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deborah houston you guys ready for the

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uh mike yes good uh i guess it's good

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endeavor houston com check

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mike you're loud and clear on board node

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okay nick i have you the same you guys

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we have you on the big screen down here

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all right uh fellas we appreciate you

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are participating in here you're oh you

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go that's really good you guys are you

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look you look awesome

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we've got some great questions here this

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was a major competition we got like

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thousands of questions and uh these are

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just a few that we we selected to ask

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you so we'll get right into it

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first thing is

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first question it's about the sounds and

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smells in space can you describe how the

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various parts of the shuttle or the iss

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how they smell and some of the sounds

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that that you hear that might might

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describe the environment further for

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well that's a good question mike

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obviously launch is really noisy but

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once you're in space um space itself is

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really quiet but the inside of the

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um is never quite this it's full of fan

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noise um everywhere you go there's a fan

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circulating air because there's no

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no convection that on earth is caused by

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biggest noise we notice um how about

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smells bob what do you notice up here

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well i think one of the most uh

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remarkable smells that you notice in

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space everything smells relatively

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similar uh except for food

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uh and then one other thing and that uh

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that second thing is the smell that you

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that was recently at vacuum i might i've

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heard it described as ozone-ish um also

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aluminum but the smell of coming into a

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an area that had just been a vacuum just

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is really unique and i haven't smelled

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just coming through the hatch or

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actually coming back in from an eva you

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walkers when they come in they really

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of brain power i just can't help to

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think causes that that smell of space

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i think the the smell that you get is

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actually all the hard work of uh the

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space walkers who are outside you know

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like yourself mike eight hours on a

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outside working and you can generate

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okay i have a way i like to describe

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that smell to people mike

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that that smell to me is to metal uh

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what the smell of toast is to bread if

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some outgassing going on there all right

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we're looking for funny moments were

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anything anything unusual anything funny

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the the funny the funny things are when

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when things that you think you had just

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ten seconds ago are gone and there's one

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thing i lost i still haven't found it

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five days later um

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so we're too busy to really

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speed but it is amusing to watch uh

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things and people fly around as as

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though their first time in a new

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environment and for many of us it is the

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flight was to see uh folks get to do

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floating around and try to work his way

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challenges of weakness uh weightlessness

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fun for me to share that experience with

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him as he uh went through it for the

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first time and for nick going out the

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hatch it was fun for me to watch him go

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experience that for the first time so

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the eva but

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it was fun for me to to be there for the

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first time a couple of folks got to do

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that's awesome and kind of following up

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the earth looks like i mean uh either

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spaceship is one thing but what did it

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things that are really impressive uh

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just the depth of the atmosphere and so

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had a dense cloud go over you but that

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shadow that it cast on the ground and

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all that remarkableness that you can

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through just a little small portal you

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to take that all in you have to take

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mental pictures because uh

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thinking about all the people who come

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the ground to get us into space and to

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great support team on your previous

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flights and uh we've had a huge support

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team and just to to know all those

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people are are rewarded and excited by

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the dark so i couldn't see anything at

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first except the underside of space

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station and endeavour which were lit in

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helmet you can see so much more than you

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horizon and towards you and then turns

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brilliant light uh it all happens

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extremely quickly and of course it

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really stunning sight from anywhere up

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nice job it's hard to describe it but

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you guys did really well and

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related to what you see during a

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lightning show that you get through the

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atmosphere i wasn't sure what i was

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atmosphere so it was a white moon behind

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those great descriptions of what you

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guys saw out there you know it's just an

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incredible experience and appreciate you

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sharing that with us and like you said

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make some more memories so uh great job

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next couple we'll be watching

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shift and we're still roughly on that

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when they're asleep

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but up here on on on station now that

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we've adapted to that sleep schedule

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we're more or less sleeping normally

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there just isn't as much time for it as

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for us mike it was like making a trip to

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tokyo

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right before we launched and uh we did a

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about three days

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before the launch we did the equivalent

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of uh transferring to uh almost uh tokyo

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time tokyo japan and and uh going

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through that is going to happen on the

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other end when we come back so i'm sure

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we'll not only be tired from the mission

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but we'll be tired from those two big

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sleep shifts as nick described when we

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well you have plenty of time to catch up

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when you get back to earth

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another question now

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comes from

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the las vemosos and i'm probably

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mispronouncing that

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sixth graders at the sherman middle

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school in madison wisconsin so this

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comes from a bunch of sixth graders so

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be prepared

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they want to know what do you weigh in

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well for a bunch of sixth graders they

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they asked some pretty tough questions

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for us uh you know i think nick and i

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probably have well over 30 years of

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education between the two of us and uh

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getting questions from sixth graders is

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always the most challenging uh of them

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all but i think nick just demonstrated

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and i think that we both uh could show

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that we uh

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we don't weigh much of anything while

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very nice demonstration but you know the

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sixth graders will probably be

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interested to

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although you don't weigh anything

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you still have mass you still have

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inertia so if you start something moving

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like if i take bob and i move him

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towards the camera it takes me a second

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to speed him up i have to take that same

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second to slow him down because he is

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massive and just as we all are he'll

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keep moving in one direction as long as

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there's no force acting on him so

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there's really some interesting physics

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to observe up here not just the weight

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but also the mass

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thanks bob

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well done boys

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uh moving on to a different topic

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uh

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your meals we have this this comes from

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uh chef casey wilson

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and uh

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he or she asks the chef asks what your

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meals consist of and is there anything

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specific that you asked to bring up that

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you're eating that's maybe a little bit

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well mike i think there's always a lot

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of interest in what type of food we

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actually eat on orbit and it's a mixture

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of of kind of camping food and military

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rations and kind of dehydrated things

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and so we've kind of got

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just about everything that you have on

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the ground just in a slightly different

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format that we either warm up or add

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water to and then warm up so those are

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kind of the two things that we have so

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nothing nothing too fancy as far as

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chefs go

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because we don't get to use all the the

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the fancy techniques we just get to add

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water or add heat and that's just about

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it for me

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i brought up some some chocolates that i

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like and i also brought up some

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breakfast rolls and some fresh fruit

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because one of the things that you don't

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have very much of up here like i said

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with all rehydrated or or food that you

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just warm up you don't get a lot of

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vegetables so it's a it is nice to to

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taste citrus and taste fresh fresh

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vegetables during the the week or two

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that you're actually on orbit and when

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we arrived with the for the station crew

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we actually brought them quite a bit of

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fresh food

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i don't think

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you can see any more of it here actually

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you can there's some of it stowed right

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above nick's head up here there's some

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oranges and some apples and some

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avocados and some lemons so a lot of

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fresh fruits that only get delivered

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when there's a a progress vehicle

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arriving or a space shuttle arrives to

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okay next question comes from uh

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and they want to know how long do you

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prepare for a for your flight how long

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do you guys prepare for your space

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well we've been training for about a

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year mike um we got assigned to this

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mission i think in

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december of

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2008 so we trained for just over a year

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before we launched but in a way we've

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been training for this for all of our

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lives bob and i are both engineers um

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bob's an air force flight test engineer

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and i'm a civilian

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mechanical engineer as you know because

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we were at school together

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but we have literally been training to

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be astronauts for the last um 30 or 40

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years through our education

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one of the things i was struck by

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yesterday when i was doing my space walk

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is that i think

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you probably can't feel really

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comfortable hanging from uh hanging from

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a space station 200 miles above the

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planet going about 18 000 miles an hour

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unless you're really confident in the

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physics that you'll just keep going

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around the planet and won't fall so in a

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way i think we've been training a long

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you know all that education that you

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guys have between you comes comes in

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handy

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next question

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is from

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taiwan media

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and uh the question is what times what

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types of experiments do you have on

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board what experiments are you guys

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doing i know you're busy with lots of

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stuff but if you have any time for

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well mike we do have a couple of

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experiment experiments with us and most

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of them are biological in nature really

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as far as our flight goes the space

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station is doing a quite a bit of

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additional work uh this is an assembly

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mission to the space station and so

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we're primarily focused on that but the

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the experiments that we do have we have

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one which is a a experiment to actually

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control viruses and so we have a

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they're in a contained vessel and we

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cycle them through their process trying

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to activate them and then deactivate

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them inside their canister to understand

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what the effects gravity have gravity

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has on those viruses

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we also fly a a big freezer

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it's called a glacier and it keeps

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biological samples really cold and also

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allows us to transfer new science

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materials either to the station or back

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down from the station and so just uh the

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day that we arrived i opened up that

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freezer and exchanged some samples that

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uh jeff williams the commander of the

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space station right now had on board and

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swapped those out and i know there'll be

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a large number of blood samples and

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other samples from the crews that have

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been on orbit to make sure that they've

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been healthy and understand the effects

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of gravity on their health during their

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boys i think we have time for one more

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question and uh this one is uh pertinent

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to our twittering in space

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uh this comes from rich v miller he

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wants to know what kind of computer do

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you use

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to send your tweets and nick are you

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as you know mike i was tweeting

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every day before we launched and

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unfortunately i haven't had enough time

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to do uh do much tweeting from up here

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although i will send another one out

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today

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um when i send a tweet i have to email

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it to a colleague on the ground who's

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agreed to post it for me um but when the

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folks on the space station here send a

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tweet they're able to do it directly via

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a live computer link with a machine down

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in mission control

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um so they're actually able to uh

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directly if somewhat slowly post their

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own tweets and that's a

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something that tj creamer the iss flight

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engineer up here now

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has just

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set up with help from colleagues on the

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ground so that's a very exciting

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well we know you're you're busy nick and

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anything you can send out i know the

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folks would be interested in uh in

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reading eventually and uh

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we're out of time actually uh and i know

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you guys are busy and have something

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else to do it's been a real honor for me

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to work as your capcom and to talk to

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you uh this evening it's uh it's been a

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real blast and you guys look great and

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you're doing a great job and we're all

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proud of everything you guys are doing

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anything you want to say to wrap up you

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want to say hi to anybody or uh

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thank anyone or what do you got closing

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gosh the foot we're going to thank

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everybody uh but we won't thank

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everybody it's a bit like an oscar

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speech if you do that um

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i guess we'd like to thank the people

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who got us here our trainers in houston

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um and uh

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the people at neutral buoyancy lab who

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uh make the underwater training possible

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and uh flight control team on the ground

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um those are the really important groups

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to thank i'd like to thank my family too

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for

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putting up with my what should we call

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it business travel which can be

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and nick covered

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the folks that

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that have got us to this point and also

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been supporting us while we're here on

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orbit i'd also like to thank

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my family and uh my wife megan who's

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also a capcom for some other other

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missions and flew with you mike

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back to the the space telescope a little

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bit uh a little while back so i'd like

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all right guys great job this concludes

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the event good luck with the rest of the

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mission we'll be talking with you and