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Candrea Thomas/STS-119 Landing Commentator Astronauts are now departing the crew transport vehicle.

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Being greeted by NASA Acting 
Administrator Chris Scolese,

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Associate Administrator for Space Operations Bill Gerstenmaier,

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Deputy Program Manager for the shuttle program Leroy Cain. Astronauts will now walk around space shuttle Discovery.

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Sandy Magnus will stay on the crew transport vehicle back to crew quarters at the

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Operations and Checkout Building while the other six astronauts will be transported back in the Astrovan.

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Commander Lee Archambault talking to Acting NASA Administrator Chris Scolese.

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Michael Kuta/Integrated Landing Operations And at the top of the screen you can see a good view there

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of the flight crew equipment destow vehicle as it docks to the orbiter white room.

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And to the left of the screen, you'll see on the right-hand orbiter maneuvering system, OMS pod.

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Technicians will be installing universal throat-plug assemblies.

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And to the up-firing thrusters on the right-hand OMS pod.

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Destow operations for flight crew equipment payload experiments are continuing in the crew module.

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Orbiter safing operations are continuing with the orbiter test conductor and the spacecraft operator in the crew module.

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And on the runway, the runway protection installation continues,

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as well as forward cups and liners and preparations for towing the vehicle.

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Lee Archambault/STS-119 Commander Hi, 
I'm Lee Archambault from the STS-119 crew

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and we're very happy to be back here in Florida.

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We want to certainly thank all the people at the Kennedy Space Center for

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No. 1 getting Discovery ready for launch -- fighting through some technical glitches before we launched even,

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but they got is ready and they got us launched safely.

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We had a very successful mission. Very proud that we were able to bring up the S6 truss,

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the final power segment for the International Space Station.

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And we're very, very happy we were able to bring Discovery right back here to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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So to everyone at the Kennedy Space 
Center, thank you very much for the great job

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leading up the launch and thank you very much for coming out here today. Take care.

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Candrea Thomas/STS-119 Landing Commentator The astronauts will now get on the silver Astrovan,

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where they'll be transported back to crew quarters in the

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Operations and Checkout Building. And as you can see, the astronauts are now departing the Shuttle Landing Facility.

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