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so while commander ford is engaged in

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that spheres activity uh most of the day

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today he'll also be doing some

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prep work in order to get ready for

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coming home a little bit later this week

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aside from all this experiment

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maintenance activity he was able to

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take some time out of his day yesterday

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to uh do a ham radio pass with some

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students in

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a public school in australia uh why

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don't we take a listen uh to that

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today we are acting from italy as a

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celebration station for mount ashley

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public school in ferry middle australia

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are you ready for the first question

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carrying over

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okay okay kevin senior you should go go

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and hide australia

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how does radiation affect you and do you

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worry about radiation levels in the skin

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atmosphere over

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there i don't worry about them myself

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but there are many engineers who watch

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the radiation level for us we have one

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cooking on board that can warn us if we

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need to take shelter you have some

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special places we can go with some

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little extra protection in our crew

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quarters have to be careful and we were

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detectors on us while we're in space

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great question over

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the sound sound different in space both

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in the iss and went on a space walk over

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well it does sound a little different

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out here um inside the space station we

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can hear each other well when we're

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talking and we can listen to music uh

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there is a lot of extra noise from fans

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and things but uh we always do have a

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background but we're out on a spacewalk

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we just wear headphones and all we can

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hear is a radio just like this one over

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how do you store the oxygen needed for

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the astronauts and do you have enough

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yes we do we carry plenty so that we can

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so what we do inside is we we rebreathe

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our oxygen when we breathe it in and you

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use it to rebreathe it back out as

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carbon dioxide we have special machines

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out of it so that we can bring it again

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over

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if

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is pretty cool do you have the option to

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evacuate them back to earth and would

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you devote the mission all right well

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oh riley that's a really good question

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we have good equipment uh like

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defibrillators and certain kinds of

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drugs

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that are on board to help us like we

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could give an intraosseous a shot into

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the bone if we had to resuscitate

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somebody maybe a cardiac arrest that got

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poisoned or something we also could

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do you feel physically or mentally any

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different when you come back to earth

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yes we do in both cases uh we exercise a

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great deal up here but when we come home

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gravity is still going to be very heavy

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around for a long time my muscles will

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be sore and stiff i think i i also have

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to recover my sense of balance

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but as for mentally i think it would

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just be getting used to all the people

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again and wind and the weather because

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how do you know that it's not all day do

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you get a dead like final feeling and

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it doesn't affect my sleep but uh

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whether it's night or day we work on a

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24 hour clock just like on earth and we

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use mean time for our daily clock so we

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wake up and we go to bed at the same

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time on our watches every

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16 times each day we see light and dark

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rises at sunset

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16 times every day but no problems with

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this is to ask injection questions how

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does the eye says generate and store

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that's a great question we use a lot of

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power on board and we have very large

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solar panels that

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generate electricity for us

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when we're in the sunlight uh on our

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orbits we can put it all into batteries

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and store it so that when we're in the

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night camera of our orbits we can use it

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out of the batteries so about every 90

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minutes they go through charging and

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discharging cycles

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inside we always just see a good power

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supply over

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what were your preparations for going to

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the iss and how long does it take

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for this particular flight i had to

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train for about two and a half years

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both in russia also in germany and also

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in japan and in houston texas for all

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the things they need

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so um that's just for this mission

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before that i had about two years of

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training just to be a good astronaut to

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learn about astronomy and medical

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procedures

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why is the work you do with the iss

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fields of study

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are influenced by earth's gravity the

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way things grow

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the way metals solidify and things like

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that the way air moves the way fire

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they're all influenced by gravity on

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earth so be to be able to come up here

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and study things without gravity we

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could learn a tremendous amount that we

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didn't know before and it will make a

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big difference

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what do you miss most about home women

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to interact with every day and also the

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food that we have on the planet earth

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and also just um our way of life and

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being able to walk around so i like

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microgravity i also like being able to

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how do you read all right if things keep

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moving around over

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well that's a good question we have to

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stabilize ourselves right now when i'm

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talking to you i've got my feet locked

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underneath the little rail on the floor

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so they don't float away

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i have to be able to use my hands to

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says it really worked up

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airlock we have to be able to open and

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close the valves and open and close

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hatches so we have to get everything all

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cleaned up and ready then the ground can

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power on all those valves for us so that

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they're available and when it's time to

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go outside we go into a special little

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chamber close the hatch behind us

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there's a hat that goes outside with the

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valve and we open up that valve we let

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all the air out of the chamber

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and we can open a big hatch to go

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how do you become an astronaut in space

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well you have to know a lot about math

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science engineering learn to do a lot of

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things with your hands really you do

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what you're doing right now is you just

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be a really good student in school learn

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all the things you can because all those

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subjects are important

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things like your your language learning

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a really good english and maybe learning

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a foreign language would be very helpful

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as an astronaut too over

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what do you consider to be the best part

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of your work ever

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well the best part of my work is getting

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to work with so many people around the

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world on the international space station

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because we're all working together to do

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something very special for our future

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that's the absolute best but i also love

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flying in rockets and i love floating

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inside the space station let's love

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looking at the earth from a long ways

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away over one minute to launch a fire's

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a big risk what would happen if there

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was a serious fire that got out of

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control over

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there's some risk from fires and if we

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have to we would evacuate the space

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station we do have some fire

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okay everyone at mount rusley could we