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station right now but that's going to

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change by the end of this week as three

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additional crew members getting ready to

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launch to the international space

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station tomorrow evening

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u.s time as nasa's jeff williams and

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russian cosmonauts oleg skripochka and

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alexi of chenan are in the final stages

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of getting ready for their liftoff from

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baikonur just before

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jeff williams headed down to kazakhstan

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from star city the training base in

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russia my colleague pat ryan was able to

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talk to williams asking him how he was

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doing and if he felt ready for his trip

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to the space station

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yeah i feel very ready to be

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going back to the space station the the

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training process that we have is very

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good it's uh very mature now we've we've

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i think made it more effective and

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efficient over the years

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and it continues to be improved all the

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time so i feel very prepared to go

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i am very confident that my crewmates

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are are prepared and ready to go and

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we're looking forward to uh to a great

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tell me about what you're looking

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forward to whether it's operational

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highlights or or some special

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experiments that you're going to work on

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this time

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well this will be the first time that

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i'm not engaged with the assembly of the

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space station as as you know it's long

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so now it's in full utilization mode so

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experience in the space station in that

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phase of its uh lifetime uh of course we

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have a wide variety of experiments that

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we're anticipating uh to include uh

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experiments from across the spectrum of

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the different science

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some of the experiments that

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our studies of the human body

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and to understand the effects of the

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environment on the human body so that we

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can develop countermeasures to support

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future exploration

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i'm looking forward also to a couple of

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planned spacewalks that we have later in

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one day to integrate a docking adapter

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to the space station so in preparation

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the future commercial

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crude vehicles that are planned to fly

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in the next few years to rotate

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crews from american soil so i'm looking

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forward to that

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of course this will be a new crew

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combination that i'm flying with

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and uh that's always good i've counted

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it up recently and i think i've been on

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at the space station with 45 different

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people

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over the years both my crewmates on the

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station crews as well as the shuttle

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crew

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have come to the space station while

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i've been there so this will add a few

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more folks

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to that to that list

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and it's been a real highlight of my

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career in my life

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to be able to share this magnificent

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experience with with those folks

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you're about to become the first

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american to launch on a third long

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duration mission to this station

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does getting ready for it get easier as

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uh it gets easier maybe in that there's

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no surprises in the process

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you're just repeating the preparations

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getting mostly refresher trained

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on all of the different elements

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as challenging

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as say the previous ones in just in

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personal preparations

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knowing that my wife and family are

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ready to be separated from me and

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of course me getting ready to be

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from them i think my wife is well

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trained in this as well

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and i appreciate the the support that

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she's been over the years and in

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the beginning of of doing this all over

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your experience on board this station

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goes back to a shuttle mission that flew

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are you finding yourself becoming a part

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of the history of this project well i've

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always felt

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the awareness of being privileged to be

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part of history in the making with this

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program and space exploration in general

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give each of us that perspective

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uh but you're right um it has occurred

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in a more significant way in recent

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months in particular

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that i've been privileged to be part of

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the building of the space station from

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beginning all the way until now through

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mode and it has been just

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an amazing undertaking an amazing human

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achievement that

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none of us of course take for granted

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um the the people that i've had an

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opportunity over the uh 20 years now uh

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to work with uh

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in this endeavor literally hundreds and

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perhaps thousands of people

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directly and indirectly certainly in the

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thousands and ten tens of thousands and

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in this international partnership it's

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been a privilege to work with the folks

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and to continue to work with them

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there's no place that i've seen in my

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lifetime

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that has a work environment like we have

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where we're all on a team we're all

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a mission we're all here because we

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believe it's important for the people of

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and it's just been a great privilege to

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be a part of that tell me about how you

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plan to take advantage of the station's

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communications capabilities and social

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media to share what you're doing up

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there and what you see out the window

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part of most people's world nowadays

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and i plan on using that with a help

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from a few folks in houston

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who are helping me do the actual posting

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and maybe integrating some of the

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but i'm doing most of the writing

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virtually all of the writing

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and trying to to

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present some products from my previous

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flights as well as making videos as we

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go along here

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to bring people along on the journey

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one and also to uh to attempt to

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remind folks of the significance of this

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accomplishment that we call the

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international space station orbiting the

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earth continually and now with a human

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presence that's been continuous longer

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looking forward to riding that soyuz

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i am looking forward to it every rocket

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elements of it i mean it's still

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everybody i talked to that

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you launch off the pad in less than nine

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minutes later you're in orbit going that

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orbital velocity

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around the earth every 90 minutes

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by the time you get back home to houston

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you'll have been away for seven months

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or so on top of all the time that you've

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spent away from home to train for this

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tell me why you think what we're going

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to learn on this space station is worth

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making that kind of sacrifice

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i think that uh we're all called in life

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to uh to a purpose that's greater than

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ourselves and i just

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happen to be privileged uh with this

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calling in life

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and it is a great privilege to be part

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of this to be part of such an endeavor

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as the international space station

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certainly i think history has shown that

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the history of civilization is the

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history of of discovery and exploration

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and trying to expand the boundaries that

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we're currently living in and space

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exploration is is no different and this

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chapter that we call the international

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space station is certainly a significant

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step forward in that so it's a a

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privilege to be part of it

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it's a platform where we will

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continue to develop the technologies and

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the capabilities

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that will enable future exploration so

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it's a significant chapter in that book

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of space exploration

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jeff thanks for the talk have a good