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station this is houston are you ready

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houston we are ready

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associated press this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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thank you expenses

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hello marcia loud and clear

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well happy new year to you both

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greetings from the kennedy space center

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in florida um tell me how did you ring

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2017 any special foods and what did you

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well we had a great meal actually

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provided by tomah our french astronaut

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counterparts

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he had special food made from kind of

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regions in france that he is from where

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parts of his family are from so we

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enjoyed that down in the russian segment

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so we made it a truly international

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celebration for 2017.

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well you're going to have to tell me

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what french delicacies you dined on i'm

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curious and and i'm assuming there was

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no champagne so what did you use instead

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unfortunately no bubbly we just had

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we had ox tongue which i'm not a big fan

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well you guys lucked out having a french

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could you share any space themed new

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year's resolutions that you might have

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well i haven't thought of that one i

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guess marcia but

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we're really geared up right now for our

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spacewalks that are coming out coming up

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those be successful and everything to go

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well um would be a great resolution

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how is all the ground preparation going

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for the spacewalks i know that there was

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a lot of robotic work that needed to be

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done in play in advance

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is that completed is everything

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actually it's going extremely well

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they're a little bit ahead of schedule

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and they've gotten all the batteries out

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that they were planning to get out they

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have i think a few more moves to do to

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i think they're pretty much ready for us

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to go out shortly so we're very pleased

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that that went as smoothly as it did

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well it's been um almost nine years

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pros and cons considering so much time

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have experienced it once before but you

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like oh yeah i remember that oh yeah and

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so it's been a good learning experience

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uh going through getting ready the whole

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uh to remind us of everything that that

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well peggy a couple questions for you um

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acknowledging your record as the world's

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oldest space woman how's your body

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sleep nothing hurts when you're laying

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advertisement for everybody over a

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matter how you cut it and did you did

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flight at least to be prepped for that i

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challenge that's required you know to

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the tests in mind but at the same time

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pleased well for either of you um

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difficult space walker is it pretty

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straightforward as they go i just didn't

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if things start going wrong or the bolts

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space and science fiction movies that

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crew members or are they subtitled in

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decorating contest for christmas

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been a pleasure talking to you i wish

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you the best of everything in 2017 and

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station this is houston acr that

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of the event please stand by for a voice

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cbs this is bill harwood cbs news at the

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hey bill we read you loud and clear

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hey thanks shane it's great to see you

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um they've been kind enough to kind of

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live stream up a few games uh pro games

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on sundays and college games on

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saturdays so it's been for me it's been

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a nice way to kind of stay in touch with

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things at home

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well listen guys i want to kind of focus

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on the evas coming up in the battery

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swap outs for the for the rest of the of

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this interview i've been following the

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robotics work on the ground

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and it looks like things have gone

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really well i mean it's like got a good

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head start on the swap outs and uh

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how's it been going from your

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well we've been watching them uh with

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our on the robotic workstation here it

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everything looks like it's going very

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smoothly and the flight directors have

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given us some reports and everything

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sounds fantastic so

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we're knocking on wood and hoping

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everything will continue as such and

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look and hoping that ours will also be

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all nominal we love nominal

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yeah as much as i dislike the word i

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like it too

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tell me why you need to change out the

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batteries uh in layman's terms what's

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going on that you need to replace these

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well the batteries that are out there

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now have been up here for the duration

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of the space station so some over a

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decade

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um

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and the others even more so it's just

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kind of time to change them out

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we've gotten more efficient of course

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just like things on earth things are the

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batteries now are a little smaller one

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of the sizes of the old ones is now

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takes a place of two with an adapter

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plate so you'll see you'll hear a lot of

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adapter plate talk going on with the

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spacewalk so peggy and i will be

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installing the adapter plates and uh

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moving a few of the old batteries onto

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those adapter plates

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and uh it's just time i guess and we're

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gonna do this on the starboard side of

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the space station they're in spacewalks

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one and two and a year or so from now

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they'll take care of the port side so

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we're just kind of changing out the

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batteries um they're due for a change up

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okay so i guess it's like my my cell

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phone i mean after a while it won't hold

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a charge as long or does it just lose

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it's actually exactly just like that or

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your power tools that you know you they

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just won't hold very much charge and so

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even though the guys on the ground deep

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cycle ours um

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frequently it has to be more and more

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frequently

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we need just new batteries up here so

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it'll hold more of a charge

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and yet you remember we have to have the

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charge when uh

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when we're in eclipse the station is

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entirely powered by solar energy so when

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we're on when the earth is between us

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and the sun

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uh we are in the dark and we have to

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have those the battery the power stored

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by those batteries

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you know this is probably the most

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complicated remotely controlled arm work

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uh that i can recall anyway and

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obviously using dexter is a is another

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yeah it's been doing great we don't

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really have any interface with the crew

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anymore with it so that's unfortunate

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for us but the ground teams are

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phenomenal

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they've been flying it um really

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flawlessly over the last few months and

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obviously this past few days getting

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ready for our activities have been

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really fun to watch

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how much of a time saver is the robotics

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work from jsc

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in terms of you know the number of evas

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you guys would have to do if if the

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if if we didn't have the robotics

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helping us out it would be six space

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walks for shane and i to do all the

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activities so this way if everything

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continues nominally

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it will just be two space walks instead

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of six

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and the reason that we have to have the

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two is because unfortunately the adapter

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plates don't have

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uh an interface for the robotic uh arm

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lucky for shane and i

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yeah you know that was my next question

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what what do you guys bring to the table

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that the arm doesn't but uh

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the adapter plates are obviously

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critical what what role do those plates

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serve i mean i know you're going to

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mount

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three of the old batteries on top of

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those plates that will remain in place

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but do you need them also to interface

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the new batteries with the electronics

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assembly i'm a little fuzzy on the

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sure well shane mentioned you know

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they're each there are three battery

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pairs on each side of the uh place that

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we're doing the replacements and so each

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battery pair is in

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in series

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and so if we take it and replace one

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battery or two batteries with one we

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still need an adapter plate to flow that

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energy so that we maintain the circuit

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so the adapter plate is basically just a

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continuation of the power chain and it

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also allows us to stow those extra

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batteries on top

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and so none of the old batteries will

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come home on the pallet three will

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remain in the iea i guess just an

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indefinite storage so 12 out six on and

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then you're going to do this three more

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times down the road for the for the

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yeah so eva2 which will be tomorrow

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pesky and myself next friday on the 13th

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we'll take care of the other side of the

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one that peggy and i are going to do

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and then yeah about a year or so

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whenever the next batteries come up on

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the next htv vehicle

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then the spacewalks will be planned i'm

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sure shortly after that

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now we're looking forward to going out

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on the sixth and the 13th

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no i know it i'm kidding uh

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looking at these evas is this are these

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things complicated as eva i mean i've

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covered a lot of vvas they all seem

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complicated but

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this one seems straightforward but maybe

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well

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they're all straightforward if

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everything works great and everything is

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going well and the crew members are you

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know feeling great so hopefully that'll

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all be the case um but we you know the

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ground team's ready for about anything

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that can happen and they're going to

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support us no matter what they'll keep

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us safe they'll make sure

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that we get the task done that we can

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get done but first of all keep peggy and

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i safe outside and that's that's our

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number one goal

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um but yeah they're all complicated when

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you go outside the simplest task is is

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not simple anymore i'm even moving the

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tool from one thing to the other you

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mentally have to be in the game for six

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to seven hours however long you're out

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there

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and that that along with the physical

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challenge of moving that big mass of the

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suit around um is there's nothing easy

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about it

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vicky you're one of nasa's most

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experienced space walkers how do you

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look at it i mean

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you know given all the prep required

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just to go outside and then watching the

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astronauts who spend that six or seven

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hours come back in it looks

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i mean do you ever even get a chance to

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enjoy it out there is it just all work

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well we're pretty focused when we're out

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there and i and i think we should be but

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it's always nice to get just a brief

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respite to actually look around and see

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how amazingly beautiful it is not only

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do we have an incredibly beautiful earth

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but it is amazing this structure that we

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have out there and when you're out there

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in it it just looks so amazingly large

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and it it's a miraculous engineering

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feat to have

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this football field length of truss with

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solar arrays that are 239 feet and

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and then you know the length of the

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volume the

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pressurized volume more than a 747 it's

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just it's really amazing to see that

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structure from the outside as well too

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that sounds like fun shane i'll ask my

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last question to you you're a veteran

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obviously what are you what do you look

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forward to

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uh obviously the work's number one but i

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mean just the experience of walking out

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that hatch or floating up the hatch what

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well i look forward to just getting this

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battery replacement done i mean that's

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our goal the mission is we know what our

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mission is we're going to go out there

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and accomplish the mission

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and that's what i look forward to we

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will get a chance like peggy mentioned

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maybe to peek around a little bit and

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those will be some great memories and

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we'll take a few pictures while we're

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out there but that's all kind of

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secondary we're going to get the mission

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done and then if we have a little time

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at the end we'll we'll enjoy the view a

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little bit

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guys thanks a lot

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happy happy 2017. good luck with the

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evas and look forward to talking with

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thanks bill happy 2017.