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the activities for the crew going

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smoothly and although it sounds like a

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quiet day from the perspective here on

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earth it's a busy day for the crew and

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joining us to kind of tell us a little

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bit more about what it's like from the

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crew perspective is astronaut katie

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coleman thanks so much for joining us hi

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nicole hi

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it seems like you were just up there and

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yet i'm looking at the dates and it's

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been about two years since you were on

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the international space station it's

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true but i tell you you know watching

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the guys on orbit right now i mean just

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in the job that i do here with the

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office i try to keep tabs on what

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they're doing and you know it just makes

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me feel like i'm on board there with

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them

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a vet and we have more ways than ever to

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follow along with the crew so i'm sure

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it's it's particularly special for you

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what it why don't you tell us since

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chris especially is really new on orbit

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and we've noticed that they have

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familiarization time blocked out each

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day as a new crew member on the space

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station can you kind of tell us what do

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you use that time for

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well there's just all sorts of things

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once um it's just things like when we

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exercise we use a data card that is

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gonna you know keep track of all the

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exercise that we do and you have to go

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unstow a new card and format it and

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stick it in the machine and you know and

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download your protocol so that you know

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what to do i mean there's some things

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um they spend a good deal of the

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beginning time just

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getting all their stuff i mean we packed

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that stuff probably

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i don't know close to a year before we

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left maybe a year and a half somebody

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asked me okay so how many shirts how

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many pants

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and so just kind of going through your

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stuff and figuring out what's there and

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how to organize it there's that some of

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that kind of time but also during most

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of that time somebody else on the

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station is already there like chris

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hadfield or tom marshburn is taking

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chris around and saying hey okay so i'm

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working on this today and when we do

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this this is the tricky part right here

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you know it's all those things that like

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if it's you know christmas eve and

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you're trying to put complicated

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christmas presents together i mean if

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there was somebody there right next to

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you that showed you oh this is the

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tricky part and this has to go under

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that and you have to put this together

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first that's all actually written in the

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instructions if you read them which we

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do but it's easier if somebody shows you

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so a lot of that is kind of show me time

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right i'm sure it's invaluable for a new

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crew member up on the space station

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absolutely you know we actually had

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somebody going up who wasn't going to

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have much time with the the prior crew

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there was a short hand over and we

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developed a cool technique

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of using videos down here on the ground

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uh folks including myself made short

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little videos as if we were up there and

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showing dan burbank around the space

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station okay dan when you do this this

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is the tricky part

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and so that we've tried to find some

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creative ways to do that even before we

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go and save some of that on orbit time

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right well we noticed that chris today

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has some really fun crew quarters

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cleaning tasks planned for his afternoon

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some detailed vacuuming and i noticed

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that he has to even gather a mask and

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goggles for that task that kind of just

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illustrates how even the simplest tasks

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on in space are really different from

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what we might think here on earth can

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you kind of tell us a little bit about

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what that really involves well when we

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think about everything floating around

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to float around and the only way that

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things get someplace is usually with the

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air circulation system so we've got

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literally air conditioning heating in

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its air that's going to flow you know in

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one place and out another and often when

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it's flowing into the system there's a

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screen there to keep you know anything

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that's been floating around the cabin um

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from going through there as well and

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there are certain places around the

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space station that we understand

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given the airflow that that is where

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we're going to find the things that we

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lost even when we don't know that we

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lost them it's your flashlight and your

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pencil pencil or your clipboard or in my

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case i actually did misplace my flute

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one time up there

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and found it on one of those events well

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in the crew quarters we have a number of

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different vents that make sure that the

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air that we're breathing in the crew

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quarters is really clean

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and they have really fine filters on

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them and

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once every long while we actually take

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that whole crew quarters apart and

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vacuum

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those those uh um

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places where the the lint and the dust

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and even just it sounds terrible but you

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know dead skin and just the little

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pieces of stuff those are all collected

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and they're not going into the crew

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quarters well chris is going to take

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that thing apart and vacuum all that

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dust up and vacuuming is really the only

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way to to clean things up that are small

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it's amazing it's you know just these

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human factor types of things that we

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don't think about here on earth that

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that really are important up there sure

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you know we spent a lot of time just

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talking about what are the best kinds of

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vacuum cleaner adapters

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because there there is a lot of dust and

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dirt that um

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maybe ends up on the vents but also can

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sort of cling just to the walls into

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pieces of equipment through static

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electricity and the only way to get them

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off is to have the vacuum kind of

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directly interface with them so we talk

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a lot about what attachments we want to

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have on on hand up there to be really

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effective at cleaning well i know

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cleaning and keeping the surfaces all

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very clean is an important priority in

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fact on the weekends you guys have time

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designated for housekeeping can you tell

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us a little bit about what that involves

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is it the same every week and is it

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pretty a pretty routine

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similar to what we would be doing here

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at home on the weekends it is very much

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like doing chores and we divide the

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space station up kind of geographically

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usually and that way you know you know

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your jobs and you can do them each week

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a lot of it does involve vacuuming where

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we're going to go to the vents where we

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know stuff collects all the time and

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clean those off so that the air flow

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isn't clogged

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and then we're also going to go to some

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vents that you know they don't get

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clogged as much because they're further

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into the system and chances are they're

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harder to get to we have to maybe

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unscrew a panel and go back there and

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find it and get to the vent and you know

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around there finding stuff that maybe

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i'm doing an experiment and i

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you know sit something you know velcro

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experiment that i needed maybe even just

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a timer or something like that this once

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a week time is is time to go oh wait a

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minute that should actually be with all

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the timers so it's a way just to get the

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space station um in order and it's kind

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of it's really actually kind of fun to

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because we get to fly everywhere up

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there i used to have the japanese module

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as my place that i cleaned and you know

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it's you've got like the the vacuum

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cleaner you're just kind of holding on

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to that and you know often actually

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right between your legs between your

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feet is the easiest place to keep that

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vacuum cleaner and i'm just flying along

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using one hand to guide myself and sort

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you know skim along the the module and

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i'm using the other hand to vacuum so if

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i got to fly around the house vacuuming

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i think i would do it a lot more often i

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was just going to say it sounds like

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chores in space are a lot more fun than

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they are here on earth

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they really can i'll tell you the things

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that are kind of a pain are

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when everything is floating around maybe

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maybe your job is let's say they asked

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you to count you know how many batteries

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are in this bag

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well they're all floating around and

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chances are it's kind of hard to do and

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we discovered that early on and now we

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package batteries and bags so that we're

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just counting groups of bags but

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things that are hard to keep track of

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and that when you try to open it up and

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see what's in there everything's kind of

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you know floating around that kind of

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stuff can be kind of frustrating but

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otherwise cleaning's pretty fun the

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other thing that i noticed in the

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procedures that i thought was really

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interesting is that he can only spend a

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certain amount of time in those quarters

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or in his particular area because of the

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ventilation

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that we've measured i mean because

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um we don't have convection up there so

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hot air balloon where the lighter gases

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are going to rise you know that and

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that's that leads to mixing you know

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here in our atmosphere and that's what

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weather is really all about is hot air

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and cold air you know getting

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recirculated and moisture as well

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we don't have that kind of movement in

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the space station and so in a place

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where there isn't a lot of airflow

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we could actually by being there and

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breathing for a while populate that area

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with co2

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and so then we're not breathing enough

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oxygen so that's why in some places that

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we know there's not very good air flow

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we have time limits for what one of the

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time we can spend there

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it's really really interesting so i'm

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sure all this is bringing back a lot of

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memories for you what are you missing

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the most now that you're here on earth

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but following along and seeing some of

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your friends and counterparts up there

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is there a part that really speaks to

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you that you really miss

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well i i loved just

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living up there i mean i loved the fact

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that it was like being a colonist like

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being somebody to be the first person to

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live on another planet where all the

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rules are different and that's so clear

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every single day because of the we say

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the floating around but

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really it's flying you know when i want

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to go from one end of the lab to the

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other i'm going to give myself a little

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and off i go until i meet another

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surface and you get better and better at

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that and that's actually another thing

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that probably chris cassidy is getting

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better at is it's kind of fun when we

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first get on board we're not so good at

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that flying around and we tend to sort

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grab from place to place hand by hand as

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if you were climbing up a ladder or

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something and after we get better at it

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we're just using a finger or two to

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redirect ourselves and fly off in

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another direction on the space station

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and that also means that we probably

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knock less stuff off the walls

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and are less clumsy after a little while

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and it's as a new person you're just

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trying to get better at moving around

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but i did just love

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living up there and just waking up in

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the morning

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and flying you know down to the node

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three um you know brushing my teeth

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going to the bathroom all those things

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and and reporting for our conference

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every morning

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and then just starting the work of the

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day and and i'm just making some of that

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work happen because i think it's really

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important work that we do up there wow

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well we know it's uh it's it's nice when

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you can't be there at least you have

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close friends doing it and speaking of

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supporting them you've moved on to a

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different job now within the astronaut

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office you're still in the core what

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what is your job nowadays now that

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you've kind of completed your post

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flight and the debriefs well we're all

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in line you know wishing to to fly again

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but that line is pretty long and in the

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meantime it's really our my job to help

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make sure that other crew members are

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ready and specifically for these

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visiting vehicles these new commer

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commercial made by our commercial

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partners supply ships that come up and

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get grabbed by the robotic arm i was the

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second person to do that on orbit

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and it's a pretty exciting event when

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uh you've got you know the space station

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going at 17 500 miles an hour and then

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right alongside it you know driving on

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the same highway is this supply ship and

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you are going to use the controls the

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robotic arm to reach out and capture

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that thing

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and hopefully not sort of tip it you

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know or hit it such that it's going to

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go away from the space station or even

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worse towards the space station so it's

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a pretty critical operation and then

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just attaching that to the space station

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unloading the supplies packing trash or

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things that need to come back to earth

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back into that ship so i've done that

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operation on orbit and now i get to kind

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of be the the mother of supply ships and

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make sure that the the ground

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understands what the crew might be doing

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up there and that the crew understands

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you know how all that works and when

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they say something what that really

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means on the ground it's pretty fun

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absolutely i think it's invaluable to

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you know for them to have your

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perspective in that role and we

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certainly hope you get to fly again but

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uh we know you're really busy and really

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appreciate you taking the time to kind

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of share with us a little bit of the

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perspective of what the crew is

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experiencing now uh hey it's no problem

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let me just tell you real quick nicole

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that actually the newest supply ship

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that's one that i'm in charge of is

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called cygnus it's by the orbital

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sciences company

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and that has its first test launch not

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coming to the space station with just

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the test launch next week which is

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really exciting and it should be coming

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to the space station just a few months

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after that so we're pretty busy down

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here getting ready for that but it's

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pretty it's a pretty exciting time with

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these new commercial partners absolutely

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thank you so very much hey thank you

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nicole it's nice to talk to you take

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care you too and a reminder you can

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follow katie on twitter at astro

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underscore katie

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and of course explore more about the

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life on the international space station

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station where you can find the timelines

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you can listen to the real-time audio

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and see video lots of resources there

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for you to learn more about what it's