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Well, the primary job of the Pilot in, in every flight, obviously, my first job is to back up the Commander.

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So, Eileen Collins is our Commander, and although she's totally competent to do absolutely everything,

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we never do everything with one person, we always have someone to back them up.

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So my primary job is to back up Eileen pretty much in anything she does: flying the vehicle, reconfiguring the

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vehicle, all those kind of things, so that's my job number one.

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Probably the second biggest job I have is robotics for this flight.  I'm a robotics operator on both the Shuttle arm,

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helping out with all the inspection processes, with the inspection boom and sensors and all of those things,

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as well as I'm a Station robotic arm operator, primarily for doing all of the EVAs,

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all of the spacewalk work, as well as the logistics module back and forth, onto the Station and back in the

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payload bay.  So most of my time in flight is going to be taken up with the robotics operations.

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