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good evening and welcome to nasa's

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kennedy space center in florida where we

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are pleased to be here for the orbital

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it took us a few days to get here but it

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was worth every minute of it it was a

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fabulous launch and the mission is

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underway and here to fill us in on the

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progress of this mission already

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we're pleased to be joined by

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ven fenn manager of the international

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frank culbertson president

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and vern thorpe program manager for nasa

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missions for united launch alliance

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everyone is represented here it's a

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great day we'd like to start off with

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opening comments and then we'll be happy

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to take your questions ben

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well thanks mike and um good evening

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everybody let's see it's a real pleasure

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to be here right after a spectacular

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thank our

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orbital atk at ula as well as the range

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for the spectacular launch tonight at

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the oa4 cygnus the teams did a

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tremendous job processing and

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integrating over the last year

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keeping the vehicle in a very high state

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of readiness leading to today's launch

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the iss on orbit is in a very good

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configuration we're ready for grapple by

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the canadian arm and birthing to the

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the on-board crew is ready and trained

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shel lindgren is going to be the prime

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member is going to be the mission

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supports robotic support officer and

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he's also ready to go as are the mission

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control teams in houston as well as our

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oa4 marks the beginning of a very busy

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cygnus arrival on december 9th is going

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to be quickly followed by a departure

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dockings or undockings or evas until at

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least january 3rd so uh so onboard oa4

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that are going to enable over 300

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so uh so again we're very excited to see

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for the space station and for commercial

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space flight and thanks very much the

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thanks very much vin and it is a great

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day for us we as a company and speaking

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uh very proud of what it of the work

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we do have some more work ahead of us of

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approach and and be grappled by the arm

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um we are carrying over 3 500 kilograms

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uh team is uh doing a handover about as

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orbit ops and we'll continue to monitor

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and looking forward to additional work

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great ride that we had from ula vern and

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company thank you very much

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uh everything was about as good as it

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and uh we're real happy to be back in

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space thank you

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families who support us through every

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force's 45th space wing and to the faa

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partners and customers

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sustained mission success and by the way

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suppliers are seamlessly integrated and

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focused on safely and reliably

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mission for our customers so thanks

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next year and ula is looking forward to

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james oh thanks james d in florida today

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i was actually going to ask about that

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scott kelly photo i was just curious if

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any of you guys had a chance to speak

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directly with the crew you know after uh

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after launch and i've exchanged emails

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with scott and he's real happy to see

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that coming his way

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emails okay thanks i was also just

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curious um if

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you had not been able to get off today

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would that have made things really

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difficult complicated would you have

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been in a situation where you loitered

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for weeks potentially or any idea when

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you could have got to the station if you

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hadn't made it by today

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actually we've been working very closely

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with ben and his team looking at options

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if we were not able to launch today

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as it stands now we'll be able to

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approach the station on the morning of

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the 9th the morning of the 10th was the

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cut-off for actually being able to birth

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the cygnus with the station

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excuse me the ninth was to cut off the

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10th

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we really wouldn't have time to birth

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because of crew operations however we

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had reached an agreement where we would

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be able to

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approach the station

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reach the uh birthing point or the

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grapple point be grappled and then just

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remain on the arm until um uh they could

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uh open that the um

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or uh open up enough time in the cruise

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schedule to to birth us to the uh to

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note too

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if we had gone later than that then we

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may have had to loiter for a week or so

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before we could have approached the

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station but we had sufficient fuel for

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that

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hi ken kramer universe today in

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northeast astronomy form a quick one for

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frank and vern frank is this the most

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thrilling exciting cygnus launch you've

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ever seen given the mishap and the

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recovery and vern

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i'm wondering okay this is the first iss

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launch so did this give you a nice jump

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on launches for commercial crude did it

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provide some good good lessons learned

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thanks

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they're all exciting ken and uh every

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single one of them and uh yeah it's

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great to be back in space and have

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cygnus up there have the team working on

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what we uh what we are committed to

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doing

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but they're all very exciting

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yeah and

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you know we were looking forward to

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flying cargo missions in a few years

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this mission definitely gave us a head

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start on that through our partnership

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with orbital atk we're starting to do

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that

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i guess roughly about a year and a half

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two years earlier than we otherwise

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might have

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lessons learned

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certainly if we fly additional cargo

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missions for orbital atk those would

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essentially be reflights so lots of

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lessons learned that would apply there

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and lessons learned in general yeah a

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few of those too um

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probably the biggest one is

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an understanding of uh the scheduling

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and manifesting of activities at the iss

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we got a lot of insight into that which

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was necessary for us to you know

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coordinate our launch date with uh with

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iss operations

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um

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they have a manifesting process it's

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kind of similar to ours but they're

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driven by totally different uh

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different issues

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but that'll help us in the future as

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take a question here uh phillips loss

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with nasaspaceflight.com for mr

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culverson um can you talk about the uh

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the far field rendezvous orange you're

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going to be doing over the next couple

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of days to get you set up to do the

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wednesday rendezvous

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i don't know how much detail you want we

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will be going through the the normal

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process of approaching the station from

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below

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we'll arrive at a point about 250 meters

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from the station

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early on the morning of the night after

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going through several phasing burns uh

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we'll of course be monitoring the

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systems on board as we do that and then

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of course once we get in range we'll

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pick up the communications directly from

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the station so that the crew has insight

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into what we're doing and of course

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houston will be watching what we're

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doing once we receive the go from from

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mission control in houston to continue

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the approach to the station we'll we

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will do that autonomously and uh until

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we hit a couple of pause points on the

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way in and then uh continue all the way

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into about 10 meters where the crew will

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then be able to grapple us and and put

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us in position for birthing

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jason

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this one goes to vern um you guys are

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working with boeing to launch starliner

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pretty soon to the iss was tonight's

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flight anyway like a precursor or a

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little maybe a little chance to get a

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little your feet wet on that effort

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um i think it kind of goes to what i

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said before

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getting that that insight into how nasa

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uh develops their schedule and manage it

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manages their schedule and their

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manifest at the iss was very insightful

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for us all that all that will apply

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uh whether we're flying cargo or crude

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missions to the station in the future

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um so in some sense this was a

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very unique mission for us on the other

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hand you know we've flown plenty of low

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earth orbit missions in the past so from

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a from a technical standpoint

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it was not uh too far outside of our

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experience but from a programmatic

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standpoint and working with this

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particular set of customers it was a

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good learning experience

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james

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any idea when the next cygnus

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any cygnus modules will be delivered

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down here to ksc for the next flight and

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for then

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i want to ask you if assuming cygnus

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reaches

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iss successfully as planned does that

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change

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you're thinking about when you want the

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next spacex

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mission to launch

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we expect both components of the

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spacecraft to be here sometime in

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january and we'll begin the process

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again of integrating them loading the

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cargo and going through the same process

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we did leading up to this one

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yeah in regards to uh spacex yeah we're

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looking forward to having them whenever

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they're ready to come to station they've

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got some

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external

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the beam

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payload on that flight as well as we've

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got some rodent research so

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because of their return capability and

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external capability we'd be looking

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forward to having them at station as

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soon as they're ready

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james one other thing to add it's been a

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learning process for us in terms of

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integrating the cargo and the spacecraft

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here and i want to thank the kennedy

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space center bob cabana and his

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leadership in in providing the

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facilities and the people to help us

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with that i think they were excited to

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have space station components here again

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and loading cargo but we were also

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excited to work with them and learn from

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them and and it's gone very very

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smoothly in the space station processing

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facility

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tom rothmel with the nasa social um

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we saw

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the picture from commander kelly of it

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and there's been some reports online of

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people having seen the two vehicles

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together how far is cygnus away from the

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space station at the moment

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it's thousands of kilometers away so i

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doubt they saw them together

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they very well could have seen cygnus

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or the the

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launch vehicle as it went up the east

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coast of the united states

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don't know whether it would have been

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seen over europe once they had separated

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because you had the centaur uh doing its

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thing for re-entry and cygnus can doing

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his thing to continue its uh its

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rendezvous with the station so they may

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have seen two spacecraft uh if the

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lighting was right over over europe

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hi ken kramer universe today again for

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frank um curious if we hadn't launched

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today and you had to loiter a while in

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space perhaps up to a month

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actually i'm wondering how comfortable

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do you feel with the cygnus loitering in

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space

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um

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as far as its systems i mean this that

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obviously brings a little bit of

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you know a possibility that something

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could go awry i wonder how so talk a

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little bit about about that please

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actually the spacecraft is designed to

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last a long long time in orbit it's

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based on our heritage uh spacecraft

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components that are designed for up to

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15 years of operation in space so we're

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very comfortable with with loitering if

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we need to do that this particular

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mission we have plenty of fuel to do

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that and we are looking forward on

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future missions to

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staying in space for anywhere from a

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week to six months if necessary on some

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missions to conduct other experiments

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post birthing with the uh with the iss

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so the spacecraft is designed to stay in

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in space for a long time and we're very

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comfortable doing that

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but i understand post

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post departure but more i'm interested

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in before arrival you still feel very

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comfortable if you would have to loiter

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for a month in orbit well you have to

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balance a lot of different factors here

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in terms of launch vehicle

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availability launch window availability

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the future schedule coming down the line

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getting off the pad is generally a

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really good thing even if you have to

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stay in space for a while and we're in a

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pretty um

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uh

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pretty calm situation when we're in

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space uh waiting for for the rendezvous

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we've got plenty of power and plenty of

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fuel we don't use very much per day

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it's just a matter of maintaining the

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station keeping with the station at a

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fairly long distance and then being

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ready to come in when they say they're

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they're ready for us so we're pretty

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comfortable doing that and um

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in in most most situations i'd rather go

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ahead and get off the pad when we've got

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the opportunity

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all things being equal

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okay we're going to uh

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going to end things here really

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appreciate you coming over and uh

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congratulations once again on a very

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successful launch and beginning of the

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orbital atk

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crs4 mission thank you all for coming as

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well the next major event related to the

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mission will be the grapple on wednesday

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december 9th by chell lindgren using the

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space station arm and nasa television

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will provide live coverage of the

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grapple the grapple should occur at

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approximately 6 10 a.m eastern time

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between now and then you can keep track

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of mission developments by going to the