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nasa astronaut terry verse

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getting ready to make his second flight

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into space a former shuttle uh pilot uh

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just earlier this month before he uh

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left the guerin um cosmonaut training

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center for baikonur

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my colleague

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nasa public affairs officer brandy dean

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got to spend a few minutes with him

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so why don't we go ahead and take a look

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at that and catch up

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with terry just a little while ago as he

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was getting ready to head down and get

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ready to head up towards the

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international space station

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okay terry so you have been getting

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ready for this day for

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i guess at least two years depending on

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how you count it what has it been like

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traveling around the world training for

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this

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been

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really a culmination of my career

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getting to go to the international

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partners europe japan canada and of

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course

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primarily russia

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all while being based out of jsc has

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been a busy time

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it's been lots of travel but it's been

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fun it's been

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um

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probably the most fun

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part of my career that i've ever had

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but maybe it'll be top soon what's left

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to do between now and launch day

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well let's see the launch plans right

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now are going to be the 24th of november

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in kazakhstan 23rd and houston and

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between now and then we have a big

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ceremonial day tomorrow with a press

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conference and a state commission and a

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ceremony at red square

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once you get to baikonur there's really

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two main events there the premierkos are

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the fit checks roughly equivalent to the

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tcdt that we did on the shuttle and

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we'll be going inside the vehicle in our

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spacesuits just making sure everything

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fits making sure we know where all the

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specific locations of equipment are so

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we have these two fit checks inside the

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soyuz and then our day-to-day life there

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will be going over the checklist that we

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have the plans that we have the first

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few days schedule

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doing just last minute preparations for

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launch

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well and then can you walk us through

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launch day what is that like for you

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launch day is a long day it's really

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launched two days

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it starts it'll start for us

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sunday as a as a normal day

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and then they'll give us the afternoon

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off to have uh some rest because the

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following night we'll be up all night

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and then up all day the following day

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doing the docking

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so the actual wake up will be probably

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eight to nine hours before

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uh we'll do some medical testing they'll

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do some

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just the last minute preparations there

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eat some meals

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walk drive out to the launch pad which

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is about a 30 or 45 minute drive away

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get suited up in the suit

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go out to the spaceship about three

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hours before launch and then we'll get

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strapped in do all of our comm checks

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and start getting the spaceship ready

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for launch

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and then after launch it's a six hour

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trip it's for orbit

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rendezvous is the plan

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to the space station

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um and then once we dock it'll be

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another hour a couple hours before we

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get the hatches open and we get in the

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space station

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and so it's just a long long long day

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but i think the adrenaline will be going

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and uh everybody no i've never heard

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anybody complain about that day it's uh

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it's gonna be a lot of fun

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well once you get on orbit i know you've

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got a lot of work planned and one of the

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big things of course is science

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experiments so are there any science

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experiments that you're really looking

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you know there's so many different

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science experiments between nasa and

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international partners there's over 150

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different experiments we're going to be

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the one in particular that we won't have

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much to do with but i think is just

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fascinating is on the outside of the

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space station the alpha magnetic

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spectrometer is looking for

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intergalactic particles and antimatter

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and it's trying to figure out what the

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universe is made out of and

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it's it's just amazing fascinating stuff

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that the space station is a perfect

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platform for this experiment so

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hopefully

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in a few years once it gathers all the

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data that it needs we'll have a much

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clearer picture of the universe i have a

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feeling we're just going to have more

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questions

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at the end of the at the end of this

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experiment than we did before it but

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that's the the beauty of science is that

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the more you learn the more

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um the more you know that you didn't

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know and the more that you know that you

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need to learn in the future

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what are some of the other highlights

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you're looking forward to

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well other

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experiments that we'll be doing

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one in particular samantha and i will be

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going in the airlock and they're going

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to partially depressurize it

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and they're going to look at our

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respiratory system and how our lungs are

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working

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and hopefully that'll help people on

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earth that have

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breathing problems and also help the

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equipment manufacturers to

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build these uh detectors to to see how

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people are doing with asthma and other

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respiratory problems

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and there's just a myriad of earth or of

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sorry of human physiology experiments

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that we're doing

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um as far as earth observations goes

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that's something that we all look

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forward to that's kind of every

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astronaut's favorite part is looking

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at earth and my astronaut mike fink a

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good friend of mine one time i was with

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him and some kids were asking him

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uh what's your favorite planet

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and and he said well some people say

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mars some people say jupiter saturn some

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people like the moon

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but my favorite planet is earth and i

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think that's a good astronaut

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perspective that we get to see the

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space and the heavens and the stars and

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planets

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which is a pretty unique perspective to

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be able to see those from space

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but looking back to earth you're always

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drawn back to earth it's like this

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gigantic magnet in the universe that

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people are drawn to it's our planet it's

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our home and so i'm really looking

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forward to looking at earth from space i

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bet um your predecessors have kind of

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gotten a reputation for sharing some of

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the photos of earth that they've taken

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are you going to be doing that as well i

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will um

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reid weissman's a good friend of mine

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actually another fellow baltimore native

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from maryland so we have back to back

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maryland baltimore astronauts

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a lot of guys in the past have been just

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amazing with twitter and

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so i have some pretty big shoes to fill

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but i definitely want to share it's an

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adventure it's something so unique that

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so few people get to do live

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off of earth and then come back and so

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it's something i really want to share

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via twitter and instagram and nasa

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interviews like this

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other tv and radio you know whenever i

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have a chance to share

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just as much of the adventure as i can

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i'm going to do that

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at what point can you say that you would

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consider this mission successful or you

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will feel you've accomplished it well

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i'll be the commander on expedition 43.

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so the the things that

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uh satisfied that we've had a successful

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mission are

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first and foremost have a safe mission

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to get all my crew members back to earth

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safely that's the top goal

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secondly i want to keep the space

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station in good working order and i want

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to leave it a better place than when we

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and then thirdly the reason we have the

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space station is to do

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science and so

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if we can accomplish and fulfill the

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science program that we have

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from nasa as well as our international

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partners

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that's really the mission and the whole

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purpose of the space station to begin

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with well thank you so much for joining

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us we really appreciate it and i hope

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you have a great launch we look forward

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to seeing a lot of your mission while