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hi doug hi shannon my name is dave wheat

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and i'm the principal of johnston middle

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school and i'm coming to you live from

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the johnston middle school auditorium

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shannon i'm sure you've been you can

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visualize where we are right now asking

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these questions and it's such a great

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thrill for me to get to participate in

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this and a great thrill for our kids

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from parker and westbrook high school in

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johnston i want you to know my question

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is personal that your

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yearbook pictures from your middle

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school years are on display at the

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library right now what is your reaction

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man that's some bad fashion we got going

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oh no on think it's great i think it's

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very exciting that parker justin and

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westbrook are all come together because

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as you know those are the schools i

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attended in um hisd before i went out to

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rice university and then started working

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at nasa so i think it's great and we're

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really excited to be able to talk to you

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david i'd like to see those pictures

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doug you're welcome at johnston middle

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school anytime i'll keep them in a

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special place in my office they'll be

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right there for you when you get to

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what does it mean to the students here

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to have shannon walker up on the space

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station talking to them today i think

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it's just a great motivation for the

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students to see that someone that went

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to the school they're at has made it

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this far and has followed her dreams and

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it's kind of an inspiration to them to

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to um you know see that it can happen

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students here at johnson middle school

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arts fantastic principally uh is it

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difficult getting those students

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interested in the visual and performing

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arts you know to take an interest in

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science and math

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no you know we have um

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a lot of motivating and interesting

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science and math teachers that do

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everything we can to to draw those

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students in and and really we don't have

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to do that much of that for them they're

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they're interested they're eager to

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learn they're ready to go so we just tap

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into that and keep them going forward

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fantastic and how excited are these

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students to be doing this today they're

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so excited they've been waiting and

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waiting

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we had a lottery for who could attend in

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the auditorium and then all the other

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students will be watching in their

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classroom and watching the students find

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their name on the lottery list and

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screaming and excitement was just

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exhilarating from me so i know they're

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station this is houston are you ready

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for the event

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johnson middle school this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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a voice check

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station this is amber pinchback at

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johnston middle school here in houston

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amber we read you loud and clear welcome

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good morning from johnson space center

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i'm here with students from parker

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elementary johnson middle school and

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we are excited to learn from you this

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morning on this out of this world

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let's get started with our first student

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middle school my question is for shannon

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walker miss walker i was being in the

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space of reminder of your childhood

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memories and dreams from looking up at

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think what it reminds me the most of us

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dreams about being able to fly i would

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be running along and then i would be

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running so fast that i could just take

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off and then fly around my neighborhood

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and so being up in space reminds me of

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that because i do get to fly everywhere

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as opposed to walking around on the

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hi my name is katherine nicholson i'm

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5th grade at parker elementary my

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uh doug what are some of the most

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important real world discoveries and

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contributions that we have benefited

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wow that's a very good question uh do we

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have a couple hours

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that we have learned and discovered

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through the apollo in the early programs

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an engineering that was used in the

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development of spacecraft and and space

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hardware also our global positioning

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system uh that we have orbiting uh

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orbiting our planet uh to help us with

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communication so probably everybody in

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in that uh auditorium wherever you are

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uh you probably have a cell phone and uh

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technology that really came about uh

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through the space program and also

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computing but some of the most exciting

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things for me now that we're doing here

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over 130 experiments going on here in

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the four laboratories are on board

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experiments in the medical field helping

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ways of looking at transport of these

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pharmaceuticals in the bloodstream

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diseases and cancers and things like

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that that plague us uh as human beings

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new materials as well um the debakey

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engineering in the space program and the

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development of small uh pumps uh that

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medical field so we've got a tremendous

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the planet to make our lives better

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that take different uh photographs of

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the earth to to look at drainage at crop

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usage and things like that to better

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assist our farmers and when when and how

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to plant crops and where are the best

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what has been the most exhilarating

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experience in space this far

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of kazakhstan and to feel the the power

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of the engines when we first took off

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have us hurtling upwards towards space

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interesting every day is bring something

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new but for just sheer excitement the

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launch was it and i suspect the landing

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grader at johnson middle school my

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happens system on the space station

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we had a pump module fail outside and we

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creative thinking together with our uh

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our shoulders and around our waist that

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doug what advice would you give young

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people today about the importance of

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pursuing science and the future of space

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exploration

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the great that's the 64 thousand dollar

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of science uh science is fun

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like this are are about solving problems

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of of an unsolved problem or or unknown

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science and uh pursue your dream whether

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it's uh whether it's in uh math science

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engineering um we would love to have you

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something you love and uh because if you

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do something if you're doing something

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you love you're bound to be very good at

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hard and

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the sky is no longer the limit uh you

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my name is daniel marks and i am a

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freshman at westbury high school and my

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question is for shannon walker

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shannon what was your major in college

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and how did it help you become an

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astronaut

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daniel my major in college was physics

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which i realize is kind of a daunting

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topic for a lot of people but physics is

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is really the basics for everything that

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you do in math science and engineering

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except for math of course but

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so i use physics every day up here not

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the least of which is when i'm moving

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around of course

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one of einstein's equations f equals m a

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so whenever

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we push off we keep going as second law

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body emotion stays in motion until

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something stops it so

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when we move we keep going until we stop

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ourselves somehow or we run into a wall

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so we definitely use physics every day

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hello my name is lisa esmeralda fuentes

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i'm an 8th grader at johnston middle

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school my question is for doug wheelock

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doug how do you conduct experiments in

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zero gravity if the experiment includes

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the use of liquids

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you have to be very careful you really

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do

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experiments that up here that are using

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liquid in fact we have a marangoni

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experiment that's actually creating a

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bridge that's actually a liquid bridge

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and we're looking at the transport of

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material like energy through this bridge

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and so we actually have to be very very

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careful

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we have isolation systems on our racks

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that keep from many vibrations we try

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not to touch the experiment racks uh to

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create any kind of jostling or anything

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like that and so when we have

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microgravity

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we try to be

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have a period of what's called

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quiescence where we we try not to fire

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the thrusters

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um on the on the space station we use

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only the momentum wheels so it's a very

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very smooth ride

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and we try to keep our hands from uh

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from touch are pushing off of the

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experiments so we have to be very

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careful but liquid when it's uh when

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it's in space actually sort of tends to

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coalesce together into like a big ball

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so when it's together it actually wants

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to stay together

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until you uh until somebody pushes

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against it so that's why we try to keep

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our hands off the experiments but uh

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while they're operating but it's a great

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hi i'm kenneth collins and i'm an 8th

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grader at johnston middle school and my

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question is for shannon walker miss

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walker what is it like to

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what is it like to launch on a soyuz

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rocket

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it is absolutely fantastic it is is

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truly exciting when you uh when we're

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sitting there on the launch pad waiting

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to go

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um we're watching the clock count down

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to our launch time and then all of a

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sudden shortly before it launches you

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can hear all the valves and you can feel

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the valves moving in the rocket getting

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ready getting the fuel go to the

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locations it needs to go and then all of

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a sudden the engines light and and you

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feel this great force pushing you off

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the earth and you're going faster and

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faster and faster and

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you know very short eight and a half

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minutes later you're in space and it is

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just the most wonderful ride anybody can

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hi my name is vanessa flores i'm a ninth

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grader at westbury high school and my

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question is to doug woodlock

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how did you stay determined throughout

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every obstacle you faced on the journey

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well um gosh it's uh

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i think it's just determination and

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belief in yourself and belief in your

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dreams and

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it can get you through anything you know

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we uh regardless of whether you're

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studying to be an astronaut if you want

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to be a teacher or

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a doctor or whatever it might be

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you're going to face obstacles and

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and you can look at them and the way

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i've approached uh the obstacles that i

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faced are we're all going to run into

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problems uh some of our problems are

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different than other folks problems but

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um but you can look at it two ways

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either

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the problem

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you know take over your uh steal your

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dreams from you and

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and i don't like that second option i'd

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rather

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look for a look for a solution to the

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problem and uh you have resources that

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your training your schooling and uh you

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have people around you that would help

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you and hopefully for that uh for uh in

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that realm your your teachers are are

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your friends your parents uh there are

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people that want to help you pursue your

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goals and dreams as well so i would say

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just stay focused on what your goals are

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and stay determined and believe in

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hi

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my name is jared simprin and i'm in the

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fifth grade at parker elementary school

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my question is for shane and walker

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what challenges do you face as a female

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you know that's a very interesting

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question and as i as i think back over

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my career that i've had i've worked at

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nasa for over 20 years i really can't

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think of one thing or any particular

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challenge i faced as being a female

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the jobs are open to everyone

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so much of of what we do depends on your

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brain and not your physical size and so

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that doesn't really matter too much i

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will say that preparing for a spacewalk

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is difficult for me because it does take

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a lot of physical strength but that's

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not something that i can't do because

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i'm female i just have to work a little

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bit harder at it so um

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you know in particular i don't think

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i've faced any any major challenges

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hi my name is marquise walker and i'm a

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7th grader at johnston middle school my

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question is for doug

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doug how often do you go on a space walk

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and how long are you outside the station

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well that's a good question we we don't

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go very often but we um we had this part

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that broke a couple of months ago and we

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had to do three spacewalks and we did

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three spacewalks in the span of about

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10 or 12 days

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and so um

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it's it's a lot of hard work

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physically it's a lot of hard work and

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it takes a lot of planning

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and

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spacewalk it was actually for a little

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over eight hours

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outside and it was the longest space

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walk in iss uh space station history so

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um it was it was pretty long and it's

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it's a long time to go uh without food

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and uh and uh without a chance to really

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kind of uh

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uh kind of relax and everything you have

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to kind of stay at your very top of your

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game

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and um and then the other spacewalks are

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usually a spacewalk lasts about seven

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hours to seven and a half hours and so

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uh that's how long you're outside

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so

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hopefully um you know lord willing if

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if we don't have any other problems we

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we won't have any other planned space

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walks during our stay here

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hi i'm arthur hippolyta and i'm an

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eighth grader at johnston middle school

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and my question is for shannon walker

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shannon how does your work help improve

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communication systems here on

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earth you know that that's a very

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interesting question um

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i would think

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you know today i can't think of a

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specific experiment that we've got going

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on right now directly in communications

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of course throughout the history of the

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space program we've developed everything

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uh one of the main ones of course is

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satellite communication so

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everything that uses satellite

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communications which is a lot these days

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came out of the space program i know

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we've got an experiment coming up that

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we'll be looking at how to better track

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the ships in the sea

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similarly to the way that we track

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airplanes going across our country all

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the airplanes in the the

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control centers know where all the

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airplanes are based on the radar

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tracking system but we don't have the

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same

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kind of system for all the ships out in

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the sea and so we we're trying to

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develop a way to better uh track the

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ship so we can keep an eye on how

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hi doug hi shannon my name is dave wheat

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and i'm the principal of johnston middle

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school and i'm coming to you live from

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the johnston middle school auditorium

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i'm sure you've been you can visualize

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where we are right now asking these

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questions and it's such a great thrill

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for me

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to get to participate in this and a

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great thrill for our kids from parker

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and westbrook high school in johnston i

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want you to know my question is personal

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that your yearbook pictures from your

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middle school years are on display at

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the library right now what is your

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man that's some bad fashion we got going

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on

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oh no i think it's great i think it's

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very exciting that parker justin and

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westbrook have all come together because

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as you know those are the schools i

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attended in um hisd before i went out to

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rice university and then started working

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at nasa so i think it's great and we're

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really excited to be able to talk to you

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david i'd like to see those pictures

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doug you're welcome at johnston middle

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school anytime i'll keep them in a

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special place in my office they'll be

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right there for you when you get to

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houston

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i also want you to know doug and shannon

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that you we are so grateful for you

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spending this time with us today you

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have inspired a whole generation of

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parker lions and johnston greyhounds and

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westbury rebels to achieve their goals

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and achieve their dreams we're going to

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goodbye from

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thank you so much

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thank you very much

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all right

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station this is houston acr thank you

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that concludes the event