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good morning welcome to the post-launch

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news conference for orbital atk's fifth

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resupply mission to the international

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space station under nasa's commercial

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resupply contract

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joining us here at kennedy space center

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are three people who will give us the

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latest updates on the mission

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kenneth todd operations integration

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manager international space station

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frank culbertson space systems group

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vern thorpe program manager for nasa

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missions united launch

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alliance after a few opening comments

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we'll take your questions

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for those on the phone if you have a

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question you can press star one to be

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first of all i'd like to extend my

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congratulations to the integrated

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orb atk and ula team

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clearly

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this team was ready to go go do this

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launch tonight and absolutely

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flawless countdown and i think for those

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of you that were here and saw it i think

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you would agree it was an absolutely

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spectacular launch and

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certainly never get tired of seeing

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those so again my congratulations to to

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this entire team here to my left

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back in houston

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this week we're having a

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a meeting of all of the program managers

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within the international space station

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program and

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in fact a couple of minutes before the

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launch i spoke with the with kirk

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shireman and uh he wanted to to pass on

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uh to me that all of the program

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managers expressed their excitement over

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this launch tonight and the ability to

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to not just not just get nasa hardware

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but but get some of our international

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partner hardware to orbit

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a lot of it being being the research

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that we're going to be doing on space

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station over the next uh 60 90 120 days

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and so it's uh it's a very exciting time

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for the program just coming off the crs4

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mission to be to be here and and on our

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way with the with this oa6 mission is

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certainly very exciting um

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the uh the iss is ready the crew's ready

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and we'll be ready to go saturday

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morning when we when we see you out the

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window frank

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thank you very much kenny and good

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morning to everybody

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uh it is certainly a good day for us um

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on behalf of all of orbital atk i'd like

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to thank the

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the teammates that helped make this

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happen of course united launch alliance

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and all the first folks that made this

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look easy it was a very smooth count

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we all know that it takes a lot of hard

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work doing hard jobs to make them look

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easy and and they certainly did that

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tonight of course the weather cooperated

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too which we were happy to see

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we had great support through the whole

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process from nasa kennedy space center

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processing the cargo

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and johnson space center of course in

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the iss program and also the 45th space

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was a great team effort

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it allows us to deliver

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over three and a half tons of cargo to

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the international space station so they

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can continue their important research

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and keep the crew on board and keep them

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fed and clothed and and healthy

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this is a very important mission

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both what's happening on the station and

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what we're delivering and to be able to

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turn around so quickly

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with a great team supporting us

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it means a lot to us at the at the

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company

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we're looking forward to more missions

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in the near future

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but we've still got some big tasks ahead

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of us tonight

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the team has already completed the

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unfurling of the solar arrays both of

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power and charging the batteries

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we are now managing the trajectory of

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coast time and of course we're looking

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forward to that and getting the cygnus

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on board and opening the hatch and maybe

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they'll find a few easter eggs on board

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but uh it's been a good night and uh

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done and thank everybody again for their

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support and vern you and your team put

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us almost exactly where we needed to be

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and we really appreciate that great work

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thank you well thanks frank um it's

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great to be here after another fantastic

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i'd like to say congratulations from ula

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to nasa and orbital atk and the entire

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in just a little over 20 minutes we went

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liftoff to delivering cygnus into

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exactly the orbit that it wanted to be

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in i think i mentioned before during the

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oa4 launch that's a faster than most

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pizza deliveries

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so we did it again tonight

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this was our second successful cargo

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mission of course the other one was

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three and a half months ago in early

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many of you recall that the last time we

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launched a cygnus it took us three

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attempts over four days because of

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ground winds the the wind was blowing

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really hard and it was just exceeding

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time the weather cooperated beautifully

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remember and one of the final weather

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updates we got the the launch weather

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officer actually gave us a zero percent

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weather was just beautiful tonight

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orbital parameters we we nailed it

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we're really focused on mission success

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at united launch alliance but for

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sustained mission success it really

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takes a broader team it takes a seamless

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integration between the launch team and

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civil missions like this or commercial

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mission in particular to have uh just a

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fantastic partnership and working

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relationship between all the all the

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i'd like to offer a big thank you to the

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air force and to the faa who provided

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outstanding support for this launch and

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i want to say thanks to all the families

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that stand behind all of us and let us

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do these great things

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and thanks again to all of our mission

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partners who've worked with us to

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achieve now 106 consecutive successful

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missions since ula has formed and of

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thank you we'll now take questions for

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those of you in the room you can raise

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your hand if you have a question

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and someone with a mic will come to you

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please introduce yourself and to whom

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your question is directed for those on

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the phone please press star 1 to be

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entered into the queue if you have a

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take this gentleman here in the front

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so can you tell me what the difference

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is first of all brian rue nasa social

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can you tell me what the difference in

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time is from launch to capture for a

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rendezvous and birthing if we had

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mission we're going to go do a very very

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detailed you know post flight review we

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to make sure that everything

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performed properly but from everything

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two mission detour down to florida that

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industry working together to recover

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and to move forward in support of our

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customers such as nasa and the

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international space station in a very

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when the accident occurred our company

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we have a partnership with ula we think

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we can get you back

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and we can get back to delivering cargo

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very quickly and uh they took us up on

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i think that shows the resiliency of

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american industry our ability to to

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react to unforeseen events

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and get things back on track in an

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efficient way it also shows that doing

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on a commercial basis allows us to have

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the flexibility to do those kind of

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things and react to in a in a very quick

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way

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to to do no offense kenny but but um uh

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but it does allow us to show that this

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works and uh and i think we'll see that

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continue to happen going forward as we

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react to the reality of the future and

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events that it might occur we'll come

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together and the other part of that is

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the fact that

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when we had the failure the need to

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continue supporting international space

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station brought a lot of industry

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together we had a lot of offers of help

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from people and ended up working

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together very effectively to make sure

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the mission continues

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i also want to say thanks to the

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hundreds of people that showed up at

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this hour for the press conference and

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and you know my greetings to the

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thousands that must be watching it on on

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uh hi uh sultan bold media um i had a

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couple questions uh first what is the

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duration um these sort of refreshes

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sustain the iss for and uh two what is

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the statistical probability of easter

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i'll uh i'll leave the second one to

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frank since they packed it and

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we'll let him talk about eggs

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like that the crew might be watching

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yes but uh if your question is i mean

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we're looking at this mission for about

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about 55 days we we

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we planned uh

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consumables such that

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that we could sustain uh without this

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particular vehicle we'd always like to

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keep in front of in front of the

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arriving vehicles and not have anything

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there that's that's critical to our

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ability to to be successful on orbit in

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sustaining the cruise and keeping the

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research moving forward and and so

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that's kind of the timeline we always

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work to

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but we keep the vehicles long enough to

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to

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load them up with trash and and

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and then we'll we'll let them go so

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that's that's the kind of our plan for

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over

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here all right ken cranberry uh

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northeast astronomy reform and universe

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today for for vern maybe you could also

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look ahead we you know we've seen the

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beautiful crew access tower uh rising

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over the last few months and it's

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shining brightly there i wonder if you

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could tell us about that the progress

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when when it's going to be done

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what it all means

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okay well we're uh doing that in

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preparation for when we start uh you

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know human flights from complex 41. that

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tower should be complete and fully

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operational by the end of the year

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biggest thing left to do is to put the

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the white room and the swing arm on top

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um and as we prepare for that you know

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we're we're running all the the cabling

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and plumbing and things like that uh

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inside the tower right now

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but i i think i want to say the november

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time frame fourth quarter this year

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we'll uh we'll wrap everything up and

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test it and it should be operational by

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the end of the year so well ahead of

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when we need to use it for the first

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well um you know we always

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from a station perspective we always

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want redundancy i mean frank just talked

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to you about you know the the beauty of

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of getting target orbit and and bringing

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factions to to make things happen and

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make good things happen uh even even out

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of the bad things and you know

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that represents redundancy in the

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industry thing and when we can when we

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can draw on on those kinds of things and

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and we look at it the same way relative

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to getting people to orbit so our

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ability to to to do that from here uh is

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is absolutely something we're we're

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supportive of and we're excited about

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us more capability from a station

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standpoint more flexibility and that's a

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that's good for us going forward that's

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going to be good for sustaining the

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sustaining

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additional questions

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all right well you can tune in on a

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saturday for the capture and

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installation of cygnus