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so as we just talked about a lot of work

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taking place on board the international

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space station for these crew members and

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a lot of work takes place on the ground

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before they ever get the chance to

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launch a lot of training

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a lot of it taking place here at the

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johnson space center and around the

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world

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today here in mission control i'm joined

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by one of our veteran astronauts who's

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going through training for the third

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time now ready for getting ready for her

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third mission uh to launch next year

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peggy whitson

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so peggy first off thanks so much for

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joining me it's always a pleasure to

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talk to you and

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so again like i said this is this is

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your third time around and you're trying

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to do something a little bit different

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this time you're looking at

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trying to put some of the other folks

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who get you guys ready into the

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spotlight tell me a little bit about

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what this is called and what it is

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you're trying to do

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well i i really believe that a lot of

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the people are

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that provide

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the support for us getting ready for our

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mission

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including everything from engineers not

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just trainers but engineers and then

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we've got people supporting us on on

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orbit

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full-time operations

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and being an astronaut and being trained

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in all these various systems and areas

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it gives you a real

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flavor for the number of people involved

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but also the diversity of their

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backgrounds the diversity of their

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interests and all the different types of

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things that are required to contribute

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to making a space flight a success

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and so we want to highlight and

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emphasize those people

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it takes a huge number of people to make

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spaceflight a success

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and uh i'd like to term at the nasa

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village okay and so we are

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uh working to try and highlight the

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stories of those people you know some

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everyone has their own story of you know

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what challenges they had to overcome

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what

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their jobs and i just think that by

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highlighting all those people and all

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those backgrounds

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we can

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highlight all the different fields of

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science technology and engineering

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and mathematics

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that are involved and even arts are

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involved as well and so it's just a very

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interesting story i think to hear

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what's

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all the people that are involved in the

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process okay any pushback from some of

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those people maybe they want to stay

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behind the scenes any well i'm it's all

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voluntary but okay but i i am trying to

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encourage different people to tell their

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stories because i think everybody has an

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interesting story and you know what we

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hope is that by telling these stories we

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will inspire young people to realize a

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to realize that there are different

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types of jobs involved in being in space

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flight and exploration

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and you know maybe your your desire

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isn't necessarily something that

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will be an astronaut but there are lots

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of different ways to contribute and

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still be involved in exploration and and

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i'd also like to show some of the cool

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like a lot of our astronauts you're

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going to be using social media a lot for

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for your mission including one new uh

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platform that we haven't really used yet

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what are the the accounts that you're

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going to be sharing your experience in

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the nasa village with the world on so uh

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under astropeggy

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on twitter facebook which we've done in

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the past but also

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tumblr is the new version that we're of

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social media that we're trying to work

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into

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hopefully it'll interface with a younger

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age group the point is to try and

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inspire the next generation of explorers

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and to give them the ideas of all the

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different

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types of things that are involved and

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what options you might have for jobs if

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you have an interest in any particular

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field

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okay yes i mean tumblr something we

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haven't really ever used so you're going

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to be kind of pioneering that like

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you've pioneered a lot of things in

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spaceflight so that's really exciting

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and just you know to kind of bring it

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all back you've touched on it you you

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want this nasa village thing to kind of

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inspire those people is that kind of the

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the overarching that's what you're

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really going for with this whole game

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absolutely we we're hoping that young

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people will think that hey there's lots

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of cool jobs that i could do at nasa or

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do as a part of exploration and

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contribute to exploration and to see how

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exciting it is

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and hope that they want to pursue the

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educations required to to get those jobs

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but i think it's really neat in some of

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the stories one of for instance one lady

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who was

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working on sealing the

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heat seals of the inner bladder of the

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space suit together okay and she was

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doing that heat sealing process and

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obviously the inner bladder is very

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important that's what protects us from

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the back camera has to be airtight and

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all that and i asked her what her degree

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was in and she said fashion design

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so there's just an amazing diversity of

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backgrounds and people involved well

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there you go i mean all walks of life

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getting involved in the space program

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anybody watching and following along

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with the nasa village hopefully growing

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the village i hope so one of the one of

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the goals of this okay very cool stuff

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well again nasa astronaut uh peggy

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whitson you can follow her over the next

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year or she trains and be sure to follow

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her when she's back up in space on her

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third mission to the international space

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station going to be a commander again so

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that'll be really exciting so again

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peggy thanks so much for joining me

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today we really appreciate it we're

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definitely going to be following along

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okay great and i hope lots of folks will

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be interested and follow it as well and