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good morning thanks for joining us here

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on nasa tv we're live in the

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international space station flight

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control room and it's my pleasure this

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morning to be joined by the new space

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station program manager kirk sherman

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thanks so much uh great uh it's nice to

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be here i'm glad to be here and talk

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about the international space station

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yeah which you're very familiar with for

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seven years you served as the deputy

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program manager and then you

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went on to take the role as the deputy

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center director here at johnson space

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center and as of just a few weeks ago

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three weeks ago i think you said

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you are now serving as the program

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manager for the international space

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station program can you tell us what

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it's like to be working back at the

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program level

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uh well it's it's uh funny in one sense

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it's like coming home i spent actually

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um i spent 20 years of my life working

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on the international space station

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before i left

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and so you know the the people that work

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here my family my friends

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and so i leave for two years and of

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course i see people but not on the same

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daily basis so coming back was kind of

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like coming back home

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but it's also somewhat like picking up a

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novel and opening up in the middle and

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starting to read the story because a lot

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of things have happened

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everyone else knows what's happened but

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me and so uh i have to go catch up with

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uh with everyone else um but again since

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i have i have a good relationship with

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all the people and and i know the the

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big picture of the story uh it uh it

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hasn't been too terribly difficult so

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far it has been a busy time just last

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week we had nine crew members on board

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the international space station can you

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talk about how you think the

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international cooperation aspect is

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going i think the international

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cooperation is still going very well so

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it was great to see people uh we had a a

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here on the ground of course we've had

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uh it's not only the the partner members

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of the the iss that are involved we've

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had 83 different countries represented

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doing research on board the

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international station 83 across the

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world that's quite a bit

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and doing thousands of investigations so

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um it has been a great international

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endeavor and i expect it to continue

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that way for years to come

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absolutely and speaking of the science

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yesterday was a big milestone the midway

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point for scott kelly and mikhail

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kornenko as they're

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making their way through this year-long

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mission can you talk us a little bit

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about what how you think it's gone the

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last six months and what we can look

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forward to for the next six well for me

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the first six months have blazed by i

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wonder how it is with scott and mikhail

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but they seem to be doing exceptionally

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well they're uh very very productive on

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orbit seem to be very happy

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and and the work they're doing really is

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is very important right the the things

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that they're doing

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we we've had um crew members who stayed

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about 200 days is about the longest

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we've ever had so here very very shortly

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they'll be the longest staying crew

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members ever on iss and the amount of

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data and the quality of the day that

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we're collecting will be groundbreaking

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so be really great to see what happens

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to the human body during that long

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period of time we have a number of

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experiments uh earlier you were talking

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about fluid shifts i know they just

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participated in it this week looking at

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what happens as fluid shifts in the body

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when you go up in in microgravity

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there's also a twin study looking at

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what happens uh happens with uh with uh

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scott's twin brother here on the earth

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and seeing what the difference is

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between a human body on the ground

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versus uh out in space so all those

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things are really important because we

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ultimately want to send humans off the

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planet for long for long durations and

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to get to the next planet is going to be

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years so learning what we can on iss is

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a great pathfinder for putting humans uh

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on mars absolutely the research of

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course is is a major aspect of all of

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another thing that's really developing

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though is the commercial aspects and

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space station

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has really been a platform to help

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enable some of the commercialization can

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you talk a little bit about some of the

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things that you see coming up in that

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area as well sure well iss of course has

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has many dimensions working in the

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commercialization of space one of the

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big ones is the commercial resupply of

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cargo so we signed the contract years

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ago with uh bo with i'm sorry with

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spacex in orbital now orbital atk to fly

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cargo to the international space station

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so both of those companies have been

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successful in doing that

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they also had some difficulties too but

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uh but that's part of the the the

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difficulty of our business so that's an

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aspect we're actually in the midst of

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the second cargo resupply contract and

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here uh very very shortly in the next

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month and a half we'll be announcing the

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the uh a new contract for additional

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cargo flights

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um through the the life of space station

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so we're looking forward to that

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as you know also we have commercial crew

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we have a contract with boeing and with

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uh spacex to fly crews up to

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international space station starting and

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further first flights are scheduled in

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2017 and the first rotation flights in

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so all those are really important um not

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only for the international space station

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but really to foster this commercial uh

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industry out there for a low earth orbit

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we're also doing quite a few things in

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terms of research and

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commercial inside the space station so

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there's the center for advancement of

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of science in space or cases which is

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responsible of managing for managing the

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national lab aspect of the international

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space station and they're working with a

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number of private companies

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to do experiments and not only for

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the knowledge that they're gained but

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also for commercial gain so

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i think we really are trying to foster a

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a commercial

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industry in low earth orbit and and

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making quite uh quite good progress

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absolutely and i know we've covered a

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lot but what are you looking most

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forward to as you embark on this new

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position is there anything

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you know the the thing is we've been

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doing research on board international

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space station for years and what i'm

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looking forward to is really seeing the

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fruition of that so we've had great

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great experience we've learned a quite

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quite a few things both for nasa's

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purposes but for let's say for for

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humankind

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as a species and i'm looking forward to

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continuing that actually growing that

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and really seeing the results of that

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there's been a number of things that

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we've already done that have had

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significant benefits here uh here on the

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ground one of the ones that just came

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there was an experiment done in

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expedition five

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and uh and it basically was was looking

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at how to uh how to purify the air that

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uh that led to a commercial product

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that's actually used here uh here on the

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earth in in number places day cares and

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schools and hospitals it's also used in

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to help

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mold from growing down in their wine

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cellar so seeing something like that go

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from an experiment on board iss to being

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something that that people can use all

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over the planet is is really amazing

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we have a number of experiments that are

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going on in in fundamental science we

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have the alpha magnetic spectrometer and

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now cream which you're looking at

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at particles of energies that are orders

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of magnitude greater than can be seen

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here on earth uh and we're actually

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watching them and and learning about

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them learning about the the origin of

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that it'll be really amazing so all

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these things i'm looking forward to

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not only growing the opportunities for

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research on board the iss but really

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seeing seeing how it affects our lives

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here on the planet

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right and we just want to remind our

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viewers that you can see a lot of those

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case studies if you will of these

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success stories of ways that the space

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station has benefited life on earth on

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our website at www.nasa.gov

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station so with that thank you again so

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much for your time congratulations on

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the new position and we look forward to

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hearing from you

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awesome thanks very much again that's

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kirk sherman the new international space