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hey everybody welcome to mission control

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houston i'm dan hewitt public affairs

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officer here at nasa i'm joined today by

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richard watson one of the spacesuit

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engineers uh also here in houston

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working for nasa at the johnson space

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we're here to talk today to bunker hill

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elementary from my hometown middletown

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delaware

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really excited to take some questions

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from the students there give you guys a

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little bit of insight of what we're

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doing here at nasa these days

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and anything else you know if you're

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excited about space we want to know we

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want to answer those questions so

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just real quick a bit about the room

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we're in the international space station

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flight control room this is a room

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that's staffed by people 24 hours a day

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365 days a year

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always monitoring systems always flying

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literally they're the ones flying

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controlling the international space

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station which actually a lot of you as

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long as you've been alive this is

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something really exciting to remember

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there have been people in space

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so really cool fact um since the year

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2000 human beings have lived in space

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and this is where we talk to them we

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monitor them we help them out through

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their daily process so richard thank you

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for joining me here today uh i know

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we're real excited to take your

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questions uh so as soon as you guys are

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what is the most important job in

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hi uh who was that question from

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tennessee harper ah well thanks so

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that's a great question um so there's a

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lot of different jobs in mission control

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we have folks uh that are working

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to go through and actually control the

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vehicle and its attitude and how it's

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flying across the sky there are folks

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on the uh on the actual environmental

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control systems uh that keep the the

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astronauts safe inside the vehicle um

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there are folks that are coordinating

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what the astronauts are doing inside the

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vehicle uh with their science

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experiments so a lot of different jobs

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and i think the biggest thing to realize

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is that it's a team effort and so to

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call one person the most important um in

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some ways that it makes

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it seem like that person does everything

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by themselves and there's one guy that

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or one guy or girl that's really kind of

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bringing everything together and that's

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the flight director and so they're

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kind of like the quarterback or the

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conductor of the symphony that's

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happening there but they they can't do

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that they do without everybody else so

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there's one one person that's really

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kind of running the show and making sure

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everything's going smoothly and that's

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the flight director

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but that person really what they're

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doing is really coordinating everybody

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so the team is really more important

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than any one individual but that

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individual is the one that's really

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responsible for the whole room kind of

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brings them all together yeah all right

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great question let's move on to the next

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hi um

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astronauts have to train

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um before they go to space so

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what type of training do they do

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at mission control ah great question

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so yeah astronauts do train they do um

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several years of training before they

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get assigned to a flight just to

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familiarize themselves with nasa and

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they actually train a lot before they

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even come to nasa so they're very good

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at something they do beforehand but when

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they actually come in they're going to

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go through and and see things like how

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do they get up and down from space so

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what vehicle are they going to actually

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ride in

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they're going to go through and get

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training on on the the vehicle that

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they're inside of and how that vehicle

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operates and then also not only that

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vehicle but also the vehicle the iss

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that they're they're going to be

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operating so emergency procedures so

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what do you do if there's a fire

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they're going to be going through and

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trying to learn about the experiments

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they're specifically doing

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how do they go through and just keep the

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station running i'm learning to do

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things like just normal things like we

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take kind of for granted like how to go

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to the bathroom how to eat how to change

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clothes how to wash your clothes where

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you have to do all these things a little

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bit differently in space

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than we do here on the ground and so

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they they get to learn about

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all of that some of it happens

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in mission control itself most of it

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happens outside of mission control

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over in the mock-up simulators

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or sitting down with some some great

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folks that train them specifically there

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and you want them to learn in the spot

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where they're going to be operating so

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lot like the international space station

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and we call it a mock-up that that

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people learn at

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yeah and i mean and it's not just here

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in houston it's an international space

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station so these astronauts actually

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train all over the world you got to

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remember like like richard said they'll

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train for a couple of years so when they

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get assigned they'll train for about two

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years just for a six month flight so

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it's a lot it's actually a lot like what

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you guys are doing it can be a lot of

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classrooms it's a lot of tests a lot of

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things like that to make sure they're

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ready and they do it all over the globe

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so they also have to learn how to speak

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different languages it's it's very

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difficult but as they'll all tell you

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it's very rewarding once you're up there

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what are the biggest changes in the new

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great question um so we have a couple of

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different spacesuits that are kind of on

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the new side of things uh so um

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spacesuits are a little bit like cars

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toyota prius and a ford f250 truck are

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both both types of cars but they do

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different jobs and they do them

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so i work what's called on the orion

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vehicle and that vehicle is a capsule

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kind of thing so it's going to protect

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to go through and have it protect us

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your blood essentially boils

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you from that or a spacecraft to go help

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to be able to do but you also have to

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protect the person so working with both

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of those things together to do the job a

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little better so we put different

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features in the suit to go through and

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flames that make it easier to move and

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shirt and pants design on our curtain

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your shirt and then you pull on your

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helmet and gloves uh the new suit that

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goes outside would actually have you

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how are you so

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good how about you um my question is how

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do you like the new look of the z2

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space yeah so we actually had um a neat

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competition that some folks got to go

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through and do or they they went online

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they came up with a couple of

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neat paint jobs for the outside of the

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suit and uh had a lot of people come in

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and vote uh on what

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on which which suit was gonna be

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the one that was the coolest looking and

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so they they've got to pick one of those

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and that one that one came out looking

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real nice yeah i remember setting that

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know you're a spacesuit engineer

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designer that you don't always get to

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design something just because it looks

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cool you know like first and foremost

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you got to make sure it's going to be

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safe it's going to work all that you

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know boring but like the stuff you

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really need so i remember when they when

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it got brought up they were really

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excited because i was like we we get to

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and it can look cool like so it was it

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was a really i know it was an awesome

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thing for the design it was a really

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cool thing for us too we always love

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like you know hearing what you guys

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think and you know letting you kind of

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have a voice in what we're doing here so

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it came out yeah i think they may have

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from ilc that actually are helpful maybe

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helping out get their work on that suit

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as well up there they they work on the

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uh the emu so it's it's pretty cool what

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they have going on um out there in

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delaware all right

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let's keep it going

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hello my name is casey stevens and i was

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wondering what is the purpose of

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mission control ah great question so

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mission control uh we're uh here to go

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through and help out people uh on orbit

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and so um originally so if you actually

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need somebody commanding things and

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watching things because if all the

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astronauts were doing um in space was

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watching the vehicle

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they wouldn't be very effective at going

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through and actually

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doing their job up there so

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there are some systems that we can sit

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down here on the ground and monitor and

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watch for them and also be working ahead

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of them a little bit so

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you'd like to when the astronaut goes to

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perform a task already know what you're

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going to do

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something goes wrong how are you going

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to respond

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so that's

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mission control is is really important

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because it's thinking ahead

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it's it's going through and making sure

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everything is streamlined everything is

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working properly

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anticipating problems realizing what a

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problem if it does come up is it

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important or not there's some things

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that could come up that we have real

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good workarounds for that we aren't

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going to actually do anything maybe the

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answer is hey that's okay we can keep

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going but we don't want everybody to

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stop

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for a problem that we could just say hey

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we can take care of that later

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so that that really is the big thing is

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going through and making things

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streamline making things

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actually going to work effectively

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together on orbit so that we are able to

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go through and really use the valuable

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resources that is time on orbit is such

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an important thing because it costs a

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lot of time and money to get somebody up

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there and we want them to be effective

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up there and that's really what this

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allows us to do yeah pretty much do

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everything we can down here on the

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ground let the astronauts do astronaut

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stuff and stuff only they can do so

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that's i mean that's perfect explanation

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what does the new or vine space suit do

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and why is it so special

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great question thanks um so originally

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what we we used in shuttle was a similar

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suit

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worked kind of like a a scuba tank

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that

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encapsulated your whole body basically

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oxygen came in

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in just a line that was had high

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pressure in there and then we breathed

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on that line

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and it vented off into the cabin

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it wasn't um it wasn't a part of the

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original shell design so it was kind of

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added on after the fact so it didn't

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integrate as well as we would have liked

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with the actual vehicle and the way the

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vehicle operates

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this suit is new because it actually has

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the ability to keep doing the job like

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the shuttle jaw suit did

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but it also has the ability to tie

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directly into the

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vehicle systems to go through and take

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and deliver oxygen directly to the crew

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member but then also pull off the co2 um

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to pull off the water they're producing

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as they may sweat

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and uh to go return it back around so

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it's really tying it back in together

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with with the vehicle is what's kind of

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special about this one we've looked at a

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couple of different things

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about different missions we could

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support

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like could you do a spacewalk if an

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emergency happened we're not sure if

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we're going to do that yet but we're

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continuing to look at that one but

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really the the key with this one is

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trying to protect the crew

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when it's coming back in and if you were

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to go into a crash landing

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trying to make sure that they they can't

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get hurt in there

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is different than we did in shuttle so

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the new things about this one are better

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crew protection on landing and better

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tying into the vehicle so that we get a

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system that's

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lightweight and simple and very reliable

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is really where we're going all right

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very very good question very good

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question all right let's go on to the

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hi i'm emma and what happened on the iss

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this morning were the astronauts in

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danger

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i'll i'm gonna uh the iss this morning

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with the ammonia so okay yeah and that

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order dan somebody is somebody's been

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following along no so early this morning

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i was about 3 a.m central time 4 a.m uh

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where you guys were so you're all

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probably still asleep i was until i got

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woken up um we had an alarm go off and

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mission control is great at monitoring

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everything that's happening on board the

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international space station

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they have these sensors throughout

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everything on board so if something

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starts to look you know we call it off

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nominal but if something starts to look

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wrong we can get ahead of it we can make

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sure the crew is safe so they are there

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are these things called ammonia pumps

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and i'll try not to get too you know

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early technical but basically um all the

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stuff on the station generates a lot of

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heat so we have these

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lines that take that heat and dissipate

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it out into space so things don't

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overheat basically just keeping them

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functioning keeping them safe and one of

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the issues with that is ammonia is very

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poisonous to us so we have a lot of

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safeguards in place to make sure the

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astronauts never get exposed to it but

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there's always a chance and we always

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prepare for that chance

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and so there were some indications that

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there may have been ammonia getting into

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the crew's atmosphere so as soon as we

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saw those indications we made sure the

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crew don some emergency breathing masks

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they went over to what we call the

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russian segment where there is no

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ammonia used and they sealed it off so

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we can actually seal off each part of

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the international space station

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with just doors in between each one so

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just in case something happens they can

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isolate that and they can still be on

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the station they're still totally safe

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so they went over to the russian segment

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they sealed everything up all six of

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them been hanging out there all morning

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and the team here in mission control

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continue to look at all the data

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everything they've looked at so far is

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indicating that there was no ammonia so

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it's probably just a false alarm but

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they're still investigating what made

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that sensor trip and you know what led

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to the pressure change that they saw

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which initially led to this decision

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but that's kind of where we are now

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right now the crew is still inside the

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russian segment but they're just kind of

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hanging out kind of enjoying an

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unscheduled off day

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as all of their science experiments and

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everything are back on the u.s segment

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the teams here in mission control doing

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a great job uh as just like the

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astronauts they train for years and

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years to be able to do their job

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so they know exactly what to do

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and they're going to continue looking at

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everything they're going to get them

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back over to the us segment as quickly

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as they can but again crew doing fine a

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little bit of an off day uh but looking

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like not a problem just a little bit of

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a false alarm

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someone's following along though i like

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that that's great yeah all right next

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hi my name is dave dawkins and my

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question is how does nasa tell time when

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the iss is in space

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great question so if

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you think about it we're going around

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the earth there and we're not really in

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any one time zone for very long and a

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lot of times

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every time zone we're doing laps pretty

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pretty quickly so we use a couple of

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different um times to go through and

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help us out so one of them is mission

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elapsed time that we go through and

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track with so we say hey we launched it

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this time how many hours has it been

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since we last

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left the earth another one we go through

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is phase elapsed time or p-e-t pet

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would be going through and saying all

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right we're going to start this activity

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so that may be a spacewalk it may be

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a specific section of the mission like a

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docking

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event or some other thing that would go

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through and say hey this is how long

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we've been in there

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another one would be greenwich mean time

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or gmt

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which allows us to go through and say

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hey there's one spot in england and that

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time

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is going to be kind of how the standard

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that all of us

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use to go through and measure there it's

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really important to go through and use a

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consistent one

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for folks on on orbit

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to go through and say all right so when

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we go to bed we can go through and do

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there and they'll shift around

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some for different events because

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sometimes they want to be during the day

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here in houston sometimes they want to

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be during the day in russia especially

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if they're doing a launching or landing

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event that they want certain lighting

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conditions for

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or if they want to have certain lighting

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conditions on orbit or certain things

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there so they can manipulate it some

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back and forth and sometimes

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you need to hop between houston time and

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and the mission time

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because really for a lot of folks you

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know going through and saying all right

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are people going to be awake at that

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time what time do i need to come in

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because most of us here in houston don't

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think um in our day-to-day lives in that

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way but when we walk into

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this environment we really do have to go

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through and think about how they are in

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orbit and less about our daily lives at

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home yeah i mean there's so there are

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three different shifts here just in

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mission control houston um that actually

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kind of structure themselves around the

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crew's day which they follow that gmt

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time so the first

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shift in mission control houston

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actually comes in around 11 p.m or

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midnight every single day and that's

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when their work day starts so it can be

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a lot of pretty crazy overnight hours

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for some of these people but that's

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because that gmt that's kind of that's

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that greenwich mean time that's that

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zero you know time if you look at time

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zones and everything and that's the

555
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agreed upon time that we have that we

556
00:18:24,310 --> 00:18:22,720
follow for activities our colleagues and

557
00:18:25,909 --> 00:18:24,320
in europe at their control center and

558
00:18:28,390 --> 00:18:25,919
russia at their control center and also

559
00:18:30,870 --> 00:18:28,400
japan so massive time differences so we

560
00:18:32,310 --> 00:18:30,880
all kind of need to agree okay you know

561
00:18:33,750 --> 00:18:32,320
we need to just follow this one it's

562
00:18:35,110 --> 00:18:33,760
going to be some rough hours for some

563
00:18:37,190 --> 00:18:35,120
people but

564
00:18:38,310 --> 00:18:37,200
we make do and it hasn't been an issue

565
00:18:39,750 --> 00:18:38,320
and it makes scheduling everything a

566
00:18:45,510 --> 00:18:39,760
whole lot easier

567
00:18:49,190 --> 00:18:47,990
hi i'm julius francis carter and this is

568
00:18:51,830 --> 00:18:49,200
my question

569
00:18:54,470 --> 00:18:51,840
the orion spacecraft is designed to take

570
00:18:56,390 --> 00:18:54,480
astronauts and humans further into space

571
00:18:58,789 --> 00:18:56,400
and other planets will you have to

572
00:19:01,590 --> 00:18:58,799
design the space suits different because

573
00:19:04,150 --> 00:19:01,600
of this ah great question um the answer

574
00:19:05,909 --> 00:19:04,160
is yes so we we always try and design

575
00:19:07,990 --> 00:19:05,919
around where we're going and what we're

576
00:19:09,909 --> 00:19:08,000
doing um so

577
00:19:12,150 --> 00:19:09,919
what you're what you're trying to do

578
00:19:13,669 --> 00:19:12,160
does absolutely change where you go

579
00:19:14,710 --> 00:19:13,679
where you go with the suit

580
00:19:17,590 --> 00:19:14,720
so

581
00:19:19,270 --> 00:19:17,600
the big thing for us right now with um

582
00:19:21,270 --> 00:19:19,280
with looking at going beyond low earth

583
00:19:22,950 --> 00:19:21,280
orbit it changes the amount of time that

584
00:19:24,390 --> 00:19:22,960
if there's a problem

585
00:19:26,390 --> 00:19:24,400
how long we have to be in the suit if we

586
00:19:27,990 --> 00:19:26,400
try and come home so right now if you're

587
00:19:30,070 --> 00:19:28,000
on iss and you have to come home you can

588
00:19:31,430 --> 00:19:30,080
really be home in a few hours

589
00:19:33,350 --> 00:19:31,440
it's really not

590
00:19:35,190 --> 00:19:33,360
a huge amount of time

591
00:19:37,190 --> 00:19:35,200
if you are on the up far side of the

592
00:19:38,870 --> 00:19:37,200
moon where you just left to go to the

593
00:19:40,070 --> 00:19:38,880
moon or your gifts you'll have to go to

594
00:19:42,070 --> 00:19:40,080
mars

595
00:19:44,070 --> 00:19:42,080
the the amount of time you might have to

596
00:19:46,390 --> 00:19:44,080
go through and spend in the suit to come

597
00:19:47,830 --> 00:19:46,400
back becomes a real big driver so that's

598
00:19:48,870 --> 00:19:47,840
one of the the things we're looking at

599
00:19:50,630 --> 00:19:48,880
right now is that if you had to be

600
00:19:53,430 --> 00:19:50,640
locked up in a suit

601
00:19:55,750 --> 00:19:53,440
for for six or seven days what happens

602
00:19:57,350 --> 00:19:55,760
um and it's funny because we can get

603
00:20:01,270 --> 00:19:57,360
food and water in there but it's it's

604
00:20:04,470 --> 00:20:02,870
that come back out how do you go through

605
00:20:06,390 --> 00:20:04,480
and how do you go you're in this little

606
00:20:09,029 --> 00:20:06,400
sealed up volume inside a suit

607
00:20:12,630 --> 00:20:09,039
and coming back in inside the vehicle it

608
00:20:15,029 --> 00:20:12,640
it can get pretty gross pretty fast

609
00:20:16,870 --> 00:20:15,039
wonders of space flight sometimes yep so

610
00:20:18,630 --> 00:20:16,880
that's the big one there so and also if

611
00:20:21,190 --> 00:20:18,640
you're going inside staying inside the

612
00:20:22,710 --> 00:20:21,200
vehicle so some of our missions um so if

613
00:20:24,149 --> 00:20:22,720
you go look at like when we went to the

614
00:20:25,590 --> 00:20:24,159
moon the first time the first few times

615
00:20:26,870 --> 00:20:25,600
we went to the moon

616
00:20:29,029 --> 00:20:26,880
apollo 8

617
00:20:31,590 --> 00:20:29,039
apollo

618
00:20:33,430 --> 00:20:31,600
10 when we went through and did some of

619
00:20:34,950 --> 00:20:33,440
the testing out there where we actually

620
00:20:36,789 --> 00:20:34,960
flew by the moon we actually didn't go

621
00:20:38,310 --> 00:20:36,799
under the surface we didn't land all the

622
00:20:39,590 --> 00:20:38,320
way we didn't go out of the vehicle and

623
00:20:41,270 --> 00:20:39,600
so we didn't have a suit that would go

624
00:20:42,630 --> 00:20:41,280
out of the vehicle

625
00:20:44,149 --> 00:20:42,640
but we still went there to go through

626
00:20:46,549 --> 00:20:44,159
and prove the systems out so if we did

627
00:20:48,549 --> 00:20:46,559
something similar in the future you'd

628
00:20:50,390 --> 00:20:48,559
have a suit that could go help you get

629
00:20:51,909 --> 00:20:50,400
home but wouldn't necessarily walk on

630
00:20:53,750 --> 00:20:51,919
the on the surface

631
00:20:54,789 --> 00:20:53,760
so you'd bring different suits for those

632
00:20:56,149 --> 00:20:54,799
jobs

633
00:20:57,990 --> 00:20:56,159
and right now we're working mainly on

634
00:21:00,070 --> 00:20:58,000
the suit that would go through and take

635
00:21:01,909 --> 00:21:00,080
you around and not so much on the suit

636
00:21:03,990 --> 00:21:01,919
that's doing the walking is not included

637
00:21:06,230 --> 00:21:04,000
on in that plan so the z2 would be the

638
00:21:08,549 --> 00:21:06,240
one that would be kind of walking around

639
00:21:09,909 --> 00:21:08,559
and the suit i'm i'm working on more is

640
00:21:11,909 --> 00:21:09,919
the one that stays in the vehicle and if

641
00:21:13,990 --> 00:21:11,919
there's an emergency outside we may try

642
00:21:21,270 --> 00:21:14,000
and go out and fix something all right

643
00:21:26,310 --> 00:21:24,070
my name is haley and i want to know will

644
00:21:28,470 --> 00:21:26,320
we be able to live a healthy and long

645
00:21:31,110 --> 00:21:28,480
life in space

646
00:21:33,669 --> 00:21:31,120
great question haley um a lot of really

647
00:21:36,149 --> 00:21:33,679
smart people have the same question

648
00:21:37,750 --> 00:21:36,159
uh so what we've got up to this point is

649
00:21:39,830 --> 00:21:37,760
we actually have a real interesting

650
00:21:41,909 --> 00:21:39,840
study going on right now or just getting

651
00:21:43,270 --> 00:21:41,919
ready to start in 2015 here with the

652
00:21:45,190 --> 00:21:43,280
kelly brothers

653
00:21:47,029 --> 00:21:45,200
to go up and try and look at what is

654
00:21:49,110 --> 00:21:47,039
long duration space flight

655
00:21:50,470 --> 00:21:49,120
happens we have twin brothers that are

656
00:21:51,590 --> 00:21:50,480
getting ready one of them is going to

657
00:21:53,909 --> 00:21:51,600
stay here on earth and the other is

658
00:21:54,710 --> 00:21:53,919
going up to stay on on station for one

659
00:21:56,390 --> 00:21:54,720
year

660
00:21:58,870 --> 00:21:56,400
so looking at the differences between

661
00:22:00,789 --> 00:21:58,880
two very similar people i mean so twin

662
00:22:03,270 --> 00:22:00,799
brothers how much more similar can you

663
00:22:05,110 --> 00:22:03,280
get than that in terms of you know uh

664
00:22:06,630 --> 00:22:05,120
their their life and and what their

665
00:22:08,630 --> 00:22:06,640
genetic code is

666
00:22:10,470 --> 00:22:08,640
is is very similar and getting to see

667
00:22:12,310 --> 00:22:10,480
what that that exposure to space for a

668
00:22:14,950 --> 00:22:12,320
long time is we really haven't had

669
00:22:18,149 --> 00:22:14,960
anybody in zero g um for for more than

670
00:22:19,750 --> 00:22:18,159
about five it's 534 days is the record

671
00:22:21,990 --> 00:22:19,760
for one of the russians i think yeah i

672
00:22:23,909 --> 00:22:22,000
think that's roughly the record there's

673
00:22:25,750 --> 00:22:23,919
been a couple of people there are four

674
00:22:27,750 --> 00:22:25,760
russians who have spent longer than 12

675
00:22:28,789 --> 00:22:27,760
months or longer in space at any one

676
00:22:30,470 --> 00:22:28,799
time

677
00:22:32,950 --> 00:22:30,480
but i mean some of the stuff that we've

678
00:22:35,190 --> 00:22:32,960
learned so our astronauts on the station

679
00:22:37,590 --> 00:22:35,200
now go there for about six months which

680
00:22:39,029 --> 00:22:37,600
is still a significant amount of time

681
00:22:41,270 --> 00:22:39,039
and it's long enough for your body to

682
00:22:43,669 --> 00:22:41,280
start to adapt that's one of the the

683
00:22:46,230 --> 00:22:43,679
great advantages and disadvantages of

684
00:22:47,990 --> 00:22:46,240
the human body is we adapt very quickly

685
00:22:49,750 --> 00:22:48,000
which is great you know when you're

686
00:22:52,070 --> 00:22:49,760
evolving to harsh conditions down here

687
00:22:53,990 --> 00:22:52,080
on earth in space it can actually kind

688
00:22:55,590 --> 00:22:54,000
of work against us because things start

689
00:22:57,750 --> 00:22:55,600
you start to lose things when you're

690
00:22:59,110 --> 00:22:57,760
floating around in this in microgravity

691
00:23:01,590 --> 00:22:59,120
your body says well i don't need these

692
00:23:03,750 --> 00:23:01,600
legs anymore so you'll start to lose

693
00:23:05,830 --> 00:23:03,760
your bone mass your muscles will start

694
00:23:07,510 --> 00:23:05,840
to wither away and that can be really

695
00:23:08,870 --> 00:23:07,520
serious it isn't so much of a problem

696
00:23:10,549 --> 00:23:08,880
when you're just floating around because

697
00:23:12,870 --> 00:23:10,559
you don't really need your legs but

698
00:23:14,470 --> 00:23:12,880
let's say you're going to mars

699
00:23:16,310 --> 00:23:14,480
and that flight is going to take several

700
00:23:18,630 --> 00:23:16,320
months maybe a year or longer just to

701
00:23:19,510 --> 00:23:18,640
get there if you arrive and you can't

702
00:23:21,669 --> 00:23:19,520
walk

703
00:23:23,110 --> 00:23:21,679
it's not going to be much of a mission

704
00:23:24,549 --> 00:23:23,120
so that's i mean that's some of the

705
00:23:26,070 --> 00:23:24,559
stuff that we're really tackling we're

706
00:23:27,350 --> 00:23:26,080
really learning a lot about on the

707
00:23:28,789 --> 00:23:27,360
station and we've come up with some

708
00:23:31,350 --> 00:23:28,799
really great stuff we actually have

709
00:23:33,830 --> 00:23:31,360
astronauts that come back now that are

710
00:23:35,110 --> 00:23:33,840
even stronger and have even more muscle

711
00:23:37,830 --> 00:23:35,120
mass in their legs than they did when

712
00:23:40,230 --> 00:23:37,840
they left a lot of that is the exercise

713
00:23:41,669 --> 00:23:40,240
that we have them do these astronauts

714
00:23:43,269 --> 00:23:41,679
i don't know about you guys but if i had

715
00:23:45,669 --> 00:23:43,279
to exercise two and a half hours every

716
00:23:47,510 --> 00:23:45,679
single day i might go crazy and that's

717
00:23:49,590 --> 00:23:47,520
what they have to do just just just to

718
00:23:51,110 --> 00:23:49,600
stay healthy so when they come back on

719
00:23:53,430 --> 00:23:51,120
earth they don't have to go through

720
00:23:55,510 --> 00:23:53,440
months of rehab so we're learning

721
00:23:57,350 --> 00:23:55,520
tremendous amounts of stuff just from

722
00:23:58,710 --> 00:23:57,360
our normal expeditions and as richard

723
00:24:00,549 --> 00:23:58,720
was telling you this one year mission

724
00:24:01,750 --> 00:24:00,559
coming up there's going to be one

725
00:24:03,909 --> 00:24:01,760
american and one russian they're going

726
00:24:05,269 --> 00:24:03,919
to spend an entire year in space it's a

727
00:24:07,029 --> 00:24:05,279
pretty long time

728
00:24:09,269 --> 00:24:07,039
and we're looking to learn a whole lot

729
00:24:14,070 --> 00:24:09,279
more

730
00:24:18,549 --> 00:24:16,710
hi my name is eden rambo and my question

731
00:24:20,789 --> 00:24:18,559
is do you ever get nervous when the

732
00:24:22,950 --> 00:24:20,799
astronauts report a problem

733
00:24:25,990 --> 00:24:22,960
do you ever get nervous i think always

734
00:24:28,390 --> 00:24:26,000
there's a a little bit of oh no what

735
00:24:30,549 --> 00:24:28,400
what's going on um it's funny i more

736
00:24:33,029 --> 00:24:30,559
work on the the building of stuff is

737
00:24:34,630 --> 00:24:33,039
kind of where my area is so

738
00:24:36,549 --> 00:24:34,640
i most of the time don't get to be the

739
00:24:38,630 --> 00:24:36,559
one operating the system or going

740
00:24:39,830 --> 00:24:38,640
through and actually using it we we try

741
00:24:41,990 --> 00:24:39,840
and create great things that the

742
00:24:43,990 --> 00:24:42,000
astronauts can find useful and then they

743
00:24:46,390 --> 00:24:44,000
come back and tell us hey was this this

744
00:24:48,310 --> 00:24:46,400
it or not and so um

745
00:24:50,630 --> 00:24:48,320
one of one of the older engineers always

746
00:24:52,070 --> 00:24:50,640
told me that when you design build test

747
00:24:54,710 --> 00:24:52,080
certify something and get ready to fly

748
00:24:55,909 --> 00:24:54,720
it you only know how the designers think

749
00:24:57,669 --> 00:24:55,919
it works

750
00:24:59,430 --> 00:24:57,679
when it goes actually in orbit and it's

751
00:25:00,710 --> 00:24:59,440
actually being used you learn how things

752
00:25:03,430 --> 00:25:00,720
really work

753
00:25:05,590 --> 00:25:03,440
and so sometimes our our astronauts come

754
00:25:07,750 --> 00:25:05,600
back and say hey this works differently

755
00:25:10,149 --> 00:25:07,760
than you thought it did and it makes us

756
00:25:12,710 --> 00:25:10,159
think very hard and and go back and look

757
00:25:14,549 --> 00:25:12,720
and say do we really believe um what

758
00:25:16,549 --> 00:25:14,559
we've always thought we believed because

759
00:25:18,630 --> 00:25:16,559
it is different on on the ground we work

760
00:25:21,269 --> 00:25:18,640
really hard to simulate things in a way

761
00:25:23,350 --> 00:25:21,279
so they'll match things on orbit um but

762
00:25:25,190 --> 00:25:23,360
we have to be very careful uh to go

763
00:25:27,430 --> 00:25:25,200
through and say that our assumptions

764
00:25:29,029 --> 00:25:27,440
change things um so like i normally

765
00:25:30,789 --> 00:25:29,039
assume when i go to turn a bolt the

766
00:25:32,310 --> 00:25:30,799
bolt's going to turn

767
00:25:34,870 --> 00:25:32,320
in space that's not a very good

768
00:25:36,310 --> 00:25:34,880
assumption because the if i go to turn a

769
00:25:38,070 --> 00:25:36,320
bolt on the space station the space

770
00:25:40,310 --> 00:25:38,080
station is a lot bigger than me and

771
00:25:42,310 --> 00:25:40,320
every action has an equal and opposite

772
00:25:44,710 --> 00:25:42,320
reaction and so the bolt instead of me

773
00:25:46,230 --> 00:25:44,720
turning it it's going to turn me

774
00:25:47,269 --> 00:25:46,240
and so it's that kind of thing that when

775
00:25:49,510 --> 00:25:47,279
you

776
00:25:51,190 --> 00:25:49,520
have an expectation

777
00:25:52,549 --> 00:25:51,200
it's not always fulfilled so we've

778
00:25:54,390 --> 00:25:52,559
learned some things

779
00:25:56,310 --> 00:25:54,400
recently about suits

780
00:25:58,789 --> 00:25:56,320
and how water flows in different places

781
00:26:00,789 --> 00:25:58,799
and where water moves around inside the

782
00:26:03,830 --> 00:26:00,799
suit that that operate differently than

783
00:26:06,390 --> 00:26:03,840
we had thought for years um had operated

784
00:26:08,310 --> 00:26:06,400
and it wasn't anything that the physics

785
00:26:10,149 --> 00:26:08,320
were all there to go through and physics

786
00:26:12,630 --> 00:26:10,159
still worked like it was supposed to it

787
00:26:14,149 --> 00:26:12,640
was really our understanding

788
00:26:15,430 --> 00:26:14,159
of what happened that so when somebody

789
00:26:17,830 --> 00:26:15,440
comes back and says hey i have this

790
00:26:19,190 --> 00:26:17,840
problem we have to work really hard to

791
00:26:20,630 --> 00:26:19,200
go through and ask every question of

792
00:26:22,710 --> 00:26:20,640
like well do we really know what we

793
00:26:27,750 --> 00:26:22,720
think we know

794
00:26:31,830 --> 00:26:29,990
hi my name is carson russo and my

795
00:26:33,750 --> 00:26:31,840
question was do you think a man will

796
00:26:36,390 --> 00:26:33,760
ever step foot on mars

797
00:26:37,430 --> 00:26:36,400
great question absolutely yes

798
00:26:39,750 --> 00:26:37,440
yes

799
00:26:41,669 --> 00:26:39,760
we don't know exactly the time the date

800
00:26:43,350 --> 00:26:41,679
we don't have it scheduled right now

801
00:26:46,710 --> 00:26:43,360
saying hey this you know

802
00:26:48,390 --> 00:26:46,720
2013 or 2017 2018 there we're going

803
00:26:50,390 --> 00:26:48,400
there but that's really why we're here

804
00:26:52,870 --> 00:26:50,400
this is what we do this is where we want

805
00:26:54,870 --> 00:26:52,880
to go is to go through and explore

806
00:26:56,470 --> 00:26:54,880
so yep i

807
00:26:58,470 --> 00:26:56,480
echo that 100

808
00:26:59,830 --> 00:26:58,480
we will definitely walk on mars

809
00:27:02,390 --> 00:26:59,840
all right i think we got time for one

810
00:27:04,149 --> 00:27:02,400
more question

811
00:27:05,990 --> 00:27:04,159
thank you

812
00:27:07,750 --> 00:27:06,000
hi my name is isabella hoover and my

813
00:27:09,590 --> 00:27:07,760
question is how big is the orion

814
00:27:11,430 --> 00:27:09,600
spacesuit and what does it have on it

815
00:27:14,070 --> 00:27:11,440
how big is it oh great question so it's

816
00:27:15,430 --> 00:27:14,080
going to be your size is the answer

817
00:27:17,669 --> 00:27:15,440
whoever we're really building these

818
00:27:19,190 --> 00:27:17,679
suits around the people themselves

819
00:27:20,710 --> 00:27:19,200
so when we did shuttle we were doing a

820
00:27:22,310 --> 00:27:20,720
lot of suits

821
00:27:24,070 --> 00:27:22,320
with off the rock kind of sizing so we

822
00:27:25,990 --> 00:27:24,080
can kind of fit people into standard

823
00:27:27,750 --> 00:27:26,000
sizes with smaller crews and less

824
00:27:29,350 --> 00:27:27,760
mission durations it really makes sense

825
00:27:31,430 --> 00:27:29,360
to go through and more tailor things

826
00:27:32,710 --> 00:27:31,440
down to the individual astronauts we're

827
00:27:34,470 --> 00:27:32,720
going to try and go everything from a

828
00:27:36,070 --> 00:27:34,480
first percentile female

829
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which is a little under

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five foot tall to a 99th percentile

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american male which is about six foot

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six so all different sizes great

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question

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that's all the time we have

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so i want to thank everybody there at

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bunker hill elementary for your

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questions it's been great having you

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join us here in mission control houston

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i really appreciate it um always good to

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see again people from my hometown

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richard thank you for joining me i hope

842
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you guys got some good answers

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if you have any other questions i'm just

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a phone call away so just let me know

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thanks so much for mission control