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one of the fun things that the

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astronauts get to do on board the

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international space station is actually

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it gives them a great opportunity to

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interact with children in schools and

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people all around the globe

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and one such thing that they're doing is

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a little bit of story reading

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everyone loves a good story and what

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makes it even better sometimes is when

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an astronaut gets to read it to you from

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the international space station

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so lori meigs out at the payload

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operations integration center at nasa's

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marshall space flight center

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huntsville alabama was able to catch up

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with jeffrey bennett who's an

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astrophysicist who's written several

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children's fiction books about max the

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dog's adventures on the space station

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the moon and also mars

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nasa astronaut colonel alvin drew red

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bennett's book max goes to the moon back

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when he was on the space station which

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ended up becoming a pretty big hit

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that recording and others will be made

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available to the public as part of a

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program to continuously encourage

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students to study science technology

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math and engineering

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so tell us about how you got into

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writing from an astrophysicist to

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writing children's books

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that's quite a jump there well i first

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got into writing college textbooks so

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that's actually my main line of work is

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writing college textbooks

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and then i eventually found a little

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tiny bit of spare time and i had always

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wanted to write children's books because

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i used to teach elementary school as

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well

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and so finally was able to start doing

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it about 10 years ago did my first one

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max goes to the moon

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what's what's it about

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well so max is my dog he is a rottweiler

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and in max goes to the moon

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they

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take people back to the moon for the

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first time since the apollo era and

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inspire people enough to decide to build

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a colony

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on the moon where people can look back

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at earth and see how your perspective

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changes when you look back at earth from

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space we called the author up i got jeff

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bennett and said thinking about reading

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your story from space

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is it possible would you be upset if we

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took one of your books and you know and

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scanned it in and made a pdf of it

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because i can't fly the physical book

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and he goes how about i just send you

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the file we was hoping he would just say

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yes okay and he was very helpful with it

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and so we felt like you know we'll show

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you the tape so here's me reading from

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the the flight deck of the space shuttle

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discovery and goes you mind if i put

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this out on youtube and he he didn't it

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was it was very very successful and very

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popular

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hi i'm astronaut albin drew aboard the

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space shuttle discovery like to read you

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a bedtime story this one is called max

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goes to the moon by jeffrey bennett

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illustrated by alan okamoto a really

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cool moment for you though was when an

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astronaut read your book for a space

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ring that was a pretty incredible moment

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when i got the phone call from patricia

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tribe saying that uh alvin drew would

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like to read one of my books from space

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i didn't believe it was a real phone

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call and once i finally accepted that it

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was i sent them the pdf in that case and

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astronaut drew read the book from the

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final mission of the space shuttle

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discovery and that's posted up on

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youtube the thing about the book is it's

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not just a children's book i mean the

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basic story itself is is you know meant

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so that you know children two three or

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four years old can enjoy the story and

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see the great pictures but on the side

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there are these things called big kid

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science where they go into all the

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actual physics and things like that so

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you know if you're like me and i used to

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have my favorite you know kids books i

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grew up with but you know you're 12 or

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13 you don't want to pull those books

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back off the shelf because like

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even though you might still like the

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pictures and everything else so now

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you've got an excuse to pull the book

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off the shelf and go i'm reading up on

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the science here ma that's why i've got

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the book back off so

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even now it's got good science center

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and i like pulling it down off the shelf

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and pretending that i'm getting science

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out of it too

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hi i'm nasa astronaut mike hopkins on

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board the international space station

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and it's one of my favorite times it's

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story time from space hi i am jax

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astronaut koichi wakata

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welcome to story time from space

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well after uh astronaut drew read max

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goes to the moon from the discovery that

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was sort of a pilot project and patricia

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tribe went out with the ready to leave

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demo tape and uh pulled a lot of

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teachers and looked into it and people

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were really excited about the idea and

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then cases got excited about the idea as

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and they decided they would take all

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five of my children's books up to the

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station to be read from the cupola

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up there so it's the four max books and

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a fifth one i have called the wizard who

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saved the world which also has a little

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bit of space in it thank you for

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listening the wizard who saved the world