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well greetings everybody welcome to

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mission control houston this is the

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international space station's flight

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control room uh this is basically the

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nerve center for all the activities that

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go on aboard the international space

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station so a team of flight controllers

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here looks over all the systems around

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the clock of the crew members that are

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on board the international space station

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each one of the positions in here

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monitors

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systems different systems to make sure

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they're operating well aboard the

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complex so we're real happy to

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have you guys in pennsylvania at the

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corpus christi school join us today here

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in mission control and also we have an

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expert in one of those systems joining

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us jeff baisley

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jeff is an expert in

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basically all of the systems associated

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with the environmental control the life

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support systems

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aboard the station so

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welcome to pennsylvania and also welcome

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jeff thanks for joining us and we're

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um my name's carson what are some of the

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decisions the flight director has to

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well that's probably a good one for

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jesse because he works directly with the

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flight director all the time yes the

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flight director does have a very

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important job here as you know the the

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flight director is kind of the boss when

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we're in here

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one of the big things that he monitors

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is actually the

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timing of everything that happens

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his job is to make sure that we're we're

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meeting the objectives of the day um

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sometimes you have to we prioritize

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things uh we never like when things go

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wrong but uh you know definitely

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sometimes maintenance doesn't go right

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and so then we need to reshuffle

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everything and make sure everything's

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correct and of course you know he's in

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charge if we get into a

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a bind with activities on the system

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um my name is max and what do you think

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is the most important role in mission

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control and why

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ours

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that's a great question um you know

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mission control is a team

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so it's hard to pick one wall um but and

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you know i'm a little biased but i think

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the systems controllers are the ones

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that have the most important job so of

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all the different systems on board the

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thermal control power attitude control

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my system life support i've also got

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that command data handling and

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a way to communicate with the vehicle

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there's also the ground controller who

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kind of make sure that everything works

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from the vehicle down here and so the

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everybody on that list are here 24 7 365

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before the iss program is over

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and that's a very good question um you

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know definitely something that we're

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thinking about here different habitats i

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know that the iss is definitely a big

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promoter of uh going forward to create a

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new habitat there's a lot of systems on

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board that we're testing

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um you know especially in my system life

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support you know we have a lot of water

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systems a lot of air regeneration

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systems and so by testing them in low

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earth or low earth orbit

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while we can actually fix things but

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before we go farther

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it's definitely a big priority and

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making sure that we get all the bugs out

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hi my name's spencer

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working in mission control must be

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stressful what do you do to help relieve

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yeah that's a great question um you know

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it the the hours uh definitely play on

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us a lot as i mentioned uh system

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um of course i'm not here all the time

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but uh you know different shifts and the

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night shift is a particularly tough one

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but to kind of relieve some of that

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stress you know a lot of people do

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exercise so i know people in my group

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some of them win marathons

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so they definitely love to exercise

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the big thing is just making sure that

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you have an activity outside of work

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that that you can do that

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is important and you can look forward to

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after work so for me um i'm on a canine

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search team with my dog and so we get to

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go out and do a lot of training

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and go out and do things and so

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definitely something i look forward to

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out at work i think yeah i think

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having a balanced lifestyle even for you

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guys you know when you're when you're

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done with school every day you you

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certainly don't think about school all

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the time but you do your homework and

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those type of things the same thing for

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folks in here is you know when you get

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off work you you try to get away from

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work for a little while and

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hi i'm anna claire

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what was your most exciting moment in

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working control for the first time um

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you know the way that we train uh we

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start in the back room uh so not here in

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the bicker but in the back room and so

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sending your first command in a real

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vehicle it's quite a quite an exciting

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moment i actually have printed out my

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desk the first command i sent to the

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another exciting thing for me i was

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working my first shuttle mission here in

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the front room so i worked at sts-134

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that's the last flight of endeavor and i

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actually worked the orbit one shift

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which is the shift where um the shuttle

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was docking so it's cool you know

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looking up on the big boat and seeing

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seeing the shuttle come in for the last

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time for endeavor and you know watching

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it's definitely a real surreal feeling

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hi my name is clara and i would like to

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know what is capcom's most important job

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that they need to do

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the only one that talks directly to the

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crew on a day-to-day basis so

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one of their most important jobs is

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actually translating what what i tell

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them into krewe speak

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once about a certain issue but also

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making sure that it's clear it's clear

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hi i'm emma mauer

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and um my question is does mission

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control control everything or just

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control some things or do you control

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mission control is very integral to

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what's going on up in space and i think

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the crew relies heavily on that and then

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probably be amazed to learn that you

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know we send thousands of commands every

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day to the space station between us here

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as well as as well of our international

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partners around the world

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and so those those commands controller

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systems also in in marshall space flight

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center they say they send commands to do

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the advantage of doing that

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from the ground is it frees up the crew

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something fails we need them to put

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hi my name is rube

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how long is the iss gonna be in space

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that's a great question yeah

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approved to go through 2020

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eight years now um however we're

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2027 i believe um the the big

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long pole in that is obviously the the

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seeing how much margin we still have to

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and of course all the all the spare

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parts you know we don't like it when

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things fail but things do fail so all

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hi my name is madeline cardinale what

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experiences do you have that you feel

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really benefit your career working in

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chemical engineer so i received my

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bachelor's in chemical engineering

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background is very important to working

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never never taking

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what's told to you for granted you know

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strive to understand the why and the

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what what is going on you know look at

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definitely uh you need to be

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forward thinking you know always asking

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what's the next thing and

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delving deeper on your own into whatever

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science experiments in school uh you

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know definitely trying to understand

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understand it more uh it definitely

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hi my name is patrick and my question is

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who started mission control in what year

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mission control was not even here it was

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down in florida when uh the first united

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space astronauts were launched and then

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there was a decision made to build this

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facility this of course this room has

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been changed from what it was in the

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early uh gemini days gemini was when two

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astronauts flew on capsules and that was

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bit for space shuttle and then now most

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recently to the room that you see here

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which is

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much more modernized with better

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technology in terms of the consoles and

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human factors were involved in that

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right jesse that

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you know they took that into account

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because they knew that flight

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controllers would be in here for long

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periods of time as opposed to what they

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were you know back in early days for

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long missions like this space station

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right yes that's that's true um you know

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we're also looking forward so we have in

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testing right now um the next mission

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control so what that's going to look

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like for the orion project

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and you know that's definitely

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continuing to modernize the system but

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also uh the human factors part of it and

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you know we've learned things

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here in picker one that you know we we

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can improve on and so we're improving

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those

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it's definitely changed over the years

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and it's amazing to look at the pictures

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around here what what it used to look

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like and what it now looks like yeah

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hi my name is elizabeth and what do you

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think is the coolest feature on the iss

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the the coolest feature um

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well i i definitely say from from the

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crew's perspective it's the cupola so

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the cupola is basically a bay of windows

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and it faces the earth so

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you've probably seen a lot of the really

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cool pictures that they've sent down

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also the cool video

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from sunrise sunset during the day

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even during the night they've

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taken video of night passes and so it's

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definitely cool looking out the window

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my perspective i'm a systems guy so

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i have interesting uh interesting

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modules with systems but that's

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obviously not something that other

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hi my name is kira and my question is

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about how many times a day does mission

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control

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lose connection with the iss

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that's actually a great question um we

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have an area called the zone of

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exclusion um and that's usually about

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every 90 minutes that we lose come calm

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the vehicle it's usually about 10

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minutes long

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that gives us a time to take a break

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while while the crew

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continues

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the

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close that gap if we need to

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so usually doing critical ops so

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say a vehicle's coming

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robotics ebas things like that we we can

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ask the network to give us more time and

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so at that time we usually have all the

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time that we want

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but we still have what's called a

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handover time which is about 20 seconds

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where our antennas need to go from one

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angle to another to pick up another

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satellite so those those are actually

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fairly common

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hello my name is anna carmina how do you

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get the medications to the astronauts

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that's that's a great question um the

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obviously the medication is provided

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via visiting vehicles so it's on board

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we don't in real time

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send it to them

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we do have a console called the surgeon

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console

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they

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worked with the crew for many years as

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they've gone through training and so

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they

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hi my name is kariel what kind of

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experiences have you had in mission

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control

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well yeah as i already mentioned uh you

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know i have to

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the i did come in in time to work a few

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shuttle flights um as a

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iss support um i you know the biggest

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thing now is just increment operations

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so i get to i get to support usually

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about one week every couple months

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that you know i come in here and and

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work with the crew

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and also

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um as increment lead as actually the

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increment lead for the last crew before

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dan burbank came home

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that's there's a lot of planning that

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goes into each of these flights and so

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it it's definitely an experience that

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hi my name is lauren how many

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how has mission control changed over the

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years

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that is a good question yeah that's kind

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of what we were talking about earlier so

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it's it's changed

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quite a bit from over the years

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from the early days of uh apollo even

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before that to what you're looking at

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now right yeah the interesting thing is

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uh right above us is called picker 2

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which is the old apollo picker that's

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preserved it's a historical site and so

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you get to get to take a view of what it

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used to look like and this room actually

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looked exactly like that

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before his transition over the space

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station and even space station we've had

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two flight control rooms so we used to

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be in what's called blue picker

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before we outgrew that as the station

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got bigger and then we transitioned over

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here

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yeah the mission control center is very

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very large you're looking at one room

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but there's a flight control room like

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jesse said above us there's one down the

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hall that was used for space shuttle and

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will probably transition to a future

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spacecraft like orion that jesse

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mentioned at the next generation of

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human space transport that the that

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nasa's helping develop or is developing

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so

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it's a very big building that

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houses very different kinds of flight

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control depending on what actually is

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going on and of course if there's

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training going on for another mission

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right you do you're always doing

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simulations for future flights as well

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yeah i'm actually in training uh to to

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learn another system so i'm learning our

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internal thermal control system so it's

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always evolving

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you get to grow and learn more things as

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you go through your career so here's a

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good example of somebody who's

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continuing to learn even though he's

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already out of school so you guys can

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how did orion

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well how will you get orion into space

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that's that's a good question um there's

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two vehicles right now that that we're

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working on so the original lions um so

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the first couple flights i believe well

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i should be flown on a commercial

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vehicle that's our the atlas

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launch vehicle as it transitions we're

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going to go to what's called a space

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launch system

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shuttle derived uses shuttle hardware

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and it's a new vehicle to allow us to go

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farther it's about the size or belief of

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what would you do if an astronaut um

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was like

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life-threatening

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sick

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yeah that's always um that's actually

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something that we uh that we are we had

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plans for um you know that on board the

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crew does have uh two of the return

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vehicles uh they're called the soyuz uh

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russian

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vehicle and you know if we had a crew

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member get critically ill we can always

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bring him home

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and land in russia and get them to more

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medical support of course his crewmates

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would need to come home with him

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because then we don't want to leave them

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with no escape vehicle so

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we do have that plan and we can execute

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it if if we needed to

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luckily we've never gotten there yet all

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how many times does the i

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s s go around the world in a day

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that's a good question um the iss

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actually orbits the earth every night 90

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minutes

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which i believe that equates to 15

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orbits in a day

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something about that um and so

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we we track it um and you know every day

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they they go around the earth every 90

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minutes to get the sunrise and the

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sunset so

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it's definitely different than what you

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have on the ground here yeah the space

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station is traveling about 17 000 miles

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per hour so that's about for you guys

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it's about five miles every second so it

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travels very fast at what's known as

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orbital velocity and and it's about 250

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miles above the earth right now so as

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jesse said you know once every hour and

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a half it's it goes all the way around

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hi my name is mara and i was wondering

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how someone got assigned to a council in

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mission control

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well um that's a great question um you

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know i i came in i was actually hired um

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as a nicholas uh so a life support

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officer um it used to be that uh you'd

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be hired within that group so a specific

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towards a specific console now we've

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actually transitioned more towards

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generic

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systems controllers so

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you when you get hired in here

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you get to experience each of the

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different groups

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and basically provide your

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recommendation of what what group you

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want to work for

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and you know sometimes that's not always

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possible

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but you know we definitely like to uh

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allow people to have the opportunity to

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work for whatever position they want

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which there's lots of them here

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hi my name is liam and i wanted to know

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what's the hardest task you ever had to

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face

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um

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you know they stimulated tasks

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which you always get get put to the

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ringer in a simulation

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but i think in real time

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i i think the hardest thing i had to do

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was actually come in

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i wasn't on call

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for a flight

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that we had russian computer problems

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that

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caused the rapid depress to be

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enunciated on board and this was

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actually why the crew was

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in what we call campout so they were in

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the airlock uh down at 10 2psi and so i

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was asked to come in uh to help the on

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console team uh basically reconfigure

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all systems after that and the challenge

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there was the mixed config we were in

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because as i mentioned the crew was at

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10 2 in the airlock so there were a lot

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of different things we had to consider

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um

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will there be

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other i mean have there been thoughts

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about other iss around orbiting other

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planets

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i believe there actually has been

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there currently talks about putting one

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i think it's past the moon as there's a

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gravity gradient spot that that actually

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works for putting a space station there

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it'll actually

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provide basically a destination

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for the orion on its way to deep space

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as far as the iss hardware i don't

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believe there's actually any plan for a

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similar 2d iss it would be an advanced

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version of the space station

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that's the beauty about the space

564
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station that we have now is that we're

565
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learning how to live long duration

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time periods

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at this altitude

568
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because when we go out further out

569
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obviously it means it's going to take

570
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longer to get back so you need to you

571
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definitely need to know uh how to live

572
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for long duration stays in space because

573
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you your trip will become much longer

574
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and that's that's one of the things

575
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we're doing at the international space

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station right now so those are great

577
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questions and we really enjoyed visiting

578
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with everybody today in pennsylvania and

579
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you guys keep studying hard and

580
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hopefully you'll make your way right

581
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here to this room and join jesse along

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with other flight controllers as part of

583
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the the team here in mission control so

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thanks a lot for joining us everybody we