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expedition 39 has been underway for a

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little more than 45 days beginning back

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on march 10th the day that cosmonauts

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oleg kotov sergey ryazanskiy and nasa

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astronaut mike hopkins left the

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international space station aboard their

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soyuz spacecraft after 166 days in space

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2656 orbits of earth and more than 70

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million statute miles the three landed

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back in kazakhstan

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and it was the first flight for hopkins

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today we find out more about the mission

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and what happens after the soyuz is soft

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landing

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in the desert and we say good morning to

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mike hopkins thank mike thanks for

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joining us here good morning it's uh

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it's absolutely great to be here i bet

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it's uh it was a long trip but uh a

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month and a half back now after being

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260 miles up aboard that station you

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know how are you feeling that's the

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first question everybody wants to know i

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absolutely feel fantastic um it's uh

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it's really been a

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fun 45 days since returning home you

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know physically of course there's a

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little bit of time that it takes to

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re-adapt to to life on on earth

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but then also just the minimal having

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time to to spend with the family and

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friends a little bit as well has has

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been great well that's what i was going

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to ask you is you know how has the

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actual recovery been

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yeah you know the recovery uh has

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actually gone pretty smooth um you know

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i had there's always a little bit of

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vestibular

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issues for me in particular i i had you

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know i always felt like when i was say

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leaning over to to wash my face or brush

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my teeth those first few days afterwards

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i felt like i was just going to keep

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right on going and pitch right into the

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sink um so you know those kind of things

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but you recovered pretty quick from that

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and physically i feel great yes i assume

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this is like the same kind of sensations

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that you know you would norma none of us

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would even think about having an issue

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with but after you've been up there you

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know yeah and you know there is that uh

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first day things feel heavy too i mean

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just lifting my head up when i first got

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out of the capsule i was i was surprised

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at how heavy it felt well let's uh

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let's talk about your the exercise part

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because we know how important exercise

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is on the station obviously and you in

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particular focused on exercise as part

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of your kind of program um

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but uh talk about how much of a

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difference that makes in terms of your

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fitness

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you know at the end of your mission as

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it was before you flew in during well

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you know in reality it all actually

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starts before your mission and we do

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spend a lot of time working out uh

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before you even launch and that really

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sets the stage um for for when you get

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there and and then of course we have

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some just absolutely fantastic uh yeah

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we have some absolutely fantastic

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equipment up there both the a-rad and

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then the the t2 with a treadmill and the

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exercise bike and and then the ground

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personnel the our

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trainers that we have that that help us

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with the protocols and everything they

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do just a great job and and it seems to

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have worked you know i landed and of

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course you know there were those issues

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but they went away pretty quick and and

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1g very very quickly yeah well that's

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what i was going to ask is you know in

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terms of your reintegration back into

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this one gravity environment or your

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regular life you know

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has it been tough at all i mean you you

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touched on it a little bit yeah yeah you

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know it was it was quite surprising it

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was one of the first things we do a lot

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of the little the tests um strength

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tests and then what we call a vo2 max

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test as well and i was i was very happy

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those those numbers were coming out to

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my pre-flight numbers um so i think that

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was a good thing i think that's a

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testament to uh to what we do up on

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orbit and and uh it certainly pays off

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um so again it's it's gone very quickly

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um on in terms of reintegrating to life

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on earth yep

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um one thing i always like to touch on

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with uh crew members that return and

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interaction with

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all of these flight control teams

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the station flight control room here in

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houston but

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um you know talk a little bit about the

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experience of working not only with the

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trainers pre-flight and actually

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probably during the mission but also the

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the teamwork you know you're very

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familiar with that obviously uh pre-nasa

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right but but talk about that a little

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bit yeah it's it's truly an incredible

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experience to to get to work with with

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everybody down here in mission control

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um huntsville and in in jackson europe

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you know when i first came to to nasa in

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2009 i was extremely impressed with just

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how enthusiastic everybody is here at

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nasa and they just they love space they

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love their jobs and you see that in the

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control rooms as well when you deal with

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uh with everybody down here on a

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day-to-day basis uh you know they're

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they're really the ones that make it all

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happen and and we just get the the

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privilege of flying in space yeah well

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one of the flight control positions in

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here obviously is eva or extra vehicular

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activity you

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actually did two spacewalks back in

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december before you came home which

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totaled almost 13 hours we just

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completed a contingency type spacewalk

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and you obviously participated that and

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well as well up there describe that

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experience you weren't planning to do

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one i don't think no we weren't planning

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uh didn't have a planned dva for our

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increment while i was up there and uh

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you know you certainly hate to see

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things um break on station but on the

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same time you know

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it was an amazing experience to to get

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to go that's uh that shot

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floating out on the arm is truly an

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amazing experience from the ground is

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incredible so it must have yeah yeah

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it's uh that was an incredible

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experience incredible feeling uh but you

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know that's really when nasa i think

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shines is in these contingency

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situations these crisis situations and

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just does an amazing job of preparing

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the procedures that we need to execute

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when we go outside and and so by the

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time you do actually open that hatch

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see the world in all its glory for the

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first time without any obstructions um

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you realize though that you've got this

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army of folks behind you that are

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helping you along every step of the way

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and it makes it very easy to go out and

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what's your uh what's your schedule now

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going forward yeah you know they've got

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a plan for you now yeah

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yeah so the last 45 days again have been

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a lot of medical experiments and um and

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debriefs where we sit down and we talk

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about our experiences up there and share

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any lessons learned that that might be

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helpful for going forward but after this

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point really i'm going to spend a little

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bit of time here over the next months

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going out and sharing the experience and

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telling the story and it's such a fun

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a fun story to get to tell yeah we could

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tell obviously from the ground you were

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almost like right now you're always

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smiling and uh one big part of that is

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enjoying what you were doing up there

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and also obviously doing all of the all

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of the work easiest final question for

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you mike

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you're ready to go back

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i would love to go back um i would i

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would love to have the opportunity if

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they asked me i certainly would but at

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the same time i'm also enjoying time

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with my family and friends and and so

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it's um you know just i feel very

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fortunate and blessed to have had the

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opportunity that i did well we really

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appreciate you taking a few minutes on

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all your debriefs and everything else

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that you got going on uh stopping by

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here in mission control and talking with

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us and the space station live audience

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so thanks a lot mike well thank you and

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i enjoy being in here it's great seeing

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my crewmates up there though i have to

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admit i am a little jealous of them well

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and i think mike's going to take a few

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minutes and and walk around the room and

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say hi to some of the flight control