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the one-year mission of scott kelly and

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mikhail kornienko will provide

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scientists with new information about

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how people respond to being in

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weightlessness so we can get better

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prepared for future missions out into

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deep space to destinations like mars or

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an asteroid

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kelly has been involved in the twins

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experiment which will compare him during

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a year in space to his identical twin

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brother mark on earth

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my colleague dan hewitt recently talked

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with former astronaut mark kelly to

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gauge his thoughts about his

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participation in the twins experiment

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about his brother's record-setting

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mission and how he'd feel

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if it were him coming home from a year

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in space let's take a look well i can

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kind of tell he's getting ready uh to

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come home because i get less phone calls

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you know over the course of the year

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they kind of you know started the peak

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at a while and you know after you're

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there for about eight or nine months

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you know he seems to be seem to be

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reaching out a lot

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and not so much in the last few days so

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i think he's scrambling

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to get everything done

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that he needs to do for this one year

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mission and you know get his stuff

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packed and uh

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you know get everything over to the

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soyuz

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and i remember he had remarked that he

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actually thinks he calls you even more

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while he's in space was that true

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throughout this mission did you get you

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know plenty of chances to talk to him

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while he was up there you know 250 miles

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overhead

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yeah absolutely yeah we definitely talk

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more when he is in space than when we

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are both on earth not so much with me as

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a as a you know shuttle guy who uh for

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space shuttle missions

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you know those are like uh you know

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controlled chaos where you're just

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trying to get everything done over a

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two-week period but for him you know

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living in space

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and being so far detached from life on

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earth you know one of the only real

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lifelines you have

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one of the well the best one is

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certainly the ability to make a phone

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call so i do talk to him a lot more

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when he's in space

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okay and i mean for this mission you

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were anything but just kind of a passive

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bystander you were actually part of the

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research so i wanted i was hoping you

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could talk about that a little bit more

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some of the stuff you've been doing over

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the year as an active participant in the

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twin study

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yeah you could say participant or guinea

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pig you know one

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you know i guess either of those are

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appropriate uh well since before he

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launched

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i've been providing data in a number of

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different ways to nasa for the study and

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there's uh 10 universities that are

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doing

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a bunch of science experiments on both

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scott and i

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because we're twins you know those

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universities consist of

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cornell and harvard medical school johns

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hopkins university of pennsylvania and

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others

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stanford i think is one

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as well and uh yeah so i provide data

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and that data is you know sometimes is

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somebody comes to my house right here in

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tucson a phlebotomist will come from

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nasa and take 30 tubes of blood

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saliva samples uh urine and other things

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and cart all that stuff back to

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the johnson space center where they

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distribute it to the researchers

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i also travel

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rather regularly to houston

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to do

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more extensive data collection and

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though you know those data takes might

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consist of mris

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uh ultrasounds

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other science that nasa does some of

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which i don't even i'm not so sure what

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they're doing

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so and i know for scott once he comes

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home there's going to be many months

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more of data takes are you still you

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know on the hook for the next couple of

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months or a year or so to contribute to

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this

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study hey i'm happy to contribute as as

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much as they need you know i told nasa

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you know whatever you need just tell me

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where to be and when

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and i'll i'll give give you whatever you

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want so whether this lasts another

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month for me

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or 10 months or 10 years i i don't

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really know but i'm happy to participate

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okay now so he's coming home soon what's

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one thing you're really looking forward

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to doing with your brother again

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you know we were talking about maybe at

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some point going up to alaska and going

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fishing or okay you know doing something

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like that i got a guy i know up there

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that's a uh you know that's a guide for

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these salmon fishing trips

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you know it's all about finding the time

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you know to do things like that but we

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were talking about doing that uh you

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know we're gonna have a welcome home

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party for him

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you know at some point there in houston

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he has been gone a long time and

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you know over a year period of a year

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you know you lose those connections with

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people so i think it's really important

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to to get that back

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okay well again mark kelly former nasa

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astronaut twin brother of scott kelly

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who's getting ready to wrap up his year

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in space mark thanks so much for joining

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me today and hopefully we'll see you out