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Speaker 1: Katherine Perkin is in the States. Where's Katherine? Morning to you?

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Speaker 2: Hi there mate.

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Speaker 1: These astronauts, I got to say, when I initially was

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Speaker 1: going to go up, not that I was going to

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Speaker 1: go up, but these astronauts, and it was a Boeing,

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Speaker 1: you'd have to ask some serious questions. And now they're

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Speaker 1: up there and this sort of stuck.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I think it was only a couple of weeks

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Speaker 2: ago we were talking about the spaceline of finally having

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Speaker 2: this success, successful mission, blasting off into space with these

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Speaker 2: two astronauts on board. But unfortunately they are pretty much

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Speaker 2: stuck up there for the moment. The mission was meant

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Speaker 2: to be just eight days long. Now we're being told

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Speaker 2: they probably won't be heading home until early next month

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Speaker 2: at the absolute soonest, and that's due to several issues

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Speaker 2: with this Boeing craft. They've had malfunctioning thrusters and a

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Speaker 2: series of helium leaks. What's a big problem for Boeing's

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Speaker 2: engineers is that these issues are occurring on what's called

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Speaker 2: the service module. It's essentially a little attachment that sits

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Speaker 2: at the bottom of the aircraft and it's a part

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Speaker 2: of the craft that will actually be jettisoned and discarded

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Speaker 2: before the capsule returns home. So if they don't fix

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Speaker 2: it now up in orbit, they're never going to get

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Speaker 2: a chance to actually see what's going wrong. And that's

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Speaker 2: even if they can bring the craft home. At this

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Speaker 2: point they don't know. So for the moment those astronauts

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Speaker 2: have stuck up there, we're being told they've got plenty

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Speaker 2: of supplies. Worst case, they can hitch a right on

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Speaker 2: SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, which is also attached to the International

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Speaker 2: Space Station. But certainly not the pr that Boeing would

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Speaker 2: have been wanting at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Exactly. I'm noting the Supreme Court for a busy today.

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Speaker 1: They've handed down some information on the abortion business. But

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Speaker 1: also earlier on today there's social media six ' three

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Speaker 1: What did they say?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, And it has been a busy time

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Speaker 2: for the Supreme Court. Essentially, this social media case was

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Speaker 2: all about free speech. Conservatives had challenged the Biden's administration's

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Speaker 2: efforts to really pressure social media companies into removing certain

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Speaker 2: posts that it deemed misinformation. Pretty much arose from the

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Speaker 2: time of COVID with a flood of contentious posts over

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Speaker 2: COVID nineteen and vaccines that Biden administration insisted they had

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Speaker 2: the right to get misinformation removed, Conservatives that it was

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Speaker 2: breaching free speech. Basically, no harms being done is the

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Speaker 2: ruling from the Supreme Court. But this, of course all

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Speaker 2: comes just a day before tomorrow's big presidential debate, so

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Speaker 2: it is a bit of a win for Biden as

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Speaker 2: we go into that one. I'm not sure how excited

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Speaker 2: we really are about this debate. There's no studio audience,

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Speaker 2: there's the ability to mute the candidate's microphone, so I

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Speaker 2: don't think it's going to be as hot and tempered

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Speaker 2: as we've seen in the past. And if we don't

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Speaker 2: all fall asleep, it might give us a bit of

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Speaker 2: a look into the next nineteen weeks coming up to

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Speaker 2: this big election.

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Speaker 1: Catch up with you, sir, Catherine. Appreciate it very much,

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Speaker 1: Catherine Ferkin, I think for more from News Talk sed B.

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