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been here once before

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nice to meet you good how are you

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pleasure to meet you sir welcome to mcc

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i'm breaking this awesome

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and that's a picture of washington dc

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you can see the mall down the middle and

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scott and tim this is ellen and as you

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know we have some very special guests

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here today in mission control

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so i would like to hand it over to

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well thank you ellen and uh it's really

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great to be able to talk to the

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president today

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nice talking to you how is it up there

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well sir it's uh it's great it's a real

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privilege to be part of this uh space

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station the space station program it's

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an amazing uh amazing place and we're

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fortunate to be able to do this great

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work here in space

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working on some experiments

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yes sir we have about uh 400 different

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experiments that are going on during the

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course of the year that i'm here and

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those are generally in three different

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categories those are those that are kind

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of you know looking away from earth

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those exploration based experiments you

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know how we can

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live and work in space for longer

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periods of time both you know on a on a

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physical level but also how we develop

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the systems that are required like you

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know for instance yesterday tim and i

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fixed our carbon dioxide removal system

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and uh you know that's something we're

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going to need to uh go to mars today the

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other type of experiments are the ones

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that improve

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or look to improve life on earth the

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things like uh you know in some cases

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pharmaceutical type research that we've

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you know the basic science stuff we have

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a combustion rack that does combustion

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science that we're working on today so a

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lot of experiments are you know more

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looking towards the earth and how to

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improve life on earth and then there's

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the international experiments that kind

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of you know uh combine both of those

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different uh categories

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you're great

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you're not a

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shutterbug

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tell me about the picture

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yes sir well we have a great view up

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here and it's a uh

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you know it's a beautiful planet and um

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you know every time i think i've seen uh

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everything earth has to offer i am just

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surprised one more time and it's uh

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it's just great to be able to share that

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those uh images with the the people of

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earth i know they enjoy them i actually

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take a lot of pictures of the science

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experiments too but

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a lot of people enjoy those but but more

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people more enjoy the pretty pictures so

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i try to to take those a lot and and as

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do my uh my fellow crewmates so yeah we

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take a take a lot of pictures of earth

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because it's so beautiful we can't help

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hey scott so you know over the last year

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you've been growing some plants in space

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we saw a picture of a flower you know

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there was the lettuce you grew why don't

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you tell president bush a little bit

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about some of the crops you've had on

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plant growth experiments up here we

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actually do them in the columbus the

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european uh science modules where

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they're located right now and they have

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a it's it's a kind of interesting

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the lighting that it uses is pink so

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when the lights are out it's uh

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generally got a pink glow in there and

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some lettuce with the idea to better

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understand how we can grow crops in

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we're probably not going to be able to

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take all of our food with us so you know

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understanding how you can grow crops and

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then eat them and we actually ate the

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in this kind of environment is pretty

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right now i'm growing some flowering

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plants some zinnias

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kind of experiment and just you know

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being you know for lack of a better word

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a farmer in space in the beginning there

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and that didn't work out very well and

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the flowers uh i was either over

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watering them or under watering them

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because i was following the direction of

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the ground and they they were

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practically dead and i actually got a

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lot of a lot of heat for it from folks

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on the ground when they saw my pictures

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of my flowers so i was extra motivated

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to bring them back to life and i put a

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lot of effort into it and i did and

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valentine's day i'm gonna

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harvest them so we'll be we'll be done

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with the flowers but i figured

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valentine's day would be a good day to

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cut them down and we'll freeze them and

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take a look at them when they get back

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down on on earth

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yes sir so i've uh i launched on march

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uh 28th and i will be back on march 2nd

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so they're even though i'm not counting

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the days i'm trying to avoid counting

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the days i do know that i have uh 26

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which is about eight percent which to me

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still seems like a long time

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but um yeah we i've been up here a long

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why don't you tell us a little bit about

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the guy next to you and maybe tim could

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i think it's important to point out that

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the space station that you guys are on

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is uh you know started essentially with

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space station freedom that that was um

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you know something that president bush

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started in the 1980s and then space

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station freedom eventually became the

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international space station

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that you were aboard today so maybe tim

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could tell president bush a little bit

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about what the

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you know the entirety of the space

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yeah i'll let him do that in a second

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but president bush i figured since

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you're you're a navy guy too like me we

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it's an honor to talk to you today

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president bush we have a tremendously uh

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elaborate station here we're inside the

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the japanese lab right now behind us is

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a storage facility

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a european lab a connecting block and

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then this continues on down with several

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probably the equivalent of about a 2 000

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square foot home in which we we live and

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work every day and then outside of the

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space station is a huge structure that

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hey scott if you can after being in

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months or in space for 11 months what's

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you know it's obviously you know it's

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it's it's friends family you know human

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contact even though we like you know our

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fellow crew members it's not a pretty

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it's not a large variety of people so

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forward to but then just being outside i

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space station is amazing it's an

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incredible facility but it's all inside

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and we never leave and the the lighting

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and the you know environmental

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conditions are always the same there's

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no sun on your face no rain no wind so i

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really look forward to being out in a

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out in uh you know in nature for lack of

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a a better way to describe it

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well have a great uh rest of your

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mission and tim enjoy the rest of your

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time on space station i am very envious

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of both of you guys

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well yeah it's great talking to you and

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mr president thank you uh thank you so

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much for coming to the control center

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and uh we really really appreciate all

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your support that you've given to the

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space program

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although this isn't the space station

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freedom if it wasn't for the space

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station freedom this amazing space

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station would not exist i believe so

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you know this space station and our

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space program is part of your legacy as

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thank you scott and tim today

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i just want to say i appreciate the hard

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work you put in every single day up

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there and your wonderful ambassadors for

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nasa and for our country we'll talk to

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you later

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thank you ellen

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have a great weekend everyone

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get a couple of these