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as a centerpiece of cooperation in space

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exploration the international space

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station reached a milestone on december

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4th 2008 as nasa and its partner nations

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celebrated the 10-year anniversary of

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the first construction mission

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the commander of that first space

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shuttle flight to the station was

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astronaut bob cabana now director of

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nasa's kennedy space center in florida

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cabana recalls vividly that first

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arrival at the fledgling station

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we finally got all the hatches

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open and we're up to the main hatch

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going into node one

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and we opened a hatch and sergey

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krieklov was with me and i just

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waved my hand toward the hatch and the

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two of us entered together and i think

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what it talks about on the space station

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is international cooperation you know

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there wasn't a first person in it was we

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went in together and when you look at

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you know japan

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canada the european space agency and all

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its partners russia

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and you take all those different

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cultures and people and hardware built

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around the world and it comes together

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for the first time on orbit and it works

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flawlessly

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that's phenomenal the engineering of

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it's phenomenal but when you throw in

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the cultural differences and that we

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have worked together in space

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as partners through some tough times and

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some easier times for 10 years now

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that's amazing

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as the station's construction nears

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completion cabana reflects on the

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continuing work aboard the station

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right now

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24 hours a day seven days a week 365

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days a year we have humans in space

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exploring exploring how to work in that

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micro gravity environment of space in

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that harsh environment where it can be

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as cold as minus 150 or as hot as 300

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degrees you know and

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we're making things work we're doing

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real science and we're going to do more

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science when we get a larger crew up

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there we're proving the systems that we

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need and we have a an excellent

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international cooperative partnership i

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think folks need to know that we can

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work together and that

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you know it's not just when the shuttle