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discovery international space station

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the president of the united states

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president welcome aboard the

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international space station where we're

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joined with our uh

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international uh crew from this space

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shuttle discovery welcome aboard glad to

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hear your voice we hear you loud and

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clear sir

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well thank you so much for

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uh taking the time to speak with us

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we've got a crew of wonderful

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uh school children here who are all

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interested in space and we've got uh

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some members of congress who are like

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big kids when it comes to talking to

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astronauts

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uh i i'm told that you're cruising at

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about 17 000 miles per hour so we're

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glad that uh

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mr president uh we go around the planet

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once every 90 minutes it's quite a quite

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a thrill and it is very fast and we see

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that that is unbelievable well the the

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first thing we want to do is just let

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you know how proud we are of you

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uh i've got to say especially

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once i found out that you're from

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the president was a beautiful place to

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grow up and i have a lot of roots that

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are still there

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well that's great the uh

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we are

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uh really excited about the project that

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you're doing my understanding is is that

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you are installing

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uh some additional solar panels on the

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space station

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and that's actually going to increase

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the number of

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people that can work out of the space

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sir that's correct we've roughly doubled

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the amount of

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of solar power available for

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experimentation and for supporting a

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larger crew and we hope to go to a crew

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of six and a more aggressive

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well this is really exciting because

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we're uh

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investing

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back here on uh on the ground

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a whole array of solar

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and other renewable energy projects and

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so to find out that you're doing this

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up at the space station uh is

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particularly exciting can can i ask

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how exactly do you end up

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installing

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these solar panels what's involved

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somebody want to give us a rundown on

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yes sir first it comes up on a truss

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segment which is about five feet long

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we use a robotic arm arm to attach it to

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the end of another truss segment and

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then once that's attached and bolted on

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through spacewalks then we'll go ahead

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and unfurl or actually deploy the

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solar arrays in the position so that we

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can unfurl them from inside during the

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how about how long does it take

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spacewalk you put it all together about

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six hours but to actually do the

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commanding to actually deploy them out

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to their full length only takes about

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well obviously we're really proud about

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uh the extraordinary work that uh our

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american astronauts are doing uh you

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you are a representative of the

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dedication and

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uh sense of adventure and discovery

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that you know we're so proud of but one

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of the things that's wonderful about

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this is that it is an international

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space station and i know that we have

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uh japanese and and uh russian

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uh counterparts on board as well uh uh

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we we'd love to uh

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say hello to them and

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uh hope that

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that this is an example of the kind of

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spirit of cooperation that

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you know we can apply not just in space

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yeah it's an honor to

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have a chance to talk with you mr

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president

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we have a russian crew member american

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crew member and i'm from japan and we

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have 15 countries working together in

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this wonderful project national space

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station as well as on the ground in

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space and this really symbolized the

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future of the scientific development of

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the world and i'm just happy to be part

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that's wonderful

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mr president we work together

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to everything it's really really

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important

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for us

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from the

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american russian japanese japan and to

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now i notice you're bouncing around

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quite a bit there guys

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uh are are you wearing uh uh something

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to strap you down or are you about to

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mr president uh we're just uh holding on

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with our toes uh onto some handrails

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below us and at any moment we could all

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just easily float up and that's one of

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the fun thing about

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about flying in space we get a chance to

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talk to a lot of kids and show them

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all the adventures that we have flying

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around

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it's also it's not just a lot of fun

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it's a little bit tough on our bodies we

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have to exercise and so we get a chance

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to talk to a lot of schools while we're

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up here schools all over the planet to

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yeah i hear that you're going to be

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talking to my alma mater puno school

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we're looking forward to that sir

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all right well you tell them aloha

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listen we've got a bunch of young people

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here i want to see if

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any of them uh

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have some questions

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anybody have a question over here okay

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this hold on we've got a young lady

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right here who's got a question

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did you hear that question they want to

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we're eating really well uh we eat a lot

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of uh it's prepared at nasa but it's

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kind of like a backpacking food it's uh

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dehydrated we rehydrate it and warm it

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up we also use a food similar to meals

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ready to eat that they use for the

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military and that

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a few of us ate last year when a

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houston do you guys still drink tang up

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i've got bill nelson here and he says

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that that's uh that's been taken off the

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any uh that's by the way before uh the

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time of uh you young people we used to

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drink tang uh we got a young man right

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here hold on one second

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can you play video games in space

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we can in fact in fact uh a few years

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ago when i was up here for six months i

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had a video game that i used to play in

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my spare time unfortunately we don't

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have much spare time so we can we have a

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lot of laptop computers but for the most

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part we we stay real busy doing uh real

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the uh

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tell us what kinds of uh experiments uh

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are you doing once you got the panel up

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uh what kinds of

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other activities are are you doing is it

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mostly just maintaining

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uh the craft uh or

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uh are are there certain experiments or

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well sir we have uh experiments already

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up here that we've been doing for many

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years and we'll be able to double that

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with the addition of the solar ray that

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our shuttle friends brought up we do a

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lot of experiments on combustion

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understanding materials understanding

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how you know we're guinea pigs so

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understanding how people's bodies change

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in space and all this is in preparation

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for long-duration missions to moon and

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mars the exciting thing about doing

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science up here is we really don't know

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what we don't know and that gives you

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the greatest potential for learning and

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we've had a lot of cases where people

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have set up experiments and we've

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conducted them here on the space station

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only to find out that we've learned

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something new something more

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about the fundamentals of this of the