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Shuttle mission, but that could change. and now john zarrella is joining us from miami with more on this. what is the latest that is going on, john? well, wolf, it is just precautionary, but nasa has decided that it was going to name a backup commander, rick sturkow who is a veteran of four space shuttle flights all of way back to 1998 and last flew back in 2009 and he is the deputy chief of the astronaut office, so he is extensively qualified to fly the flight, and the people at nasa say there is not much of a learning curve, because he has been a commander before and been a pilot before and if he should have to take over the endeavor flight. but one thing he has to do is to probably practice a lot of touch and goes. now, i flew actually a couple of months on in a touch and go with steve lindsey who is flying the discovery mission coming up, ....