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esteemed comrade chairman of the

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examination board the prime crew of this

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is ma16 vehicle is ready for the final

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exams and first of all

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happy birthday

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mr chairman all the very best happy

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birthday our birthday greetings yes the

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best gift for me will be your excellent

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grades yes of course not less than five

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should we put our signatures on the

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envelopes

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you know our crew is your favorite

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i'm sure that you will do

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great during your exams thank you so

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okay so half of the grade will be a

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bonus in honor of my birthday

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in honor of the

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chairman of the examination board

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i will keep the envelopes as a memento

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thank you so much of course we look like

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grasshoppers thank you so much

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please

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because i will have to reconfigure the

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now i'm removing the plug and putting it

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emily nelson lead flight director of

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expedition 46

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emily by the time that you get on board

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as the flight director of expedition 46

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scott kelly and his russian crewmate

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mikhail kornienko will have been on

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board the space station for about eight

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months what are some of the key tasks

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and activities and research they expect

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to have done during that time

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a lot of 2015 is going to be devoted to

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reconfiguring the space station to make

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way for the u.s crude vehicles that will

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be showing up in the next several years

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and to that end we're moving several

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pieces of the space station around we're

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going to take our pmm module and we're

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going to move that

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and we're going to move our pressurized

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mating adapter that's currently on our

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node 3 module and we're going to move

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that over to node 2. so at the end of

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all this moving things around we're

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going to have two docking ports that's

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how we refer to it when a accrued

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vehicle shows up and attaches to the

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space station on the front of the space

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station and then we'll have two berthing

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ports that's the term we use for cargo

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vehicles on the bottom of the space

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station so he'll be involved and the

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whole crew over the course of the next

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year will be involved in all of those

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relocations and the wiring and the

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laying cables for all of those different

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docking ports

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then we also have the bigelow expandable

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module the beam that's going to be

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coming on a spacex mission that will get

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installed inflated and then checked out

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can you talk specifically about some of

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the roles that scott kelly will be doing

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during his time on board and

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transitioning from the role of flight

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engineer eventually to commander and how

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in terms of

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how scott's work is going to change over

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the course of the year

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he'll start out as a flight engineer

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which is how each of our commanders

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starts out and it's kind of part of our

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handover process so that they have a

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chance to get acclimated get used to the

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work and then

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over the course of time we'll see a

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number of commanders and he'll

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ultimately become commander before he

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leaves so that he then is responsible

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for the cruise response and emergency

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scenarios generally keeping the crew

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together in their day-to-day work and

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overseeing any kind of

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not really issues but any questions that

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the crew needs to work together he'll be

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pulling the team together and and

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working with us on the ground to make

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sure that both teams are in sync

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uh you had mentioned that part of the

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work that scott and his crew will be

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doing on board is preparing the

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international space station for the

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arrival of the international docking

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adapters um can you talk about any space

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walks that are planned and scott's role

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absolutely we'll have a series of

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associated with each docking adapter the

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docking adapters will arrive on spacex

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vehicles we're working now to determine

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whether we have to install them while

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spacex is docked which is a bit of a

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challenge time wise because spacex

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brings so many things to us in terms of

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research and cargo

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our hope is we'll be able to relocate

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those docking adapters so that we can

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take our time with those space walks

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scott of course will be key to the the

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spacewalk operations themselves in terms

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of installing at least one of those

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docking adapters this summer

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behind you in a simulator of the soyuz

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vehicle right now

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scott kelly soyuz commander gennady

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padalka and flight engineer mikhail

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kornienko are undergoing their final

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exams in preparation for their flight

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how do you perceive their level of

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readiness at this point and what kind of

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things what kind of challenges are there

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are they possibly going to be facing

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during their final exams

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this is an incredibly talented crew and

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a really pretty senior one gennady of

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course is the let's see i think at this

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point has the third most hours of any

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person in space so

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they're in very good hands with gennady

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as their soyuz commander

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today's stem promises to be challenging

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i think ultimately it'll be a good

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it will have been a good workout for

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them in terms of they'll finish the day

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feeling accomplished you don't want too

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easy of a test because then it doesn't

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feel as good for these guys so i think

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today will be just challenging enough

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for them to to feel good at the end of

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the day but they're more than capable of

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handling what's coming at them today

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and lastly as we

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next year prepare for the return home of

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mikhail kornienko and scott kelly what

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kind of

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final preparations during expedition 46

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will be will the crew be making and the

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flight control team be making in

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preparation for his return home and the

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testing of the one-year crew mission

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ultimately

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you know we always have

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a challenge at the end of any cruise

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time on board

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fitting in all of the science that they

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need to do before they come home

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especially the the human factors and the

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medical science that we do on board

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whether it's taking samples or

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or doing last-minute tests and managing

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to get all of that scheduled before

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return

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an additional challenge for these guys

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is going to be that they're basically

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living in their office for an entire

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year and so keeping morale up they're

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consummate professionals they're going

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to do their job well from beginning to

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end but just making it

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a good environment to both live and work

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in for the entirety of a year

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those last four months that's going to

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be one of our challenges is making sure

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that we keep it

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upbeat and

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and fun really i mean you want to have

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fun while you're working and so we want