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well as part of expeditions 22 and 23 tj

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creamer traveled more than 65 million

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miles around the planet living and

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working on board the space station well

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the past three and a half years he's

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traveled a little shorter distance from

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his home base in houston at johnson

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space center to here in huntsville to

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become our astropod astronaut and a

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payload operations director leading the

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ground teams here well part of tj's

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unique perspective of having been there

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done that really helped to streamline

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some processes here at the poic but as

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they say all good things must come to an

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end and tj is being reassigned to the

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orion program back at johnson space

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center but i had a chance to catch up

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with him and get a few passing thoughts

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on his last trip here to huntsville

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tell me what it's been like for you to

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work in the poic

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it's been a three and a half year

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i got to meet wonderful people and we're

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the program the space station programs

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business but also the agencies in the

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countries if we don't do the research

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we're not going to be able to get to go

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farther

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folks here are trying to do the best job

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they can to get us to go farther to get

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to reap the benefits of the science not

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only to get us to go farther but to help

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folks on the ground

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there isn't much more exciting

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things to do than that

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is it different than you thought it was

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going to be no ma'am it's as what i

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thought my whole life has been real-time

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so i'm coming here to help out in real

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time ops awareness blending the

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real-time ops houston community with the

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huntsville real-time ops community

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sharing the experiences i had when i was

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on space station real-time ops

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um as a result no it wasn't any

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different than i thought it it was as

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rewarding as as i had imagined

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and for folks who don't know i mean

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there would be tourists come through and

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you would step out and talk to them i

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mean why do you do that again it's an

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excitement thing i

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am infected with the excitement of what

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we're doing both from a space operations

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world as well as a real-time ops world

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from the research world and doing this

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kind of science

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it helps folks understand when you are

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that excited

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what the excitement really is and to be

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able to convey that to folks they then

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be able to spread that out to their

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family and friends and we're just doing

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a little bit more winning the winning

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the folks over and showing them the way

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most interesting that you helped with

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from the ground oh there's a number

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what we're trying to do for folks on the

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ground we're trying to study

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very special protein crystals that we

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know can interfere

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at the keyhole replication sites for for

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breast cancer so if we're able to help

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conquer that problem of breast cancer

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that's a pretty exciting advent for us

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another help for for

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humans on the earth is the study of

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conditions like osteoporosis everyone's

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going to suffer osteoporotic conditions

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how do we beat that and so now we're

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doing dietary experiments that show us

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ways that we can help forestall that

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specifically designed to help forestall

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rodent studies where we're beginning to

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learn about how

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those bodies are adapting and how

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weightlessness or space travel can be

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affecting folks

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for space travel but the same principles

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apply for folks on the ground these

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things being able to give back directly

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to to mankind is really kind of exciting

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what are your thoughts on staying up

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there for one year

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scheduled to come back for my five and a

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half months mission if the ground said

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we had to stay up there for another four

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or five months i would have again okay

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it is one it's a wonderful experiment

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experience and experiment and we're

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learning from

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adaptability and recovery and

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the countermeasures to make it a safe

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trip for long duration missions i think

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it's a pretty good step

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what did you enjoy most about the

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huntsville community all the people my

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so i've now been living in houston since

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95 so we got 20 years there we've got

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very springing hard grass and no hills

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come here you got very green grass and

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rolling hills this is wonderful and the

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the actual flying portion of astronauts

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career is very minimal

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most the time we are engaging with folks

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to share the excitement

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share the wonder

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we're doing technical jobs and for

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instance i've been working the i.t world

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on space station since the beginning of

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space station is a technical job i'm

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helping out with the orion landing and

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recovery um efforts that are going on

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orion landing and recovery where where

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are we the capsule has to land someplace

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we want to land in water now how do you

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get the crew out to medical how do we

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recover the crew module

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in an expeditious amount of time and

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there's a number of ways of doing this

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a little different than the way you

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landed in russia right just a little bit

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that's right we landed on land

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we had soft landing thrusters

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a misnomer but it's softer if they said

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softer landing thrusters that's totally

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they've got lots of land