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>> We are just exactly four weeks from launch day, the --
we're planning to launch on the 23rd of October.
And today, this morning we started
out with our State Commission,
which is the official certification of our flight
and always, all member --
the State Department Commission comes in
and signs us off and clears us to go.
So a very special day for us today, it's a big step
on the journey and then after that, we spent a little time
in Sri City, we visited a museum and signed some books
and saw the Library of [Foreign name]
and then made the journey downtown here,
we're in the Kremlin right now, right near Red Square
and we placed some flowers at the gravesites of [Foreign name]
and [Foreign name] to kind of pay our reverences to those
who have gone before us and of course a big part
of our history is those people, the early pioneers
of our spaceflight, that's what allows us
to continue the program
on the International Space Station today.
When I do that, I of course think of the people in the --
all over the world and especially though
in our U.S. Space Program that laid the foundation for us
to do what we're doing as well.
So very, very significant for us and after that,
we just took a little tour around,
got to see the Czar's Bell and the cannon inside
and to have just a little time inside the Kremlin,
a very unique and exciting opportunity.
So that's what we did today.