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thank you

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and uh we're with you on two

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Hey Joe it's Mark Kelly how are you how

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are you guys doing Senator Kelly it's

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great to hear your voice and uh great I

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believe you've got a whole group there

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in FCC and we're really glad that you

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all could come to visit and say hi yeah

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I got a bunch of interns some of them up

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here in the seats I've got four of them

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here with me and they've got a few

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questions for you if you have some time

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for that

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sounds great we're ready

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hi this is Alec realm at Rice University

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my sister won't be able to talk with you

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all today what words of encouragement

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can you all offer in the age of Artemis

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especially for younger students as we

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look forward to expanding Humanity's

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presence on other words

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yeah it's a great question it's a super

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Vehicles being flown right now we came

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up as as you know on a SpaceX crew

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dragon or Dragon Freedom we also while

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we've been up here we had the Boeing oft

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Mission successfully DACA Starliner so

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you got both of those in in rotation we

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also have the soyuz as well getting

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people up here to the ISS like our

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Russian cosmonaut and then as you

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mentioned we're also working on the

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Artemis program so I'm super excited to

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to see Artemis one kick off and the

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follow-on missions that will ensue so we

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definitely in terms of words of

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encouragement you are are entering at

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the right time it is a super exciting

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time in human space flight right now and

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we need all of you we need all of your

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all of your passion all of your energy

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all of your expertise and as we look to

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the Future we're just going to need you

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all to help Infiltrate The the workforce

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and help Inspire us to continue to

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explore and continue to do these hard

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things

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hello my name is Madison Clark I am born

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in Arizona and raised in Hawaii and I go

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to Arizona State University my question

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for you is do you view Humanity

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differently once you have left Earth

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and that's a that's a good question

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that's when we get uh fairly often um

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and I I think maybe you would find

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across the astronaut core anyway that

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you know we're such an international

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collaboration here on the International

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Space Station with you know so many

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countries being involved that we all see

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ourselves as one anyway uh what I will

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say is that being up here certainly

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reinforces that though uh you know we

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look out and uh you know to me the most

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beautiful thing that we look at when we

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look out the uh out the window uh why

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you might say Mars but uh I would say I

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would say at Birth and you know wore

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this tiny little island of Life uh you

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know amidst the Blackness of space out

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there right now and you know so once you

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once you look at it in that context and

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you realize that we're all living on

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spaceship earth and we're all kind of

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part of the same crew it gives you

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certainly a different perspective on um

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each other and so I think a lot of us

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come into that with that kind of

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perspective but it's reinforced by by

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being a to be a part of the the huge

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team that makes the space station happen

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hi uh this is Ian Fernandez I'm from San

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um I go to Princeton University and I'm

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currently working on a software program

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with the space radiation analysis group

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to predict the occurrence of radiation

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inducing space weather events like major

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solar flares and Chrono Mass ejections

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so what I was wondering was what are

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some of the effects that such radiation

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concerns have on astronaut life aboard

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the International Space Station and what

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type of role do you think space

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radiation will play going forward as we

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embark on longer term missions to Mars

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and onwards thank you

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that's a great question we actually saw

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the effects of some of that radiation

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this past week with increased Aurora

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activity it's absolutely beautiful but

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it's also a reminder that there's that

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we're being exposed to increased

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radiation as a result of that

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thankfully we still here in low earth

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orbit we're still under the Van Helen

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belts we still are protected in great

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part from Galactic Cosmic radiation and

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many silver particle uh types of

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radiation as well I don't think that we

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really think about radiation all that we

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know we're getting a higher exposure but

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we don't have to think about it quite as

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much as when our explorers venture to

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the moon and go on to Mars and certainly

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uh outside of the protection of the

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Earth's geomagnetic influence and the

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Van Allen belt radiation was a serious

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concern both for short-term and

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long-term effects and so I think that's

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one of the things that we're still

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exploration that long trip to Mars and

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back and we certainly appreciate your

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work in the in in space radiation group

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and we need brights Engineers Physicians

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researchers to help us catch they need

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to solve this problem as we continue to

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venture outward

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what was going to your mind during your

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first launch and how have those feelings

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changed through your launch thus far

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such an interesting question because it

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was definitely quite different for me um

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launch for me was like this this moment

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of concentrated significance it was the

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end point of years of preparation and

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training and in a broad sense something

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that I had looked forward to and worked

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towards all my life and it was also the

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beginning of this new life I had not

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experienced yet in space station this

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except the rest of your life and so I

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experienced it like that very very much

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focused on the presence I I thought that

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I would be maybe a little bit afraid at

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the moment of launch but I think that I

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was just so happy that sheer happiness

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didn't leave any space for for fear or

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worry and I you know I was just open to

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the experience and and Incredibly happy

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and the second time I was of course

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equally happy maybe less overwhelmed by

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the emotions and more aware of the

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details and of what was I was

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experiencing and I was even jotting down

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notes because I really wanted to

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remember all the details of that amazing

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experience which is very short and in

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the launches less than nine minutes you

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um and so it's such an intense but short

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experience that you want to remember on

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the details

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thank you Samantha this is Mark Kelly

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again and Chell and Bob and Jessica

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thanks for taking the time uh out of

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your day to do this for these interns

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which are as you said are so important

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uh that you know fill these jobs after

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you know folks like me and eventually

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you know all of you guys move on to

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something else it's uh great that we

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have you know really smart and uh you

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know folks coming from universities uh

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you know not only across the country but

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from other countries as well so thanks

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for taking your time today and I'm going