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George Diller/STS-129 Landing Commentator:  And here comes the crew. Charlie Bolden, our administrator.

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Angie Brewer, the flow director. Mike 
Leinbach, the NASA launch director.

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Bob Cabana, the director of the Kennedy Space Center.

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Butch Wilmore, our pilot, along with Steve 
Payne, our NASA test director, and

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Pete Nickolenko, the manager of the NASA Test Director's Office.

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Got word that the Crew Transport Vehicle with Nicole Stott is about to leave the runway and head

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back to the astronaut quarters and the crew will go back in the Astrovan.

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Charlie Hobaugh/STS-129 Commander: Hey. Good morning. We wanted to just say a couple words.

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I don't even know how I can put this, but we really had truly an amazing mission. It was not us. It was not any single group.

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But it was just an incredible team from all around the nation.

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Just talking to someone under the vehicle and it's not about JSC, it's not about KSC,

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it's not about Marshall, Stennis, any of that. It's one huge integrated team that really makes something like this go.

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We were lucky. I mean, part of it's luck and 
part of it's pure great skill

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workmanship in processing Atlantis and getting it ready for us.

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We had no hitches. We went off on time. We landed on time. The station's an amazing place.

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I have a cast of five around me that truly made my life simple. I did nothing but drive the bus a couple times.

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These guys did all the work. They were awesome. So I was extremely lucky. Nicole came back with us -- she's doing great.

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She's headed back to see her family. And she did an amazing job on station.

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Station itself is just incredible, just like the 
shuttle.

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It's truly an amazing vehicle and it's an incredible thrill to be able to participate in something like this.

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And it can't happen without the tens of thousands of people that pour their hearts and souls into the

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space program that support us and make something like this happen. So we just want to thank you all, appreciate it.

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George Diller/STS-129 Landing 
Commentator: Astronauts going back for a 
brief reunion with

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their immediate families and for lunch.

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Crew now boarding the Astrovan, the same one that took them out to Launch Pad 39A to board Atlantis for the STS-129 mission.

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