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good evening welcome to the post-launch

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news conference for orbital atk's six

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resupply mission to the international

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space station

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under nasa's commercial resupply

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the cygnus spacecraft is on its way to

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the space station this evening the

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antares rocket lifted off today at 7 45

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pm eastern time from the mid-atlantic

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regional space port

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launch pad 0a here at nasa wallops

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flight facility in virginia

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the cygnus is scheduled to arrive at the

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space station on sunday october 23rd

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with about 5 100 pounds of scientific

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research and other cargo for the crew

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joining us here at wallops flight

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facility are two people who will give us

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the latest status update on the mission

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joe multibano deputy manager for the

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international space station program at

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nasa's johnson space center in houston

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and frank culbertson president of the

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space systems group for orbital atk

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after a few opening comments we'll take

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your questions for those on the phone if

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you have a question please press star

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one at any time for those following us

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online please use the hashtag asknasa

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joel

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well what a great launch just fantastic

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the

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bermuda

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hurricane and just just a fantastic team

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getting us to where we are today

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as you said just a little over 5000

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pounds of cargo going on board

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we're looking forward to seeing that new

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science and research hardware we have

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some life support hardware some crew

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provisions hardware just to name a few

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we've had to delay the birthing until

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sunday and that allows us time to get

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the soyuz spacecraft that's going to

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launch this wednesday that will launch

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this wednesday out of baikonur

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kazakhstan they'll have a docking on

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friday and then some crew time to get

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reconfigured and then we'll have a

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birthing early morning on sunday just

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after seven o'clock eastern time

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so once again on behalf of space station

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program thank you just awesome and

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congratulations everybody involved

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thank you very much joel it is a very

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exciting night um why don't we go ahead

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and show a video of the star of this

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evening show

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and uh we'll give you a

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chance to see what that looked like and

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then we could talk about more specifics

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so there's antares on the pad

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i'm not sure where we are in the count

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on this video but hopefully we're very

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because i've run out of things to say

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here we are ignition uh

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it came off the pad uh quicker actually

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than the previous version of antares we

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were happy to see that

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uh very bright overpowers the cameras

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but you could see it climbing into the

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in launch control we can feel the rumble

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feel the roar

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seconds and that's always a good feeling

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and then of course watching it and

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watching the telemetry it was right on

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it actually did follow the predicted

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track almost exactly

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it hit most of the milestones a little

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just about right on time

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coasted for a few seconds and then

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our eventual orbit was actually a little

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but we're at a about 368 by 213

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we have in fact deployed the solar

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arrays that's always a critical moment

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so that we can get power from the sun

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the solar arrays come out in a somewhat

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complicated way but unfurl like a

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japanese fan and then rotate into

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position and then we can use them to

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meters where the crew will grapple us

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the station the unity node uh so it's a

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very exciting time for us and i want to

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reiterate what joel said

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our sincere thanks to the entire team

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that made this this possible

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dave thompson spoke to the team after

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the launch tonight and he talked about

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well actually first charlie spoke and

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the company had responded to the mishap

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two years ago and immediately said we're

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in the business of providing cargo

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service we're going to provide you with

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a service and so we flew twice uh

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sickness to on an atlas and now we've

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returned to wallops to our our home base

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basically and our home vehicle and we're

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going to continue to fly out of here on

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antares for the for the foreseeable

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um it is great to be back it's great to

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see the way people came together and

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made this happen

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as dave said it took a little longer

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these things are always harder than you

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was done right and that was the most

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important thing people don't remember so

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much when you launch as whether you

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launch and whether you get to your

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destination and that's what we did

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tonight we got to orbit and now we're on

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our way to fulfill the mission of

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delivering more cargo to the crew on the

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station and continuing the very

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important research that's going on on

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the station and that is something that

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we're very much focused on

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as a company as a space program and as a

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nation and that's expanding our

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knowledge of the universe we are very

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proud at orbital atk to be a part of

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that to be a part of human space flight

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to be a part of exploration and to be uh

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expanding the frontiers of human

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knowledge and we intend to intend to

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continue doing that forever so

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or at least as long as we have contracts

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anyway it's been a great night my

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congratulations to the entire team mike

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pinkston the program manager scott lair

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the president of flight systems group

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a lot of hard work by a lot of people

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dale nash and the

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mid-atlantic regional space board the

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commonwealth of virginia and of course

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the nasa centers that all provided

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appreciate the hospitality appreciate

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the hard work and appreciate you all

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helping us make this happen so

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thank you we'll now take questions from

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and uh using the hashtag ask nasa online

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this one's most definitely for frank

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it's both technical and then there's a

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second emotional part um first of all

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congratulations on turning to service

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jason ryan space flight insider the

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technical part is there was a delay from

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six excuse me 740 to 745 can you provide

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that he will go to his grave being

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thankful that he knew the ceo of a

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nice connection we have in that regard

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dave as the founder of orbital sciences

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one of the two companies that came

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that all the things that we were dealing

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part the team reacted quickly readjusted

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i'm very proud of the folks to be able

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to to do that it was a great cooperation

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hi stephen clark

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you hear me

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stephen clark from space flight now um a

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know maybe the rocket was a little hot

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a little higher orbit than you expected

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performance of the upgrade

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fives you bought new engines you helped

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can you give us any idea or or some some

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color on how much this actually cost uh

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this point thanks

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okay well i can't say much about the

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second one because we really don't talk

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we have to to auditors but um

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but in general it has been a worthwhile

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investment by the company and by all the

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parties involved in bringing this launch

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pad back to uh to operation

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and then of course the investment the

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company made

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was

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well over 500 million dollars just

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beginning this program

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uh to to begin delivering cargo to the

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space station

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um and i think it's worthwhile for the

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country for us to to do that um

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the um

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performance of the rocket was uh even

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better than we had expected since it was

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the first flight of this configuration

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we had fairly conservative estimates of

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what the results would be the first

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stage was a little bit above what we

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expected but i wasn't too surprised by

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that we we didn't have the heaviest

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possible load and uh and and the engines

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did perform very well

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and then the second stage was actually

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the first time we have used this

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particular configuration the caster 30xl

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so we had fairly conservative estimates

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of how it would perform

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as a solid rocket

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it's a little bit different in terms of

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we can't throttle it it's going to be

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what it is and it did do a good job and

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put us at a a little bit higher altitude

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than we had expected but again that's a

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really good thing and uh so we'll take

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advantage of that

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i believe we have some questions from

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social here yep uh we have two questions

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right now um the first one comes from

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matt camper and his question is what was

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the toughest challenge you guys had to

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overcome to get to the launch this

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um

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the toughest challenge to get to this

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evening

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that's hard to pin down because it's

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been two years of really hard work and

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i think just getting through all the the

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preparations rehearsals testing

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all of that takes a lot of time and

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and so working through the timeline of

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being ready to launch is probably the

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the toughest part of it because we had

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to be very very confident it was all

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going to work

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we had a lot of cooperation a lot of

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help from a lot of a lot of

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organizations who tried really hard not

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to be one of those challenges

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um

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occasionally trying to work together it

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is a challenge but uh but the team

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worked great and the communication was

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good and it just took a while to get

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here

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and the second question is from

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weatherboy on twitter and he asks how

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long can cygnus loiter in space while

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the soyuz capsule brings new crew to the

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space station the original estimate was

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if we had a nominal launch we could

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loiter for up to 42 days i'm guessing

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with the higher performance we had we

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could add something to that i don't know

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how much yet but i know we can make it

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great let's take one over here

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uh gene mcculloch talking space first

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off frank joel congratulations thank you

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you just went ahead and put the uh

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mid-atlantic region back in space again

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so thanks a bunch

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uh

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frank did you have any words for your

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team afterward as well we we didn't hear

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uh uh dave thompson's comments i was

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just wondering if you had any words for

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the team and what do you do for an

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encore what's next for uh for cygnus and

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antares thanks

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launch again um

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yeah we'll we'll keep flying uh yes i

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did have a few words you know me but um

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uh i basically just

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tried to recognize the hard work and and

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uh congratulate them on how well they

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all work together

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and the persistence the long hours a lot

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of travel for a lot of people

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and

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just the focus on

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and attention to details that allowed us

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to get to this point

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without that it wouldn't have been

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possible

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and birthing coming up on sunday so you

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know today is just the start of a great

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mission we'll have the cygnus up on

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orbit uh taking the hardware that the

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spacecraft has brought up it'll be up

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there until november and so we're

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looking forward to seeing that up there

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yep all right we'll take one over here

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and then we'll go back over here

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hi hanukkah whitering here with

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space.com i'm wondering um so with

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yesterday's launch being scrubbed what

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sort of steps did you have to take to

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reset everything and prepare for today

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and how long does this take and

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basically i'm wondering if people were

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up all night trying to prepare for today

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no they weren't really up all night in

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fact crew rest is a very important

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aspect of doing this job so we want to

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make sure people get a good nice rest

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before they come on console they came on

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console early this afternoon

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for the for the mission tonight

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the recycle

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really was not that difficult from a

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recycle standpoint because we didn't get

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very far actually anywhere into the

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count so we didn't have anything that

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had to be reversed all we had to do was

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fix the cable that uh that needed that

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had the short that needed to be fixed

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once that was done we were ready to to

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move forward and so we sent the team

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home

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except for the ones that had to be there

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overnight but we work in shifts so it

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was a fairly straightforward approach to

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our process rather

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to get to this point

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hi uh wayne rice with e-week

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i'm told this launch set the record for

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the heaviest launch heaviest load out of

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wallops ever

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the question i have is

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how much did this vehicle weigh at

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launch and how much more can you launch

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out of here with now that you have the

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upgraded antares

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i'm not sure about that uh

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well the payload liftoff mass was 6 200

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kilograms and um i'm not sure how that

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compares to to the previous one's frame

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it's the most car that we've flown

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a lot of wallops

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okay by a little bit right

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okay

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yeah but we can carry more now than we

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will in future flights

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over here

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hi ken cramer for universe today and

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northeast astronomy forum for uh frank

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um

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you concluded your remarks with a little

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bit about exploration in the future and

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we're going to be exploring so that's

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what i i want to ask you about you you

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guys are proposing a cis lunar habitat

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so i would like you to talk about that

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talk about some of the details why are

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you doing that and how this is going to

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enable the journey to mars what are we

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going to do with it in lunar orbit and

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then sending it to hopefully to mars one

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day

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well this will obviously be a joint

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activity with nasa they're asking for

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these designs

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we've been proposing and looking at this

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as a

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derivative of cygnus

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both the service module and the

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pressurized cargo module can be adapted

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for longer term

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of long flight long term flight in space

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it can be used as a control it can be

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used as an outpost can be used for

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carrying cargo or for crew habitation

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and so we're happy to see that nasa is

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moving towards developing a system that

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will allow crews to remain in in orbit

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or in

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in cis lunar space for longer periods of

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time because

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you think about it you're going to need

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to have supplies there when you get

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there it's like going to

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an expedition to antarctica it's nice

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that you arrive and find your supplies

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already there ready to to use and so

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that would be the original intent of

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that and then we hope uh frequent

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resupply and also the ability to expand

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development occurs in in cis lunar with

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additional modules so we think it's a

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perfect time to start thinking about

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that and uh and getting people out of

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low earth orbit and back to the vicinity

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other questions here in the room

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hi janet heaton part of the nasa social

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we actually had a question from robert

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strickland

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on twitter asking

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why no live on board cameras

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we just we didn't have any on the rocket

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itself we have them on the spacecraft so

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you'll see a video of that downloaded

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later but uh

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but no but and partly because it was a

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night launch you wouldn't have seen very

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much probably

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but

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any other questions here in the room

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again if you're on the phone with a

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one boy from ken uh ken kramer again for

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joel can you tell us just where we're at

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with the uh crew supplies of the space

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station how many months and supplies

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they have and how is this going to

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extend the the uh the provisions that

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the astronauts have

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so before

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this cygnus gets there we have

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probably our smallest supply is at least

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six months right now on orbit so we have

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six months of margin one cygnus gets

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there

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you know depending on the different

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commodities that it brings

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some commodities are extended a few

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weeks some are extended a month or so so

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but from right now we have plenty of

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one more question back here

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yes sir congratulations i think your

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contract was for about 65 000 pounds of

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merchandise sent to the space station

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i'm just curious how much more you have

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to deliver left

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under this current contract

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six more missions

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six missions yeah

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all of them here

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uh that's the current plan yeah right

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are there any other questions

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well thank you all very much for joining

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us

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and you can find out more about the