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>> Hi. My name is Scott Kelly and this is the
Cupola of the International Space Station.

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The Cupola is a small module that
provides us a vantage point to see outside

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of the Space Station, mostly
for robotics operations,

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as we have occasionally visiting vehicles
that approach the Space Station that we have

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to grapple with the Space Station's
robot arm, or other robotics activities.

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But as you can see, it's also a great
vantage point to look at the Earth.

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I'm going to take the camera here and show you
the different windows we have in the Cupola.

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This is a facing aft.

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You can see the rear portion of the back
of the Space Station, the Russian segment,

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a Soyuz spacecraft that we use to
get to and from the Space Station,

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as well as a progress resupply vehicle.

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We'll come along here to the
starboard side of the Space Station,

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where you could see perhaps there's a radiator
out there, one of the large solar rays.

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To the front of the Cupola, the
Japanese experimentation module,

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as well as you could see part
of the robot arm in that window.

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Another part in this window here as well as
the special-purpose dexterous manipulator,

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or SPDM, that is like a robot hand.

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He kind of looks like he's ready to defend
the Space Station from foreign invaders.

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And over here we have the other side of
the Space Station and the solar arrays,

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the U.S. laboratory module, and another node.

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As you can see, they're off in the distance.

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We're approaching some land there,
and I'm not sure exactly what it is.

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It might be Africa.

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We also have a program up here, a map program
that'll show us where we are over the Earth.

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I'm going to hand the camera
back to my camera man

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and talk briefly what we also use this
module for when we're not doing the robotics

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and we don't' have visiting vehicles,
and that is to observe the Earth,

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take pictures for scientific reasons
but also for public outreach.

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And we have a bunch of different
types of cameras here that we use.

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These are some of the smaller lenses.

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We also have up to an 800 millimeter lens
that we can take up some close-up shots.

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But we take pictures here, both in the day and
also at night and get some very interesting,

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I think, photos of our beautiful planet
Earth from this really great addition

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to the Space Station, that has
essentially become a window