[Montalbano] You get a good night's sleep?
[Pettit] Actually, I did.
Got a cool call from Dan Burbank last night.
He's jazzed.
We're ready to go.
Oh, we're about to do the Cosmonauts Breakfast.
This is a breakfast that is done as a celebration for the departing crew,
before we leave, as we leave Star City to go to Baikonur.
And so everybody's here, my family's here, cosmonauts and astronauts are here,
and we're going to do this breakfast and then get on a plane and then go to Baikonur.
[Kuipers] Oh well, this is the famous breakfast that we never eat.
This is of course the last moment in Star City before we go to Baikonur.
And that's a very special moment, where all get together, also the families,
and a beautiful breakfast table, but there's no time to eat it.
We have some speeches and a moment of silence, and then we say goodbye
to the family and then go to Baikonur.
So it was a very interesting moment.
One of the nicest.
[BACKGROUND CONVERSATIONS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES ]
[Stoll] Stephanie Stoll with a question for Don from NASA TV.
What are you going to be focusing on down in Baikonur
in your final [inaudible] before launch.
[Pettit] Part of it's crew rest.
Gives your brain a little break from all the training.
But then we continue to do training.
I'm going to be doing last minute review for the EPIC cards on the CMCDM,
getting these things repaired on orbit so we can get on with the mission.
[Stoll] And another question for Andre.
This is going to be your second trip to the International Space Station,
the first of yours was a short trip.
What are you going to benefit from that first flight, and what significance is there
for you [inaudible] [Kuipers] Well, the fact that I flew one time before like all
of us is I think very advantageous, because it takes you less time to adapt
so we can start working much earlier, which we'll actually do
in the first two weeks straightaway.
So that is the big advantage of it.
And of course that to fly a second time, I feel like a member of a very international group
of people, and, so not particularly because I am a Dutch astronaut.
I'm a European, a member of the ISS, big ISS group.