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i see you

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that's good

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okay

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astronaut rex walheim uh associate

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director for iss rex uh you're on yuri

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gagarin's launch pad uh first of all

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your thoughts about uh the rollout it's

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almost incredible uh whether to

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accompany this and

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what amounts to about 40 mile an hour

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winds yeah you got to expect this and

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i've heard no matter what you uh what

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happens what you think is going to

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happen you got to dress warmly and

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that's the case and uh it's just a

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testament to our russian colleagues they

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can do this day in day out the weather

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doesn't stop them it's really really is

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impressive

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rex

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jeff williams about to make his third

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expedition to the international space

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station his fourth flight overall he's

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going to be a record breaker later in

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the summer taking over the all-time

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cumulative days in space from scott

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how is his level of preparation and what

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is he going to bring to this increment

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oh you bet jeff is a workhorse he could

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have been ready to go along before but

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we make sure he's got his refresher

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training and everything he needs but

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obviously having spent uh so much time

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up there already he's going to be able

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to just step on board and get right to

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work and

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he's one of my fellow classmates from

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group 16 the 96 class of astronauts and

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we're really proud of him getting on his

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third long duration flight

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iss deputy program manager dan hartman

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dan

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third launch in six days coming up for

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the russian side and

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they rolled out in about 40 mile an hour

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winds here it's hard to even stand up

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what are your thoughts about uh soyuz

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behind you and uh the conditions uh that

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accompanied this today certainly the

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worst uh weather i've ever experienced

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here it's pretty amazing they've got uh

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so when we finally launch uh in a few

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days it'll be the third launch from the

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cosmic drone and week it just really

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shows the the team effort that they pull

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together to make that happen here

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the complexity of these couple of

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increments that are coming up for jeff

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williams and his crewmates joining the

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crew already on orbit

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how difficult how involved will the next

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few months be for the station sure

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significant amount of vehicle traffic

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coming with the progress undocking and

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then birth docking later on

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then we follow that up with the orbital

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mission and then finally spacex you know

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the first week or so of april hundreds

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of experiments coming up on board a lot

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of our logistics supply is finally being

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replenished where we can now get to that

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six months total that we've already been

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striving for after we've suffered a

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couple accidents so

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total between those two flights is about

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7 000 metric tons which is great and

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piled in inside of all that

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cargo is payloads on the order of 200

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payloads that they'll be conducting

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during the during the increments that

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they'll be up there so very very very

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very busy time

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and the experience that jeff williams

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brings to this this pair of increments

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in enabling all of this work to be done

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yes i was thinking about that earlier

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you know when he was up there his first

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go around we were reconfiguring the

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space station moving the eclipse racks

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from the us lab into node three so he

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had that reconfiguration job to do on

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the inside

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we still have some work to do with the

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reconfiguration on the outside such as

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installing the ida when it comes up

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later in his increment and so

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he's got he's gonna show his experience

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and he'll be a great great addition to

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the space station up there we look

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forward to it

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this rollout occurs on the 50th

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anniversary of the first docking of

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spacecraft in orbit gemini 8 neil

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armstrong dave scott they brought their

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vehicle to a six-hour docking to an

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agena target vehicle

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soyuz behind you six hours to get to the

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international space station how far have

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we come in five decades it's absolutely

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amazing and in 50 years or one lifetime

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how far we've really advanced you know

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to think doing the first u.s rendezvous

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like you described 50 years ago today

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this you know four orbit or six six

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hours basically from the launch to

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docking on station

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you know we've

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we've gotten things better they're more

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straightforward i can tell you it's

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still not easy the environment requires

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precision it requires concentration

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when you get overconfident and you start

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thinking things are easy that's when

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things get get problematic for you so

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even though you know we've come a long

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way it's still a harsh environment it

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still requires the absolute best in our

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teams to accomplish what we're about