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anybody have any more questions

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what's your favorite or the most

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interesting experiment you're working on

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okay do you guys have a favorite

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that's a really tough question because

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they're all interesting in different

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ways uh mike and i were doing a flame

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experiment where we're trying to to help

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the scientists on the ground understand

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how fire behaves up here there's all

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kinds of reasons for that so that was

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interesting because it's sort of an

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unusual environment to intentionally put

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a fire um i think one of the ones i like

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the most is an experiment that we're

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doing on ourselves to try and understand

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how our nutritional state changes in our

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biochemistry changes and that'll help us

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design food and understand a little bit

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more about the processes that the human

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body undergoes that's probably my

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favorite one but there's all kinds of

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interesting things in all of the

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now can i ask you a question uh the were

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you tempted to uh cut your hair shorter

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while you're up there uh or do you

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uh is it fun and weird that's a really

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good question because it is a little bit

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of an overhead to take care of long hair

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here um i think you know ideally a short

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haircut is the way to go but quite

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frankly on me it wouldn't be so nice so

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i i think it's a real fashion statement

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hold on one second we've got we've got

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how much spare time do you have on the

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day in the day

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how much how much spare time do you have

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they do keep us pretty busy up here and

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we have a very tight schedule that

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starts from the moment you wake up until

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the moment you go to sleep

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but they give us a little bit of time in

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the morning to uh to get yourself ready

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get yourself cleaned up have some

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breakfast and the same in the evening so

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we can use that time to either call down

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to our family and friends or maybe even

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check our email and see how things are

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now that's interesting does uh does

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email

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work

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pretty much the same between the space

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station

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computers here on earth

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mr president

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as just about everybody uh on the planet

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knows that the email is pretty important

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way for us to keep in touch with each

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other

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even though we're really far away and

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traveling really fast we still use email

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also unfortunately we only synchronize

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our email uh once or twice a day

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sometimes three times a day so it's not

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as fast and instantaneous as we are used

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to on the ground but even so it's a

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really useful way to get in touch with

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other people in addition we have a kind

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of an internet over

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voice over internet protocol telephone

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so it's really nice that we can get a

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chance to talk to our families not 24 7

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but when we do have good satellite

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coverage we do get the chance to call

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home and that for those of us who stay

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up for a long time that's what's really

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excellent

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all right well i know that you guys

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probably have a whole bunch of stuff to

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do uh but i look i think that we may

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have one more question from a member of

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thank you very much my name is suzanne

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cosmas and i actually represent central

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florida the area that includes the uh

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kennedy space center so i want to first

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thank you on behalf of all americans for

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your service to us and uh for what you

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represent in terms of america and our

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supremacy in space exploration um along

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with our international partners and for

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what you're doing there at the

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international space station i had the

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honor of being at the kennedy space

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center last week when you took off and

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it was a fabulous abs absolutely

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fantastic launch and um we so i wish you

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a do from there and now i'm wishing you

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hello from here um i want to thank you

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again for your service and tell you how

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excited i am to be representing the

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kennedy space station in that area but

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also for what you do that inspires

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people to be interested in the science

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and technology that has led us to this

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uh pioneering place where you are and um

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the things that we anticipate that we

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will be able to reap from your service

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um i'm very thrilled about particularly

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uh the idea as the president has said of

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alternative energies and the fact that

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you're using solar panels in space what

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we're hoping in the long run that you

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will be able to from space use solar

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energy to come back to earth and um

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again i'm thrilled to be here and very

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excited to have the opportunity to talk

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to you and um thank you so much for your

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well i think that uh thank you man we we

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appreciate that and uh each one of us

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here is very lucky and honored to be

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right where we're at uh here today so