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we are happy to greet you

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on the welcoming kazakh soil

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dear oleg

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alexey jeff i'd like to thank you and

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congratulate you on the successful

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wants you to have the souvenirs that

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would remind you about your landing

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thank you very much everything went

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nominal

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everything was smooth

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for meeting us

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everybody who

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took part in this press conference

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wishes you

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the swedish recovery

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and speedy meeting with friends and

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nasa's jeff williams back from 172 days

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in space welcome back to earth glad to

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have you back how it starts off how's

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that ride down

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thank you it's great to be back the ride

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is uh as amazing as ever as i remember

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it before

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of course you leave station

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there's a it's a bitter bittersweet time

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leaving station saying goodbye to our

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friends

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um and knowing that we're gonna not uh

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we're gonna miss the experience

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up there

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uh but it's uh at the same time you want

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to get back for your family to get back

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to

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see everybody that you haven't seen for

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for months and months

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the ride down um

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the entry is

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just amazing it's so dynamic

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to see the fireball form outside the

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capsule and you're coming through the

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fireball and pulling up to four g's and

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a little more

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and then the parachute opening sequence

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is the longest 20 or 25 seconds of your

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life

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waiting for it to come open

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and then of course

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it was a great relief to hear search and

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rescue right away

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i think even before the parachute

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opening we had contact with with them

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and they spotted us immediately

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so it was it's always comforting

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to drift down under the parachute to

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have them watching over our shoulders so

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to speak

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so that we can better anticipate impact

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on the ground of course when you impact

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the ground it's a it's quite a

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quite a ride as well

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so you now have more time than any other

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nasa astronaut in history where's that

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where's that ranking on your list of

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personal achievements there's a lot of

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well i never aspired to that but it's

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when i'm asked that question

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i what comes to mind is not the personal

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achievement as you put it but more of

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the achievement of this entire

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partnership

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in the building of this magnificent

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orbital outpost we call the

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international space station

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and the fact that uh

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when you consider the number of years

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and the number of flights it took the

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launch elements and

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the international

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participation in it and uh how well it

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went together overall even though there

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were challenges along the way

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and now to see it

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in its full up utilization

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and seeing the

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science program expand

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more significant i believe than than

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i've ever seen it in the past

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that's that's what comes to mind it's

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the achievement of the of the entire

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partnership

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and you've been you've been part of and

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you've seen the station literally grow

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from its infancy into where it is today

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and even in this increment you guys

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added beam you installed the

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international docking adapter what's it

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like to see it still growing like it's

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still not done uh it well it's great

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it's uh

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it has a future i uh

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said a few words yesterday at the change

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of command

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and talked to um

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a little bit about

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the fact that we started this in the 90s

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expedition one got there in 2000. we've

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had continuance human presence it's 2016

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now there's a bright future for many

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years going with plans going and of

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course as you mentioned the

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international docking adapter opens up

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the front door again for new vehicles

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and my point was we're already in the

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second generation of people that are

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working in the program and now we're

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looking to the future that it's going to

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cover a third generation of folks just

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on our crew

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kate rubins is

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i told her several times she's

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young enough to be my daughter

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you know so even on the crew we had two

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generations

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and when i go around to the different uh

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partner sites

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i see people that have worked

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the entire program

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and then there are people that you know

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number months or years that they've

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worked in the program

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so uh

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that that's significant i think in the

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history of human space exploration

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well you're back on earth what are you

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going to miss most about space

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well of course everybody always misses

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the view you never get tired of the view

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of the earth

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and all of the

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infinite number of

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details that you can see in

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what's on the surface and the lighting

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but i'd also say i'll miss the crew

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the camaraderie that we and the

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experience that we shared on board i've

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been blessed over the years with

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with good crews

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but this one had a special chemistry i

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think about it i mean we

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time together

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so i will miss that as well all right

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well nasa's jeff williams glad to have