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a lot of people don't realize how

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squished it is inside the soyuz and then

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when you those seats it's really

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tight what was it like describe for

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people that haven't really

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seen it before how the logistics of

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opening the hatch and getting a person

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out and other people out so when we say

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cocking the seats the seats actually put

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push up in it so it provides it's

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essentially kind of a piston situation

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so that when we land there's the seats

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can kind of displace downward to absorb

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some of that shock

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and and we get to experience that in the

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fit check prior to launch so we actually

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get all strapped into the seat and they

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the seats up and so you get to kind

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of feel what that what it feels like to

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be in that constrained

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position and the soyuz is pretty tight

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as it is i mean i guess i like to

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compare it to fitting three people

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into the front of a volkswagen beetle

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and actually it's tighter than that i

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think and then when you the seats

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you kind of i mean it's really kind of

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being pushed up into the dashboard and

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it's a pretty tight fit and when we did

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that for the fit check before launch

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they didn't the commander's seat up

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so it was still pretty easy to get out

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you could slide over and there's more

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room there for dissent when we actually

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went through the the real situation

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you've been sitting in that seat now for

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probably three hours strapped in you've

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just gone through high gs where you

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really get sucked down into the seat

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so you're trying to tighten your straps

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so that you're ready for for landing and

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parachute opening and landing and when

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the seat up it happens much

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quicker than it happens on the ground i

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think on the ground they use some kind

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of a pneumatic system that kind of

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slowly pushes you up and when it really

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happens it's pretty brisk so that if

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you're not paying attention all of a

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sudden the dashboard is in your face

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it's a pretty tight fit because you you

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know there's instruments

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there's a hand controller you know is

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sitting on the right seat and there's a

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hand control over here so when when you

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get pushed up i mean that really kind of

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comes up against your knees and squeezes

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your knees knees together and your face

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is

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are not going anywhere in that situation

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and so after landing you're still

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sitting in that position and so it's

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nice to finally get out of the seat so i

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waited for oleg and kimia to get out

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and like i said we were hanging kind of

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face down and the hatch opens kind of

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like this

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so

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when they release you out of your

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seatbelt you kind of just kind of fall

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down they control you know control you

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and let you down easy and it's funny

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because my brain was telling me oh this

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is this is actually not going to be too

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bad i'll just get on all fours on the

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hatch and just kind of crawl out yeah

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sure you will and uh

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my brain and

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like my body just had like this

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immediate dissociation because as soon

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as i got let down on the hatch i just

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kind of went

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i couldn't even lift my head up i was

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so thankfully there are people people

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there that know what what's going on and

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know what i'm so i didn't totally place

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face plant and break my nose on the

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hatch

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and they pulled me out and you know

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after even minutes to an hour your

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body starts to go through this

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adaptation process and recognizes

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gravity again and your muscles you know

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don't want to work but you know even

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after an hour you're able to stand up

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and walk with with some support and you

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know it's amazing just within days

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you're walking unassisted and then

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within weeks