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hi welcome to the international space

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station flight control room we're here

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for a distance learning network event

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we're talking to seventh grade students

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with creighton middle school creighton

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meet clayton because here today we have

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nasa astronaut clay anderson clay had

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flown a five month to 152 days aboard

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the international space station on

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expedition 15 and 16 in fact you

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actually replaced commander suni

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williams who's actually up on station

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for expedition 15 and he also flew

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aboard um the space shuttle during

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welcome and thank you for coming hey

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thanks for having me he also did what

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three space walks well a total of six

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total of six okay so the first one was

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first three were on expedition 15 and

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16. and um so he he has done it all

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right so uh we're ready for your

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hi my name is vantaja and here's my

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question what do the patches on the

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astronaut uniform represent

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hi fantasia it's great to see you guys

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on the camera by the way the patches on

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the suits represent several different

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things we have a flag to represent the

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country because now we're an

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international space station crew so not

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everyone is from the united states and

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then if you look at my shirt here you

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see a brief version of our expedition 15

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patch which is also

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symbolic of

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what we were trying to accomplish on

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station so what happens is the crew

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designs those patches and now we'll have

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a soyuz patch that represents the crew

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going up on the soyuz we'll have a space

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station patch

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for the first crew that comes to station

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and then for example with sunny williams

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now she had a crew

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previously before she became commander

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and now when she's commander they have a

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new patch so all the patches are

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symbolic of

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special activities that are going to

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occur on the mission that we're on or

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things that represent

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the crew

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my name is brianna and my question is

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can you build a fire in space

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brianna you can build a fire in space

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but you have to be very very careful

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when you do it and what we do when we

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do experiments to see how fire behaves

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in microgravity we have to enclose it in

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something that we call the microscience

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glove box so

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we do do flames we do burn things but

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it's very very controlled you don't want

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to have an out of control flame on an

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international space station because it's

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a very uh dangerous environment when you

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have flames going around so everything's

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my name is dylan and i'd like to know i

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read that commander suny williams ran a

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marathon while she was on the iss

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how can you run a marathon in space

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hey dylan that's a great question you

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know i think sonny's a little crazy when

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she runs a marathon 26.4 miles is way

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too far for me to run i'd rather ride a

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the way sunny does it is that we have a

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treadmill on board the international

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space station we actually have two uh

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one's kind of an older version and one's

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the newer version and sunny wrote on the

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new version so she basically puts a

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harness on that holds her down to the

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treadmill and she turns it on and she

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simply begins to run and when she ran

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she started her uh run at the exact time

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marathon on earth and so she ran her

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26.4 miles and then she provides them

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her time i think she might have even had

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an official number that she wore so

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sonny's a big runner and she loves to do

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things like that

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and fitness and actually on this

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particular mission she just completed a

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triathlon so she actually used all three

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pieces of gem equipment on board the

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station that involves a cycle a

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stationary cycle the treadmill that clay

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described and also an advanced

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resistive exercise device that simulates

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weight lifting here on earth

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that was actually to help simulate the

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swim portion of that triathlon so yeah

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sunny is very big into her fitness and

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fitness as you know is important here on

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earth but it's even more so in space

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absolutely and i still think she's crazy

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my name is lauren and here is my

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question when i do something that i like

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it seems like time goes by fast when you

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are doing a spacewalk does it feel like

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six hours or does it feel like it goes

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thank you lauren that's a great question

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i'm sure that you think when you're

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studying your homework at night that

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that goes by really really fast

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but a space walk you are so focused on

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accomplishing all the goals of that

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mission of that spacewalk and

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not making any mistakes right making

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sure that everybody is kept safe that

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all the equipment's protected that you

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do the right thing and the amount of

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time that's allotted so you're exactly

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it's a very enjoyable experience it's

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mentally tough it's not as physically

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difficult as it is when we train in the

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big swimming pool down here but doing a

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spacewalk in outer space it's a lot

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easier for your body except that you

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have to focus and concentrate so much

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more it's very difficult mentally but

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the time does just sail by you know

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you'll think holy cow we've only been

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out here an hour and they'll tell you

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you've been out there for five minutes

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so uh it's quite a great experience i

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hope you all get to do one someday

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uh my name is brianna and my question is

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what was the largest plant that has ever

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been grown at the space station

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hey brianna that's a great question i

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think you're trying to get me to tell

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you that when i was on the space station

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we tried to grow basil seeds and lettuce

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seeds and they started out growing and i

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ended up killing them all so i feel

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really badly about talking about plants

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in space but the russians

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had an actual pea plant

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in their segment that grew to be quite

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tall at least 12 inches so

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plants in space and it's very important

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as we think about going to a place like

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mars or to an asteroid or to the moon

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the ability to grow plants to have food

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to eat or to provide oxygen forest which

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is what plants do and they also absorb

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carbon dioxide so those are all three

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good things that a plant can do for us

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for astronauts on a space crew and

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that's why we're looking at it so hard

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so the biggest plant i didn't see it but

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plant in the russian segment and while

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that pea plant was the largest to be

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grown in space most recently

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astronaut don pettit who was aboard the

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international space station spotted the

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zucchini and the zucchini had a life of

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its own actually you can go online and

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read about that either go to

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blogs.nasa.gov or you can follow the

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zucchini on twitter believe it or not at

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astrozook and

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and and learn about exactly growing

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plants in space as well good question

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you have another one

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my name is matthew and my question is

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have you seen any hurricanes or typhoons

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from space can you do anything to help

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earth when you see one

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hey matt that's a great question uh when

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i flew on the space station i flew

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between june and november of 2007 and

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believe it or not those are the exact

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months of hurricane season so it starts

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30th of november and i saw many many

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hurricanes it was very cool because i

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about a tropical wave coming off the

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coast of africa so i saw those and then

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toward the united states i would see

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them develop into a tropical depression

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and then into a tropical storm and then

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into a full-blown hurricane and it

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three category fives the biggest most

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dangerous hurricanes you can see uh two

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hurricane felix and in actuality

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hurricane dean caused the sts-118 crew

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who came to visit me while i was on the

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space station they had to leave early

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because hurricane dean was a category

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five and it was bearing down on houston

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texas and all the folks in the mission

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control were worried that the crew might

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not be able to get home and protect

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their families so what we ended up doing

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was cutting the mission short we cut two

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of our spacewalks short as well so that

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we could get things put together and

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they could come home so a hurricane is

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absolutely beautiful from outer space

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it's safer to see it from outer space

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but you really worry about the folks who

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are beneath that hurricane here on earth

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especially if it's your family and being

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hurricanes can come and hit the coast of

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south carolina as well so we need to be

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it was um and you guys were on a

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spacewalk at the time we captured video

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so you guys can go to youtube as well if

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you want to see that just search hurt

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hurricane dean and you can see that

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video that clay actually

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um my name is cara and i'd like to know

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is there such a thing as sports in space

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hey cara you're right up my alley with

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sports and space

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when i lived on the space station i took

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a college football from the university

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of nebraska which is where i'm from

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and i had a needle to inflate it and i

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would kick field goals at the camera so

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just like if you look behind my head

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right now you'll see that there are

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camera views on board the international

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space station so sometimes we would set

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those cameras up to look inside the lab

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module so what i would do is tee up the

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football because in zero gravity i

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didn't need a football tee and i would

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just kick it toward the camera and then

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i'd look at the camera and i'd signal

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touchdown as if the field goal was good

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and i asked the ground team to keep

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score but they really didn't want to

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play with me

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they were too busy doing real work but i

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had a baseball on board that i would

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pitch and toss and catch and hit with a

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bat that i fashioned from some equipment

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on station and i also had a nerf

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basketball and a nerf basketball hoop

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and fyodor yurchikhin who was my

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commander he and i we didn't play pig

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we played iss

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and the only way you could win iss was

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you had to be really good at banking the

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nerf ball off of the ceiling or the wall

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to get it to go through the basketball

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hoop

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there you have it creative play in space

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next question

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um my name is anna k and my question is

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we're getting annoyed with your cabin

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and okay

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i had great

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crewmates oleg kotov and fyodor

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yurchikhin were two russian cosmonauts

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they were great guys

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we had children that were approximately

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the same ages so we often talked about

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our kids

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we really didn't do any well i don't

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know if i did anything that aggravated

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them i probably did

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but

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the only things they would really do to

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aggravate me was they teased me a lot i

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would watch nebraska football games from

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space and on saturdays nebraska didn't

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have a really good year that year so

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olig would float down and he'd say he'd

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ask me how's the football going and then

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i'd say oh it's going okay because it

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was early in the game and then he'd

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float down later and he'd say hey the

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game's not going so good huh and he

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could tell by my face so they like to

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tease me about being

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an american who loved american football

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but

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for the most part we got along very very

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well they were my space brothers our

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nickname was three mushkitiri which is

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russian for three musketeers so

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i cherish that friendship with them and

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they're actually here in houston as we

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speak training for their next flights

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my name is blair and here is my question

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when do you consider it night in space

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since there are 16 sunrises and sunsets

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every day

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well

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we don't have great windows in the

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station we do have the cupola now that

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we can go into

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and look outside but we really don't

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have night and day per se you're correct

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in that we have 16 sunrises and sunsets

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so if you count that as your day or your

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night we do have 16 day night cycles but

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from a crew perspective you're simply

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going by the clock so you wake up at six

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o'clock o'clock in the morning greenwich

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time you work all day and you go to bed

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about 10 30 at night greenwich time so

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you really don't think about whether

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it's night or whether it's day in terms

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of sunlight and darkness you think about

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it in terms of clock time

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so that's kind of how we cope with that

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in space

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so when you go to bed it's night

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yeah it's nice it could be daylight

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outside but it's night for us because

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it's night time right and if we were to

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sleep in a module that had windows we

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would have to block those windows with

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something because it's very unnerving

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when the sun hits the window when you're

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deep in your sleep and it might wake you

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up so and i imagine you don't have any

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trouble falling asleep when it's

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nighttime

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after a long busy day aboard the

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international space station great

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question do we have any more

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hi my name is janik and here's my

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question what's the most interesting

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thing you've seen in space

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oh that's tough the most interesting

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thing i've seen in space i would have to

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say

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uh when i was out on my

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to see second spacewalk of my life

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i was able to fly over a place on the

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earth called dubai and you guys can

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probably go look at that on a map and

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there are resorts that they're building

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out in the ocean off the coast of dubai

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they're called the palm resorts and the

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world resort and the world resort is

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shaped like the continents on earth so

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you have north and south america

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australia asia africa antarctica and

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then they also have the palm resorts

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that are shaped like a big palm frond so

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you should go look that up on the

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internet and see if you can see pictures

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of that but when i saw that for the

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first time from outer space it was

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absolutely breathtaking and i got to see

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it again when i flew to space again on

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sts-131 we were out on our spacewalk and

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my partner rick mastracchio had never

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seen them and it just so happened we

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were waiting on the front of the station

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just hanging out and we looked down at

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my feet and there they were so rick got

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to see them on his space walk with me

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very good and not to commit you to do

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anything extra but clay is also on

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twitter and you can follow him at astro

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clay and he does have a little thing he

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does clay's pick of the day and perhaps

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he might

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tweet a photo or two of maybe dubai or a

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hurricane or something again not to

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commit you to do something

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and maybe i'll even see if i can find uh

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where creighton middle school is in

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south carolina and see if i took a

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picture of that for there we go so guys

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go to twitter and follow him on astro

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underscore clay and maybe you can see

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those photos that he's talking about

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today um next question hi my name is

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yotoam and here's my question when you

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come back to earth how long did you stay

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in bed before your body gets strong

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again

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well when i came back to earth you tell

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i didn't even go to bed for a long long

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long time that was one of the longest

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days of my life we had awakened on the

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shuttle right by our shuttle clock which

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is just like the space station so we

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awoke that morning and we had a long day

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to get ready to come home and land and

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then once we landed i still didn't get

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to go to sleep even though it would have

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been our night time to go to sleep on

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the space station or the shuttle i had

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to stay up i had to go into a room at

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the kennedy space center and i had to do

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a bunch of experiments where they were

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taking data on me and so by the end of

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the day

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the real day on earth it was 8 31 i

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remember my clock had the digital

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numbers 8 31 and that's all i remember

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because i just passed out at that point

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so

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that was the first time i got to go to

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bed on my first day home

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and i was really tired

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my name is nicholas and here's my

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question

439
00:15:05,350 --> 00:15:03,760
what type of protective suit do

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astronauts wear to keep them safe and

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warm from the space environment

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ah good question uh inside you know we

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don't need to wear a suit we can wear

444
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shirt sleeve and shorts if we'd like

445
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because it's a balmy 72 degrees with 55

446
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humidity slight breeze from the south

447
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and no clouds if we go outside though

448
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that's a great question because anytime

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you're outside it's a vacuum right

450
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there's no pressure there's no oxygen

451
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there's no nothing so everything you

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need to survive has to be contained in

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that little spaceship that we call our

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spacesuit so the one that you see the

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astronauts in come out of the space

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station is the white suit and that's

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called our extra vehicular mobility unit

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which is basically a spacewalk suit but

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it has the ability to keep us warm or

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keep us cool it has water for us to

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drink and it also protects us from

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meteoroids that could hit us it protects

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us from the cold and the hot of deep

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space and it provides us oxygen to

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breathe and gets rid of our carbon

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dioxide so

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great question it's very very important

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that we are protected by our own little

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spaceship whenever we go outside because

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space is a really really dangerous

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environment

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very good question do we have time for

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hi my name is christian here's my

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question what does the earth look like

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from space

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christian when i flew on the space

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station we always had to look through

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round circular windows so it looks

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simply like the earth through a circle

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but now we have this cupola and imagine

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that you can crawl into a big glass bowl

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and look any direction

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at the earth it's amazing you can

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actually see about a 3000 mile arc of

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the horizon of the earth and as you fly

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over florida and as you fly over the

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midwest or you fly over saudi arabia you

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can see so many cool things the colors

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are beautiful

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gorgeous and it's very hard to describe

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that view

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but it's actually the most beautiful

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thing you could imagine to see

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very few people have ever been able to

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see that so it's i guess a real honor

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and a privilege that you were able to do

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that i'm very blessed good question do

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hi my name is lane and i was wondering

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do you use a microwave and cell phones

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in space

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i wish we had a microwave dude that

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would be a really great way to uh heat

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our food we don't have a microwave per

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se but we do have a little uh food

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warmer that's like a suitcase that you

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put all your food bags in and then you

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turn on the switch and it kind of

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electrically heats up your food the

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russians have a different version but

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it's the same idea and they can put

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their cans in a slot and then those cans

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heat up through the electricity

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cell phones we actually do have the

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capability to talk as if we had a cell

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phone we have a computer program that

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takes our phone signal and i wear a

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headset just like i have on today and

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then i can punch in the telephone number

519
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on the computer and then that signal

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goes to the satellites in space comes

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down to the earth and then it's

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converted to a cell phone signal and my

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wife and family had that cell phone on

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them and whenever i called it said nasa

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and my wife always knew it was me and so

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she chose not to pick up the phone

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oftentimes but

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we had the opportunity to have lots of

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great conversations together as we

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earth hi my name is my question what do

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you put in here what do you put inside

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that's a loaded question um

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we drink a lot of uh water

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coffee tea

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and fruit flavored drinks when we're on

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the space station so all of its we don't

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really put anything into our drinks it's

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already done for us so all we have to do

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is take the packet which has all the the

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tea bag or it has the coffee grounds or

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it has the

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the tang or the fruit flavored drink we

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add the water shake it up and just drink

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it down so

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we don't have anything the ability to

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add something to that packet is not

547
00:19:10,789 --> 00:19:09,120
available to an astronaut once he's in

548
00:19:12,549 --> 00:19:10,799
space it's already done for us it's

549
00:19:14,390 --> 00:19:12,559
pre-prepared pre-packaged kind of like

550
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drinking a capri sun

551
00:19:16,630 --> 00:19:15,600
something like that

552
00:19:18,870 --> 00:19:16,640
and

553
00:19:20,789 --> 00:19:18,880
you get that from that potable dispenser

554
00:19:22,549 --> 00:19:20,799
that's how you get the water out into

555
00:19:24,710 --> 00:19:22,559
your right there's a machine on the

556
00:19:26,710 --> 00:19:24,720
station that we we stick a needle

557
00:19:28,710 --> 00:19:26,720
through the hole in the pouch and then

558
00:19:31,110 --> 00:19:28,720
we push a couple buttons and the water

559
00:19:33,190 --> 00:19:31,120
fills up the pouch and then you pull it

560
00:19:35,029 --> 00:19:33,200
off and it's sealed and you add a little

561
00:19:36,789 --> 00:19:35,039
straw that has a clip on it to pinch it

562
00:19:38,310 --> 00:19:36,799
off and then you shake it up good and

563
00:19:39,990 --> 00:19:38,320
you squeeze it and mix it up really well

564
00:19:42,070 --> 00:19:40,000
so that it all gets dissolved just like

565
00:19:44,150 --> 00:19:42,080
you do on earth if you mix some nestle's

566
00:19:45,590 --> 00:19:44,160
quickened milk or whatever and then you

567
00:19:47,430 --> 00:19:45,600
drink it down right and so if you've

568
00:19:49,110 --> 00:19:47,440
been following along the

569
00:19:51,110 --> 00:19:49,120
activities on board the space station

570
00:19:53,110 --> 00:19:51,120
now you would know that that commander

571
00:19:54,870 --> 00:19:53,120
suni williams and also hoshide had

572
00:19:57,190 --> 00:19:54,880
recently replaced the filter for that

573
00:19:58,549 --> 00:19:57,200
dispenser that he is talking about

574
00:20:00,549 --> 00:19:58,559
good question

575
00:20:03,190 --> 00:20:00,559
we have another one

576
00:20:06,950 --> 00:20:06,070
hello my name is rob and here's my

577
00:20:08,789 --> 00:20:06,960
question

578
00:20:11,750 --> 00:20:08,799
why don't you just build some more

579
00:20:14,710 --> 00:20:11,760
robonauts to go up in space so you don't

580
00:20:16,950 --> 00:20:14,720
have to worry about your help

581
00:20:19,590 --> 00:20:16,960
now that's a really really really good

582
00:20:20,710 --> 00:20:19,600
question but the bottom line answer is

583
00:20:23,110 --> 00:20:20,720
money

584
00:20:25,430 --> 00:20:23,120
uh if we had the ability to to build the

585
00:20:27,350 --> 00:20:25,440
robots to do all the things an astronaut

586
00:20:29,750 --> 00:20:27,360
could do that would be effective it

587
00:20:31,590 --> 00:20:29,760
would be safer to keep a human being

588
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from having to go outside in this nasty

589
00:20:35,350 --> 00:20:33,760
environment that we call outer space

590
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but

591
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a robonaut or a robot can't necessarily

592
00:20:42,870 --> 00:20:40,880
see things and think of alternative

593
00:20:45,350 --> 00:20:42,880
solutions like a spacewalker can for

594
00:20:48,070 --> 00:20:45,360
example imagine that a robot's out there

595
00:20:49,830 --> 00:20:48,080
and he gets to a bolt that he can't undo

596
00:20:52,549 --> 00:20:49,840
just like we had recently on our space

597
00:20:54,950 --> 00:20:52,559
walks and maybe he can make his wrench

598
00:20:57,110 --> 00:20:54,960
turn harder or turn faster or whatever

599
00:21:00,230 --> 00:20:57,120
but he can't think of ways

600
00:21:02,710 --> 00:21:00,240
to cleverly clean out the hole or to

601
00:21:04,390 --> 00:21:02,720
change the way he's doing something to

602
00:21:06,070 --> 00:21:04,400
to make it

603
00:21:08,710 --> 00:21:06,080
available to him to actually complete

604
00:21:11,350 --> 00:21:08,720
the task so the ability for a human to

605
00:21:12,470 --> 00:21:11,360
think and to reason is one of the

606
00:21:14,950 --> 00:21:12,480
important

607
00:21:16,549 --> 00:21:14,960
realities of why we want humans in space

608
00:21:18,470 --> 00:21:16,559
astronauts can do many things they can

609
00:21:20,470 --> 00:21:18,480
do many good things for us they can

610
00:21:22,789 --> 00:21:20,480
scout ahead and look at landing sites on

611
00:21:24,549 --> 00:21:22,799
the moon or in an asteroid or mars and

612
00:21:26,070 --> 00:21:24,559
those will be excellent uses of robotic

613
00:21:28,230 --> 00:21:26,080
technology but there are just some

614
00:21:29,430 --> 00:21:28,240
things that a robot can't do that a

615
00:21:30,870 --> 00:21:29,440
human can do

616
00:21:33,110 --> 00:21:30,880
and when you couple that with the

617
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expense that's required to build

618
00:21:37,270 --> 00:21:35,280
a small army of robots to do astronaut

619
00:21:38,870 --> 00:21:37,280
work outside the station we're moving in

620
00:21:41,270 --> 00:21:38,880
that direction but it's going to take a

621
00:21:42,549 --> 00:21:41,280
little bit of time and some more money

622
00:21:44,470 --> 00:21:42,559
and i think we've been able to

623
00:21:46,310 --> 00:21:44,480
demonstrate just the usefulness of

624
00:21:47,990 --> 00:21:46,320
robots or robotics even today we had the

625
00:21:50,950 --> 00:21:48,000
deployment of the

626
00:21:52,950 --> 00:21:50,960
the uh small satellites that were

627
00:21:54,390 --> 00:21:52,960
launched using the remote manipulator

628
00:21:55,909 --> 00:21:54,400
system this is the robot arm the

629
00:21:58,310 --> 00:21:55,919
japanese robot arm

630
00:22:01,029 --> 00:21:58,320
outside of kibo which is the japanese

631
00:22:03,990 --> 00:22:01,039
experiment module and then also

632
00:22:06,070 --> 00:22:04,000
they'll be spending actually sunny and

633
00:22:07,990 --> 00:22:06,080
hoshide are actually doing a training

634
00:22:09,350 --> 00:22:08,000
session today using the robotics

635
00:22:11,990 --> 00:22:09,360
workstation

636
00:22:14,549 --> 00:22:12,000
where they will use the station arm to

637
00:22:17,190 --> 00:22:14,559
eventually grapple the dragon spacecraft

638
00:22:19,190 --> 00:22:17,200
that is scheduled to launch this sunday

639
00:22:21,510 --> 00:22:19,200
so you guys come back and watch

640
00:22:22,870 --> 00:22:21,520
nasa tv you can watch it

641
00:22:25,029 --> 00:22:22,880
here live

642
00:22:27,669 --> 00:22:25,039
beginning at 6 pm

643
00:22:30,070 --> 00:22:27,679
central time and you can see robotics in

644
00:22:31,750 --> 00:22:30,080
action um eventually when that uh

645
00:22:33,990 --> 00:22:31,760
spacecraft arrives to the space station

646
00:22:36,789 --> 00:22:34,000
it is scheduled to arrive on october the

647
00:22:38,710 --> 00:22:36,799
10th so obviously there's um several

648
00:22:40,549 --> 00:22:38,720
ways and and reasons to have robotics

649
00:22:41,669 --> 00:22:40,559
work with us but obviously we need

650
00:22:43,510 --> 00:22:41,679
humans

651
00:22:44,950 --> 00:22:43,520
to be involved in that in space

652
00:22:46,950 --> 00:22:44,960
exploration as well good very good

653
00:22:48,630 --> 00:22:46,960
question do we have any more questions

654
00:22:52,310 --> 00:22:48,640
good homework assignment for creighton

655
00:22:57,190 --> 00:22:54,870
any more questions one of the questions

656
00:22:59,430 --> 00:22:57,200
that a lot of the students had was what

657
00:23:01,669 --> 00:22:59,440
was the scariest thing for you being an

658
00:23:04,230 --> 00:23:01,679
astronaut and being on the station or in

659
00:23:08,710 --> 00:23:06,310
uh the scariest thing

660
00:23:11,510 --> 00:23:08,720
uh i think was when i woke up one night

661
00:23:12,630 --> 00:23:11,520
and saw olig in his underwear but

662
00:23:13,430 --> 00:23:12,640
that's okay

663
00:23:17,270 --> 00:23:13,440
um

664
00:23:19,430 --> 00:23:17,280
they train the scared out of us they

665
00:23:21,270 --> 00:23:19,440
train the fear out of us you're so

666
00:23:23,270 --> 00:23:21,280
ready to do all the things that you need

667
00:23:25,190 --> 00:23:23,280
to do your mind is so focused on step

668
00:23:26,070 --> 00:23:25,200
one step two step three step four step

669
00:23:27,830 --> 00:23:26,080
five

670
00:23:29,909 --> 00:23:27,840
that often times

671
00:23:31,669 --> 00:23:29,919
if there were fear to be had

672
00:23:33,669 --> 00:23:31,679
uh you're not really thinking about it

673
00:23:35,270 --> 00:23:33,679
you're focused on something else for

674
00:23:36,789 --> 00:23:35,280
example when i opened the hatch for the

675
00:23:39,190 --> 00:23:36,799
very first time

676
00:23:41,990 --> 00:23:39,200
in july of 2007 to go out on my very

677
00:23:43,510 --> 00:23:42,000
first spacewalk i wasn't scared at all

678
00:23:45,029 --> 00:23:43,520
there was no fear

679
00:23:46,789 --> 00:23:45,039
what i thought when i looked out into

680
00:23:50,390 --> 00:23:46,799
the blackness of space was

681
00:23:51,269 --> 00:23:50,400
i was born to be here right now doing

682
00:23:52,149 --> 00:23:51,279
this

683
00:23:53,669 --> 00:23:52,159
and

684
00:23:56,149 --> 00:23:53,679
i don't know if everyone experiences

685
00:23:57,990 --> 00:23:56,159
that feeling or or thinks that way but

686
00:23:59,990 --> 00:23:58,000
for me there was no fear there might

687
00:24:01,350 --> 00:24:00,000
have been a little anxiety right about i

688
00:24:02,870 --> 00:24:01,360
don't want to make a mistake i don't

689
00:24:05,190 --> 00:24:02,880
want to screw up i hope everything goes

690
00:24:07,269 --> 00:24:05,200
well but there was never any fear

691
00:24:08,950 --> 00:24:07,279
involved

692
00:24:10,470 --> 00:24:08,960
and to follow up on that i actually

693
00:24:11,350 --> 00:24:10,480
thought about death

694
00:24:14,070 --> 00:24:11,360
more

695
00:24:15,669 --> 00:24:14,080
the second time i flew on sts-131 as we

696
00:24:17,750 --> 00:24:15,679
were preparing for the final days of the

697
00:24:19,750 --> 00:24:17,760
mission and getting ready to launch that

698
00:24:22,070 --> 00:24:19,760
was when i wondered was i cheating death

699
00:24:24,470 --> 00:24:22,080
you know had i i had my shot on

700
00:24:27,510 --> 00:24:24,480
expedition 15 and should i still be

701
00:24:28,950 --> 00:24:27,520
going up on sts-131

702
00:24:35,350 --> 00:24:28,960
and it's just something you have to you

703
00:24:39,350 --> 00:24:38,149
any other questions

704
00:24:40,789 --> 00:24:39,360
i have a question you're going to change

705
00:24:45,510 --> 00:24:40,799
the name of your school to clayton

706
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,350
thank you very much

707
00:24:53,269 --> 00:24:51,269
all right well clay and amico we would

708
00:24:55,350 --> 00:24:53,279
like to thank you so much for joining us

709
00:24:57,029 --> 00:24:55,360
today i know taking time out is very

710
00:24:59,350 --> 00:24:57,039
difficult especially how busy you guys

711
00:25:01,590 --> 00:24:59,360
are there in mission control

712
00:25:03,110 --> 00:25:01,600
monitoring the space station and we'd

713
00:25:04,549 --> 00:25:03,120
like to thank you actually creighton

714
00:25:06,070 --> 00:25:04,559
middle school do you have any final

715
00:25:08,070 --> 00:25:06,080
words that you'd like to

716
00:25:13,990 --> 00:25:08,080
say to clayton

717
00:25:17,110 --> 00:25:15,830
my pleasure