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station this is houston are you ready

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we're ready for the event houston

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conyers middle school this is houston

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station this is dr samuel king at

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uh dr king we've got you loud and clear

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aboard the international space station

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thank you excellent

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again we are in a position to introduce

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students at conor's middle

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to present questions for expedition 24

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my name is jordan dobson and my question

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is why are so many countries involved

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well uh jordan that's a great question

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and uh the primary reason is we're an

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orbiting laboratory and when you look

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out the windows you don't see any

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borders around our globe and so

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the science that we're doing and the

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things that we're exploring and trying

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to discover

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while we're here in this orbiting

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laboratory really affects us all as a

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human race

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and so uh

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it's actually uh uh makes it for a

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better more international uh

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uh place

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to get the full power of all of our

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universities around the globe all of our

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scientists

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uh to really

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set the pace for working together as an

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international partnership investigating

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these uh these things that

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that plague us in the way of diseases

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and medical problems that we have on the

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planet

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to looking out the window and taking

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pictures of our planet and learning how

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my name is hannah neville and my

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question is how long do you train to

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well hannah we have all been training

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for a number of years

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some of us

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anywhere from six to 12 years to to do

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this job but specifically for the

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mission that we're carrying out right

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now it's about two years long

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and um that's that includes all of the

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travel that we do around the world to

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the various control centers and training

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centers to learn all about the science

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and also the systems on board

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the various modules that make up the

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hi my name is ryan and how do you write

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ryan how we write in space well honestly

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most of the time i type on my laptop but

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when i do actually have to write

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something down i have a mechanical

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my name is savannah wegmer and my

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question is how long does the mission on

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well that's a great question savannah

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and our mission is going to be about six

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months long

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tracy was already here she came up a

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couple months before we got here and

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then shannon and i came up together in

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and our mission together will be about

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four months together and then tracy will

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go uh go back to the planet uh sometime

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in late september and then we'll stay on

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until uh until late november and so

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these missions on the international

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space station are lasting about six

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hello my name is braxton payne i'm from

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boy scout troop 973 and my question is

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what happens if an astronaut gets hurt

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well braxton each one of us is trained

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officer and we have

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many hours where we

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have learned how to do certain

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procedures and diagnose problems and

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also have trained in emergency rooms

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around houston

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to learn hands-on

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ivs

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all sorts of things to to fix them right

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up but our best resource are the flight

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surgeons who are in mission control and

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as long as we have communication with

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the ground then we have the experts on

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hi my name is jacob sam martin and my

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question is what advice would you give

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jacob first and foremost if you're

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interested in being an astronaut then

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it's very important to do well in school

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and do well in the areas of math and

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science and technology because that are

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the skills that we need at nasa and

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that's what it takes to be an astronaut

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beyond that once you're done with school

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go find a job that you like

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i say that you don't need to do a

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particular job but you need to be good

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at what you do and i find that most

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people who enjoy their work will be very

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hi my name is daniel long

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uh daniel great great question and um

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primarily in two ways the way i look at

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this is uh the way that the iss helps

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first of all helps us better take care

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when we look out the windows we have

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different cameras and things that we use

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things like that to assist farmers and

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the use of of growing crops and things

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in a way to take care of our planet

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and it also helps us in the way to take

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care of each other as well we do a lot

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of a lot of science up here that

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involves uh medical experiments and

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things like that to try to make life

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better on earth as well so we hope of

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course to make that big discovery to to

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to help cure

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that disease that plagues us or whatever

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with science uh developing new materials

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hello my name is cameron smith and my

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nutshell because you prepare for launch

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bathroom and then you get into the

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rocket but there's a lot of work that

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seat liner which is very important that

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you fit in with your suit pressurized so

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monitor all the systems on the rocket

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that they're all ready to go

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hello my name is carson wallace my

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hey carson most of what i'm doing at the

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moment involves scientific experiments

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the ground to do a number of different

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there using my using me as a as a test

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subject and so i've got

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nutrition studies going on we're

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how the body adapts and adapts to space

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hi my name is rena winooza and my

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spacesuits that we wear when we go on a

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spacewalk are actually pretty heavy when

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pounds a little more than 300 pounds so

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weightless they still have mass and so

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galley we have what else do we use

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some jelly beans floating right now and

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drinks all our drinks start off with

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dehydrated so we add water to whatever

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drinks we're going to make so be it

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juice or milk or coffee or tea and

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hi my name is aaron gibbs and my

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excited about um what's going on and

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hot spots or anything uh like you would

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that everything floats in space

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have to kind of strap yourself down so

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of velcro and some straps to make sure

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that the sleeping pad doesn't leave our

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sleeping compartment and we don't leave

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our sleeping bag as well so great

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hi my name is amir and my question is

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what is the temperature in space in the

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well the temperature in space

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i i i hear is about

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plus 200 degrees fahrenheit to minus 200

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degrees fahrenheit depending on where

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the sun is i've never experienced those

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temperatures except maybe when i've had

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a pizza in the oven and stuck my hand in

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there i wouldn't recommend that

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suffice it to say that it is very hot

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and very cold in space

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in fact when you're out doing a space

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walk which doug has done

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it can get pretty hot outside um the

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when the sun is hitting you directly you

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can actually feel

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um some uh some intense heat

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but here on board the international

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space station it's a it's a very

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comfortable 72 degrees pretty pretty

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much the

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average room temperature sometimes it

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gets a little cold for

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people like shannon and i uh but we just

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put on a sweater

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and uh we're just fine so it is very

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comfortable here on board the

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hi my name is deonte and my question is

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are you sometimes afraid when traveling

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deante that's a very good question and i

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can only answer for myself that i was

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not afraid i was very excited when i was

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getting ready to launch on the rocket i

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wasn't afraid because i have done so

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much training over the years i knew

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exactly what was supposed to happen i

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didn't know what it was going to feel

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like but i knew what was supposed to

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happen and when everything was going

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according to plan it was very easy for

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me to relax and just enjoy the ride up

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hi my name is brittany and i wanted to

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know what is the international space

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well brittany that's a very good

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question and right now it's home for us

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but

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it's a big the best way to think about

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it's a big orbiting laboratory

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and it's going around in earth orbit it

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travels around our beautiful planet once

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every 90 minutes

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and

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it is about the size of a

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of

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room to roam around but it's built in

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modules sort of like a habit trail i

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don't know if you've ever had a a

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hamster or something like that and i've

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had a habit trail but it's put together

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about like that

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and um

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and we have a lot of room to roam around

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and and also uh you can actually see the

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space station uh uh passing over

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if it's in sunlight and you're in

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darkness and so i think you can go to a

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uh to a website nasa website and you can

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put in your location and you can find

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out when you can see the space station

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hi my name is jada isaac and my question

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is can you talk to your family while

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well of course jada we have

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lots of ways

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to talk to our family in space uh while

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we're in space we can email them

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although it's not as uh

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as immediately as uh as you would send

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an email on earth we send an email

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and then the ground receives it and they

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ship it out to uh to our family and

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friends and then that's the same way we

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receive them so there's a little bit of

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a delay

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we can also call them they can't call us

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but we can call them

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and that works in a similar way that we

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actually um use the satellites as well

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as our as well as our antennas on the

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space station to bounce a signal down to

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a box on the ground and that sends out a

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signal um

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uh to uh to you know into the telephone

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system and then we also can have a

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conference with our families uh using um

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the camera system here on board and a

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private uh conference with our family

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the cameras are at their house and we

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can communicate through uh through video

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and then we use again our antennas on

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board to bounce a voice signal down to

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them as well so we can hear them and we

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can also talk to them so we have a

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variety of ways to communicate with them

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real time and we also communicate to

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them

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or they communicate to us through uh

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gifts like care packages when a vehicle

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arrives sometimes uh they're packed with

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goodies from our family uh cards and

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other notes uh to let us know that

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hello my name is zoya whitcomb and my

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question is how long does it take to

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well zoe i have to tell you it does not

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take very long at all no matter whether

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you're riding up on the shuttle or the

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soyuz rocket like we did it only takes

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if you can believe this eight and a half

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minutes to get into space and after

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eight and a half minutes because our

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engines are very powerful eight and a

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half minutes we're going 17 500 miles an

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hi my name is daniel and my question is

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that's a great question daniel and i i

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have the very same question because i

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hope i can be one forever but it's such

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a fun job

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but

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like any other job uh with the uh

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demands physically uh on the job uh as

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long as you can stay medically qualified

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uh we take a lot of medical tests uh

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before we uh get a chance to fly in

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space and

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and um and as long as you can stay

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medically qualified and stay fit you can

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hi my name is eric morbino and my

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question is what do you have to do to

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well eric you have to prepare uh

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your suits uh make sure that they are um

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you're still gonna fit in your suit

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because you actually grow here in space

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a little bit

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you make sure that your suit is

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going to pass its leak check that's very

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important too you you practice all the

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procedures all the steps that you're

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going to do inside the spaceship to

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bring it in for a landing you've got to

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practice that just like you do your

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homework we also um

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prepare

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our

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to come home it's gotta

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change from a spaceship

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to a landing

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vessel if you will and there's steps

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that you have to do to prepare it to do

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that so we we prepare in that way we

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also have to prepare the station in

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order to release the vehicle the

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spaceship from its latches and so

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there's many steps that we do here on

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board that we also coordinate with our

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team on the ground in mission control

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and then there's a lot of people that

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are on earth uh where we land that are

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waiting for us and and

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they have many many steps they have to

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do to prepare

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to receive us

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once we land

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as a superintendent

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we will prepare to close but uh several

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comments we would like to

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thank you for the partnership that is in

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place with nasa and this has been a

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phenomenal opportunity for our students

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because we continuously impress upon

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them

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that they should always dream

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however we want them to understand that

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those dreams can become reality

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and that they can travel the same path

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or similar paths that you have traveled

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and accomplished uh identical uh levels

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of quality in terms of their pursuit so

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for that we're extremely grateful and

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proud in terms of uh the partnership

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again and with that said i'm going to

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ask our students as we sign off to give

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you a great round of applause and thanks

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thank you very much

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you conyers middle school station