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welcome to another segment of the nasa

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virtual social for the crew one launch

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i'm your host wayne saxer some of the

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most important things on launch day

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are weather and safety it's one of the

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hey wayne how's the weather looking for

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launch so we have very special guests

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from the 45th space wing lined up

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to answer all the questions you might

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have about that make sure you drop them

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in the chat window

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i'm gonna send it over to my colleague

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tony at the observation gantry

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standing by with those special guests to

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get those questions answered for you now

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hey guys i'm antonia jaramillo and i am

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observation gantry with two very special

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guests from the 40 faith space wing

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weather squadron i have mike mc mike

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and captain matthew walters with me can

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you guys tell me a little bit about what

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make sure it's going to be good yes for

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so we actually already have our first

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science i always was doing experiments

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our next question what's the most common

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everything goes off without a hitch

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well happy launch you guys i really hope

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it lifts off thank you so much for

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joining us it was a pleasure having you

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now before we move on to our next guest

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we're going to show you a quick promo

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video for the crew one mission scheduled

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at 7 49 pm tomorrow we are super excited

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you guys are too now without further ado

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rise is a new era of american space

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flight and with

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the ambitions of a new generation

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continuing the dream

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we're already counting down the days

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until group 1

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that'll be the first operational flight

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in a crew dragon spacecraft

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mike hopkins victor glover shannon

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jaxa astronaut so ichiniguchi are to be

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this mission marks the return of a full

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another very special guest with me

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colonel david mayhem from the debt three

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of dod support to nasa for manned space

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would run through our office wow so kind

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of an important job

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needless to say we already have our

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first question from nasa social they

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want to know

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how do you train for a human rescue

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mission

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so that that's a very big question on a

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global scale so

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i guess the best way to think about it

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as we prep for a mission

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uh guardian angel rescue forces are

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going to be brought into town they're

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going to go

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through training everything from using

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the equipment to getting to the capsule

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to extricating the astronauts from the

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capsule and then everything in between

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for the rescue side of it nice and what

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advice do you have for someone who wants

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your job

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okay so our unit is compiled of a bunch

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of different uh for

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survival specialists guardian angel

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rescue forces i'm a c-17 pilot

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we have hc-130 and hh-60 pilots so it's

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something

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and then eventually you can find your

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way here doing this

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did you ever think you'd be doing this

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so ironically i grew up in titusville i

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went to ths and ucf so i watched

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all the shuttle missions nine

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assignments later and

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i wanted to come back here was always a

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dream and it ended up working out

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nice how many people are on your team so

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day to day we have about 35 people that

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support all three nasa programs and then

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once we actually stand up task force 45

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for the execution of the rescue mission

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we've actually got uh

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over a hundred people just here and then

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approximately 20 at charleston

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in south carolina and then also 20 and

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hickam in hawaii supporting the mission

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very big team needless to say uh so

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where exactly will you be on launch day

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what will be your role

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so my role on launch day is i'll be in

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our support operations center up at

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patrick and i'll be the uh

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the stock director so just the the hub

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of all the information coming in and

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then if there is an emergency

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uh we would execute from the operations

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center from there right so basically

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this is the job where

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you know you have to train and prepare

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for it but you don't want to actually

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have to go out there we don't want an

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emergency

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absolutely we're the insurance policy

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but our goal is that we stand up on

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alert we train the forces we're ready to

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support

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uh and then we don't do anything and

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then we stand down and go home got you

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insurance policy absolutely do you train

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with the astronauts

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so there are times during some of our

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developmental events that the crew will

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come down

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and we'll do uh events to where we help

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them assist city grass out of the

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capsule

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uh we work closely with nasa and the

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crew office uh to do our development on

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our training events gotcha and so what

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are you most excited then about this

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specific launch

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just honestly being a part of this

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mission being a part of history i know

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the whole team

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is super excited to be a part of the

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next mission for

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for spacex and for nasa and just to be

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ready to support

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and so then did you do the same thing

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for demo 2 when we sent

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to astronauts to the international space

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station last may

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absolutely the team stood up we had all

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the forces on alert at all the different

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locations

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and we were on call ready to go and

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people rotate through the positions uh

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for that particular mission

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wow so i guess what's your favorite part

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of the whole process

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you know it's nasa is one of those

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things you grew up watching it as a kid

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and all the science and the technology

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and working with all the professional

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people i'd say it's the people

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you get to interact with a lot of

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professionals rescue forces

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all the people the debt that we get to

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work with and across the globe and we've

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got rescue forces from the 38th the 58th

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c-17 folks from uh hickam from the guard

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and they're just all sorts of different

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locations that we get to work with so

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the people is the most interesting part

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well that's good to hear yeah at least

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everyone else watching this they'll know

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you

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like working with everyone um i guess

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is there anything you know you wish you

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could also do

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um or are you kind of already doing your

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dream job right now

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so i've been lucky enough to to do

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several different things both from

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flying and then

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from the nuclear weapons career field

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but i always wanted to be

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my when i joined the air force i wanted

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to go into the space career field and i

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had to do a couple of different things

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before that

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and so it's really amazing to be back to

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be a part of this

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did you ever think you'd be an astronaut

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did you ever want that

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you know that was definitely something

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that uh that i uh

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that i was interested in but i would

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tell you reading the resumes of most of

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those people it was uh

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yeah there's a lot of competition

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so i guess then if you got that

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opportunity if nasa came knocking on

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your door and was like hey david we want

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to take you up on the rocket

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you've got to go to space next would you

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say yes without even a hesitation oh

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really

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where would you first go where would i

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go yeah if you could like

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anywhere in space oh wow as far as

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possible okay

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well that's interesting i don't know if

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i could go as far as possible that

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sounds very cool as long as i got to

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come back my wife's watching she

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wouldn't be happy if i yeah

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that makes sense yeah i that's my one

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condition too i don't want to like

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live anywhere else but earth but i do

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want to travel right that would be

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amazing uh we have a question from

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ask nasa what part of this mission has

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the most meaning for you personally

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historically just all around i would say

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the rescue aspect of it i mean

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historically

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space launch is dangerous and things do

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go wrong so just getting to be a part of

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the

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hoping to help if something actually

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goes wrong and being able to be there

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and hoping to make a bad day not so bad

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absolutely i mean like you said you guys

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are the insurance policy you

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are kind of the safety on the ground

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um probably not the right words but um

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basic that's amazing that's honestly a

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very very

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challenging and i think crucial role do

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you have any last remarks before we

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close out

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no the only thing i can say is

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detachment three task force 45 and all

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the forces that are supporting are

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extremely professional and we're very

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honored to be a part of the mission well

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thank you so much for all that you do

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thank you so much for joining us it was

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great having you david

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and i thank you everyone for tuning in

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thanks for getting all those questions

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answered for us

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excuse me i'm really excited to hear

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about how all these safety measures are

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helping to keep our astronauts safe

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because our next show at two o'clock

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have two of my favorite astronauts

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and we are going to have the same

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opportunity for you to ask those

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questions again

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so please join us at 2 o'clock for our