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what does it mean to you personally to

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return to russia to be reunited with

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your one-year crew member

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and to receive the honors that have been

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associated with the completion of your

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record-breaking mission uh it means a

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few things um

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you know first of all uh since i'm

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leaving nasa here pretty soon this might

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be the last time for me to

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come back to russia a country

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which i love and the people i have great

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friends here and have spent um

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you know many years here almost uh

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actually more than a a decade and a half

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so it's uh you know it's sad in that

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respect i definitely will try to get

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back as much as possible but not nearly

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as much as i was

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coming here as a crew member training

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for all these uh years

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um and then it was great to see misha

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who i've spent so much time with in

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space and

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see how he's doing which is is great and

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my uh

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my other crew members on board

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i saw sergey volkov the first night i

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was here and then uh i saw also gennady

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padalka and anton shkaplerov

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so you know just seeing them and other

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other friends has really made it a a

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great trip so far

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overall how significant was the one-year

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mission and in retrospect in bringing us

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closer overall to our journey to mars

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going to mars is a bunch of baby steps

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and you know it started off with the

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human in space yuri gagarin

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the people that put it together not only

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my fellow crew member mates on board but

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all the people on the ground is another

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one of those steps and

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sometime in the future all these small

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steps will lead to people putting their

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their feet on mars in the name of

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science exploration and discovery

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and i'm proud to be one small part of

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that

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it's been a bit of a whirlwind in the

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three weeks that have passed since

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you're landing have you had time to

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absorb the magnitude of your

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accomplishment and the impact it's had

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worldwide on the on the public's

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perception of human space flight and of

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the international space station i have

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had very little time to do anything

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actually i

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got back to houston and jumped in

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with both feet

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into my pool in my backyard and

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i guess that's somewhat of a metaphor

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for jumping right back into life

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and it's been

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very very busy a lot of debriefs and

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medical tests

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on one hand i

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you know haven't had time to

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to really come to grips with the

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magnitude and the duration that we were

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gone and just the

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incredible effort it takes to fly

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any flight to the space station

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no less a flight of a a year so

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i hope in the next several weeks or

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months i will have a little bit more

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time to kind of decompress and consider

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you know what this flight has meant to

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me and i am getting a sense for for what

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it meant to other people i was kind of

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i wouldn't say shocked it was somewhat a

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little overwhelming i guess to see how

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many people were really following along

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and interested and i had a sense for

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that when i was on board but not nearly

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uh the sense i got for the the public

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interest once once i had gotten back so

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it's great to see that

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you know over time i'll be able to

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as i think about it and

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you i'll contemplate the meaning of this

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mission i'll i'll really appreciate the

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uh the public's involvement in this more

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scott you're going to be leaving nasa

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soon to pursue future opportunities in

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your life and you've said all along that

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you'd never be far from space flight

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looking back at your incredible career

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and most recently the one-year mission

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how do you feel that your contribution

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has opened the doors for others for the

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future generations to follow in pursuing

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human exploration of space

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a couple things in in that question

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going to be leaving the civil service

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but i still will be working with nasa

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research test subject kind of like what

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my brother was doing the whole time i

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was in space he wasn't

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a nasa civil servant all this time he

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was you know just

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almost like a volunteer

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uh there's still a lot of data to

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collect on me and and him and we'll both

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continue to do that also continue to do

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the debriefs

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um about my mission once i've uh

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left the civil service i'll just do that

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with a retired astronaut badge and by my

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me leaving it allows me the freedom to

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do a lot of other things

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one of those is to continue to be an

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advocate for human space flight but do

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it in a way where i have more time on my

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more freedom and therefore in my opinion

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the ability to even do a better job than

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uh part of your question

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is about you know how can i

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uh motivate or

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be an example for the other astronauts

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or future astronauts that will come

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turned down a hard job

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i may have not have liked it

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i may have thought of other options for

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other people to do it but in the end

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i would never say yes or never say no

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do things that are really hard

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can achieve great things and i think you

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know as that has worked as a great model

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to do something

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to a space station crew where there was

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no flight associated with it

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i didn't want to do it

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uh didn't seem to make sense

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put my head down and marched smartly and

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spent a couple of years training for a

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but you know because i did that that was

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recognized as you know a major sacrifice

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else which led to something else so it

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model of my career to to never

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that's why now 20 years later i

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experience and opportunity

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capable astronaut but i've certainly had

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a lot of opportunities and a lot of

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great experiences

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behind me to just have an open mind to

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things the hard things even if they

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over the course of your career you've

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worked with many other astronauts in

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space on your missions both

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on the shuttle and on the international

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space station but

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mikhail kornienko

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your one-year crew member talk about

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that relationship a bit

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and how are you going to move forward

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and keeping in touch with mikhail over

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the incredible bond that you had in your

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year in space

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my brother from another mother

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my space brother

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i plan i will be friends with him for

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the rest of my life um he's a

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great guy

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and i enjoyed immensely him being up

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there he did a great job

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always had a positive a positive

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attitude

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great that we could you know share this

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experience together

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the highs and the lows and you know have

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an international way i think it really

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you know drives home the importance of

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as a place of international cooperation

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in something that is incredibly

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incredibly difficult

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and how this international partnership