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>> This is a replay of
video shot from inside one

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of the search and recovery
helicopters that did

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in fact make it down
to the landing site.

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There are a dozen

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such helicopters comprising
the search and recovery forces.

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To the best of our knowledge,

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only two of those
helicopters actually landed,

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and you're seeing a video replay

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of the Soyuz having
landed upright.

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[ Inaudible Group ]

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>> And now we're
looking at the first

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of the crew members being
extracted from the vehicle.

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We believe that that is --

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should be the Soyuz
Commander Oleg Novitskiy.

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[ Inaudible Group ]

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>> Please be careful.

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[ Inaudible Group ]

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>> Just put him here.

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[ Inaudible Group ]

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>> And you're looking
at Kevin Ford,

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the Expedition 34 commander,
who was the second crew member

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to be extracted from the
Soyuz vehicle, being bundled

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up against the extreme
frigid temperatures

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on a Saturday morning
at the landing site.

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[ Inaudible Group ]

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>> And Evgeny Tarelkin now out.

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All of the crew members
have been extracted

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from the Soyuz vehicle.

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>> Care of the head.

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[ Inaudible Group ]

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>> Slide down.

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[ Inaudible Group ]

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[ Static ]

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>> Happy return, welcome back.

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[ Inaudible Group ]

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>> Welcome back.

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Give the flowers to
the flight engineer.

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Thank you.

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[ Inaudible Group ]

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>> Happy return to earth.

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This is our traditional
hat [inaudible].

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[ Inaudible Group ]

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>> Our chocolates
from [inaudible].

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[ Inaudible Group ]

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>> To remember our land,
the land of [inaudible].

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>> Thank you very much.

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[ Inaudible Group ]

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>> Thank you very much.

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>> Good job.

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[ Inaudible Group ]

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>> Well Kevin, welcome
back home.

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First of all just let us
know how you're feeling.

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>> Kevin Ford: Well, I feel

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like I've been off the
planet for 145 days.

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So gravity is really --
really feels strong right now.

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Things feel heavy,
even things you hold

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in your hand feel really heavy.

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But -- and a little
dizziness you get,

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because my vestibular
system's not used

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to having the gravity back here.

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But otherwise I'm
feeling pretty good.

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>> So tell us, what was your
first reaction when you found

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out you got an extra
day in space,

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you guys couldn't
come home as planned.

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>> Kevin Ford: Well
that was jubilation,

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'cause it was a win-win
situation.

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When we started that day,

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we knew we had a chance
we might not come home,

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because we had heard
the weather was bad.

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So I said, you know, an
extra day in space is great.

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A Soyuz ride today is great,
so it's just a good thing.

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And it was mostly free time
for me, so it was really nice.

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>> So you guys set a record for
the amount of science you did

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on board the Space Station.

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You broke the record in terms
of number of hours spent.

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Talk about -- a little bit
about what you guys worked on,

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what are you going to
remember about your expedition

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and the science that
you worked on?

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>> Kevin Ford: Well
on board I tell you,

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a really pleasant
surprise for me was to get

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to see what's going on on board.

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You know, I did it,
but I didn't design it.

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Scientists sent up
procedures and the equipment,

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and we would pull stuff
out of lockers and do it.

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And we just did a lot of
really cool stuff from the fish

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that went up and came down
with us, the [inaudible] fish

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for our osteoporosis study,
to, you know, how fluids behave

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in microgravity to these real
magnetic fluids and stuff

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that we got to experiment with.

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And to get to see it in
zero gravity is really cool,

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so [inaudible].

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>> Was it everything
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in terms of living on board?

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You've been to Station before,

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but you get to live
there this time.

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So is it what you expected?

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>> Kevin Ford: Yeah.

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I think, you know, it was
really a pleasant surprise,

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and really fun to do.

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I slept well on board.

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You know, you get used to a
routine, and being on board

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for a while you go
through some evolutions.

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For the first part of it it's
like you're new to space,

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and then you learn some
tricks about, you know,

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forgetting which way is up, and
turning a wall into a floor,

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and that sort of thing.

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And after a while you don't
even care where the walls

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and floors are any more,
you just live in there.

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So it's really neat to
spend some time there.

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>> Well it's good
to have you back.

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>> Kevin Ford: Thank you.