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hi welcome to mission control houston

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and thank you for joining us today we're

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inside the international space station

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flight control room where the orbit 2

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team is monitoring the systems and the

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cruise activities aboard the

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international space station we're here

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today to talk with uh sixth to eighth

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grade students that are out at

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huntsville alabama at uh space camp and

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here with us today is a special guest

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she knows a little about space camp liz

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warren who is also the space station

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science communication coordinator

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welcome liz and thank you for coming

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thank you very much for having me i'm

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very excited to speak with you thank you

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and what is also very very very special

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about liz being here is

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well you've been here at nasa for eight

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years now

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and um she is a space camp graduate she

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went level one and level two

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and um it's also was recently inducted

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into the space camp hall of fame just

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this year yes i was congratulations it

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was a lot of fun it's a huge honor so

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many people have gone to space camp just

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like all the students were speaking with

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today i believe while i was there in

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june uh the 600 000th graduate walked

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through the doors of space camp

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so that's exciting so again we have a

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special treat for you guys so we're

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hi i'm maggie swanian and i'm from

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duluth georgia um

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what are all the

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defects almost of being in space too

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long what happens to your body what

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happens if you're there too long or for

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a long period of time

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well that's a great question and it's

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actually very appropriate i'm a

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physiologist so that's like the thing

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i'm most interested in what happens to

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the human body when you go to space for

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a really long time and while it looks

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like a lot of fun to live in space and

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float around it looks like a like a

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great time it's not really that good for

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your body

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gravity is this force that we live with

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on earth all the time and it helps us

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maintain strong bones and muscles and a

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strong cardiovascular system in

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microgravity while those systems tend to

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decondition or get weaker so astronauts

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can lose bone mass bone strength muscle

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strength and mass and also their hearts

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get a little bit weaker among some other

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changes fortunately we have studied

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these changes and we know how to prevent

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them or prevent some of the changes that

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occur so astronauts have to exercise

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nutritious meals and so just like living

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here on earth it's important to exercise

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and eat well and that helps our

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astronauts helps you as well

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my name is emma hearn and i'm from

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what kind like when

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when did you decide you wanted to be an

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astronaut or work at nasa

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decided that that being an astronaut

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working at nasa i might have been even

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younger than you

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and i just set my goals and asked a lot

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of questions asked my parents how do i

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and really anyone can can work at nasa

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any there's a variety of interests

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engineering and science and math of

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open up many doors to career fields but

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nasa has people that are artists and

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lawyers as well

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but i knew pretty young that that i

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wanted to contribute to space

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exploration and

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i think it was in particular there was

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one very inspiring space shuttle mission

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mission was dedicated to studying space

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life sciences and i didn't know very

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much about space life sciences but i

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knew that i liked space and i knew that

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i liked biology and this particular

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space shuttle mission combined both of

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with that mission i decided i'm to go be

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a physiologist at nasa it took a couple

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hi my name is cameron and

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i'm from atlanta georgia and i was

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wondering have you ever sent any other

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monkeys to space other than mrs baker

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special monkeys but in fact a lot of

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different animals including other

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monkeys have flown in space in fact our

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early space program since we weren't

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really sure what would happen to the

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human body living in space we had

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animals go first and kind of test the

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international space station we have a

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brand new aquarium it's called the

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aquatic habitat and pretty soon we're

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going to have some fish on board so we

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multi-generational studies in other

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have babies will study their babies and

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then their babies so we can learn uh

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developmentally what happens in

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microgravity but yeah lots of animals

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duluth georgia and my question is

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who controls the shuttle or the rocket

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vehicles actually happens from the

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ground um but amico do you want to chime

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international space station control room

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this this entire room is full of a team

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many other folks that are not inside

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this room that uh manage and work the

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systems that are the international space

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station which is now flying

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many times a day nine years 16 times a

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day every 90 minutes yeah um of course

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the astronauts are on board you know

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most of the most of the rockets to make

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sure that all the systems are operating

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nominally and and uh of course they have

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to throw switches and certainly during

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key inputs as well

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no one person that manages all of that

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very important to us here

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probably use yourself as um you

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continue to work on your your

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your education career and then later in

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life in your career you'll see that

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of your life good question do we have

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um i'm kira hoskin from atlanta georgia

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about how many people has america

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close to 500 people total who have been

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to space and i actually don't know the

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distribution of americans versus

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russians versus other countries

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number when you consider all of the

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human beings that have existed on our

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space for 50 years now which which

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space flight participants or or tourists

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working towards sending uh people who

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just buy a ticket to space uh and that's

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restricted area to to more people so i

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that distribution is well i don't have

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of these folks who have flown to the

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tell you that they all recognize that it

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is a privilege and an honor to fly

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see your dreams absolutely you know one

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importance of being a good follower as

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well as a good leader so those skills i

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first time at space camp and space

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academy um and believe me those skills

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those little little bits that you take

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away from space camp uh they're with you

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for for the rest of your life i still

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draw upon experiences that i learned at

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hi i'm matt stone from lawrenceville

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what is the longest period of time

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time at once like in one consecutive

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438 days so well over a year this

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gentleman stayed in space um

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astronauts and cosmonauts that when you

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a special day for the commander of the

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space station gennady padalka today

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to live and work in space efficiently

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and safely it's a very hard thing to do

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just keeping a vehicle in an operational

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state is very hard to do just yesterday

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we completed a very complex and very

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important spacewalk because we had an

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electrical problem on the space station

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so every day we're learning how to go

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how to live and work safely in space

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we're going to go to mars it's just a

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matter of time and national priority i

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think if we had to go soon we could we

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could go but there's still a lot we need

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to learn for example um just human

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beings being in space for that long is

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really hard there are some challenges

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with radiation um and so there's a lot

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we need to learn but um

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i i i'm sure we're going to get there uh

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eventually

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hi my name is brandon and i live in

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lawrenceville georgia and my question is

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how would astronauts like

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move around and do

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regular everyday things with

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less much less gravity

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living on the international space

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station

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we say microgravity um and uh you can

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see video i hope you you're able to

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watch nasa tv or some of the excellent

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footage we have on on the nasa.gov

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website and youtube sites um it looks

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like a blast it looks like they go like

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this it's very slow motion yeah and all

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you need it's very effortless though if

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you want to move all the way across a

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room all you need to do is push gently

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on on the wall that you're near and

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you'll you'll float to the other side of

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the room so

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it looks like a lot of fun but it looks

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also looks pretty easy you can use your

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hands you can use your feet and you see

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them lifting very large heavy things

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that traditionally we would not be able

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to lift here on earth but also i know

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that at times it can complicate things

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and as liz had mentioned earlier about

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even just the uh you know if you imagine

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the gravity especially on our bodies you

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know just the simple movements that we

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make standing sitting and walking even

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though you don't have a you may not have

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a

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once once it's in orbit it just goes

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around and around the earth it's

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constantly falling though essentially

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when we when we talk about microgravity

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we can you can also say free fall so the

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space station is always falling toward

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the earth but the great thing is the

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earth is also moving away from it so

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that's this neat balance between gravity

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pulling it down and and the force of the

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space station and his feet of the space

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station carrying it away it's it's a

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nice balance which which creates that

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microgravity environment

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but the way it stays in space is is

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every once in a while we have to give it

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a little bit of a boost because there's

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just a little bit of friction out there

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just a few air molecules and everyone

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every time the space station hits one of

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those little air molecules it slows down

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ever so slightly

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so every once in a while we have to give

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the space station a little extra boost

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and it'll stay up there indefinitely

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until we're ready to take it down

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very good question very smart kids i can

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tell do we have another one

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hi my name is reagan uh i'm from

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huntsville

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what are the qualifications of an

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astronaut

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hey reign well the qualifications for

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astronauts are that they have to have an

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advanced

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education so you've got to finish

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college get a bachelor of science degree

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in science math technology engineering

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and also

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usually a work experience the more

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breadth you have seems to be really

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valuable

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our astronauts have have a wide variety

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of skill sets and experience there are

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people who are

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marine biologists there are geologists

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there are engineers there are

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boy there are a whole variety there's

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medical doctors so it almost seems like

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any career that you choose

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and if you want to be an astronaut be

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really good at what you do

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and enjoy what you're doing choose a

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field that is something you enjoy and

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you'll probably excel if you're doing

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something that you really enjoy

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and

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there are people in the military who

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become astronauts because of their

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experience flying so there's a there's a

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great

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really high skill sets and abilities

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hi i'm emily i'm from georgia besides

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exercise what do astronauts do

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boy astronauts are very very busy when i

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said they exercise two hours a day

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that's crammed in the middle of a very

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busy day

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an average day in space usually wake

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wake up around six in the morning now

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when i say six in the morning that's uh

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on greenwich mean time so for houston

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and for huntsville that's about two in

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the morning right or one in the morning

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depending on if it's if it's central

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daylight or if it's daylight savings

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time or not

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wake up at six have a little bit of time

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for hygiene eating breakfast getting

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ready for the day getting dressed and

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then right into a conference where you

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speak with ground controllers here in

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the space station control room and you

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kind of talk about what's going to go go

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on for the day and then you get right

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into doing science experiments

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maintenance of the space station and it

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takes a lot of work just to keep the

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space station going um variety of space

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station experiments you may be working

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with flame and combustion one minute and

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then the next minute taking an

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ultrasound or the next hour taking an

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ultrasound images of your heart and then

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you may go 10 to the aquatic habitat

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where you may have some fish

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and then have a quick lunch usually keep

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working throughout the day

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maybe have another conference with the

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doctor or the flight director just to

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keep tabs on how things are going

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the day usually ends with another

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conference where i talk about what

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happened during the day with the ground

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controllers talk maybe about what's

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going to happen the next day what worked

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what didn't work

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and in the middle there i said you know

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you had your two hours of exercise and

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then and then you have a little bit of

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free time and then and then bed and

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that's a very very busy day the

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astronauts

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have a tremendous workload and

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almost every minute is accounted for

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very busy day and it's every day every

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day they get a little time to talk to

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their families on the weekends and they

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can make a phone call here and there

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but but otherwise they're extremely busy

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there's six people on the international

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space station and they're working very

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hard so you can imagine how much work is

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getting done

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very good question and i think we have

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time for another one do we have another

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my name is abigail and i'm from

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huntsville alabama and i was wondering

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um

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have there ever been any problems in

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with this

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rocket ship or anything that happened

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that wasn't supposed to happen

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absolutely space space travel abigail is

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is is difficult we've been doing it for

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50 years we're still learning there have

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absolutely been um some challenges to

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overcome we've had we've had some

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accidents along the way we've lost some

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people and that's very hard it's

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something that we accept in the space

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business though

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we go into this knowing that we're

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pushing the very boundaries of human

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ability and when you're exploring and

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you're pushing boundaries

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there's going to be some losses and

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we've had some very sad losses um but it

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also gives nasa an opportunity and our

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energy and our international partners to

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really shine too because when you

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overcome a challenge it really feels

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good

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like i mentioned earlier just yesterday

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there was a very very difficult eva

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that's a spacewalk

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that was performed that fixed a really

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serious problem with power um that it

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was basically cut the space station's

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power by about half essentially and so

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every day we're having challenges almost

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every day and when we overcome those

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challenges it feels really good and it

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helps us to learn so that we can do

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better in the future

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and maybe one day get to mars

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i believe it we will

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what was the first mission they ever

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worked on

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me personally

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i was doing research as a college

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student the first mission i helped with

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was sts-84

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and

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this experiment actually

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went to the mir space station it

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launched on the space shuttle went to

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the mir space station and stayed there

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with astronaut mike foale and it was a

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little little uh experiment that studied

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circadian rhythms or or sleep and how

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well astronauts may um

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may learn uh how to how to sleep better

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and how light

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affects how well they sleep and actually

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the experiment was on little beetles we

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launched little beetles and little

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miniature um holding canisters and that

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was the first the first mission that i

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worked on and i've been working ever

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since on a whole bunch of missions it's

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it's it's been a tremendous honor and i

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love doing it every day and if it's

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something you want to do

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just

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keep working at it it's sometimes

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there's obstacles to overcome in school

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or in your personal life

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i was very very happy and lucky that i

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knew what i wanted to do so i just set

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my goal and i worked toward it steadily

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my name is gemin and i'm from ohio and

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how did the people know where to land

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curiosity on mars

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wow

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i don't even know the answer that

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question but i can guess

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and i think they chose a place on mars

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that was really interesting to them

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geologically but i am definitely not the

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right person to ask there's so many

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things to learn about nasa and we can't

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possibly all know all the answers

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and i'm certainly not the person you ask

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either i'm sorry i don't know the answer

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to that but you can go to

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www.nasa.gov there's a ton of

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information there um obviously there's a

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ton of information about mars curiosity

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there are several people who tweet

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on twitter so if any of you guys are on

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twitter

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go there i would say follow the flight

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director

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mohawk guy

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uh bobak podowski he's known as tweets

560
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out loud on twitter and you can get a

561
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lot of information about what exactly is

562
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going on with that mars rover

563
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there on mars and in the who that landed

564
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in the gale crater

565
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hi i'm nicole

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i'm from stone mountain georgia and i

567
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was wondering how it felt when you had a

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successful landing from either a human

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or an animal and like they came back and

570
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they went there with no problems

571
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well that that mission that i mentioned

572
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earlier sts-84 being that it was the

573
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first mission that i worked on

574
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personally um it was tremendous i had

575
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watched a lot of space shuttle missions

576
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launched before that as and and just

577
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watching those missions happen very

578
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exciting and thrilling but when you have

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a part when you're playing a part in a

580
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small role

581
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it really gives you tremendous

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satisfaction everyone here at nasa

583
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pretty much everyone has a very small

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role for the most part when you add up

585
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all those people working together you

586
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can do tremendous things and you know

587
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the astronauts they're just the most

588
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visible pieces of of us of a mission um

589
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but there's there's thousands of people

590
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working every day to make sure that

591
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we're successful and all those thousands

592
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of people um

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i get tremendous self-satisfaction

594
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knowing that i'm helping just the

595
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littlest bit and that that makes me feel

596
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really good it's it just makes you feel

597
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just good inside and i think that's a in

598
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overall the consensus here i honestly um

599
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at landing you know i've seen many many

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missions land and i can tell you every

601
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time we land and we have a successful

602
00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:16,640
mission i get goosebumps i get excited

603
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it doesn't change

604
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i never become desensitized well i think

605
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yeah yeah i've seen it once i've seen it

606
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all

607
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every mission is different and every

608
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mission is special and everyone involved

609
00:23:30,870 --> 00:23:28,880
in that is very special and unique and

610
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important to us as well as the mission

611
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as well and so yeah it's very important

612
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to us and i think of course we feel

613
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elated when we know that we nailed it

614
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i'm caitlin and i'm from georgia

615
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and i was wondering about how many

616
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different types of animals have you sent

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up to space

618
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well personally let's talk generically

619
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boy there's been fish there's been

620
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monkeys there's been insects

621
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there's been mice and rats

622
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i would say at least 10 probably

623
00:24:10,070 --> 00:24:07,440
different types of animals have been in

624
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space and and we can we can study them

625
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and learn from them as well as from our

626
00:24:16,549 --> 00:24:14,720
astronauts um

627
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so i think

628
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quite a few critters have gone up into

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space so

630
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along with our people critters

631
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i think uh that's about all the time

632
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that we have that was the last question

633
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we really appreciate you guys coming out

634
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and joining us again we are inside the

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international space station flight