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we should see that um

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so what do you think

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kirk shireman the iss program manager

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here in baikonur kirk it took a few

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extra weeks to get the soyuz out to the

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pad but here it is and another crew

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ready to

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head to the international space station

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your thoughts on the rollout and the

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preparations leading up to the start of

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this new increment it's a beautiful day

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a little brisk here in uh in baikonur

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but it's great to be here for the

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rollout uh you know it took a little

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extra time we had an anomaly with the

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soyuz but the team was very thorough

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understood what the issue was and then

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performed all the retests so we're all

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very confident that uh that this vehicle

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is ready to go to safely take our crew

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to the international space station and

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uh it's been a very productive time on

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the iss we're looking forward to having

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these uh these guys on board and

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continuing that productivity

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bill gerstenmaier nasa's associate

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administrator for human exploration bill

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uh about three weeks or so behind

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schedule but nonetheless the soyuz on

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the pad ready to go a new increment uh

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how complicated was uh this repair and

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the retesting to get everything back

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together again so quickly for this soyuz

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this was really a challenge for the

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russian team to to sort through this

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problem and first discover where it was

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took a long time for them to

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methodically disconnect cables and then

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look and figure out what was going on

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then when they they found the problem

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then they had to repair it and it wasn't

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easy repairing it you know the vehicle

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was fully fueled it had the pyrotechnics

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installed so doing all that work was a

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lot of non-standard work for them you

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know i think it this shows that that the

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russians are really focused on what

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they're doing to find this problem and

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then to take the time to repair it was

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really really outstanding you know i

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often tell our teams to stay hungry and

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keep looking for problems this is a real

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example of what that really means that

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when you find something that isn't quite

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right you take the time you dig into it

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you figure out what's wrong then you go

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make the repairs and what they've

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discovered is they're going to make some

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minor changes on some of the vehicles

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that are getting ready to be processed

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for the subsequent flights so this was a

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really good thing it was fortuitous the

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problem stayed around and they had a

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chance to to work it discover it but

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they really really did a great job

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getting this vehicle ready to go fly and

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just a tremendous

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effort tremendous professionalism you

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know they worked fairly expeditiously to

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get the vehicle ready and just just

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really i can't say enough of how

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diligent they are i spent some time

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talking to them this morning and they

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went over all the reviews they

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participated with us in a flight race

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review just a great effort on their part

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and bill the uh the whole next six

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months or so for station activity and

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the science associated with all of the

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work that these crew members have to do

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on orbit are your thoughts on um

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are the crews overworked are are they

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stepping up to the pace of the work uh

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your thoughts on all that again the

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crews are doing just a tremendous job

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what what's exciting is we've got some

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really quality research in science some

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brand new stuff we've never done before

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some dna sequencing and activities along

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those lines and and kate has just done a

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phenomenal job on orbit of working

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through those activities

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i think the crews get really excited by

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seeing new research that's in the fields

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that they've studied and they've

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participated in as they became

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astronauts so

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it's i think a very busy time but i

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think an extremely rewarding time and i

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don't see the crews being overworked or

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being stressed

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they're really rising up to this

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challenge so it's it's fun to watch our

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teams generically rise to these

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challenges and just continue to excel

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with space station the research results

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the activities on board station are

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really unprecedented and i think we need

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to step back occasionally and look at

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just what's occurring on station it is

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actually phenomenal if you look through

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the research that's being done and the

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activities that are occurring just a

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tremendous tremendous time in space

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chris cassidy nasa's chief astronaut

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chris

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it took a little bit longer than had

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been planned but the soyuz is ready is

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shane kimbrough ready after all of this

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shane is absolutely ready you know it's

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really special for me to be here we were

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astronaut classmates together in 2004

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and to be here during this pre-launch

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period with him and be with his family

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uh it's extra special for me on a

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personal personal level but i can tell

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you he is ready to go that the crew as a

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whole is ready to go

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it's just the quarantine period is a

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really nice period to get through all

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the training that you've got to at this

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point

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put that behind you just relax focus on

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what's ahead and get ready for launch

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and that's exactly where they are you

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know shane and his crewmates were just

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days away from launch

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before the problem was

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detected on the soyuz forcing several

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weeks of repair work and retesting from

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a psychological standpoint how difficult

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was that and how easy frankly was it for

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shane to slip right back into the

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training flow uh fairly easy but you

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know we we uh we joke around in the in

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the crew office that late launch late

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launch delays are not are a blessing

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you're going like crazy and all sudden a

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a late launch slip happens it's not

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something that we we desire and nobody's

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happy for it but

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what it really does is extra time to

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brush up on things professionally and

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also to

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a little bit more time with the family

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he was able to get back to the united

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states and and

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see his his kids and hang out in houston

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a little bit and get a little bit more

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training and come right back