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discovery international space station

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the president of the united states

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president welcome aboard the

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international space station where we're

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joined with our uh

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international uh crew from this uh space

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shuttle discovery welcome aboard glad to

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hear your voice we hear you loud and

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clear sir

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well thank you so much for

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uh taking the time to speak with us

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we've got

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a crew of wonderful

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uh

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school children here who are all

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interested in space and we've got uh

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some members of congress who are like

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big kids when it comes to talking to

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astronauts

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uh i i'm told that you're cruising at

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about 17 000 miles per hour so we're

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glad that uh

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mr president we go around the planet

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once every 90 minutes it's quite a quite

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a thrill and it is very fast and we see

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that that is unbelievable well the the

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first thing we want to do is just let

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you know how proud we are of you

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uh i've got to say especially

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once i found out that you're from

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the president was a beautiful place to

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grow up and i have a lot of roots that

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well that's great the uh

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we are

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uh really excited about the project that

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you're doing my understanding is that

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you are installing

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uh some additional solar panels on the

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space station

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and that's actually going to increase

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the number of

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people that can work out of the space

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sir that's correct we've roughly doubled

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the amount of

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of solar power available for

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experimentation

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and for supporting a larger crew and we

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hope to go to a crew of six and a more

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aggressive experimental program this

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well this is really exciting because

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we're uh

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investing

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back here on uh on the ground

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a whole array of solar

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and other renewable energy projects and

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so to find out that you're doing this

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up at the space station is

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particularly exciting can can i ask

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how exactly do you end up

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installing

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these solar panels what's involved

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somebody want to give us a rundown on

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yes sir first it comes up on a truss

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segment which is about five feet long we

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use a robotic arm arm to attach it to

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the end of another chest segment and

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then once that's attached and bolted on

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to space walks then we'll go ahead and

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unfurl or actually deploy the

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solar arrays in this position so that we

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can unfurl them from inside during the

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how about how long does it take

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spacewalk you put it all together about

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six hours but to actually do the

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commanding to actually deploy them out

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to their full length only takes about

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well obviously we're we're really proud

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about

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uh the extraordinary work that uh our

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american astronauts are doing uh you

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know

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you are a representative of the

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dedication and

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uh sense of adventure and discovery that

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you know we're so proud of but one of

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the things that's wonderful about this

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is that it is an international space

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station and i know that we have our

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uh japanese and uh russian

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counterparts on board as well we'd love

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uh hope that

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that this is an example of the kind of

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spirit of cooperation that

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you know we can apply not just in space

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yeah it's an honor to

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have a chance to talk with you mr

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president

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we have a russian crew member american

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crew member and i'm from japan and we

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have 15 countries working together in

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this wonderful project national space

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station as well as on the ground in

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space and this really symbolized the

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future of the scientific development of