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i've been doing this for 25 years and

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i've never interviewed anyone from space

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before so i'm pretty excited

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we've been tracking this woman for

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months and now astronaut katie coleman

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she's finally in space and we want to

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find out first hand what's

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what it's like up there yeah she blasted

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out last week on board of soyuz rocket

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out of russia leaving behind her husband

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and 10 year old son for six months time

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katie coleman is joining us this morning

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live from the international space

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station high above the earth there she

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is with her festive hat on and john

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zarella who had the enviable task of

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following katie for the last year as she

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prepared for her trip joins us from

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miami john i know that you've been uh

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anxious to talk to katie up there in

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space she did such great work following

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her trek her journey to get there so why

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don't you go first

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yeah john kell you know there was no way

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we were going to let that series that

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year-long series just

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end with her finally getting the space

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and we are so privileged to have

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katie coleman and paolo nespoli the

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italian space agency astronaut was also

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a part of our year-long special joining

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us from the international space station

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220 miles above the earth and katie to

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you are you getting settled in you got

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the toothbrush put away and the socks in

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you know i've gotten so i i feel

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actually right at home here i think it's

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just like any other place and then

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sometimes there's things that remind me

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that we're in space

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like this

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it's another one of those bad hair days

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for katie up in space

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you've always said to me that space is a

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magical place you flew twice on the

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space station uh and the space shuttle

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for you guys is it living up to the

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you know every every second of it really

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is and i think so few people get to come

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up here and we feel so lucky and you

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know i've gotten so i actually think

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it's normal to open up my little cabin

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and you know float down the lab and

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eat breakfast and i i just uh i think

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it's an amazing place here's paulo

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yeah yeah john being up here it's really

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different

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it takes quite some time to adjust

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yourself

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but then you get to fly around i just

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wonder what i'm going to do when i come

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back on earth if i'd be able to fly

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around my room it will just fall on the

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katie hey

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it's john roberts here katie i i know

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that it's it's not all fun and games up

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there in space and playing with hair and

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flying around as paulo said you've got a

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lot of work to do you i know have been

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uh working in on the japanese robot arm

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there what other kind of experiments

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will you be doing up there in space in

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the six months that you'll be on board

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well just this morning i was getting uh

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that what we call the clean bench ready

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for experiments next week and that's

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where we're doing some cell biology and

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even plant experiments and we're able to

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transfer things in this small glove box

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but then even more interesting is when

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we want to find out what's the effect of

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microgravity we've got a centrifuge to

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spin things at one g and then we can

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have the same plants or cells doing the

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same experiment right next door in

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microgravity so it's uh there's a lot of

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carol costello here katie i'm so excited

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to be talking i can't even wrap my mind

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around that you're in space and i'm down

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here it's unbelievable but i wanted to

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ask you i know you left your 10 year old

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son of course back down on earth he said

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he's taking care of dad for you so that

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must be going through your mind because

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you're going to be up there through

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christmas and also i you you brought

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your flute with you right i hope you did

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i did although i'll say we've actually

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been so busy settling in i haven't

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actually gotten to unpack it yet i did

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actually you know i try to bring

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something that reminds you know that

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helps me relate to my son what i do

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every day and so of course his little

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tiger hobbs came up on the supply ship

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i keep them on a leash

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just because you know we don't want a

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you know katie um six months is an

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awfully long time now of course our men

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and women in the military experience

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this all the time with overseas

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deployments but six months is a long

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time to be away from from loved ones

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family back home it'll be the longest

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that you've been away from them how are

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you going to maintain that connection to

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them can you can you talk on it if not

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on a frequent basis at least from time

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we're quite lucky up here in that we get

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to talk to um folks so we have actually

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an an internet protocol phone that we

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can use when the communication

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satellites have the correct bandwidth so

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we can do some talking um by by phones

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so to speak we can call them and then we

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have weekly family conferences by video

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which is pretty marvelous to see to see

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oh that's terrific john czarella can you

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imagine talking to your mom in space on

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fun just a minute i gotta go talk to my

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mom she's in space

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yeah i know you know before we lose

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katie we'll wrap it up real quick here

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katie one last thing i know how

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important it is the messages to young

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people particularly women you got a

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message out there for for the young

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folks who may be watching this this

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i just like to say that you know this

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was my dream and and

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it's not everybody's but it certainly

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was mine and you never think that an

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ordinary person

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could get to come and live on the

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international space station and call it

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their home and and have a a lot of

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really interesting work to do that i

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think will make a difference for for

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all people

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and in the way that happens is just to

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to do your best and if you get to a day

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where you haven't done your best you're

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just going to have to wake up the next

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day and and try harder to do your best

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and and try your hardest and that real

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people do have their dreams come true

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that's a great great thing to think

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about a great thing to hang on to i know

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that we're about to lose the satellite

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window katie coleman paolo nespoli

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thanks so much for being with us and uh

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john you've you've managed through your

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work over the past year to uh

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to bring a thrill to both carol and

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myself we've never talked to anybody in

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space merry christmas happy new year by

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merry christmas and happy new year

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station this is houston acr thank you

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thank you cnn

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station please stand by while we