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what about doing a space walk do you

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think would be the most surprising for

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people to hear about like what

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do you think is

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the most interesting aspect of it that

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maybe isn't just

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well obviously you're outside in space

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yeah yeah

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there's so many

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really fascinating things about doing a

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spacewalk it is entirely your sensory

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overload it's it is every sensation that

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you have as a human being wrapped up in

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six hours first of all as just to take

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you through like getting out the door as

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you're getting up suited up it's like

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this is something professionally that

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you've looked forward to for a long time

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and practiced you know it's it's not

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going to be easy you're super focused

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you've studied so you're you know you're

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on the top of your game and you go out

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the door and move your way over to where

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you're supposed to go to work and then

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the sun starts to come up and you see

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the planet right below you i mean you

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have total control of that of where

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you're where you're looking and it's a

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little shocking and somewhat a little

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scary makes you sort of hold on a little

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bit for a second but double check your

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tethers make sure you're okay okay my

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heart beat what just went down i'm okay

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now the sun's up so i'm getting a little

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bit hot because i'm working real

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a whole lot and then the sun starts to

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go down 45 minutes later oh man now i'm

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getting super cold

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and i'm starting to get hungry because

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i'm out there for a couple hours in the

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middle of it you're having a

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conversation with the folks on the

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ground so it's tying you right back to

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earth on my first spacewalk we're up

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hanging out at the solar ray and we

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happened to fly over canada and the

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northern lights were below you it's like

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holy moly that's that's amazing that was

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compelling left an impact on me because

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it it reminded me that there's so much

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out there in space that's going on that

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we have absolutely no control of you

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know probably in those northern lights

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my background is as a scientist but i'm

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sure that it started from some type of

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solar flare and then the magnetic field

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of the earth gets activated is that

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particles come toward the earth and we

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can't do anything about that that's what

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it is and i think that was the most

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compelling feeling like we squabble down

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here about energy or whatever we

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squabble about down here on earth which

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is very inconsequential to really what's

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going on in the rest of the universe we

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are only one little planet but it is

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getting affected by the rest of the

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universe and i think that really

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came true when i when i was sitting

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there and that green stuff was below me

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hitting the earth and it is what it is

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you know we're just part of it

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so it's like all of that and then at the

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end of it you're like wait a minute

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tick-tock you know like we have to get

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back in the house right so you have to

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go back you know then your brain starts

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to tick again did it get everything done

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where's all my equipment where's my

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buddy where's my partner make sure all

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of that

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you know sort of like survival skills i

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think at the end this sort of taken you

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know come to come to play and every now

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and then it dawns on you that like hey

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i'm in a very dangerous place actually

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the main goal of this spacewalk is

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actually to go outside and come back in

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both of you and i think it finally at

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some point in time that that kicks in so

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we we practice all this on earth but

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there's always something that you don't

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anticipate either it's too hot or too

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cold for a piece of metal to work

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correctly you might have to wait and so

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there's a there's a lot of highs that

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you got something done really quick and

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fast and you are successful a lot of

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lows of

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like i'm working my as hard as i can and

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i and i can't get this done and maybe

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you have to alter the plan and call your

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call your buddy in to help you out so it

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is really a huge spectrum what

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is it like or what does it feel like to

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see the outside of the iss so close

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knowing it's just like

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falling controlled falling just through

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space

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um

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you recognize that it's sort of fragile

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and you're living in there i think

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that's one of the things and it's also

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incredibly beautiful sounds sort of

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silly maybe but

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it really feels like you're in space you

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are really part of this this universe

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versus inside you're sort of like on a

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ship i guess it's equivalent to like

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when you're on a boat and you're on the

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boat and you're having a pretty cool

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view of the water and all that kind of

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stuff and then if you jump out and you

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go for a swim and you have some goggles

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on and you're looking around underneath

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i think it's probably

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that different it's like you're in it

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right

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you are in it i think that's probably a

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good description of it

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i had the opportunity to be on the top

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of p6 when we had a

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solar ray sticking up and then looked

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down at it and it was super cool i also

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had the opportunity to be on the front

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of it like somebody on the front of a

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ship you know like uh like doing that

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type of thing and that's your house

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that's your home that's your base you

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want to stay connected to it you don't

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want to go away from it it's humongous

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absolutely humongous and you realize

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that um you're pretty far away from the

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whole you know the door to get in uh but

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it's an engineering marvel and you look

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at all the different pieces and parts

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that came from all the different

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agencies and countries and it's uh it's

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amazing that we were able to put that

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all together so it's humbling super

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humbling because you you know you're

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just one guy out there hopefully you're

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not making a mess of it and making a

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mistake and all the work of all those

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people i mean it's culminated into that

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amazing laboratory it it makes you stop

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for a minute

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