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uh do you copy Josh over the ISS is

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currently flying over the Atlantic Ocean

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this contact will be performed using the

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amateur radio telebridge network Joss

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will be talking to students at schools

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in eight countries of the Caribbean and

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Central America these students sent

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questions related to disaster and

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natural Hazard monitoring such as

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hurricanes volcano eruptions tsunamis

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Coastal erosions and climate change okay

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welcome aboard the International Space

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your signal is loud and clear if you are

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ready I'm going to pass the microphone

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to the first student over

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I have you loud and clear and I'm ready

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for questions over

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Raul from Panama what is the

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International Space Station overall

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hello well the International Space

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Station is the largest spacecraft that

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we've ever built it is a floating

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laboratory it's about the size of a

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football field about about a hundred

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meters across and in the part that we

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live in it's about the size of a six

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bedroom house and we're traveling at

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over 17

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000 miles an hour we're just about 250

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miles above you and in fact just a

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couple minutes ago we passed over South

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America and we'll be over St Lucia in

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less than an hour and a half

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California Costa Rica from

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do you save my character events

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World a space and one is it's like two

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minutes

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well hanging from the bottom of the

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space station is something that looks

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like half of a soccer ball and each half

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of each face of that soccer ball is a

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beautiful window that we can look out

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and see our beautiful planet and so we

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love to spend a little time there

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whenever we can because the view of our

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planet is really breathtaking and I'll

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tell you when I'm in there it is never

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ever boring there's no part of this

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planet that I don't absolutely love

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looking at over

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and Barbuda if a hurricane is happening

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can you see it in Space over in fact we

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can see hurricanes from space we are

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only 250 miles above you and racing

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around the planet so we can see these

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big storms we can see them from the

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cupola we can take a higher resolution

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photography and we can see when they're

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coming Lucia

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Republic how long did you study to

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become an astronaut over hello Lucia in

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fact I feel like I've been studying my

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whole life to be an astronaut and I

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don't know that I'm ever going to stop

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because I really really enjoy learning

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new things

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in my previous life I was a physicist I

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studied physics and then I became a

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pilot in the U.S Navy and then

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eventually a test pilot before I became

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an astronaut and so the best thing about

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this job is there's always something new

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to learn whether it is how to live and

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and work in space and get better at that

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or if it's helping our researchers do

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their experiments and learn new things

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about their fundamental science that

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they're doing over Gabriel from Cayman

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Islands what do you do in Space over

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hello Gabriel from the Cayman Islands

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well I'll tell you every day is

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different up here some days we're doing

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research and helping run those

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experiments that we were just talking

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about and those experiments go from

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everything from biology to physics to

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research on the human body or sometimes

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we're doing maintenance on the space

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station and sometimes we have to do even

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more adventurous things like go crapple

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and catch a cargo vehicle with a robotic

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arm or go outside and do a spacewalk and

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in fact just last week we did a

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spacewalk and we built some new

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apparatus that we can put a solar array

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on and we're going to go put solar

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arrays on next week over

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inner from St Lucia do you study and

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measure climate change from space over

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well we can certainly take photography

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from the cupola like we were talking

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about and we can see the effects of

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climate change from time to time but

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primarily we have instruments that are

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mounted on the outside of the space

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station that are used to collect data on

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the planet itself whether that be

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surface temperature or atmospheric

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content and that helps us give

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information back to the researchers and

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the scientists to help us understand

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where we are where we're headed and what

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we can do about it over Leanne from

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Antigua when a volcanic option happens

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can you see the infection space over hi

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Leanne we absolutely can in fact we did

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have an astronaut a couple years ago

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who'd saw a volcano erupt and he

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actually made a call down to Alaska and

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let them know what he saw and they

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didn't even know it was erupting yet so

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yes we can absolutely see volcanoes from

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up here over Ben and I are from Saint

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Lucia what are the impacts of space

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hurricanes and does it affect us hey on

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Earth over

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well uh space hurricanes are a little

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different than the Hurricanes we're

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familiar with on Earth uh you know the

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hurricanes on Earth are based on water

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and rain and pressure differences and

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even the rotation of the earth

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the space hurricanes tend to come from

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energetic electrons that are coming from

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the Sun and then they collide with

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oxygen and nitrogen in our atmosphere

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and that's what makes those beautiful

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colors the greens and the blues of the

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Aurora and that's actually some really

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really neat quantum mechanics that makes

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that happen and sometimes very rarely

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but sometimes the magnetic field of the

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earth is such that it actually makes a

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swirl of that Aurora and makes it look

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like a hurricane but the good news is

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that doesn't have an effect uh for on us

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on the planet there's no threat there it

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does sometimes maybe affect our

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satellites a little bit but I'm I

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haven't seen a space hurricane yet but

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I'm keeping my fingers crossed for sure

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oh over Josh from Saint Kitts and Nevis

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do other planets have volcanoes over

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hello Josh yes uh there are other uh

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planets with volcanoes we see a lot of

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old dead volcanoes around the solar

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system uh in fact I think it's just

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Earth and maybe Jupiter's moon EO that

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have active volcanoes right now we think

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that there might be some on Venus and

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maybe on another one of uh Jupiter's

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moons Europa but we're not quite sure

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but yes there are definitely volcanoes

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throughout the solar system over

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approach the Atlantic Ocean over

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we haven't seen it yet because that

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tends to happen in the middle of the

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summer but I'll keep an eye out for it

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great question if you go Google it there

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are some incredible images of the moon

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that we've taken just this week those

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pictures are breathtaking over on behalf

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of hi I'm from Trinidad and Tobago what

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can I do to make sea level stop rising

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over I think you just did it I think the

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very first thing we need to do is ask

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what we can do

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we are absolutely in a spot where we're

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affecting uh the planet and we hope we

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wish that wasn't true but wishing that

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it's not true doesn't help us solve the

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problem so I think that humans are smart

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enough and resourceful enough to fix it

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and if we're all together we can

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actually solve this very hard problem

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gentlemen we've just shared a moment in

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history