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without a doubt my most memorable day

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was day one

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with the assistance of space station

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commander oleg kononenko christina cook

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of nasa the first one through the hatch

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being greeted by her that was the day

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that i have seared in my memory visions

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when i first arrived here opening the

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hatch seeing some of my best friends on

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the other side floating through

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seeing my first glimpses of the actual

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interior of the space station after

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having traveled here for six hours on a

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small soyuz spacecraft that it actually

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exists for the betterment of humanity

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doing science and exploring that it was

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real and that i got to live here i'm

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very privileged to have that as one of

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my favorite memories

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the surprise that i've uncovered is the

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human body and mind's ability to adapt

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to any situation i sometimes joke that

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before jessica got here and before i you

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know hurt her all the time explain

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exclaiming about how exciting and fun it

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was to float i think i had actually

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forgotten that i was floating the human

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mind just has an ability to really

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accommodate any situation and to turn it

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into normal so for example the fact that

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we can just work right on the ceiling

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like this

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and not even know the difference between

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the two

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so it's really been an exciting and a

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huge surprise to see that

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life up here can actually become normal

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i'd have to say any meal that we share

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together is a great one and of those

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some of my favorites i would say would

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be our pizza nights

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our folks on the ground send up care

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packages sometimes and they'll put

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together a little non-perishable pizza

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kit and we're able to actually make

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pizzas in our kind of makeshift space

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oven using tin foil and a little bit of

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creativity and seeing what everybody

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comes up with and sharing with each

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other and just something a little

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different a little bit out of the norm

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that we actually feel like we get to

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prepare ourselves as opposed to just

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opening up out of a packet it's really

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special and it's a lot of fun

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one really striking moment was the first

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time i saw my hometown in the area where

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i grew up which is coastal north

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carolina and seeing those outer banks

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come into focus around the horizon and

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suddenly realizing what i was looking at

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was a just breathtaking moment some of

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the other favorite things i have to look

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at would be definitely the auroras the

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northern lights and the southern lights

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i spent so many years working in the

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antarctic and the arctic and seeing

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those auroras from below

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and so to see them on a planetary scale

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from above is just truly mind-blowing

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you know just like those memories of day

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one there are a couple flashes that i'll

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just never ever forget

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spacewalk with jessica mirror was just

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an unbelievable honor and there were

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times when we looked at each other for

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example right when we came out the hatch

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we caught each other's eye and we knew

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that

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we really were honored with this

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opportunity to inspire so many and just

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hearing our voices talk to mission

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control and knowing that two female

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voices had never been on the loop

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solving those problems together outside

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