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I’m Mark Vande Hei and this is Joe Acaba.

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We are NASA astronauts aboard the International
Space Station.

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The space station is a unique, orbiting laboratory
where astronauts can live and conduct scientific

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research in microgravity.

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Recently, we received a 2018 calendar that
was filled with artwork from 3,000 kids from

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all over the world.

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On the station, we have an opportunity to
see the world from a perspective that not

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many people have had a chance to experience.

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At 225 miles up, we see a world of togetherness.

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Just like how NASA is working together with
commercial companies to transport people to

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and from the space station, opening space
up to more and more people.

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This calendar is a welcome surprise, and can
help me mark the time I have left here before

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returning home to my family on Earth.

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You know, everyone who submitted art for the
calendar was between 4 and 12 years old?

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That means that they have never known a world
that didn’t have someone living in space.

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And they are the right age to one day be an
astronaut who walks on Mars—so keep studying