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VINCENT FOURNIER: [SPEAKING FRENCH]
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VINCENT FOURNIER: Come on in.
Two camera, laptop, tripod.
Thank you.
LISA FOWLER: Early on, we had quite a few media.
And then it sort of died down.
And now it's picking back up.
So we're getting a lot of interest because people are
realizing that this is the last shuttle launch.
The American flag.
Each stripe is the size of a single lane highway.
VINCENT FOURNIER: Wow.
LISA FOWLER: It's a very expansive and large building.
VINCENT FOURNIER: [SPEAKING FRENCH]
SAM ROGERS: This is the shuttle landing facility.
It's 15,000 feet.
But it's probably one of the larger runways around.
Places here where shuttle have landed.
And where you see where the skid marks are,
they'll mark them.
VINCENT FOURNIER: [SPEAKING FRENCH]
So we just under--
this is the shuttle lab.
-Right.
VINCENT FOURNIER: The machines, the pipes, the
electronics, all the things are so compact, so dense, very
busy on your elements.
And to be just underneath the shuttle, that's something
quite bizarre.
Can we walk around?
So you don't have many room to find your own point of view.
You are almost defined by the space where it can shoot.
Whoa.
Some big organic, all these pipes, like vents, like tubes,
like things articulating like a body.
It's great.
It's like inside a body.
LISA FOWLER: The shuttle is actually protected by the
rotating service structure.
So you can't actually see the orbiter.
VINCENT FOURNIER: And this is the closest we can go?
LISA FOWLER: Yes.
VINCENT FOURNIER: And is it lit up by night?
LISA FOWLER: No.
It doesn't get lit up until the night before launch.
VINCENT FOURNIER: A little bit--
stop.
Nice [INAUDIBLE].
A little bit more nicer with the early morning light.
What's the earliest time we can be there?
LISA FOWLER: If you guys wanted to be out by 5:30.
VINCENT FOURNIER: [SPEAKING FRENCH]
Yeah, it's quite all lit up, huh?
I would like to stage the car just in front of the gate,
maybe on the side.
And one door would be open.
And one of you will be outside just facing the shuttle.
Very nearby to the car, if it's possible.
LISA FOWLER: Yeah.
We're going to say this is security.
VINCENT FOURNIER: In the meantime, I'm
going to prepare myself.
And one door open.
And people are looking at the shuttle.
It'll give us a scale in between the
shuttle and the people.
Raise kind of a narrative element about that.
Yeah, a good balance between the daylight and twilight.
I also like the fact that cars were still lit up as well.
[SPEAKING FRENCH]
Not about the mosquitoes.
[INAUDIBLE].
Bloody hell.
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