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in many ways living its face is just

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and in many other ways it's not one big

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difference is how gravity seems to act

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differently we all know that on earth if

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you drop a ball gravity causes it to

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fall to the ground and if you jump into

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the air gravity pulls you back down we

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feel the effects of Earth's gravity here

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in space too but because we're all

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falling around the earth it makes it

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seem like we and everything else around

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us are floating it's the same thing

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that's happening to my friend on this

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trampoline each time he goes up he falls

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back towards the ground now watch what

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happens when he lets go of the ball it

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falls - but because they're falling

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together the ball seems to him like it's

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floating on the shuttle we are found in

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an endless circle around the earth so if

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you let go of something in space it

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doesn't fall to the floor because the

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floor is falling - and if you jump you

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won't come back down the way you do on

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the ground can you think of some ways

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that this could make living in space

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while we're in space the Space Shuttle

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would be our home it doesn't look much

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like home but it has very much the same

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comforts come on I'll show you your

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house on earth has a kitchen and so does

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the shuttle our kitchen uses a

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convection oven and hot water to warm

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our food each day we're in space we'll

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use this kitchen to prepare our

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breakfast lunch and dinner how many of

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you have been told to pick up your toys

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when you're finished playing with them

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or they'll get lost this is true in

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space too at home you probably have a

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closet or a box to put your toys and

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belongings in here on the shuttle we use

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these drawers for our things and

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whenever we finish using something we

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put it away so that we'll always know

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where it is these boxes with the sliding

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doors are our beds they don't look very

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comfortable but at the end of a long day

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they feel just as good as the bed in

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your room at home I know that most do

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you really want to ask how do you go to

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the bathroom in space well we go to the

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bathroom right here in what we call the

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WCS or waste collection system our

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toilet looks a little different from the

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one you have at home that's because

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going to the bathroom in space is just a

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little bit different than what we're

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used to on earth

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this toilet even has places to put our

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feet so that we won't float away the big

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question is where does the waste go well

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I'll show you

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the shuttles toilet has an airflow that

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pulls the waste into the bottom of the

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toilet where it stays until it can be

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properly disposed of later the toilet

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also has a urine collection tube that we

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use when we have to urinate

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and that is how we use the bathroom in

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space a lot of people ask us why do you

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go to space well we go to space for the

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same reasons that you go to school to

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work and to learn now the best way for

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you to see that is to join us for a day

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in space I'm sure you'll have fun so

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come on a day in space begins just like

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a day on earth

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we first have to get out of bed and then

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we have to take care of our personal

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needs back home a lot of people start

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their day by taking a bath or a shower

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but that doesn't work so well in space

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remember up here things float even water

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but we still need to stay clean because

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no one wants to spend eight days cooped

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up with someone who hasn't taken a bath

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so we take our bath with a soapy

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washcloth the same way you would wash

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your face on earth we can even wash our

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hair with a special shampoo that doesn't

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eat water another part of almost

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everyone's morning routine is breakfast

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it's the most important meal of the day

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this is true in space too and just

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because we're in space doesn't mean that

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we have to eat some kind of weird food

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this morning we're having a balanced

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breakfast of oatmeal scrambled eggs and

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another thing we still must do even

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though we're in space is brush our teeth

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but you can see that up here it can be

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more fun no matter where you are almost

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everyone has a job to do each day at

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this point in your life going to school

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is your job you are learning the things

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you'll need to know as you grow up we

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have jobs to do on the shuttle too and

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just like you are doing in school we're

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learning - our main job on this trip is

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to study the Earth's atmosphere this

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will help us to better understand

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changes that are taking place in the

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blanket of air that surrounds the earth

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while we're up here we are also going to

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launch and retrieve a satellite this

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satellite will help scientists to learn

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about the Sun and how it affects our

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earth when we're working in space we

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don't have a lot of room that means that

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we have to watch out for each other and

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work together as a team it's the same

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way you work together with your

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classmates in school we all know that

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the best results happen when we work

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together but whether we're in space in

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school or anywhere else we have to

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remember that little things we do can

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affect others just think what it would

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be like if a crew member were careless

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and broke or lost a tool that someone

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needed for an important experiment can

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you think of some things like that that

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have happened in your classroom daily

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exercise is important and on earth most

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of us get all the exercise we need by

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doing things that are fun but it's not

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the same in space just think if you

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could float everywhere you want it to go

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your arms and legs wouldn't have to work

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very hard and soon they would become

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weak that's what it's like in space so

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we have to exercise each day to keep our

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eating dinner in space is something we

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look forward to not just because we're

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hungry but because it gives us a chance

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to spend time together when we're not

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working time for relaxation is important

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too so that we can get our minds off our

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work what kind of things do you like to

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do to relax well boys and girls it's

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been a long day in space and I need to

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get my rest to be ready for a big day

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tomorrow too

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we're glad that you could spend this

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time with us and we hope that you've

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learned that living in space is not so

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much different from the things you do

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everyday at home while we're sleeping

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why don't you and your classmates talk