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expedition 26 commander scott kelly

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welcome home

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159 days in space

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quite an expedition uh what were your

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thoughts as you undocked today

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and the soyuz backed away from the

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station that had been your home for six

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months

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well you know i kind of i guess i

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reflected on

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how much work we did and how much we

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accomplished

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thought that

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you know it's such an amazing

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facility that we've built

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accomplish something like that building

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that and using it

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that's a place i'm going to miss i

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certainly uh look forward and look

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forward to getting back to earth you

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know i have a lot more things i i look

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forward to

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the impressions you had

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as

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you left the station

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what was entry like

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your first impressions as they opened

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the hatch it looked like a scene out of

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the north pole

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well entry it was you know i've heard so

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much about how the soyuz entry is kind

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of uh

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you know

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a little on the rough side so it was

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sort of what i expected

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which is a series of explosions followed

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by a car crash

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and uh

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and then

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when the hatch opened it's just quite

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refreshing to get that cold air and

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you know snow blowing inside the capsule

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it was

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definitely a one once in a lifetime

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you're fresh

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out of your mission here but in

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reflection what do you consider to be

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the major accomplishment of your

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expedition it was so much to choose from

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you know that's really hard to say

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because because we

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we did so much you know there were so

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many visiting vehicles there was

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a lot of

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maintenance done on certain systems of

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the space station that i was involved in

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certainly a lot of science was done

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i think

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it's really hard to say there's one

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major accomplishment i think it's really

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the accomplishment of the whole team and

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putting such a complicated uh plan

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together and

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executing it and i guess that's what i'm

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most proud of

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scott it goes without saying that the

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the wounding of your sister-in-law in

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january represented the test of a

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lifetime

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for you in orbit

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and obviously for your brother how

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difficult a period of time was that for

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you

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as

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time of crisis like that well you know

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it certainly was difficult

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now

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trained to

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deal with as military pilots you know

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just

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putting your uh

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you know personal issues aside and

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focusing on what your job is so

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although i would have preferred to be

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able to you know help them in person

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and

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you know assist as as best i could

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i uh you know recognized that my place

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was on the space station and

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you know just focused on my work and i

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called him and my kids as much as i

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could and other you know friends and

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family as much as i could to try to

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support them and you know there's not a

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whole lot of support you can provide

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in space other than you know just

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emotional on the phone but i tried to do

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that as best i could

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the reports on her recovery are so

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encouraging what are you looking forward

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to the most when you get reunited with

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um you know just seeing him and talking

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to him and seeing how he's doing and you

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know

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talking in person versus uh a cell phone

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with or a satellite phone with very

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sporadic uh coverage that you're always

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waiting for the uh

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the uh you know when the the satellite

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pass is over so that'll be nice

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scott final question your your

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expedition was so much triumph tinged

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with the tragedy

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for you when you when you think you'll

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have time to reflect on it all what do

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you think

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well certainly the low is when uh gabby

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was shot along with all those the other

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tucson victims without a doubt i mean

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when you hear

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a uh you know you get a phone call that

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the chief of the astronaut office wants

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to talk to you immediately

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you know you know it's not good news

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and

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very

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the highs uh

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you know it's really like like

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how i answered the other questions

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really kind of hard to say

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uh because we

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had

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you know a lot of

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different

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variety of work with visiting vehicles

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and

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working on certain systems on the space

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station you know certainly ulf

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five being there was

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you know a lot of fun to have visitors

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and

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the htv work we did was was

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pretty complex with the robotics and

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getting it you know

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first birthed and then you know

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partially unloaded and then moved and

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then moved back

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so i would say those those two things

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scott kelly expedition 26 commander