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good afternoon from nasa's johnson space

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center in houston texas i am josh

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spirely it has been quite the day for

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both nasa and orbital sciences we're

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going to be taking a look at all this

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morning's activities as cygnus was

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successfully

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installed on the international space

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station joining me here in houston is

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nasa flight director holly writing she

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was there in mission control as the

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activities took place

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we were also joined from nasa

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headquarters in washington d.c by alan

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lindemoyer nasa's commercial crew and

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cargo program manager as well as frank

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culbertson executive vice president of

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orbital sciences we're going to start

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here in houston with holly then we'll

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take some uh we'll go to uh dc and talk

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with alan and frank and then we'll take

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some questions and we'll see it started

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with holly all right well thank you josh

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it's certainly a great day to fly in

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space

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today

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rendezvoused and was captured and

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birthed to the international space

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so starting about

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2 am local time here in houston

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joint operations which is the activity

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where the mission control team here in

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at orbital responsible for this cygnus

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and also our colleagues

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at jaxa who participate in the cygnus

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rendezvous with part of the

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communications system begin to work

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together as a team in order to get

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to the space station so that activity

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started about 2 am local houston time

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and then a series of maneuvers were

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completed as cygnus

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moved from below the space station

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up to a point where the robotic arm

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could reach out and

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at the node 2 nader so just underneath

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the node 2 module and that activity

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occurred at 6 a.m local time just a few

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minutes earlier than the team had

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so we're certainly excited really

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thrilled for our colleagues at the

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orbital sciences corporation and and um

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all of the folks in mission control d

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mission control dulles

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that we were able to work

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with today very successfully

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our crew

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luca parmitano karen nyberg acted as our

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robotic arm operators with luca

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driving the arm to reach out and

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capture the cygnus a near flawless

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to the common berthing mechanism and

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attached to the space station as we

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speak the crew has completed the leak

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the cygnus tomorrow morning about 4 55

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so a wonderful day to fly in space first

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time we've done that jointly with our

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colleagues at the orbital sciences

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corporation and so congratulations to

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the entire cygnus team

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back to you josh okay let's go to nasa

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headquarters in washington dc where alan

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and frank are standing by and let's hear

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from each one of them

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well thank you josh

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couldn't be happier

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to be here today for the day we've

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and i just want to say congratulations

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flawless

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uh mission that was executed this

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morning with the rendezvous and the

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birthing of the new cygnus to the space

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just beautiful great teamwork thanks

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uh to the entire orbital team i

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i had the privilege to be working with

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orbital since the beginning of our

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partnership and i have seen this team in

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action from the beginning

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through all our design reviews the

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requirements reviews the preliminary

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years and i can tell you that orville

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has addressed these challenges in such a

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ex with such expertise

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over the years and

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culminating today with this mission is

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is just a real testament to

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to the capabilities of your team

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especially with the events over the last

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it was just a very

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very impressive job by the entire

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orbital team

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and then working so closely with the

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nasa team i i just couldn't be happier

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and more proud of how that worked we

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started the program

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not knowing if anything would actually

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emerge from that but we knew that we

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these investments to to to remove the

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barriers to entry in such such a tough

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see the development of

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new commercial space transportations

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that lower cost

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that could provide safe

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reliable and and and cost-effective

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access to low-earth orbit and the

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international space station and the

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third was to become a customer for these

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services once once they emerged

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i think we can say today conclusively

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that we've added another partner to the

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list that helped us achieve these goals

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a hundred percent

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two new state of the art autonomous

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spacecraft capable of carrying cargo to

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manned destinations

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human destinations in space

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with such critical science and

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experiments that we need to continue our

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two new launch pads two new mission

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controls and the entire infrastructure

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to support uh these new systems uh so i

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uh culminating with the successes of of

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the program and meeting those goals

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so let me give thanks to my team who

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worked so hard

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back in houston um the the international

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uh all the people at nasa across all the

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centers we've reached back over the

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to provide help when orbital

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one orbital asked for it or when our our

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needed a little expertise to to do some

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thank you to mod and courtney who did

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just picture perfect today

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thank you to charlie and all the nasa

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leadership who who and

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were so patient and and uh uh believed

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and provided the support needed and and

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congress who who stood with us all these

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frank brought us out uh this morning

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beautiful pass of the space station

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object in the star this morning and when

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brighter as sort of a signal to us

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to provide this capability so that we

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uh to keep to keep us exploring in space

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uh it is critically important frank the

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space so thank you very much and

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congratulations to the entire team

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thanks a lot alan and um

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not have been done without the students

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and professionals in this country that

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technology engineering and math

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and and the the students the men and

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women that are willing to keep going

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hard and uh who are willing to to do

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these kind of jobs that take a lot of

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patience and and a lot of expertise

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and uh and and some hair pulling and

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but um but these are the these are the

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people that will continue to lead this

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country in technology and continue to

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lead the world we hope in exploration uh

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um and his team especially bruce manners

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and and kevin meehan for all the support

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they've given us in the long hours this

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has been a great public-private

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partnership and nasa's investment and

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interest in this has kept us going

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we have a big incentive ahead of us and

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service contract which will be coming

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but today we delivered more cargo on a

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commercial basis than has ever been

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kilograms and uh and i know the crew is

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going to be very happy when they get the

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hatch open and get a chance to see all

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the things that are in there and

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we have a lot of people at orbital that

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to to resolve all the issues that needed

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want to thank luca and karen and the

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rest of the crew for for the great job

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they did you can see in the picture here

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the the

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uh cygnus the spaceship g david lowe is

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attached to the to the space station

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uh the crew will continue all the

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operations to make sure it's securely

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attached uh through the remainder of

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their work day and then my understanding

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is that tomorrow

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they will open the hatch and and uh and

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do the activities required to begin

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unloading it

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um

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also like alan i want to thank all of

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the nasa team the international space

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station program at johnson space center

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and the people who came to to work with

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us as we work through the issues our

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international partners who had to

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evaluate what we were doing and make

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sure that they were comfortable that the

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uh

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the approach the grapple the birthing

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were all going to be safe for the

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station and for their crew members

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and of course jaxa who provided a great

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deal of cooperation and coordination in

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the uh

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proximity system uh that allowed us to

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continue the uh

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the approach

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our subcontractors who provided great

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hardware for us

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everything worked as advertised

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and then of course

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our team that that did a fantastic job

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in in mission control and in the back

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rooms to uh to control this mission to

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operate it and to and to get through the

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day

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um but we're not done we're going to

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have to continue monitoring the systems

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and stay on orbit uh at least through

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october 22nd

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and then

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detach from the station and do our

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de-orbit and then in about six weeks

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we'll be launching again and we're

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really looking forward to that

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opportunity to carry even more cargo to

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the station um

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we'll be able to carry approximately one

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and a half to two tons of cargo each

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mission

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we'll go up to over two and a half tons

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on each mission uh beginning with number

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four all the way through the end of the

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contract and

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we we know and understand and accept the

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responsibility this is critical to the

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continuation of the station and the

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continuation of u.s leadership in in

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space as well as an international

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partnership that i think is uh

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a shining example of how nations can

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work together when they have the ability

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to to uh to let their engineers their

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scientists their operators

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and their professionals work together

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this has been an example of patience an

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example of excellent troubleshooting

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especially in the last week but

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throughout the program and you have to

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be patient if you want to see good

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things happen

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we started this program at orbital over

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five years ago antares was begun before

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that and it's been hard for many people

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particularly in the management chain and

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in our investors and everywhere else to

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be patient that this would work out but

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uh sometimes uh it just takes that

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amount to

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to get that happen it took us a long

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time to get space station built it took

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a long time for shuttle to be developed

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it's taking a long time for the next

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steps but in the end it is worth it

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because this is how we continue to

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explore our universe to explore the

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solar system and how we also inspire the

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next generations if they don't have

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something like this to look forward to

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they're going to drift off into other

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areas and if we don't keep them involved

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in stem

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and engineering challenges in the

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technology that's available out here

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we're going to lose again our leadership

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the future is bright i think for this

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partnership and for this relationship

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we're looking forward to many more

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opportunities

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and i have to relate to you what i heard

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from a team

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that was uh very excited very tired

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and uh and just thrilled to be where

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they were but uh many of them who had

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worked on other systems other spacecraft

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other launch vehicles and at other

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places came up to me and said this is

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different

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this is really amazing and i'm so happy

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to be a part of this and it uh

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those of us who've been in human space

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flight a while know what they're talking

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about and now we have a whole other

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group of people that that understand

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how exciting it is to be a part of this

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and to to take one spacecraft and attach

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it to another that's got human beings

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inside it and to continue to build on it

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and continue to to show

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that that these things can be done when

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everybody works together and we put our

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mind to it

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uh we got a whole new set of people that

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are committed to supporting this

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and we had a bunch of kids in the

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auditorium this morning at orbital uh

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family members and friends to watch what

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was going on and a lot of smiling faces

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even at that early hour

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who i think were very proud of proud to

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be a part of this historical moment

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so on behalf of david thompson our ceo

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and our entire leadership team i want to

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thank nasa for the opportunity i want to

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thank you for the great

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cooperation and collaboration and i

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especially want to thank my team back at

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orbital

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i just happened to be the guy lucky

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enough to be sitting here and talking

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about it but they are the ones who

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really made it happen and i am so proud

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thank you

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take some questions now here in houston

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first uh robert

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hi robert perella with collectspace.com

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the question for alan given your

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description that this morning's events

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were flawless uh where

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do

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the official go to

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orbital to proceed preparing for the the

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first crs flight do you need to wait for

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the end of this mission or

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no they're good to go

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stations got a spot ready for them

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in december

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and orbital's working hard to get ready

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for that we've got the cargo

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uh getting the cargo together getting

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ready to to uh ship it out to wallops

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and uh

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uh

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they're they're good to go they've got a

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demonstrated system that certainly can

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deliver

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and

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there's there's a bit more to go to make

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sure we have a

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safe departure and reentry but

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there will be no delays uh proceeding

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toward that next next mission

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great and um

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or frank uh given the the delay the week

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delay to getting to station are you

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still planning an october 22nd departure

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if you are

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how does that affect the crew time in

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terms of

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unpacking is are they under any

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well you're pointed at me so maybe i

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should answer

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um

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holly will probably elaborate but my

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understanding is that uh the crew has

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plenty of time to unload it's a fairly

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small load compared to our maximum load

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about half or less

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so they should be able to to make that

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happen and and then load the disposal

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cargo uh prior to that date

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we'll leave whenever nasa says they'd

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like for us to vacate the port but my

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understanding is that the three weeks

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should be sufficient

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and i'll follow along with what frank

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said three weeks we believe is

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sufficient

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the cargo is not completely full as it

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will be in future flights and so right

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now we are still officially planning the

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october 22nd release as was planned

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pre-launch

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okay is that it robert okay let's go to

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the phone lines james dean with florida

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yes thank you josh

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alan how much of a relief is it for nasa

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well it's it's a tremendous uh relief

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it's such a it's such a feeling of pride

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and accomplishment

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to see how well the partnership worked

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together

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that resulted in in two very successful

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uh

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very complicated spacecraft systems

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it's certainly a relief and

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something

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we're

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ready to celebrate and be proud of for

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thanks i was curious what

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we might expect to see differently on

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the on the first contracted flight in

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terms of um like the the nominal uh

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uh duration of the flight until uh

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rendezvous for example would that be

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shorter or about the same

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and i was also just curious for if

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anyone

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would like to respond i was curious just

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seeing seeing the vehicle come up that

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looks so much like an mplm if you

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felt any sort of link to the the shuttle

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program that you know had a capability

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well to answer the first part of your

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question our intent is to rendezvous and

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and be birthed in about half the time

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that it took for this one two to three

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days we'll work the schedule out with

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nasa but we learned a lot on this one

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part of what we had to do this time was

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some demonstration maneuvers that

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ensured that we really could abort we

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could hold we could we could

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control the vehicle really to nasa's

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satisfaction and that took some time

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during the uh

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during the entire uh a few days of

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approach

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and in rendezvous but so we won't have

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to do that again and

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and hopefully we won't have to do

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another race track around the station

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so we should be able to get there in two

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to three days

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um and

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the other part of the question was um

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uh

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again

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you know watching the vehicle approach

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and and

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knowing the heritage to the the mtlm

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just wondered if if uh

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you mr culbertson or or anyone on the

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nasa side was was kind of appreciating a

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link to the shuttle program pass that um

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that you're helping to

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uh now replace with this cargo

559
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well having watched a lot of those from

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uh from both sides really but from a lot

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of different perspectives and uh

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and and watching the shuttle come aboard

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during assembly of the station in the

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early days and rendezvousing and docking

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with the mirror there certainly was a

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feeling of deja vu

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but i have to tell you it was a little

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bit like looking at some of the pictures

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i used to see in the hallways of both

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jaxa and esa when they were developing

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their modules and they tended to show

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pictures of them flying in space in

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orbit without the shuttle around them

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and i thought that's really interesting

575
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how are they going to do that

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and now we've got a module that looks a

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lot like both of those

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rendezvousing and being attached to the

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station so there is a little bit of of

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deja vu on that

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i have to say also that that um

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one of the things that we were really

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happy about was the fact that we had a

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number of scientific experiments

585
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including some student experiments on

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this mission and that's a big part of

587
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the the mission of the space station and

588
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so we're happy to take food and clothing

589
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and all but but we want to make sure

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that we're also able to provide the

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science and the and the research that

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can be

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okay james is that it

594
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yep thanks congratulations

595
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let's go to doug is it doug moaning with

596
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tmc net did i get that right

597
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doug money with tmc not correct

598
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one question for each alan

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my question to you is

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what's your level of confidence

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for lessons learned on

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this program as applied to commercial

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crew

604
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um and my question to frank would be

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um you indicated next flight rendezvous

606
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will be two to three days do you

607
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ultimately hope to get uh a ground to

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station um rendezvous within like six

609
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hours as we have with uh progress and

610
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you're on right well um

611
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certainly learned

612
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a lot of lessons this was uh this was an

613
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experiment of a new way of doing

614
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business

615
00:23:51,510 --> 00:23:47,280
uh for nasa in this type of partnership

616
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uh i i think one of the keys was to

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provide maximum flexibility to the

618
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partners so that they could optimize

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their design optimize their approach

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with with

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with

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minimum requirements so

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uh i

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it was important for us to talk about

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the

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innovations

627
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and resulting in lower costs and

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increased reliability

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um

630
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that was fairly easy to do with the

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cargo missions because the interfaces to

632
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the space station are so well defined

633
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and

634
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we we did have flexibility in the total

635
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amount of cargo to be delivered and

636
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returned and some flexibility in the

637
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in the uh flight rate and the

638
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visits to the space station so

639
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uh

640
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of the

641
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station i mean we were firm

642
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with those requirements for those

643
00:25:19,669 --> 00:25:18,240
interfaces but everything else we were

644
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able to

645
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to to to be uh quite flexible and i i

646
00:25:26,149 --> 00:25:24,159
think that's a really important lesson

647
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now moving on to the crew program

648
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we've shared a lot of information with

649
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the crew program they started the

650
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program uh with this type of

651
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public-private partnerships under the

652
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space act agreements

653
00:25:44,310 --> 00:25:41,840
and i think that's worked out very well

654
00:25:47,350 --> 00:25:44,320
but again this emphasis on safety is

655
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critical and nasa has learned many many

656
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hard lessons over the years where

657
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those requirements become

658
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become

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very important to

660
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communicate convey and to verify

661
00:26:03,669 --> 00:26:01,279
so i think it's in the same spirit

662
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be flexible where we can to allow for

663
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innovation

664
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but be very diligent in our

665
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our lessons learned in our history to

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make sure that we're

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we're

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supporting the development of systems

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and if i could add to that just a little

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bit

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and alan is referring to some very

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valuable lessons we've learned along the

673
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way in establishing these relationships

674
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i think that really became uh paramount

675
00:26:34,789 --> 00:26:33,440
this week uh the fact that we had had

676
00:26:37,190 --> 00:26:34,799
some time to work through a lot of

677
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issues in the past

678
00:26:41,830 --> 00:26:39,600
but that really didn't match the

679
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challenge of dealing with a real-time

680
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flight

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problem that you had to solve before you

682
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could actually deliver the cargo

683
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as you know this is a pre precursor to

684
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the cargo resupply services contract

685
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that we have with nasa

686
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but i have to say that

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even though

688
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we operated this as if it were a service

689
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this was still part of the space act

690
00:27:07,269 --> 00:27:04,880
agreement and was a demonstration

691
00:27:08,390 --> 00:27:07,279
but the business side never really came

692
00:27:10,630 --> 00:27:08,400
into play

693
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uh amongst the technical teams now

694
00:27:14,710 --> 00:27:12,559
obviously that's something we have to be

695
00:27:16,710 --> 00:27:14,720
concerned about as a company but that's

696
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something you'll worry about later

697
00:27:20,870 --> 00:27:18,480
uh what we did was establish a

698
00:27:21,909 --> 00:27:20,880
relationship between nasa and orbital

699
00:27:23,990 --> 00:27:21,919
teams

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that i think will allow us to challenge

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00:27:27,510 --> 00:27:25,919
to take care of any challenging problems

702
00:27:29,430 --> 00:27:27,520
in the future

703
00:27:30,789 --> 00:27:29,440
a lot of what we learned for example

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during the shuttle mirror program was

705
00:27:34,710 --> 00:27:32,480
about relationships not just about

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technology hardware and operations

707
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and that's been applied on the

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international space station

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00:27:43,909 --> 00:27:41,360
this uh this week was challenging in

710
00:27:45,269 --> 00:27:43,919
that same way where nasa gave us the

711
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opportunity

712
00:27:50,230 --> 00:27:47,679
for our team led by frank demaro and jim

713
00:27:53,269 --> 00:27:50,240
nicholson to work through the technical

714
00:27:56,149 --> 00:27:53,279
issues we were we were trying to solve

715
00:27:58,549 --> 00:27:56,159
do it in a way that made sense to us

716
00:28:00,789 --> 00:27:58,559
and then give us their feedback without

717
00:28:01,669 --> 00:28:00,799
dictating how it had to be done

718
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and

719
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that i think gave our team a lot of

720
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confidence that

721
00:28:09,750 --> 00:28:06,720
that nasa felt like we knew what we were

722
00:28:11,750 --> 00:28:09,760
doing and uh makes a huge difference

723
00:28:13,990 --> 00:28:11,760
going forward and and i really

724
00:28:16,149 --> 00:28:14,000
appreciate that level of trust and i

725
00:28:18,310 --> 00:28:16,159
know that the team led by kenny todd

726
00:28:19,909 --> 00:28:18,320
down in houston and mike safradini had

727
00:28:21,669 --> 00:28:19,919
to work carefully with the international

728
00:28:24,549 --> 00:28:21,679
partners to make sure they also

729
00:28:26,549 --> 00:28:24,559
understood that and saw that and

730
00:28:28,149 --> 00:28:26,559
having been in the station program many

731
00:28:30,549 --> 00:28:28,159
years ago i can see that this is a

732
00:28:32,710 --> 00:28:30,559
change this is different and this is

733
00:28:34,950 --> 00:28:32,720
laying the groundwork for all commercial

734
00:28:37,750 --> 00:28:34,960
endeavors going forward um

735
00:28:39,990 --> 00:28:37,760
alan and everybody else and and and i

736
00:28:42,630 --> 00:28:40,000
think that commercial crew will benefit

737
00:28:44,470 --> 00:28:42,640
from having uh seen the nasa team work

738
00:28:45,830 --> 00:28:44,480
with the company on challenges because

739
00:28:47,430 --> 00:28:45,840
they're going to have them too

740
00:28:48,789 --> 00:28:47,440
that's this is space flight and that's

741
00:28:50,870 --> 00:28:48,799
what happens

742
00:28:52,789 --> 00:28:50,880
as to the question of how quickly can we

743
00:28:54,549 --> 00:28:52,799
rendezvous i have i have in fact

744
00:28:56,630 --> 00:28:54,559
challenged the team to come up with a

745
00:28:59,029 --> 00:28:56,640
one day rendezvous plan we think that

746
00:29:00,710 --> 00:28:59,039
that's beneficial to all concerned and

747
00:29:02,230 --> 00:29:00,720
uh we really want to get the uh

748
00:29:03,669 --> 00:29:02,240
particularly the powered payloads and

749
00:29:05,269 --> 00:29:03,679
the important

750
00:29:06,630 --> 00:29:05,279
uh research that needs to get to the

751
00:29:09,350 --> 00:29:06,640
station quickly we want to get it there

752
00:29:11,990 --> 00:29:09,360
as soon as we can and so being able to

753
00:29:13,830 --> 00:29:12,000
to rendezvous in one day is a is a real

754
00:29:15,029 --> 00:29:13,840
uh important feature we would like to

755
00:29:17,669 --> 00:29:15,039
add to our

756
00:29:19,110 --> 00:29:17,679
our uh quiver and and so we're going to

757
00:29:23,750 --> 00:29:19,120
be working on that over the next few

758
00:29:27,110 --> 00:29:25,430
okay i think that's going to wrap it up

759
00:29:29,750 --> 00:29:27,120
for us

760
00:29:31,510 --> 00:29:29,760
doug did you have another question

761
00:29:32,870 --> 00:29:31,520
okay we're going to wrap up our briefing

762
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for today we thank you for joining us of

763
00:29:35,990 --> 00:29:34,640
course for all the latest just log on to

764
00:29:38,310 --> 00:29:36,000
nasa.gov

765
00:29:39,990 --> 00:29:38,320
station you can also watch space station

766
00:29:42,870 --> 00:29:40,000
live tomorrow morning at 10 a.m central

767
00:29:44,389 --> 00:29:42,880
time 11 a.m eastern time for coverage of

768
00:29:47,510 --> 00:29:44,399
the hatch opening which like holly said

769
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will take place at 4 55 a.m central time

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00:29:52,470 --> 00:29:50,720
or 5 55 a.m eastern time again thank you

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for joining us congratulations to both