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holidays what do the holidays mean to me

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it means the three f's family friends

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actually that's a pretty good segue to

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my story the christmas is a time of a

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gift and i have a special gift from the

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group of japanese high school girls they

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spend many many years for the after

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school activity to make the space food

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on their own

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and

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jacks are finally approved this is a

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space food and here we are this is a

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special gift from wakasa high school

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thanks high school girls

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it's a small small camp for the macro

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but the big leap for the japanese high

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school girls

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and we will eat this with all the

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friends with the high places but we will

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share the spirit of christmas this year

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and we certainly don't do this alone our

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family is a big family at nasa we have

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everybody in mission control supporting

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us and they have to work they're working

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24 7. so they're going to be working

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christmas eve and christmas day and new

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year's eve and new year's day

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so we're going to have a special contest

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with them it's a christmas decoration

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contest

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we have to make we have to make uh

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christmas items to decorate the space

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station it has to be obviously only

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items that are up in space and our

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challenge to mission control is you have

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to make a christmas decoration from

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items in building 30 so only items in

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mission control we'll see how that goes

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so like shannon said

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friends food and family i definitely

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think about my family this time of year

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and knowing that we're going to be up

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here kate shannon soichi hopper sergey

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and sergey are our family on the station

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and my family on the ground is

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definitely in my thoughts and in my

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prayers and

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on my socks as well

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um but that also makes me think about

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all of the folks who also aren't able to

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spend the holidays with their families

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and so to our service members our state

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department folks and everyone all around

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the world that is serving something

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bigger than themselves

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and having to do so away from their

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families we owe you a debt that will

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never be able to repay but i i just want

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to say thank you for your service happy

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holidays and happy new year

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you know i have to just uh second what

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everybody has said before me you know

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christmas the holidays it's a time when

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we're celebrating the birth of our

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savior

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um but it's also a time for families and

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i do have to say one of the things i

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always love about christmas is my mom's

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date balls i really miss my mom's date

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balls

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anyway

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from expedition 64.

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happy holidays to everyone and thank you

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for

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so kate on behalf of mission control

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i know you issued a challenge

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and let me just say

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decorating mission control challenge

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i may have to cut this coat up to turn

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and that might not be a bad idea the

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consensus up here is that you may have

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already won the challenge