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let's start off with a couple of

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questions first about life and work on

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orbit uh jeff

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for you it's been a busy few weeks for

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you and kate and the rest of the crew

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with visiting vehicles coming and going

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a lot of research being conducted on

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board give us a sense of the

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choreography that is being undertaken to

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accomplish all of this

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well you're right the last few weeks

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have been busy of course we transitioned

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from expedition 47 to 48

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and uh kate and tock and anatoly arrived

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safely on their soyuz to be to join us

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on expedition 48 and they didn't have a

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whole lot of time to

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to get their feet wet you might say on

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board the station acclimate to the

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environment before we had supply ships

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showing up first of progress a russian

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progress supply ship arrived late one

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night and then a little over 24 hours

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later during the day the the spacex

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dragon arrived and of course its arrival

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marked

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the um the start of a bunch of new work

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uh we have rodent research that we had

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to quickly get on board and tokuya was

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was dedicated at that getting them

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safely in their habitat and uh up and

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running we've got some great research on

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board the the dragon

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you've heard of heart the heart cells

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experiment and other experiments of

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course there's supplies and equipment

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coming on board that we had to get

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offloaded and we're in the process of of

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doing that and integrating that new

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equipment onboard station and of course

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it brings many more experiments as well

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as in the external compartment of dragon

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it brought the the ida or the the new

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docking adapter

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that will accommodate the new commercial

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crew vehicles scheduled to fly here in

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the in the very short future

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and we'll talk about that ida in just a

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moment jeff

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you know they say that seniority can't

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be beat in the cosmic sense august 24th

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marks a milestone for you

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as you uh will surpass scott kelly's

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short-lived record for the most amount

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of days in space by u.s astronaut 520

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days

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uh this your fourth flight what does

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that milestone mean for you personally

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and what does it say about the longevity

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of the station and its ability to

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sustain a permanent human occupancy

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well i think we would all agree that

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it's an honor to spend any day

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in space and certainly

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to have accumulated that time is is

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truly an honor for me

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but i think you bring up the bigger

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point in that

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this program the scope of this program

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of the international space station i can

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remember when freedom was announced in

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1984

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and having the desire to be part of it

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as soon as as early as 1985

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and then of course it morphed because of

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largely because a geopolitical

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situation in the world

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to the international space station in

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the early 90s and to be part of that

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to really represent a really

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amazing team especially when you look

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back in hindsight at what the

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international team accomplished

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to integrate what used to be mir-2 and

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freedom the elements of that into the

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international space station bring russia

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on as a partner with the other partners

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that had already joined freedom to

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integrate this new station and then to

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begin building it and then to

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15 and a half years going on 16 years

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largely very successful we've had

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setbacks we've had disappointments we've

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had uh struggles to work through we've

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had uh challenges but the team has

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stepped up to that and to

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to be a part of it at the beginning in

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the middle uh finishing out the space

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station and now

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when it's in the full utilization mode

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and really stepping up uh in terms of

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the greater scientific community on the

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world recognizing its potential and in

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getting into the doorway

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to get their

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research on board and to see it

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you know blossom in its utilization

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that's really the bigger story to me

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kate let's turn to you for a moment

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have your first weeks in orbit been

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everything you expected them to be and

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what has been the most stunning aspect

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nobody can really quite prepare for your

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first few weeks in space and it's it's

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absolutely amazing it's it's incredible

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for seven years before i flew so

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we see in mission control we see the

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space station on the big screen all the

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time it almost feels like like home like

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your living room it's that familiar uh

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even all the cables and the wiring and

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the lab that you see around us but

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that's nothing like actually being here

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experiencing even these same walls that

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in reality and to actually get a chance

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to work with some of this equipment

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has been absolutely incredible and i'm a

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what's more fascinating to me i look out

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the window and every astronaut says this

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but truly the earth is more beautiful

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than you can ever imagine

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it's just not something that you can

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from from all the pictures we're

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starting to do more with high definition

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video and i think that brings that

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to people around the world to get a

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chance to see what we see but i'm pretty

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split between what's more amazing to me

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uh the planet and and actually getting

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to see the space station when you look

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out the window you see the equipment

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surrounding you and you can see the

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entire space station from the

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perspective of the inside

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kate researches the name of the game on

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the international space station there's

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worldwide interest in your upcoming dna

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research activities

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tell us a little bit about what is

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coming up for you in regard to that

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research and your goals and expectations

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research that's arrived uh on the on the

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dragon vehicle the spacex 9 mission has

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both topping off all of our research

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supplies as well as incredible new

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potentially doing the first dna sequence

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that's really a testament i think to the

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ground teams that have put this together

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there's folks that have worked on this

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project for years now and it's not an

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easy thing to take a piece of earth

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equipment and launch it into orbit and

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the potential to understand the

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technology development of how this

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equipment works in microgravity fluids

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technology development but then it's

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also an application so we can understand

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a a whole number of variables that

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change in response to either

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environment in low earth orbit and we

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can actually understand that at a real

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global level and start to look at not

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just one or two gene but ten thousands

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of genes thirty thousand genes and get

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all of that data all at once

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as far as worldwide interest is

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concerned no shortage of that when it

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comes to your upcoming spacewalk to

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install that first international docking

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extraction process

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how the ida will be pre-positioned to

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that highlights one of the capabilities

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that has been developed over the years

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and that is how we do robotic arm

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just setting the up arm setting the arm

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up getting it operational and then

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more capability and now they do

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operations from the ground and that

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door they'll bring it in to within a

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final attachment uh of the the uh the

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docking adapter and then of course

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choreography to get it out there in

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idea itself during the course of the

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and in that regard for both of you

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a bit of a detailed rundown on

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what tasks each of you will be

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responsible for how you work in tandem

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olympics coming up here and it's

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synchronized swimming operation so we're

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at the at the ida so it's actually quite

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a huge uh piece of equipment when you

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station and then ground teams are going

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to do some complicated operations to

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if we can get the mic back to you for a

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second this will be your first spacewalk

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always a prime milestone for any

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what are your thoughts and expectations

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what are you looking forward to the most

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as you step outside and become a

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well quite frankly i'm not sure how the

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view can get any better than it is from

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the cupola already so i don't know that

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i have any expectations beyond i can't

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even conceive of what this is going to

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be like

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in terms of the actual work we train for

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hundreds of hours and there's a huge

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amount of effort on the ground that goes

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into this we have teams

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in our neutral buoyancy lab that help

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train us

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they weigh us out so we have all six

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degrees of freedom and we can learn how

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to use the tools and all the operations

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there's an entire eva team on the ground

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that's helped us get ready for this

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spacewalk and and has done the training

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for both of us for a number of years and

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of course jeff is experienced at this

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but i think i'm just going to rely on

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the training in the uh the experience

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that i have on the ground and the

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preparation that those ground teams have

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given me and definitely we're going to

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be working hard but i will try to take a

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few moments to enjoy it and get a few

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pictures of this beautiful new hardware

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that we're adding to the front of space

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and jeff for you this will be your

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fourth spacewalk spanning 16 years in

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both u.s and russian spacesuits what

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sense of history do you have you're the

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history buff on board what sense of

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history do you have in yet another

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milestone being added to the chapter of

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the international space station

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oh my goodness well in the context of

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doing a spacewalk of course spacewalks

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uh are a big part of the history of the

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iss made it possible

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in the program i think it to date have

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accomplished going on 200 180 some or

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190 maybe now more spacewalks in the

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construction and maintenance of the

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space station and as you mentioned in

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both u.s and russian suits

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and participants from all of the

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partners have have been in the core of

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the cadre of astronauts and cosmonauts

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that have conducted that so that's a big

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part of the history in terms of the the

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ida the docking adapter that opens the

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door to commercial crew vehicles

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that is the next

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major chapter on the horizon being

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developed in the plan

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and of course we don't know what that's

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going to open up in the future but it is

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a significant door opening up in the

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human

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exploration that in the context of the

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iss which again

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is the the most significant

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technological achievement in my opinion

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in history when you consider the

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complexity of this thing how long it's

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been flying

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the international scope of it the

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technological scope of it

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and then the fact that we sustain it

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logistically and operationally for so

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long and the partnership itself among

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all the partners has never been better

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in my opinion and my experience in the

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across the entire program it's never

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been better than it is right now so even

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from an international relations point of

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view i trust that it serves as a very

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positive example to the world below

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a new era in human space flight about to

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dawn on the international space station

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through your spacewalk we'll be watching

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and uh looking forward to every minute

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of it for jeff and kate thank you so

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much for your time today we appreciate

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it all the best as your colleague floats

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through and uh fly safe

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thank you very much rob great talking to

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you jscpao station please stand by