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i think it's just an incredible honor

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every day when i wake up that i'm

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working for nasa so

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i'm gonna just lay my nerd cards out on

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the table what i'm really looking

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forward to

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is just seeing all the new and different

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experiments it's been four years since

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i've been there so

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you know telling the program guys give

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me more experiments more experiments i'm

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looking forward to being as productive

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it's really fun to be up here you get to

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it's actually really phenomenal it's a

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world-class laboratory

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and it's an absolutely packed one i

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think it's like taking an entire

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university campus a world-class

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university

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and shrinking it down to the size of the

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space station there's about 200

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experiments on any given

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mission and it's pretty fun to be able

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to do them all

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and station for kate what would you

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think about loading the

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up and the lower whale on this last row

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let's do it it is more complex up here

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to do things like

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molecular biology and so some of the

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time we are just

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inventing how to do lab work it took

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about 10 gentle shakes

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with this kind of motion to get full rna

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reader distribution

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and none of those mixing lines copy that

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and we

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like what you saw and are doing this is

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why we can't automate things and we need

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i think one of the best things about

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being in space is that it surprises you

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every time you you think you know what

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it's going to be like up here and

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in space i get to see everything from

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physics to material science to

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biology it's just this incredible sense

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of wonder and joy

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we're increasing our complexities double

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time today appreciate the patience this

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is awesome

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that's no problem i flew my crewmate uh

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ike around on the robotic arm on an eva

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not that many days ago so i sure

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understand what it takes to

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set up in the robotic commanding i feel

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you

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we're trying to take a census of which

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microbes are on space station so we're

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working on a comprehensive sequence

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based map of the space station we're

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taking about a thousand samples total

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and so

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i'm very carefully swabbing all of the

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modules everybody floats by and says

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kate are you still swabbing and i'm like

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yep

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a thousand samples is a lot we trust you

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that you're doing your very very best

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and we appreciate it

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this is our home we even see it on

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videos sometimes when we go back and i

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look at it and i think wow that's

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i this i feel like this is my home but

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certainly the planet is home as well and

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i'm going to always

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try to keep that in the forefront of my

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mind and appreciate that

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kate we thank you for continuing to push

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space science through your work on board

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and through all you do to socialize and

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emphasize the importance of molecular

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biology in space

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it's really really really fun to uh be

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at the pointy end of this sphere here

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and

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in space

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so i'm very excited about this and i

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can't wait until we're sequencing

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multiplexing 96 well plates and swabbing

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everything on the space station

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that's where we're headed next

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there's a lot going on up here and i

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really do think that science is an

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incredible career whether you're doing

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it in space

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or on the ground if people are

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interested in this

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the pleasure and and the gratification

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of being a scientist every day