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welcome back to 90's daybreak high above

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us in space this morning the astronauts

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aboard the shuttle columbia are taking a

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break from their nonstop scientific

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research they're scheduled to end the 16

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day mission on sunday as colombia orbits

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the earth the crew and ground

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controllers have been conducting fluid

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crystal and other experiments almost

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around the clock but this morning while

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there is a short break in the action up

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there we have the good fortune to be

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joined in a live hookup through nasa by

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shuttle astronaut kent romiger who is

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from del norte colorado a small town in

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the san luis valley good morning to you

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before we get started i want to good

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morning to you all

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do you have any messages for friends or

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family here in colorado

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hey i'd just like to thank everybody in

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my hometown del oro colorado and

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actually the whole valley for all the

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support i understand when we went over

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three hours after launch the

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kids from my high school were on the

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field with a sign that said hi kent

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i wasn't able to see it but i've got

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photos of it maybe in the photos i'll be

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able to it'll show up

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great yeah they were i guess it was

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pretty neat well yesterday on one of our

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newscasts we asked viewers to call in

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and give us their questions whatever

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they would like to ask you so we'd like

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to pose a couple of them to you this

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morning one viewer wanted to know what's

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it like in outer space is it cold hot

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and how does it feel to float around up

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uh the floating around is tremendous

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i'll try to show you a little bit of

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that now you can see i'm floating right

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here and it really is one of the neatest

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feelings i've ever had

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as far as colder hot inside the space

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shuttle we keep the temperature very

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reasonable similar to what you have

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there on earth if i were outside if i

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were not in the sun it would be close to

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100 degrees negative fahrenheit and if i

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were in the sun it could be several

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hundred degrees warmer than that but

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inside here it's very comfortable

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can't another viewer wants to know what

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does it feel like when you lift off or

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re-enter what does it feel like when you

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it's a pretty amazing sensation because

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when we lift off the there's a lot of

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rumbling

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a lot of vibrations and acceleration and

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as a matter of fact the most

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acceleration we have is right before we

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were in orbit so we're accelerating it

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three times meaning that if i weighed

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200 pounds on earth i weigh 600 pounds

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just before the engines cut off and when

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they cut off i go from weighing 600

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pounds to zero pounds and free floating

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it's quite a sensation

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i can't imagine it's better than the

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best roller coaster i would guess well

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let's ask you one of the viewers wanted

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to know what kind of experiments you're

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involved with and how that might affect

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the several experiments on the mid deck

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i'm involved with and one of them is

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called astral culture which

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interestingly enough is growing five

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tuber potatoes and the sandless valley

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is potato country but the reason we're

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doing this is on this space station

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coming up and extended space travel

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it's a great idea to have plants and be

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able to grow our own food because the

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food takes advantage and cleans up the

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air takes the co2 out of it so we're

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using one of those experiments

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to see how the potatoes form in space

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see if their starch content is correct

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as well as the technology using it as a

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technology demonstrator to see the most

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efficient way to grow stuff in space

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kent one more question another viewer

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wants to know what kinds of things do

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you see up there as far as i i know

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you're surrounded by stars but have you

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i haven't seen comets but what is really

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interesting from up here are falling

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stars in

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the falling stars are below us so when

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we look at the earth at night we'll see

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these huge bright green and blue stars

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that burn it seems like for close to 10

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seconds as they're entering the

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atmosphere and blowing up

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well that's just terrific we want to

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thank you for joining us this morning i

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know your options are limited up there

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but you're going to do any

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trick-or-treating at all today i mean it

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is halloween

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costumes hopefully later on tonight

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we'll send down some video of

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our halloween party on board

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okay

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thank you for joining us we have lots of

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fans in colorado that are pulling for

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you have a safe return to earth next

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sunday i guess have a good one thanks

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kent

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happy halloween and thanks for all the

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support

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give me a minute

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redeploy the drop

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copy that two and three

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that's affirmative allen you'll probably

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still need to look at the z-axis and