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good afternoon everyone and welcome back

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to the virtual nasa social for the crew

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one mission to the international space

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station

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in just over 24 hours four astronauts

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will be making their way to the launch

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pad to climb on board the crew dragon

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ahead of launch targeted for 7 49 pm

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eastern time i'm madison tuttle i am

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nasa communications and i'll be one of

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your hosts for this segment of the

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virtual nasa

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social we have two very special guests

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that i'm very excited about

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and we'll meet them in just a moment but

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just a reminder that if you have

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questions while we're speaking with our

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guests please drop them in the chat

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and we might just answer them live so

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i'm going to let

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my good friend joshua santora introduce

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our two guests today

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so i'm going to throw it out to joshua

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who is at the launch complex 39

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thanks so much madison you're not the

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only one that's super excited i also am

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excited because i'm joined by

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uh two incredible guests here uh

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astronauts

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suni williams and johnny kim thank you

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both for being here today

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oh it's great to be here i mean it

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rockets all around you you know this is

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yeah this is pretty awesome thanks for

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day here in florida

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uh the crew dragon on board atop the

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falcon 9 is right behind us

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and then off to on the coast here we've

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uh man it's it's real like this is so so

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but appreciate you both being here uh

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sunny has flown to space station

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twice now twice and johnny you're still

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waiting your rookie flight

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um you're a newly graduated astronaut

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but certainly like no less an astronaut

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um so thanks for being here i want to

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johnny you want to start and then sunny

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yeah sure my name is johnny kim i'm a

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and i am with the latest class of

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astronauts called the turtles

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my journey i guess starts when i was

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next level and i was very inspired by

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through the navy's medical program i

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nasa astronauts back in 2016 and i was

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lucky and privileged enough to be called

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have this amazing opportunity and that's

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latest class and i wouldn't ask but

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since you brought it up

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uh you're nicknamed the turtles and i

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behind it can you tell us what the story

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vice president mike pence he great he

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the newly formed class of astronauts our

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a turtle on a fence post and where he

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post which i personally have never seen

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parents teachers coaches mentors friends

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family everyone that we've had

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little bit of your background

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enough to fly on a space shuttle up to

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to be assigned to be on a on a starliner

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science that map i really wanted to

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moon which were going to do again

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the crews will come and you'll get to

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team just like johnny talked about

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leadership followership that's those are

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you don't really know all the astronaut

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how do you become an astronaut question

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yeah so i can agree with sunny

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anymore nearly half my class is

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comprised of non-military

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folks i think the most important part if

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you want to be an astronaut and you're

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nine years old

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is just pursue your passions

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life is so interesting there's so many

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amazing things to learn about study

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science there's uh

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typically you do you do need a stem

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background so you know

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science technology engineering math

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medicine

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these are all avenues to become an

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astronaut but the most important thing

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is whether you do it through the

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military or you're a civilian

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you're a doctor engineer is that you

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just enjoy what you do

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everything sunny said is correct and we

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really really want to

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find people that are passionate about

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what they do for a living

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and uh remind what was the other

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question yeah

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uh just a followership and just how do

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you become an astronaut and i think that

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uh you definitely you hit on both of

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those but if you got more to say i'd

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love to hear it follow you know you

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can't be a leader unless you know how to

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be a follower yeah

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it's they're they're appeasing a paw to

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come together

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we could take up the rest of this time

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talking about what it means to be a good

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follower a good leader

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but the core principles are the same and

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you know there's

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nothing new that people haven't already

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heard um

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at the heart of it it's be a good

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teammate be a good human being

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these are all aspects that make a person

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a good teammate and definitely a good

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astronaut yeah

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awesome so what did you both study in

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school that was a question that came in

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so

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whether it be interest in high school or

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would you study in college

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yeah so i went to the naval academy so

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we have a little bit of engineering

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force down our throat i didn't even know

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what engineering was when i went to

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college i had no

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no clue i knew that there was going to

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be a little bit of math involved and so

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luckily i was pretty good in math in

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high school and so you know that

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that carried myself through the naval

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academy but i was exposed to

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all sorts of cool things about

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engineering like how do you build a

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rocket how do you build this platform

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we're standing on how do you build a car

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how do you build a bridge and i was like

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wow that's what engineering is

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and i like i said i had no idea i

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struggled

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in college i will say that also and it

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wasn't until i got to really put my

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hands

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on something that was built which is a

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helicopter and really

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start thinking like how does this thing

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work that i really tapped back into

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those

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engineering classes that i had had in

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the naval academy

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and got my masters as a result of it

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because i was really sort of curious and

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went to test pilot school

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so i think not every path is straight

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not every path is

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easy but just like johnny said when you

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find what is your passion

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then you're going to want you're going

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to be curious and you want to know more

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about it and you're going to enjoy it so

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that's

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path led me here

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through education cool and johnny what'd

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you study

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yes i studied math in undergrad and of

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course studying medicine in graduate

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school but i

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i echo what sunny said in a lot of ways

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what you study is not that important

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[Music]

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i think that the love and the hunger to

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learn

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more about the sciences

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is what's really really important this

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lifelong learning that's

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that's something that i heard in grad

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school and stuck with me is that we

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never stop learning

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you know the day you stop learning the

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day you're an expert or a master in

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anything

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i think you've doomed yourself to really

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being able to maximize your potential

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so i think the important thing is that

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you love to learn you're willing to

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learn

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the those are the everything else comes

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naturally of course requires hard work

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and that kind of stems from a question i

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often get is like what's the best

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subject

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to become an astronaut i i don't think

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that's a i don't think there's an answer

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for that

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and that's what i kind of meant by it

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doesn't matter what you study

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is that what's important is that you

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just follow your passion that's going to

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be a thing

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we're going to keep repeating yeah and i

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think that you did qualify that well by

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just saying that it's a matter of that

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drive for learning

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is that and i discovered that myself is

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that a lot of times the degree that you

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get

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really just identifies that you have

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demonstrated that you have the capacity

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and the willingness to like invest

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yourself and people

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can take that and mold that into what it

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needs to be uh so

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uh sunny for you since you've been to

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space there was a question of

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what was your favorite meal in space oh

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wow

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there's actually uh it's funny because

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our friend and colleague kate rubin is

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up in space right now and

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as she was getting ready to go i was

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thinking about oh yeah there's so many

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good things to eat up there

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it sounds so crazy and ridiculous

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there's great things to eat down here

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too but i did

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i do absolutely miss some of the food

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that we had up there

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i don't know i like this like most of

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the food is like a casserole so it's

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sort of smashed together

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they had like lasagna that sort of

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smashed together and then

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pesto sauce i would put on that and i

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just i just loved it

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and then my go-to food for space walks

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was this thing called tavorig which is

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like cottage cheese

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with nuts and some sugar in it and it's

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a little bit like paste like um

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cement it tastes really good it's you

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know sweet but then it just sticks with

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you and it's just a protein for

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all day long and it's uh i really miss

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that because you don't get it down here

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so anyway i gotta ask you because you

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just made a comment do you eat on space

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wonks

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no no no so okay because it was it was

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the food that i ate beforehand because

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it

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like that sure bowl of oatmeal that they

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stick with you all day long i was gonna

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say if there's some cool way that you

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eat while space walking that i didn't

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know about i was about to get really

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excited

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so uh so johnny one of the things that

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our viewers may not know is that there's

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a food kitchen

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where you kind of get to sample and kind

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of pick some meals while you go

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have you gotten a chance to do that yet

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so have you picked out what meals you

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would

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like when you do go to space yeah so our

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entire class is

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part of being an ascan when we were

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going through the candidacy when we were

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learning to be astronauts was definitely

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sampling all the different various foods

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how to operate the equipment

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to rehydrate your food so i

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got to say i mean i got to preface this

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and i just i love

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food i love all types of food there's i

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i have no biases so i liked it all

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but i'm also the kind of person that

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didn't mind occasional mres

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as long as there weren't too many of

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them so they're great the food that

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our food lab they're just the best at

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what they do

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they make great food it's delicious it's

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it's nutritious it really maximizes our

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performance on

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on space station i will say though when

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we have other

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cargo vehicles that come up sometimes

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they bring fresh fruit

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or vegetables like apples or oranges

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or even like onions and bulbs of garlic

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i don't know why folks like that but

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it's a crunch

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and it's one of the things like i was

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mentioning the lasagna sort of gooey

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and that devouring stuff is sort of

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gooey and so having that crunch that's

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one of those things that

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i felt like i missed from earth

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sometimes you just want to

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crunch on stuff and you don't get that

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opportunity very often unless we have a

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visiting vehicle come

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come bring it i bet you there's some

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good stuff on that spacecraft right

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there

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yeah absolutely who knows what kind of

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wonderful

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treats there are there so sunny question

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came in about

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taking personal items to space we know

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that it's expensive

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to get things to space there's not a lot

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of room it's it's definitely tight

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quarters in there

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uh so i think you get to take a few

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things with you uh

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what kinds of things did you take yeah

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so you know i think

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the for me it was remembering people

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down here

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animal lover

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um so i have a i have a necklace that

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has a dog paw on it

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and i i brought my dog paw with me and

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has all the names of my

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my former dogs and then um you know some

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little mementos from my father

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gave me i didn't really want to read in

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space because you can read on earth i

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wanted to do things that were

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interesting and different in space

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but he gave me a bhagavad gita to take

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up a mini version so it wasn't

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too complicated to read um so that was

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you know a memento from him

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and then um i didn't really bring

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anything

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specifically from my mom's side of the

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family she's slovenian

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but one of the visiting vehicles sent up

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some sausages that were slovenian

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sausages and that was that sort of

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brings you back you know you sort of

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close your eyes in the nostalgia of

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being home and being with your family

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and friends

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awesome johnny any thoughts of what you

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will take with you have you kind of

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thought through like

564
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stuff that you'd want to take yeah i

565
00:18:01,110 --> 00:17:59,440
mean i think

566
00:18:02,870 --> 00:18:01,120
probably the just typical things of

567
00:18:05,510 --> 00:18:02,880
course a picture of my family

568
00:18:06,710 --> 00:18:05,520
you know my beautiful wife children the

569
00:18:08,789 --> 00:18:06,720
people that mean a lot to me i think

570
00:18:10,549 --> 00:18:08,799
also probably mementos that i've

571
00:18:12,310 --> 00:18:10,559
accumulated over the years from people

572
00:18:14,470 --> 00:18:12,320
that have meant a lot to me

573
00:18:15,350 --> 00:18:14,480
i think one thing that i would really

574
00:18:18,549 --> 00:18:15,360
want to take

575
00:18:18,870 --> 00:18:18,559
is a nice watch and i think i've always

576
00:18:22,310 --> 00:18:18,880
just

577
00:18:24,630 --> 00:18:22,320
admired the elegant beauty

578
00:18:25,750 --> 00:18:24,640
and mechanics and engineering behind

579
00:18:27,270 --> 00:18:25,760
watches so i think that would be

580
00:18:30,950 --> 00:18:27,280
something cool to bring in space

581
00:18:32,230 --> 00:18:30,960
awesome very cool um

582
00:18:33,990 --> 00:18:32,240
how excited are you guys for launch

583
00:18:35,190 --> 00:18:34,000
tomorrow uh johnny

584
00:18:37,190 --> 00:18:35,200
we were talking about this before the

585
00:18:37,830 --> 00:18:37,200
show and you haven't seen many launches

586
00:18:40,150 --> 00:18:37,840
before

587
00:18:42,710 --> 00:18:40,160
so uh how many launches have you seen

588
00:18:45,430 --> 00:18:42,720
and and what's your feeling on tomorrow

589
00:18:46,950 --> 00:18:45,440
i've seen one launch before and it was a

590
00:18:49,430 --> 00:18:46,960
soyuz in kazakhstan

591
00:18:50,230 --> 00:18:49,440
for christina cook's launch back in

592
00:18:53,990 --> 00:18:50,240
february

593
00:18:57,350 --> 00:18:54,000
of 2019 almost a year and a half ago

594
00:18:58,630 --> 00:18:57,360
and it was i'm sure sunny can articulate

595
00:18:59,830 --> 00:18:58,640
much better than i can but it's

596
00:19:02,070 --> 00:18:59,840
emotional

597
00:19:03,270 --> 00:19:02,080
there's a lot of things going on you're

598
00:19:05,510 --> 00:19:03,280
excited

599
00:19:06,549 --> 00:19:05,520
um there's just so much enormous power

600
00:19:09,190 --> 00:19:06,559
going on it's

601
00:19:10,070 --> 00:19:09,200
really surreal and knowing that there's

602
00:19:13,669 --> 00:19:10,080
people you love

603
00:19:16,070 --> 00:19:13,679
on that rocket it's just i don't

604
00:19:16,870 --> 00:19:16,080
think anything compares to it so i'm

605
00:19:18,390 --> 00:19:16,880
super excited

606
00:19:20,390 --> 00:19:18,400
i know it's going to be a great event

607
00:19:22,310 --> 00:19:20,400
tomorrow um

608
00:19:23,430 --> 00:19:22,320
i'm just glad to be able to live and

609
00:19:26,310 --> 00:19:23,440
witness that

610
00:19:27,990 --> 00:19:26,320
cool sunny yeah rockets are super cool

611
00:19:29,669 --> 00:19:28,000
absolutely without a doubt you know you

612
00:19:30,710 --> 00:19:29,679
come here you feel it you know not only

613
00:19:32,070 --> 00:19:30,720
you see it but you can

614
00:19:34,150 --> 00:19:32,080
feel it just because there's so much

615
00:19:35,510 --> 00:19:34,160
power behind them and so and you can

616
00:19:37,590 --> 00:19:35,520
look at them on tv and they

617
00:19:39,909 --> 00:19:37,600
they're they're absolutely cool on tv as

618
00:19:42,950 --> 00:19:39,919
well or on the on the internet

619
00:19:44,870 --> 00:19:42,960
um but knowing people on there gives it

620
00:19:47,190 --> 00:19:44,880
that next element you know gives it

621
00:19:48,549 --> 00:19:47,200
one more step up and you know those guys

622
00:19:52,070 --> 00:19:48,559
in the spacecraft tomorrow

623
00:19:53,029 --> 00:19:52,080
mike victor shannon uh soichi they're

624
00:19:55,029 --> 00:19:53,039
our friends

625
00:19:56,310 --> 00:19:55,039
and um you know people ask all the time

626
00:19:58,070 --> 00:19:56,320
like do you know do you know those

627
00:19:58,710 --> 00:19:58,080
astronauts who had bob and doug from you

628
00:20:00,789 --> 00:19:58,720
know the

629
00:20:02,390 --> 00:20:00,799
the demo 2 mission i'm like yeah of

630
00:20:05,270 --> 00:20:02,400
course there's only so many of us we're

631
00:20:07,190 --> 00:20:05,280
we are family we all know each other and

632
00:20:09,669 --> 00:20:07,200
you know there's so many people here

633
00:20:11,430 --> 00:20:09,679
that help us get to that spot and get to

634
00:20:14,070 --> 00:20:11,440
that top of that rocket and then

635
00:20:14,470 --> 00:20:14,080
it going you just know this accumulation

636
00:20:17,110 --> 00:20:14,480
of

637
00:20:18,710 --> 00:20:17,120
hard work and love like johnny mentioned

638
00:20:21,190 --> 00:20:18,720
for the people who are on board

639
00:20:21,750 --> 00:20:21,200
is is just overwhelming it's pretty

640
00:20:23,510 --> 00:20:21,760
amazing

641
00:20:25,029 --> 00:20:23,520
awesome yeah for those that if you

642
00:20:26,549 --> 00:20:25,039
haven't seen a launch or you come out to

643
00:20:29,350 --> 00:20:26,559
see them we always encourage people to

644
00:20:30,070 --> 00:20:29,360
put away phones and just enjoy the view

645
00:20:31,830 --> 00:20:30,080
the experience

646
00:20:33,430 --> 00:20:31,840
johnny like the emotion of it resonates

647
00:20:34,950 --> 00:20:33,440
a lot with people who work here even

648
00:20:37,350 --> 00:20:34,960
um we see him a lot but like there's

649
00:20:40,230 --> 00:20:37,360
something emotional about it um and it's

650
00:20:41,029 --> 00:20:40,240
i i always tell people like it's it's so

651
00:20:42,630 --> 00:20:41,039
loud

652
00:20:44,789 --> 00:20:42,640
and every time before launch i tell

653
00:20:46,310 --> 00:20:44,799
people i'm like i'm like i'm remembering

654
00:20:47,990 --> 00:20:46,320
it wrong it's not that loud and it

655
00:20:49,909 --> 00:20:48,000
happens and you're like oh it's so loud

656
00:20:51,190 --> 00:20:49,919
so it's just a lot of fun to be close so

657
00:20:53,750 --> 00:20:51,200
if you're close by

658
00:20:54,630 --> 00:20:53,760
um enjoy the view um couple more

659
00:20:56,710 --> 00:20:54,640
questions

660
00:20:58,470 --> 00:20:56,720
uh johnny the question came in about

661
00:21:01,029 --> 00:20:58,480
your medical knowledge

662
00:21:03,029 --> 00:21:01,039
and how you ex do you expect that to be

663
00:21:04,230 --> 00:21:03,039
helpful as an astronaut and kind of

664
00:21:06,549 --> 00:21:04,240
where do you see that fitting in the

665
00:21:09,110 --> 00:21:06,559
picture

666
00:21:10,310 --> 00:21:09,120
yeah so it's a great question i think

667
00:21:13,510 --> 00:21:10,320
perspectives

668
00:21:14,950 --> 00:21:13,520
diversity i mean diversity is so

669
00:21:16,390 --> 00:21:14,960
powerful on what we do

670
00:21:17,990 --> 00:21:16,400
there's just so many obvious reasons for

671
00:21:19,110 --> 00:21:18,000
it but one of the biggest reasons why

672
00:21:22,149 --> 00:21:19,120
it's so helpful

673
00:21:23,510 --> 00:21:22,159
is perspectives and so certainly

674
00:21:25,350 --> 00:21:23,520
if we want to talk about the technical

675
00:21:27,270 --> 00:21:25,360
aspects of my time

676
00:21:28,789 --> 00:21:27,280
learning medicine as a combat medic and

677
00:21:32,390 --> 00:21:28,799
later as a physician

678
00:21:35,750 --> 00:21:32,400
certainly um is going to have a place

679
00:21:37,510 --> 00:21:35,760
for later space missions but i think

680
00:21:38,230 --> 00:21:37,520
what is can be even sometimes even more

681
00:21:41,510 --> 00:21:38,240
powerful

682
00:21:42,630 --> 00:21:41,520
is having that perspective of what a

683
00:21:45,669 --> 00:21:42,640
pilot thinks

684
00:21:47,110 --> 00:21:45,679
what a what an operator thinks what a

685
00:21:48,950 --> 00:21:47,120
doctor thinks an engineer

686
00:21:50,789 --> 00:21:48,960
all these different perspectives

687
00:21:52,149 --> 00:21:50,799
culminate and

688
00:21:54,149 --> 00:21:52,159
bring something else to the table

689
00:21:56,149 --> 00:21:54,159
everyone has a strength that they bring

690
00:21:57,510 --> 00:21:56,159
to the mission and so that's what i

691
00:21:57,990 --> 00:21:57,520
think is really powerful is just having

692
00:21:59,909 --> 00:21:58,000
a diverse

693
00:22:01,190 --> 00:21:59,919
crew with various strengths and

694
00:22:04,070 --> 00:22:01,200
backgrounds

695
00:22:04,390 --> 00:22:04,080
awesome very cool sunny uh question for

696
00:22:14,230 --> 00:22:04,400
you

697
00:22:16,149 --> 00:22:14,240
well um uh probably the very beginning

698
00:22:18,070 --> 00:22:16,159
you know like there's so many to talk

699
00:22:19,750 --> 00:22:18,080
about i don't know but i i'll just tell

700
00:22:20,630 --> 00:22:19,760
you the very beginning was just amazing

701
00:22:25,110 --> 00:22:20,640
the

702
00:22:27,029 --> 00:22:25,120
after launch engine stop you're in space

703
00:22:28,870 --> 00:22:27,039
and everything starts to float it's just

704
00:22:29,669 --> 00:22:28,880
comical you're like oh my god my arms

705
00:22:30,789 --> 00:22:29,679
are floating you know

706
00:22:32,149 --> 00:22:30,799
like here on earth you don't even

707
00:22:33,990 --> 00:22:32,159
realize that gravity holds your arms

708
00:22:35,510 --> 00:22:34,000
down and you don't think about it so if

709
00:22:36,630 --> 00:22:35,520
you don't think about it and you're some

710
00:22:37,830 --> 00:22:36,640
place where there is no gravity your

711
00:22:38,310 --> 00:22:37,840
arms are going to start to float right

712
00:22:40,149 --> 00:22:38,320
away

713
00:22:41,909 --> 00:22:40,159
and we're all just cracking up and you

714
00:22:42,789 --> 00:22:41,919
know like your gloves start to float you

715
00:22:44,390 --> 00:22:42,799
have to figure out where you're going to

716
00:22:45,270 --> 00:22:44,400
put them under your leg or your helmet

717
00:22:46,870 --> 00:22:45,280
you know i gotta

718
00:22:48,310 --> 00:22:46,880
velcro it to something and it's just

719
00:22:51,029 --> 00:22:48,320
just hilarious

720
00:22:52,549 --> 00:22:51,039
um and that same not too much longer

721
00:22:55,110 --> 00:22:52,559
after that that same

722
00:22:56,149 --> 00:22:55,120
hour uh my commander said sonny come up

723
00:22:57,669 --> 00:22:56,159
to the flight deck

724
00:22:59,190 --> 00:22:57,679
um let me give you your little astronaut

725
00:23:00,710 --> 00:22:59,200
wings and congratulations you know you

726
00:23:02,470 --> 00:23:00,720
made it to space

727
00:23:03,590 --> 00:23:02,480
and i was all excited about that i flew

728
00:23:04,390 --> 00:23:03,600
up the ladder and i'm like chuckling

729
00:23:05,909 --> 00:23:04,400
because i'm like

730
00:23:07,990 --> 00:23:05,919
i'm flying up a ladder i'm not even

731
00:23:09,430 --> 00:23:08,000
walking this is so funny and then i get

732
00:23:11,350 --> 00:23:09,440
up there and there's the window and

733
00:23:12,149 --> 00:23:11,360
there's the earth and i mean it was just

734
00:23:13,990 --> 00:23:12,159
like

735
00:23:15,590 --> 00:23:14,000
breathtaking overwhelming when you see

736
00:23:17,750 --> 00:23:15,600
our planet that's

737
00:23:19,510 --> 00:23:17,760
round and you go oh those those teachers

738
00:23:22,230 --> 00:23:19,520
were right for one thing but

739
00:23:23,029 --> 00:23:22,240
second of all like that's it that's our

740
00:23:25,909 --> 00:23:23,039
little home

741
00:23:26,470 --> 00:23:25,919
that's it and it's that one right there

742
00:23:29,590 --> 00:23:26,480
and it's

743
00:23:32,789 --> 00:23:29,600
just beautiful it's alive it's moving

744
00:23:34,789 --> 00:23:32,799
you know clouds ocean green purple pink

745
00:23:36,950 --> 00:23:34,799
every color you can imagine it's just

746
00:23:38,549 --> 00:23:36,960
spectacular it takes your breath away

747
00:23:39,909 --> 00:23:38,559
and you'll do it again and again and

748
00:23:41,510 --> 00:23:39,919
again because every day is like a new

749
00:23:42,870 --> 00:23:41,520
day in space and you go to the cupola

750
00:23:44,870 --> 00:23:42,880
window on the space station

751
00:23:46,070 --> 00:23:44,880
yep that's it that's cool that's a cool

752
00:23:47,830 --> 00:23:46,080
planet down there

753
00:23:49,269 --> 00:23:47,840
did you ever wake up and be like oh wait

754
00:23:50,230 --> 00:23:49,279
it's not a dream like i'm really on

755
00:23:52,230 --> 00:23:50,240
space station

756
00:23:53,990 --> 00:23:52,240
you know one of the coolest things my

757
00:23:55,510 --> 00:23:54,000
father was a neuroscience

758
00:23:57,990 --> 00:23:55,520
scientist and he asked me the question

759
00:23:59,350 --> 00:23:58,000
about dreaming right and he said

760
00:24:01,350 --> 00:23:59,360
when you're up there do you dream you're

761
00:24:02,950 --> 00:24:01,360
back here or do you dream you're there

762
00:24:05,190 --> 00:24:02,960
and i was like that's a really profound

763
00:24:06,789 --> 00:24:05,200
question and i think dreaming part of it

764
00:24:09,430 --> 00:24:06,799
is experience right so

765
00:24:11,110 --> 00:24:09,440
i dreamed that i was there doing work up

766
00:24:12,470 --> 00:24:11,120
there or enjoying myself

767
00:24:14,870 --> 00:24:12,480
but every now and then i would dream i

768
00:24:17,029 --> 00:24:14,880
was home and after i got home sometimes

769
00:24:18,789 --> 00:24:17,039
i've dreamed about being there

770
00:24:20,070 --> 00:24:18,799
which is those are priceless moments

771
00:24:22,070 --> 00:24:20,080
because it's just

772
00:24:23,110 --> 00:24:22,080
magical awesome all right we're about

773
00:24:23,990 --> 00:24:23,120
out of time but i want to give you both

774
00:24:26,070 --> 00:24:24,000
a chance to kind of

775
00:24:27,590 --> 00:24:26,080
give last comments here uh just speaking

776
00:24:28,149 --> 00:24:27,600
to our audience um just think about

777
00:24:30,390 --> 00:24:28,159
audience

778
00:24:32,149 --> 00:24:30,400
of all ages uh what would you want to

779
00:24:33,909 --> 00:24:32,159
tell them about

780
00:24:35,190 --> 00:24:33,919
this mission about being an astronaut

781
00:24:37,190 --> 00:24:35,200
i'll just leave it to you guys

782
00:24:38,950 --> 00:24:37,200
um whatever you want to kind of say

783
00:24:41,029 --> 00:24:38,960
sunny you want to go first and john sure

784
00:24:42,230 --> 00:24:41,039
i'll take just a quick second because

785
00:24:45,350 --> 00:24:42,240
i'm talking too much

786
00:24:48,230 --> 00:24:45,360
but i'm so excited to be part of this

787
00:24:49,029 --> 00:24:48,240
i invite anybody everybody to be part of

788
00:24:51,510 --> 00:24:49,039
all of this

789
00:24:52,470 --> 00:24:51,520
i mean space travel space exploration is

790
00:24:54,630 --> 00:24:52,480
for everybody

791
00:24:56,390 --> 00:24:54,640
doesn't matter what your background is

792
00:24:57,990 --> 00:24:56,400
what you do you know humans living in

793
00:24:58,549 --> 00:24:58,000
space that means everything that we do

794
00:25:01,029 --> 00:24:58,559
on earth

795
00:25:01,909 --> 00:25:01,039
we have to do in space so human space

796
00:25:05,029 --> 00:25:01,919
exploration

797
00:25:07,590 --> 00:25:05,039
is super cool and very inclusive and

798
00:25:09,510 --> 00:25:07,600
we want new and innovative ideas from

799
00:25:10,710 --> 00:25:09,520
everybody out there so please join us

800
00:25:12,149 --> 00:25:10,720
tomorrow

801
00:25:14,390 --> 00:25:12,159
for an amazing launch and i hope it

802
00:25:16,230 --> 00:25:14,400
inspires you all

803
00:25:19,029 --> 00:25:16,240
i'm gonna i have to tag on to that sonny

804
00:25:20,870 --> 00:25:19,039
because it's such an important message

805
00:25:22,470 --> 00:25:20,880
you know everything we do here at nasa

806
00:25:24,549 --> 00:25:22,480
is for the betterment of

807
00:25:25,590 --> 00:25:24,559
you know not just this nation but

808
00:25:27,990 --> 00:25:25,600
humanity

809
00:25:28,950 --> 00:25:28,000
for our planet we only have one every

810
00:25:31,990 --> 00:25:28,960
everyone that we've

811
00:25:35,510 --> 00:25:32,000
loved and lived is here

812
00:25:38,310 --> 00:25:35,520
and this historic day we are

813
00:25:38,870 --> 00:25:38,320
beginning regular missions to the space

814
00:25:40,549 --> 00:25:38,880
station

815
00:25:42,149 --> 00:25:40,559
low earth orbit through commercial

816
00:25:45,669 --> 00:25:42,159
providers that is

817
00:25:46,230 --> 00:25:45,679
monumental for this nation but it's good

818
00:25:48,070 --> 00:25:46,240
for

819
00:25:49,430 --> 00:25:48,080
our international partners that we

820
00:25:51,510 --> 00:25:49,440
collaborate with

821
00:25:53,350 --> 00:25:51,520
and it wouldn't be possible without the

822
00:25:54,950 --> 00:25:53,360
thousands and thousands of people

823
00:25:57,350 --> 00:25:54,960
who aren't named who you don't always

824
00:26:01,029 --> 00:25:57,360
get to see who work behind the scenes

825
00:26:04,789 --> 00:26:01,039
but have an absolute hand in making this

826
00:26:05,750 --> 00:26:04,799
successful so chase your dreams and a

827
00:26:07,909 --> 00:26:05,760
big thank you

828
00:26:09,430 --> 00:26:07,919
for the public for everyone who supports

829
00:26:09,990 --> 00:26:09,440
us and especially the people and the

830
00:26:12,070 --> 00:26:10,000
engineers

831
00:26:13,350 --> 00:26:12,080
technicians who make this all possible

832
00:26:15,430 --> 00:26:13,360
yeah awesome thank you

833
00:26:16,470 --> 00:26:15,440
sunny johnny can't thank you enough it's

834
00:26:17,750 --> 00:26:16,480
been a pleasure

835
00:26:19,750 --> 00:26:17,760
i'm sure you'll have fun watching

836
00:26:21,430 --> 00:26:19,760
tomorrow uh excited to see you fly

837
00:26:22,470 --> 00:26:21,440
sometime soon sunny and johnny excited

838
00:26:24,070 --> 00:26:22,480
to see your next

839
00:26:25,669 --> 00:26:24,080
whenever you get seated we're excited to

840
00:26:27,029 --> 00:26:25,679
see you fly as well and we'll all be

841
00:26:28,630 --> 00:26:27,039
cheering you both on

842
00:26:30,149 --> 00:26:28,640
in the coming days and for now that's

843
00:26:32,470 --> 00:26:30,159
gonna do it for us madison we'll send it

844
00:26:34,470 --> 00:26:32,480
back into you

845
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thanks so much joshua and i just want to

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give a special thank you to our guests

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johnny and sunny for joining us for the

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virtual nasa social

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don't go anywhere we still have two more

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shows left

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in our virtual nasa social coverage you

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can join me again

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right here at 3 30 pm eastern and we

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will be

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speaking with the lead design engineer

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she is part of the commercial crew

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program and just a reminder

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tomorrow november 14th for live launch

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coverage you can tune in at www.nasa.gov

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live beginning at 3 30 eastern time for

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that 7

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49 p.m eastern time launch thanks

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everyone and i'll see y'all back here at