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everybody worries that it's a long time

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to be away from your family and off the

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planet

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how do you feel about it

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well it is a long time and it's

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something that that part of it i am not

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looking forward to but i'm not the only

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person i'm not the first astronaut to

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have left to leave children and a spouse

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and i'm not the first person in other

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careers we have military families that

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every day are leaving their families to

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go to places that i wouldn't want to go

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and they have to leave their children

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behind and sometimes they don't know how

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long it's going to be we know it's going

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to be a six month time on space station

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a lot of these people don't know how

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long it will be they don't know the

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outcome of their trip and so so it's

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it's certainly not heroic for me to be

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leaving my family people do it all the

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time and

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i think it's something that a lot of

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families

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deal with

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and have ways of dealing with it and we

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just

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deal with the same way it's still not

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fun but it's comforting to know that i'm

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not the only person in the world that is

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it's bothersome you know nobody wants to

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leave their child for that long

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but i know that time will go quickly and

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i'll be back before you know it and um

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and he's going to do great here he'll do

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great with his dad it'll be great

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bonding for them nothing else

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but but it is hard and i'm actually it's

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nice that there are others that have

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done it that i can look to to say what

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did you do how did how did it work for

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you and i know it's possible and i know

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it won't be the end of the world but i'm

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not going to lie and say it's not it's

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so will you be able to communicate with

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your family when you're up there i will

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the ip phone as long as we have the ku

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band antenna coverage

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i'm hoping that every day i don't know

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if that's unrealistic or not but every

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day call call to my husband at least

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and um whether or not my three-year-old

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will be interested in talking voice on a

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phone you know maybe saying hello mommy

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and

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um but he may or may not be interested

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in talking on the phone and then once a

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week of course we'll have the video

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conferences and

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and

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a mobile um

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laptop or ipad where he can chase around

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because i don't i don't think my son

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will sit in front of a computer

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to talk to me but but

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so

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there's there's communication

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what kinds of things do you think you'd

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show him

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like on those video conferences

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i really want to show him

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i think he'd get a kick out of it

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i've thought about you know videotaping

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myself eating lunch

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looking out the window singing him

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you're my sunshine what you know the

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things that i would do if i were there

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and the things he would interact with me

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with while while we're together and so

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so if i can find an efficient method of

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getting a video done every day every

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other day however many times whatever

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makes sense at the time once i get there

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and then

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downlink them and get them to him i

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think i think he would really like that

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and it would it would make me feel good