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station this is the weather channel how

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we hear you loud and clear welcome

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aboard the international space station

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we're ready for your questions

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here we go

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well a special treat for you right now

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joining us from the international space

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station our engineers tracy caldwell

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dyson and doug wheelock both of you

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thanks for joining us i've got to ask

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you we've been watching down here on

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earth the tropics so active what's the

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view like from the international space

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i'll tell you the views spectacular

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i think wheels has been watching it this

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morning he probably has the more

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descriptive words

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well uh this morning we actually flew

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between julia and igor

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coming up through the atlantic and it

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was just spectacular i looked out either

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side of the cupola windows and

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of course you could tell the rel

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relative size uh you could tell which

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it's just really really dramatic it's uh

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yesterday we had we had a pass directly

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looking into the eye of the of the storm

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it just looked like a waterfall going in

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uh down through the eye we could see the

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clearly uh through the eye of the storm

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just absolutely stunning

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either of you ever seen images like that

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actually on my previous flight sts-118

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we actually our mission was cut short by

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hurricane dean and while we were in

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hurricane and saw the same image that

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right down the center of the eye

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it almost looks very very calm to what

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and for for me uh that was the first

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time really i mean this vantage point is

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it's so surreal when you're looking down

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through it because like tracy had

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it looks so peaceful and so calm and

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it's so beautiful the spiral bands and

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everything uh and then you look down and

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uh project yourself to being below those

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clouds and and you can only imagine what

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chaos and torment is going on underneath

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those those clouds and so it's a it's a

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now tracy we know that you'll be

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returning home soon how closely do you

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monitor the weather do you think that

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the tropics will have any impact on your

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you know i know there's a lot of folks

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back home that are preparing for my

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and i have to trust that they're looking

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out for those kinds of things and

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the weather in kazakhstan is probably a

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lot clearer than it is

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in route to houston but

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i trust that the folks that are picking

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since you're returning home in just

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really a matter of hours what's it going

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to be like your last your last day on

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i i fear it's going to be a little

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this is such an incredible

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vehicle that we have that doesn't even

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to be a part of something like this

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fact that it was put together designed

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all of our international partners is

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that uh it's it's hard to let go of so i

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doug for you we know that the nasa

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program is changing direction a little

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bit we know that the shuttle program is

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going any further what are your thoughts

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i look ahead for our our kids and our

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grandkids uh to what we'll see in the

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next 50 years

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nasa has never seemed to disappoint you

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of where will we go next what will we do

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next and um and i i think over the next

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couple of years as we see a lot of

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return on science that we're doing

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beginning to really start to do 100 now

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on the space station and we we

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understand how to bring these things

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better optimize projecting ourselves

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the unknown and and uh

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and how nasa is gonna respond to that in

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in our in our future vision and it's i

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know it's gonna be spectacular it's

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never as never disappointed us as we as

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we came out of the apollo program and we

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wonder what what next and then the

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shuttle program was only just a dream at

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that point and um and an impossible

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dream at that and uh and now here we

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find ourselves in the uh in the in the

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twilight of the shuttle era and we're

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looking at the space station uh to be a

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platform to uh help us in research

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and uh develop new materials and uh

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develop new uh ways in propulsion to try

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to take us deeper and further and i

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think our kids and our grandkids are

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gonna are in for a uh just a thrilling

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and fascinating future with nasa so so i

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you know the change is always is not

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always bad and so

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space shuttle go it's been a workhorse

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things to come and uh and i think it's

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gonna be a very very exciting future for

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our kids and our grandkids

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the international space station is truly

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international what's it been like

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suici on board from japan and um also uh

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sts-131 and it has been a it's been a

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joy to to be a truly international crew

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it's um it's great you learn a lot about

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how you adapt and incorporate yourself

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these challenges that we have everything

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one another but we always make it work

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running water uh that's a that's a

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shower since june 15th and so uh um i i

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our personal hygiene but uh but you you

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no go ahead please continue your thought

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it sort of goes into hibernation and you

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the aromas and things like that so i i

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restaurant and you smell the food

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cooking and and things like that those

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into like distant memory when you come

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through the skin could actually smell so

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good but uh but it's it smells that you

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miss like that that's really the smell

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of life the smell of the earth you know

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