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okay station this is Houston are you

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ready for the event Houston station were

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ready for the event US Department of

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Education this is Houston please call

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station for a voice check station this

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is Arne Duncan and we have some

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fantastic students here from deal middle

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school and heart middle school worth the

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Department of Education in Washington DC

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do you hear me ok we have you loud and

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clear welcome aboard the International

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Space Station thanks so much and welcome

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to the crew of the International Space

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Station commander Wheelock flight

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engineer Walker and flight engineer

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Kelly our students are ready and eager

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to hear from you thank you so much for

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taking the time to do this and the first

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question will come from Sophia acclaim

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in a deal middle school and Sophia

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you're up my name is Sophia and my

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question is for Doug Wheelock what kind

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of research are you working on and how

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will it help us understand our planet

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and the universe hi Sophia well that's a

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great question and that's the purpose

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the prime purpose while we're here on

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the space station is to operate these

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laboratories we haven't any one given

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time over a hundred and thirty

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studying studying the earth studying

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space studying our bodies and our bodies

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reaction to to being in space and long

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duration and trying to learn a little

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bit more about material development and

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pharmaceuticals and things like this and

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so so what we're trying to do is is

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operate these laboratories in the

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absence of gravity and when we take

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gravity out of the equation some

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sometimes some wonderful things happen

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things like crystals grow in in three

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dimension now rather than in two

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dimension like we we have on earth and

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through this process I developed new

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processes of developing materials and

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developing pharmaceuticals to help us in

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the areas of Medicine and also an in the

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process of doing that we're staying long

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duration on board the space station sort

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of replicating a transit time to another

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another body in our solar system be it

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Mars or the moon or or an asteroid or

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something and so we're using ourselves

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how we can survive and thrive in an

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environment away from grab earth's

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gravity for a long period of time thank

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you my name is Gary and my question is

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for Shannon Walker how do you

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communicate with other crew members if

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people are from different countries here

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to do is learn different languages

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English aboard the space station but I

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Russia to be the co-pilot of the Soyuz I

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had to learn the Russian language so I

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could communicate with the Russian

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control center in Russian so basically

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my name is Alex and my question is for

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Scott Kelly do you have any free time

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certain things we do to entertain

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stations crewmember members would agree

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the the best one is actually to look out

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at Planet Earth because it is so truly

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beautiful from this vantage point and

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because we fly around it every 90

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minutes we get to you know experience

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seeing places on earth from a distance

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that we might not get to experience you

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perspective to look at earth above the

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atmosphere it's a very very beautiful

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planet and you know we're all fortunate

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to have it also we have to exercise a

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lot on board and most crew members

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really enjoy doing that because normally

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flying around in microgravity you don't

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things that you would do on earth for

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my name is Deon say and my question is

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accomplish I Deonte well that's a very

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purpose here is to operate this

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laboratory where world-class laboratory

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and we offer in a unique environment up

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here inside of the station we can we can

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offer an environment where we remove

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gravity from the equation and all these

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scientific studies and in the areas of

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research of pharmaceuticals medical

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experiments out in the vacuum of space

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as well so so we're gathering all the

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science for for our scientists on on the

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earth and and and plan to return great

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increased are in more efficient

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processes better materials there better

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pharmaceuticals that help our life on

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for shannon walker and my question is

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for shannon walker how is food on earth

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different from food in space Doug just

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said it was tastier in some sense that's

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earth and food and spaces so much of

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takes a lot of fuel to get water up into

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space because water is actually

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relatively heavy so we remove the water

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on the ground and launch the food which

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is dehydrated into space so that is one

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got water up here where does that come

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on attached to the station we can get

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water from the shuttle because they make

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that as a product for making electricity

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on the shuttle so we get water from the

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shuttle and then we also make water here

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had any problems here in space like

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potentially maybe you know a problem

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with a system or with you know one of

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the crew members medically we do

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occasionally have you no problems with

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the systems just about an hour ago we

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segment of the system that of the space

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station that said there was a low level

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of oxygen in the in the Russian what's

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sensor but we do have more serious

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very important to cooling the outside of

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occasionally have things go wrong but we

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Doug Wheelock what is the most beautiful

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most beautiful thing is my crewmates

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everyone would agree the most beautiful

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thing that we can see from the space

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station is our planet and and of course

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see about our plan of both in daytime

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chance to look at the earth the earth is

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this big sea of darkness that space that

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we know and and what you know I thought

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about what it would be like to go into

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eclipse and come on the back side of the

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earth when the earth was in darkness

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that I thought we'll probably it would

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just blend in with the darkness of deep

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space but but no the the earth at night

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lightning and Aurora and city lights and

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Southern Lights the Aurora over the over

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the South Pole and we actually had a

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shining was shining off the Aurora as

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pretty it was pretty dramatic and very

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just a beautiful beautiful picture out

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the window and we all were glued glued

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personality or the way you think change

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it I think I'd have to ask my crewmates

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changed or how i think through things

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question is for Scott Kelly do you feel

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like your job is dangerous well you know

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flying in spaces is somewhat dangerous

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almost near vacuum and to get here

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get home we have to remove that energy

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risky and somewhat dangerous but you

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know the different government agencies

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whether it's NASA or the other partners

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risk but normally doing great things

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the gweelok how does your body feel in

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earth hi Ayanna yes it is very different

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than on earth and them it actually feels

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the ceiling on the floor and the walls

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to rethink those things and relearn how

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space and and now after being here for

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remember life with gravity but we're

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going to get a we're going to see that

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big time at the end of this week when we

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return to the Planet Jenna and I would

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along with our crew may fielder but it

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is a little bit different on the body

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the body feels quite quite different

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when you get here to space and and will

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make the same as very similar adjustment

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when we get back to gravity it's great

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my name is Matthew and my question is

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for shannon walker how long did you

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train for going into space matthew great

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question we actually trained a really

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long time before going into space when i

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first became an astronaut I trained for

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two years learning how to are learning

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about the shuttle and the space station

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learning all the systems and then when I

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was assigned to this particular mission

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I trained for three years before i was

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finally launched into space thank you my

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name is Alyssa and my question is for

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Scott Kelly what inspired you to become

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an astronaut well Alyssa I when I was a

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kid it was definitely something I was

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interested in you know like a lot of

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kids are interested in doing things like

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you know flying in space or you know

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other challenging you know endeavors but

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it wasn't really until later when I was

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a pilot in the United States Navy and I

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become a tech became a test pilot that I

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actually thought it was something that

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was was achievable for me and you know

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as a pilot in the military for me it

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just seemed like the next most

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challenging type of flying and that's

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my name is Elizabeth and my question is

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for Doug Wheelock do you have a

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telescope on board and if so what can

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you see through it thank you hi

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Elizabeth good question we do not have a

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telescope on board but we have very very

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powerful camera lenses and some

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binoculars and things that we use very

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great we have a wide range of camera

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lenses on board and then at the towards

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the end of actually the beginning of

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next year there'll be a space shuttle

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launching with a with it with a very

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powerful telescope on it that will go on

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the outside of the space station they'll

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be used for scientists on the earth to

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study our to study our universe and but

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on board we just have very very powerful

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cameras that we can see a very fine

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I want to thank you guys so much for

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taking the time to spend of our students

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again this is fascinating and I look

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forward to this so much each year and I

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have a buddy of you are sitting next to

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me Leland Melvin I wanted him to just

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say hello to you and then we'll close

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out that you guys get back to work hey

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wheels miss O'Malley and Scott it's

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really great to see you guys up there

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and I'm really proud of what you're

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doing and helping inspire that next

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generation so I look forward to seeing

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you back on the ground i'll have that

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cheeseburger ready for you when you when

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okay thank thanks Leela and to all the

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students that are there and in the

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administrative staff and the faculty and

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teachers that are there thank you really

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really great questions was a real

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pleasure having you onboard the space

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station with us today and and actually

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we wanted to do a little bit of

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demonstration here this is a EMU

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spacesuit a spacesuit that we use for

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our spacewalks and this suit on the

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planet Earth weighs about 300 to 350

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pounds and so you can see how how how

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easy it is to move around here in space

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weightlessness in space but with the one

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thing that we have to remember very very

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important in the ways of science that

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they although things are weightless they

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still have mass and we have to be very

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careful as we move large objects like

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this around both inside the space

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station and outside so whenever you

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propel an object with a certain force

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it's going to take an equal and opposite

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force to stop that object as well so

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sometimes it's a hard lesson to learn as

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well but thank you for joining us and

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have a great day and and we'll look

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station this is Houston ACR that

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concludes the event thank you thank you

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the Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

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and two participants at the Department

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of Education wash everybody's station

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please stand by while we reconfigure