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we'll go ahead and go to questions here

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statement and we'll start with mark

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good morning what questions your Sacko

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enthusiasm about the opportunity to

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leave academia to pursue some research

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in space including your experimental

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zeolites I just wonder how you assess

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that experience now was it worth the

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training the launch delays has the

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mission been long enough for your work

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and you might just comment on your

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zeolite experiment do you think it's

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benefited tremendous time about standing

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results it's going to be difficult for

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me to comment exactly on what those

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results are going to be they look pretty

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good so far based on what I can see but

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we really have to go back to the lab and

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use an electron microscope and some

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other pretty sophisticated equipment to

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look at just how long these crystals

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have grown but on a quick look based on

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what you can see with the eye everything

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seems to be going very very well I'm

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real excited about that learned an awful

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lot about doing things in space which is

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a little different that I had imagined

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pretty well and that's what I'm here for

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I'm here to learn and pass on to my

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other colleagues or the future they can

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do well so if we do want with the

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zeolite space experiment which I fully

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expect we will I think that we can have

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some major breakthroughs down the road

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it takes some time we don't we can't run

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able to iterate off the results that I

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giving us our lead the right direction

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Terra Colombia stand by for Marshall PA

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TV here in Huntsville my question is for

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dr. Leslie dr. my question is to get you

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to please comment on the role that

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Marshall has played in this mission we

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know that the folks here in Huntsville

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have overseen a lot of the experiments

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their comment on the support that you

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ground at Marshall well the support from

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the science side we did a lot of our

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fly itself the payload operations

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control centers provided a tremendous

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amount of support in replanting our

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activities and keeping the science going

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so Marshalls made a tremendous

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Berkey with the huntsville times dr.

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leslie if you could tell me what the

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benefit is of having gotten a chance to

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go up yourself and do your science

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instead of simply sending someone up

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watching the the flows being generated

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speak there's data coming down and I'm

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year or so going over that data with the

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co-investigators and we'll have a great

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look at it Martin Burke again even out

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Pennington at one point said that he

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thought this mission might be sort of

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like watching grass grow and that's okay

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about the importance of doing this basic

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science that's hard to illustrate to

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watching grass grow and scientists are

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excited about watching science

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experiments take place so maybe I'm an

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optimist but I think the number of

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experiments we've been doing here for

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it and finally dr. Leslie if you could

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specifically what it was like I mean

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when you first reached orbit that very

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first moment that you you know began to

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experience space around 3GS and we're

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killing that lie on our backs we're

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filling that to our chest but it's no

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day or so it took a little getting used

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individuals but it took me about a day

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or so to to adapt to that and it feels

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getting back to and realistically

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speaking how much more time do you wish

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you had up there welcome to get back but

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in addition to that I guess a lot of us

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are missing our families I've got a two

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natural daughter and I'm real excited

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about getting to see her and hold her

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deck and I got a great chance to look

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comfortable and I certainly got enough

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tired of the view and it's a great way

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mission like this reporters always ask

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the sense philosophically this sort of

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television where we sit down six

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channels of digital video over one high

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still in the early stages of reviewing

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the data for most of the experiments but

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experiments we were looking at flames

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new things that we're not expected he

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called Terry with the West Kentucky news

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for the commander by the way thanks for

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landing this is Marsha Dunn of The

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life more livable and maybe along those

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lines the ground to air TV helped in

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terms of your family contacts could you

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well I think the we love our food up

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here but what I've learned on this

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flight is I didn't spend enough time in

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my menu and I repeated to me the items

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so variety on food I think is very

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important even things it's if you're not

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gonna like after eating the same thing

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several days in a row you're ready for a

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change the as far as the other thing

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that's very important to have a little

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bit of privacy and we've seen that with

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our sleep stations on board not all

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flights have them but that's very

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important and I think for station and

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when you start spending two or three or

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four months in space you've got to give

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people some privacy

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just so they can have a little bit of

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time alone and that'll make it much more

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productive and efficient in the long run

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I want to that what they know it'd be

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quite a bit different as we've been

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working pretty hard for two weeks this

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is kind of a sprint compared to a two

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month or three months or four months

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spin on orbit and so I think things

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would be a little bit different rather

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than have every minute point out to them

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to the detail we would probably have

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some more general goals to accomplish in

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a day or even a week and we would

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probably not be working 12 hours a day

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either because that could be that'd be

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pretty tough to maintain over that time

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so the question because of what you're

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going to do in your free time and I

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guess you need to come up with some sort

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of entertainment and he mentioned

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ground-to-air TV that would be one thing

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certainly a selection a greater

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selection of music and I personally

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would wish I would have brought a book

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along to read because sometimes it takes

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a little while to unwind after the days

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over and when you get into into the

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sleep station without anything to read

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you kind of have to let your mind wander

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a little bit and it's a little bit

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tougher that way and I think I could

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have learned something and enjoyed

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this is Vicki Vaughn with Reuters again

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I have a follow-up to Marshalls question

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Michael I'd like to know what kind of

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music you didn't listen to or what was

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available up there but my question is if

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I'm hoping maybe two of you could answer

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this if you were suddenly put in charge

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of a new mission USML 3 what changes

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would you like to make either in terms

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of scheduling or the science aboard

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anything maybe any broad issue that you

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would like to address or change on an

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upcoming mission Vicki though a long

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question let me see if I the beginning

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of it I think that's what kind of music

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or what selection we have actually each

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of us got to bring a selection of music

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with us and I'm not sure but I don't

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think we've done any exchanging yet but

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that certainly is an option as far as

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what other changes we've what other

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changes we might entertain well I took

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they mentioned a few of them as I said

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I'd like to bring along a Brook I don't

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think we have any complaints with the

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scheduling whatsoever for the length of

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mission that we have it was not too much

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work yet it was enough and I think we

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really got a lot of bang for our buck

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with the science teams so I think that's

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that's something that I would not change

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now as I said if we were going to step

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it up that long ago we might slack off a

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little because it this is a pretty

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sprint type pace it would be tough to

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maintain over a much longer period and

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well I was three it would be longer once

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we got up here to do some of the

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experiments that we've been practicing

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and talking about and planning and

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trying to figure out exactly what is the

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best way to do them up here on orbit

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when you actually get to do them it's a

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wonderful thing I just feel like I'm up

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here doing what I like to do and that's

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great for me so it'll be a longer

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mission certainly and I guess so I would

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probably do a lot more exchanging on

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music yes for commander Bowersox I guess

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the weather forecast isn't all that

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optimistic for Sunday landing here if

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you land Monday you'll break the shuttle

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record for a long duration flight

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can you just two things can you discuss

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a your readiness to land after this long

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of a flight you know how you stay in

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shape I realize you exercise and use

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pilot but just your general views on

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landing after a long flight and broader

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than that what is the state of knowledge

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now about how long you think a pilots of

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the shuttle can stay weightless and

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still perform properly when you pull

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jeans coming back down the biggest

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concern that we have out there somewhere

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where as he's coming back his vestibular

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system causes them to get uncoordinated

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and he loses that programming that's

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been built into them over years and

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years and years of training and so he

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makes a mistake on the landing what we

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do to make sure that programming is good

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is we we work on it a lot pre-flight

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I've got over a thousand approaches in

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the shuttle training area seeing out the

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window I've seen that the view looks

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just like the shuttle training error is

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that that programming in me is good as

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far as how long that that to my last I

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got

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it's probably out at 3040 days I know

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I've gone as long as four months without

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planning the shuttle training and I

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jumped in and everything works fine

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I make reasonable landings on my first

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attempt but we're still working on a lot

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of unknowns with the microgravity aspect

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and that's why we're doing kind of a

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gentle build-up that we've gone from 11

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days to 13 days to 16 days and maybe one

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of these days we'll get out to 17 18 or

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even longer

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I think that's gonna be possible but

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it's we want to use our heads we want to

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do it in a common-sense fashion and with

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a nice gradual buildup this is Michael

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cabbage with Florida today and my

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question is also for commander Bowersox

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and it's kind of a follow-up of an

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earlier question on all prior shuttle

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landings nASA has gotten c-band radar

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tracking support from the Air Force's

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Eastern range but because of a Titan

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launch scheduled for Saturday night at

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the Air Station this will be the first

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landing not to have that data available

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does that create any additional concerns

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for you we've looked into it and we

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think it's a reasonable thing to do

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where we always like to do things the

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best way we possibly can and that's the

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c-band beacons when when they're

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available but when we have to go to a

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fallback we go to a fallback we try to

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be flexible that's what we're doing at

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this situation just trying to be

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flexible with our operations and I think

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what we're doing is very reasonable we

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call Terry with the West Kentucky news

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for Katie this mission seems to be going

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real smooth the stars of science is

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concerned in fact I kind of liken it to

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it's like the Apollo 17 of shuttle

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missions can you comment on how

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sophisticated you think this is this

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the last part I question I'll pick it he

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restricted it yeah

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can you comment on how how sophisticated

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you think this mission is in the way of

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experiments we have on board

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and we built a lot of contingency time

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into our time to take care of that well

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we haven't used any of that for

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contingency so we've been able to

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collect a lot of data I think that we

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weren't expected to get captain Coleman

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training for Spacelab mission of course

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is a real sprint for a couple years you

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guys work around the clock and then you

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finally get up on the mission and you're

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working dual shifts to do all this you

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have a chance at all or have you had a

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chance yet to think about versus reality

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this is Michel cabbage with Florida

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today and this question is for anyone

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Debbie Brown in the aerospace education

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opposite JSC said the idea for holding

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the interactive sessions with high

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school students first was suggested by

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crew members and my question is who

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initially came up with this idea and do

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you think this is a worthwhile teaching

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method that should be repeated on future

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because I'm the a commission I guess in

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a group but it's the one that we're

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talking about how we all got here and in

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that course of the conversation decided

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that science isn't really for greets

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which is a general perception up against

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people today and we thought we'd bring

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that home because young people look up

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to the astronaut corps we'd bring it

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home by bringing some of the science

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we're really doing which is world class

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science and have some of the kids do

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very similar things and interact with

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them so it was really an idea that was

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bred from all of us at Kathy - it went

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forward with it and pushed it and we

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were able to get her on board and I has

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an activation and an educator hope we'll

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do it the future I hope the kids

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benefited from but I certainly did and I

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think it's very important this country

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we keep these kids excited about math

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and science because that is will bring

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this country as a leader into the 21st

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century and we all have to keep that

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mind all the time but it was really

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great and we had a lot of fun and I just

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hope the kids good as well okay you have

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said you had two dreams one to be a

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teacher and one to fly in space now

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you've done both do you have a third

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dream not the least of which is to grow

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some of the largest for perfect zeolites

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that haven't been grown hope to do that

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on this flight there are a lot of things

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there had to be as an individual I have

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a lot of development to do I need to

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talk to a lot of kids which I hope to do

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and not to get them excited about math

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and science and the future is out here

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as I look at the cosmos and see what's

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around I realized that the universe is

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really our playground and we need to

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take advantage of it

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to get kids excited about it moving

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forward so that's one of the things that

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one of the messages are becoming

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hopeless okay

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commander how has now been is a

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companion in space I can't imagine a

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better crew member on board it now of

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course prejudiced people they're both

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really good guys but I'll brings a

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certain fire to the crew a certain

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spirit he's a lot of fun he's always

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joking around and his wife makes great

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spaghetti okay well any chance the

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flight will be extended at all for a

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couple days maybe we'll get an extra day

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so hoping for that because we all feel

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great none of us are tired what time we

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have a lot of things we accomplished a

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lot of things and would like to just

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00:26:24,269 --> 00:26:21,129
keep it going

545
00:26:26,369 --> 00:26:24,279
I thought the training you received

546
00:26:28,409 --> 00:26:26,379
getting up there is it was the training

547
00:26:29,789 --> 00:26:28,419
exactly what it is like up there in

548
00:26:38,219 --> 00:26:29,799
space or have you been caught by

549
00:26:40,259 --> 00:26:38,229
surprise at all good it really was

550
00:26:42,629 --> 00:26:40,269
excellent they told us exactly what to

551
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:42,639
expect sometimes we come up here and I

552
00:26:46,589 --> 00:26:45,129
was not expecting some things that they

553
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:46,599
thought were gonna expect because I just

554
00:26:51,839 --> 00:26:48,129
felt that that probably wouldn't happen

555
00:26:53,639 --> 00:26:51,849
and sure you know experience always good

556
00:26:54,899 --> 00:26:53,649
so a lot of these folks have experience

557
00:26:57,989 --> 00:26:54,909
that's what they learn about the crews

558
00:26:59,849 --> 00:26:57,999
and so what you have is training that

559
00:27:01,409 --> 00:26:59,859
really is specific for what you're doing

560
00:27:02,999 --> 00:27:01,419
and it's very very good and I haven't

561
00:27:06,479 --> 00:27:03,009
had any surprises at traps of

562
00:27:08,549 --> 00:27:06,489
vibrationally I know commander Ken

563
00:27:11,729 --> 00:27:08,559
Bowersox is with us as well on the line

564
00:27:22,499 --> 00:27:11,739
and Ken is is out pulling his load

565
00:27:24,989 --> 00:27:22,509
they're on board the shuttle great

566
00:27:26,609 --> 00:27:24,999
dehydrated spaghetti that she made at

567
00:27:30,029 --> 00:27:26,619
home and he's been doing an outstanding

568
00:27:32,099 --> 00:27:30,039
job in the science and weather despite

569
00:27:32,970 --> 00:27:32,109
his excitement about the science that

570
00:27:34,649 --> 00:27:32,980
we're doing that

571
00:27:36,629 --> 00:27:34,659
I'll just beams up when he's got

572
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:36,639
something going on in the glove box or

573
00:27:41,820 --> 00:27:39,010
on the DPN module or SUV any of the

574
00:27:43,259 --> 00:27:41,830
unities working on and that spirit rubs

575
00:27:46,289 --> 00:27:43,269
off on the rest of us and makes us

576
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:46,299
excited about the science too and Ken I

577
00:27:51,029 --> 00:27:48,330
know you've got over 500 hours in space

578
00:28:02,669 --> 00:27:51,039
does it ever get routine or is it

579
00:28:04,259 --> 00:28:02,679
exciting every time you go up it wasn't

580
00:28:07,620 --> 00:28:04,269
my first fight and I'm looking forward

581
00:28:09,870 --> 00:28:07,630
to seeing it some more how do you sleep

582
00:28:16,169 --> 00:28:09,880
are you tied in or you just pretty much

583
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:16,179
find an open corner we have they look

584
00:28:20,820 --> 00:28:18,250
like kitchen cabinets you could open a

585
00:28:23,759 --> 00:28:20,830
door and crawl in and they're very

586
00:28:25,470 --> 00:28:23,769
comfortable they have liners it you just

587
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:25,480
sort of the ultimate waterbed you know

588
00:28:29,669 --> 00:28:27,970
you just float there and I have to

589
00:28:31,379 --> 00:28:29,679
listen to music all night orally at

590
00:28:33,659 --> 00:28:31,389
least about all night for an hour or so

591
00:28:35,100 --> 00:28:33,669
before I go to sleep sometimes do some

592
00:28:37,129 --> 00:28:35,110
reading and that that drift off to sleep

593
00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:37,139
it's very comfortable

594
00:28:43,110 --> 00:28:41,289
what about any motion sickness stomach

595
00:28:49,860 --> 00:28:43,120
problems how have you been faring as far

596
00:28:51,389 --> 00:28:49,870
as your health goes expected to have

597
00:28:53,250 --> 00:28:51,399
maybe a little bit of an upset stomach

598
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:53,260
and I feel so well the first few days

599
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:55,450
and I went a couple of periods where I

600
00:28:58,500 --> 00:28:57,130
felt like I was not going to feel good

601
00:29:00,330 --> 00:28:58,510
but I just took the advice of my

602
00:29:02,700 --> 00:29:00,340
commander which was the slowdown and to

603
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:02,710
concentrate just relax a little bit and

604
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:04,570
it went right away and I didn't get sick