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good morning endeavor and a special good

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morning to drew

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uh good morning megan's morning houston

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and uh good morning to uh my lovely wife

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indra

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and my sons ari and aiden thanks for

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that music selection today

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it's great to have you here on board

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space shuttle endeavor

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with us um

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it's a beautiful day here in space as

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always the earth looks great and i'm

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glad you guys could get together to talk

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to us today

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hi my name is katie

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and my question is what is the most

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interesting or exciting thing you've

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ever seen in space

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oh hey katie

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and

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yes just yesterday i was outside the

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space station and i could see stars i

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could see the moon but the most exciting

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thing i i've seen while i was up here is

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planet earth we have such a beautiful

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amazing wonderful planet from space we

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can see all the continents we can see

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rivers we can even see cities and roads

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good day mr nespoli how are you

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that's true thank you i'm doing well

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i have spent

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these almost six months in space

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it's been a very intense time very

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interesting we've done many things

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we've flown the colors of italy

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high

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once again and for me it's been a unique

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experience i've seen the planet in a way

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in great shape and most of all i found

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and the thing that i'd like to be able

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to tell you is that our contribution

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our italian contribution

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from the european space and she

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is fundamental

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last time i saw the space station was in

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2005 which was my second mission

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since then many things

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have changed the station has more than

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doubled

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all the modules

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they have gone through the italian and

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european industry

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the cupola is particularly beautiful

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paolo has had the opportunity to admire

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the earth

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from the cupola

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i did it myself for the first time in

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these past few days

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and today i had the

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first opportunity to fly over italy by

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and our italy was completely free of

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clouds so it was beautiful and it was

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breathtaking

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so the italian flag living from modena

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came to houston flew on the shuttle on

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board

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the international space station and then

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we'll go to paolo and we'll come back

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through the

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russian space scraft soyuz

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i don't know if you can hear the

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applause

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it's a little hard to make the flag

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fly

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in absence of gravity

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so right now

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our flag is flying very high it's a

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symbol of italy

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and where the italians can arrive when

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we're a country of poets

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travelers

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discoverers and we must continue to do

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these things

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and these are the things that make us

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but looking from above

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did you also see the gondolas in the

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grand canal of venice or is that a

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little too much to ask

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president i have taken some photos with

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the zoom

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we do have zooms that are pretty strong

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and i have been able to take some photos

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of venice and we can see fairies

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but uh gondolas maybe is a little too

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but it's beautiful this this

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shot that we are able to get

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looking from the cupola we're able to

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appreciate details like

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pyramids in egypt the great wall of

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china venice

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all these

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beautiful

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the world but there's this general view

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that allows us to see this beautiful

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but also

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from another side it looks fragile this

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this really thin layer of atmosphere

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which is the one thing that

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differentiates us from other planets

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like mars and the moon we must be