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station this is houston are you ready

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yes we are ready for the events we don't

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weather nation this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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this is weather nation meteorologist

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meredith garfallo for voice check one

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excellent well let's get the show on the

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road from earth to the space station

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thank you so much for joining us we are

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very excited and honored to have two of

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our astronauts on the international

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space station joining us we have nasa

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astronaut and retired u.s army colonel

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mark vanda high and european space

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agency astronaut tomas pasque of france

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how are things going

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meredith they are going fantastic we're

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getting a lot of work done every day and

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we're having fun with each other

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that's good because we can't take life

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too seriously right and especially when

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you are watching it from above

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one of the questions i always get when

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i'm talking about the space station and

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astronauts that i'm sure you'll love to

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answer for us and people across the

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entire planet would like to know is what

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is it like calling the space station

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your home to be up there where you live

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oh it's it's absolutely fantastic

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meredith and for both for mark and

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environment that your body adapts to

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that your mind adapts to you live in

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three dimension and then you never get

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you do backflips have you mastered that

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it just so happens that mark right here

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is the grand master of backflips so it's

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gonna demonstrate

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hey who knows maybe in the next decade

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we will have space olympics and you guys

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are already ready for that i'm a

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scientist a meteorologist here at

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weather nation i find all the work that

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you're doing in space absolutely

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fascinating from the research to all the

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experiments the topics you're studying

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human anatomy botany space weather

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worked on during your first mission and

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what are you looking to accomplish now

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previous mission um i've been very

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simulating human systems on the earth as

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european experiment that i've that

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experiment from beginning to end and it

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interact with your environment in space

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then scientists find out new connections

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cure people with disabilities and things

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like that on the earth so uh so this is

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in and very happy to conclude the cycle

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that's very exciting and we look forward

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it in the future as you know here on

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earth we rely on satellites to get

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space what type of earth remote sensing

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sprites or else those are electrical

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discharges in the upper atmosphere you

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our crew members she saw one yesterday

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thunderstorm instead of going down to

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and observed that you can share with us

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a science and space geek let me ask both

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what to do for the future mark has

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for the astronaut selection because i

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should you know you're a pilot you're an

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engineer you should try it i was like

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mistake of my life so just just try

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risk failure even if it's possible that

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you might fail give it a shot

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always do your best

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but put more emphasis on all the people

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around you that you're working with

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doing their best and then you always

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being the best of the group so be you

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that's great to hear and i'm sure a lot

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of boys and girls are looking forward to

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becoming astronauts down the road and

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inspirational i've asked you guys a lot

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of hard questions so how about we have

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some fun what do you guys do for fun

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trained together before we've had

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people are reading people are sometimes

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coming up with fun games to play that

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that actually use the the environment of

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microgravity and mark has a few ideas i

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don't want to throw him under the bus

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but he's actually really good at finding

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out good fun ideas to do in

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so really there's a there's a lot that

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that you could do obviously it's a

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confined environment so you don't go out

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for a walk uh not so often but but

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everything that we can do and we're

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trying to make use of that environment

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to do things that you cannot do on earth

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like double backflips

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hopefully i'm not going to get in

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trouble with sharing this game but we we

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played a game with the previous crew

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where as you can see the space station's

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really long there's a long path through

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and i called it human darts because we

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would have somebody push off the front

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end of the space station and try to see

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how far they could go

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before they make contact with any

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surfaces and

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some people were really impressive they

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got you have to be very very precise and

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do a lot of gyrations as you're trying

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to avoid making contact with anything um

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but that was a lot of fun like shane

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just demonstrated quite well even though

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well done shane well i'm impressed here

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i think that's a game i would like to

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try some time you know down the road

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maybe when we all get out to space but

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one of the the things that we always

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talk about here on weather nation is the

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difference we're going to make for the

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artemis generation and for the next

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decades to come with the space

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exploration program what do you hope

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that on your current mission they can

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take to put toward going to the moon and

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it's a it's a great question and then uh

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and it is true that we have so we're

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doing science and research on the space

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station that benefit the earth and it's

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this is uh like part of our goals but we

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have we have also bigger goals longer

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term goals and and one of them is to go

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forward to the moon and go to mars

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and for that we have a wide array of

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experiments that we're doing as well to

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prepare experiments in tech demo to

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prepare those missions uh one of them

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that i was doing not so long ago in a

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columbus laboratory

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is about again how do you pilot a

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spacecraft or a rover on a distant

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planet like you would be orbiting in the

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space station or in spacecraft around

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the planet and remote controlling some

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assets on the ground this is one of the

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scenarios for future exploration and

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we're preparing this today on board the

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and how about for you mark

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um actually even understanding how to

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have the human body

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perform well after being in orbit for

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months at a time is part of the

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experiment to be for us to be able to

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explore further and further into the

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solar system

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we we have the benefit of return to

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earth and having medical support as soon

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as we return but of course it's very

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important in the future that when people

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get to places where they're establishing

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human presence for the first time

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that they we understand how they'll be

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able to perform after a really long

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trip in an environment probably smaller

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than this but certainly with the the uh

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same type of free fall environment that

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we're in here um even little we've got

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uh regenerative systems that we're using

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all the time that help us recycle all of

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our water and tomah mentioned

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demonstrations we're getting ready to

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install a new toilet that should help us

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understand better

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how future systems are improved systems

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to use for future spacecraft

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hey a better toilet benefits everybody

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right

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thank you so much thomas and mark for

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joining us we are very appreciative of

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everything that you and your teams are

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doing and i don't know if you can go out

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with a double backflip if that's

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possible but we appreciate everything

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thanks meredith it was a pleasure

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talking to you from the space station

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and i will keep looking for those

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weather phenomenas when we look outside

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thank you guys so much

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yes

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station this is houston acr

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thank you to all participants from

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weather nation station we're now