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that will take them down to the first

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floor will they'll board the Astro van

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commander and the pilot commander

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team but we'll be going up standing by

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now for a go for autosequence start

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t minus 33 has happened is the ground

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launch sequencer would not hand off to

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the orbiters computers to complete the

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count because the liquid oxygen fill and

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drain valve was showing off when it

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should be on t minus 10 go for main

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engine start we are go for main engine

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Discovery with the Hubble Space

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puts the vehicle in the proper launch

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thanks Lord

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when fully deployed both of the arrays

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together produce about 6,000 volts about

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half of which is required to operate

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daylight side of the past the other half

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hydrogen batteries shift supervisor Pete

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ground as confirmed by the crew from

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orbit the deploy activity so far is

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going very smoothly we see no

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thank your touchdown nose gear touchdown

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traveling two million sixty-eight

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miles on this mission mechanical systems

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normal amount of braking is about eight

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to ten feet per second and this detailed

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test objective today is designed to be a

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light braking or low energy braking to

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we'll stop we'll stop right after that

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discovery welcome back congratulations

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on a super mission and the world is

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looking forward to reaping the benefits

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of your good work over the next 15 years

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welcome back guys and we have no

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don't it's like a welding torch going on

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when the SRB is labeled Katie got to

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look out the overhead windows and I

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think that was pretty spectacular - it

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looked like daylight behind us on the

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pad and and I could follow it for maybe

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20 seconds before it went into just like

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just fire behind us the vibrations and

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the the roar is pretty much the same as

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SRB Sep when rockets go off to separate

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those boosters it really flashes outside

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aside the windows and it gives me a

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thrill just seeing that right there

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tried to warn these guys yeah cubby

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have a go for engine start three two one

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ignition and liftoff discovery now on

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its way to service NASA's Hubble Space

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roll maneuver is complete aboard

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discovery the vehicles now in a

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heads-down position on course for a

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sixty seven percent of rated thrust the

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and see that everything's okay the solid

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rocket motors are ignited here's the

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the pad but there's nothing slow about

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power and speed there's a beautiful view

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really good job about two minutes after

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ops here's the Atlantis good words go

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for over top thank you closure where

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just don't want to see the numbers get

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we have the Pope in the radio we copy

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and we're pulling down the kayuu right

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now we see that thank you and the

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grapple fixture now in view Megan

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landis houston we copy nice job Megan

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nice job and the procs flying as well

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up here I can tell you I'm just looking

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unbelievably beautiful sight amazingly

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years in space still looks in fantastic

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we copy dad thanks for those words

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challenges there you said it was a

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plain maneuvering trying to get up to

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we had to wait all right that's great

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you can do this activity okay here we go

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definitely and we have like fuel camera

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can this view from Michael good-looking

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sensor unit planets usin free VA we have

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initial deploy in 1990 yeah fastener

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few more turns to get it out of the

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connector up in the matter there are you

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point we've been over and I thought

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witness on this you actually were the

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last guy to Pat it goodbye

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what were you thinking when you patted

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hubble goodbye what was going through

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epi wages I hope everything that we did

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work it's hard not to think of publish

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but I really was thinking that problem

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a red ball of about 60 bucks or 35

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opening give up each time tremendous

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adventure that we've been on a very

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knowledge that Clark says the only way

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of finding the limits of the possible if

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I book going beyond them and see

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impossible in an efficient we tried some

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things that many people said was

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impossible fixing 5th repairing ACS

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really a sign of the great country that

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we live in that were able to do things

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space shuttle Atlantis and I'm convinced

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that if we can solve problems like

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preparing a novel getting to space being

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the surfacing we do traveling 17,500

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miles an hour around the earth that we

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can achieve other great things like

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solving our energy problems and our

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climate problem all things that are in

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the middle of NASA's time and core

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values I want to wish Hubble its own set

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of adventures and with the new

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instruments we've installed that it may

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result in in you know the incredible

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advances that it's made in our

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understanding of our universe none of us

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thought that people would be rewriting

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textbooks the way that they continue to

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we now understand much more about our

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universe than we ever would have known

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had it not been for Hubble that we have

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not only young people students but now

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professionals who have grown up with

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Hubble and who have had Hubble changed

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their lives and change their minds about

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about careers because they saw a Hubble

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image and decided that you know I don't

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really think I like science but I think

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we saw the first light images and to the

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amateur like me it looked great because

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we had made this great discovery right

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off the bat what we thought was a single

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star turned out to be a binary star and

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we were looking at a star that

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astronomers had been studying for

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when we learned that no it's not really

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blurred because we have this thing

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we refused to say no refused to say

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we'll give up refused to say we failed

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and with with a number of subsequent

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servicing missions we turned Hubble from

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a potential failure to what is today the

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most incredible instrument that humanity

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Hubble kind of rewrote the textbooks we

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observatories that's scheduled to launch

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James Webb is projected to dwarf Hubble

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in its discoveries and its ability to to

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look out into the universe in and peer

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Americanos discovery we just that's in

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our national one DNA when Lewis and

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Clark was sent out on their expedition

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by a President of the United States who

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was called discovery and that's when we

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send out our astronauts that's when

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Hubble did not cord the information

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with brilliant scientists but with

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I listened and watched schoolchildren in

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our own country and around the world

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feel that they had developed a personal

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relationship with Hubble Hubble had its

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own website and it heard from scientists

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and it heard from the school kids and

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then we heard that the American people

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I was there when they fattened down the

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Hubble for and we said goodbye as it

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went when its final journey but we knew

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it wouldn't be its final broadcast back

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to us

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the Hubble is out there now it's gonna

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keep going for a long time you know that

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Acco question are we there yet the

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you

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the famous press conference

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27th 1990 where I had the unique honour

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of explaining to the American people in

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the press that Hubble wouldn't be doing

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the science we had promised and that was

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a horrific experience to say the least

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the press was not too receptive even

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though at the end of the press

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conference I said we do have a fix in

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finally figured out that what we had was

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circle aberration what does that mean to

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a normal person well the mirror was

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still a perfect smooth curve but it had

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the wrong prescription it wasn't the

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right curve just like my eye as a

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perfectly good eye it's got a smooth

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curve to it but it's the wrong

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prescription light doesn't come to a

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focus at the right spot so how do we fix

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it well we fix it with corrective lenses

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but I remember

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image started to come up and right at

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the center was the star we're taking a

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picture of and it was there it's very

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bright and very sharp that was good but

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then as we waited the picture got deeper

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and deeper and all the faint star starts

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showing up all just pinpoints of light

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perfect focus then it was silence

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then suddenly cheers screams corpse from

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champagne bottles the moment was even

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caught on NASA TV I understand because

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we have made major breakthroughs in

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almost every field of astrophysics from

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planetary nearby to our own galaxy to

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the very very beginning of time and to

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think that we mere humans are sitting

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here and and getting close to

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understanding this incredible universe

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that's around us and Hubble has been a

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key component in that over the last 25

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and so we're celebrating the 25th

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anniversary this year we have every

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expectation the way things have been

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going that Hubble should be able to make

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it till 2020 and maybe even beyond doing

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this great mission of scientific

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it's just the breath of the scientific

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discoveries that's been able to make

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everything from the age of the universe

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proving the existence of black holes to

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discovering brand-new things like the

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universe is accelerating to the

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and I was holding out into a handrail

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looking up at the earth go by behind the

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Hubble and it was a truly remarkable

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moment but I did realize you know how

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far away we were from the Earth's

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atmosphere from our homes from our

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companions inside the space shuttle and

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I wouldn't say that I felt a sense of

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loneliness but a sense of awe you know

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that we're doing these kind of things

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that were able to to fix the Hubble to

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a sharp point of light and that's what

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we've not got inaudible and the older

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Hubble before to repair that bright star

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was spread out over a whole area like

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that so the bright star did not look

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like a bright point of light it was

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to hear the screams and deceit and faces

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when the first light that first popped

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on the monitor and they knew all I had

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was that one moment they knew it was

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but the real magic was that you could in

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fact go out and do that in the space my

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environment

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innocent because it was designed for

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that that was the real the real victory

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humanity's always looked out there to

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the heavens to get the meeting at a hope

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of the life here so yet you look out

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there for what's going on down here

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you see it's that kind of that kind of

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gap that you're bridging so people

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understood that about Hubble before we

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um 25 years yeah it's it's it's been

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that's that's quite an achievement I'm

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glad it's worked for that long and been

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providing great science for most of that

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time and and I'm looking forward to two

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I think Hubble

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changed humanity by showing us what is

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out there yeah the the immenseness of

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the of the heavens of the universe we

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know it was a big place but we didn't

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know the beauty of what was out there

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and just how big it is and how many

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other possibilities there are

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to find discoveries that we can't even

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imagine it not only answer questions

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about created questions so I think it

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made up it's made a great impact on the

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and I can make the argue

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greatest scientific instrument ever

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built what do you think of that but it

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was built and so and the it was built by

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engineers and I think it is a great

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combination of engineering because it's

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a magnificent machine and science that

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provides us great data this great in

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these images this great looking to the

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universe that astronomers can use to

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make discoveries that's only possible

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because of this engineering achievement

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you

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releasing the telescope was not as

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bittersweet as you might imagine because

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you know that it's that that an

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incredible repair job has just been done

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and by releasing it it's getting sort of

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sent out there to to do its new mission

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and we knew that there was going to be

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some pretty incredible science returned

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not only is the telescope have better

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capability than it had before but better

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than they expected from the repair work

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that was planned and so I think everyone

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is very excited about the the science

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return that we'll be seeing in the next

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like that the other thing I think is

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that it seems like Hubble is sort of you

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know sort of the comeback kid it's hard

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for me to believe that it really truly

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was the last time people are gonna see

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it I feel like somebody somewhere is

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going to come up with a way so well if

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we did this and this and this we could

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go back and you know so so we'll see I