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the three crew members that are getting

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ready to depart the station and end

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their six and a half month

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mission

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uh are continuing with their departure

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preps as we've seen some evidence of

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this morning the last american astronaut

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to leave the station in a soyuz

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spacecraft was the commander of the

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previous expedition expedition 42 and

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that's barry wilmore he returned to

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earth in march

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recently my colleague brandie dean

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talked with will moore about the

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experience of completing a long duration

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mission to the station and the ride home

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thanks so much for joining us butch we

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really appreciate it oh sure it's my

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pleasure all right so i guess you've

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been back for a little while now yeah

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almost three months yes you feeling back

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to normal oh yeah oh first many weeks

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yeah yeah feeling great did it take long

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you know not for me um i guess everybody

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has a little bit of wobbliness a little

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neural vestibular as you adjust to

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gravity and for me that was about three

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days so i didn't have any wobbly after

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that but certainly the body getting used

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to gravity you know i've got a bum knee

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excuse me that

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that had to get used to gravity again

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that took about a month but overall yeah

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it came came back pretty quick okay well

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i guess the lack of gravity was probably

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nice on your knee for oh it was very

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nice yes

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well so i guess terry um and samantha

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and anton are all starting to get ready

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to come home now and what kind of things

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what kind of tasks are involved in that

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there's quite a bit i mean obviously

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you've got to clean up your crew

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quarters you want to have it nice and

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clean for the next person that's

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arriving so that's a big part that takes

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uh several several hours and then you've

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got a lot of multimedia stuff that

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you've acquired over the past six months

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or seven months for them and they're

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getting prepped to get all that stuff

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together there's certainly some personal

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items that they let you bring back on

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the soyuz there's not a lot of room in

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the soyuz but there's some small things

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you got to get those packed really

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tightly really small and that's the type

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of things that they're getting and going

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through right now yeah so i know that

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y'all train for all sorts of things uh

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when you're getting ready for a space

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flight is packing part of it for that

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there's no direct uh training for that

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but i think that's a little bit

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intuitive as we go through you get you

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get a lot of packing training while

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you're on on the iss okay

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all right well um what kind of um what

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kind of activities do they have in the

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in the very last few days as they're as

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they're getting ready to actually get on

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board yeah there is some like you said

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there's some there's some a lot of the

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packing time and that does take a little

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bit of time but just just generally

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getting everything in order as far as

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around their crew quarters like i

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mentioned um there is some last things

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that you want to do that you haven't

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done maybe or some last things that you

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want to do again looking out the window

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doing those type of things there's still

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you still scheduled as well so it's not

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like they're completely have free time

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there's still items that has to be done

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normal crew so they're scheduled for

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those two any particular

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special activities that you took part in

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or memories that you have or things you

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wish you you'd had one more chance to do

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no i think i got most of the things

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accomplished that i wanted to do

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actually you know i thought i'd taken

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all the pictures i wanted to take but

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that last week it was another flurry of

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a bunch of things that i had that just

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came to kind of came to mind some

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shots that included the entire cupola

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you know to bring those back and have

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those for the next several decades so

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it's nice to have so have you have you

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had a chance to go through them at all

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them not all of it but certainly some

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other yeah and it uh it's it's it's a

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wonderful thing to have those those

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shots and those those memories it

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certainly is nice

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well uh what about the the actual ride

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itself back to earth i hear it can be a

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little bit of a oh my gosh i guess the

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most uh descriptive term i've ever heard

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was like mr toad's wild ride

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it is that and more um from the time you

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close the hatch it's roughly five and a

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half to six hours until you're on deck

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from deal burn all the way down to

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touchdown i mean there's deer but

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burning this you know the engine's

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firing you can feel the g you can hear

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separation where the the bale the top

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portion the round portion on top that

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comes apart and of course the engine

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compartment separates and those are

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dynamic evolutions with jarring and i

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see the bayou kind of glistening red a

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floating away in the distance kind of

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eerily looking out the window and then

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to get in the atmosphere and then of

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course you start getting into the the

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plasma and you're literally you know 17

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000 miles an hour and a 3000 degree

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fireball and looking out the window and

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the plasma going by and it's you know

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you're shaking and the g is building up

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peaked out on first you know for not not

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the g itself but as it g rises and come

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about a minute at 4.4 like i said so

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flipping and flopping upside down it

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it's just really something else and then

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the dash is here and then all of a

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sudden the dash is here and it happens

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big blast and i thought we had hit down

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a little bit firmer like we'd hit and

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it's like getting in the back hit hit in

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the back by mack truck really oh my it

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was something else so march wasn't the

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first time that you've you've made the

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trip but the first time on first time on

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soldiers yeah the soyuz landing is much

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much much harder than us than a shuttle

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landing yeah

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were people able to like prepare you for

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it did you did you feel like you knew

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what to expect i did by and large i mean

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the one thing that you know and the

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things that they said okay you want to

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as soon as you hit down you want to look

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out the window and see all the people

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the helicopters landing people scurrying

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over and i did that i looked out the

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windows right after we hit down and

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nothing because i didn't know it at the

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time we'd landed in the ice fog so

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nothing nothing like for 10 minutes

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finally we saw a vehicle one of the

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all-terrain vehicles drive up and then a

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helicopter land in the distance and then

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you know the games began at that point

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to get us out so do you do you get a

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chance to give the crew on orbit now any

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any tips or do you think they have all

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the tips oh they've got all the tips

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they'll be ready but hey it's it's a

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great ride and they're they're going to

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enjoy all of it yeah i heard somebody

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say that they'd go through the six

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months on orbit just to get the ride

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home

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uh yeah sure yeah

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it is pretty exciting well what is what

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is uh next for you what else what else

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you're still in the debrief process and

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even though it's been several months

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down the road and you know you want to

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share the experience that's the great

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thing about this if you couldn't share

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it with anyone it would not be as as

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meaningful i guess so here i mean that

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period where i get to go out and share

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some of the some of the things that took

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place and with those that uh that want

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to hear it and uh

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and doing that now and then back into

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the back in the run of just uh

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supporting human space flight so we'll

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see what that entails as we go forward

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should be something interesting it'll be

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interesting absolutely all right well

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thank you so much we really appreciate