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atlantis iss this is houston acr please

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stand by for the nasa explorer school

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my name is evan and i go to john b carey

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in richmond virginia

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i would like to know why do you wear the

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well the uh purple ones kind of clash

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with my eyes

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i think i look a lot better in orange

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actually the orange color

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is uh for uh make us more visible in

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case people need to find us and

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the reason we wear the suits is to

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protect us

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in the event that

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something happens that we're not

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expecting going either uphill or

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my name is chyna royals and i go to fort

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hikes elementary school in columbia

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south carolina i would like to know what

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are differences in living in the space

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station from living in your home on

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that's a good question i can tell you

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for starters nothing stays where you put

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everything floats

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including

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yourself your food your clothes

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everything that you're working on so you

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have to strap everything down you can't

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lay it down on the table and you can't

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keep your eyes off of it unless it's

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hi my name is samantha schwon and i go

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to dr rodriguez elementary in heart

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engine texas i would like to know what

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hey great question uh there's a lot of

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really great parts about

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about the job

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being up here floating turns out to be

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amazingly fun and you can see a couple

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of my crewmates here upside down and

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then the the other great part is looking

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out the window

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the views looking down at the earth are

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hi i'm kalia and i'm in the sixth grade

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at hop good elementary in murfreesboro

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tennessee my question is what do you do

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in your free time and how much free time

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hey what i like to do is to look out the

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window

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and watch the earth go by it's just

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beautiful

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we don't get any free time so i have to

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steal it from the boss

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pretty much but uh the most i think

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everybody does that when they get a

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moment off they kind of look out the

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window and just see the whole world go

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by it's like a geography lesson it's

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hi my name is yvette i am a fourth

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grader in harlingen texas i am bilingual

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and i was wondering how many languages

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you need to speak to work on the

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good question

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uh well the the official main language

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on the space station one that we all

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understand is english

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it's very essential that you learn

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russian as well since uh we tend to

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operate uh in the soyuz or we do operate

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in the soyuz

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spacecraft solely in russian um but we

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have a lot of talented very bright

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people on board and some of them know

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several languages such as japanese

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got suici on board and uh french german

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tj knows german so

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it's a when you have an international

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space station it's almost endless uh the

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my name is paige and i go to later

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middle school and lived in kentucky my

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question is what does it feel like after

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being on the space station when you come

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well uh when you come back to earth

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things feel really really heavy

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um i remember taking off my helmet and

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feeling like i was holding a pickup

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truck in my hand it felt so incredibly i

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was like oh my goodness how am i ever

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going to brush my teeth my toothbrush is

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going to feel like a ton of bricks but

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um turns out that you get really used to

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gravity again pretty quickly within like

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an hour or so

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you uh after it takes a little while for

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you to get all your senses back uh and

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for about a month but uh other than that

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my name is antonio and i go to

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elementary learning center in cudahy

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california and my question is is there

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five miles per second but we're out of

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the atmosphere but there's a little bit

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of atmosphere left there so there are a

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few atoms i guess hitting the front of

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station at five miles per second so

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that's a very weak wind but it's enough

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to slow the space station down and make

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it slowly fall back to earth so every so

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often we have to boost it back up again

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using a rocket motor on the back of the

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my name is aaron smith and i go to

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orleans elementary school

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in orleans vermont my question is what

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is the temperature at the international

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just like it is at school for you it's

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room temperature very comfortable we're

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just working out here in shirt sleeves

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but when we go outside on our spacewalks

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the temperatures can vary plus or minus

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hi my name is jackson i am a sixth

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grader at hobgood elementary in

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effects of being in a microgravity

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it's very nice to be able to float

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that's probably the best effect you get

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to hang around and float and you can

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become an expert gymnast in seconds you

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can do all sorts of things you can't do

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in this environment however is

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bone loss muscle deconditioning and

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over time we're starting to learn how to

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deal with that on board tracy here works

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out several hours a day trying to stay

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strong so when she gets home in six

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my name is sammy and i am a senior at

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wendover high school my question is how

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do you feel about flying on the last

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in fact the last space shuttle flight of

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atlantis uh if it is though we all

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consider it just as important as any of

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the other flights this was the 32nd

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flight 32nd time that atlantis has

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launched into space

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and flown around the earth many many

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times so we're just another crew to be

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lucky enough to be part of that program

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and if it's the last flight

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my name is charles and i go to john b

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carey in richmond virginia my question

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actually training to be an astronaut is

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a lot of fun

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uh we get to fly airplanes around work

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and go to class all the things that you

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would learn in school

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we've been training uh the sts-132 crew

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has been training about eight months so

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just about a a school year getting ready

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cumberland middle school in cumberland

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wisconsin my question is when you go up

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the uh the atmospheric pressure in here

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forces acceleration as we're going up in

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the space shuttle up to three times our

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normal body weight so it feels like

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there's uh three of your friends

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standing on your chest um as you're

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launching into space and

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chest up to get some air into your lungs

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how long does it take for water for

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evaporating space if you put some water

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of the earth it'll just freeze solid in

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water vapor and sometimes there's some

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places where the water doesn't know

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whether to freeze or boil and it kind of

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my name is charles wallace and i go to

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cairo's middle school in congress

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georgia i would like to know

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program is essentially inevitable and

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travel outside of low earth orbit and if

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we as humans want to

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explore deeper into the universe

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that can do it so we simply don't have

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national will you know if we want to

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explore the universe we've got to stop

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flying the space shuttle and it's a

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my name is william

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um it's a good one uh the reason that

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there's not as much you don't feel as

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much gravity on the moon

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is because it's smaller than the earth

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the amount of gravity that a given

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planet uh or any anything for that

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matter poles on everything else

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much mass it has so the moon has a lot

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gravity and if you go to jupiter which

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hi my name is michelle i'm a junior

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wendover high my question is what is it

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like seeing the sunset or sun rise every

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because of the well i'm starting to

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earth every 90 minutes or so you

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naturally see a sunset in the sunrise

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every 90 minutes and it's really amazing

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you know the earth below you both at

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night and during the day in just an hour

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windows and seal yourself off inside and

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windows every 45 minutes and that might

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oh outside oh going outside is eva

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the opportunity to look down and see the

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pass below your feet

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in darkness and in light and it's

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on this mission on a previous mission i

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saw a meteorite pass below me into the

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atmosphere and glow and that was pretty

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amazing lightning storms the aurora we

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saw the other day all sorts of amazing

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things you get to see outside at night

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that you don't necessarily think of you

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let me just add something to that real

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quick the other interesting thing about

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that they happen really fast so it's not

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like at home when you're sitting on the

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beach and just enjoying the sunset go

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down into the ocean very slowly here it

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just happens uh so fast because we're

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traveling around the world so fast so

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you're out there and you're looking at

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the sun

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and it's bright bright bright bright

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hi my name is helena i'm a fourth grader

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in holland in texas in comparison to

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plant life on earth do the plants grown

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on the international space station grow

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selena that's a really uh mature

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question and

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you're ahead of your time the space

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station uh science

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on board here really is looking at that

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very question itself we're looking at

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arabidopsis seeds and trying to

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understand because we see that the roots

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grow in a different way here on orbit

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with the lack of gravity than they do on

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earth and we're hoping that that will

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help us to understand plant growth on

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earth a little better so i can tell you

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they do grow a little differently but

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how that's something that we're studying

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right now it's kind of interesting to

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see plants growing up here in the space

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my name is jackie black and i go to

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arapahoe middle school in

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arapahoe wyoming my question is do you

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take any medication for the function of

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actually i'd have to say no we don't

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take any medications uh that i know of

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but we are trying to understand

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better how to preserve bone mass up here

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on orbit for long duration and so one of

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ways that we

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counteract the effect of gravity or the

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lack of gravity here on orbit is to do

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exercise we find that the more exercise

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we do before we launch into space as

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well as while we're on orbit helps to

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maintain

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our bone mass which is extremely

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important and we're trying to study that

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right now to see how much we need to do

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how frequent we need to do that in order

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to maintain and possibly even grow

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stronger bones on orbit and that will

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also help us to understand our own bone

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growth

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back at home on earth great questions

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atlantis iss this is houston acr thank

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thank you atlanta station and nasa

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