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how do you guys hear me

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we hear you very well we do have

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northeast elementary or northeast

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notaway elementary from ravenwood

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missouri with with us today and

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you are welcome to

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to take it from here they have some

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really cool questions for you okay

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thanks ryan and uh

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guys and girls welcome to you know

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mission control houston this is where we

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actually control all the systems and

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monitor everything on board the

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international space station uh joining

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me right now is todd kwasny he's one of

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our odin flight controllers uh todd what

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what are some of the systems you're

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so as a as a odin flight controller

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we're in charge of most of the

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the core computer systems on the space

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station so when i say corcoran's core

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system i mean something that actually

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flies the space station so something

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that you know talks to the the

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communication systems and make sure that

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we're pointing the right direction and

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we're tracking the sun things like that

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it's kind of like your outer space it

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guy too you got it i'm kind of like the

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i.t uh fix it guy okay well uh we're

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real excited to take some of your

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questions today why don't you give us

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i think the question was one day could

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mars be inhabitable

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a lot of people looking into that and uh

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directly so uh i i certainly hope so it

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seems like it'd be a great great thing

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we could get there and inhabit mars we

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that mars may have had a climate like

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ours you know many millions and millions

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and millions of years ago even billions

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something like terraforming which any of

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like making a planet's atmosphere more

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like ours i know some of the methods

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that are you know everything's very

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hypothetical right now because that kind

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of technology just does not exist but

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million years from now will have the

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habitable but i mean right now it's it's

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project and it's something we as a

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civilization couldn't tackle right now

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the angry birds thing the angry birds

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it's always fun to uh to see um you know

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space applications like that and

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get to see uh something that's something

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you're not used to used to you know

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playing the original angry birds uh you

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our scientists you know help them get

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down things like uh the mechanics of

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actually moving through gravity like if

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i'm sure a bunch of you guys have been

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playing angry bird space uh when you're

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actually shooting into an atmosphere

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you'll you'll go into an orbit and

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space station can you call from your

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cell phone if you have it

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um that you know that that's a common

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thing that the astronauts want to do

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the phone and and dial just about any

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number you want we can't call up to them

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that way but uh they're able to on their

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own time call call just about any any

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number they want they talk to a lot of

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their friends and family that way and it

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i think we may have lost the

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school if we are patient we may be able

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to reestablish a connection okay ryan

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we'll be standing by

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waiting for your word

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we're back

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welcome back i apologize all right i

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end but i i i i'm hoping that dan and

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our guests today are still able to

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answer some questions yup we're still

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here ready to go ryan

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then i'll let the kids ask more

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well be alive so it's it's definitely a

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possibility when there's

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he's asleep if you will so uh um when

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understand exactly everything that we

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and moving his arms around and i think

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he might have done some sign language

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the other day yeah the other day i saw

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he he signed hello world american sign

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language it was it was a really neat

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thing to see so just kind of putting him

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through his first paces and getting them

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ready for some more advanced stuff

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coming up

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this is maverick crossfit northeast

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does the clock go back and forth go

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space do you get that one

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i'm sorry could you ask the question one

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could the clock go backwards up in space

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does the clock go backwards up in space

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so um

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not not really the the the clocks clocks

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in space you know operate just like they

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they do here on the ground you know

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they'll they'll just uh measure how many

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seconds or how many minutes or hours are

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going by and they'll just kind of kind

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of take away we i'm not that i know that

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we've ever seen one one go backwards and

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unless we're we're setting the clock

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like uh like we would hear on the ground

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we haven't quite mastered time travel

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yet but you know we're all hoping

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sometime in the future uh one

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interesting thing that could happen in

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space flight and once you guys kind of

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get into some higher level science and

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math courses is the idea that if you're

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traveling really really fast time

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doesn't go backwards but it slows down

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and so there are

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studies being done with clocks that you

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know we send them out there and they

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travel at thousands and thousands and

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thousands of miles an hour and when you

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compare them to a clock here on earth i

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mean it's the time has progressed a

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little bit slower on those clocks but i

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mean it's such a such a small amount

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unless you're traveling the speed of

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light which we don't quite do yet

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it's not even noticeable so they don't

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go backwards but we may someday be able

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to slow time down

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astronauts have a favorite of what kind

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do astronauts have favorite foods

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uh you know they they do and then it's

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kind of a an individual taste just just

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like you would here on the ground you

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know sometimes you know you like a good

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you know hamburger hot dogs nice people

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like you know spaghetti or lasagna so

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it's it's the same thing for the for the

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astronauts on the space station they

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have a wide variety of food to choose

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from

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and uh they uh

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they they kind of their own favorites

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what i'm what i'm told a lot of them

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tell me uh after they come back is they

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really like spicy foods for for some

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reason you know when when they get into

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space

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something about spicy foods just a

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little bit more appealing to them so i

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hear the shrimp cocktail is to die for

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when you're in space quite a bit yeah so

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uh so um they they do have foods that

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they have a lot of different kinds is

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kind of a big thing to keep in mind so

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they they try a lot of different things

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so pretty much almost whatever you like

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on the ground you can have up in space

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just about to a degree and just about

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you can have a

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you know all kinds of different kinds of

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food

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all right next question guys

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well which

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where is the international space station

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over the earth right now

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oh wow where is the over the earth right

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now well it looks like we are tracking

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right over the northern pacific ocean

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uh it's

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so it's pretty much right in the middle

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of the ocean right now and it's about

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247 miles above the surface

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so and again it's moving at about i

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think 17 500 miles an hour that's

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correct so it's only going to be there

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for a little while pretty soon it'll be

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over a completely other part of the

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planet as it goes around in about 90

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minutes

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looks like it's coming up pretty here

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pretty soon on the southern part of

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south america and it'll fly up uh over

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europe and then uh then over uh

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uh go back over you know the pacific

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ocean again yep

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um does their food come in like packages

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like military food does

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oh that that's a good one to know you

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know i think that's something that uh

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that someone should ask before they

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become an astronaut is you know how

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how's the food come

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so like i said there there's a wide

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variety of food they get to eat a number

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of different kinds but they're they're

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kind of broken up in the into several

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categories so uh the military you know

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style food that you're talking about is

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uh you know mres meals ready to eat so

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it's kind of a

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you know a package where you can open

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and eat it right away

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and uh and and some astronauts really

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like the the mres to let them come from

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the military or a lot of you know

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camping and hiking backgrounds so uh

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that they're used to that kind of food

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and they eat a lot uh some food comes

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dehydrated so they have

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they have to and put water into it first

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so they they'll heat up with some water

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and make it warm and then

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inject it into into the food and it kind

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of comes to life if you will need that

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and then there's some some food that's

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uh

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that's a little bit more fresh and and

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and ready to eat but um that they don't

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get a whole lot of that so it's it's

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kind of a treat when they're able to eat

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some some fresh fruit vegetables yeah i

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know um

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on the cargo craft that just stocked one

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of the european ones i brought up some

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fresh fruit for the crew and they always

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look forward to that they get real

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excited because i mean pretty much

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pretty much the vast majority of the

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food it's kind of like these little

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dehydrated plastic packets where they

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have to put water in and like you said

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it kind of makes the food come to life

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after that

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yeah exactly and i know on the on the

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cargo vehicle just docked we make sure

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that we pack the food one of the last

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things to make sure they can get to it

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quick because they're really looking

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forward to that don't want to open it up

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and have all kinds of nasty smells

439
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coming out as soon as they open up that

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cargo vehicle all right next question

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what kind of training do they do to

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prepare for everything was that what i

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yes okay

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training well you know that that's a big

445
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uh it's a really really good question

446
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and very insightful um you know

447
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quite often you see astronauts on tv and

448
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you know watch nasa tv and and see them

449
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floating around doing all these really

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cool things you know it's cool you know

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science experiments and getting to play

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with r2 and all those types of things

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but what you don't see is the hours and

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hours and hours that the astronauts have

455
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to go through training they they do all

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kinds of training everything from you

457
00:17:03,749 --> 00:17:02,480
know learning about the the simpsons on

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systems on onboard the space station

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just in case something were to go wrong

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they they spend a lot of time uh with

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the uh the science developers the the

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science folks to sit down and make sure

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that they're doing all their science

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experiments correctly and they're

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they're getting all the all the good

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data back back to earth to be studied

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and analyzed

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and then they do a lot of training for

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specific tasks like a spacewalk so

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they'll go and go into the neutral

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buoyancy lab and go into the big pool

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get in their spacesuits and practice

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doing spacewalks so you know for for

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everything you see them do

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do all the cool stuff floating around

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the space station um there's many many

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hours behind the scenes where they they

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drive and learn how to do that how long

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do they train you know before they

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actually launch on these expeditions

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um

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it's on order of years so you know

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sometimes you know astronauts will train

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for you know two or two or three years

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before they they're able to go up on the

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space station to do all the various

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things they need to do so about two

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years of training for six months of

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actual space flight time so there's

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there's a lot of you know front end

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stuff involved before they actually get

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to go up there and do all the fun things

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you know absolutely when and even while

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they're up there we'll we'll do some

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training with them you know we'll you

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know we mention that some of the

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different types of ways we can

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communicate with the with astronauts

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well we'll sit down and and go through

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some additional training if maybe

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something coming up that they haven't

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quite seen before they need a refresher

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we'll sit down and train them while

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they're up there too so a lot of

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training a lot of school it and it never

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ends there's always learning to do never

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stop learning all right next question

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do they have to train whenever they get

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back

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they they do do a lot of work when they

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get back um you know post-mission them

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um one of the bigger things that they do

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is nicely receive a whole lot of

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training but they conduct a lot of

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training you know once you've been up

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there for six months you know you you

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are the are the expert on on on how to

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operate the space station and what to do

519
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so and we we really try to capitalize on

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a lot of their experience and knowledge

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when they come back to to teach the next

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generation of astronauts you know um you

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know just all the little ins and outs

524
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and tips and tricks of of of how to

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really maximize this this wonderful

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space station that we have so it's it's

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there there's not necessary training

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that they receive but they they do

529
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conduct a lot of training

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you astronauts exercise up in space

531
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oh boy do that in quite a bit yes so you

532
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know the the the environment of space is

533
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really hard on the human body you know

534
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um

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without without gravity you know the

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your muscles don't have to to to work as

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hard and you know the heart doesn't have

538
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to pump blood as as much and and the

539
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bones don't have to support your

540
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structure all that much

541
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so

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um one of the things we have to do to

543
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counteract all all the uh the effects of

544
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space on the human body is exercise so

545
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they usually extras about two hours a

546
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day so a good portion of their day is

547
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spent just exercising and they can do

548
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anything from running on a treadmill to

549
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uh you know riding on an exercise bike

550
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to to to doing some some things that

551
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kind of simulate uh you know doing some

552
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weight lifting it's kind of like like a

553
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giant bowflex so you know they they uh

554
00:20:09,750 --> 00:20:08,480
they do extensive amount of exercising

555
00:20:11,590 --> 00:20:09,760
you know to make sure that when they get

556
00:20:13,750 --> 00:20:11,600
back to the back to earth that uh their

557
00:20:15,669 --> 00:20:13,760
body still can can work in this this

558
00:20:17,669 --> 00:20:15,679
gravity environment and so that they can

559
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still walk and and move and lift things

560
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so it's it's very important to the

561
00:20:22,070 --> 00:20:20,720
astronauts to exercise we've actually

562
00:20:23,909 --> 00:20:22,080
heard some of them come back and they

563
00:20:25,350 --> 00:20:23,919
almost feel stronger just because of all

564
00:20:26,789 --> 00:20:25,360
that exercise they've been doing out

565
00:20:28,390 --> 00:20:26,799
there in space i mean two hours a day

566
00:20:30,070 --> 00:20:28,400
it's quite it's quite a bit

567
00:20:31,909 --> 00:20:30,080
yeah yeah they uh they they really work

568
00:20:33,669 --> 00:20:31,919
their muscles and and sets a lot of

569
00:20:35,190 --> 00:20:33,679
habits you know a lot of them become

570
00:20:36,149 --> 00:20:35,200
you know big exercise buffs afterwards

571
00:20:37,669 --> 00:20:36,159
because they're so used to doing it for

572
00:20:41,350 --> 00:20:37,679
two hours a day

573
00:20:48,470 --> 00:20:46,630
has anybody ever got hurt doing stuff

574
00:20:50,789 --> 00:20:48,480
has anyone ever gotten hurt doing things

575
00:20:52,070 --> 00:20:50,799
well you know just like like working you

576
00:20:53,669 --> 00:20:52,080
know uh

577
00:20:55,510 --> 00:20:53,679
here on earth you know there's some

578
00:20:56,870 --> 00:20:55,520
things to happen you know the

579
00:20:59,510 --> 00:20:56,880
uh you know you get a you know a little

580
00:21:01,590 --> 00:20:59,520
bumper or bruise but you know

581
00:21:04,070 --> 00:21:01,600
they do a lot of work making sure that

582
00:21:05,669 --> 00:21:04,080
everything the astronauts do in space is

583
00:21:07,909 --> 00:21:05,679
very safe you know it's something that

584
00:21:09,430 --> 00:21:07,919
we take very very seriously and indicate

585
00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:09,440
a lot of time and you know we talk about

586
00:21:13,110 --> 00:21:11,280
a lot of training uh training the crew

587
00:21:15,430 --> 00:21:13,120
does to make sure that everything every

588
00:21:19,029 --> 00:21:15,440
aspect of their job is is safe

589
00:21:20,070 --> 00:21:19,039
so uh you know you know we we uh

590
00:21:21,750 --> 00:21:20,080
to my knowledge i don't think an

591
00:21:23,110 --> 00:21:21,760
astronaut has ever actually been injured

592
00:21:25,430 --> 00:21:23,120
in any way

593
00:21:27,110 --> 00:21:25,440
i'm pretty sure and i mean even if they

594
00:21:28,630 --> 00:21:27,120
were there are a lot of flight surgeons

595
00:21:30,470 --> 00:21:28,640
and people here you know in mission

596
00:21:32,470 --> 00:21:30,480
control and all around

597
00:21:33,830 --> 00:21:32,480
the country that monitor all the

598
00:21:35,669 --> 00:21:33,840
astronauts health and everything like

599
00:21:37,830 --> 00:21:35,679
that while they're on board so if a

600
00:21:39,510 --> 00:21:37,840
problem ever did arose you know we'd

601
00:21:40,870 --> 00:21:39,520
have the people here to help them handle

602
00:21:41,909 --> 00:21:40,880
it

603
00:21:43,350 --> 00:21:41,919
absolutely

604
00:21:44,950 --> 00:21:43,360
all right i think we got about one

605
00:21:49,990 --> 00:21:44,960
minute left so let's do one last

606
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um

607
00:21:55,350 --> 00:21:52,720
what do they drink up in

608
00:21:57,909 --> 00:21:55,360
in the international space station

609
00:22:01,350 --> 00:21:57,919
what do they drink tang right tang tang

610
00:22:02,630 --> 00:22:01,360
is the drink of all astronauts um

611
00:22:04,390 --> 00:22:02,640
they they drink a number of different

612
00:22:05,110 --> 00:22:04,400
things they drink a lot of water you

613
00:22:08,789 --> 00:22:05,120
know

614
00:22:10,789 --> 00:22:08,799
really good for them and then they they

615
00:22:12,070 --> 00:22:10,799
drink as much of that as they can you

616
00:22:13,830 --> 00:22:12,080
know in the morning they like their

617
00:22:15,750 --> 00:22:13,840
morning cup of coffee so they'll drink

618
00:22:17,909 --> 00:22:15,760
some coffee they have you know tang or

619
00:22:19,510 --> 00:22:17,919
orange juice to to drink uh you know

620
00:22:21,830 --> 00:22:19,520
various juices some apple juice you know

621
00:22:23,830 --> 00:22:21,840
cranberry juice things like that so uh

622
00:22:26,470 --> 00:22:23,840
you know kind of like like the food a

623
00:22:28,630 --> 00:22:26,480
pretty wide variety of drinks and one of

624
00:22:31,590 --> 00:22:28,640
the one of the interesting things about

625
00:22:33,990 --> 00:22:31,600
their water is it's all recycled

626
00:22:35,669 --> 00:22:34,000
so some of the one of the funny quotes

627
00:22:37,830 --> 00:22:35,679
that we hear is uh sometimes you're

628
00:22:38,950 --> 00:22:37,840
drinking yesterday's coffee the morning

629
00:22:40,070 --> 00:22:38,960
of today

630
00:22:41,270 --> 00:22:40,080
so they actually i mean they have a

631
00:22:42,630 --> 00:22:41,280
recycling

632
00:22:45,750 --> 00:22:42,640
system on board the station that

633
00:22:47,350 --> 00:22:45,760
recycles human waste things like that

634
00:22:48,870 --> 00:22:47,360
expirated water

635
00:22:51,110 --> 00:22:48,880
and then turns it back into potable

636
00:22:53,350 --> 00:22:51,120
drinking water so

637
00:22:54,710 --> 00:22:53,360
but yeah lots of water lots of again a

638
00:22:58,390 --> 00:22:54,720
lot like the food a lot of drinks that

639
00:22:59,830 --> 00:22:58,400
you'd find just down here on earth

640
00:23:01,750 --> 00:22:59,840
all right well i think that's about all

641
00:23:02,950 --> 00:23:01,760
the time we have i really want to thank

642
00:23:04,630 --> 00:23:02,960
you guys for your questions hope you

643
00:23:06,710 --> 00:23:04,640
learned a little bit and hope you

644
00:23:12,549 --> 00:23:06,720
enjoyed your visit and your stop here