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now the members of the space station

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crew who arrived in July or getting

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ready to come home in fact there's been

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an activity called crew departure prep

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that has been on the schedule for

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williams malenchenko and hoshide a each

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day for more than a week now in advance

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to their scheduled departure on Sunday

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what are they doing and why does it take

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so long to find out we're going to ask a

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man who just did the same thing a few

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months ago astronaut dan burbank who

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served his flight engineer on expedition

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29 and commander of the International

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Space Station's expedition 30 mission he

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returned to Earth with his two Russian

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crewmates in April after 163 days on

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board the space station good morning

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nice to see you again it's good to be

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with you pat 163 days in space began one

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year ago today with your launch at the

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Baikonur cosmodrome and we put together

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a few scenes tell us what we're seeing

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here is we look at the events that took

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place a year ago today okay well one of

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the first things you do before launch is

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you head out to the test facility near

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the launch pad and you get suited up

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gives you a chance to to do some leak

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checks on the suits make sure they're

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good to go and thats takes place about

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three and a half hours before launch and

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shortly thereafter you head out to the

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pad ideally in better weather conditions

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always fair your couch when you're back

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with you though do you you know you

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don't we had these these ponchos to keep

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the snow off the suits for fear that the

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snow would then melt and we get moisture

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in the cabin but but then we walked out

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to the to the vehicle it's all fueled

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and ready to go and very cold almost

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blizzard conditions there when you a

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couple the snow with you know the

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cryogenic fuel induced fog that it's

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swirling around the rocket visibility

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was pretty low as we as we got to the as

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we got to the base of the stairs you

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board the rocket and a couple hours

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later you're headed uphill and

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thankfully that weather is no concern

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within about 30 or 40 seconds after

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launch its long you're over on go go far

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behind you and that's right and there

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you are in your seat in the zillions

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yeah it's a it's a great ride the thrust

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profile is very similar to what a

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Space Shuttle is it's actually a little

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bit smoother on the first stage in about

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eight and a half minutes you're in

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weightlessness and as you'll be for the

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next nearly six months in your case as

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we said 163 days when you and she kept

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it off and even II shouldn't return home

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at what point in their do you really

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start to pay attention to ending the

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mission to getting ready to come home I

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guess one way to put it is only when

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absolutely necessary it's something you

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kind of you don't want to think about

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too much because you know you're really

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going to miss miss the place Space

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Station's is spectacular getting to live

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and weightlessness and enjoy the views

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of the earth that you get from there

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it's something you'll carry with you for

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the rest of your life you don't want it

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to end by the same token you very much

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want to see your family and your friends

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again so so there's it's a very

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bittersweet moment but we spend about

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probably bits and pieces of time as you

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alluded to for for every day for about

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two weeks leading up to the undock and

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that's generally how how long it takes

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to get the vehicle ready and to get

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everything packed in and get yourself in

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the right mindset to come home what are

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you packing what are you bringing home

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with you well the things that you can

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actually carry in the Sawyer's are kind

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of limited the volume is limited we we

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can actually carry about a kilogram and

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a half a couple of pounds worth of

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personal items that you carried with you

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on the way uphill might be a journal

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might be you know some pictures of

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family and friends things like that but

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that way but the things that are most

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precious for the Soyuz that we bring

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back every time is the science a lot of

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the human research that we do on bond

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board station involves taking blood

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samples urine samples other kinds of

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things that we collect in package and

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that gets towed very late that's one

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some some of the last things that come

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down with us so but there is a phased

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packing of the Soyuz for all of the

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science equipment the hardware equipment

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and then of course your personal items

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as well it takes place over several days

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do does all of your stuff come home with

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you to some of it come later yeah

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kilogram and a half that we can have our

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personal items which is really small so

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know maybe a fairly thick one but but

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it's not a lot of items

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those are the things that went wrote up

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with you uphill and other things that

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they're going to come back with you you

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also can bring back about a large

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shoebox-sized worth of volume of other

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things maybe a couple of crew shirts and

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board that that you brought up with you

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those items will come down on a dragon

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cargo vehicle so we do have the ability

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each crew member can bring you know a

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small package of things back with them

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that way and it'll come back sometime

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after you after you get back your stuff

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still waiting for a ride home actually

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all of my health my gear came back safe

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and sound and you know again it wasn't a

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lot of equipment but but there's a lot a

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lot of good memories in those few things

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how much of the time is involved with

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the actual preparation of the Soyuz

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spacecraft in that probably starts well

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there's a few checks we do leading up to

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the undock you know even some of them

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where we do fit checks to make sure that

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the seat still fits us you know each of

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the seats are molded for each of the

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individual crew members but we do

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periodic fit check so that throughout

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the mission and there's some other you

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know simpler checks that we do but about

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a week or so before hand will do a more

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more or less a full up check out of

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those this will use equipment and in

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systems to include a suited leak check

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where we actually are going to

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d'essentials Ryan all the way up to the

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point of a pressurizing and leak check

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in the suits and and yeah that again

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undock so you know the syste so your

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systems are good and then when you're

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done with those kind of checks you'll

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back out of those and prepare the

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various volumes that are available for

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stowage of payload hardware and things

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like that and then the commander and the

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board engineer will spend you know

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chunks of time over that next week

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getting all the things so just as I need

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to be so they'll be able to make a safe

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entry so they do spend they have more

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responsibility in this check out they do

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they do although you know the the

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responsibility is shared I think you

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prime for all of that I think the u.s.

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segment lead in this case you know Sonny

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the lot of the payload life sciences

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samples things like that are kind of

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fall under her purview to prepare those

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stowed that's really the responsibility

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of Uri so it's kind of a shared

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responsibility but

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involvement but the two of them have the

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primary responsibility of it when you

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this prep time devoted to concluding

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wrapping up any of the science

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experiments a lot of the science

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continues and it's handed over from one

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expedition to another so there's not

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major close out of science the only

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exception to that would be as a science

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that's dedicated to you and your human

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research investigations you might have

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had so there'll be some last-minute you

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know blood samples and things like that

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that will collect shortly before the

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undock and those things would be for

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Sonny for Aki and for Yuri as well so if

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you're picking up new work you are

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you're picking up a little bit new new

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work although there's still a phased

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handover because you know the crew

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that's going to stay up there you know

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not like Nowitzki there although we have

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there is this phased gradual hand over

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space station has gradually shifted to

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them to afford Yuri and hockey and Sonny

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the the free time to be able to get

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things prepped so it's not quite as

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abrupt as it would be as it would appear

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during the change of command ceremony

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itself we mentioned that there is a line

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in the schedule that says crew prep time

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a half chunks or something is that is

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that part of the reason it takes quite

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prep things are are basically you know

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packing your things many of which are

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actually you know get into the vehicle

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up things stowing them maybe some things

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will return on Dragon maybe some things

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will actually get transferred to trash

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you know there's a exercise equipment

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the harnesses the the running shoes

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those kinds of things they're not going

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to be handed over from one crew to

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another so so sunny anaki have to close

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out their crew quarters there you know

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there-there's their staterooms if you

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will on station and gradually get their

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things packed up they're also going to

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be collecting up all of their personal

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data so their email files their journals

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that they might have been you know

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collecting on board a lot of their the

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imagery that they've been taken to to

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kind of get all that prepped and

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downlink to the ground so it's available

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to them when they get back here for

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debriefs and other things like

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psychological aspect to this do you have

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to get in the right frame of mind to

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think okay I'm leaving now yeah you

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really do I mean this has been your home

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for six months and and it's a home like

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no other and it's it's a very difficult

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place to leave like I say you're the

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great thing you have to look forward to

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seeing your family again but but to you

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know this has been your total focus it's

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a it's a magical place you live and work

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in but but in it's been a wonderful

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chapter of your life but but it does

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take it does take some adjustment it's a

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major move you know all of the things

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that you've interacted with every day on

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a daily basis all the science you've

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done everything how you do everything

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your entire day is very different how

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you do it on board a space station as

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opposed to being down here and you're

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you're doing a move as big and as

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elaborate as any move you would from one

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house to another down here and planet

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Earth but but greatly complicated beyond

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that by virtue of the fact that you've

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been living in space and things are very

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unique about being there but the mindset

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part of it is another thing you you need

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to spend a little bit of time and it's

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hard to do because it's very busy in the

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last couple weeks looking out the window

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internalizing writing to your personal

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hard drive if you will those experiences

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because pretty soon they're going to be

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behind you right now Sonny Williams is

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in the same position that you were in

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she's going through all of that just as

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a crew member who's returning but she's

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also getting rain hand over her command

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of this vehicle to somebody else what

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what is going through your mind in that

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regard well I think the most important

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thing is that you want to do it well in

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this case Kevin hasn't had as much time

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as we would prefer to do the handover

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it's because of vehicle launch sequences

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and things like that and when you have a

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delay like we did for example with

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expedition 29 to 30 the expectation is

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you'll have a minimum of about two

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months to hand over with the previous

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crew and in some cases as much as four

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months to hand over and in our case you

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know Mike Fossum had about four days to

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teach me the things I needed to do to be

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able to you know take over as commander

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so it's a very busy time you spend as

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much time

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you know that if you get shorter done

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time you spend as much opportunity as

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possible by video downlink sand in

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spending time before launch to learn the

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things that you can but I'm sure it's

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been very much a high-bandwidth exchange

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of data from Sonny to Kevin to make sure

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that he understands everything he needs

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to understand about the space station

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all the things we can do in simulators

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and and the other kinds of training

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environments we have on the ground only

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go so far it's not the same as being

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there and this is a magnificent nearly

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million pound you know tall ship in

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space and and it is learning the ropes

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on that ship is a non-trivial thing so

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they've spent a lot of time doing that

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and that's been the primary focus by the

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same token as Sonny and Kevin been

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handing over Yuri's been handing over it

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all again and yevgeni and both of them

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first-time Flyers and Italian so it's a

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big it's a big transition the other

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thing that Sonny is doing that you did

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is getting ready to come home in a Soyuz

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for the first time ever what's that ride

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like it's a it's very different than a

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space shuttle ride like that but it's

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but it's exciting and fun in its own

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right it's a it's a really busy time

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it's you know obviously as dynamic and

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as as potentially challenging as any

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launch would be but they're going to be

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in the vehicle a couple of hours before

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undock and the undock will take place

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about three and a half hours before the

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landing itself you have already had an

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opportunity to get back in the suit to

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fit check the seeds to operate the

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equipment and get back into the motive

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of operating this vehicle you really

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haven't flown in for you know in this

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case 4 plus months I guess and and so

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you've and you've also spent a lot of

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time working with the ground working

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with your Soyuz instructors and the

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flight control team in Moscow to walk

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through all the various critical

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activities you got to do but once you

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get into the Soyuz it suddenly strikes

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you that this is it okay you're saying

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goodbye to your friends you're saying

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goodbye to this wonderful place you've

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been in and you're going to be there's

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there's some initial preps you got to do

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to get the the hatches closed and do

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some leak checks and then it's a it's a

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you have about an hour or so of

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relatively slow paced time to gradually

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get into your suit and get to get

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settled into the vehicle and then what

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you do the undocking things happen

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fairly quickly still it's three

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half hours before landing but there's an

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awful lot of very important dynamic

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things that take place in that time and

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as you undock the hooks open is you

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undock and you get that last view

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through the periscope of the Soyuz and

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of the the station you know to win dling

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in size out the window it you know

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that's another thing you have to write

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to your hard drive again but but you

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very gradually and and carefully back

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away from the station and the Soyuz will

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be in free flight for for for a bit and

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about an hour before landing deorbit

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burn will take place and that's just

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enough to slow you down to the point

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where the Soyuz will gradually intercept

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the upper reaches of the Earth's

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atmosphere and then the friction was

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slow yet still you down about 30 minutes

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after the deorbit burn we have

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separation where the three pieces of the

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Soyuz the descent module which I think

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you see in this view here which is the

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only portion of the Soyuz with a heat

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shield and that's where the crew is

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separates from the other two modules and

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we it's a very interesting ride very

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exciting very you know that's a G's pick

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up you can see the the plasma and the

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chunks of heat shield that are no

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flaming heat shield are going by the

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window right by your circle things like

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it is it is but it's doing its job and

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and then we the parachute opens and the

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parachute opening is very very dynamic

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very provocative from a vestibular

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standpoint kind of an event and you it's

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a you have about 11 minutes after that I

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guess and after the parachutes open and

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kind of in quick succession there's a

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number of things happen the heat shield

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this jettison the seats and that is

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they extend on their shock absorber if

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you will in an upward position to give

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you some more energy dissipation

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capability at landing and and the the

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heat of the plasma of reentry has

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charred over a protective cover over the

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windows so at some point when things got

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really hot suddenly that was all black

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and you couldn't see out the windows and

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then when the heat shield is jettisoned

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suddenly the windows are open that that

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protective cover that you know a blade

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of a cover if you will go basically

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falls falls free and then you're just

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within a couple of minutes of landing

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and riding the parachute down and then

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the landing itself is very very

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impressive you know to the G impulse is

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pretty high we've got soft landing Jets

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at the very last little

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and then within a couple of minutes

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before you know it your friends the

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folks that many of which helped train

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you and the Soyuz getting ready to go

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and and in some cases helps trapped you

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in the hatches hatch opens and you're

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seeing their smiling faces and and you

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know you're within certainly within a

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day or less of seeing your family again

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we talk a lot about the countermeasures

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that you do every day on orbit to help

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you for when you do come home how was

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your rehab tation to Earth's gravity I

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think we do a really good job at station

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right now I think with the the a red

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Vance resistive exercise device in t2

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and and of course Eve isn't Eva's any

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other you know devices we have crews are

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coming back in as good shape as they

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left in many respects we lose a little

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bit of cardiovascular deconditioning for

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me it took a couple of weeks to get back

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into running so i felt like i had the

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same amount of capacity as before I left

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but strength wise I think right at the

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get-go I felt stronger after six months

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on station for a long-duration mission

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than i did in many respects after a

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two-week shuttle mission shuttle

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missions are so busy so focused there's

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not a lot of time to exercise certainly

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to the degree that you do on station but

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i felt actually amazingly well and we

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spent about 45 minute 45 days excuse me

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gradually you know increasing our

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workload and strength training and other

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kinds of things and and before you know

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it you're you know in better shape by

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far then before you left what have you

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been working on since the 45 days and

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you're feeling yourself again well we

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get about six months to do various

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things some of its debrief some of its

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physical reconditioning some of it is

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also the opportunity to go and talk to

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do public affairs events where we can

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actually go to schools and you know talk

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about the the mission and things like

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that so that six-month is done for me

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and I'm back in the astronaut office

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working currently with a VA which is the

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space walking branch under under the the

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chief of the astronaut office so doing a

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lot of things that are that are an awful

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lot of fun is something I really love to

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do I appreciate that you're taking

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taking a few minutes to help us

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understand what Sonny is doing right now

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well welcome home well thanks for having

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us great to be here astronaut dan

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burbank the commander of the