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crews assigned to missions on the

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international space station spend more

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than two years training for six months

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on orbit but nasa is always developing

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information to prepare for future

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missions to the station and future

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missions to deep space

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one of the ways that we do that is by

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sending crews on long missions

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underwater on what are known as nemo

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missions nemo stands for nasa extreme

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environment mission operations

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and two more nemo missions are slated

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for later this summer

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jaxa astronaut aki hoshide a veteran of

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one space shuttle mission to the space

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station plus 124 day

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flight during expeditions 32 and 33 back

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in 2012 is going to be the commander of

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nemo 18 next month and recently my

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colleague amiko kaur talked with hoshide

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to find out more about the plans for his

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nine-day underwater mission

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so nemo 18 is coming up this july

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we have a nine-day mission underwater

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in an aquarius habitat um there's four

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crew members involved myself and then

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two nasa astronauts uh jeanette epps and

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mark vanderheim and we have one more

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issa astronaut thomas piskett okay great

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thank you so

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um tell me first what inspired you to do

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nemo when they came to you and said aki

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well i haven't had the opportunity to

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actually stay underwater for this long

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you know it's been around as a training

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uh for quite a while now but uh i just

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didn't have the opportunity to to stay

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down there so when the opportunity came

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and i said yeah sign me up

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great well we're glad to have you thank

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you so um let's talk about also now nemo

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18 is going to address some

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objectives that we have currently of the

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space station and also orion and it's

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going to also look at some objectives

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for future

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space exploration can you tell me

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um a little about how your past space

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experience is going to fits into this

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these objectives for nemo 18. sure so

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uh you know we have different

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experiments different evaluations

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objectives during this nemo mission and

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a lot of people are involved but for the

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crew it's partly training you know

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you're you're in that uh

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environment for a long duration it's

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nine days only but we consider that a

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duration uh underwater in extreme

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condition so

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to me that's just like an analog to

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international space station you're

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you're in there together

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you're isolated from the rest of the

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world you have mcc helping you out

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but i can try to see what is similar to

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the space station and then tell the the

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rest of the crew and try to uh

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help them out and understand that

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we talked about some of the primary

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objectives so one of the primary

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objectives of nemo is not only for the

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near term and and future term of space

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exploration but also the things the

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primary focus will be on

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human body experiments can you tell me a

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little about what you guys will be doing

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on nemo 18. sure um there's no blood

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draw this time

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but there's more like the teamwork

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aspect you mentioned international crew

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in a isolated environment and we'll have

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some calm delay as well built in for a

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couple of days so uh the teamwork

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will be very crucial you know uh so

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we'll be looking at how to improve the

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uh the teamwork um we have a lot of

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questionnaires that we need to fill out

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um that kind of thing and uh on a

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different subject we're testing out like

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the heart rate monitor

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um that we can use for the international

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space station as well great yeah so i

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know they're well lucky you're not being

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pricked

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so mostly from the psychological aspect

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and working with the crew members but

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then also doing some work with the heart

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rate monitor so another one of those

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objectives is also going to be looking

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at spacewalk tools and techniques can

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you tell me a little about how you guys

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will be doing that on nemo 18. sure so

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every single day we'll be diving and

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going eva

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outside the uh the habitat yes spacewalk

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uh going out to the water

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not to space but uh

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uh some of those

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days we'll be

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using a drill

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so the objective is to see if these new

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hardwares

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be used

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which we will be using

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for future missions like for the

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asteroid or mars um how uh

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feasible those would be in operation now

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are these tools that they are currently

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using aboard the space station no that

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you guys are trying to so these are

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absolutely new yes for future use yes

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possibly outside space station or for

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other people or yeah for future missions

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yes or whatever

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um that's really fascinating so that'll

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be kind of cool to be able to get your

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hands on something different that you

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haven't used before right um also can

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you tell me a little bit we were talking

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about your training again your um your

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mission kicks off on what july 21st uh

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the training will kick up on july 14th

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i'm sorry your mission begins on july

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21st adventure training so can you tell

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me a little about um just compare some

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of the training for um

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expedition versus for nemo

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for uh an iss mission it's you know a

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couple years long and you go to

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different countries and you go

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start with an overview and then go into

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the details you use a procedure you have

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a hardware to

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play around with

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now for nemo missions it's very you know

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tight in a way we had an overview

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training session here at jsc

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for the past couple of days but

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we'll fly down to florida and then we'll

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actually see the hardware see the

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habitat see all the equipment that we're

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going to use and then we're going to

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play around with it use a procedure make

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sure that we know exactly what we need

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to do and then dive in so it's a very

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condensed training process compared to

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it sounds like it well best of luck to

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you that's all the time we have thank

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you again for coming out and talking

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with us and

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we look forward to forwarding following

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you guys and uh