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station this is wisconsin public radio

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we have you loud and clear mike and good

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to hear your voice

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it's great to hear yours too jennifer is

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here she says hello she's smiling and i

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well thank you very much yeah i just

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talked to them a little while ago and

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they're doing great at home uh and anna

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marie's definitely enjoying being a

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still taking a lot of pictures and how

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does northern wisconsin look from space

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well it obviously looks very different

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during the winter time

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instead of the darks of the forest and

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the lakes so get the whites of

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the snow and i know you've gotten plenty

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of snow up there i just passed over

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duluth superior oh a week and a half ago

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or so and i see the harbors about froze

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up so i enjoyed seeing that that's much

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different than the last time i was up

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here and yes i am taking lots of

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this is for all three of you

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perhaps engineer noguchi first

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do you feel like you're part of history

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completing the space station at least

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yeah it's actually quite an honor to be

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on board the station this time

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during our mission we're going to have a

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the new module coming up note 3 and a

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big window and also

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tj and i will start news soon to start

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keyboard module so i'm really happy to

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uh engineer kramer

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i was giving an opportunity to ask

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another if you needed to absolutely i

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a couple of things stand out the

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completion or the

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nearing the completion for sure

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as well as the international crew that

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we have is just a testament to everyone

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working together one big team

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accomplishing something that

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probably ranks as the largest

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engineering project that the world has

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ever seen

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in terms of how many people and how many

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countries are put together

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to make this happen absolutely part of

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history

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colonel williams told me the first time

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he was in space the veteran crew let him

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soak up the moment is this being your

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first trip

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is commander williams doing the same for

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i think i think the best thing to say

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about jeff is that

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he's mentoring us in in how to live in

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space and how to get

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get along with the the uniqueness of the

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environment

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um has encouraged us to experience the

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the living and and

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well the wonder that exists here for

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and engineering uh same question how is

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it working for commander williams is he

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yes uh yeah obviously uh well we've been

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a classmate since 1996 and uh it's great

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to have him

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on board he tell me everything how to

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live in space actually this is my second

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flight but the last time was a short

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duration flight and it's uh just a lot

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the difference to living in space

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station so he gave me a show me all the

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what'd you do for the crew for for

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well we celebrated first with the

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arrival of these guys and their russian

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crewmate all like max and i had been on

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board by ourselves for about three weeks

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after uh the last soyuz crew left

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arrived on the 23rd two days before

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and of course with a schedule like that

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gifts

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in fact they were dressed up for the

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part as well you might have saw their

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ingress video as they came in

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so two days later of course we

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celebrated christmas and like most folks

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around the world we celebrated it

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primarily around the dinner table

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we had some special food from all the

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countries represented here

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and just enjoyed our time

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we also invited the the ground team the

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mission control teams uh around the

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world on board to join us for the meal

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uh via video uh and thereby they could

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vicariously take part in it so we we

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just had a great time

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was this your first christmas from away

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and how do you how is it celebrating

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might have missed one or two other

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christmases on military deployments i

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christmas away on a space flight or in

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had the opportunity to have video

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conferences with our family on that day

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so we could partake a little bit in what

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our families were doing for christmas

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and mitigate the separation a little bit

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events like christmas and to to ponder

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the meaning of it and the traditions

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that we have and share behind it

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as you view the earth below it's

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an incredible experience and just adds

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i got a chance to talk to

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nasa chief administrator bold in moscow

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while i was there and he made a point of

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saying that he wants

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young people from small towns from small

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cities to get involved in nasa do you do

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that that's by you being up there that

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whoever is up here

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individual backgrounds that we all bring

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make an effort to get the word out and

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to show people what we're doing we are

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an open program open to the public

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people it's for the national countries

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that are represented here as well as the

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international partnership and on a

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broader scale it's for the whole world

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people to uh

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and be inspired to go beyond where

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otherwise they would go

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of course it's um you never tire viewing

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the earth from this vantage point and of

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spring and summer into the early fall

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the images of an entire year around the

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globe so i'm i'm definitely taking lots

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any studies in in that regard obviously

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public domain and it's used not only for

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general but also for a lot of scientific

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earth scientists and others use that

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photography for their purposes and i'm

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sure that the photography we're taking

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studies that you ask about

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enjoying the watching him take pictures

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tough job and uh probably i need maybe a

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month or so to people i get uh used to

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taking a picture so obviously uh jeff is

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the last mission this time also so

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from him about the taking pictures

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and flight one of the things i'll add to

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that is that we change our or we change

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oceans and not a whole lot of time

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over interesting places to take pictures

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the amount of activity that we do that

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that we're taking pictures shortly

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schedule for january i'm very much

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looking forward to it obviously we all

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have roots back to where we

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to those places in winter wisconsin of

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community is very close to my family and

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me and they're very supportive and of

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course i look forward to having this

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opportunity to chat not only with the

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students but the greater community there

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as they get to participate in a small

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oh you bet uh in fact i can do that

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what's going on and as always i've i've

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really appreciated the support and

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encouragement and enthusiasm that comes

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you have some great friends in the

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houston area too and it was a privilege

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we do have some great friends and course

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here and we have common friendships uh

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taking care of our families while

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they're while we're here so we're very

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appreciative of that and i was i'm very

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appreciative of you uh mike and jennifer

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kazakhstan i know there was some

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personal sacrifice in doing that it's

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not an easy trip to make and it was an

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honor to have you there to experience

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and witness that that very unique and

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it certainly was very unique and

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jennifer wishes you a happy new year i

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do too and thanks to

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engineers naguchi and kramer appreciate

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all right happy new year

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the wisconsin public radio

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portion of the event please stand by for

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station this is houston acr we've

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reacquired please stand by for a voice

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station this is the washington post how

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washington post we hear you loud and

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clear and we welcome you to the

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international space station thanks for

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joining us

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hey thank you

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uh it's great to talk with you guys up

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there in space 200 it's expedition 22

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your 222 miles up from earth i

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we're riding right around there that's

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that's true

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and i'm speaking with the commander jeff

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williams uh retired army colonel

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pj creamer

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also of the army and suicide noguchi

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thank you very much as tj said we're

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honored to be with you today

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from the international space station

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uh first off happy holidays merry

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christmas you guys it seems like you've

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been uh a little bit busy i know you

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spoke with

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the the troops in baghdad

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we saw a picture of you with your santa

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hats on it's the holidays now

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yeah we stay busy up here uh and even

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though our schedule's been a little bit

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lighter over the holiday period you

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yes uh let me just just start off here

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the way this works is we've put a notice

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up on our website and that you are going

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that have come in from various locations

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across the country

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so i'll proceed now

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to ask the first one uh and this one

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came via facebook from iowa

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and he says my son jacob who is eight

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years old wants to know who inspired

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each of you to be an astronaut

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can you start with uh that the commander

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that's a great question uh i was

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actually inspired uh by a variety of

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exposures i guess as a cadet at west

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point first i read the book the right

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stuff i had a professor who

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was

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on the way to experimental test pilot

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school and he was applying to be an

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astronaut at the same time that same

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year i met bob stewart a retired

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brigadier or major general bob stewart

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who was the first army astronaut that's

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when i realized that as an army officer

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there was a possibility of being an

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astronaut and i said it as a goal at

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that time that was in 1978

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and and pursued it from then on

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tj what about you this is t.j

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what about you

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my story is not a specific individual

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i'm old enough to have seen neil

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armstrong walk on the moon

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that was a bit of a spark and then

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through schools

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all levels of schooling the teachers and

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encouraged me in the math and sciences

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which was yet another spark

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and then when i got into the army he

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ended up flying which was yet another

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spark and everything kind of added up to

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being

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um a marriage of all the interests and

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that's how that all happened when i

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became seven years old in the army the

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army said what else do you want to do

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and i said research and development so

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they sent me a magazine and the inside

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back cover was an article entitled

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typical profile of an army astronaut so

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all those

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sparks kind of

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roared to life in a flame

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yes sir uh you know growing up in japan

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i i didn't think about the becoming an

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astronaut until uh growing up and uh i

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just love rockets and the spacecraft i

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studied those stuff and tried to be an

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engineer and then the early 90s japanese

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astronauts started to fly in the space

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shuttle like dr mori or dr

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mukai or dr doi and those guys said

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those pioneers

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basically inspired me to follow their

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past

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very good thank you um now we're going

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to get to some sort of nitty-gritty kind

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of questions that people want to know

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from longview texas someone wants to

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know here how do you take showers in

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well we do not take uh showers in space

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sometimes we say we're going to go take

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a shower but really it's a sponge bath

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we use just a little bit of water wash

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cloths we have a rinseless shampoo

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and rinseless body wash that is what we

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call it so it doesn't take a lot of

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water

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and but it's very easy using those means

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to stay clean

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up here

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for a long period of time but i have to

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tell you one of the things i miss after

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six months being up here is just a

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yes and then when when do you come back

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uh max arrive my russian crewmate and i

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are scheduled to depart here in the

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middle of march

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and now we'll land in kazakhstan on the

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soyuz spacecraft that we arrived on

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i launched from

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back in the end of september

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and do you all i mean this is the

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international space station so uh there

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are people from you know russia and

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other countries there how do you all

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uh mix and get along i mean our duties

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divided up do you socialize much or is

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it

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can you tell me how a typical day might

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my my best answer is the folks that are

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on board and we count literally as among

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our best friends

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um my russian crewmate oleg

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kotov along with suici we came up and we

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arrived just before christmas i think

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it's very fair to say that the sense of

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humor in both languages is wonderful

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outstanding to the point where

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you barely laugh occasionally and get

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tears in your eyes uh socialization we

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have lunches together in the america i'm

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sorry lunch together in the

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russian segment

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and in the evenings we have dinners over

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in the american segment so we make sure

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that we interact with each other and and

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help each other out in both sides of the

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station that we can often a great

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camaraderie that exists

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uh

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soichi can you answer this question how

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much space

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literally is there up there

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for you to to work in i mean it looks

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like you're the three of you are

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floating right now

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and you're in a relatively confined

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space i mean are other parts

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of the space station that you work in

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yes actually uh we are pretty

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comfortable

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i don't think we're confined but uh

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during the the walk uh walk time i have

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a big mojo called the japanese space

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station this is the size of a school bus

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and lots of experiment running and just

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keep track of all the stuff and uh jeff

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is mainly keep track of u.s mojo and

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tj also have a responsibility on the

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columbus model which is a european uh

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big science module so we have a pretty

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big cover to area to cover

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and how are you all uh adjusting to the

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zero gravity

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i mean it looks like right now you're

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oh yeah we're floating

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and the uh

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the the adjustment well there's a

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learning curve especially for new guys

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who go around crashing into things and

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or going too fast or something but

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the um

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the metabolics

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of of our adjustment are fairly well

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known we have fluid shifts that make us

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sometimes have moon faces we have bone

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loss and some muscle atrophy if we're

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not using them all the time

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but in terms of a day-to-day living it's

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wonderful to float it's a bit of a game

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to translate and hit your mark and hit

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the vector from that mark to the right

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place without crashing into people or

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other things

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the adjustment is is as predicted

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probably newbies have a little bit

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difficult time and we grow into it and

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we're working every day in order

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to establish countermeasures so we don't

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lose the the bone structure and the

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strength muscle strength that we need

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upon landing

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the president uh is going to launch his

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vision for nasa within weeks we hear

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reports say

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and uh

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to

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docket

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for the space station there

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um

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how do you see

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the future of the space station we

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understand there are five more missions

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well what you're talking about is five

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more assembly missions by the space

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shuttle to come visit the space station

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and complete its assembly and also

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outfit it for its full utilization

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supply it

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with spare parts etc

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and those are scheduled to be completed

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this coming year 2010 and after which

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the shuttle will be retired

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so we can free up those resources for

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the next chapter of of space exploration

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but the space station will continue

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we're well we're just starting now the

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utilization program of the space station

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next year we'll get into full

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utilization this past year we got to a

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crew of six

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which was the intended final uh crew

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compliment right currently we're at a

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crew of five but will return to six

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uh in april uh and i expect the space

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station to continue to fly

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and be this research facility that is it

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is uh for

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anywhere from five to ten years is my

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personal guess we're already committed

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for the next five years to 2015 and i

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think it's very likely that it will

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continue to go

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after that as an international

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partnership and parallel of course we'll

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be developing the new uh

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chapter if you will that will follow

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alongside and beyond the space station

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and that

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that direction will come out shortly as

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you said from the president

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williams creamer and noguchi thank you

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very much for taking time with us down

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here on earth we wish you all the best

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up there happy new year continued