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iss this is houston are you ready for

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houston this is the iss we are ready for

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the event

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navy postgraduate school this is houston

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discovery isf this is dan bursch here at

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the naval post graduate school how do

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good morning dan we have you loud and

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clear welcome back to the international

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we're doing great here dex uh greetings

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to you jim and and dottie with me are

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jim newman and john phillips and and

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very some distinguished guests that we

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have here from the monterey peninsula

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and we have 700 other very excited

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guests that i'm gonna let them introduce

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themselves uh to you so on three one two

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all right so without further ado

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hopefully you heard that greeting okay

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they did they heard it

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we're going to go ahead and get into the

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uh get into the questions now

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astronaut that is the question is for

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i'll go ahead and say who it's supposed

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to be for

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excellent thank you dottie

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yes they really are in orbit

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so i'll say who the questions for but of

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course you're the commander dex and you

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can have anybody answer that you want to

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so the first question is supposed to be

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for dex

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here we go

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my name is ben hyman and my question is

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what was the first thing you saw on

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that's a great question we launched if

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you watched got to watch the launch it

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was really early in the morning so very

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early in the morning for you in

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and we launched from florida

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time and it was still dark about 40

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minutes before sunrise but as we

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atmosphere we hit about uh eight times

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the speed of sound and went into sunrise

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and uh we got into sunrise and then

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we came off of our external tank

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and we do this pitch maneuver that

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our crew members to to photograph the

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well anyway a few about 30 minutes later

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jim and i uh took the orbiter and we

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maneuvered it so that we could do our

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next orbit burn to uh circularize our

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formation with us basically as we're

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headed over europe it was really

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hi my name is evan patel

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can you show us how things behave in

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take the ball or the ctb or something

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hey evan well that's that's one of the

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behave and yeah i think dotty gave you a

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little demo a second ago but we got a

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few things here that we came up with um

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so you know one of the little things i

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found is just like

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picking up tools and and messing around

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this thing kind of get a rate on this

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little handle here and then let go and

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and sometimes you get an access to

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symmetry where it spins normally and

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we have fun with food

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food is one of the more fun things we do

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you don't just have to eat like normal

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great answer jim

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thanks guys next question is for dottie

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hi my name is christian johnson and what

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has been the hardest part of the mission

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hey christian thanks for participating

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in this and um the hardest thing for me

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your morning operations as you can see

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space we have this camping shampoo that

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you run through and then you kind of

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this contact in so i put it on the wall

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and that is so much easier than on earth

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thanks dottie next question is for dex

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hi my name is caitlin stewie and my

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question is how has it been working with

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the iss crew and when was the last time

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well let's see the uh the iss crew as

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board right now we have seven uh from

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the shuttle discovery we docked three or

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four days ago and there were six people

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astronaut on that soyuz and before them

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of the space station he's a russian

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opportunity to train with all those

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people uh back in houston before they

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capabilities to their home and also

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call a ctb bag and it has a lot of

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supplies in it and captain birch can

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tell you all about moving these things

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how well do the training you receive

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prepare you for this mission like for

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beautiful views we saw behind

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support back in houston the people that

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thanks jim and we see that behind you

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that fighter pilots really do like to

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hi i'm nicole um what do you see as the

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challenge is getting to those planets in

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hi my name's zach as the commander what

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hey zach that's a good question

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you know it's just like you can sort of

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quickly and and safely and so i'm always

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keeping a watchful eye out for uh things

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safely and that the crew was well

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trained and they're just doing a superb

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thanks dex and we're all very proud of

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you down here it looks like the

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mission's going going going great thank

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next question is for jim

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hi my name is alana mckeachen and as the

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pilot what are you looking forward to

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thanks jim next question is for dottie

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the most enjoyable part of your mission

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wish that i could float all the time in

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fact i have a three-year-old daughter

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back on earth and she asked her

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grandparents how does mommy do that

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and i hope she's not trying it at home

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but floating is one of my favorite

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things looking out the window i've had a

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chance to watch the crescent moon it's a

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waning crescent and uh so i've had a

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chance to see it a couple of times

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looked at some really cool

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constellations and then just being in

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the cupola window or any window that you

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can get into and looking at the beauty

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of the earth

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thanks thanks daddy next question is for

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dex

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hi my name is isabella and my question

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is what do you miss the most when you

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hi isabella great question i miss my

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family the most i think

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you know it's uh

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we we train a lot for space flight and

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our families just like military families

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uh put up with a lot of sacrifice

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and uh we work we we have to train

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really hard and we're gone an awful lot

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and we work long hours

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and especially the folks here for a long

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duration flight they train a lot

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overseas in different countries around

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the world and they uh they're gone from

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their families an awful lot in our and

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our families like i said just like

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military families and just like you guys

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uh sacrifice an awful lot and

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and uh i think we we miss them the most

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thanks dex uh next question

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hi i'm rebecca swanson and

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my question is is it hard to sleep in

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you know

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i i thought it probably would be and the

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first night it was my body for some

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reason just didn't know what to do uh it

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was

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of woke up a couple times feeling like i

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was falling

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which i am technically

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every night since that first night i

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have slept so good um there is no

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pressure anywhere on your body while

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you're sleeping and so i've woken up a

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few times we uh typically will wear

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something over our eyes and earplugs

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because of the noise and and some light

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that gets in and like this morning i

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woke up and there were

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three people floating over the top of me

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and all the lights were on and i had

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been sleeping right through it so it's

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he's sleeping hard because i'm working

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hi my name's david and my question is do

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you have lockers or special areas for

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storing your clothes and other personal

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well david i bet at school that you have

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a locker that you keep all your books in

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and yes we do we have actually drawers

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in the shuttle that we

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keep all of our clothing in and

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there may be about this big

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and about this deep i don't know if you

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can see that

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and we really tightly roll all of our

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shirts and pants so that we can pack in

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a whole bunch

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and have them for the mission

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but that's how we stole all of our

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clothes and we each get one

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you saw that ctb we get about that space

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next question is for dex

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hi my name is brian long and uh on an

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average day in orbit how much space junk

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do you see and how do you avoid hitting

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any space junk

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anything that we see floating outside

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usually comes from the shuttle

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you know one of the things we do is we

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produce a lot of water with our hydrogen

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fuel cells

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and occasionally we have to get rid of

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the excess water and what we can't give

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to the space station we dump overboard

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and it comes out of a little spray

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nozzle on the side of the of the shuttle

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and it looks like a snowstorm because it

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instantly turns into ice

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and it's it's propelled away from the

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shuttle and it's just beautiful with the

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light hitting it looks like little water

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droplets that are frozen and they become

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ice and then and then they uh go away

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space junk we we hope we don't see any

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at all there are a lot of people on the

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ground who watch that very closely and

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they'll let us know if we need to

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maneuver maneuver out of the way which

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the space station has to do occasionally

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but we never get

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which the space station has to do

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thanks thanks dex looks like we may just

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have a drop out there for a second uh

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next question is for jim

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hi my name is olivia and if someone

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constantly flying the shuttle or does it

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hi olivia that's a beautiful name i have

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a niece named olivia

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one of the things about being in space

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is that it's very hard to just hold

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still perfectly still you'll notice if i

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let go something he's going to move he's

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going to twist or turn or something and

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so when we're up in orbit the vehicles

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that we fly generally we want to hold

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them in a certain position like for

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example when we're undocked in the

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shuttle we're not on the space station

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we like to point our payload bay at the

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earth to help keep the the payload bay

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warm and so

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in order to do that we have little jets

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all over the vehicle that fire off to

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keep the attitude right where we want it

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and those jets are flown basically we

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tell them uh via computer what we want

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the attitude to be and then the computer

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flies sort of like an autopilot

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flies that attitude so no the there

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doesn't really need to be a pilot right

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there on the stick although if we need

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to we can take over and fly the vehicle

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thanks jim unfortunately it looks like

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we're out of time uh we have about 600

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more questions for you here today but uh

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thanks very much for your for your time

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today uh good luck with the rest of your

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mission we'll be watching you

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online here and

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thanks dan