've

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done a lot of preparation to get ready

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for this period to transition away from

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shuttle into the into the next period of

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commercial cargo and and I think again

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we're prepared you know we you know we

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may get surprised but but we're ready to

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move forward there's also a tremendous

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amount of research going on onboard

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space station you know every day I look

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at the status reports and there's

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probably five or six scientific

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investigations being done every day on

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time with the three crew they've done a

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tremendous job of actually doing some

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really quality research you know some of

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the combustion experiments that Mike

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really amazing results we see some

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things with we're actually burning some

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heptane propellant in space we're

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actually see how that performs and

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the microgravity period of space with no

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convection and it's amazing the

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researchers are very intrigued by the

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results or see it so I think that the

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thing that most folks don't get a chance

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to see is how much real research and

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scientific investigations are getting

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done during this period and it's a real

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tribute to Mike and the crew on orbit

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that they were able to do this with a

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pretty reduced crew size at a very

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different schedule than a a plan but

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again by being adaptable being flexible

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and being prepared they were able to

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really make it look very smooth finally

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how complex will this time frame in the

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again overall a pretty tiny amick period

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in terms of launches and vehicles coming

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just a very very busy period so again I

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think the thing we learn is to be

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prepared to be flexible to be agile to

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be ready to change in his life place of

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slightly different scenario than you

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thought or things don't work exactly

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right if you've got that right mental

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attitude and you've been prepared you're

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ready to adapt it looks seamless it

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looks like you're ready and nothing

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really happened but in reality it's a

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it's a tribute to the preparation and

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the thought that goes into this and and

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again I can't say enough about the

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Russian preparation for this launch if

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they've done a great job of being

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prepared they looked at everything

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thoroughly they're ready to go into this

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period it's an exciting time watching

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this transition and start to see this