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well we're celebrating the 15th

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anniversary of human presence on the

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space station and for the payload

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operations integration Center it didn't

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quite start exactly then they went

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online about six months later but they

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were still working in one of those

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worker bees is here with me now denis

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morris she is a payload operations

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director but you were a pay come back in

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that day tell us tell us what the early

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days were like well like you said we

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didn't start increment to until march

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two thousand one i was a pic home so i

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had the unique opportunity to speak to

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the crew we had Susan Helms on board

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which I had worked with in the past on

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the Space Lab is face had missions and

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then we had gym boss who is a native

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alabamian and also an Auburn fan so he

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graduated from there and that was really

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unique for us because we got the

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occasional war eagle so you had only

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three crew members yeah beginning yes a

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lot has changed yes we had your usage

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chef with us as well he was the Russian

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crew member and now we have six crew

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members so that's that's been exciting

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so from three crew members to six crew

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members how did that change for you all

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in here operationally we got busier with

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the more crew members so our experiments

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went from about 18 experiments initially

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to 18 racks holding over 300 experiments

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along with nine external payloads that

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we have on the outside of space station

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that operate continuously and then you

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also worked with just the Russian

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partners at first and now you have a

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whole international contingent yes we

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have the Europeans and the Japanese with

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us so the space station has grown to

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full capacity a lot more astronauts a

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lot more people on the ground to help

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them take care of the science and of

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course maintaining the space station any

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personal stories that you can share with

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us from from back in the day or even to

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now yeah you know back in the day I was

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a pacom so it was super exciting getting

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to talk to the crew every day now I'm

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transitioned over to the pod chair which

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is the payload operations director chair

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so a little different but still exciting

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it was exciting the first time the

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increment to crew caught us on a phone

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they did the

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sober Internet Protocol and gave us a

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phone call nobody really believed that

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was happening at first they thought

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somebody was playing a trick on us but

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that was real exciting and then just

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talking to them every day was was really

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neat and now it's just routine idiots

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later and you guys will be celebrating

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your anniversary your real 15-year

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anniversary in this room well it used to

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be an older of announce a new room in

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March of 2016 yes we will with your help