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Ryan we had liftoff liftoff of the Soyuz

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rocket and a tma 11m spacecraft on a

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truly Olympic leap delivering three more

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crew members to the International Space

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Station on a historic mission to

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continue the seamless transition of

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humans on their own relay to continue

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studying science at space 20-second Jets

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beautiful launched already 45 seconds

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vehicle one minute ten seconds into the

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flight the velocity is already eleven

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we copy a lot in clicket square and

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everything's fine on board everything is

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nominal and we can copy loud and clear

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we can see you on camera and everything

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is going on nominally actually the

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launch was pretty smooth now we can feel

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nominal and jettison of the four

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strap-on boosters these have completed

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their job they've dropped away in an

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altitude of about 28 miles the vehicles

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140 seconds everything is nominal

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reporting the second stage engines are

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in great shape and whether in the shroud

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about 4,700 miles per hour can you

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as you see the onboard mascot with the

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crew members one of the one of the

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Olympic Winter Games mascots a polar

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give issue

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but again the BSE deprivation selection

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below will be pretty good I'd like to

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assure all possible blessings hope that

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God is with you and so are all the

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back yet

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kill the man

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hey Jerry

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those pathetic especially been easy

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he was gravely FIU's a mighty men p.m.

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president of the state commission the

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crew of the search vehicle is ready for

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right

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you

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bill Gerstenmaier NASA's

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straighter for space operations bill the

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year ends for launches here in Baikonur

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with one that is going to be tough to

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beat very spectacular liftoff new crew

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headed for the station for a very very

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complex few days and few months so your

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thoughts today again just a tremendous

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job with the launch today the weather

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was outstanding the rocket looked great

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coming off the launch pad I think every

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lunch I see looks a little bit different

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I see some new things things look

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different but it just worked out

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tremendously smooth and as you said a

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tremendously busy time on orbit you know

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the docking here in just several hours

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hope followed by hatch opening and then

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the EV a the next day on Saturday and

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then followed by the landing so that you

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know that it looks easy but if you know

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we went through all the reviews with the

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ground teams and the preparation for

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this activity was just tremendous to get

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all the understanding to understand how

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things had to be the the beta angle the

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angled the Sun with respect to space

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station was unique at this period of

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time so they had to put solar rays in

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the right place just a tremendous amount

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of work went into make this thing look

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easy so when we see this and we step

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back when we my role you say oh it's

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easy and it's routine we need to step

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back and think about the hard work that

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teams put in for many many months

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preparing for this activity to make it

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look the way it did today but just an

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outstanding day to day a great start to

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this expedition coming up on the

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fifteenth anniversary of the first

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element launch for the International

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Space Station research is rolling on

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board just about fully assembled a few

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components you have to be launched for

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now matured and blossomed into what it

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it's it's tremendously encouraging to me

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to see the amount of research is getting

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done you know this last several weeks

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the crew has done more research hours

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than any crew in the past so again we

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continue to surpass our expectations we

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raise the bar a little bit higher we ask

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the crew to do a little bit more but the

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number of new investigations the amount

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of research is going on board station is

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just outstanding so everything we talked

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about everything we dreamed all those

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hard work we put in place is starting to

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come to fruition so I

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and I think we'll see it through this

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expedition will see it really intense

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through this week through the EVs the

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activities and then the landing coming

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up but but then we'll get back into the

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research mode and I think we'll see just

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another tremendous period onboard

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station so that the change from that

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beginning 15 years ago today is just

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absolutely phenomenal when I think about

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the change and I could sit here as I as

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I look at you and I can imagine each one

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of the configurations of the station as

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it was built out each shuttle flight the

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amount of EVs we put in the work we did

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with our Russian partners it's amazing

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to think of all that today and see where

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we are today almost 15 years later Mike

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suffered a knee International Space

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Station program manager Mike I guess of

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human space flight was an Olympic

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contest today's launch would merit a

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gold medal your thoughts as you saw

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these this experienced crew take off

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with the Olympic torch for the

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International Space Station well there's

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many things that go through my mind

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during a launch and of course the crews

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safety is paramount among them and so

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today is not really different than most

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days when the engines cut off i marvel

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at the at the capability of the Soyuz

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system and how it reliably gets our

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crews to orbit and it takes that kind of

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capability that kind of reliability that

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kind of sustaining engineering that we

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do on throughout the entire program to

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not only get our crews to station back

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and forth safely but also conduct the

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research we need to do on orbit to get

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the most out of the vehicle that we

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built you've got a four-day ballet

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coming up for nine crew members on

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station how complicated is this and how

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valuable is the experience of this crew

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to pull off this activity well it is

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planned out we're not taking any risks

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any additional risk in terms of things

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that we're not comfortable with but it

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is a challenging period it's we have

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nine crew on board and so you have to

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make sure you know where they're all at

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particularly during the eda we have to

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separate the crews some in different

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areas of the station and so that plays a

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planned by a team that's been doing this

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for 15 years now and and they're getting

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pretty good at it but it's it's it it's

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difficulty belies which you see on the

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surface it looks it looks pretty easy

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when you watch it happen but there's

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quite a bit of work going on to to make

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it happen the way it does and finally

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course being moved up a few weeks it was

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designed to bring the Olympic torch up

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to the station and back home it within a

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few days you were pretty eloquent before

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the state commission and discussing the

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how symbolic this activity was in

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relation to the correlation to the work

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that goes on every day aboard the

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station your thoughts about how the

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torch and the station are fit hand in

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glove basically well they do I mean the

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International Space Station is 15

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countries got together to build and

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operate the the most complicated project

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in human history it's and so that's a

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pretty big deal and of course the

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Olympics themselves have been around

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since before the calendar we use today

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and so it's the oldest event in human

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history and tying those two together I

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think reminds us all reminds the world

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what we can do when we put our minds to

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it for peaceful peaceful purposes and

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and to me I marvel at that because when

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we when we as humanity get together to

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accomplish an objective there's nothing

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we cannot do and this just shines light

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that the space station program itself is

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enriching our lives and making the world