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good morning everyone this is the

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pre-launch news conference for

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crs7 with our partners orbital atk and

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united launch alliance

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as well as our

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space science participant from the

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johnson space center in houston to

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discuss some about the

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first on the panel will be joel

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montelbano our deputy manager for the

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nasa international space station program

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vern thorpe the program manager for

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commercial missions from united launch

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frank culberson the space systems group

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tara rutley the associate program

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scientist for the international space

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and david kraft the launch weather

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officer from the u.s air force 45th

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weather squadron

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and we'll begin first with opening

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comments from joel topple

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montelbano from the nasa international

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space station program office joel

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well good morning and welcome again to

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the pre-launch press conference it's uh

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once again exciting to be down here at

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kennedy space center on the eve of

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another commercial cargo resupply

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i want to thank our ula and orbital

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colleagues for preparing vehicle

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the vehicles and and get us to where we

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are today we're looking forward to a

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great mission

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the cygnus spacecraft will carry about 3

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500 kilograms of equipment to the

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international space station highlights

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of that equipment about a thousand

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pounds of utilization and the crew

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research

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about a thousand pounds of or a thousand

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kilograms of crew supplies and about

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1200 kilograms of vehicle hardware

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we're looking forward to a launch

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tomorrow uh shortly after 11 o'clock

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local eastern time 11 11

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and then we'll have a capture saturday

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morning uh shortly after uh 6 a.m

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the reason for the long longer

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rendezvous is to uh clear the field for

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a soyuz launch

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kazakhstan on april 20th we'll have crew

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launching there they'll do a four orbit

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rendezvous or six hours from launch to

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docking we'll have a day in between and

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then we'll bring in the cygnus vehicle

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so looking forward to a great mission

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the the vehicle is expected to stay just

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over 80 days 85 days i believe is the

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the latest number and so i just want to

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thank you for coming and i'll hand it

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back over to you george all right thank

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you joel

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and now to vern thorpe the program

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manager for commercial missions from the

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united launch alliance fern

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thanks george good morning

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i'm happy to be here today with all of

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you just over 24 hours ahead of our

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planned launch tomorrow

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we're preparing an atlas 5 401 rocket to

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launch orbital atk's cygnus spacecraft

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on the initial leg of its cargo resupply

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mission bringing supplies equipment and

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science experiments to the international

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oa7 will be the seventh cygnus flight

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and the third time that cygnus has flown

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on board an atlas v rocket

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it's an honor to launch the spacecraft

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which has been named in memory of john

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glenn i feel like we're bridging history

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uh john glenn flew on an atlas rocket in

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1962 when he became the first american

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to orbit the earth

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and right now we are actually preparing

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atlas to begin flying astronauts again

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in the near future as part of nasa's

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commercial crew program

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oa7 will be ula's 71st launch of the

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atlas v rocket and the 36th of the 401

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configuration that 401 configuration has

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really become the atlas v workhorse that

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particular configuration has launched

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about half of our atlas 5 missions over

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this will be our fourth launch ula's

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fourth launch of 2017 and the 119th

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launch since ula was formed in december

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of 2006.

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the atlas 401 vehicle includes a four

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meter payload fairing and many of you

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know that that payload fairing comes in

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three different lengths we're using the

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longest version for this mission known

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as the xcpf that stands for extended or

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um atlas 5 as usual is

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propelled by the rd-180 engine on the

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back end and the centaur upper stage

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performance capabilities so that we will

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strap-ons

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now i have a brief clip

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showing some of the processing

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activities that have gotten us to this

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point i'd like to roll that if we could

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so here you see our ula mariner arriving

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at port canaveral

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and then we transported them a few miles

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uh down the road to our atlas spacecraft

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operations center also known as the asoc

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when we get the stages there we do some

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final checkout and some additional

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processing to get ready for launch

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you can see the vehicle there in the

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high bay of the asoc

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and here we are out at the launch pad uh

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we put the booster up on february 22nd

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uh the first thing we do when we go on

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stand with the vehicle is put the

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booster onto the mobile launch platform

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and once it's secure typically the next

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day will bring out the centaur upper

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actually integrating that centaur that

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adapter on the bottom and some of the

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other adapter structures on top

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each of those used to be a separate step

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facility but now we can do all that at

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that spacecraft transport and made

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about a week away from launch we do some

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and that leads us to the next video that

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i'd like to show you this is a video

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showing the flight sequence that you can

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final update we did roll to the launch

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pad out at complex 41

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on our mobile launch platform final

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connections and some final checkouts are

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in work as we speak right now

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booster a little bit later today after

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that operation is complete we'll secure

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this afternoon we have one more major

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review and that's the final launch

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readiness review with the air force's

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and after that we'll let our crew get

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some rest and very early tomorrow

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morning some of our folks on the various

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teams will start coming in to

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pick up the countdown

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and as was mentioned earlier we're

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that could actually shift a little bit

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update the trajectory if needed about 24

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hours in advance to account for any last

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orbit we have that flexibility to really

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tailor the trajectory right down to the

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so with that i'd like to i'd like to

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thank all of our partners uh you know as

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always it takes an incredible team

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effort to get to this point i'd like to

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thank the air force the faa

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our customer orbital atk all of our

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suppliers who've worked with us

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as always we're relentlessly focused on

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mission success and we're looking

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forward to a great launch tomorrow and

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continuing our record of 100 mission

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success thank you back to you george

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thank you vern

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and now to frank culbertson the space

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systems group president from orbital atk

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frank thank you very much george and

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good morning to everyone on behalf of

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david thompson and the entire orbital

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atk team i'd like to thank you for the

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hospitality

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it's great to be back here at the

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kennedy space center cape canaveral

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we've had great service and great

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collaboration with the folks here at ksc

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in preparing our payload and our

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spacecraft and of course our partners

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ula have done a great job getting us

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ready for flight they've worked through

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a few issues that have delayed the

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original plan for the launch but we're

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still on track for delivering to the

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space station and flying the ss john

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glenn

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we are very proud of that fact that

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this spacecraft is named after

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my former

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fellow astronaut john glenn a real

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pioneer of course in the space world and

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as vern said who launched for the first

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time out of here on an atlas rocket so i

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think the

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almost 55 years ago uh it's uh it's a

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great uh great tribute to john to be

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able to to take his name to orbit once

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again

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um

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we do have a short video that i'd like

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to play if we could start rolling the

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video to show our processing

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uh sequence here this is the

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service module arriving at kennedy space

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center

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a couple of months ago

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we're preparing it to mate it with the

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pressurized cargo module

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which arrived separately

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it's being uncreated in this uh in this

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scene

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it came from

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torino italy manufactured by tala

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selenia some really great partners in

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building modules for space

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and for the international space station

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here they're being mated so that we

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could begin to

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load the cargo

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and uh

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and of course we'll host a number of

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science experiments

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it's a fairly complex process a lot of

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uh a lot of bolts have to be tightened

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and a lot of things put in place but

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here you see it being moved from the uh

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processing facility

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over to the phsf

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and of course it's shrouded to protect

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it from from the weather in this in this

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scene

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and here we are beginning the cargo load

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including the uh powered mid deck

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lockers that we're carrying to the space

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station uh we are carrying more this

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time than we have in the past and uh

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that's a good step forward for us and

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for the crew the more research we can

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carry the more they can do their job and

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the more they can show the utility of

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the international space station a nice

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shot of john there in that previous

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previous scene

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after it's loaded we take it to the vif

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as vern mentioned for

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installation on top of the rocket

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sort of a breathtaking event in itself

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but still one that they've done many

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times and one that we have a lot of

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confidence in

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this scene is what you will see when the

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cygnus detaches from the atlas upper

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stage and then we'll deploy the solar

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arrays which of course are built by

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another orbital atk component

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in

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goleta california

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these are our ulcer flex arrays that

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have done a fantastic job for us on this

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spacecraft and on others

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once we birth with the international

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space station after our approach and

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rendezvous

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of course the crew that will first

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grapple the sta the cygnus spacecraft

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with the

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canadian robotic arm

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and then attaches to the

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to node one unity node

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in preparation for unloading

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the

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crew of course is always very anxious to

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see what comes up in the cygnus

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spacecraft

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this is from a previous one of course

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but

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we do think they'll be excited

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we are sorry we missed easter but we're

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pretty sure they'll be excited about

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their easter baskets or whatever

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great things

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uh international space station science

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put on forward for them more experience

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experiments for them to

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to take part in i'm sure

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once we finish our mission at the

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station and we uh load the discarded

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cargo we will also conduct a couple more

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experiments including a

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combustion experiment on behalf of glenn

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research center deploy some cubesats

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and uh for planets

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for nanoracks and then of course

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there'll be an experiment to evaluate

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the re-entry of the cygnus itself which

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we've done on previous missions

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and of course everything will burn up as

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it reenters the atmosphere right frank

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okay good

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um

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but like i said we may be a little bit

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late but we're happy to to be coming uh

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easter week and and uh to see the

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uh the excitement on the face of the

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astronauts and there will be additional

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crew on board i'd like to

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wish my colleagues fioro your chicken

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and jack fisher or seafish

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bon voyage and

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and good luck on their flight on the

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soyuz in two days and they'll be

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arriving just before we do

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and

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we look forward to to look on their

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faces as they as they open the hatch and

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wish them well for their upcoming

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mission on the international space

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station

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uh as i said we're happy to be back here

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happy to be flying again and looking

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forward to many more flights in the

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future but this is the one we're focused

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on today everything looks great and

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again we appreciate the

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great work by all of our partners

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including as vern said the faa

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and nasa who've helped helped us get

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ready for this mission

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and as i hand it back to george i would

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like to also thank george for his 37

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years of service in this job and all the

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many interviews and

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and

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conferences like press conferences he's

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done like this and all that he's put up

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with in having to deal with some of us

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that have flown in space and trying to

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explain what the heck is he doing now

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but but george has done a terrific job

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of that a real true fan of the space

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program but also a real contributor and

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we do appreciate all of these done and

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i'm pretty sure he won't go very far

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away so george thank you for everything

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thank you it's a lot of fun sure has

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all right uh next

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to tara rutley the associate program

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scientist for the international space

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station tara yes good morning everyone

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uh like frank i share the sentiment that

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it's really great to be back at ksc

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watch the buzz about all the science

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that's getting ready to launch to

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station

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i got to talk to a couple of scientists

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this morning and they're ready to go

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excited to be here

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we have some a wide range of

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support

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equipment that's going to be headed to

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station to support the science that's up

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there already but also to introduce some

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brand new capabilities and some exciting

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new research to station

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i'm going to share some of those

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examples with you today but i could be

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here for over an hour myself so in the

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interest of time i want to make sure

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that you all are aware of our website

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where you can go and learn a lot about

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many more of the investigations for

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forward slash

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iss dash science so iss science that's

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where all the science information can be

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found

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so uh the first parts i want to share

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with you uh that's pretty exciting and

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and it's real exciting to see space

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station keep up with the advancements in

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technology on earth

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we it is a it is a laboratory we want to

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invite the best and the brightest the

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most capable scientists to use that

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platform and so uh the most interesting

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thing i think that's happening right now

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in terms of evolving science on station

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is all of the studies that are happening

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basically looking at our health at

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levels that you can't even see so these

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are levels at the very tiniest cell and

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molecular biological levels so

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one of those examples is a payload that

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is

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actually being developed or was a

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winning student proposal a high school

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student proposal this one's called gene

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in space ii

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now this student's proposal suggested to

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take a look at telomere length and how

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space flight affects telomere length now

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telomeres are little end caps on the end

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of our chromosomes and our dna and every

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as we get older with every cell division

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they get shorter and it's associated

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with aging and it's associated with also

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stressful environments um and it has

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impacts on our health so this student

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proposed to

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take a look at telomere

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length and how space flight affects that

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by amplifying the dna associated with

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the telomere sections now amplification

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of dna is a big deal if you want to go

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and study more about what's happening

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you know as we as we see it in health

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we actually were able to for the first

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time ever in space amplify dna last

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last year i believe it was last summer

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again another high school student

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proposal from the same program genes in

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space

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amplification of dna is an important

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first step and then being able to

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sequence it and tell us what's happening

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in real really so uh so we'll be able to

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see how this amplification process goes

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get the data back and maybe understand

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some of what might be happening with

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telomeres in space

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um now

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part of that also genes in space 3 will

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happen later a little bit later on and

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we're going to be able to take the

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process which is what scientists really

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do in the laboratory like i say when you

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start with amplification of dna then you

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want to be able to sequence dna and tell

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you what you're actually looking at what

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kind of a protein are you looking at so

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that's what's going to happen next

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in genes in space 3. we're going to

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combine two powerful dna capabilities

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analytic capabilities in space and for

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the first time ever take them from

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amplification to what are we looking at

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and that's combining what we call the

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mini pcr with the biomolecule sequencer

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that's a men ion product both are

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commercial products and we're able to

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take things end to end so inviting again

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more molecular biology studies on in

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space looking at lots of things that

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could be different in space flight

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we also are this this particular launch

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is also um enabling an investigation

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that is looking at um

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uh contributing to fighting cancer um

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using the microgravity environment to

563
00:20:51,909 --> 00:20:49,440
potentially fight cancer

564
00:20:54,070 --> 00:20:51,919
this is a company called oncolynx they

565
00:20:56,230 --> 00:20:54,080
are working on what's called antibody

566
00:20:57,669 --> 00:20:56,240
drug conjugates and they've developed

567
00:20:59,110 --> 00:20:57,679
them on the ground it's basically where

568
00:21:01,350 --> 00:20:59,120
you take

569
00:21:03,909 --> 00:21:01,360
you combine an antibody with a drug and

570
00:21:06,950 --> 00:21:03,919
be able to target directly the cancer

571
00:21:09,510 --> 00:21:06,960
cells themselves to fight cancer now

572
00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:09,520
this group is particularly interested in

573
00:21:14,630 --> 00:21:11,280
using the microgravity environment to

574
00:21:16,630 --> 00:21:14,640
test their uh process because uh in

575
00:21:18,070 --> 00:21:16,640
space you can uh if you're really good

576
00:21:20,710 --> 00:21:18,080
at culturing you can get some

577
00:21:22,630 --> 00:21:20,720
three-dimensional spherical uh cells

578
00:21:24,310 --> 00:21:22,640
developed cell cultures in a way that's

579
00:21:26,789 --> 00:21:24,320
similar to what they see

580
00:21:29,270 --> 00:21:26,799
in the body so this group is going to

581
00:21:31,270 --> 00:21:29,280
leverage the microgravity environment to

582
00:21:33,350 --> 00:21:31,280
to test their drug efficacy and just

583
00:21:35,750 --> 00:21:33,360
contribute more data to what they're

584
00:21:38,390 --> 00:21:35,760
already developing on earth

585
00:21:40,870 --> 00:21:38,400
you can see that it obviously could have

586
00:21:42,870 --> 00:21:40,880
earth-based therapeutic benefits for

587
00:21:44,470 --> 00:21:42,880
those of us on the ground

588
00:21:46,310 --> 00:21:44,480
but to be able to do studies like that

589
00:21:48,070 --> 00:21:46,320
you need to be able to grow really good

590
00:21:49,990 --> 00:21:48,080
cell cultures and so the next

591
00:21:53,110 --> 00:21:50,000
investigation that is enabled by this

592
00:21:55,510 --> 00:21:53,120
particular launch is called magnetic 3d

593
00:21:59,669 --> 00:21:55,520
cell culturing so this particular

594
00:22:01,909 --> 00:21:59,679
investigation will use magnetic cells

595
00:22:05,510 --> 00:22:01,919
that will be obviously levitated in

596
00:22:08,070 --> 00:22:05,520
microgravity but used to control cells

597
00:22:09,990 --> 00:22:08,080
hold them still if you think about it

598
00:22:11,029 --> 00:22:10,000
when you need to because growing cell

599
00:22:13,190 --> 00:22:11,039
cultures

600
00:22:14,710 --> 00:22:13,200
is very complicated on earth to do it in

601
00:22:16,470 --> 00:22:14,720
space is even more complicated because

602
00:22:18,230 --> 00:22:16,480
you have to feed them you have to change

603
00:22:21,110 --> 00:22:18,240
the media you have to keep the cells

604
00:22:23,590 --> 00:22:21,120
healthy and that can be tricky in space

605
00:22:25,590 --> 00:22:23,600
so this team is proposing to use magnets

606
00:22:26,950 --> 00:22:25,600
to basically hold your culture still

607
00:22:29,350 --> 00:22:26,960
while you do all those things to

608
00:22:31,430 --> 00:22:29,360
maintain cell cultures now what comes

609
00:22:33,669 --> 00:22:31,440
out of this could be very interesting in

610
00:22:35,110 --> 00:22:33,679
terms of new capabilities for all the

611
00:22:37,510 --> 00:22:35,120
different types of cells that we could

612
00:22:39,669 --> 00:22:37,520
potentially grow in space as we get more

613
00:22:42,710 --> 00:22:39,679
and more complex and we head towards

614
00:22:44,789 --> 00:22:42,720
more sophisticated studies

615
00:22:46,310 --> 00:22:44,799
this team is already doing these kind of

616
00:22:48,310 --> 00:22:46,320
manipulations on the ground and have

617
00:22:50,149 --> 00:22:48,320
seen really interesting results uh as

618
00:22:51,909 --> 00:22:50,159
well so now they're ready to use our

619
00:22:54,710 --> 00:22:51,919
laboratory in space to further their

620
00:22:57,510 --> 00:22:54,720
progress and further ours now on the

621
00:23:00,149 --> 00:22:57,520
technology front we have a new advanced

622
00:23:03,430 --> 00:23:00,159
plant habitat that's going up as well

623
00:23:05,510 --> 00:23:03,440
now this will be the the largest ever uh

624
00:23:07,590 --> 00:23:05,520
food production plant production

625
00:23:08,390 --> 00:23:07,600
capability on the international space

626
00:23:11,190 --> 00:23:08,400
station

627
00:23:13,669 --> 00:23:11,200
it's very um complex in its systems it's

628
00:23:15,510 --> 00:23:13,679
very capable more capable than ever in

629
00:23:17,830 --> 00:23:15,520
the environment that the plants can grow

630
00:23:20,230 --> 00:23:17,840
in it's got something like over 180

631
00:23:21,909 --> 00:23:20,240
different sensors that will treat the

632
00:23:23,909 --> 00:23:21,919
plants the way they want to be treated

633
00:23:25,669 --> 00:23:23,919
so that they can grow

634
00:23:28,230 --> 00:23:25,679
food eventually

635
00:23:29,750 --> 00:23:28,240
for our astronauts as we plan to

636
00:23:30,789 --> 00:23:29,760
explore longer and beyond low earth

637
00:23:32,549 --> 00:23:30,799
orbit

638
00:23:34,549 --> 00:23:32,559
let's see this what they're sending up

639
00:23:37,029 --> 00:23:34,559
on this particular flight is the

640
00:23:39,270 --> 00:23:37,039
structure and that's something called a

641
00:23:41,029 --> 00:23:39,280
science carrier and this science carrier

642
00:23:43,190 --> 00:23:41,039
will have a couple different seed types

643
00:23:45,669 --> 00:23:43,200
in them it will have a dwarf wheat i

644
00:23:47,430 --> 00:23:45,679
believe and arabidopsis now wheat is a

645
00:23:49,750 --> 00:23:47,440
kind of a crop plant right

646
00:23:51,590 --> 00:23:49,760
arabidopsis is a model organism plant

647
00:23:53,110 --> 00:23:51,600
that scientists can use they know a lot

648
00:23:55,590 --> 00:23:53,120
about the genetics and a lot about how

649
00:23:57,669 --> 00:23:55,600
these plants can behave so this first

650
00:24:00,549 --> 00:23:57,679
set of seeds will be used as a

651
00:24:02,470 --> 00:24:00,559
demonstration of how we can wet these

652
00:24:04,149 --> 00:24:02,480
seeds and get germination of these seeds

653
00:24:06,710 --> 00:24:04,159
in microgravity in this new plant

654
00:24:08,870 --> 00:24:06,720
habitat where the environmental

655
00:24:10,950 --> 00:24:08,880
the environmental control is can be

656
00:24:12,710 --> 00:24:10,960
precisely maintained exactly the way we

657
00:24:14,950 --> 00:24:12,720
want for studies and then we have our

658
00:24:16,549 --> 00:24:14,960
first peer-reviewed science study coming

659
00:24:19,430 --> 00:24:16,559
up in november that's going to use this

660
00:24:20,789 --> 00:24:19,440
plant habitat for hypothesis studies so

661
00:24:22,230 --> 00:24:20,799
we want to make sure that we check out

662
00:24:23,750 --> 00:24:22,240
this this

663
00:24:25,430 --> 00:24:23,760
this habitat and make sure it's in good

664
00:24:27,029 --> 00:24:25,440
use for that

665
00:24:28,870 --> 00:24:27,039
we also have

666
00:24:30,710 --> 00:24:28,880
two investigations that will be

667
00:24:33,110 --> 00:24:30,720
performed in what's called the subsa

668
00:24:34,950 --> 00:24:33,120
which is a solidification furnace here

669
00:24:37,029 --> 00:24:34,960
is a furnace that was used early in

670
00:24:38,950 --> 00:24:37,039
space station era and was decommissioned

671
00:24:41,190 --> 00:24:38,960
and brought back to life recently we've

672
00:24:42,630 --> 00:24:41,200
got two investigations that are going to

673
00:24:44,549 --> 00:24:42,640
perform what we call

674
00:24:46,549 --> 00:24:44,559
crystallization melts or basically

675
00:24:47,909 --> 00:24:46,559
growing crystals in in forms of

676
00:24:49,669 --> 00:24:47,919
scintillators

677
00:24:51,510 --> 00:24:49,679
and if you know anything about growing

678
00:24:53,190 --> 00:24:51,520
crystals in space this is a little bit

679
00:24:55,909 --> 00:24:53,200
different than what we would see with

680
00:24:57,590 --> 00:24:55,919
the traditional diffusion based this is

681
00:24:59,430 --> 00:24:57,600
more of a furnace based a heat base

682
00:25:01,909 --> 00:24:59,440
where you can melt the

683
00:25:03,750 --> 00:25:01,919
melt the materials and regrow perfect

684
00:25:04,950 --> 00:25:03,760
crystals or near-perfect crystals in a

685
00:25:06,710 --> 00:25:04,960
way that

686
00:25:08,549 --> 00:25:06,720
you can then study on earth and

687
00:25:10,870 --> 00:25:08,559
reproduce that massively on the ground

688
00:25:13,190 --> 00:25:10,880
what these scintillators do one provides

689
00:25:14,710 --> 00:25:13,200
a color change when neutrons or gamma

690
00:25:16,870 --> 00:25:14,720
rays are detected so it's kind of a

691
00:25:19,510 --> 00:25:16,880
radiation detector the second one is a

692
00:25:21,750 --> 00:25:19,520
semiconductor type of material that

693
00:25:23,830 --> 00:25:21,760
could be used to measure nuclear

694
00:25:26,070 --> 00:25:23,840
detection so both of them real

695
00:25:28,230 --> 00:25:26,080
implications on earth again using the

696
00:25:31,830 --> 00:25:28,240
microgravity environment where it's not

697
00:25:34,310 --> 00:25:31,840
it's a a calmer um less conductive

698
00:25:36,630 --> 00:25:34,320
environment that would affect uh crystal

699
00:25:40,149 --> 00:25:36,640
growth like it would on earth

700
00:25:42,230 --> 00:25:40,159
we also have um the nano the nanoracks

701
00:25:43,590 --> 00:25:42,240
cubesats deployment and this the you

702
00:25:45,669 --> 00:25:43,600
heard a little bit about this earlier

703
00:25:47,750 --> 00:25:45,679
and this is to be so fascinating because

704
00:25:51,110 --> 00:25:47,760
this didn't exist years ago and now what

705
00:25:53,190 --> 00:25:51,120
we have is a capability to shoot off or

706
00:25:55,110 --> 00:25:53,200
deploy off these tiny little cubesats

707
00:25:56,710 --> 00:25:55,120
from the international space station and

708
00:25:58,870 --> 00:25:56,720
those cubesats all serve a certain

709
00:26:01,990 --> 00:25:58,880
function as they circle around the earth

710
00:26:04,549 --> 00:26:02,000
these sensors or or taking photos and in

711
00:26:05,830 --> 00:26:04,559
this case there are 38 going up on the

712
00:26:08,149 --> 00:26:05,840
cygnus

713
00:26:09,430 --> 00:26:08,159
and they include customers such as the

714
00:26:11,909 --> 00:26:09,440
department of defense there are

715
00:26:14,789 --> 00:26:11,919
universities involved nasa has its own

716
00:26:17,110 --> 00:26:14,799
that's going to study ice in the clouds

717
00:26:20,110 --> 00:26:17,120
28 of those are from a program called

718
00:26:22,710 --> 00:26:20,120
qb50 it's a european european

719
00:26:25,590 --> 00:26:22,720
union-sponsored set of investigations

720
00:26:28,149 --> 00:26:25,600
and what that is is a constellation of

721
00:26:30,789 --> 00:26:28,159
universities around the world over 15

722
00:26:32,310 --> 00:26:30,799
countries spanning five continents and

723
00:26:34,390 --> 00:26:32,320
each one of those

724
00:26:37,029 --> 00:26:34,400
satellites detecting and taking their

725
00:26:39,110 --> 00:26:37,039
own sensors of the thermosphere

726
00:26:41,190 --> 00:26:39,120
and coming together as a constellation

727
00:26:42,789 --> 00:26:41,200
and and integrating data over the next

728
00:26:44,710 --> 00:26:42,799
few years that tells us

729
00:26:47,269 --> 00:26:44,720
about our earth's upper atmosphere so

730
00:26:49,350 --> 00:26:47,279
it's a fascinating um

731
00:26:52,390 --> 00:26:49,360
set of uh technology developments as

732
00:26:54,470 --> 00:26:52,400
we've seen grown we've over over 100 150

733
00:26:56,390 --> 00:26:54,480
of these cubesats has been launched um

734
00:26:57,750 --> 00:26:56,400
in the time of station so

735
00:26:59,430 --> 00:26:57,760
if you haven't ever seen any of those

736
00:27:01,190 --> 00:26:59,440
videos you should definitely go take a

737
00:27:03,110 --> 00:27:01,200
look it's really something to see

738
00:27:04,630 --> 00:27:03,120
those tiny little cubesats coming off of

739
00:27:06,549 --> 00:27:04,640
the space station

740
00:27:07,669 --> 00:27:06,559
and lastly since we're uh near in the

741
00:27:10,310 --> 00:27:07,679
end i'm going to talk a little bit about

742
00:27:12,549 --> 00:27:10,320
re-entry we've got a couple three three

743
00:27:16,310 --> 00:27:12,559
different pods um that are that are part

744
00:27:17,510 --> 00:27:16,320
of the red data 2 investigation that

745
00:27:19,990 --> 00:27:17,520
will

746
00:27:22,789 --> 00:27:20,000
kind of let go let loose of the vehicle

747
00:27:24,789 --> 00:27:22,799
as as the vehicles come in on re-entry

748
00:27:27,110 --> 00:27:24,799
and their goal of these three pods is to

749
00:27:29,669 --> 00:27:27,120
test new heat shield technologies for

750
00:27:31,430 --> 00:27:29,679
re-entry into the atmosphere one of

751
00:27:34,230 --> 00:27:31,440
those heat shield

752
00:27:36,310 --> 00:27:34,240
materials is a candidate for the orion

753
00:27:39,110 --> 00:27:36,320
that we're developing here at nasa but

754
00:27:41,350 --> 00:27:39,120
the the three pods will also take um

755
00:27:43,190 --> 00:27:41,360
telemetry data talk looking at breakup

756
00:27:45,350 --> 00:27:43,200
conditions as well and and sending that

757
00:27:48,470 --> 00:27:45,360
information back to earth to improve on

758
00:27:50,070 --> 00:27:48,480
future spacecraft reentry designs too

759
00:27:51,510 --> 00:27:50,080
and with that i want to say again

760
00:27:53,350 --> 00:27:51,520
there's much more that i can talk about

761
00:27:55,430 --> 00:27:53,360
but if you tune in again at about one

762
00:27:56,870 --> 00:27:55,440
o'clock eastern right here

763
00:27:58,470 --> 00:27:56,880
you will be able to hear from some of

764
00:28:00,389 --> 00:27:58,480
the scientists directly we have

765
00:28:02,149 --> 00:28:00,399
something called what's on board and

766
00:28:03,669 --> 00:28:02,159
each scientist will take turns showing

767
00:28:05,990 --> 00:28:03,679
off their hardware showing images

768
00:28:08,310 --> 00:28:06,000
talking in a lot of detail about these

769
00:28:11,350 --> 00:28:08,320
investigations that are headed to space

770
00:28:13,510 --> 00:28:11,360
station here uh hopefully tomorrow so

771
00:28:16,950 --> 00:28:13,520
with that uh i'll turn it back over all

772
00:28:19,269 --> 00:28:16,960
right thank you tara and now

773
00:28:21,510 --> 00:28:19,279
a snapshot of the weather for tomorrow

774
00:28:23,830 --> 00:28:21,520
morning david kraft launch weather

775
00:28:26,149 --> 00:28:23,840
officer from the u.s air force 45th

776
00:28:28,950 --> 00:28:26,159
weather squadron david hey thank you

777
00:28:30,549 --> 00:28:28,960
george i'm dave craft again

778
00:28:33,190 --> 00:28:30,559
u.s air force meteorologist one of the

779
00:28:35,350 --> 00:28:33,200
launch weather officers on this mission

780
00:28:37,190 --> 00:28:35,360
from the 45th space wing

781
00:28:39,029 --> 00:28:37,200
so what we are looking at as mentioned

782
00:28:41,909 --> 00:28:39,039
earlier one of the activities that is

783
00:28:45,190 --> 00:28:41,919
going on today is mlp roll to pad and

784
00:28:47,590 --> 00:28:45,200
as we do this briefing it's pro most of

785
00:28:49,990 --> 00:28:47,600
the activities are are firming up at the

786
00:28:51,830 --> 00:28:50,000
pad and we are we have a weather team

787
00:28:53,909 --> 00:28:51,840
that is actually monitoring

788
00:28:57,110 --> 00:28:53,919
that operation and everything is very

789
00:28:59,909 --> 00:28:57,120
favorable now the meteorologist in me

790
00:29:01,909 --> 00:28:59,919
wants some really cool severe weather to

791
00:29:02,789 --> 00:29:01,919
talk about during this briefing but i'll

792
00:29:04,789 --> 00:29:02,799
ask

793
00:29:07,190 --> 00:29:04,799
you you're going to get the

794
00:29:09,269 --> 00:29:07,200
kind of a down a little

795
00:29:10,549 --> 00:29:09,279
decreased version of that

796
00:29:13,110 --> 00:29:10,559
of that briefing it's not going to be

797
00:29:14,230 --> 00:29:13,120
very exciting but

798
00:29:17,029 --> 00:29:14,240
again

799
00:29:19,190 --> 00:29:17,039
climatologically this time of year is

800
00:29:21,510 --> 00:29:19,200
very generally very favorable for launch

801
00:29:23,110 --> 00:29:21,520
operations and it's no exception for

802
00:29:25,190 --> 00:29:23,120
this week we're actually looking at very

803
00:29:27,430 --> 00:29:25,200
good weather today very good weather for

804
00:29:30,470 --> 00:29:27,440
the primary day of launch and also for

805
00:29:34,870 --> 00:29:30,480
the 24 hour backup day now if i can

806
00:29:38,149 --> 00:29:36,470
what you're seeing i have it cycling

807
00:29:39,830 --> 00:29:38,159
through several images what you're

808
00:29:42,070 --> 00:29:39,840
seeing now is the visible satellite

809
00:29:43,990 --> 00:29:42,080
imagery it'll go to a radar imagery

810
00:29:46,230 --> 00:29:44,000
that here's your radar imagery now what

811
00:29:49,830 --> 00:29:46,240
you see on there there's some green

812
00:29:51,909 --> 00:29:49,840
uh echoes radar echoes offshore kind of

813
00:29:53,269 --> 00:29:51,919
slowly tracking toward the land mass

814
00:29:55,190 --> 00:29:53,279
that's going to be similar to what we

815
00:29:57,990 --> 00:29:55,200
see tomorrow so some light that green is

816
00:30:00,710 --> 00:29:58,000
rain showers now the infrared imagery

817
00:30:03,110 --> 00:30:00,720
the color the color cloud the colored

818
00:30:05,590 --> 00:30:03,120
enhanced clouds are deep convection all

819
00:30:08,389 --> 00:30:05,600
that activity is well to the west texas

820
00:30:10,950 --> 00:30:08,399
central united states frontal system as

821
00:30:12,710 --> 00:30:10,960
well to the north the visual satellite

822
00:30:14,789 --> 00:30:12,720
imagery is what you're seeing there the

823
00:30:17,430 --> 00:30:14,799
the brighter white clouds just off the

824
00:30:19,269 --> 00:30:17,440
spaceport that's that'll be similar to

825
00:30:22,070 --> 00:30:19,279
tomorrow's what we'll see we'll see a

826
00:30:24,950 --> 00:30:22,080
few isolated rain showers in the area

827
00:30:28,070 --> 00:30:24,960
some of those rain showers could grow to

828
00:30:30,710 --> 00:30:28,080
violate the cumulus cloud rule but the

829
00:30:32,870 --> 00:30:30,720
just the widely scattered nature of the

830
00:30:34,149 --> 00:30:32,880
activity i'm not really expecting too

831
00:30:35,669 --> 00:30:34,159
much

832
00:30:37,669 --> 00:30:35,679
of a chance and we'll get to the

833
00:30:42,549 --> 00:30:37,679
probabilities here so getting to the

834
00:30:47,190 --> 00:30:44,630
so for the primary day we're looking at

835
00:30:49,430 --> 00:30:47,200
easterly winds at 11 knots temperature

836
00:30:51,990 --> 00:30:49,440
range is going to be 75 to 76 degrees

837
00:30:54,789 --> 00:30:52,000
fahrenheit and again the concern would

838
00:30:57,269 --> 00:30:54,799
be the cumulus cloud rule basically that

839
00:30:59,669 --> 00:30:57,279
is a standoff distances based on the

840
00:31:01,909 --> 00:30:59,679
height of the cloud the cumulus clouds

841
00:31:04,389 --> 00:31:01,919
it could be a standoff distance

842
00:31:05,669 --> 00:31:04,399
of 10 nautical miles 5 nautical miles

843
00:31:07,750 --> 00:31:05,679
and then we have

844
00:31:09,990 --> 00:31:07,760
there is a portion of that rule flying

845
00:31:12,549 --> 00:31:10,000
through the cumulus cloud that would be

846
00:31:14,470 --> 00:31:12,559
the concern for the primary day but the

847
00:31:16,149 --> 00:31:14,480
probability of violating

848
00:31:18,870 --> 00:31:16,159
the rule or any

849
00:31:20,470 --> 00:31:18,880
violation for primary day is 10 percent

850
00:31:22,389 --> 00:31:20,480
so we're looking at a very so

851
00:31:24,630 --> 00:31:22,399
probability violation is 10 so looking

852
00:31:27,110 --> 00:31:24,640
at very good good chance to launch if we

853
00:31:29,430 --> 00:31:27,120
do see some violation in the count

854
00:31:30,950 --> 00:31:29,440
probably will be on the order of 15 to

855
00:31:33,430 --> 00:31:30,960
20 minutes and the shower will pass

856
00:31:35,909 --> 00:31:33,440
through so it should be very nice so for

857
00:31:38,310 --> 00:31:35,919
the 24-hour delay forecast

858
00:31:41,110 --> 00:31:38,320
very similar although tropical moisture

859
00:31:43,669 --> 00:31:41,120
is is trying to creep into southern

860
00:31:45,350 --> 00:31:43,679
florida on the the backup day but it

861
00:31:47,509 --> 00:31:45,360
should not affect us here in central

862
00:31:50,389 --> 00:31:47,519
florida so we should be looking at very

863
00:31:52,070 --> 00:31:50,399
similar conditions maybe some just very

864
00:31:53,029 --> 00:31:52,080
slightly stronger winds into the mid

865
00:31:57,750 --> 00:31:53,039
teens

866
00:31:59,909 --> 00:31:57,760
probability of violating is also again

867
00:32:01,909 --> 00:31:59,919
10 percent with the primary concern

868
00:32:03,750 --> 00:32:01,919
cumulus cloud rule

869
00:32:05,590 --> 00:32:03,760
that pretty much concludes the weather

870
00:32:07,590 --> 00:32:05,600
portion of the briefing then

871
00:32:08,549 --> 00:32:07,600
back to you george all right thank you

872
00:32:11,029 --> 00:32:08,559
dave

873
00:32:13,269 --> 00:32:11,039
and we're ready now to take questions

874
00:32:15,269 --> 00:32:13,279
please give your name and affiliation

875
00:32:17,509 --> 00:32:15,279
when the microphone comes to you and

876
00:32:19,750 --> 00:32:17,519
we'll start here in the front with bill

877
00:32:22,070 --> 00:32:19,760
bill harwood cbs for vern can you give

878
00:32:23,669 --> 00:32:22,080
us a little more detail on

879
00:32:25,430 --> 00:32:23,679
the hydraulic hose issue and what

880
00:32:27,190 --> 00:32:25,440
happened to you guys that kind of got in

881
00:32:28,710 --> 00:32:27,200
the way of the launch in march and what

882
00:32:30,710 --> 00:32:28,720
you did to fix it

883
00:32:32,630 --> 00:32:30,720
yeah we were uh i think the last time we

884
00:32:34,870 --> 00:32:32,640
talked we were targeting a march 19th

885
00:32:36,310 --> 00:32:34,880
launch and we had two hydraulic issues

886
00:32:37,509 --> 00:32:36,320
come up that we had to work through one

887
00:32:40,230 --> 00:32:37,519
of them was on

888
00:32:42,950 --> 00:32:40,240
some of our support gse and the other

889
00:32:45,590 --> 00:32:42,960
one was on an engine component so

890
00:32:47,190 --> 00:32:45,600
actually replacing those components was

891
00:32:49,350 --> 00:32:47,200
uh it didn't take a lot of time that's

892
00:32:51,190 --> 00:32:49,360
kind of the easy part the harder part is

893
00:32:52,870 --> 00:32:51,200
doing a very very thorough

894
00:32:55,029 --> 00:32:52,880
anomaly investigation to make sure that

895
00:32:57,590 --> 00:32:55,039
you understand you know what happened to

896
00:32:58,950 --> 00:32:57,600
those components why did they fail and

897
00:33:00,630 --> 00:32:58,960
is there anything we need to do to make

898
00:33:02,310 --> 00:33:00,640
sure that it won't happen again that

899
00:33:04,389 --> 00:33:02,320
took a little bit more time but we did

900
00:33:07,990 --> 00:33:04,399
successfully get through that

901
00:33:09,509 --> 00:33:08,000
i can't go into a lot of detail um on

902
00:33:11,190 --> 00:33:09,519
the engine components themselves because

903
00:33:15,509 --> 00:33:11,200
of the the proprietary nature of that

904
00:33:17,430 --> 00:33:15,519
data but again it was a gsc issue and a

905
00:33:20,230 --> 00:33:17,440
separate unrelated

906
00:33:21,350 --> 00:33:20,240
uh issue on the the vehicle itself so we

907
00:33:22,950 --> 00:33:21,360
had two

908
00:33:24,470 --> 00:33:22,960
back-to-back issues actually three that

909
00:33:27,509 --> 00:33:24,480
we had to work through all related to

910
00:33:30,950 --> 00:33:29,350
uh i understand but i don't understand

911
00:33:32,230 --> 00:33:30,960
why it's proprietary if it with the

912
00:33:33,909 --> 00:33:32,240
hydraulic system just to give us some

913
00:33:35,909 --> 00:33:33,919
general idea of what the problem was why

914
00:33:37,430 --> 00:33:35,919
is that proprietary i'm not asking for

915
00:33:39,110 --> 00:33:37,440
facts and figures i'm just trying to

916
00:33:40,310 --> 00:33:39,120
understand what broke

917
00:33:42,149 --> 00:33:40,320
my understanding was quick disconnect

918
00:33:43,590 --> 00:33:42,159
fittings of bellows and then you had

919
00:33:45,190 --> 00:33:43,600
some fatigue issues and then can you at

920
00:33:47,669 --> 00:33:45,200
least explain some of that yeah there

921
00:33:50,710 --> 00:33:47,679
was uh there there was a uh a hydraulic

922
00:33:53,669 --> 00:33:50,720
line on the vehicle it was a return line

923
00:33:55,669 --> 00:33:53,679
that uh there was a small uh

924
00:33:57,190 --> 00:33:55,679
section of it that developed a leak that

925
00:33:58,389 --> 00:33:57,200
we had to replace

926
00:33:59,350 --> 00:33:58,399
and then uh

927
00:34:02,230 --> 00:33:59,360
on the

928
00:34:04,310 --> 00:34:02,240
ground side i'm not an expert in exactly

929
00:34:06,310 --> 00:34:04,320
what our hydraulic gse looks like but

930
00:34:07,669 --> 00:34:06,320
there was uh some sort of a return

931
00:34:11,669 --> 00:34:07,679
mechanism on that that had to be

932
00:34:17,349 --> 00:34:13,349
marcia

933
00:34:19,669 --> 00:34:17,359
probably vern but i'd like to hear more

934
00:34:22,389 --> 00:34:19,679
about the camera set up for launch for

935
00:34:25,909 --> 00:34:22,399
the 360 degree view

936
00:34:27,349 --> 00:34:25,919
for uh live on tv can you explain

937
00:34:29,430 --> 00:34:27,359
you know where's the camera how's it

938
00:34:31,349 --> 00:34:29,440
going to work how difficult was it to

939
00:34:34,710 --> 00:34:31,359
gear up like that and how exciting is it

940
00:34:37,030 --> 00:34:34,720
to be able to to do this

941
00:34:38,869 --> 00:34:37,040
i don't have any details on that myself

942
00:34:40,310 --> 00:34:38,879
but i think as soon as we're done here i

943
00:34:41,909 --> 00:34:40,320
can i might be able to connect you with

944
00:34:45,510 --> 00:34:41,919
some other folks in the room who are

945
00:34:49,750 --> 00:34:47,430
are you guys excited about

946
00:34:52,389 --> 00:34:49,760
displaying the launch like this can you

947
00:34:54,389 --> 00:34:52,399
at least address that part oh it's it's

948
00:34:56,710 --> 00:34:54,399
great i mean to to be able to to get in

949
00:34:57,589 --> 00:34:56,720
there and experience that 360 degree

950
00:34:59,589 --> 00:34:57,599
view

951
00:35:01,349 --> 00:34:59,599
um you know combining it with the you

952
00:35:03,270 --> 00:35:01,359
know the oculus rift

953
00:35:05,109 --> 00:35:03,280
goggles and things like that it's uh it

954
00:35:06,390 --> 00:35:05,119
really gives you a new perspective that

955
00:35:07,510 --> 00:35:06,400
we've never been able to do before we've

956
00:35:11,910 --> 00:35:07,520
only been able to do that the last

957
00:35:17,670 --> 00:35:14,829
all right right back here

958
00:35:18,870 --> 00:35:17,680
on uh chris gubhart with nasa space

959
00:35:21,349 --> 00:35:18,880
flight um

960
00:35:22,870 --> 00:35:21,359
in terms of um the delay when when

961
00:35:24,390 --> 00:35:22,880
cygnus stayed atop the atlas was there

962
00:35:26,150 --> 00:35:24,400
anything you had to do to accommodate

963
00:35:28,310 --> 00:35:26,160
any of the payloads in there or any of

964
00:35:30,630 --> 00:35:28,320
the late stow items

965
00:35:32,790 --> 00:35:30,640
no we didn't have to make any changes um

966
00:35:33,990 --> 00:35:32,800
thanks for asking uh but we worked

967
00:35:36,069 --> 00:35:34,000
closely with nasa to make sure

968
00:35:38,630 --> 00:35:36,079
everything was uh going to be good to go

969
00:35:41,430 --> 00:35:38,640
uh all the way through april uh they did

970
00:35:43,829 --> 00:35:41,440
some additional analysis and and um

971
00:35:45,910 --> 00:35:43,839
so we didn't have to repack or restow

972
00:35:47,030 --> 00:35:45,920
anything so it's still the same payloads

973
00:35:49,910 --> 00:35:47,040
and they're all in good shape they've

974
00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:49,920
been powered since we loaded them

975
00:35:54,230 --> 00:35:52,160
um and for tara in terms of the heat

976
00:35:56,150 --> 00:35:54,240
shield test you monitor or you mentioned

977
00:35:57,829 --> 00:35:56,160
for reentry is that live telemetry

978
00:36:00,069 --> 00:35:57,839
downlink or is anything planned to be

979
00:36:02,150 --> 00:36:00,079
recovered from that that is a good

980
00:36:03,430 --> 00:36:02,160
question i'm not entirely sure about

981
00:36:04,630 --> 00:36:03,440
that um

982
00:36:05,990 --> 00:36:04,640
i'll have to check on that and get back

983
00:36:08,230 --> 00:36:06,000
with you if you don't mind stick around

984
00:36:10,829 --> 00:36:08,240
afterwards

985
00:36:18,550 --> 00:36:10,839
okay let's come up here ken cramer i

986
00:36:23,589 --> 00:36:20,870
thank you um ken kramer universe today

987
00:36:25,990 --> 00:36:23,599
northeast astronomy forum for uh frank

988
00:36:27,270 --> 00:36:26,000
and tara frank first could you could you

989
00:36:29,510 --> 00:36:27,280
talk a little bit more about the

990
00:36:31,829 --> 00:36:29,520
personal meaning of john glenn to you

991
00:36:35,109 --> 00:36:31,839
okay for this mission and a lot of that

992
00:36:37,430 --> 00:36:35,119
work tara was related to um his work on

993
00:36:38,870 --> 00:36:37,440
the shuttle uh the aging process you

994
00:36:40,470 --> 00:36:38,880
discussed it a little bit i wonder if

995
00:36:41,270 --> 00:36:40,480
you could talk a little bit more whether

996
00:36:42,230 --> 00:36:41,280
this

997
00:36:44,150 --> 00:36:42,240
uh

998
00:36:46,950 --> 00:36:44,160
amplify more on the aging process

999
00:36:48,870 --> 00:36:46,960
experiments you have perhaps on this

1000
00:36:50,790 --> 00:36:48,880
flight thank you

1001
00:36:52,150 --> 00:36:50,800
well my first exposure to john glenn was

1002
00:36:55,430 --> 00:36:52,160
when i was in

1003
00:36:57,030 --> 00:36:55,440
i won't tell you what grade but uh our

1004
00:36:59,510 --> 00:36:57,040
principal let us go across the street to

1005
00:37:02,710 --> 00:36:59,520
henry's house to watch the uh the launch

1006
00:37:04,310 --> 00:37:02,720
of john glenn on freedom 7 in february

1007
00:37:06,710 --> 00:37:04,320
of 1962.

1008
00:37:08,069 --> 00:37:06,720
very exciting day for me and i remember

1009
00:37:10,470 --> 00:37:08,079
thinking that would really be a lot of

1010
00:37:12,950 --> 00:37:10,480
fun i'd love to be a part of that

1011
00:37:15,750 --> 00:37:12,960
and so that was my earliest inspiration

1012
00:37:17,030 --> 00:37:15,760
of actually thinking maybe someone in

1013
00:37:18,230 --> 00:37:17,040
this country could grow up to be an

1014
00:37:21,829 --> 00:37:18,240
astronaut because i knew we were going

1015
00:37:23,990 --> 00:37:21,839
to go further and faster and we did

1016
00:37:26,150 --> 00:37:24,000
i've followed john glenn's career of

1017
00:37:28,150 --> 00:37:26,160
course over the years

1018
00:37:29,829 --> 00:37:28,160
met him several times i was very excited

1019
00:37:31,829 --> 00:37:29,839
when he came back to johnson space

1020
00:37:33,990 --> 00:37:31,839
center to train for his mission on the

1021
00:37:36,630 --> 00:37:34,000
on the space shuttle

1022
00:37:39,030 --> 00:37:36,640
and he was fantastic to work with then

1023
00:37:40,790 --> 00:37:39,040
um he and his family were

1024
00:37:43,750 --> 00:37:40,800
great to have around and and i've seen

1025
00:37:45,190 --> 00:37:43,760
him many times since he flew uh i'm i'm

1026
00:37:46,710 --> 00:37:45,200
sad that he's gone but he's lived a

1027
00:37:47,990 --> 00:37:46,720
really full life and he's provided

1028
00:37:50,470 --> 00:37:48,000
inspiration to

1029
00:37:51,670 --> 00:37:50,480
a couple of generations of of american

1030
00:37:53,589 --> 00:37:51,680
men and women

1031
00:37:56,390 --> 00:37:53,599
uh and i also want to point out that

1032
00:37:58,950 --> 00:37:56,400
he's still older than i am now when he

1033
00:38:01,510 --> 00:37:58,960
went back on the shuttle so

1034
00:38:05,750 --> 00:38:02,390
that's

1035
00:38:07,109 --> 00:38:05,760
wow yeah so thanks for asking um

1036
00:38:09,030 --> 00:38:07,119
so

1037
00:38:11,109 --> 00:38:09,040
interestingly with regard to aging our

1038
00:38:13,030 --> 00:38:11,119
astronaut population seems to to

1039
00:38:14,710 --> 00:38:13,040
represent kind of an accelerated model

1040
00:38:16,710 --> 00:38:14,720
of aging so to speak that's how we kind

1041
00:38:19,910 --> 00:38:16,720
of internally refer to it

1042
00:38:21,349 --> 00:38:19,920
yeah you're you're doing okay though so

1043
00:38:23,190 --> 00:38:21,359
you're you're i think you're aging

1044
00:38:24,790 --> 00:38:23,200
backwards yeah that's that earlier i was

1045
00:38:26,230 --> 00:38:24,800
going to comment on that

1046
00:38:29,270 --> 00:38:26,240
[Music]

1047
00:38:32,630 --> 00:38:29,280
but um with regard to uh this particular

1048
00:38:35,190 --> 00:38:32,640
investigation that i mentioned earlier

1049
00:38:37,910 --> 00:38:35,200
this is going to be sending up a

1050
00:38:40,470 --> 00:38:37,920
synthetic telomere set solution and so

1051
00:38:42,069 --> 00:38:40,480
the telomeres are at you know the end

1052
00:38:43,589 --> 00:38:42,079
caps of your chromosome and with every

1053
00:38:44,870 --> 00:38:43,599
cell division as we get older are

1054
00:38:45,910 --> 00:38:44,880
constantly our cells are constantly

1055
00:38:48,069 --> 00:38:45,920
dividing

1056
00:38:50,870 --> 00:38:48,079
those get shorter those telomere lengths

1057
00:38:53,030 --> 00:38:50,880
get shorter so uh it's associated with

1058
00:38:55,750 --> 00:38:53,040
aging it's part of just who we are and

1059
00:38:58,310 --> 00:38:55,760
how we age associated with health some

1060
00:39:00,550 --> 00:38:58,320
cardiovascular diseases and and such

1061
00:39:01,670 --> 00:39:00,560
when things go strange

1062
00:39:03,430 --> 00:39:01,680
and so

1063
00:39:05,750 --> 00:39:03,440
this particular set is really just going

1064
00:39:08,150 --> 00:39:05,760
to send up synthetic telomeres and look

1065
00:39:10,150 --> 00:39:08,160
at how they heat them up on orbit

1066
00:39:11,990 --> 00:39:10,160
get the samples home and just make sure

1067
00:39:14,630 --> 00:39:12,000
the technology and the system is

1068
00:39:17,190 --> 00:39:14,640
amplifying the dna associated with those

1069
00:39:18,870 --> 00:39:17,200
so that first step in and then us being

1070
00:39:21,349 --> 00:39:18,880
able to take that further and study that

1071
00:39:23,430 --> 00:39:21,359
molecular process of aging or stress or

1072
00:39:25,270 --> 00:39:23,440
or radiation effects and what it might

1073
00:39:26,790 --> 00:39:25,280
mean to our astronauts health in it and

1074
00:39:29,670 --> 00:39:26,800
of course uh it'll tell us something

1075
00:39:31,910 --> 00:39:29,680
about our own aging process too um and

1076
00:39:34,230 --> 00:39:31,920
the larger picture um with the our

1077
00:39:36,069 --> 00:39:34,240
astronauts and and the aging process we

1078
00:39:38,150 --> 00:39:36,079
look at things like um impacts on the

1079
00:39:41,430 --> 00:39:38,160
immune system uh some of the immune

1080
00:39:43,190 --> 00:39:41,440
system is showing uh similarities to

1081
00:39:45,990 --> 00:39:43,200
what we see in our aging population on

1082
00:39:48,470 --> 00:39:46,000
earth so we develop studies that look at

1083
00:39:49,510 --> 00:39:48,480
different sets of behavior in the immune

1084
00:39:51,430 --> 00:39:49,520
system

1085
00:39:53,109 --> 00:39:51,440
so we can keep our crew healthy but also

1086
00:39:54,069 --> 00:39:53,119
bring that information back to us on

1087
00:39:56,069 --> 00:39:54,079
earth

1088
00:39:57,670 --> 00:39:56,079
the bones are the big ones i think most

1089
00:39:59,910 --> 00:39:57,680
everybody can relate to that as we get

1090
00:40:02,310 --> 00:39:59,920
older our bones tend to get weaker and

1091
00:40:05,030 --> 00:40:02,320
you know we see things like osteoporosis

1092
00:40:07,589 --> 00:40:05,040
and our astronaut population um just

1093
00:40:09,510 --> 00:40:07,599
they if they did no exercise and no

1094
00:40:10,710 --> 00:40:09,520
counter measures no protection for bones

1095
00:40:13,589 --> 00:40:10,720
as it is

1096
00:40:15,270 --> 00:40:13,599
they would lose bone mass uh bone mass

1097
00:40:17,349 --> 00:40:15,280
at a rate of about one to two percent

1098
00:40:19,510 --> 00:40:17,359
per month which is more than that of a

1099
00:40:21,670 --> 00:40:19,520
post-menopausal woman

1100
00:40:23,910 --> 00:40:21,680
and so uh we have learned over the past

1101
00:40:27,270 --> 00:40:23,920
few years now how to combat the bone

1102
00:40:29,109 --> 00:40:27,280
mineral loss and maintain density we do

1103
00:40:30,630 --> 00:40:29,119
know that there's still bone turnover in

1104
00:40:32,630 --> 00:40:30,640
space and that's normal for all of us

1105
00:40:35,030 --> 00:40:32,640
but as and even as we age our bone will

1106
00:40:38,230 --> 00:40:35,040
break down and rebuild and it keeps our

1107
00:40:40,309 --> 00:40:38,240
bones and our bones strong um but we

1108
00:40:42,790 --> 00:40:40,319
have learned that if the crew keeps up

1109
00:40:45,109 --> 00:40:42,800
their resistive exercise they're kind of

1110
00:40:46,950 --> 00:40:45,119
weight lifting so to speak on orbit and

1111
00:40:48,470 --> 00:40:46,960
they take all the vitamin d big doses

1112
00:40:51,030 --> 00:40:48,480
that we give them and eat all their

1113
00:40:52,870 --> 00:40:51,040
calories they were able to maintain bone

1114
00:40:54,550 --> 00:40:52,880
mineral density which is interesting and

1115
00:40:55,910 --> 00:40:54,560
it's a first now we don't know yet about

1116
00:40:57,349 --> 00:40:55,920
the structure of that bone because it's

1117
00:40:59,349 --> 00:40:57,359
constantly rebuilding but those are the

1118
00:41:01,430 --> 00:40:59,359
next steps in research and that's an

1119
00:41:03,829 --> 00:41:01,440
example of information that you can take

1120
00:41:05,750 --> 00:41:03,839
back to earth and reiterate to the aging

1121
00:41:08,069 --> 00:41:05,760
population here is keep up your

1122
00:41:09,750 --> 00:41:08,079
resistive exercise eat the calories eat

1123
00:41:11,349 --> 00:41:09,760
nutrition take your vitamin d as you

1124
00:41:13,030 --> 00:41:11,359
talk to your doctors some of you may

1125
00:41:14,470 --> 00:41:13,040
have heard this before

1126
00:41:16,150 --> 00:41:14,480
we also

1127
00:41:18,950 --> 00:41:16,160
think about when i go back to the

1128
00:41:20,630 --> 00:41:18,960
telomere study you know telomeres i

1129
00:41:22,710 --> 00:41:20,640
mentioned they shortened interestingly

1130
00:41:25,190 --> 00:41:22,720
uh the twin study that was done uh when

1131
00:41:27,349 --> 00:41:25,200
mark kelly when the kelly brothers kelly

1132
00:41:28,950 --> 00:41:27,359
was in space scott was in space and uh

1133
00:41:31,510 --> 00:41:28,960
mark kelly was compared on the ground

1134
00:41:33,510 --> 00:41:31,520
they looked at the tilley mirrors

1135
00:41:35,670 --> 00:41:33,520
for both of them and interestingly and

1136
00:41:37,750 --> 00:41:35,680
strangely enough preliminarily it looked

1137
00:41:40,390 --> 00:41:37,760
like scots telling you telomeres were

1138
00:41:41,670 --> 00:41:40,400
actually lengthening which is completely

1139
00:41:43,349 --> 00:41:41,680
unexpected and again it's still

1140
00:41:45,910 --> 00:41:43,359
preliminary and the researchers are kind

1141
00:41:48,150 --> 00:41:45,920
of scratching their heads at that um

1142
00:41:49,510 --> 00:41:48,160
and so as soon as he stabilized on earth

1143
00:41:51,829 --> 00:41:49,520
for a little bit longer the telomeres

1144
00:41:53,109 --> 00:41:51,839
returned to where we would expect so

1145
00:41:54,870 --> 00:41:53,119
again lots of interesting things

1146
00:41:57,030 --> 00:41:54,880
happening at the molecular level aging

1147
00:41:58,950 --> 00:41:57,040
wise there's a whole lot going on inside

1148
00:42:00,230 --> 00:41:58,960
the bodies of the astronauts that we

1149
00:42:02,069 --> 00:42:00,240
take advantage of working with the

1150
00:42:04,069 --> 00:42:02,079
scientists to make sure that we gain

1151
00:42:05,670 --> 00:42:04,079
information gain insight into what's

1152
00:42:07,109 --> 00:42:05,680
really going on so we can make sure that

1153
00:42:09,190 --> 00:42:07,119
the public benefits here on earth as

1154
00:42:10,870 --> 00:42:09,200
well

1155
00:42:13,349 --> 00:42:10,880
all right we have a question right here

1156
00:42:15,750 --> 00:42:13,359
rick lasby with wfit i guess this is a

1157
00:42:18,390 --> 00:42:15,760
question for tara regarding the cubesats

1158
00:42:21,030 --> 00:42:18,400
are they deployed from the space station

1159
00:42:23,270 --> 00:42:21,040
or from the cygnus good question so i

1160
00:42:25,190 --> 00:42:23,280
think uh let's see

1161
00:42:27,829 --> 00:42:25,200
all but

1162
00:42:30,630 --> 00:42:27,839
so 34 will be deployed from the kibo

1163
00:42:32,790 --> 00:42:30,640
airlock on space station and the other

1164
00:42:34,950 --> 00:42:32,800
four will be deployed from cygnus as

1165
00:42:36,790 --> 00:42:34,960
cygnus leaves and it'll

1166
00:42:38,470 --> 00:42:36,800
enter a higher altitude of about 500

1167
00:42:39,670 --> 00:42:38,480
kilometers and those four will be

1168
00:42:42,069 --> 00:42:39,680
deployed

1169
00:42:48,710 --> 00:42:44,230
yeah we have a question up front here on

1170
00:42:52,790 --> 00:42:50,630
i'm jim siegel i'm with the celebration

1171
00:42:55,750 --> 00:42:52,800
independent and with space flight

1172
00:42:59,190 --> 00:42:55,760
insider i have a question for tara about

1173
00:43:01,430 --> 00:42:59,200
the advanced plant habitat experiments i

1174
00:43:03,030 --> 00:43:01,440
asked you about this a couple of times

1175
00:43:05,510 --> 00:43:03,040
ago

1176
00:43:07,829 --> 00:43:05,520
i'm interested in what what is unique or

1177
00:43:11,430 --> 00:43:07,839
different about the habitat that is

1178
00:43:13,109 --> 00:43:11,440
going up now will the astronauts consume

1179
00:43:15,349 --> 00:43:13,119
some of the plants that are going to be

1180
00:43:17,190 --> 00:43:15,359
grown and do some of the plants come

1181
00:43:18,390 --> 00:43:17,200
back to earth for further study or how

1182
00:43:21,190 --> 00:43:18,400
does that work

1183
00:43:23,270 --> 00:43:21,200
okay so the unique parts about the

1184
00:43:26,309 --> 00:43:23,280
advanced plant habitat is it will be the

1185
00:43:28,230 --> 00:43:26,319
largest production facility for plants

1186
00:43:30,710 --> 00:43:28,240
ever on the space station so it's going

1187
00:43:32,550 --> 00:43:30,720
to be able to grow larger plants and

1188
00:43:33,589 --> 00:43:32,560
larger plants lead to

1189
00:43:35,030 --> 00:43:33,599
things like

1190
00:43:37,430 --> 00:43:35,040
food production

1191
00:43:39,030 --> 00:43:37,440
kind of crops initially

1192
00:43:41,030 --> 00:43:39,040
this will be used for science because we

1193
00:43:43,430 --> 00:43:41,040
want to evaluate the efficacy of the

1194
00:43:45,190 --> 00:43:43,440
hardware so

1195
00:43:47,349 --> 00:43:45,200
let's see aph

1196
00:43:49,030 --> 00:43:47,359
the advanced plan habitat can control

1197
00:43:52,470 --> 00:43:49,040
different lighting conditions it can

1198
00:43:55,589 --> 00:43:52,480
control relative humidity temperature

1199
00:43:57,510 --> 00:43:55,599
carbon dioxide exchange

1200
00:43:59,349 --> 00:43:57,520
let's see lots of other things i'm sure

1201
00:44:00,710 --> 00:43:59,359
that the scientists know at a very

1202
00:44:02,870 --> 00:44:00,720
detailed level

1203
00:44:05,670 --> 00:44:02,880
the watering system is controllable and

1204
00:44:08,069 --> 00:44:05,680
that's really important and again being

1205
00:44:09,990 --> 00:44:08,079
able to grow large crops now initially

1206
00:44:11,670 --> 00:44:10,000
with the wheat and the arabidopsis we

1207
00:44:13,109 --> 00:44:11,680
were we're going to look at them from a

1208
00:44:15,430 --> 00:44:13,119
scientific standpoint we'll want to

1209
00:44:16,950 --> 00:44:15,440
return the samples uh so that we can

1210
00:44:19,190 --> 00:44:16,960
study them and make sure that there's

1211
00:44:20,630 --> 00:44:19,200
nothing interestingly different going on

1212
00:44:22,470 --> 00:44:20,640
there with that habitat making sure it's

1213
00:44:25,349 --> 00:44:22,480
supposed to do what it's supposed to do

1214
00:44:27,349 --> 00:44:25,359
and then um i and then the first science

1215
00:44:29,030 --> 00:44:27,359
that's going to happen in november

1216
00:44:31,190 --> 00:44:29,040
that's been awarded will be again a

1217
00:44:33,670 --> 00:44:31,200
scientific study i believe using

1218
00:44:36,069 --> 00:44:33,680
arabidopsis which is a model organism

1219
00:44:38,309 --> 00:44:36,079
and eventually as we

1220
00:44:41,109 --> 00:44:38,319
learn to understand how this habitat

1221
00:44:42,069 --> 00:44:41,119
functions i'd imagine we will evolve

1222
00:44:44,470 --> 00:44:42,079
into

1223
00:44:46,390 --> 00:44:44,480
crops i don't know and kind of edible

1224
00:44:48,230 --> 00:44:46,400
foods i don't know what the schedule is

1225
00:44:49,829 --> 00:44:48,240
for this yet though and so i'm not quite

1226
00:44:51,910 --> 00:44:49,839
sure when the crew is going to be

1227
00:44:53,670 --> 00:44:51,920
allowed to sample them i know when we

1228
00:44:55,430 --> 00:44:53,680
went through the veggie system the

1229
00:44:57,430 --> 00:44:55,440
hardware system the crew was not allowed

1230
00:44:59,510 --> 00:44:57,440
to sample the first crop it was supposed

1231
00:45:01,109 --> 00:44:59,520
to return home and it did so that we can

1232
00:45:03,589 --> 00:45:01,119
ensure you know there's microbial

1233
00:45:05,349 --> 00:45:03,599
communities that are part of plants and

1234
00:45:07,270 --> 00:45:05,359
could be affected by microgravity the

1235
00:45:08,870 --> 00:45:07,280
nutrition levels scientists want to

1236
00:45:11,349 --> 00:45:08,880
figure all that out before we let the

1237
00:45:12,630 --> 00:45:11,359
they just let the crew eat it so i i

1238
00:45:15,430 --> 00:45:12,640
imagine it's going to be a little bit of

1239
00:45:17,030 --> 00:45:15,440
an evolution on this hardware before but

1240
00:45:19,910 --> 00:45:17,040
i know when the crew eats it it's going

1241
00:45:21,109 --> 00:45:19,920
to be big news because it always is

1242
00:45:23,349 --> 00:45:21,119
lots of photos

1243
00:45:27,750 --> 00:45:23,359
no free range astronauts nah i mean and

1244
00:45:30,550 --> 00:45:29,190
all right we have a follow-up question

1245
00:45:32,309 --> 00:45:30,560
right here left

1246
00:45:33,990 --> 00:45:32,319
um chris got with nasa space flight

1247
00:45:36,309 --> 00:45:34,000
again uh for joel and i think maybe

1248
00:45:37,910 --> 00:45:36,319
frank too um the first question is i

1249
00:45:39,270 --> 00:45:37,920
think there was an eva earlier this

1250
00:45:40,950 --> 00:45:39,280
month that had to be delayed because

1251
00:45:42,710 --> 00:45:40,960
there's a component on cygnus that was

1252
00:45:44,790 --> 00:45:42,720
needed for it so i'm wondering what the

1253
00:45:46,710 --> 00:45:44,800
preliminary timeline is for that eva

1254
00:45:48,870 --> 00:45:46,720
assuming nominal

1255
00:45:50,309 --> 00:45:48,880
birthing this weekend and

1256
00:45:52,870 --> 00:45:50,319
how much additional up mass were you

1257
00:45:55,109 --> 00:45:52,880
able to get on oa7 by switching it to

1258
00:45:56,950 --> 00:45:55,119
the atlas v

1259
00:45:58,790 --> 00:45:56,960
so let's see on the first

1260
00:46:00,470 --> 00:45:58,800
question it was the express pellet

1261
00:46:03,190 --> 00:46:00,480
controller assembly that was in this

1262
00:46:05,109 --> 00:46:03,200
vehicle and so we're going to right now

1263
00:46:07,750 --> 00:46:05,119
we're targeting may 12th

1264
00:46:10,390 --> 00:46:07,760
for the next eva with jack fisher and

1265
00:46:12,950 --> 00:46:10,400
peggy whitson going outside

1266
00:46:14,470 --> 00:46:12,960
this was you know a risk that we had

1267
00:46:17,990 --> 00:46:14,480
discussed when we were planning the

1268
00:46:20,550 --> 00:46:18,000
triple evas from a uh a crew standpoint

1269
00:46:23,030 --> 00:46:20,560
not not really an issue we'll just wait

1270
00:46:24,630 --> 00:46:23,040
for the the oa7 hardware give the crew

1271
00:46:27,190 --> 00:46:24,640
some time to get on board get the new

1272
00:46:30,150 --> 00:46:27,200
soyuz crew on board and uh but right now

1273
00:46:31,750 --> 00:46:30,160
we're targeting for may 12th

1274
00:46:33,430 --> 00:46:31,760
and i'm sure peggy's really complaining

1275
00:46:36,309 --> 00:46:33,440
about that yes

1276
00:46:38,230 --> 00:46:36,319
the extra time but uh in terms of uh

1277
00:46:39,829 --> 00:46:38,240
additional up mass on this one we added

1278
00:46:41,349 --> 00:46:39,839
about 300 kilograms to what we had

1279
00:46:43,190 --> 00:46:41,359
originally been planning

1280
00:46:45,270 --> 00:46:43,200
on this one and we're continuing to

1281
00:46:47,510 --> 00:46:45,280
increase our up mass that we can carry

1282
00:46:49,190 --> 00:46:47,520
on both antares and atlas going forward

1283
00:46:50,630 --> 00:46:49,200
so that we can keep up with the demand

1284
00:46:52,230 --> 00:46:50,640
on the station

1285
00:46:54,069 --> 00:46:52,240
i also want to say i really appreciate

1286
00:46:55,270 --> 00:46:54,079
all of you being here

1287
00:46:57,030 --> 00:46:55,280
being able to

1288
00:46:58,630 --> 00:46:57,040
continue to show what we're doing in

1289
00:47:00,790 --> 00:46:58,640
space is really important and you all

1290
00:47:02,230 --> 00:47:00,800
make it happen and i really appreciate

1291
00:47:03,829 --> 00:47:02,240
the fact that you're asking questions

1292
00:47:05,030 --> 00:47:03,839
about what they're doing in space and

1293
00:47:06,870 --> 00:47:05,040
not just how we're getting there and

1294
00:47:09,510 --> 00:47:06,880
getting back because that's what really

1295
00:47:10,790 --> 00:47:09,520
really counts and i also appreciate dr

1296
00:47:13,510 --> 00:47:10,800
rutley being here to answer all those

1297
00:47:16,390 --> 00:47:13,520
questions so thanks tara

1298
00:47:18,950 --> 00:47:16,400
marsha a follow-up yes marsha done ap

1299
00:47:21,670 --> 00:47:18,960
probably for you frank um besides the

1300
00:47:24,549 --> 00:47:21,680
banner with john glenn's uh

1301
00:47:27,190 --> 00:47:24,559
portrait um do you have any other glenn

1302
00:47:28,790 --> 00:47:27,200
things going up that might you know pay

1303
00:47:31,190 --> 00:47:28,800
tribute to him

1304
00:47:33,190 --> 00:47:31,200
uh we have some some memorabilia for his

1305
00:47:35,270 --> 00:47:33,200
family and uh

1306
00:47:36,549 --> 00:47:35,280
as as we normally do and i do want to

1307
00:47:39,109 --> 00:47:36,559
say that

1308
00:47:41,109 --> 00:47:39,119
i really annie glenn is is an amazing

1309
00:47:42,790 --> 00:47:41,119
person very gracious very strong and i

1310
00:47:45,190 --> 00:47:42,800
really appreciate her giving us

1311
00:47:47,270 --> 00:47:45,200
permission to use john's uh

1312
00:47:49,030 --> 00:47:47,280
name on this this mission it meant a lot

1313
00:47:52,390 --> 00:47:49,040
to us to be able to our team was very

1314
00:47:54,470 --> 00:47:52,400
honored to be able to do that

1315
00:47:56,710 --> 00:47:54,480
by chance are any family members coming

1316
00:47:58,069 --> 00:47:56,720
for the launch uh with the delay i don't

1317
00:47:59,270 --> 00:47:58,079
believe any of them are able to come

1318
00:48:00,549 --> 00:47:59,280
unfortunately

1319
00:48:02,549 --> 00:48:00,559
they're always welcome though we'll get

1320
00:48:03,349 --> 00:48:02,559
them a ticket somehow

1321
00:48:06,549 --> 00:48:03,359
bill

1322
00:48:09,990 --> 00:48:06,559
you give us an update on when you think

1323
00:48:12,790 --> 00:48:10,000
crs 11 might be going for spacex uh

1324
00:48:15,109 --> 00:48:12,800
ballpark uh right now late may so uh

1325
00:48:19,270 --> 00:48:15,119
we're looking at a may 31st launch and a

1326
00:48:23,589 --> 00:48:20,549
all right

1327
00:48:25,349 --> 00:48:23,599
james uh james dean florida today uh for

1328
00:48:27,190 --> 00:48:25,359
either frank or joel perhaps i just

1329
00:48:29,109 --> 00:48:27,200
wonder if he could remind us why atlas

1330
00:48:31,670 --> 00:48:29,119
is the right vehicle for this mission or

1331
00:48:34,470 --> 00:48:31,680
or what the the for for any that that

1332
00:48:37,109 --> 00:48:34,480
you will choose atlas for why why you

1333
00:48:40,870 --> 00:48:37,119
do that and moving looking ahead through

1334
00:48:42,549 --> 00:48:40,880
crs-2 do you think we can expect to see

1335
00:48:44,549 --> 00:48:42,559
roughly the similar breakdown between

1336
00:48:46,069 --> 00:48:44,559
the vehicles or or

1337
00:48:47,910 --> 00:48:46,079
no idea yet

1338
00:48:49,750 --> 00:48:47,920
for this one because there was a

1339
00:48:52,549 --> 00:48:49,760
slightly increased demand for cargo to

1340
00:48:54,069 --> 00:48:52,559
the station sooner rather than later and

1341
00:48:56,069 --> 00:48:54,079
atlas had a

1342
00:48:57,589 --> 00:48:56,079
vehicle available and additional up mass

1343
00:48:59,589 --> 00:48:57,599
available

1344
00:49:01,589 --> 00:48:59,599
we talked to nasa and decided jointly to

1345
00:49:03,109 --> 00:49:01,599
go ahead with the atlas in early spring

1346
00:49:05,430 --> 00:49:03,119
for this one

1347
00:49:07,430 --> 00:49:05,440
antares is being readied right now for

1348
00:49:09,030 --> 00:49:07,440
another launch at wallops

1349
00:49:11,829 --> 00:49:09,040
it could go as early as this summer

1350
00:49:13,430 --> 00:49:11,839
depending on nasa's demand and we as i

1351
00:49:15,829 --> 00:49:13,440
said are continuing to increase the up

1352
00:49:17,829 --> 00:49:15,839
mass capability on that so we can go

1353
00:49:19,510 --> 00:49:17,839
either way depending on uh

1354
00:49:22,630 --> 00:49:19,520
what the pace of the

1355
00:49:25,030 --> 00:49:22,640
of the cargo resupply demand is and and

1356
00:49:26,870 --> 00:49:25,040
the availability of vehicles

1357
00:49:29,910 --> 00:49:26,880
we we're comfortable going either way

1358
00:49:31,750 --> 00:49:29,920
and tyrese of course is is a normal atk

1359
00:49:33,589 --> 00:49:31,760
vehicle so we like flying on that but we

1360
00:49:36,790 --> 00:49:33,599
certainly appreciate the partnership

1361
00:49:39,109 --> 00:49:36,800
with ula on crs 2 uh nasa hasn't

1362
00:49:40,790 --> 00:49:39,119
actually told us exactly which missions

1363
00:49:43,030 --> 00:49:40,800
they'll want on which vehicles and

1364
00:49:44,870 --> 00:49:43,040
that's part of the contract proposal we

1365
00:49:46,790 --> 00:49:44,880
made to them and so we're waiting to see

1366
00:49:48,309 --> 00:49:46,800
which way they'd like for us to to go

1367
00:49:50,710 --> 00:49:48,319
whether it's a mix or

1368
00:49:53,589 --> 00:49:50,720
or all one or the other and we hope to

1369
00:49:55,030 --> 00:49:53,599
hear that pretty soon right joel yes and

1370
00:49:56,390 --> 00:49:55,040
and i'll just add you know have an

1371
00:49:58,870 --> 00:49:56,400
opportunity to launch on different

1372
00:50:00,150 --> 00:49:58,880
vehicles keeps our program robust i mean

1373
00:50:02,069 --> 00:50:00,160
that's

1374
00:50:04,309 --> 00:50:02,079
the ability to keep space station

1375
00:50:06,470 --> 00:50:04,319
utilized keep our crews busy keep the

1376
00:50:08,230 --> 00:50:06,480
science coming keep the research coming

1377
00:50:10,069 --> 00:50:08,240
that having the multiple launch

1378
00:50:11,510 --> 00:50:10,079
opportunities and the more multiple

1379
00:50:13,030 --> 00:50:11,520
launch rockets

1380
00:50:16,790 --> 00:50:13,040
enhances that capability so it's

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something we we like seeing all the time

1382
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[Music]

1383
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um for joel also and maybe for the

1384
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others

1385
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um peggy whitson's missions has been

1386
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extended i wonder if you could talk a

1387
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little bit about that and is there any

1388
00:50:37,270 --> 00:50:34,880
cargo for her

1389
00:50:38,309 --> 00:50:37,280
uh science or otherwise that's going up

1390
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thanks

1391
00:50:43,349 --> 00:50:41,440
okay so um you know when

1392
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as you're well aware that the russians

1393
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had the progress anomaly late last year

1394
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when they sorted out and recovered from

1395
00:50:51,190 --> 00:50:49,200
the anomaly and you laid out all the

1396
00:50:53,990 --> 00:50:51,200
missions there was going to be a

1397
00:50:55,270 --> 00:50:54,000
two-month gap this summer that's partly

1398
00:50:57,030 --> 00:50:55,280
due well

1399
00:50:58,710 --> 00:50:57,040
when the russians also they went to two

1400
00:51:00,150 --> 00:50:58,720
russian crew members from three the two

1401
00:51:02,309 --> 00:51:00,160
russian crew members starting with this

1402
00:51:05,270 --> 00:51:02,319
upcoming soyuz so we worked with our

1403
00:51:07,270 --> 00:51:05,280
russian colleagues to look at

1404
00:51:08,870 --> 00:51:07,280
having the extension of one of the us os

1405
00:51:10,630 --> 00:51:08,880
crew members

1406
00:51:12,790 --> 00:51:10,640
talking you know the benefits of the

1407
00:51:15,430 --> 00:51:12,800
increased research in science the fact

1408
00:51:17,750 --> 00:51:15,440
that gives maintains eva capability on

1409
00:51:18,710 --> 00:51:17,760
the us segment maintains our ability to

1410
00:51:21,910 --> 00:51:18,720
capture

1411
00:51:24,790 --> 00:51:21,920
and unbirth vehicles it was just a

1412
00:51:26,470 --> 00:51:24,800
win-win across the board peggy also has

1413
00:51:28,790 --> 00:51:26,480
well respected by the russian community

1414
00:51:30,790 --> 00:51:28,800
has a lot of experience it's another set

1415
00:51:32,069 --> 00:51:30,800
of hands for them and working with the

1416
00:51:35,829 --> 00:51:32,079
russian colleagues we were able to

1417
00:51:37,829 --> 00:51:35,839
extend her to september so we're excited

1418
00:51:39,829 --> 00:51:37,839
you can't imagine how excited she is i

1419
00:51:41,510 --> 00:51:39,839
think the conversation although i went

1420
00:51:43,109 --> 00:51:41,520
there i'm sure when they didn't get the

1421
00:51:44,790 --> 00:51:43,119
words out of their mouth talking about

1422
00:51:49,990 --> 00:51:44,800
the extension and peggy was i'm ready to

1423
00:51:53,349 --> 00:51:51,990
it looks like you had one more he said

1424
00:51:54,470 --> 00:51:53,359
we'll have a follow you're done all

1425
00:51:56,870 --> 00:51:54,480
right

1426
00:51:58,790 --> 00:51:56,880
any further questions

1427
00:52:01,190 --> 00:51:58,800
all right in that event uh just one

1428
00:52:03,030 --> 00:52:01,200
programming note for uh tomorrow our

1429
00:52:05,829 --> 00:52:03,040
post-launch news conference is now going

1430
00:52:06,790 --> 00:52:05,839
to be scheduled for 2 30 p.m eastern

1431
00:52:08,950 --> 00:52:06,800
time

1432
00:52:10,549 --> 00:52:08,960
and then our launch coverage tomorrow

1433
00:52:12,230 --> 00:52:10,559
starts at

1434
00:52:14,630 --> 00:52:12,240
10 a.m eastern

1435
00:52:17,910 --> 00:52:14,640
and you can also watch that online by

1436
00:52:19,670 --> 00:52:17,920
going to www.nasa.gov

1437
00:52:21,109 --> 00:52:19,680
in tv

1438
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and that will conclude our press