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endeavour ISS this is Houston ACR please

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where do we sleep on the station that is

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a great question because the space

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which is right there and a few people

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sleep on the space station some of us

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have slept in the Japanese module which

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is right there called the gem or Kibo

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last night one of us slept in node three

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down there and the space station crew

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members sleep all around the space

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station so we kind of spread out at

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night it's it's a really great place to

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sleep hi my name is Erin Lee from Stuart

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teachers took us on a campout near the

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kennedy space center so we could get up

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at 4am to see your shuttle launch and it

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was awesome but my question is why did

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you have to launch so early well first

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of all we'd like to apologize for making

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everyone get up so early we were up

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pretty early ourselves the time of a

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launch is determined by the orbit of the

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International Space Station we need to

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be able to launch from Florida and to

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want to do that with the minimal amount

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of fuel that we expend because remember

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everything that we lift off of the pad

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it costs us basically are our amount

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that we can take to orbit so we don't

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want to have to take any extra fuel that

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we don't really need to orbit so we have

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launch windows to be able to catch up to

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the International Space Station so again

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sorry for the time but hope you enjoyed

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the light show hi my name is Clara hurry

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California my generation has a bright

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future what do you think we'll be doing

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very excited about the future right now

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we've been able to build the space

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station where people have have we've

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building a lot of hardware and equipment

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longer missions and I think that we will

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be able to go to places like the Moon

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exciting time as humanity expands out

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into the solar system hi I'm Daniel

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life because every experience that we

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have every bit of knowledge that we have

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space because you never know what's

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going to happen next but generally for a

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space shuttle mission we train for a

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minimum of a year specifically for the

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task that we're going to do on board

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that mission prior to that though we all

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shuttle mission the training is a

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minimum of a couple of years overall for

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space or on the space station that is a

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circulation systems with fans and

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filters to keep stuff clean but

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little specks of things floating by

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space shuttle before it launches well as

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complicated spacecraft so it does take a

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while and it takes a lot of people

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prepare the space shuttle for launch and

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several components there's a Space

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boosters as to the two white rockets

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that strapped to the sides and then

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holds our fuel so to get all of those

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components together it takes quite a bit

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of time the absolute minimum amount of

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launch again is about two months but

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tank and the solid rocket boosters those

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landing the team in Florida processes

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vertical position and attach it to that

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external tank and take all of that

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cool in Tampa for it I was wondering

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the bottom of tranquility that putting

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earth so we'll get great earth views

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most difficult obstacle that you had to

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it obstacles but it is very important to

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have a good strong math and science

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technical experience and it really helps

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smart very educated and with a lot of

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experience that nASA has a tough time

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selecting the astronauts from so many

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qualified candidates so maybe I just

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and apply to be an astronaut and hub

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days hopefully someday you'll be able to

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fly in space as well as you saw to a

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fellow astronauts floating right by hi

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personally tried growing plants in space

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mission or a plant experiment has taken

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there's a lot of traffic going on and so

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pardon our crewmates as they translate

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elementary in Sanford Florida what

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trained for many years with super

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support teams behind them their coaches

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their trainers their families supporting

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them and they finally get to the point

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actual Olympics in their sport and in

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wonderful support teams that we have

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preparing the spacecraft training us for

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taking care of all of our procedures and

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out to get into the space shuttle to

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launch it's that type of anticipation

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just that we really just want to go and

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get on with the task that we were

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trained to do one more thing to add to

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that one we got to launch on Super Bowl

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Sunday so like what Kay said it was

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probably similar but I except for the

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differences were strapped to four

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million pounds of high explosive fuel

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I'm sorry go ahead with the next

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question hi my name is pavina rummel and

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tampa florida my question is why both

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NASA scramble launch at the sky is

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cloudy are we need again a very

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appropriate question for us because our

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first launch attempt was scrubbed

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because of clouds and there's a couple

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of problems with clouds and rain first

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of all is our rocket itself you don't

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want to damage the Space Shuttle so if

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you fly through certain types of clouds

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with lightning or rain you can get a

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lightning strike which actually happened

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on one of our Apollo missions and or if

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you fly through rain the rain could

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damage the vehicle because we accelerate

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really fast we're going about 100 miles

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an hour by the time we clear the launch

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tower and in less than a minute we're

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going supersonic straight up so the

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rocket goes very fast through the air

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and so that could be dangerous the other

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thing is we want ground cameras to be

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able to see the shuttle or whatever

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rocket it is when we're launching on man

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rockets it's the same thing they need

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that they need some visibility to be

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able to see it to make sure that the

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trajectory is going in the right

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my name is khalil johnson i go to vernon

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school in portland oregon and my

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question is if the facilities for

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exercising in space fail do you think

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you'd trade by yourself and if so how

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exercise is very important in space what

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happens to our bodies in space is very

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similar to what would happen to a

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patient in a hospital let's say if they

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were totally bedridden until they had to

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stay laying down and couldn't get up and

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walk so it means that our muscles

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atrophy or they get smaller because

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they're not being used and even our

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bones we lose calcium and the bones get

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weaker as well so it is important for us

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to exercise in space we do have some

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great exercise equipment here on the

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International Space Station we have

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something like a bicycle we call it a

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cycle ergometer we can dial in different

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tension on there we also have a

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treadmill but we have to use bungees to

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hold us down to the treadmill to be able

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to run on the treadmill if those

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facilities break then what we have to do

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since you can't like lift weights

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because its mass but it has no feeling

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of weight here in weightlessness so we

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would get bungees something like this

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hair band here that we just use stretch

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bands type things to try to at least

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work our muscles a little bit and we use

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some of those anyway and it's a good

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question because while we are outfitting

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node3 that we just delivered we are

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moving some of the exercise equipment in

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there so there is a period of time when

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that the exercise equipment is not going

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to be available and we will have members

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on board using stretch type bands to

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give some resistance training for

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exercise during that period of time hi

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my name is Sabrina and I want to know

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what kind of tools you used to fish

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suspicion well hello Sabrina thank you

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for that question that is a really good

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one we have a tool kit in the space

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shuttle and we have several tool kits

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here in the space station and one of the

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biggest things that we've been

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here during our mission and K is just

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showing me this bag if you hear it it

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sounds like wind chime but there's a

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wrench and some pliers and some

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different types of screwdrivers and

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ratchets and scissors there's all kinds

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of stuff here sockets and so if you're a

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tool person this job is really fun

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because for the last several days and

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for the next few days we're we're in

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there turning wrenches and screwdrivers

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and and all kinds of stuff to attach

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node3 our new module and then later

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today to attach to move the cupola and

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to attach that so we have lots of tools

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and we use them a lot hello my name is

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Aidan now on to know if it's dangerous

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to do a spacewalk well it's kind of

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dangerous and I'll tell you why when we

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send astronauts outside of the

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spacecraft they're wearing an extra

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vehicular Mobility unit and they're

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doing a spacewalk outside all by

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themselves so that means that they're

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actually wearing their own spacecraft in

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that suit it actually contains its own

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power electrical power its own heating

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and cooling its own communications and

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pressurization system oxygen system all

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that and even a caution and warning a

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system that tells them if something's

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going wrong so that's all in itself its

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own little spacecraft and that the

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astronauts contained inside of there and

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outside of that is just the vacuum of

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space it's also physically challenging

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because they have to work against that

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suit the whole time so it is a little

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bit dangerous but we choreograph it or

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we plan it to every little detail and we

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check those suits and they have

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redundant or multiple systems to make

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sure that if one system fails we have a

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backup so we watch them very carefully

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and keep it as safe as we can but it is

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hello my name is Dexter and my question

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is what does it feel like when you blast

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off in the space well hi Dexter thanks

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for that question the first thing that

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you feel is being stuffed into this big

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orange stiff heavy suit it's called a

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launch and entry suit and we get

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strapped in and we lay on our backs for

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about three hours before launch and then

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when it finally comes time to launch the

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shuttle main engines start up six

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seconds before launch so the whole

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shuttle pitches forward a little bit and

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then it pitches back in six seconds

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later the solid rocket boosters like

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those are the big white rockets on the

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side and when those things light it's

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like a kick in the pants you get slammed

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for behind and you start accelerating

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forward and as you accelerate if you

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feel heavier and heavier it's like

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you're laying on your back and someone's

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laying on top of you and that shakes and

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rolls and makes a lot of noise for about

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two minutes and then after two minutes

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the solid rocket boosters run out of gas

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and so you start to slow down you don't

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accelerate as much you slow down and

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then when they come off there's a really

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loud bang and a super-bright flag we

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launched at nighttime and we even

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mentioned it we were looking out the

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window and he said well that wasn't too

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bad and then BAM these rockets fired and

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there was this big white flash in the

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solid Rockets floated away and then the

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Space Shuttle main engines burn for the

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next six minutes and that's pretty

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smooth you just lay there you get pushed

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from above push from like someone in

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front of you laying on top of you for

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about six more minutes and then after

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eight and a half minutes here in space

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and so right before the engines shut

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down you're being pushed with 3 G's

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which is like three times your own body

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weight smashing down and then when the

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engines shut down everyone goes flying

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forward and then you can let go and

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things are floating and so it's a it's a

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pretty cool ride one of the things that

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happen on our flight as we were going up

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I took a quick glance out the window and

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I could see the moon and in the shuttle

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that I rolled a heads up and I could see

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the whole east coast of America at

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nighttime lit

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and that was that'll that memory will

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stick in my mind forever and then right

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after the engine shut down just a couple

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minutes later we were flying over the

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Alps in Europe so it was a really pretty

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experienced to go from my time all of

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that shaking and vibrating and then

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floating over Europe endeavour diocese

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this is Houston ACR that concludes the

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event thanks thank you ISS and NASA

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Explorer schools we are now resuming a

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nominal audio communications copy that