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A typical crew is
five to seven people.
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Some are career astronauts. Others,
specialists in different fields...
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...representing various countries.
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- Sally?
- Yes.
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We're hooked up. Needs checking.
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Above is the flight deck,
with windows facing...
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...into the payload bay.
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The mid-deck functions
as living room, dining room...
:10:38
...bedroom, workshop and study.
:10:44
Discovery, you look good for deploy.
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Commander Hartsfield and Pilot Coats
navigate the orbiter...
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...to a predetermined point in space
so the communications satellite...
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...they are deploying
will be precisely positioned.
:11:07
- Gee, look at that.
- That's a big hummer, isn't it?
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Look at that! Get some shots of that.
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Syncom's deployed, Houston.
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Much of the time, the orbiter flies
with its payload bay facing Earth.
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So to see our planet's features,
the crew uses the overhead windows.
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That's pretty.
:11:51
As we cross the Alps into Italy,
Genoa is on the left...
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...home of Christopher Columbus.