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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 fox news radio during an in-flight

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interview from the complex on december 9

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2010. station this is evan brown at fox

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news radio jeremy

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i hear you loud and clear

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captain kelly it's good to talk to you

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again sir

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sir

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just as joyful for you up there as they

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would be

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actually uh thanksgiving dinner was uh

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was pretty good mostly the

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the location in the company not really

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the food most uh most of its

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rehydratable or camping food like

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uh also i'm having a somewhat tough time

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to hearing you right now because there's

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well we'll try to work around that sir

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um just uh a quick question for you and

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i'll let you talk you'll you're uh

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you'll also be on the station for

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christmas how do they celebrate the

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holidays up there and do you guys

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decorate the station do you guys

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the uh well first of all the sound

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quality is much better and as far as

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the holidays yes we do celebrate

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holidays we celebrate both uh

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kind of western holidays but also

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russian holidays on board and the crew

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picks which ones they want off and uh

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so of course you know the u.s crew

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members generally pick the christmas

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holiday in new year's

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we do have decorations although i

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haven't dug into them yet and see

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exactly what's in there but i will do

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that before the next soyuz arrives and

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hopefully get a little bit of christmas

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decorations going up here on the space

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and you know unlike the old days of

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space travel you actually do get the

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internet up there have you been shopping

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well the internet is uh

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really a great capability to have it's

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somewhat

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slow it's kind of like dial up

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although i think you could buy something

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and i'll probably try that out before i

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leave i haven't done that yet i have

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done some things like um

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you know internet banking actually i

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i've done some of that and that works

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pretty well although you have to be very

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patient with the system but it's it's

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well that's good to know you get some

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comforts of home um we just got to

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witness the test flight of dragon the

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capsule built by spacex which will

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likely be how nasa will transport

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supplies to the station after the

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shuttle fleet has retired what is it

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like to see this private enterprise

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venture come to life and what do you

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think the next step is for private

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well you know it's interesting we were

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actually i actually watched the launch

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here on the space station the control

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center in houston sent it up to us

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via net meeting had they launched

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during their first attempt we would have

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been flying right over

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the cape canaveral air force base there

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and would have get to would have been

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able to see it with their own eyes

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so we're obviously pretty excited about

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it

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that a company a startup company like

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spacex that isn't a traditional

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aerospace company

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has accomplished and you know i'm quite

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happy for them

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you know with nasa's current plans uh it

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seems like uh flying

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uh people and

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particularly astronauts that work for

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nasa

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on a commercial vehicle might be in our

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future so uh you know we certainly uh

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you know hope they're successful and

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hope for the best and

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you know we'll do uh

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you know anything we can to to to see

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see them through with this and

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you know i really have to

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you know congratulate all the employees

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at spacex for pulling off this

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you arrived for your recent tour on the

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station i believe back in october but

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your last visit before that was during a

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flight of endeavour in the summer of

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2007.

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does the station look any different to

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you it must be more complete than it was

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yeah certainly uh internal volume wise

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it uh it's about twice as big when i was

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here there was no node 2

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jpm or jlp the japanese modules no node

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three cupola uh two of the russian

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modules were not um currently on board

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uh mrm one and two so internal volume

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wise it's probably more than twice the

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modules or elements now than we did then

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but it's interesting coming up here on

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the soyuz

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as far as how the outside of the station

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looks you don't really get a good um

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good perspective like you do in the

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shuttle because the windows are are much

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smaller

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and you're not

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they're not pointing at the space

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station when you dock so i only really

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had a brief view of the outside of the

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space station

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only for a few seconds when we were

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approaching in the soyuz spacecraft so

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i'm not too sure

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and what are some of the more exciting

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tasks your crew will be undertaking

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you know we have the uh this new soyuz

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coming on board with three crew members

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and certainly getting uh them up to

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speed and uh you know

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kind of uh into the working routine up

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here is is gonna be exciting and is very

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important uh because we need their their

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assistance and contribution to to do

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you know to meet our mission objectives

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that we have coming up we have a

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japanese cargo vehicle that's going to

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early next year as well as a european

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cargo vehicle

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um more uh russian progresses we get

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those every every so often we have uh

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two more russian segment spacewalks

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as well as the uh

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the uh arrival of discovery so uh

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there's a lot on our plate um a lot of

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it is uh kind of logistics with uh with

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these cargo vehicles coming up and and

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preparing the space station

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for for its future uh beyond shuttle and

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all the science that not only the

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science that we conduct now but the

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science that we'll be able to conduct

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for the next 10 years onboard the

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and our time is is almost closing with

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you you you have uh close to 14 000

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followers on twitter uh what's it like

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to know that so many people are

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interested in what you're doing and and

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what's it like for you to be able to

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you know i think it's important for nasa

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to engage the uh the public in in what

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we do and there are some limitations uh

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in how we do it you know there are legal

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uh restrictions but

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things like twitter especially

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site that just

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you know was just started last week and

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um you know those

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uh things like that the social media is

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is something that nasa has really

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embraced and it's uh i think it's

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important for us to use it and get our

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our message out and it's uh it's also

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fun for us we're doing a

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myself and and

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nasa public affairs at jsc or doing a

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geography contest on twitter right now

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which is uh really a lot of fun for me

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to take the pictures

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and then

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you know see what kind of

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and what is your twitter account name

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it's a station

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cdr kelly and the reason uh we chose

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that was to kind of uh

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contrast with my brother

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who was a shuttle cdr kelly and we were

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going to have kind of

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a you know with both of us potentially

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being on the space station at the same

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time um you know some um

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you know trying to draw some uh

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attention to to

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the uh you know public interest that

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that would have had with and that's why

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we were all looking forward to possibly

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seeing you two together on the station

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at the same time but of course

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scheduling didn't allow for that but

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i'm sure maybe we'll we'll get something

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like that in the future captain kelly

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thank you for taking time with us and

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for talking with us please stay safe and

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well you're welcome and uh it was great