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aboard the international space station

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expedition 26 commander scott kelly

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discussed the progress of his mission

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with reporters from ktrk tv in houston

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an abc news radio in washington d.c

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during a pair of in-flight interviews

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from the complex on december 8 2010

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ktrk tv this is houston please call

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stations ktrk-tv houston how do you hear

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i hear you loud and clear

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scott kelly good morning it's tom cook

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two months on the space station how does

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well uh it actually feels pretty good uh

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took a little while to get adjusted to

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living up here but uh now that i've been

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here a couple of months

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really uh feel like i'm getting into the

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the routine of living and working in

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space for a long duration and it's uh

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scott you've commanded two shuttle

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missions now commander of the space

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station can you tell us a little bit

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about the differences and your duties

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there and the daily activities that go

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well i was the uh the pilot of my first

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flight and then the commander of my

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second which was a shuttle mission as

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you as you said

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and now uh

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being the commander of the space station

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it's it's definitely a different

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experience um

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we are uh

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not only visiting space but we're

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actually living here and uh

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it just adds a little bit of

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extra i guess you know responsibility a

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little bit of extra

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things that you have to consider

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when you're in this environment for such

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a long period of time and the station is

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is operated much differently than the

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space shuttle it's uh

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in a lot of ways it's much more

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autonomous in that you know the crew

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doesn't have to be actively involved in

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managed is is much different than on a

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space shuttle mission so we have a

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i guess a little bit more freedom in uh

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how our our days are run

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than we would on a space shuttle flight

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so it is it is somewhat of a different

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scott we are about to see the first

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commercial orbit uh later on this

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morning with spacex's

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capsule

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you said after this mission you'd like

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to continue to fly and be in space uh

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for a long term can you see yourself one

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day riding in a commercial rocket to

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you know i would definitely like to tom

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you know if if that's the path that's uh

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we're proceeding on and and having

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american astronauts launch not only on

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maybe russian soyuz rockets but also on

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a commercially commercially uh designed

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and manufactured an operating vehicle i

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would like to have that opportunity

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because i am

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committed to this program and uh would

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like to fly in space again we were

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watching uh trying to watch the launch

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live here on the space station they can

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meeting and

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you know it's uh unfortunate that it

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didn't happen at the time it did because

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we were gonna where we were gonna be

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passing right over

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the uh cape canaveral air force station

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there where it was going to launch from

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you know caution is is the better part

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of valor in this business and

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better to be safe

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and launch when they're ready and

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hopefully they'll be ready this

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afternoon i think in another maybe about

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scott there been those problems with

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discovered that have delayed sts-133 and

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now 134 your brother's mission it would

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appear the rendezvous in space between

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you and your twin brother mark won't

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actually uh tom a lot of people have

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asked me that question and surprisingly

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it's really not a disappointment at all

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you know i feel

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privileged to to work in the space

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program especially

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have the privilege of flying in space on

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these uh three missions that i've

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i've been on and uh you know my brother

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and i meeting in space was not something

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that was planned it was just by you know

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luck that we wound up

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uh we were gonna wind up in space at the

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same time and it would have been nice um

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definitely uh on a personal level it's

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something that that i was looking

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forward to but

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you know the way things go in this

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business you got to launch when you're

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ready and if you're not ready um you

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know it's time to take a step back and

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you know us uh flying was really just

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icing on the cake and

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i talked to your father on monday he

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said they're going to miss you for the

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holidays what's it going to be like in

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to be away from your family and your

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you know on my first flight

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sts-103 which was a hubble space

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telescope repair mission in 1999 i was

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we flew over christmas it's the only

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shuttle flight ever

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to fly over the uh the christmas

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holidays and uh

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it was really a a special place to be i

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think you know even though you miss your

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friends and your family at that time of

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year it uh you know is a little bit of

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you know added element of uh the

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environment that really lets you reflect

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on what you're what you're doing and uh

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you know the importance of it

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significance and uh you know what you're

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trying to accomplish and uh

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you know just how lucky you are to be uh

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you know to live in a country that that

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builds things like the international

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space station and it's you know i really

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take to get acclimated what do you tell

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them when they arrive and to get them

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acclimated to not only living but the

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well well i'll tell them to to take it

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slow at first i mean

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it's a much larger place than the

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and uh you know just kind of take it

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easy at first until you get your space

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legs underneath you and uh

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it does take a while to get adapted to

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not only the environment but the work

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schedule here and uh you know but i i

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anticipate and i think they're just

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gonna they're gonna do just great and i

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was in russia and asked you for uh an

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iphone uh you said you didn't hear did

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she get that or will she get that for

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christmas or am i spilling the beans

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i didn't hear what you said tom

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okay it's really something to see up

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there today a couple of final questions

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that one is how's the food so far and

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you know the living accommodations are

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are great it's uh the the air quality is

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good the uh you know the temperature the

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you know it's all it's all great the

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variety you have is not uh certainly

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what you have on the ground so

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you know i think after six months i

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might be looking for a little bit more

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variety but overall it's good and i have

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and what are you looking most forward to

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over the next four months just spending

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well i look forward to uh my three new

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crew members getting on board and

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getting them uh comfortable and up to

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speed and uh you know working on board

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and living on board the space station um

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you know after that we have uh several

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visiting vehicles showing up a uh a

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japanese um

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cargo vehicle a european cargo vehicle

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uh some more russian cargo vehicles as

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well as the next space shuttle discovery

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that they'll be on board here in uh

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hopefully in february if if everything

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is ready and uh you know on the schedule

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that they're currently working towards

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look forward to that and then just the

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the daily work we do up here and it's uh

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it's it's very important it's very

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varied we have a hundred and over 130

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scientific experiments going on here on

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the international space station

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and uh you know i'm just proud to be a

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scott merry christmas and i guess i

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should say happy new year before we say

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yeah happy uh

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merry christmas and happy holidays to

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you too tom and i look forward to seeing

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you and your family when i get back home

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the ktrk tv portion of the

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event please stand by for a voice check

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station it's vic ratner from abc news

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i hear you loud and clear

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station it's vic ratner from abc news

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i read you loud and clear how do you

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hear me

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loud and clear commander kelly good to

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well it's good to hear you welcome

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aboard the international space station

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what christmas on the space station is

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going to be like will there be a tree

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will there be turkey and ham will you be

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we do have christmas decorations here

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although i haven't started putting them

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up yet so i don't really know what uh is

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in the the bag

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i'm sure there's a little tree in there

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it'll be a uh it's a special place to be

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and uh especially during the holidays

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and i look forward to uh you know

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spending time up here on uh

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during the holiday season

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what we're gonna have for our holiday

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shuttle which is now going to arrive in

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in february unfortunately but uh

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um that's okay we understand that's the

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space business works you gotta launch

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when you're ready to launch and we

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your crew quarters which struck me your

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personal quarters about the size of a

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phone booth tell us what it's like

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living in that small confined space when

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is uh it's actually pretty comfortable

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you know there's a couple computers in

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there for access not only to the

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internet on the ground but also the uh

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you know the systems or the uh

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the kind of the uh you know local area

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network we have here on the space

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station to access uh email that's sent

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up to us and and

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you know videos and uh you know you can

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you know read a lot of the the plans we

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work uh

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work to

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and uh

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it's actually a a pretty comfortable

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environment i'd much rather sleep in

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there actually than uh

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you know out in one of the in the open

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spaces is one of the modules i think

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and others have said the open spaces in

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the modules are really noisy with all

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that machinery going on so you can't

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you know they're all different and uh

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you know some are quieter than others

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this uh the module i'm in right now is

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the uh

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the japanese pressurized module the jpm

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and it's uh it's very quiet um

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you know i thought uh

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living on board the space station for a

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long period of time i would notice you

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know the noise a little bit more but you

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kind of get used to it it doesn't really

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you've got internet in your personal

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quarters could you do some christmas

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you know it's it's slow it's kind of

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like dial up and you don't have a

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connection all the time we only have the

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connection when the uh ku band antenna

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is locked up on a satellite so

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maybe

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you know 45 minutes every hour

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i have not bought anything online but i

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could i've been i do use the internet

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that's connected to the ground

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uh via that system and it works it works

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pretty well it's it's somewhat finicky

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but

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i have actually done some banking on it

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so

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it works for those kind of things if and

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and i probably will purchase something

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your previous shuttle flights were

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jammed full of things you had to do

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how would you compare all the time on

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the space station do you gear down do

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you take a little more time to get

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you know it's it's

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that way this the station flight is

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somewhat like a sprint

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uh during the day

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when you're trying to get all your

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activities accomplished

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but then because you're kind of used to

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to living in space and you're

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comfortable in the environment

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the time you have off

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which is a little more than on a shuttle

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because you know we need more time off

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here to recuperate uh being here for

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long periods of time but the the time

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you have off you can enjoy it and take

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advantage of it in different ways for

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instance

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you know i would never consider reading

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a book

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on the space shuttle on a space shuttle

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mission but i've read several here so

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watching movies listening to music a lot

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of time taking pictures of the earth

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looking out the window things that

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you don't seem to have the time to do on

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a on a space shuttle flight

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and what's it going to be like when the

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next expedition crew arrives and

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well the u.s segment is very quiet right

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now because i'm the only person that is

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actually you know spending a lot of time

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here working uh one of the cosmonauts uh

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has a one of the crew quarters here and

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he sleeps here but most of his is his

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day uh hours are spent on the russian

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segment

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so

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it will be uh

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busier of course and um but you know i

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look forward to the company

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and uh i look forward to getting them up

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here and getting them comfortable and

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acclimated and

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is it anything like having the in-laws

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over to your house

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good to have them there but

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you're glad to have the quiet when the

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i sure hope not

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okay we'll let that one go

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what are your

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one more thing before we go

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and that would be

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got a new year's wish you want to relay

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to us

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for yourself for the crew for the space

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well you know

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in the united states right now there's

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certainly uh

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you know some

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troubling

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difficult times for a lot of people and

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you know our hearts here

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go out to them and

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and

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you know i know it's it's tough for a

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lot of people and and and i think and i

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have faith in our country and hopefully

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things will uh

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you know get turned around soon with the

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economy and such and uh you know we'll

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we'll see things improving and

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you know i'd like to just give them uh

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give them

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actually all people

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uh you know our best wishes for peace

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and happiness on earth

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thanks and we wish you a safe flight and

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happy landings

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abcdout

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thank you very much

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thank you