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hi everybody josh barley here inside

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mission control i'm joined by astronaut

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chris cassidy chris has been back for

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about six weeks or so now back in

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september so chris first of all welcome

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back talking about how's gravity

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treating you so far you know

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the re-adaptation has gone pretty well

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in fact uh after my shuttle experience i

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had kind of tingly feet two weeks

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pretty fast amount of time to be in

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space but i didn't exercise much so i

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was anticipating that and more coming

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back on station and i got back here and

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because of the t2 machine and the and

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the a red exercise bikes machines that

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we have up there i felt fantastic didn't

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have any tingly feet was able to walk

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and it really felt great

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it's amazing how different it is

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probably going up there about two weeks

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and then you know almost six months up

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on board the space station talk about

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the differences between those two yeah

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so um

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well the one thing i didn't expect was

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sort of this own feeling of ownership of

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like it was my home on the space station

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whereas when i went to the space station

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on the shuttle i was a shuttle crew

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member i ate and slept and went to the

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bathroom on the shuttle and went over to

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the space station to use the facilities

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and go do space walks and robotics and

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this sort of thing

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but it wasn't my home yeah and then to

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be there now for six months it really

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truly felt like home if you're in your

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own house and you put a new audio visual

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equipment in your living room you take

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care where you route the cables because

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you don't want ugly cables in your

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family room and that's the kind of

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feeling that we have on you know when

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you're there that long you put a new

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computer somewhere you you make the

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cables perfect so you're not tripping

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over the wires and that sort of thing

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and really neat feeling

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let's talk about the crew that's about

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to go up you've got rick and koichi and

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mikhail get about about to head up here

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just a few short days november 6th

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they're going to launch you guys were

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the first crew to actually go up there

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in one day right it usually takes about

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two days to get up to the space station

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you guys did it pretty pretty fast um is

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it was there a difference i mean did did

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it feel weird going up there within six

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hours or what um you know you know i

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did a a soyuz mission before the

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previous way so my what i knew is what

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happened what it was and uh it was very

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comfortable i i enjoyed having my first

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night on space station be in a real bed

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you know so to speak

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a real toilet a real selection of food

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yeah uh that was that was a really nice

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feeling to have all that those creature

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comforts on that first night

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and uh the soyuz is a really small

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little vehicle and we were in it for six

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hours but it went by so fast because

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there's a lot of activities that you

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have to do preparing for different

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maneuvers and things as you lead up to

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the rendezvous so it went by in a split

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second so talk about what they're doing

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right now down in baikonur they went

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down i guess a few days ago and that

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really is kind of it for them they're

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about to go through the final preps for

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launch and head out to the rocket and

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they're going to be on their way so

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what's it like mentally to finally kind

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of get down to the launch site and get

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ready to go so

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there's a lot of pre-flight

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exams and hoopla that happens in star

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city and you get that past you and you

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get on the plane you go to baikonur and

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it's a very calm

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feeling

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it's a slow pace you're there for two

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in the beginning

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there's not much it's wake up a little

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bit of groundhog day every day you wake

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up you work out you eat you work out

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again if you want to read books and do

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some some a few classes here and there

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but it's pretty slow paced and then you

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get to

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this event called the second fit check

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it's about i don't know three or four

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days from launch

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and after that the ball starts rolling

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really quickly you have uh you can see

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you feel the excitement as launch is

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only a handful of days away your family

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your friends come into town and you see

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them and the excitement really builds

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and i think that's about the point where

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leading up to that

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people are coming to visit them and i

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remember that same feeling for me

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really ratcheting up the excitement uh

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and and and seeing the light at the end

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of the tunnel like this is really going

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to happen we're really really going to

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yeah it's a neat feeling so let's talk

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about the other crew karen

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and luca and fyodor they're getting

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ready to come home so what is it like at

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the end of all that to kind of realize

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oh my gosh this is actually kind of

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coming to an end i'm about to wrap this

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up yeah it's a strange feeling um

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it's one you you think about going home

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because you want to see your friends and

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family but yet it's a really cool place

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to be and you never know if it's your

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last time you're ever going to have that

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opportunity to be up there so there's a

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kind of mixed feelings and mixed

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emotions of of how you want to proceed

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in those last few weeks and

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but in a nutshell you're just doing your

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daily tasks and and preparing things

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like for instance i

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was making sure that mike hopkins was

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going to have

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everything that that i thought oh well i

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had a belt as does hopkins have a belt

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i'm going to leave him my belt no stupid

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thing little things like that that uh

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kind of prepare you and then i i also

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remember this sounds pretty trivial but

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the excess clothing that i had socks

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underwear t-shirts that i knew i

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wouldn't need once i got

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with with inside uh

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a couple of days five days from from

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going home i knew i wouldn't need all

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that stuff so i threw it away and that

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simple act sort of shifted my focus of

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okay i'm on space station too all right

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i'm really going home now and uh

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and i got kind of excited to go home i

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was sad to leave you know i really

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enjoyed my time with karen and luca and

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and being on space station but it was it

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was a neat time uh neat exciting feeling

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to get hit at home yeah last question

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what was kind of the biggest surprise

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that you didn't really anticipate

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um that you got up there and you're kind

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of like well i didn't really expect this

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yeah that i'm not asked that often and

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it's tough question to answer because

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there's so dif so many different ways

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you know i touched on that sense of

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pride of ownership of the space station

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space shuttle and the space station but

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i never had seen the cupola yeah and i

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think that was probably one of the most

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surprising things is just how

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magnificent the cupola views are and you

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can just get lost up there for hours and

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sit there and look out the window and

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really take in the beauty of the planet

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as it goes by underneath us so that's

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probably the biggest thing was just the

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magnificent beauty of the cupola i

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appreciate it chris yeah if you'd like

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programming that's ahead as we bring you

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live coverage of this launch and this

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landing we're kind of doing backwards

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order typically we have a landing and

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then a launch

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but this is going to be a busy few weeks

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for the crew on board the space station

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