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you do that

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mike fossum assistant director for

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flight crew operations Mike a year and a

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half ago you launched quite a bit warmer

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than it is today with the Soyuz in the

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background what are your thoughts if you

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look at the vehicle here at the pet oh

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it's always exciting to be out to the

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launch pad my first time to see the

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sight was exactly two years ago the

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weather was similar to this I think it

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was a little bit warmer it's about minus

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25 degrees Fahrenheit this morning but

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it's exciting to be here it takes years

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for a space station crew to get to this

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point finally getting to the launch pad

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the crew has been in preparation for two

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and a half years at this point and now

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the rocket has come together and just

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rolled out to the pad in the last few

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minutes a highly talented crew with a

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wide variety of experience about to

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launch your thoughts about Rome on Tom

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and Chris and what they bring to the

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space station well they will be get the

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crew back up to a crew of six people of

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course we've got three up there right

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now these guys are are going up Roman

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will be his second long-duration

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increment Chris and Tom both help build

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the space station and now they're going

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to will be taking up residence to go

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live there it's a very exciting time for

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them it was it's similar for all of us

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that have had a part in the space

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station program and now it's very

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different though to move in to go to

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live on the space station to take care

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of that station and execute the science

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experiment so the many different there's

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over 200 different science programs

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experiments that are ongoing on the

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station and there are very excited about

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getting up there and getting to work and

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obviously the culmination of a complex

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year aboard the International Space

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Station

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how significant has 2012 them

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well 2012 spent been a great year we've

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had an astonishing amount of work

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accomplished by the crews onboard

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the systems have been stable and the the

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science experiments have been you know

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very rewarding so that there's a

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and the number of crews that have been

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up there have been just very effective

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and efficient and getting a lot of work

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done and so it's been a big year at 2012

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and I'm just ending it up by getting the

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next crew up there get it back up at

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full strength bill Gerstenmaier

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associate administrator human

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exploration operations built it's minus

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25 Fahrenheit and unbelievable weather

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condition but the Soyuz is ready to go

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behind it and the crew your thoughts of

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this morning just an amazing

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concentration by the crews and the folks

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working on the rocket here today you

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know that the weather is not very warm

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at all and it just takes a lot of

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concentration for these guys to think

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about what they're doing to stay focused

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on their job not get too distracted by

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the weather but what a tremendously

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professional team here working under

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what we'd consider pretty tough

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conditions in the u.s. a tremendous

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variety of experience ready to launch to

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the space station in this three-man crew

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that's about to go up what do they bring

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to the station at the beginning of the

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highly complex input yeah I think if you

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know I look at this crew and and I think

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what Kevin's done on orbit you know he's

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been on orbit with it by himself for a

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pretty extended period of time here and

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now to get the rest of the crew up there

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to get Chris up there and Tom and Roman

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and get back to six-person crew will be

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tremendously helpful to the station and

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get us back doing activities like you

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said many things are planned to progress

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launch another SpaceX launch a ATV

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coming up so a pretty busy increment for

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the crew overall I think it's really

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exciting when you look at the research

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that's going on board station you know

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Kevin's been taking care of the fish

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that came up with the with the ATV or

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the HTV last year and things have been

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going really really well I think the

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words under crews patch are particularly

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meaningful it says off the earth for the

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earth

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and what a tremendous phrase that is for

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this crew they recognize that by them

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making sacrifices and going to space

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ultimately their work their research

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will benefit every one of us here on the

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earth and what it what a tremendous

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message that is for the crew so when I

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read their patch I think about Tom and

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Chris and Roman and I think about what

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they're going to do I think about the

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researchers coming forward I think about

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them making sacrifices of being on the

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station but I think about us here on the

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earth benefiting from their work so it's

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a tremendous expedition and I'm looking

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forward to it very much and Bill 2012

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comes to an end here with this launch a

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milestone year your thoughts

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we started commercial cargo delivery to

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the station research expanded

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exponentially a significant year no

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different yeah you know I think you know

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about this time I I talked about a year

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transition when we ramped off the

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shuttle we began operations on station

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we started focusing on utilization I

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2012 was exactly what I wanted it did

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exactly what we needed to do we got

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ready we're doing doing tons of research

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onboard station and that's just going to

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continue and we'll just continue to get

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better and better and better and then

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we'll start seeing some results come

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from that work so you know a lot of

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times in our business there's a lot of

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preparation a lot of work upfront and we

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don't see the benefits for an extended

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period of time I think this year we'll

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get a chance to see some of those

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benefits as things progress through this

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year so again I'm looking forward to

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2013 and I look back on 2012 and I thank

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the teams I thank four folks even here

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that made all this happen so so again to

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the crews that are working here in these

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little chilly conditions they're doing

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an awesome job today and I think the

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energy a team I thank the Roscosmos team