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my name is megan macarthur i'm the pilot

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hi my name is aki hoshide a mission

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specialist my name is toma pesque and

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i'm a mission specialist

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my name is shane kimbrough commander of

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nasa's spacex crew 2 mission to the

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so crew 2 mission is a is a mission to

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the international space station we're

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going to launch from florida on a u.s

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developed spacecraft that's called crew

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dragon and it's going to take us to the

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space station for six months of research

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of experiments scientific experiments

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and then we'll come back to earth

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i love this capsule we're riding on it

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was named endeavor on the demo 2 flights

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it had special meaning for me i flew on

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the space shuttle endeavour so i'm

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really excited to fly on another

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spacecraft called endeavor it's even

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more significant i think for megan

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because she's going to fly in the same

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seat that her husband bob flew in on the

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same spacecraft so that's pretty neat

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it's amazing to think that i will be

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sitting in the same seat that that bob

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was sitting in when he certified that

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vehicle the very first time that it

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launched i don't think i realized that

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when i found out that i was going to be

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assigned to the crew 2 mission i didn't

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realize it was going to be the same

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vehicle but that certainly adds a little

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something special to the to the mission

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so comparing the crew dragon with the

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space shuttle training obviously the

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vehicles have a lot of differences even

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though their goal is the same to get

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people into low earth orbit and so with

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the space shuttles built in the 1970s

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really we had a lot of switches like

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panels and panels of switches

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with crew dragon of course we don't have

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those panels and panels of switches we

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have a very clean wall environment and

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some large touch screens where we can

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switch between monitoring different

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systems we don't have the same

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interaction with the vehicle we can't

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send as many commands to the crew dragon

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as we could to space shuttle but we have

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a team of ground controllers that send a

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lot of those commands and our monitoring

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in a way that we couldn't do with space

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shuttles back in the day so it's very

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interesting to compare the two vehicles

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and the style of training that's

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required for the two vehicles

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so we're gonna launch from cape

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canaveral florida uh falcon 9 rockets

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crew dragon is our spacecraft on top and

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it's going to launch us into a roughly

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200 kilometers altitude orbit

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and then i'm going to catch up with the

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space station we're going to do a

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rendezvous which was gonna fly around

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the space station a line and then dock

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uh open the hatches and then we'll be on

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board and that's the main job of the

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crew dragon spacecraft is to take us

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from the insertion orbit all the way to

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the space station

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in safety

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so once we're on board the international

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space station there's a lot of things

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the main task is doing a lot of

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different science whether it's biology

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material science fluid mechanics we're

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just going to do a bunch of nice

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research and science

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that's going to benefit all of humanity

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or it's going to help us with future

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exploration so that's exciting to be

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part of something that's at grand

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we will have some spacewalks planned for

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our expedition while we're up there so

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that'll be

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some great days out there to go outside

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so on this flight we have

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american french and japanese astronauts

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on board it's the first time that you

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have three different nationalities on

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this crude dragon this international

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space station itself is a big

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collaboration between

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15 countries it is very important to do

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a lot of international cooperation you

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know no individual person gets

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themselves into space right it's a huge

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effort that that happens but it's also

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true on this global level that we have

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these big dreams where we look out you

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know to the horizon and this desire to

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explore the universe around us and we're

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always going to be more successful when

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we work together

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with our international partners to

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achieve these incredible dreams