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asking this

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thank you

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oh

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astronaut mike barrett deputy chief of

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the astronaut office mike

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sunrise here at the bike on our

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cosmodrome the soyuz vehicle at the pad

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15 degrees below zero fahrenheit your

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thoughts as we prepare for the final

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launch of this memorable year well i

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think all of us out here reminded just

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how robust this system is i've been out

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here when it was i think we hit 114

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degrees in july of 93 and and today you

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know minus 14 fahrenheit and everything

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rolls on exactly as for the plan the

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rocket's in great shape uh the crew is

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in great shape everything is clicking

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along so uh i think we're feeling

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awfully good about this transportation

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system

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mike it seems like almost an eternity

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since you flew on the shuttle back all

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the way back in march and here we are at

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the end of this year an amazing

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transitional year your thoughts as we

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move from one hero to the next year well

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obviously it's been difficult to see the

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shuttle program in the shuttle being so

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iconic of human space flight but it's a

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pretty exciting time because uh very

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early into this new year we're going to

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see something brand new we're going to

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see the new commercial spacecraft flying

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to the station in fact that don pettit

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and his crew will see the first spacex

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and hopefully the cygnus cargo vehicles

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arrive at the station so we're saying

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goodbye to a wonderful program we're

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saying hello and ushering in some some

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brand new programs new rocket ships i

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underneath all that that's really bill

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gerstenmaier the associate administrator

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for human exploration operations bill

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a memorable year at transitional year

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and here at sunrise in minus 15 degrees

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fahrenheit the soyuz is ready to be

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hoisted vertically for another trip to

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the space station your thoughts as the

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year draws to an end

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i mean it's been an amazing year you

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know i think back and i reflect on what

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we really accomplished this year and

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it's just absolutely phenomenal with the

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conclusion the shuttle program

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then the progress failure recovery from

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the progress failure with the soyuz and

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then to be here today ready to go launch

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the soyuz again is just a phenomenal

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testimony to what we're doing and then

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also i think about all the work that's

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been going on aboard the space station

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you know even during this time when

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we've had three crew we've been getting

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a lot of research done we're getting a

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lot of activities done aboard space

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station so it's it's really been just an

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amazing year for us and uh

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i mean i just think back and i just

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think how blessed we are to work in this

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industry this will be i think the 13th

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launch this year to the space station so

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just an amazing amazing year for us

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two launches and a landing for the

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russian space program in a five-week

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period how significant is that

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accomplishment given all that goes into

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these activities especially in these

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weather conditions yeah i'm really

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impressed with the russians and their

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ability to to continue to keep launching

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and keep moving forward but you know

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out of peru and then here we are today

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with the soyuz rocket getting installed

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and and ready to get go to into the

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launch condition then again the teams

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are really professional really motivated

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but yet the the folks are out there on

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the rocket getting it ready to go fly

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they're just as focused on their job as

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they are when it's nice and warm and 60

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again a tremendous testimony to the

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russian spirit to keep moving forward in

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a steady measured pace to really make

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what is really a not an easy thing look

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it's good okay so frank i mean uh what

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does it still for you to be here in this

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position now well it's a very nice

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position to be and of course i'm very

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happy that i am here to support andre i

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know that he's looking forward to go to

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uh space to uh do his uh mission uh in a

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couple of days uh from now the promised

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mission it will be a fantastic mission

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for isa for our european space agency

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those long duration missions are very

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important for you these astronauts they

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are very important for us for as

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astronauts of course that's our job as a

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european astronaut but it's also very

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important for the european space agency

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and it's also very important for the

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partnership we do a lot of good stuff on

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the space station we do a lot of science

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we do a lot of education and we're

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preparing the future of human

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exploration so yes these missions are

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very important for us for you don't you

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miss to be the one going this time

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i miss it a little bit of course if they

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would give me a ticket i'm immediately

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back in line to sit in the rocket and to

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fly again for six months to space but

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now i think we have our young esa

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astronauts andre is still of my

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generation he's probably the last one of

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my generation to fly and after this we

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have luca parmitano and alexander gerst

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from italy and from germany they need to