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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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if you're just joining us for the first

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time today we want to tell you a little

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bit more about the launch that is

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at 7 49 pm eastern time so back in may

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thank you madison yes i'm nasa

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testa sam thank you for being here today

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thank you so much for having me

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well it's been a pleasure now can you

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as a whole yes astronaut centrifuge

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support system to get to where i am

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what can you share with my twin

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daughters about the best route of

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gone into this interviews training that

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discussed yeah what did they say about

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it they thought

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um that the training has gotten much

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better you know we start with a testing

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point with a generic profile and then

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realistic profile as we get data from

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the flown vehicles

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and this last centrifuge training was

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our highest fidelity yet

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and we got really positive feedback from

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the crew who have flown

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both from shuttle and on the soyuz

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saying that it was very realistic

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and that they think it's going to be a

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very positive training for the crew to

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experience prior to day of flight

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awesome i'm sure that speaks to you and

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your team you love to hear that it's an

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amazing team of people

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and it couldn't be done without any of

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them you know this team is really a very

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high functioning group

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and i'm absolutely honored to be a part

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of it and we have another question from

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nasa social what is your personal next

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goal

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what's after this oh so that's a good

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my ultimate goal personally is to be an

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astronaut myself

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i just applied to the crew the crew call

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late last year i believe is when it came

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out or early this year is when it

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but unfortunately because of covid they

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are on pause with the program right now

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to

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be accepting new candidates however they

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are hoping to reopen it in spring of

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next year

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um where you know i'm one of 12 000

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who applied so it's really just keeping

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my fingers crossed and

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we'll see but that would be my ultimate

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goal well that's a big next step but i

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think you're on the right track

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with the training you've got going on

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you've already done the simulator

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so that's awesome and i think that's

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testament to just

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you know always following what comes

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next at nasa just saying yes to things

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you're going after your dreams and we

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love to see that here we did have one

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question though specifically on what did

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you study in school

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i was a mechanical engineer in college i

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went to villanova university up in

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i did my undergraduate and my master's

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degree out there

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that's awesome so just one of the many

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degrees you can get for a job like this

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yeah there's all kinds of different

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engineering degrees and

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if you decide to go and be an engineer

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you know take your time to figure out

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what type of engineering is right for

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you

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still maybe in middle school high school

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preparing they're not at college yet

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what should they do to find out they're

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interested in stem

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there are a lot of great you know youth

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programs and student programs out there

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for kids who may

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be interested in stem you know there's a

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lot of science and math involved but

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if if your school doesn't have something

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make sure you do your research you know

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nasa has a lot of

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student programs that you can engage in

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both in person and

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online so even if you don't live near a

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nasa center they have programs for you

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well sam it's been great speaking with

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you today i have one final question that

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i love to ask everyone

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where will you be watching launch from

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oh i'll be at home

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sitting in front of my tv just holding

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my breath watching this crew

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launch from here at 39 on

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saturday night well that's so exciting

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and such a good thing to note too that

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you know even if you work at nasa

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so many of us are watching it from here

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from tv from the internet

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and it's just important to be a part of

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it in any way you can and experience it

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on whatever platform you can yes all

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right well thank you sam for joining us

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we are live at the gantry i'm allison

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tankersley i'm a throwback to you

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madison what can our viewers expect next

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thank you so much allison and thank you

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sam for joining us and answering

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some viewers questions uh so if you are

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want to note down this time in your

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tomorrow at 3 30 p.m eastern time that's

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november 14th at 3 30 pm eastern time

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you can head to www.nasa.gov backslash

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live for the beginning of our live

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launch coverage

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if you joined us for the demo 2 launch

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back in may you might remember

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you'll get to see the crew kind of get

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their final

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suit checks you'll get to see them walk

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out of the astronaut crew recorders and

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then make their way to the launch pad

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ahead of launch which is currently

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scheduled for 7 49 pm

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eastern time thank you all so much for

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joining stay tuned for our final show

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today

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which will begin at 4 30 eastern time

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it's a really awesome show

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talking with some students who have an

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experiment that will actually be flying

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on board the mission