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recently my colleague pat ryan had a

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chance to talk to scott kelly before he

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left for the launch site and he asked

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him to compare the preparation required

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for this one-year mission to that which

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kelly went through for his earlier

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you know a lot of it's the same i mean

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the systems are the same

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you know a lot of the the operations we

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do on board the the space station are

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very similar so the training is very

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similar where where it uh differs

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because it's twice as long as

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one one element is with them flying with

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twice as many crew members and i have a

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different soyuz commander on the

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return soyuz than i do on launch

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so we have to do extra training

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being up there with more people i have

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to do extra emergency training so we

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cover the emergency procedures with all

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of them

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and being there twice as long you know

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there's twice as more science that'll go

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on while i'm there so i have uh in some

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ways there's some more scientific uh

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you know science payload training

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scott you have launched from baikonur

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once before uh walk us through what

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happens to you as you're gonna on launch

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day when you're gonna get ready to fly

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again

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there's a launch day uh you know from

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from kazakhstan and and in some ways

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it's similar to uh you know launching

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from florida and how the launch day is

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designed one thing that is different

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though is we don't do the same type of

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sleep shift so where we're going to be

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launching at uh you know 1 40 in the

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morning kazakh time

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we don't we don't shift our sleep to uh

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to to uh you know take that into

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consideration we kind of get up at the

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at the normal time and then we'll do a

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you know kind of take a nap later in the

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day

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you know i think it's about eight

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o'clock at night we'll uh have a a

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ceremonial uh departure from the uh

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cosmonaut hotel in baikonur there's a

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traditional blessing by the russian

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orthodox priest that you see

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on almost every launch from there

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we get on a bus and then it's a probably

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about an hour long bus ride to the

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building where we get suited up and do

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our uh

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leak checks of our suit once we get in

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the suit and do our leak checks we get

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to talk to our families one more time

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and some friends

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and then we get on the bus uh

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to go to the launch pad and you know

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what's interesting about that is if

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you've i've flown on the soyuz once

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before but if you've never flown on the

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soyuz ones before the first time you're

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in the soyuz on the launch pad is on

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launch day so that's a that's a much

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different experience

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in this case your trip to the station is

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scheduled to last just a couple of hours

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as opposed to two or three days

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is that going to be better for you or

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would you like to have the extra time to

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get acclimated

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well it's about six hours uh from the

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time

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uh we launched to docking

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i prefer

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obviously i haven't done it yet but but

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i think i'll prefer the shorter trip

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uh than the 48 hours for a number of

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reasons i think

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um you know even though you're sitting

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in the you're in the suit longer and

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you're in the seat longer and that can

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be somewhat uncomfortable

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i think uh you know i prefer that to

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spending you know two days in the soyuz

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with with little to do

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um but also the other advantage to it is

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it provides us with a couple extra days

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on the space station and it gives us

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some extra margin on the back end if we

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have any kind of

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uh problems with the soyuz and we need

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to uh you know be in orbit longer we

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have you know some extra consumables and

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ability to do that so there are a lot of

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uh there are a lot more pros and cons to

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doing this flight day one rendezvous and

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docking

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did you look out a year what do you

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think are going to be the highlights of

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your time on orbit this time

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i think probably the you know the

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variety of of people and crew members

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that that come and go um

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you know you look at you know i've had

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i've flown in space three times first

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time was eight days second time was 13

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days and a

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third time was 159 days and if i had to

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compare them to each other on on

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uh you know how

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you know there are much different

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lengths of time but they're all

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individual experiences and you you

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cherish those uh

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in in many ways the same way you know

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just because my first flight was eight

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days and my last flight 159 days and

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you know i had four months with uh you

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know katie and paulo and my russian

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colleagues up there i don't really look

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at them being much different um you know

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they're they're the human experience is

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something that you you really appreciate

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and uh you know i think

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you know that is is going to be one of

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the highlights but also working on

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something that's very very challenging

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and you know working hard at it with a

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great team both in space and on the

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earth and then being successful is the

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other thing i look forward to

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one last question scott by the time you

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get back to houston you'll have been

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gone from here for well more than a year

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uh that's a lot of sacrifice to make

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tell me why you think the mission you're

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going to do is worth that you know i

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think all these missions are worth it

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you know we fly you know a lot of people

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on the space station we've been doing it

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for 15 years there's a lot of sacrifices

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that go into flying a six-month flight

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or even you know a shorter duration

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flight you know there's there's

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sacrifices of different levels

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and if we're ever going to perform uh

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space missions beyond low earth orbit

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all of these flights are important and

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and everyone's contribution is important

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and this this one is just a little bit

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different in that it's uh it's longer

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scott thanks for the talk uh have a safe