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we've gotten a lot of questions over the

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last week obviously in the wake of the

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loss of spacex seven uh first one that's

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been on everyone's mind how are the

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supply levels looking for you guys on

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board the international space station

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well they're they're fine right now um

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you know of course if we had any further

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uh delays in our resupplies you know

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past uh you know mid-september or

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october then you know we'd have some

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issues but uh

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transportation plan with progress and uh

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htv in august

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you know assuming those come on time we

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should be in

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great shape

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and so is there anything special you or

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your crewmates are doing to conserve you

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know supplies on board or is it just

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business as usual

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yeah it's an interesting question you

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know it's not like we can throw anything

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away here very easily so um you know

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certainly when progress leaves uh you

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know the one that's currently here you

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you get rid of items and we we throw

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things away on spacex so

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um and

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htv and the other vehicles so you know

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if we don't use something or use

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something to its fullest fullest extent

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it generally stays on board for a while

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and if you need to retrieve it you can

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but you know i'm still consciously you

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vehicles that we we did that didn't

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arrive i'm still consciously thinking

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you know maybe using all the food we

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have uh rather than scatter it

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throughout different places and trash on

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the space station if there's something

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we don't eat just so it would prevent us

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from having to go and retrieve it later

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if we had to or maybe accidentally

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disposing of something on a vehicle

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water i'm definitely thinking about that

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water or or food that might have some

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water in it

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or some like water samples versus trying

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to reclaim the water so that's something

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we're thinking about

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and then some of the uh

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consumables that are sometimes a

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limiting factor we're trying to use

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those up as much as possible

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okay well after the spacex event you

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tweeted out you know just kind of

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reminding people space flight is hard

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but tomorrow is always a new day do you

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care to elaborate on that a little bit

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you know all flying in space you know

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building these space station i think

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it's the hardest thing we've ever done

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you know continues to remind us of that

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it's a very challenging environment uh

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the vehicles operates operate on their

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performance uh capability

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but you know when something like this

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happens we just have to kind of you know

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lean forward look ahead keep keep moving

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and we need to you know learn from our

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mistakes and i'm sure there's uh things

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to be learned from

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from this incident as there are in in

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any anything like this that happens but

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uh you know we we have to keep our focus

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on on what our goals are and and keep

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pressing forward with

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you know the the resources we have and

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that's what we're doing here on board

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the space station i know the folks on

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the ground are doing the doing the same

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thing as well

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okay well the next uh cargo ship already

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about to headed head your way the

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progress 60 launching a little bit later

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tonight what's the cruise you know level

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of anticipation to get this next cargo

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vehicle on orbit

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well uh you know third time's a charm i

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hope and uh you know we're we're

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hoping that that we get this one

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you know as as these next two if they

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get delayed or even move out beyond

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september october it it will cause

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problems but you know we're we're as

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confident as we can be in in any rocket

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launch i mean there's always risk

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there's always chances of failure but

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arrive on time but certainly we're we're

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always prepared for the worst

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in the wake of everything how's the

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workload for you guys up there still

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plenty of research to do i assume

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it's a big space station a lot of uh

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science racks and science modules and

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stuff on on spacex and i you know i

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really feel bad especially for the kids

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experiment on orbital and then one on

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those vehicles that they you know

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rebuilt and tried to fly again

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in those cases it can be somewhat

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disappointing but you know there are

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lessons learned there about

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you know keep keep moving forward and

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you know doing the right thing and

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working towards progress but here you

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know there's a lot to do we have a lot

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of a lot of capability a lot of science

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colleagues so we're looking forward to

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getting those new guys up on board here

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still on track for their launch later in

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july you guys really excited to get back

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up to the full six-person crew

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excited you know for a number of reasons

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not just the extra company although

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holding down the fort

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for now but it'd be great to have some

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want to see them

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have never been to space before and

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rookie space flyers um so shifting gears

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day point um where i when i was here

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sister-in-law gabby was was shot

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long time and and at 100 on at the 100

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day point when you have a 159 day

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mission you think about

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actually feel the same way i feel like i

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a lot more energy a lot more

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you know ability to focus attention to

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detail a lot more enthusiasm about the

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uh you know upcoming

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lot and i wondered at the beginning

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before i flew on this flight wondering

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if it was really like a uh

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you know a last thirds kind of phenomena

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space is kind of enough but i think it

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is i think it's when you're you know

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when you're two-thirds of the way into

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is when you kind of start thinking about

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hey i'm coming home soon versus a

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you know comparing this this experience

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all right well one final question for

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you fourth of july you know coming up

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this weekend

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how does it feel to represent you know

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nasa and the usa in space during the

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well it's uh you know it's always

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feels great and

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a privilege to represent our country

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nasa um you know my case is a retired

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uh but on holidays you know you even

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feel more special

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and then it feels more of a privilege

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you have a more of a patriotic feeling

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and i'd like to wish everyone a you know

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happy independence day it's a you know

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great holiday great tradition

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and hopefully the timing will be right

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and i'll be able to look down and see

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little specks of light over the united

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states on the evening of the 4th of july