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station this is rob navies with nasa

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public affairs of mission control

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we get you uh loud and clear rob

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well it's great to see you guys it's

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just been a few days since launch but

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you're looking hail and hardy let me

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start off uh with a question to scott

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you and mikhail are settling into your

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home on orbit for the next year how have

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the first few days gone and has the

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reality of the year-long mission at

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sheer duration and the workload ahead

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well uh you know speaking for myself um

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the uh ride to orbit was uh

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impressive as as it always is um

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you know the docking on the first uh

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launch day is is a really uh a great

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thing i think

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there's a lot of advantages to doing

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that

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um but once i got on the onboard the

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space station it really felt like um you

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know i was visiting an old home felt

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but

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there is a lot of work to be done here

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and uh you know the pace of work at

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times can be hectic

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uh just the things we need to do to get

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uh you know to get moved in is it's

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really a busy time so even though we got

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here i think on uh it's kind of is all

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kinds of even a little bit fuzzy but on

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saturday morning

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basically we're supposed to have the

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weekend off but we really spent those

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two days moving in so uh you know we've

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mikhail there is particular interest in

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how you and scott will handle the

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psychological grind of spending a year

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in space are there any specific methods

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the two of you plan to use to maintain

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an even temperament or will the busy

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workload of four space station

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expeditions be enough to keep your mind

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a little slower here but as far as our

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psychological compatibility we have been

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working really hard on the ground to

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work that out and we have

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lots and lots of support and our

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psychological success is a given i'm

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very sure

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about our success and i'm sure that we

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will not have even a modicum of any

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psychological issues and the guys who

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will be coming up to see us are also

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excellent people there will be no

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scott along those same lines in less

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than two weeks a spacex dragon cargo

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craft will be coming your way and the

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first of a long list of key operational

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events for you and your crewmates

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throughout this long mission

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is this the variety and pace of work

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that will keep you focused or will it be

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necessary to tune out from time to time

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like any of us have to do over the

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course of a year to maintain a healthy

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well right now i'm just kind of taking a

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date day by day and i think

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major event

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but uh you know i'm not thinking about

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this in

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in this

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in the manner that

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you know i'm like you know planning for

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all the different major activities that

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are kind of come along i'm just kind of

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take it day by day pace myself and

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absolutely um you know

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you know working at a

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maybe a little bit slower pace than i

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did last time will be important keeping

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my you know energy level up so i have

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you know the appropriate reserves to

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deal with all these different uh

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you know major activities moving the pmm

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all the visiting vehicles some space

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you know keeping a high enough energy

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level to do that and then you know

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respond if uh you know something happens

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that we have to uh you know work through

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the night or you know respond to some

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kind of an emergency situation so

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you know i think a good life work

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balance is important and that's you know

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i think even more important in some

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and finally for both of you i'm struck

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by the variety of key anniversaries

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coming up that you'll be celebrating in

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orbit

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in the next few weeks the 54th

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anniversary of yuri gagarin's historic

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flight the 40th anniversary of apollo

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soyuz in july and in november the 15th

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anniversary of a permanent human

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occupancy on the station can each of you

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discuss how fitting it is that an

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american and a russian are together in

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space for a year conducting vital

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research for future exploration perhaps

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something that would have been unheard

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well i think when you're somewhere for

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nearly a year you'll experience nearly

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all the anniversaries

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you know some of those are significant

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uh you know

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apollo uh soyuz and the

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and the anniversary of the you know

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permanent presence on the space station

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and uh

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so i get i guess it is somewhat

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interesting that you know we're spending

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such a long time up here

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also at the same time of these

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significant anniversaries

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i think what's even more important is

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you know we we have this international

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partnership this international space

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station

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and uh you know we're all doing great

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work up here we're one big team

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you know our expedition

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43 crew members um you know it's more

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than just misha and i

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and uh you know the international

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partnership in my mind is one of the

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things one of the the high points of

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i think that we are really lucky myself

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and scott in spite of the fact that this

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is hard work

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it's going to be tough but we are really

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lucky

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because we

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will be able to celebrate so many

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different anniversaries while being up

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in space and we will be celebrating

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those holidays it's very symbolic that

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prior to soyuz apollo

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cooperation between americans and the

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russians and we continued this with

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doing same work together on board of the

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thank you very much uh both of you scott

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and mikhail uh we appreciate your time

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today uh we wish you all the best of

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well thank you rob appreciate your time

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and appreciate talking to all the folks

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you know following the great work we do

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onboard the space station

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station this is houston acr

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thank you that concludes our event

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thank you nasa public affairs and

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expedition 43 flight engineers scott

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kelly and mikhail kornienko