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bill gerstenmaier associate

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administrator for human space flight uh

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bill

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first

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soyuz

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manned launch of the year is at hand and

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the first rocket of the year is here at

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the pad at microdoor

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your thoughts uh as this new crew

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prepares for a launch and a very complex

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six months in space

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you know again it's exciting to be here

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to get to see the rocket roll out

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to see the crews working on the rocket

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getting ready for the first launch this

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year and and i look at the upcoming

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period on space station and boy it's a

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dynamic time with the soyuz launch and

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the progress launch and

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the spacex launch and then the orbital

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launch so this next couple months will

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be extremely busy the crew's ready to go

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it's exciting to see

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all the teams come together to get ready

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to support this activity

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in terms of the visiting vehicles

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you have a final flight of the european

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automated transfer vehicle on tap

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as this crew prepares to join the three

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already on board

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it's going to be a very dynamic period

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isn't it yeah it's a tremendously

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dynamic period with the launches coming

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up and all the activities what's neat

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again is seeing the the variety of

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spacecraft that go to space station to

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see the soyuz and the progress and

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the dragon and the antares and cygnus

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and then the atv coming later this year

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just a tremendously dynamic time but

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what's also cool is they're really

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carrying a lot of exciting research to

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space station so this is really again

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it's all about utilizing space utilizing

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the microgravity environment all these

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vehicles all these launches and the

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crews support all that activity

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mike fossum deputy director of flight

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crew operations for the iss here in

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first launch of the year is at hand

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soyuz behind you the crew obviously well

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trained how are steve and ollie and

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sasha ready

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in terms of their preparations on the

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eve of launch oh well for them it's been

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a two and a half year road to get here

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plus all of the years ahead of that and

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the and the other experience that they

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had they were assigned two and a half

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years ago they've been traveling around

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the globe about half of it out of the

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united states to other countries to

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prepare finally they're through their

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final exams they're down here in the

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two-week quarantine period

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they're excited as we get closer and

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closer every the world to them seems to

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pick up speed and everything's funneling

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down to this time coming to the launch

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you know steve and

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alexander schwarzoff they're veterans

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alec artamaya for him he has lived and

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breathed space in his entire life how

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how uh dynamic is this a period ahead

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for them and how well skilled are they

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to tackle the challenge well they've

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they've been through the ringer they've

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been through all of the all of the

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preparation steps alex excited of course

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he's really excited because he's

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stepping into something unknown uh for

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the other guys they they've been here

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before maybe not to this launch pad but

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they they know what to expect

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for me having flown with uh

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new guys rookies it's really exciting to

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share that experience with them as they

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get the first look out of the the window

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of the spacecraft at the earth below and

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as you really go from being the rookie

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with a big silly grin to being uh you

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know an experienced uh uh space operator

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and and as you can get into orbit and

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then really get to work and getting

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things done making things happen

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you know none of this is possible

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obviously as we stand on gagarin's

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launch pad without the international

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cooperation that's attached to it how

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closely are you watching uh the us and

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russians working side by side and what

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does that portend for the future as well

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well i think the international

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cooperation of the 15 nations we have

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participating in the international uh

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space station program are really

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important it's great as we share our

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resources from the different countries

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with our our our skills uh and our

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teamwork our experience comes together

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to make these kind of things happen it's

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important to us now to have the the

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russian soyuz spacecraft as our way of

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getting people to and from the

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international space station and we're

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working hard on the next commercial crew

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vehicle the next nasa vehicle and we're

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beginning to have the discussions now on

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how we're going to be using the the new

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as well as the soyuz to uh to get access