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houston station we are ready for the

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we are ready

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okay well welcome to the 3334 change of

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command ceremony today here on the good

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international space station

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um we're going to hand over today a

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command from myself to kevin ford

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i just wanted to reflect a couple things

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about our time up here and just time in

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history

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sort of was brought to our attention on

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the 55th anniversary of sputnik that

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that was sort of a cool event

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that we actually launched satellites

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from the japanese portion of the space

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station on that day so i got to thinking

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about what's been going on in the last

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couple years

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about 100 years ago the girl scouts were

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founded oreos were founded

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those are significant events and a lot

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of other really cool things happened all

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over the world at that point in time as

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well

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uh national parks were founded um a lot

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of great things all over the world

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including aviation started too

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uh 50 years ago i mentioned already

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sputnik

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was pretty major event for all of us

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that got us here today

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25 years ago

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aki just graduated from high school

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yuri was flying airplanes and i in the

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united states became legal drinking age

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so a bunch of interesting half things

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happened 25 years ago

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10 years ago a little over 10 years ago

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people became living on this

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international space station

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for a permanent presence

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and um

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we are honored to be uh fulfilling that

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dream and living that dream right now

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so

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i just wonder what is going to happen

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or what our future is

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lies in store for us 10 years 25 years

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i think we've left the ship in good

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shape

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and i'm honored to hand it over to kevin

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although he's an air force guy so we

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have to make him a little more navy

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because it is a ship

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so i have a little present for him first

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to

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this is a navy pennant

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that if you hold this for a second

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flies over uh navy ships when the

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commander is on board

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so this is for you thank you very much

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and now

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you know the gibba baton

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came up and

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that was

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a idea from eugenie's daughter

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and there's four of us living here in

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node two and it's pretty crowded the

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gimbap dom is not lonely but with two of

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us leaving he might be lonely and so i'm

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going to give him a friend

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we know what to do with that we know

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what to do with that

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and i'm not sure

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magnum p.i is but

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a leg is our magnum pi and with that he

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gets the traditional

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hawaiian shirt that's been on the iss

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for quite some time thank you so much

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so as you can see we have a great crew

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up here us who are going home

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very shortly and the ones who are taking

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you turned off the mic

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thank you very much i i hope you heard

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all of sunny's words they were they were

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very nice words and we do appreciate the

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gifts

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we appreciate also the great handover

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we've gotten from you guys it's been

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relatively short not as

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some some have been shorter but three

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weeks is a pretty short handover

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and between oleg you have guinea and i

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we have all together if you combine all

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of our space time we have about three

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months total time and space

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so far and if you combine the time of

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sunny and aki and yuri they have three

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years

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of total time and space living in space

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so they really had a lot to offer us we

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learned a tremendous amount from them

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and they were really really good about

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sharing it

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we're not really ready to see them go to

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be honest but but it's time for them to

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get home they need to land at a time

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when the

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rescue forces can get to them and find

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them easily and get them safely back to

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their families

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it's been a pleasure serving with them

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sonny said she hopes she's left the

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station in great shape and they have the

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space station is in remarkably good

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condition it's

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ready full full of utilization the

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exercise equipment is fantastic the

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facilities are fantastic everything is

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in order the ground teams are running uh

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really well and harmoniously with the

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crew and the training to get here has

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been great so we're ready for a great

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expedition uh we'll be uh we'll be here

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holding down the fort for

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maybe four

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four or so weeks until the rest of the

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crew gets here to complement expedition

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34 and we're looking forward to doing a

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lot of science and getting a lot of

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utilization done uh now that the space

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station is fully up and ready to go so

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thanks to everybody on the ground thanks

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to sonny and a crew thank you for a

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great handover and i'm ready to assume

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command of the international space

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and houston that concludes the change of

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command ceremony thanks for coming on

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board with us

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thank you so much it was a great job and