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so you've flown on shuttle soyuz

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obviously spent two long duration

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missions on iss um and then you get to

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see

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bob and doug come up on a commercial

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crew vehicle can you just talk a little

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bit about the significance of that and

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kind of where we are in the space

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program well what's cool for me on a

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personal level as i i flew with doug

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on my shuttle it was both of our first

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missions

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i flew with karen you know doug's better

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half on my second mission expedition 35

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and six and then it was really nice to

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have doug be there

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again for the third mission i used to

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only fly with tom marshburn but he

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bailed out on me on this one so now i

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only fly with a member of the hurley

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nyberg family

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but just in general it was so awesome to

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be part of

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that part of our nation's

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manned space flight history you know at

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first i was looking at it as a view of

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oh this is cool that this is

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uh that i'm seeing bob and doug and good

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friends and they're coming in my

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expedition and i took a step back and

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realized

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this is a pretty significant part in

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space history right like you flip

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through chapter books on space history

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and you've got

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different programs and first flights of

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all those programs are major milestones

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yeah and this is no different and and uh

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it's kicking off a whole new kind of

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method to get to the space station

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exciting to launch from florida again

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and i remember thinking that on launch

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day their launch we passed directly over

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the launch pad two minutes before launch

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so in that two minutes it sounds really

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close but two minutes we were already

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like up by south carolina or something

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so we couldn't just

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see out the window that their liftoff

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and it was daytime so

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difficult to see the contrast

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of the rocket but i got a great view of

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the launch pad took a nice photo of it

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moments before liftoff and then nasa tv

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was being piped up to us

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and we were we were watching

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live and yvonne and i had this whole

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scheme of which windows we had cameras

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on going and we we had it all we kind of

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did a little rehearsal on how to

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manipulate all the cameras kind of like

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these guys setting up the set

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making right before liftoff and and uh

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and then shortly after liftoff i just

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focused on nasa tv and was glued to that

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thing just i remember being so excited

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my heart when i'm watching a rocket

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launch on nasa tv my heart is racing you

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know i'm nervous well it's different

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when you're you're friends right yeah

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now that you're an astronaut you know

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those people they're you they're your

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colleagues they're your friends you know

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their families and it's entirely

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different than when you're

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just witty at mit and interested in

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space but not have personally invested

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in them right and same thing for me i'm

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on the space station first man rocket

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launch of that type and

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like go go go you know you're so excited

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and then

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the engine's cut off and it's all good

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yeah but yeah same thing i knew before i

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got to nasa that launch and landing are

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two really dynamic phases of flight and

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they're scary i mean they're we're

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taking some risks in that and i think

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something i didn't fully appreciate

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until i got here is you know talking to

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some veterans and talking to people that

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really know eva is maybe a third one

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where we're doing some risky stuff

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obviously we're doing it as safely as we

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can but i'm curious you know do you

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think of it that way similar to launch

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and landing and are you are you nervous

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going out the door like you might be

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anticipating a launch i think everyone

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is a little kind of

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your nerves are on edge on your first

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one as you do a few more you get a

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little more comfortable with the whole

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situation but what surprised me on this

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one the first of the four that bob and i

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did which was the first one for me for

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seven years and last one since

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luca and i went out and now that water

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and the helmet problem happened is it

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was just another morning

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as i was going through the morning and

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we got into the deep press and the hatch

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is closed and we start moving air out of

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the crew lock

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and it got to the low pressures where i

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knew my next actions were open the hatch

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and i felt my heart race a little bit

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and i was thinking to myself what are

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you what are you doing man settle down

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and uh

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i opened the hatch and out i went and i

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remember feeling

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a little like i wanted to go fast and

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and i and i even thought to myself

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they're going to call on the radio and

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say they'll slow down because they're

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watching because they're watching all

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your heart rate data and everything and

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they did do that but it it only lasted a

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minute or two but it surprised me that i

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had that kind of first time feeling a

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little bit on this one and then it was

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just so awesome to be out there with bob

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somebody who was so capable and talented

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and i think we fell into a rhythm pretty

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pretty fast and that was very settling

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bob and i have never done even an nbl

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run together the first time we've ever

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done any spacewalk activity was on a

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real eba but it didn't feel like that it

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just kind of clicked your questions

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about the risk of it you definitely you

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get a sense for it when you're outside

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and what i think most is now we're at a

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phase where

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i can only help bob and bob can only

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help me you as capcom can't flight

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director can't they can provide good

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ideas and direction but at the end of

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the day the two people out there

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are for each other you're a busy man and

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i don't want to take too much of your

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time so it's a true honor to get to talk

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to you so uh soon after you landed yeah

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this is awesome really fun to see you i

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can't wait till i'm sitting there

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talking to you about your

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space flight that'll be super cool

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thanks chris yeah awesome