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hi welcome to mission control houston

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we're here in the international space

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station flight control room and i am

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brandy dean i'm working the public

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affairs office here and i've got here

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with me dory tomica who is the visiting

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vehicle officer on the space station

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control team so i'm gonna let her tell a

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little bit about herself and then i hear

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you have some questions for us dory

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thanks brandi hey guys um like i said my

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name is dory and i've worked here at

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nasa since uh

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for five years now full-time

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but before that i actually worked here

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when i was in college so i started back

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in 2004 and i worked here every other

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semester so i've gotten a lot of

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experience while i've been here

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um and like you said i'm in the visiting

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vehicle office and so we work in mission

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for the space station and we are in

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charge of space station safety

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when there's another vehicle coming to

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the space station so lots of vehicles

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come the russians have their progress in

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soyuz the europeans have a vehicle the

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japanese space agency has a vehicle and

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now they're two u.s vehicles who are

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coming and so

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anytime those vehicles are near the iss

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the the vvo is in charge of making sure

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that they're being safe and that the iss

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is safe and the crew is safe and you'll

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have a vehicle that's coming soon right

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we do yeah next weekend we'll have

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dragon which is a spacex's vehicle and

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they're based out of l.a out in

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california all right well thanks dory

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okay i hear uh that y'all have some

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questions for us there in phoenix so

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send them our way

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oh

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how do astronauts maintain muscle mass

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and microgravity

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how do astronauts maintain muscle mass

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and microgravity that's a really good

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question and something that's really

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important on the space station the

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astronauts do a lot of exercise they

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have exercise in their schedules every

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day they have different kinds of

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exercise they can do of course it's all

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modified to make it work in space and so

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sometimes they actually have to use kind

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of bungee cords to attach themselves to

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the equipment to kind of gravitate or

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simulate gravity but they have things

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like treadmills and exercise bikes and

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then they do weights and things like

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that too so lots of same exercises we do

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on earth just a little bit modified yeah

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they have special equipment for it to

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make it work without gravity to hold it

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do you use robotic mechanical arms on

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the space station

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do we use a lot of mechanical arms on

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the space station we do have uh we do

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big one that you've probably seen is the

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ss rms and that's the really big arm

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that we're actually going to use next

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weekend for when dragon comes up

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dragon's gonna come real close to

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station and then the arm's gonna come

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out and grab it

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the japanese have their own smaller arm

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that they use on their module for their

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science experiments but robotics is very

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big at the space station

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and i think sometimes there are

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astronauts that go on the end of the

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robotic arm to move around during

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spacewalks and

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there's also a robot that lives inside

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the space station called robonaut 2 so

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it's not a robotic arm but an actual

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robot with arms

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do you have a lot of oxygen tanks or how

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do you clean the air in the space

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so the space station has oxygen

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scrubbers and they're these machines

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that basically clean the oxygen for us

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and so that that's how we kind of

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recirculate that air and and keep it

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clean and keep it with the right amount

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items in it for good breathing and

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things like that

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what is the process for becoming an

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well that's a really good question um

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it kind of depends lots of people will

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apply to become astronauts that's the

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first step you have to send in an

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application and sometimes you have to

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send in different applications you won't

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get it your first try or your second try

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it's you know they get thousands of

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applications and they pick just a

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handful of astronauts when they pick a

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new class that's what they call them

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but there's an application process and

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then if you make it through that there's

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an interview process and there's a lot

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of testing you have to do physically to

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make sure you can handle really being an

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astronaut because being 0g is tough on

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and then there's also a social aspect to

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it too where they they make sure that

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you know if you're going to be stuck in

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you know a house imagine with six people

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for six months you want to make sure

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that you're really good at getting along

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with people and so that's a little bit

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of it too that you really have the right

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personality for it and then of course

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you have to have had enough schooling to

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really be able to help on the space

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station with doing all the science and

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everything so a lot of the astronauts

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and if not most of them have master's

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degrees so those are kind of the broad

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areas and most of them have the degrees

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in science or math or engineering maybe

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field so it's kind of a specific area

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you have to start studying early on so

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you're good enough to be uh to go into

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it's just like you know if you put six

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people together like i said for a while

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wish you could you know get by yourself

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for a little bit and have some personal

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time and so but these people are all

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really good at getting along and they're

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all really great friends too they train

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a lot together before they go up there

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so they're really a team and almost like

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a family by the time they go up there so

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yeah they get along really well and they

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have a lot of fun too

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we have a robotics class on campus how

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extensively are robots used in the

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program and what type of robots are used

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before but we use robotics a lot in the

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space station like we said the arm is a

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really integral part a lot of the work

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entire space station so we use that a

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lot and then like brandi had mentioned

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robot astronaut and we're just starting

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to really get to use him but he's going

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to be able to do tasks

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prepare a lot before we do it and we

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send them out there when they have

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really important things to do and so if

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robonaut and actually you can talk with

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astrorobonaut so y'all can find out a

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who made the food

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that question i didn't quite hear it

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who made the food the packet the food

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food and it's it's difficult we try to

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water back in when we're in space um but

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different countries have different food

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that holiday and so you know like we eat

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holiday then they'll send it on board so

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question uh so right now we can't we get

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crew to the space station via the soyuz

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everybody's going up and back right now

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for cargo for for non-people we have

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come to the space station and now we

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have two u.s companies dragon that we

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were talking about so it's coming next

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week and bringing up some cargo and

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supplies and some science experiments

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and then orbital's vehicle cygnus will

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be coming up later this year and it will

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careers are possible with nasa

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what other type of careers are possible

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nasa obviously there could be a

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just an engineer

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i work in the public affairs office so i

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write a lot and there's really not not a

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whole lot of areas that nasa doesn't

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touch in some way but most people are

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going to be

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in the science or math or engineering

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yeah specific daily routines on the

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the daily routines on the space station

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yeah actually the days are very

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scheduled on the space station because

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time and space is really important we

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have a lot of science we want to get

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done we have a lot uh we have vehicles

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that are coming up we have robotics

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things we want to do and so the day is

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very well scheduled and one of the

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things is that

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you know we start the day at a set time

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and we end the day at a set time and we

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have lunch we try to keep it at you know

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around lunchtime same with dinner and so

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we schedule activities in between those

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times and so yeah everything's very

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scheduled and the ground and the crew

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can both see that schedule both for that

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day and in the future we plan a lot in

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advance and it's planned very detailed

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too down to i think five minute

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increments so that they know what they

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are supposed to be doing at any given

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time and so that the ground makes sure

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that they have enough time for the

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things that they're asking them to do

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and they don't run out of time before

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and uh ready for your next question if

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what does uh mission control do

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mission control does a whole lot of jobs

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actually if if you've seen a picture of

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mission control you can see there are a

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lot of different desks we got those

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consoles and each console does something

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different but the main job of mission

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control is to help the space station to

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help the crew and to help the actual the

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structure the space station itself to do

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what it needs to get done so we have

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people like me the videos that are in

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charge of safety when there's a vehicle

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coming to the space station we have

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people that are in charge of the

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computers onboard the space station and

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making sure they run we have people that

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are in charge of keeping the life

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support systems working well so the

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oxygen like we talked about and water

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we have people that just run every

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different piece keeping a space station

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in the right place in space so just

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about anything you can think of there

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are even people that have to figure out

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you know where stuff is stored on the

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space station because you know you have

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closets in your house but on the space

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station there are closets on the walls

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and on the floor and on the ceiling

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and so think about you're living in your

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house and then six months later new

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people come into your house you have no

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idea where they put the scissors or

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where the stapler is and so we on the

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ground have to help out with that too to

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kind of keep track of where things are

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so

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lots of things that mission control does

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ready for your next question

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um how difficult is it using the zero

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gravity toilet

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that's always a fun question huh so i've

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never gotten to use it myself but i have

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talked to some of the astronauts and one

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of the things is they do a lot of

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training on the ground we do training

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for everything and that's that's not an

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exception you know you have to learn how

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the machine works because it's

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definitely different than a regular

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toilet and you have to learn how to use

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it properly and then once they have that

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training it's it's not difficult it's

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just a different process they have to

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learn

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next

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how many different types of jobs are at

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mission control

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how many different types of jobs are in

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mission control it's it's hard to count

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uh get a real count because

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if you are you can see where we are

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there are a number of deaths just like

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the one we're sitting at here who each

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have a person at it doing a specific job

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and each of those desks has somebody who

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sits at them all day so there's three

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people who um sit at them you know for

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about eight or nine hours at a time and

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they switch off so that there's always

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somebody there and each of those desks

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also has a whole room of people usually

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that sits somewhere else not in this

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room but

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that backs them up on different

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activities they might have to do

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somewhere else so

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it's a it's a lot of people it keeps it

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takes a lot of people to keep the space

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next question

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um what kind of college course work is

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needed to follow the career field of an

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astronaut

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like we had talked about you know most

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of the astronauts are involved in

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technology or science or engineering

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and so you would get you start off with

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your bachelor's degree in one of those

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areas and then you kind of figure out

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what you want your specialty to be and

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then they'll go and get a master's in

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that and most of the time they'll even

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go and get a phd so you know the highest

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kind of degree you can get to really

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become an expert on that subject

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and i think a lot of the astronauts

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would tell you that

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their recommendation is because it's so

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hard to be an astronaut you should

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really study something that you love

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anyway that you'll love doing even if

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you're not going to do it as an

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astronaut so that

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that also helps you

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learn to be really the best in your

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field if you love it you'll work hard at

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it and so that increases your chance of

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being an astronaut but it also gives you

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a backup plan if you're not able to be

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an astronaut

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what temperatures outside of space

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stations do you experience and how are

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temperatures adjusted for the

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temperature change

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that's a good question um when it is

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nighttime outside the space station so

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the the space station is going around

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the earth so

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about half the time it's in the sunlight

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and half the time it's behind the earth

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and so it's in dark and when it's in the

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dark it's way below freezing outside and

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when it's in the sun it's much hotter

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than it ever gets on earth and so you

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can get really big temperature

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differences and so when the crew is

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inside the space station maintains a

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good temperature for them and it uses

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different ways to either collect the sun

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and use its energy to help heat the

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station or to

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kind of reject some of that heat to keep

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it

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too hot and then when the astronauts go

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outside to do their space walks their

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suits do that for them

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their suits have

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a little has water running through it

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and they can control the temperature of

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the water and that will help control the

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temperature inside the spacesuit to keep

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them from getting too hot or too cold

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and for when it's really cold if it's

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nighttime and they're working on

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something they really need their fingers

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for they have heaters and their gloves

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that keep their fingers warm so

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lots of things that

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that goes into keeping you comfortable

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when you're in space

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next question

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oh

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what kind of jobs are on the space

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station

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so the astronauts when they're on the

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space station do a lot of different

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things um the the thing you probably

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hear the most about is is the science

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you know they're doing all kinds of

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really cool experiments and doing things

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that we can only do in space you know

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figuring out how gravity affects

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different things and so that's what they

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really enjoy doing they love doing

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science um but they also really like

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looking at the earth we do a lot of

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studying of the earth taking pictures of

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the earth um

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sometimes when we have things like

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hurricanes that are coming the

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astronauts will actually help with that

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and take pictures of that for the ground

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since we get a really good view of that

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and then there are things that they have

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to do just to just to keep the space

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station working so it's kind of like how

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you have to do some chores around your

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house to keep your house clean and

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functioning they have to do chores in

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space too and so they have to do some

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cleaning or they have to do some

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maintenance to keep some of the

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equipment working

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does the space station continue to grow

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in size to hold more astronauts

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cosmonauts etc

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the space station is pretty much done

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growing now uh it was designed to hold

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six people and that's where we are and

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so we're gonna keep rotating those six

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people in and out but uh we don't intend

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to get much bigger put many more people

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in there it's pretty much the size it's

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gonna be it's a live view that you're

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seeing here of uh what the space station

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looks like on the inside right now this

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is the destiny laboratory which is

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the united space uh the united states

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laboratory um there are

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three different laboratories on the

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united states side of the space station

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there's one from the u.s and then also

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one from europe and one from japan and

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then the russian side of the space

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station has a couple of other modules so

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they're it's really big it's about as

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long as

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about the size of a football field with

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the solar arrays

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and um there's actually i think the crew

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members tend to tell you that um that

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there's plenty of room for six people in

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there and actually they are able to

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spend a lot of their time kind of by

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themselves working and they don't

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necessarily work side by side all the

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what kind of training do they do

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in nasa

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what kind of training do we do at nasa

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training for the astronauts

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they do all sorts of training they spend

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a lot of their time doing training to

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get ready um they do things from

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training for example how to fix a

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computer that may break because we don't

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you know you can't just send

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you can't call somebody to come fix your

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computer in space right you kind of have

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to know how to do it so we get training

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and that kind of stuff

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they also get training for all the

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science they're going to have to do so

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they understand what they're going to

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need to be doing for the experiments

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they do a lot of training if they're

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going to do space walks

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to make sure they understand what

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they're doing and where they're gonna go

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in space it's really choreographed

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almost like a dance when they go out in

552
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space where they know exactly where

553
00:18:35,750 --> 00:18:33,679
they're gonna put their hand or where

554
00:18:37,750 --> 00:18:35,760
they're gonna put their foot it's very

555
00:18:39,270 --> 00:18:37,760
precise and then of course they train

556
00:18:41,350 --> 00:18:39,280
just generically on things like using

557
00:18:43,430 --> 00:18:41,360
the robotic arm it's a really big arm

558
00:18:45,909 --> 00:18:43,440
and they have to learn how to handle it

559
00:18:47,750 --> 00:18:45,919
and how to work it very smoothly for

560
00:18:49,350 --> 00:18:47,760
things like capturing vehicles so a lot

561
00:18:51,190 --> 00:18:49,360
of training there and then the people on

562
00:18:53,430 --> 00:18:51,200
the ground also do training

563
00:18:55,990 --> 00:18:53,440
we do some things called simulations and

564
00:18:57,669 --> 00:18:56,000
that's where we set computers up that

565
00:18:59,350 --> 00:18:57,679
run and pretend like the space station

566
00:19:01,110 --> 00:18:59,360
is running and pretend like for example

567
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dragon is coming

568
00:19:04,549 --> 00:19:02,960
and so we actually see graphics just

569
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like it's really happening in real life

570
00:19:07,990 --> 00:19:06,240
and the entire mission control team will

571
00:19:09,430 --> 00:19:08,000
practice and pretend like it's really

572
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happening and so we practice all the

573
00:19:11,750 --> 00:19:10,559
stuff we're gonna have to do on the

574
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ground too

575
00:19:15,430 --> 00:19:13,760
how long did you have to train to be a

576
00:19:16,950 --> 00:19:15,440
visiting vehicle officer

577
00:19:19,029 --> 00:19:16,960
so like i said i've been here for five

578
00:19:20,390 --> 00:19:19,039
years and as brandi mentioned for each

579
00:19:21,909 --> 00:19:20,400
of the positions that's here there's

580
00:19:23,430 --> 00:19:21,919
actually more people helping them in

581
00:19:24,870 --> 00:19:23,440
different rooms and so

582
00:19:27,029 --> 00:19:24,880
we first get trained to go ahead and

583
00:19:28,789 --> 00:19:27,039
work and we call those in the back rooms

584
00:19:30,470 --> 00:19:28,799
and so i got trained to work three

585
00:19:31,990 --> 00:19:30,480
different positions in the back room

586
00:19:33,270 --> 00:19:32,000
before i got to come up here and work in

587
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the front room and i got my

588
00:19:36,950 --> 00:19:35,280
certification last year so it took me

589
00:19:38,549 --> 00:19:36,960
about four years of training to be able

590
00:19:40,230 --> 00:19:38,559
to make it into actual mission control

591
00:19:42,549 --> 00:19:40,240
and you have to kind of go step by step

592
00:19:43,909 --> 00:19:42,559
right you take one one uh position at a

593
00:19:45,990 --> 00:19:43,919
time learn how to do it well then move

594
00:19:48,230 --> 00:19:46,000
on to the next one exactly

595
00:19:49,590 --> 00:19:48,240
all right next question

596
00:19:51,110 --> 00:19:49,600
i'm sorry we weren't able to hear that

597
00:19:53,669 --> 00:19:51,120
one i don't think their microphone your

598
00:19:56,390 --> 00:19:53,679
microphone was turned on

599
00:19:58,789 --> 00:19:56,400
what does robonaut do now in space

600
00:19:59,830 --> 00:19:58,799
what does robonaut do now so robonaut

601
00:20:01,669 --> 00:19:59,840
just like we were talking about he's

602
00:20:03,270 --> 00:20:01,679
kind of in training right now um you

603
00:20:04,789 --> 00:20:03,280
know he went up there and now he's kind

604
00:20:06,390 --> 00:20:04,799
of learning the things he's going to be

605
00:20:07,990 --> 00:20:06,400
doing and so they're they're doing some

606
00:20:09,510 --> 00:20:08,000
testing with him they're using him for

607
00:20:11,270 --> 00:20:09,520
very small things inside the space

608
00:20:12,710 --> 00:20:11,280
station right now and because it's

609
00:20:14,230 --> 00:20:12,720
everybody has to learn you know the

610
00:20:16,470 --> 00:20:14,240
astronauts have to learn what it's like

611
00:20:18,310 --> 00:20:16,480
to work next to a robot because he's new

612
00:20:19,590 --> 00:20:18,320
there and robonaut has to learn about

613
00:20:21,669 --> 00:20:19,600
the kinds of things he can do in the

614
00:20:23,830 --> 00:20:21,679
space station and the team on the ground

615
00:20:25,350 --> 00:20:23,840
that helps control robot needs to learn

616
00:20:27,110 --> 00:20:25,360
you know how he works in space and what

617
00:20:28,630 --> 00:20:27,120
kind of things they can do

618
00:20:30,630 --> 00:20:28,640
so right now he's kind of in training

619
00:20:31,990 --> 00:20:30,640
just like the rest of us go through and

620
00:20:33,350 --> 00:20:32,000
then like we said eventually he'll be

621
00:20:34,950 --> 00:20:33,360
able to go and do things for the

622
00:20:35,830 --> 00:20:34,960
astronauts to kind of help save them

623
00:20:36,870 --> 00:20:35,840
time

624
00:20:38,470 --> 00:20:36,880
some of the stuff that's going to be a

625
00:20:40,470 --> 00:20:38,480
little bit too boring for the astronauts

626
00:20:42,470 --> 00:20:40,480
to do because robonauts robots don't

627
00:20:44,149 --> 00:20:42,480
mind if it's boring

628
00:20:46,710 --> 00:20:44,159
next question

629
00:20:50,070 --> 00:20:46,720
how can you don't go to any other states

630
00:20:52,310 --> 00:20:50,080
any other planets but the moon

631
00:20:54,070 --> 00:20:52,320
yeah we don't yet we want to and we want

632
00:20:55,510 --> 00:20:54,080
to go and explore lots of other places

633
00:20:57,750 --> 00:20:55,520
you know maybe some other planets or

634
00:20:59,430 --> 00:20:57,760
some asteroids or even farther than that

635
00:21:01,270 --> 00:20:59,440
so definitely we're looking at going you

636
00:21:03,270 --> 00:21:01,280
know way beyond the earth

637
00:21:04,870 --> 00:21:03,280
and we hope to do that in the future but

638
00:21:06,630 --> 00:21:04,880
it's it's like training you have to take

639
00:21:08,149 --> 00:21:06,640
little steps so the moon's the closest

640
00:21:09,909 --> 00:21:08,159
thing so that's the first baby step that

641
00:21:11,669 --> 00:21:09,919
we take and we practice on that and then

642
00:21:13,750 --> 00:21:11,679
we'll keep going we're actually building

643
00:21:14,870 --> 00:21:13,760
a new spaceship right now called the

644
00:21:16,390 --> 00:21:14,880
orion

645
00:21:17,669 --> 00:21:16,400
that's going to let us take people to

646
00:21:20,230 --> 00:21:17,679
other planets we

647
00:21:23,669 --> 00:21:20,240
believe we'll be able to go to the moon

648
00:21:25,669 --> 00:21:23,679
or asteroids or even mars on orion and

649
00:21:27,230 --> 00:21:25,679
you can find out more about that online

650
00:21:30,390 --> 00:21:27,240
too at

651
00:21:32,070 --> 00:21:30,400
www.nasa.gov orion

652
00:21:33,590 --> 00:21:32,080
next question

653
00:21:35,909 --> 00:21:33,600
i just want to thank you for talking to

654
00:21:37,909 --> 00:21:35,919
my students but uh also

655
00:21:39,830 --> 00:21:37,919
some context about two months ago they

656
00:21:42,070 --> 00:21:39,840
spoke to one of the designers of

657
00:21:44,549 --> 00:21:42,080
robonaut cody hensley i think he works

658
00:21:46,630 --> 00:21:44,559
in your building oh okay

659
00:21:48,310 --> 00:21:46,640
so you know they had some context my

660
00:21:50,310 --> 00:21:48,320
question though is

661
00:21:51,830 --> 00:21:50,320
did the people uh astronauts on the

662
00:21:54,549 --> 00:21:51,840
space station have

663
00:21:56,789 --> 00:21:54,559
any uh opinions or sightings of the

664
00:22:00,549 --> 00:21:56,799
asteroid

665
00:22:05,669 --> 00:22:02,950
i don't think that um they had any from

666
00:22:07,190 --> 00:22:05,679
the space station that um that they saw

667
00:22:10,390 --> 00:22:07,200
we are watching we watched it really

668
00:22:11,830 --> 00:22:10,400
closely at nasa um and we actually

669
00:22:14,070 --> 00:22:11,840
have some pictures online if you want to

670
00:22:16,310 --> 00:22:14,080
go look at nasa.gov there's a lot of

671
00:22:19,430 --> 00:22:16,320
information there about the asteroid

672
00:22:21,350 --> 00:22:19,440
that flew by um that we knew was coming

673
00:22:23,270 --> 00:22:21,360
on friday the big one and also the one

674
00:22:25,350 --> 00:22:23,280
that hit russia so there's there's lots

675
00:22:27,430 --> 00:22:25,360
of interesting information there

676
00:22:28,950 --> 00:22:27,440
and uh one of the groups that works here

677
00:22:30,789 --> 00:22:28,960
pointing is another group in mission

678
00:22:32,710 --> 00:22:30,799
control and they were looking into the

679
00:22:34,310 --> 00:22:32,720
crew being able to see that and i think

680
00:22:36,149 --> 00:22:34,320
one of the things they said is that it

681
00:22:38,310 --> 00:22:36,159
was too small to actually see very

682
00:22:39,190 --> 00:22:38,320
easily you know space is really large

683
00:22:40,549 --> 00:22:39,200
and so

684
00:22:42,230 --> 00:22:40,559
it was a little bit too small for them

685
00:22:43,909 --> 00:22:42,240
to see just from the space station and

686
00:22:45,909 --> 00:22:43,919
it also depends on you know where the

687
00:22:47,190 --> 00:22:45,919
asteroid was and where the crew and the

688
00:22:48,950 --> 00:22:47,200
space station were at the time if the

689
00:22:50,950 --> 00:22:48,960
earth was in the way so i don't think we

690
00:22:52,390 --> 00:22:50,960
got to see that one i think it's good

691
00:22:54,789 --> 00:22:52,400
that it was too small to see that's what

692
00:22:56,310 --> 00:22:54,799
we like for asteroids close to earth uh

693
00:22:57,750 --> 00:22:56,320
we do um let the

694
00:22:59,190 --> 00:22:57,760
astronauts know though when there's

695
00:23:00,390 --> 00:22:59,200
going to be something cool in space to

696
00:23:01,590 --> 00:23:00,400
see that they're going to be able to see

697
00:23:03,590 --> 00:23:01,600
and a lot of times they're able to take

698
00:23:05,750 --> 00:23:03,600
good pictures and video which we all put

699
00:23:07,990 --> 00:23:05,760
on nasa.gov and you can see for yourself

700
00:23:11,750 --> 00:23:08,000
so there's lots of really cool pictures

701
00:23:13,750 --> 00:23:11,760
of uh just the earth and and beautiful

702
00:23:16,390 --> 00:23:13,760
pictures of it and also uh

703
00:23:19,750 --> 00:23:16,400
the northern lights things like that and

704
00:23:21,270 --> 00:23:19,760
uh meteors hitting and um and uh you

705
00:23:23,190 --> 00:23:21,280
know burning up in the earth's

706
00:23:25,029 --> 00:23:23,200
atmosphere and lots of really cool

707
00:23:27,190 --> 00:23:25,039
phenomenon

708
00:23:28,950 --> 00:23:27,200
all right and dory and brandy thank you

709
00:23:31,190 --> 00:23:28,960
so much for answering all these

710
00:23:33,750 --> 00:23:31,200
wonderful questions um wanted to give

711
00:23:37,350 --> 00:23:33,760
salt river um last chance to say thank

712
00:23:39,110 --> 00:23:37,360
you and goodbye

713
00:23:41,430 --> 00:23:39,120
thank y'all great questions we really