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they asked if you'd love doing your job

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yes it's wonderful to work in space ever

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since i saw apollo 11 at luna landing

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when i was five years old i always

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longed for going to space and work and i

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hear a dream came true i had to study

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hard and work hard but i'm so happy to

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be here and i love loving living here

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and working with so many wonderful

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uh the uh

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just a couple of logistical questions

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how long did it take from the time of

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launch how long did it get

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uh well mr president let me answer that

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in two uh

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two ways first of all it takes us about

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eight and a half minutes to get to orbit

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and at that time we're going 17 500

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miles an hour but we're in a bit of a

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tail chase with the space station and

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it's approximately about a day and a

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half to two days later that we actually

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okay so

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eight minutes just to get into orbit

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but then you've got to

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basically try to to catch up with the

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space station

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and match up so that you can uh you can

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exactly right

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okay

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anybody have any more questions

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what's your favorite or the most

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interesting experiment you're working on

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okay do you guys have a favorite

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that's a really tough question because

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they're all interesting in different

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ways mike and i were doing a flame

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experiment we were trying to to help the

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scientists on the ground understand how

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fire behaves up here there's all kinds

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of reasons for that so that was

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interesting because it's sort of an

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unusual environment to intentionally put

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a fire

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i think one of the ones i like the most

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is an experiment that we're doing on

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ourselves to try and understand how our

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nutritional state changes in our

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biochemistry changes and that'll help us

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design food and understand a little bit

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more about the processes that the human

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body undergoes that's probably my

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favorite one but there's all kinds of

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interesting things in all of the

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now can i ask you a question

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were you tempted to cut your hair

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shorter

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while you were up there uh or do you

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uh is it fun and well that's a really

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good question because it is a little bit

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of an overhead to take care of long hair

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here um i think you know ideally a short

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haircut is the way to go but quite

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frankly on me it wouldn't be so nice so

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i i think it's a real fashion statement

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hold on one second we've got we've got

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how much spare time do you have on the

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day in the day

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how much how much spare time do you have

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they do keep us pretty busy up here and

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we have a very tight schedule that

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starts from the moment you wake up until

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the moment you go to sleep

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but they give us a little bit of time in

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the morning to uh to get yourself ready

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get yourself cleaned up have some

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breakfast and the same in the evening so

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we can use that time to either call down

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to our family and friends or maybe even

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check our email and see how things are

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going back on earth

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now that's interesting does uh does

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email

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uh work

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mr president

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on the planet knows that the email is

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pretty important way for us to keep in

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touch with each other

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even though we're really far away and

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traveling really fast we still use email

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also unfortunately we only synchronize

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our emails uh once or twice a day

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sometimes three times a day so it's not

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as fast and instantaneous as we are used

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to on the ground but even so it's a

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really useful way to get in touch with

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other people in addition we have a kind

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of an internet over uh voice over

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internet protocol telephone so it's

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really nice that we can get a chance to

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talk to our families not 24 7 but when

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we do have good satellite coverage we do

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get the chance to call home and that for

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those of us who stay up for a long time

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that's what's really really important to

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excellent

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all right well i know that uh you guys

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probably have a whole bunch of stuff to

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do but i look i think that we may have

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one more question from uh a member of

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thank you very much um my name is

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suzanne kosmas and i actually represent

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central florida the area that includes

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the uh kennedy space center so i want to

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first thank you on behalf of all

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americans for your service to us and uh

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for what you represent in terms of

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america and our supremacy in space

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exploration um along with our

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international partners and for what

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you're doing there at the international

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space station i had the honor of being

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at the kennedy space center last week

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when you took off and it was a fabulous

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abs absolutely fantastic launch and um

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we so i wished you a do from there and

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now i'm wishing you hello from here um i

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want to thank you again for your service

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and tell you how excited i am to be

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representing the kennedy space station

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in that area but also for what you do

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that inspires people to be interested in

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the science and technology that has led

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us to this pioneering place where you

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are and um the things that we anticipate

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that we will be able to reap from your

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service

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i'm very thrilled about particularly uh

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the idea as the president has said of

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alternative energies the fact that

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you're using solar panels in space what

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we're hoping in the long run that you

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will be able to from space use solar

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energy to come back to earth and um

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again i'm thrilled to be here and very

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excited to have the opportunity to talk

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to you and um thank you so much for your

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well i think that uh thank you man we

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appreciate that and uh each one of us

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here is very lucky and honored to be

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right where we're at uh here today so

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the honor is all ours we're honored to

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well i think all of us echo the

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sentiment uh we are extraordinarily

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proud of you we're so grateful that you

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took the time to

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to speak to all of us i know these young

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people

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are are pretty excited to be on a direct

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link with the astronauts in space so

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all right they they all they're all

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beaming and

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and we appreciate you guys so uh look

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forward to seeing you when you're back

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on the ground

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god bless you

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thank you mr president on behalf of the

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space shuttle discovery crew here in the

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dark blue shirts i

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want to say we're very honored that you

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spent uh some time with us today uh it

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meant a lot to us we thank you very much

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and from uh from one chicago guy to

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another i wish you well sir and uh for

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the closing comments i'll pass the

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microphone off to uh commander mike fink

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the commander of the international space

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thank you

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mr president i'm not from chicago i'm

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sorry about that but uh my crew and i

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were

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really happy to have a chance to talk to

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you and share our adventure with even

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more people it's pretty impressive what

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human beings can do when we work

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together constructively and not

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destructively and that's the mission of

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the international space station so

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thanks for joining us thanks for flying

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with us at 17 500 miles an hour today

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and we're sure we're glad to have a

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chance to share it with you and uh the

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distinguished members from from congress

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as well as all the kids out there so

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everybody thanks again for joining us

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thank you guys

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and discovery ifs this is houston that

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concludes the event uh thank you mr

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president discovery assets we are now