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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Don
Shamino’s message:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
think it went something like, "We are seconds from liftoff and I just
wanted to tell all my friends and family, ‘I..... aaahhhhhh……………..(gulp)……………..AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Of course,
that last bit there lasted somewhere around 20 minutes....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>dsd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
ravensfort-bounces@lists.ansteorra.org
[mailto:ravensfort-bounces@lists.ansteorra.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Berta Allen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ravensfort@lists.ansteorra.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Ravensfort] Don Shamino's Spacecraft moved to launch pad ahead
of ISS flight<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#40007F'>Took off
beautifully this morning... missed most of it, if anyone watched, did they
happen to see what Richard's/Shamino's message was at launch? Curious
to know...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#40007F'>~chrystal~</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#6000BF'>"Noli simul flare
sorbereque"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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--- On <b>Fri, 10/10/08, Eule <i><eule@ecpi.com></i></b> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>A
messge from Don Shamino/Richard......</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Eule/Steve</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><b><span style='font-family:"Estrangelo Edessa"'>Unus
sed Leo</span></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>In my speed to respond,
I failed to realize how many people were on this thread....</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I will soon be off the net, even off
the earth, for a time.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Let me take a moment to say thanks
to all of you!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>My family, my friends and my
co-workers who are also family to me.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I am just over a day from launch, it
is a much more emotional time than I expected.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I have thouroghly enjoyed my
training and the people I have met along this journey.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>But I have regularly thought of you
all as well.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I wish you could all be here to
share in this whole experience.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Many of you have been with my for
years and years and truely helped me make this journey, and so I hope you get
something out of this as well.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I will be home in a few short weeks,
though I have threatened to stow away,and I think they are beginning to
believe me.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(Many Trainers, Astronauts and
Cosmonauts have even helped me plan for it!)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>When I get home I will have lots of
stories and pictures to share.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In fact I already do.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I would say my time has already been
worth while, and I have yet to even fly.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please send my love to all of our
friends, co-workers and those that play with us.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I hope you get a chance to watch.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I have a message for you durring
launch. :)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> - Richard</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Link (with pics): </span><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'><a
href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVmXiJGB7S--M-E06nd_2DUW5sqQD93NLDP80"
target="_blank"><u><span style='color:blue'>http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVmXiJGB7S--M-E06nd_2DUW5sqQD93NLDP80</span></u></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:18.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Spacecraft moved to launch pad
ahead of ISS flight</span><o:p></o:p></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class=hn-byline style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#676767'>By
PETER LEONARD –</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span
style='color:#676767'> </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=hn-byline style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — Friends and family of the
world's next space tourist — including his astronaut father —
watched Friday as the rocket for the voyage was placed on a launch pad in
Kazakhstan for its weekend takeoff to the International Space Station.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, mounted on a three-stage rocket,
traveled at daybreak for 3 miles by railroad from an assembly hangar to the
Baikonur launch area.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>On Sunday it blasts off with American software millionaire
Richard Garriott on board. Garriott paid $30 million dollars to travel to the
International Space Station, where he will spend about 10 days taking
photographs and conducting a range of medical and physical experiments.</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Also on the flight will be U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke and
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Launch preparations were going well, International Space Station
Program deputy manager Kirk Shireman said Friday.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>"It has been very efficient and very quick. It's a system
and a process that has worked tremendously successfully over the years,"
he said. "We're looking forward to a successful launch on Sunday."</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>The rocket's installation at the launch pad was watched by
dozens of friends, colleagues and family members, including Garriott's
father, Owen, a two-time space traveler who took extensive photographs of the
Earth's surface during his stay on the U.S. orbital station Skylab in 1973.</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Garriott is a board member and investor in Space Adventures,
Ltd., a U.S.-based company that has organized flights aboard Russian craft
for five other millionaires including the first paying space tourist,
California businessman Dennis Tito, in 2001.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>He plans to carry out experiments during his voyage, including
one involving protein crystal growth, on behalf of companies that he says
have footed a "meaningful percentage" of the bill.</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>He has also said he would take photos to record how the Earth's
surface has changed in the 35 years since his father's voyage.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>The launch is scheduled for 3:01 a.m. EDT Sunday.</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Garriott returns to Earth later this month with Russian
cosmonaut Yuri Volkov, who has been at the space station since April.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Volkov also has followed his father, a decorated cosmonaut from the
Soviet era, in traveling to space. But Garriott was unable to do so as an
astronaut due to poor eyesight.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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