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everybody and i guess it's just after

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noon in georgia welcome to the clark

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creek stem academy you're looking at the

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international space station flight

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control room i'm kyle hearing a public

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affairs officer here in the room and

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i'm joined by pete

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hasbrook he is a space station associate

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program scientist so he's

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knowledgeable on the science activities

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that are ongoing he's also been a long

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time flight controller with nasa so he

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knows all about what it's like to be a

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flight controller in the room so we're

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uh we're really happy you guys are with

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thank you

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good morning and good afternoon to you

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all this is pete

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and may we present you with our first

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absolutely we're gonna do our best i'm

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as ready as i can be

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hi my name is noah bloomer i would like

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to know how was curiosity doing

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how is curiosity doing on mars curiosity

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is doing very well thank you

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it's been doing very well going through

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its checkout

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it's been going through uh its initial

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observations and currently it's taken a

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long trek

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hi my name is oscar and i wanted to know

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how does a telescope work

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kepler telescope work how does a kepler

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telescope work

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the kepler telescope it looks like a

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pretty cool instrument it's been in

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orbit for about three years and it is

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uh the way it works is it stares at a

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certain part of the milky way which is

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and it's looking for those stars

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to blink basically and if those stars

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they can tell that a planet or they a

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planet may have crossed in front of that

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star and made it go just a little bit

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it's got to be a very sensitive

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instrument think of you know a light

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bulb way down at the end of the hallway

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and something like a piece of sand going

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across that light bulb and you've got to

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be able to tell that the dimness of that

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okay go

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hi my name is jacob and i'd like to know

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how far has nasa gone

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on building the solar cup from the

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national geographic november 2012

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magazine

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i have to say i don't know i appreciate

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that you sent that question ahead of

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time i tried to do some homework and i

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wasn't able to find the information on

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okay it didn't take long

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is nasa exploring what oh yeah hi my

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name is and i'm brody and i would like

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nasa exploring means of living

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walk they'll put on a suit and they'll

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go out on the bottom of the ocean and

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they'll simulate doing space walks and

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construction tasks and communication

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program it was based off of the tip of

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florida and the keys

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so it's been very beneficial to us it

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helped our current crew members learn

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how to be team members on the iss

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go ahead graham hi my name is graham i

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the shuttle was very successful for us

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carry very large and heavy objects into

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international space station to launch

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whole space station and when the space

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the station and its last cargo it was

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the space shuttle program unfortunately

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was a very expensive program to run and

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things that nasa is doing including the

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space station including the kepler

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go ahead nicholas

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hi my name is nicholas i would like to

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how is the kepler's spacecraft

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in orbit around the earth so it points

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solar wind it has little reaction wheels

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those gyrospoops gyroscopes spin

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go ahead my name is nathan how likely is

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it that the planet of earth can be hit

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unlikely uh we do the best that we can

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to track asteroids that are out there

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beyond the earth's orbit

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very severe impact obviously so we do

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pay as much attention to it as we can

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and nasa is looking in the future to

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what to do if we think something would

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hi my name is parker i'd like to know

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when your body is chemically and

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mechanically digesting food why don't

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astronauts regurgitate their food due to

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the microgravity in space in the space

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station great question that's a good

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if you think of your own body and you

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if you look at those they kind of go

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zigzag all over the place so they don't

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move food through the intestines so that

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we can digest it so really once you get

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hi my name is mac and i would like to

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which new planet shows the most promised

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to be inhabitable inhabitable by humans

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a good example for you but i know that

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kepler for instance is finding what we

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stars that are in our milky way galaxy

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to be in what they call the habitable

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know what a solar flare is a solar flare

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that very large amount of radiation

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that a solar flare it could be a problem

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the spacecraft and the rocket as you

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hi my name is joe and i would like to

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satellite coverage and the iss is going

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each one of these consoles and for

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curiosity there's a mission control

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uh mr hasbrook and mr herring we are not

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able our image from your uh from houston

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is just frozen we're not seeing mission

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control i didn't know if that was

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mission control we're not getting that

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me but um but you know there's a bunch

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look over all the systems we do not

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we do not see anything mission control

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it's been the same picture since we've

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been uh giving you our questions okay

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oh there you are yay now we see you

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hi my name is amelia i would like to

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an asteroid is relatively small so it's

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not going to have much gravity so really

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instead of landing on it we're going to

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fly up next to it

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and figure out a way to anchor ourselves

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or at least keep the spacecraft near

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that asteroid

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and then the crew if they're going to

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explore it will have to put on

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spacesuits and go out and airlock and

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again somehow maneuver along that

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astronaut asteroid but the gravity is

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not going to really easily keep the crew

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or the spacecraft next to it

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hi my name is samira i would like to

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know

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how does space travel positively affect

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um

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how does it

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negatively

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affect the human body

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that's a good question

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uh as far as positively affected uh

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other than being weightless and being

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able to maneuver very easily

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i have a hard time thinking of how it's

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positively affected there are a lot of

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risks that we have to keep track of it's

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easy to lose your muscle tone if you're

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not pushing off of things or walking to

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keep your muscles in shape

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we know that the crew members bodies

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their bones lose bone mass

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which is significant

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especially if you compare it to

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osteoporosis which older people have

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here where their bones get weaker

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another thing that happens in spaces

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with no gravity

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the fluid that normally is pushed down

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into our legs can shift up into the crew

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members chest and their face starts to

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look puffy and that's something that

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they get over it just looks a little

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funny their first couple of days in

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hi my name is lauren i would like to

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know what types of weather do cosmonauts

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experience in outer space

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what types of weather

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really the crew members inside the iss

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have an environment just like you and i

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have here it's what we call a shirt

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sleeve environment you don't need a coat

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it's nice and warm and comfortable the

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humidity is just like you and i

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experience

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they

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though

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we do have to worry about probably two

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things at least one is the sun in the

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sun things can get very hot when you're

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not in the sun like on the dark side of

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the earth things can get very cold

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the other type of space weather and

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that's what we call it is space weather

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is the radiation environment so if the

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crew members were outside on a spacewalk

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and there was a solar flare that was

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directed toward the earth then would we

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would be concerned about the radiation

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and if it was severe we would bring them

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so um

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with respect to your answer with the

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last question about positive effects on

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the human body there's really none no

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positive effects on the human body with

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space travel

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well you get taller

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that's true

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you and i as we stand on earth

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are affected by gravity and our spines

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are always compressed that's why you

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might have heard f in the morning when

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you get up after you've been lying

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horizontal all day your spine has

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relaxed a little bit and you're a little

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taller in the morning perhaps than you

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are at the end of the day

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whereas in space you don't have gravity

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always pulling you down

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so

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crew members get an inch or two taller

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hi my name is genesis

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now i would like to know do the

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astronauts have computers on board the

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they have a lot of computers on board

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most of them are laptop computers

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and there are a couple of different kind

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of software

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the space station software i think is

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linux based it's a very technical

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language

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the laptops that the crew uses for their

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timelines and their procedures and for

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their email i believe those are windows

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based

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and then we do have a couple of new

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tablet computers on board

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and i'm not sure the operating system

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go ahead hi my name is george and i

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would like to know how does the high

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iron

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content of largest soil affect the idea

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of visiting plants

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how does the high iron content i'm not

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really sure i do know that it's we're

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able to land

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mars rovers and other landers on mars so

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the iron doesn't affect it in that way

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they may be able to use that iron for

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some kind of a benefit in construction

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if we were going to use martian soil but

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beyond that i

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probably am not qualified to guess

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hi my name is leslie and i would like to

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know what new planets are are being

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discovered by kepler

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well that's a good question

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kepler is as it's been staring at the

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sky for three years they have identified

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something over 400 i think possible

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planets

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and they as they say have confirmed i

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think over a hundred that they are

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pretty sure are planets and that may be

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just by kepler it may be using space

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telescope the hubble or another one to

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look at the planet the star after they

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found what they think is a planet

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the types of planets that we can see

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are in they're either very close to that

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star or maybe in the habitable zone that

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i talked about or maybe farther out so

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they may be very close and very hot

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heated up by that star

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maybe in the zone where there's

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mostly gas and water or

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let's say methane liquid or they could

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be farther out and totally frozen kind

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hi my name is maya and i'd like to know

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are there experiments using recyclable

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material

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is that what you said

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yes

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be the atmosphere of the station and the

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water that's in the station

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the crew as they urinate we are able to

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recycle that into pure water and take

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the

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harmful anything contaminating out of it

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as the atmosphere becomes humid we need

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to take the humidity out and we're able

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to as we say reclaim the water out of

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the atmosphere

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we also are able to take the carbon

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dioxide and

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regenerate that and turn in

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either it's a chemical reaction that

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will regain some of the oxygen out of it

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as far as recyclable hard materials on

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board i can't think of very many on the

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iss i do know that we're working on a

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program for future exploration to be

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able to take the trash whether it's food

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containers or bottles or duct tape and

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turn it into little tiles that might be

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used for radiation protection something

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that the crew can take their trash and

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make it something useful maybe put it

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around the inside of their spacecraft or

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their sleep station to protect

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go ahead just read your question how do

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solar flares or solar storms

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affect the space station

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that's a good question how do solar

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flares

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affect the space station when a solar

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flare

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heads toward the earth

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all that energy and all that radiation

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can tend to heat up the earth's

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atmosphere and so it expands a little

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bit

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and even though it's mostly a vacuum

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around the iss there is just a very very

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thin bit of atmosphere and the space

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station is dragged a little bit by that

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atmosphere so if we have a solar flare

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and the atmosphere expands we get a

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little bit more drag on the space

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station and it tends to lower our orbit

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so it may mean that we need to do a

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what would happen if your spacesuit or

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i think it would be unpleasant

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you could be it depends on what the

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fungi is whether you're reacting to it

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you could be itchy

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we do take very high precautions to make

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sure our space suits are clean after

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each use the crew wipes them out with a

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fungistat cloth and lets them dry and

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make sure that nothing's able to go to

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what will happen to the kepler

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spacecraft after its mission is

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completed

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just stay in the orbit it's in right now

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uh it is in a sun orbit so it's like the

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earth it's going around the sun

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it's i don't know how many hundred

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thousand miles behind the earth in that

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orbit but there's really no danger to

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the earth to leave it out there

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and once it's finished we'll just leave

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how was the moon different from a planet

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how is the moon different from a planet

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that's a good question i had to look up

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the definition

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and a planet has to satisfy three things

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it has to orbit a star in our case the

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sun

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it has to be generally round so have

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been there long enough to have its

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gravity make it into a sphere

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and then thirdly it has to have really

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cleared its orbit around the sun or

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around the star

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and so the earth has done all those

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things

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and really the last item is what got

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pluto in trouble it hasn't been there

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long enough to have cleared all the

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other asteroids and junk out from its

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orbit

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round and it's really cleared our our

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area but since it's not going around the

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how is nanotechnology being used in

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space

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that's a tough question and i don't know

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if i know enough i do know of one

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experiment where we're using nano

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particles

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it's called in space

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and it's what they call a colloid which

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is suspending very tiny particles in a

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liquid

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and so in this case those would be

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nanoparticles and then when you apply a

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magnetic field around that liquid it

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changes its properties and in this case

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it can become more dense

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so that's an area of research that might

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help us in the future in shock absorbers

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making them lighter

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are there any nasa underwater research

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centers like nasa's aquarius

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if so where are they located and what is

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being studied

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nasa aquarium

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aquarius

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would you go ahead kyle talk about nemo

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i was i pete already referenced the

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underwater

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the nemo where crew members in the same

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kind of environment could learn how to

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live together in space for long periods

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of time

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the only underwater facility that we

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have near here

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is where the astronauts train for

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spacewalks because it's

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they can simulate the the environment of

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what it's like outside the space station

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in fact we have astronauts out at the

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swimming pool we call it the neutral

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buoyancy laboratory right now

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training for their

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their mission to the international space

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station you probably can see that and so

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it simulates what it's like outside the

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space station so that's the closest

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thing we have near here to

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all right we're coming up on a minute

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left

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if we'd like to go ahead and say our

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goodbyes now i'd really appreciate that

575
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we had some awesome questions today so

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clark creek stem academy would you like

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i don't know if they can still hear us

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michael but uh we've had a great time

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and and those are uh some really great

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thought out questions tough questions

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so we uh we really appreciate you all

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coming and joining us here in mission

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control and letting us come and join you

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and uh they're in georgia you guys have

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a great day

586
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great thank you so much

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we love nasa

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thank you