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today's date is 28th

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the dominion

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be with you and bless you

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thank you god bless you

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uh

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good luck goodbye

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could you please wait a little bit

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before you go into the bus

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it's my marine corps look you're looking

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good

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hey rob all right talk to you on the

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foreign

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yes

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foreign

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um

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okay

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god you

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is it comfortable does it feel

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okay

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let's check the comm

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is everything ready

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that's it

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you will have time to talk to the family

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oh

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uh

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um

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families

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oh

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is

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don't worry everything will be fine you

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should not worry

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me

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my sleep has improved it's good that you

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slept

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well

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you are very different people but right

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foreign

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is

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good luck good luck to you guys

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what

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oh

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go get some

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foreign

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the prime crew of this is vehicle is

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so i will be there

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uh will have

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come with you

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the crew is going on board

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huh

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um

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vehicle to internal power separation of

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the first tower

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the first umbilical now separating from

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umbilical tower separation in process

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copy that

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t-minus 20 seconds and counting

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independent power

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we have ignition of the soyuz

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threat and liftoff liftoff as chris

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cassidy pavel vinogradov and alexander

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misurkin are on a fast track to the

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vibration

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30 seconds into the flight the rocket is

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nominal the crew is doing well we have

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good first stage performance the soyuz

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delivering 102 tons of thrust from its

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four boosters in single engine the first

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stage of the soyuz measures 68 feet in

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length and 24 feet in diameter it is

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burning liquid fuel for the first two

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one minute into the flight

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spacecraft is nominal we're one minute

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into the flight

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nominal

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velocity is now approaching 1100 miles

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70 seconds into the flight

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one minute 30 seconds into the flight

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stage one operating nominally

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two minutes five seconds into the flight

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the four strap-on boosters have now been

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jettisoned these have completed their

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job and have dropped away at an altitude

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of 28 statute miles the soyuz is

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traveling at about 3 350 miles an hour

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there's a look at chris cassidy

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sitting in the left seat pavel venegrano

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the commander of the soyuz there in the

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middle just off to the right of the

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alexander misurkin they're off to the

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the shroud that protects the soyuz has

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been jettisoned the crew can now see

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hit fearing

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jettison is confirmed yeah we confirmed

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rocket structure parameters are nominal

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five and a half minutes into the flight

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the flight controllers continue to

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confirm that the rocket is behaving as

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expected everything looking good feel

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great there you see pavel vinogradov in

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did the camera transition take place yes

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we're getting a really clear crisp

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picture excellent we feel great copy

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third stage engines are operating stable

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the third stage is

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behaving and performing as expected

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everything being reported is nominal

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everything's nominal

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seven minutes into the flight less than

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copy that

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seven and a half minutes into the flight

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the velocity now almost 13 500 miles an

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once the third stage delivers the soyuz

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to orbit and the module is separated a

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series of pre-programmed commands will

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be executed to prepare the soyuz for

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orbital operations these stored commands

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called time tagged commands allow many

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of the soyuz's systems to be

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automatically activated by onboard

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computers at precise times stored in

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administrator for human exploration and

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operations bill

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quite a light show to light up the

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predawn skies here in baikonur another

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expedition crew heading to the

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international space station this time in

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the express lane your thoughts on the

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launch this morning it was absolutely

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amazing to get to see the launch to see

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the rocket start start up and to see the

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actual rocket rise and then to feel the

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sound and feel the vibration on your

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body is just amazing and to think that

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our crew member is on board that rocket

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along with two of his russian comrades

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heading to the space station is just

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phenomenal when you see that it's uh

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it never gets old it's a unique

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experience each time and then i think

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about all the work that the engineering

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teams have put together the ballistics

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folks have put together to make sure

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that this is exactly the right thing and

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the right time to go do this and to see

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all that come together in this

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millisecond of launch activity and see

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that rocket rise off the pad is just

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exhilarating and then there's sit there

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and listen to the entire count through

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all the way through launch listen to all

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the engine calls listened and get to see

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staging we got to see it all the way

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through third stage ignition just

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absolutely phenomenal experience

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it's hard to believe that just a few

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hours ago the crew was walking out of

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their crew quarters in the cosmonaut

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hotel and soon the station will double

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in size just like that

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what kind of a thought do you have about

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the testimony that this has to the

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sophistication of the human spaceflight

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capability

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again i think it's really amazing to see

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all this come together and and has been

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said before you know orbital mechanics

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just lined up exactly right today you

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do it in the four orbits but this

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particular launch time worked out for

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the four orbit activity and to have that

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all work together is just phenomenal to

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think you know in this short amount of

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time in the you know in the four orbits

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the crew will be at space station so you

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know as kirk said earlier for the crew

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to watch and see this soyuz coming at

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them and know in a matter of you know

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four orbits five five and sub hours

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the crew's gonna be there they're gonna

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be opening a hatch and coming on board

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that's truly unique and that's neat and

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that what the neat side of that for me

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is that it allows us to get samples to

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orbit faster so we can take biological

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things that may have a finite shelf life

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they can get loaded in the rocket and

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they can get delivered to station within

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a matter of hours which is a new

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capability for the researchers so not

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only is this intriguing from kind of an

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orbital mechanics standpoint etc it's

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also very advantageous potentially to

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the scientific community so just a a

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neat thing to see all this come together

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today and it'll be great to see the the

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hatch opening and see the crew actually

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cook shireman deputy iss program manager

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kirk the laws of orbital mechanics all

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fell together for this predawn launch to

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send a new crew to the international

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space station your thoughts as the soyuz

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rocketed away

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i was a beautiful night a very

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comfortable night here in baikonur

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just a few minutes before the launch the

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iss was to fly over uh overhead

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unfortunately it was an eclipse so we

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couldn't see it from the ground but but

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knew they were there so that was

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exciting and a magnificent launch night

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launches are always magnificent so the

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crew is definitely ready to go have they

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have a lot of work ahead of them and

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we're looking forward to having them on

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orbit um i just got word from from on

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orbit that the crew on on on iss was

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able to uh to see the launch as well so

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really a unique opportunity uh it really

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takes a nighttime launch and in order

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for all those things to line up so very

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special occasion tonight and we'll look

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forward to the docking here in just a

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few hours

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the the work ahead in a busy five and a

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half months uh it's been discussed

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before but uh it just looks like a

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daunting five and a half months but a

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crew that's up to the task

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no doubt you know

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every crew that goes up these days is

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very very busy we expect these guys to

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uh to do a tremendous amount of research

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they have a very comprehensive research

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program and in addition to make things

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more exciting we're going to have a

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a european atv a japanese htv

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and and hopefully an orbital flight

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before they before they come home so

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lots of visiting vehicles and lots of

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research to do and and so we're looking