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so today it's tim cobra tim peake and

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yuri malenchenko wrapping up a six-month

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mission to the international space

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station

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one year and one week ago nasa astronaut

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terry virts was in their place finishing

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his role as station commander for

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expedition 43 and returning to earth

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after 200 days in space terry versus

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here with us in mission control to lend

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some perspective about what it's like to

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finish this assignment tell me what

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things you have to do to get yourself

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and your spacecraft ready to go

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it's a pretty involved process it takes

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a few weeks of course you have to pack

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all your things and the soyuz is very

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small and so they have to be

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very tightly packed labeled and placed

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in the in the right spot and the soyuz

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commander yuri has been really busy for

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the last week or two um

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finding every little nook and cranny in

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the soyuz and putting things in the

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exact right place it's important to put

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them in the right spot because if the

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capsule has too much stuff on the right

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side or too much stuff on the left side

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it won't fly properly through the

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atmosphere so it's a bit of an involved

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it sounds a little bit tedious and

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a lot of work to do but i'm sure

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exciting

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bittersweet because you've lived in

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space you're there with your crewmates

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and uh you're excited to come back to

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earth to see your friends and family but

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being in space for so long you're good

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you know that you're gonna miss it and

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uh so it's a it's a bittersweet time

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that's kind of the point that you

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realize that this is real after 200 days

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you really realize that you're coming

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home yeah it's bizarre to be living in

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space and then coming back to earth

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for me it had that transition happened

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so quickly when i got back to earth

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i was back to earth i recognized things

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the day after i landed i went car

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shopping with my son he had turned 16

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while i was in space and so

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it was kind of strange to be you know

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and then all of a sudden back to earth

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and it was an immediate mental

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transition for me

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i imagine it is so let's talk about that

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trip home to earth so like you were at

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this point last year neither cobra nor

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peak had ever come back to earth in a

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soyuz spacecraft before now so were you

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equal for the experience and can you

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tell me what exactly is that trip like

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yeah i just sent them an email to

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let them know my experience so i was

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there with scott kelly who had flown on

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the soyuz before and i had flown on the

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shuttle but it's a lot different than a

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soyuz so he gave us the briefing that

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when the parachutes come out

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it's several minutes of just crazy

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roller coaster mr toad's wild ride i

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mean you're spinning around you haven't

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felt gravity for half a year or more

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it's that is an amazing ride as you hit

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the atmosphere the soyuz capsule

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actually splits into three parts so you

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hear banging and explosions as your

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vehicle separates from itself

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thermal blanket that is wrapped around

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the vehicle that burns off and so

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part of your spaceship just comes

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burning off and rips off from around you

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there's plasma going by your window and

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if you look out there's this 4000 degree

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fireball coming past you

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so the whole thing is a crazy experience

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and had scott not briefed us on it we

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would have thought we were going to die

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but because we kind of knew what was

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coming we had a great time we were

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having a lot of fun we were kind of

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hooting and hollering in the capsule and

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it's like the best roller coaster ride

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the big parachute comes out and for a

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few minutes you're sitting there

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earth's coming because the earth's

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behind you and the windows up here so

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there's some instruments but they're not

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that accurate and then

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bam there's the worst car crash you've

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rolled over so there was this gigantic

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crash and then rolled over and i can

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yeah so that sounds really amazing and

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even more so amazing that you describe a

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car crash as fun

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we were safe afterwards the russians

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have a great system the seat is custom

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molded to your back

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um there's kind of shock absorbers that

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what those first moments on the ground

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excuse me so being on the ground of

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for us within minutes they had landed

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next to us the team like a bunch of ants

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surrounded us and were working and i

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could peer out and people were waving at

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me and i was waving at them and

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everything was fine and because our

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side these big burly guys come in and

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they just pull you out but we had to

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was sitting there looking around

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and when it was my turn i had to move

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when i moved over the world started

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spinning really fast i mean it was

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amazing how dizzy i felt

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to move i was able to climb out on my

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first day so physically i did really

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physically i was strong

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the dizziness the first day was pretty

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strong it's a 24-hour flight

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airplane 24 hours later we're back in

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houston so all during that flight

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i could get up i could walk around but i

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car shopping so i went with i didn't

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daughter to summer youth camp so we

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drove for a couple hours and you know so

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few days it was gone and you guys do a

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a great story that exercise that we do

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um a bike and taking vitamin d

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all those things help me i think

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completely mitigate those problems for

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but uh the ability to do these things

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and keep our bodies healthy and come

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gravity is strong by the way after not

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excellent so real quick these uh the

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departure can you tell me real quick

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kind of bittersweet feelings but just

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hours before getting ready to come home

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been over half a year but i was happy to

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and i can remember going to the cupola i

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sunsets and so i remember i took the i

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on twitter so we can always go back and

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look at some of those fabulous pictures

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astro terry on twitter um thanks again

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again nasa astronaut terry verts