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voice of america this is houston please

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call station for a voice check

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station this is the voice of america how

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voice of america this is the

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international space station we've got

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you loud and clear welcome aboard thank

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shall i begin the interview now

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okay great

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first of all tracy doug and shannon

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thank you so much for your time today i

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have to say this is incredibly exciting

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and congratulations to you on your

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successful mission so far because i can

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tell you that we were watching we were

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all watching the repair mission and

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we're very excited about everything that

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you did

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and i understand that a resupply vehicle

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docked a few days ago and i was

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wondering if there were personal care

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packages on board or what was on there

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that you might have been most excited

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well suzanne

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yes there usually are a few uh personal

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care packages on board we've got a great

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psych support team at home that really

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takes care of us and

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family and friends who help supply

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little goodies for us i happen to have

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celebrated a birthday on orbit along

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with my two other russian crewmates and

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inside uh my care package were a number

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of birthday presents from my parents my

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husband and

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a whole host of friends

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and were there items on board for the

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rest of you that you were excited about

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no just tracy

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no just kidding uh actually the most

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exciting thing for me suzanne was the uh

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right on the very top as you open the

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hatch there are fresh fruits and

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vegetables that are in there uh that we

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have gone months without uh being able

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to smell the uh the smell of a fresh

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apple or something and so that was very

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it was just really a joy to to have

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those fresh fruits and vegetables on

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a nice juicy apple and it was wonderful

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so that brings me to a topic that our

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audience is really interested in

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including a lot of our facebook fans and

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they're wondering about the logistics of

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day-to-day life on the iss

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and they're curious about how is it

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possible how do you eat with in zero

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gravity and how do you sleep in gravity

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well eating is is very similar to eating

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on earth of course there's no gravity so

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your food does float around so you have

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to be a little bit more careful that it

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doesn't go flying off your fork or spoon

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and flying away from you but

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the foods we eat are are either military

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rehydratable foods that are created for

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us at the johnson space center so um

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they're pretty tasty and pretty good but

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you do have to make sure that you sort

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of keep everything contained so it

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as far as sleeping goes we have sleeping

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bags that we sleep in and they are

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positioned in our little quarters we

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areas that we call our own that we can

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and my sleeping bag is affixed to a wall

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and i climb inside and sort of float

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around in the sleeping bag at night

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is it affixed on two sides or can your

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sleeping bag almost fold up like a

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murphy's bed and then knock you into the

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problem with it rolling me up when i

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don't want to be rolled up

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and i'm curious about how you adapt to

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living in such a confined space though i

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have to say i was surprised when i read

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in shannon's blog that you can actually

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get lost in the iss

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and at times it's confusing because you

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guys actually see things sometimes

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you're upside down when you encounter

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the volume of the place sort of

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module in any one of a number of

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it increases the volume of your living

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space because you uh you have a

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lengthened i was wondering what other

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things you all have encountered and how

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experienced a little weight loss

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resistive exercise the

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the cardiovascular work that we do helps

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have felt a little weight loss

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messages that it's getting from your

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of your stomach as well as

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module your perception of that module uh

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will uh be determined a lot by uh how

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your brain is interpreting the the fluid

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stuffiness because i believe because you

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your fluid now in your body is shifting

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it's floating along with you along with

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your organs and it wasn't doing that

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starboard or port side it didn't really

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i can't do this in my and you know i

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can't crawl on the ceiling and in my

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home and so uh and so uh

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those things now tracy and her crew are

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coming back to the earth next week and

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um and i know that they uh they begin to

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think about those things and how gravity

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you've seen up there from space and what

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most about it once you come back down to

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earth for the two of you that are coming

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we get to enjoy that view um some of us

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enjoy that view and i can't tell you how

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miraculous it is to get

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uh what are you gonna miss oh what am i

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miss that view a lot and i think that

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wish you the best of luck for the rest

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of your mission and for your arrival

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well thank you so much for joining us

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and all our best wishes to all the

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listeners and viewers of voice of

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station this is houston acr that

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of the event please stand by for a voice

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station this is abc news how do you hear

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abc news this is the international space

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station welcome aboard we hear you're

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loud and clear

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well this morning we had the advantage

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of seeing that spectacular video of of

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those hurricanes swirling around in the

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atlantic and one mission for the space

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station is earth observations would you

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guys give me each uh an impression of

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what you've seen while you've been up

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there of the hurricanes and other events

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unbelievable i mean that just this the

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size of this morning uh shannon and i

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were able to take a few moments uh to go

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eye of hurricane igor

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the the view we could see the water

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just takes your breath away it's uh

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no words to describe it and we try to

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we can when we fly over we can see all

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the cities especially at night with all

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the city lights and you can see um where

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we're all where people are everywhere

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and then you can also see things like

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fires burning and

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um other things going on so that always

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impresses me to see how we're affecting

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gina some of the most amazing things

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some of the most amazing things i've

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seen

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have been when the sun is set and

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when especially the moon is setting if

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moon is out it doesn't need to be a full

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moon it could be a sliver of the moon

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and when it's setting

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beyond the horizon it's really

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interesting the shape that it takes as

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well as the color and it almost is just

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as it passes the the limb the terminator

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it uh it turns this bright orange and it

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almost looks like it's a branding iron

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on a on a

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on a calf it's uh it's that hot uh

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orange color and it's quite distorted

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and it looks amazing and it catches your

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eye if you're not

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prepared for it and then i have to say

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the other astonishing thing is when

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there is a lightning storm beneath us it

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lights up the whole space station as if

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there were a strobe light

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underneath

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us so those are two very unexpected and

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pretty fantastic views

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this question may seem a little

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redundant but scott kelly who's headed

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your way next month gave us a tour of

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the space station mockup at jsc

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we were all a little surprised at just

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how small the sleeping quarters are on

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the space station he describes it more

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like a phone booth than a bedroom

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i mean you guys have you've been there

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you slept there how would you describe

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yeah that's what uh you know i i've

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described it to the the the children and

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the students i've talked to as a phone

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booth but then i they look at me like we

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don't know what a phone booth is you

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know because we don't have phone booths

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anymore but uh it's about like that but

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um the thing that you have to remember

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is within the absence of gravity every

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uh cubic inch of that phone booth is

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usable space now so you can you can put

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things on the ceiling you can have

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things on the floor on all the walls and

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you can have your sleeping bag on the

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wall and so the phone booth becomes

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maybe 50 percent larger in perception

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now shannon when i watch the daily iss

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hour it seems that maintenance takes a

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lot of time on the space station oh and

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one note someone just emailed me to

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congratulate you on the rice owls win

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so

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but tell me a little bit about the

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well it's good to know that rice won i

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hadn't heard that yet

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maintenance yes of course does take a

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lot of effort to maintain the station

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just like a house at home there are

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things that have to be done

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every week we have to make sure our

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filters are clean so our atmosphere is

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breathable to us and we have to keep all

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the parts and pieces in good working

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order because

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it's a long way to hardware store to buy

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to buy things to get things to fix parts

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up here so we spend a lot of effort to

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make sure that we can keep it running as

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smoothly as possible

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now tracing wheels you pulled off three

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remarkable spacewalks on short notice

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earlier this year what what were those

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they seemed like such a big challenge

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but what did you when you went out there

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would you go boy i hope i can pull this

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oh yeah you bet that was a definitely a

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thought

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um

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us had our head in the game uh when this

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came up um you know we train a lot for

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um

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you know failures like we experienced

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there with the pump module and so pretty

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much our training kicked in in our

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response to that

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and um as a crew i think we worked

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really well together to uh um with with

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the ground teams as well uh to get

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ourselves into a safe configuration

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but then going out to do the spacewalks

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we were preparing to to do a a another

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spacewalk

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before this pump module failure so i

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think our head was already in the

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spacewalking game

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i think shannon was the one that had a

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little bit of surprise she wasn't

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prepared to do robotics just yet but she

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pulled that off beautifully and i'd have

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to say that going out the door we all

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just felt pretty focused and

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when you realized

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you feel the vibe from the teams on

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on the ground that are doing a lot of

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the work to uh prepare us to go out the

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hatch um that that feeling it it

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radiates and it comes up you can feel it

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here on orbit and i think that helped to

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set our mind where it needed to be to go

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out and do this

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tracy uh while you've got the mic i know

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you're headed home soon what you miss

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most about living in space and what will

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oh dean there's going to be a lot that i

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miss i'm going to miss these guys i'm

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going to miss

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all my crewmates because as soon as i

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land if

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if we land in our primary landing spot i

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get on a plane and i come right back to

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houston and my my two russian crewmates

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who i've spent all my time with

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i won't be able to see for a couple of

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weeks

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i'm definitely going to miss the views i

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don't think there's a time i can enter

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the cupola

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in

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the views and not get a little choked up

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thinking this might be the the last time

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but then

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i'm also

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too many people get to see that view and

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i try to take it in

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and

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so much so that i can help describe it

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to folks when i come back and help them

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feel a little bit of it

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the one thing i'm not going to miss

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is

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the lack of longevity in my toothbrush

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i'm really looking forward to having

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running water and

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we can create running water out here but

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it comes with some consequence so um i'd

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have to say there's a lot more that i'm

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going to

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miss about this place than not

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doug i think i have time for one more

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question and i hate to throw this to you

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it seems complicated but how do you

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describe the mission of the space

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station people down on earth who maybe

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don't quite get what you guys do up

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well probably the most important thing

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for us right now is we are finally

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getting to full utilization of this

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orbiting laboratory and it's uh it's

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been a long haul it's been very

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expensive it's uh been uh we've hit

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we've run into surprises around the

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corner as we've assembled the space

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station it's taken us longer than we

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thought to get it up into full

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utilization but

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we're just now entering that phase where

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we've got laboratories up and running

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we've got over 130 experiments uh that

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we're operating on board and so we're

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starting to really get

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the bang for our buck

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in the way of science and that's very

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exciting to us because um it's been a

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long phase of of assembly and um and

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right now we're trying to just bring

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back uh

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the science data that we need to our

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scientists on the ground that will that

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will make life better on earth for

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everyone

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we're doing

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experiments in

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in medicine

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and fluid mechanics

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different ways to

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to

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this phase of full science on board

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expedition 24 thank you very much for

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thank you so much abc

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station this is houston acr that

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