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honestly it's exciting i think all

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astronauts are explorers at heart

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and having the opportunity to contribute

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to furthering exploration

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um is is a great opportunity

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my family's been braced for this i've

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been braced for this it's something that

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we expected and honestly

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it's uh got a sense of novelty to it for

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me it's a new experience and i'm and i'm

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looking forward to as a human being

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understanding how it feels to do

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well i don't first of all i don't think

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it's a record that i would even

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attribute to me it's a record for our

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space program um i have a tremendous

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amount of respect for scott and

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christina both and i know they would

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both be extremely happy as the explorers

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that they are to see that we're

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furthering exploration we're getting

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people into space for longer and longer

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periods of time i expect

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this record to be broken and and that

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will be a further success

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for our space program

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so there is certainly a very very

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important psychological element and for

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example i try to spend some time

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uh meditating every day

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talking to my family

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every day i talk to my wife almost every

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day those things are hugely helpful so

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not just

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being comfortable with yourself but

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maintaining those connections to the the

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with the relationships we have on the

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ground that are so important to us is

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super super important as well

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so what we're doing in effect is

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practicing

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keeping people healthy on a long trip

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through space where people don't have

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the

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us from being in this what i again call

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a free fall

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so

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we're practicing for missions like that

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right now the big difference is when we

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get our first folks to mars we're not

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going to have

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a staff of nurses and doctors there to

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make sure we're healthy and take care of

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us no one's going to be there to help

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extract us out of the spacecraft

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we've got to make sure that astronauts

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are healthy enough to take care of all

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those things on their own when they're

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very far away from mother earth

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so

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being able to contribute to that is

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something i will always be very very