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station this is the rickett baba

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rick and bobo we've got you loud and

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clear welcome aboard the international

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space station oh wow commander doug

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we're glad to be here first off let me

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tell you thank you for making it happen

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and uh hello to everyone on the

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international space station uh doug let

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me let me start with you we've got a

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tight window here

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but you have brought space back to earth

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with your use of social network media

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like never before can you talk about

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well it's been great and we we always

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looking for ways rick and bubba to uh

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to bring

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the views that we see out the window and

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the things that we're experiencing in

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the ways of science on board the station

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and the experiences we have inside as

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bring those uh back to earth so folks

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can enjoy those can see what we're

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seeing and experience uh the very same

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thing and uh we tried to venture out and

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scott is doing this as well as as far as

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using twitter and um

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we've been sending pictures and uh just

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our our thoughts and and comments uh

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down to earth and so it's been it's been

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a real uh real thrill to be able to do

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uh our next question is for flight

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engineer shannon walker shannon if you

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get the chance to go back to the

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what would you tell nasa that needs to

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be done different and what would you do

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well you know actually i think we've got

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it down pretty well on how we operate

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day to day and how we um

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conduct ourselves up here i think nasa's

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doing a pretty good job and the

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station's doing a pretty good job so i

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think a few tweaks here and there on how

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we manage some of our stowage but by and

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large just keep doing what we're doing

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our next question is for flight engineer

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scott j kelly scott when you get back to

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earth talk to us about how long it takes

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you to transition back to your earth

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legs and what other problems might be in

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first long-duration flight so um

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as far as my knowledge about how long it

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takes to do that is just from talking to

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other astronauts on a on a short

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duration mission it takes um

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usually about three or four days before

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people are feeling uh you know 100

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some cases several months before

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density and muscle mass back in some

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cases it takes more than a year

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commander doug uh let me ask you and

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we've had a lot of people want to know

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it's very important work what you're

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doing and i know you're very busy but in

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your down time what do you get to do for

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fun on the space station do you have

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i know you work with twitter as you

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mentioned what other things do you do

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an assortment of movies on board that

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sometimes we'll have movie night

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together we tend to try to eat our meals

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in the evening at least together

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and so we can socialize a little bit

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with our with our crew crewmates

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probably the favorite our most favorite

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when you go to the cupola and you have

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it's quite an amazing sight and the

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let me let me follow up with you on that

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comment you have rode on the space

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shuttle you have been on the space

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station you've been commander of the

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space station uh you have climbed to

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mount everest the top of mount everest

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what are you going to do for excitement

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this to the top of mount everest but i

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you know the i i'm just really looking

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forward to the simple things uh but the

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looking forward to is is hot running

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water uh taking taking a shower haven't

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had a shower since june so uh looking

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forward to that and really looking

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forward to uh uh to feeling a breeze

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against my face you know just kind of

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smelling the earth and

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just experiencing the the feel of the

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doug let me let me follow up with you

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one more time since you brought that up

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talk to us about uh how does how does

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traveling in space in long duration and

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having the view you have how does it

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affect your spiritual beliefs and your

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spiritual side has that has that changed

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has it been enhanced what what how does

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different i suppose in their experience

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my own personal beliefs and things and

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uh it's a it's quite an amazing place

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you know we we uh

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you look at uh you look at the earth and

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look at it against the backdrop of space

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and it uh you can't help but

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different thoughts on uh

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on the beauty of our world and and sort

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of your purpose

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and your place in this in this world

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because when you look out your you feel

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pretty small when you uh when you look

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at the earth and enjoy the uh

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each of the different views that we have

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insignificant really in the whole scheme

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of things but really makes you turn

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inward to to kind of define yourself and

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i think for me personally it's uh it's

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strengthened my my personal beliefs

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shannon uh we had a question called in

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from a listener very good when we're in

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the peak of the meteor shower season how

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by anything we certainly had nothing

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shooting stars but they are below us

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program is is bittersweet the the

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shuttle has been an amazing vehicle it's

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fund both programs and also have this uh

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finally reaching its uh capability that

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i think the future of nasa is bright uh

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certainly we have some uh

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you know our government uh has some

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decisions to make here uh soon with

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regards to our budget and um you know

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whatever they decide as nasa employees

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we will support and uh you know support

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it in the best way that we can

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we want to thank all of you for taking

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time to speak with us thank you for the

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job you're doing and we can't underline

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that enough

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commander doug thank you again and doug

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you want to give a quick shout out to

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the teachers that have adopted you or me

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and you both are going to have to move

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fourth crew member here in the u.s uh

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this is uh al the astro nut uh from our

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math and science consortium uh that were

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we're doing some work with some actually

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hello to them and al gives a shout out

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the station this is houston acr that

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thank you rick and bubba syndicated

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