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be launching at foreign space station

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what do you consider to be the most

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challenging part of doing that

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additional training for you and your

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experience

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i think the crew has really come

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together and demonstrated that they can

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be flexible and adaptable

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in this training and it gives me

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actually a great deal of confidence in

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the ability of our crew to handle any

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kind of situation

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the training has been great and we feel

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i wanted to ask you about the program of

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your flight

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so can you please tell us about your

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feelings about what is planned

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first of all i wanted to say that we are

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going to fly the new modification of the

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source vehicle it will be called soyuz

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ms actually three test flights are

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scheduled for this modification so our

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so is it

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different from the previous modification

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of the source vehicle well actually

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those who are familiar with the previous

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modification will not face any

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difficulties controlling this spacecraft

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what will be new in the new modification

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of the soyuz vehicle first of all

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i wanted to mention new systems we will

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have satellite navigation system

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then the propulsion system has changed

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we will have

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two independent interchangeable

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manifolds

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of course this will significantly

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improve the spacecraft performance and

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i wanted to mention the tv system and

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what do you feel kate before your first

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flight i feel great our crew is ready

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our training flow took two and a half

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years and i think we are ready to

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perform the tasks assigned to us

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so you lived in the united states you

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lived in london you have a background as

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a scientist so

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what do you look

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so the training actually was not

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different cosmonauts training i mean

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astronauts have to

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perform their

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program scientific program on board the

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station so we will also have

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to perform

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several evas we'll have to install the

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international docking adapter

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so

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forward to

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i'm a biologist as you know and i'm

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looking forward to performing by biology

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molecular experiments

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i hope that we will be the first crew to

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determine a dna sequence onboard the

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so i wanted to ask you

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what do you feel before a flight before

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a first flight yes exactly this will be

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my first flight it will be a very

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important stage in my life and i think

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it will be very interesting for me it

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will be definitely very important step

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in my life

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i'm very grateful to my commander he

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allowed me to select a mascot for our

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flight

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and i selected a mask that my daughter

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loves very much

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i will show it to you during our press

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conference

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so for kate rubins of nasa how do you

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feel about your level of preparation for

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your upcoming mission and what would you

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consider to be the most challenging

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level and areas of your training so far

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i think our team is very well prepared

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we've spent a number of years training

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uh both in russia and the u.s as well as

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japan

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in europe and in canada so i think we're

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extremely well prepared for our mission

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i think the most challenging thing

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actually is one of the most exciting

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things in that we have so many things

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that we're going to be working on uh in

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the space of the next few months we have

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the international docking adapter coming

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we have uh lithium-ion batteries that

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will be arriving on htv6 uh and we have

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more than 200 different science

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experiments that we're going to be

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fulfilling during the course of the

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i wanted to ask you one more question

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about the mascot so what color will this

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brown bear it will be a brown bear

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it's a very small toy

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this size approximately

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this will be your first flight to the

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iss

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what do you feel and what expectations

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do you have

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well we all feel confident and we look

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forward to the successful completion of

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the mission all right