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joining us today expedition 4142 flight

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engineer elena sorova elena thank you

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very much for your time

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it's a busy time for you you're in the

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home stretch of your training for your

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launch in september on the soyuz to the

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international space station

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how excited are you at this point and

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what are you looking forward to the most

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once you arrive on the international

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most of all

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i am expecting to

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perform my work

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uh with great quality and i'm a little

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concerned

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that

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stand up for those people who helped me

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to prepare for this mission and to help

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me to perform my work in a good manner

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tell us a little bit about yourself

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elena what

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what got you interested in

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human space flight becoming a cosmonaut

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what are some of your hobbies as well

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i'd like to start with the first part of

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your question why

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i became interested in flying into space

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since i was a child i was very

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in space

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the entire topic

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of space everything that was related to

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space exploration and the great part in

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my decision

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was placed by my school and my first

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often told us about different events

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related to space exploration

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so it was the first uh part in my

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conscious decision

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uh went to study in the most aviation

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institute the space exploration

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department

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it was a very purposeful choice on my

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part i was very much interested in

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everything that was related to

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cosmonauts and astronauts

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after that i joined

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the rsc in ergia as an engineer

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and when i had an opportunity to apply

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to become a cosmonaut

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actually a cosmonaut candidate i did

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and now i'm here talking to you

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as to the second part of your question

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i have different interests and they are

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not only space related as you might

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and i like it so much because i think

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a human person who

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knows his uh or her history has their

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roots and they have

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they have their outlook for the future

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let's talk a little bit about history

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for a moment

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we interview cosmonauts we ask them

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what got you inspired what was your

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motivation to want to fly in space

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did you have a hero when you were young

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and they all say of course yuri gagarin

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for you was it yuri gagarin or might it

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have been valentina tarashkova that

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enabled you to look up at the sky and

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let me answer in this way

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of course

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a big part in my decision

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made by all the cosmonauts who

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were flying first

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both men

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and obviously women and valentina

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tereshkova was the woman

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she was a great example that impacted my

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a lot of people

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played part in my decision and there

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uh both female and male

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1 elena you will become only the fourth

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russian woman to fly in space when you

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launch and the first since elena

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kondikova flew on the space shuttle back

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on her second flight into space some 14

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how significant is this for you

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and what is the importance of your

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flight opening up the door perhaps for

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more russian women to become cosmonauts

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let me answer this question like this

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the door to space

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was open to all women by valentina

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we only do our work i don't think i'm

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doing anything extraordinary

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i'm just doing something that was

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i think that both cosmonauts and

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astronauts first of all should be

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professionals in their area

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in order to perform their work

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has has your training been more complex

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than you had anticipated so many things

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to learn russian segment u.s segment

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all of the scientific work that you'll

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be conducting during your six months on

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how how complex has all of this

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preparation been for the opportunity to

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usually when i'm asked this question i

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answer it like this

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no work is easy

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especially training and learning

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it is a very hard job to do and my path

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up to this moment has been very

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my work in the future will be very

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tense and uh very challenging

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whenever you are faced with these

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challenges you have to make decisions

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it's very interesting i love learning

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no work is easy as i said

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have you spent any free time thinking

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about what the view of earth is going to

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be once you get up on the space station

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how magnificent this whole experience is

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going to be for you to have the

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opportunity to look back at earth to

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look at your home country

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to experience weightlessness for six

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that this is a slow yes of course

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russian colleagues and u.s colleagues

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whatever you see from out there is

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unforgettable and i'm hopeful to get

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this experience in my life and i will

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homeland is our planet and i hope to get

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this experience

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in the wake of uh becoming only the

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fourth uh russian woman to fly in space

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later this year do you see yourself as a

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role model you mentioned valentina

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taraskova of course as a role model for

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women but do you see yourself in the

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future as a role model for other russian

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i will be a role model not only for

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a women girls young girls but also for

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good example to follow

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the international space station just

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lifetime has been extended to at least

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how it's grown in size grown in research

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perform a lot of different functions

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how has the international space station

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languages backgrounds

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world uh that it has become sort of a a

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global village if you will it almost is

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like the olympics in its own right

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bringing all these nations together how

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it is undoubtedly very important that

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we have all kinds of people working on

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outstanding especially in the light of

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the further exploration when people will

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be exploring other planets

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and people like exploring people are

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natural travelers

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in the international space station is a

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step in the history of mankind

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elena sorova thank you so much for your

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time expedition 4142 flight engineer

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elena sarova and good luck with your

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training as you prepare for your launch

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got the air going so you can think about

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dust masks

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which is right here in the last

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besides the wpa look at this message so

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good call

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nothing foreign

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food