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"Good morning and ohayou gozaimasu for our Japanese media," said commander Mark Kelly. "It's great to be here today. Perfect weather, hopefully its like this on the 31st of May."
"We've got Discovery in the background though its difficult to see from this angle but I can assure you it's there behind the RSS and the other launch structure." "This is a big moment in our training to actually go through a real terminal countdown, in this case a test but to do everything as we are going to do on launch day. And we're going to start doing that tomorrow at about 6 a.m. we wake up and go through that countdown. T-0 tomorrow is at 11 o'clock, so that simulates the time we would liftoff and after that we'll do a practice emergency egress from the pad." "So we're excited to be here, we look forward to getting back in about three weeks from now and I'd like to take any questions you have."
"It's actually a lot different," replied Kelly. "The routine of getting suited up for TCDT or launch is very regimented according to the clock in a certain order." "Myself, Ron and Ken will be getting a weather brief while the rest of the crew initially gets suited up. In the suit room there's even marks on the clock of when we have to be in there, when we have to be leaving, it's all very well choreographed." "When we are in the simulator, and we do a suited ascent or reentry or another kind of run in the simulator, you know, you just show up, put your suit on, you climb in kind of in an order but it's not choreographed as on launch day or TCDT day," he said.
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