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station this is the recorder how do you

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we hear you loud and clear welcome

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aboard the international space station

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hello everyone this is anita phillips

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with the recorder in greenfield um katie

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hi i interviewed you a couple years ago

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for a piece in yankee magazine how are

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i'm great it's nice to talk to you again

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hey nice to talk to you too so katie

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you're away from

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your son and husband for the next six

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months and during that time are you

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gonna miss any birthdays anniversaries

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school or other kind of important events

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well i think i'm going to miss actually

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all of the above although uh luckily for

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me uh all the boys in my family are born

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born in august so uh i'll be home for

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their birthdays but you know being up

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here is is pretty special and i think

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that they think it's special as well we

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have some capability to talk to them by

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video and certainly by phone or it's

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sort of a phone anyway i can call down

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to the ground and i talk to them

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i'd say probably every day at least once

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and how often do you normally have

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contact with with your son and your

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husband

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when you're in houston and when you're

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well since josh and i have been one of

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those couples that are you know have a

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commuter marriage or a long-distance

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marriage we've lived apart really for

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almost all of our married life

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being up here in some ways is a little

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easier than the life i've led for the

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past few years for the past few years i

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travel around the world training and

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spend actually not so much time in

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houston but

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you know there's houston there's russia

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there's japan there's europe and then

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every weekend that i'm in the states i

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try to go home to massachusetts so it's

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been a little hard to see them and i'm

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always calling from different time zones

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but now i'm always on the same time

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we're always the same number of hours

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apart i pass over their house and over

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their heads

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usually almost every day and we get to

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talk every day so it's actually a little

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more stable than our commuting life has

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and what's the first thing you're going

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oh after the shower

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you know i i get pictures on

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whenever i turn on my computer i see a

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different picture that's been sent up

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and many of them are from our home in

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shelburne and

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you know i think just standing outside

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and looking outside and smelling the

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outdoors is going to be enough for me no

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matter whether it's winter spring fall

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okay how did you prepare how was

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preparing to live on the space station

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different than say traveling on a

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shuttle having to deal with you know

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different countries building different

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things and and how do you and also up

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there how are you dealing with

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accelerated bone loss and some of the

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well those are two big questions um the

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first one in terms of preparing you know

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we've got um

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we've had people flying on the

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international space station for a number

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of years now and we actually know pretty

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much what we need to do up here and what

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we need to know how to do and so there's

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a you know a list of classes and things

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that um i need to to learn before i come

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and uh and so i've been doing that for

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the past few years and and i to me the

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international part of it is very

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exciting mostly because that's the way

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we operate and so i'm very pleased to

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train the way we operate and it's

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important to me to

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know some of the voices the faces behind

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the voices that i hear when i talk to

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the various mission controls around the

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world and so having trained in those

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countries with those people i i know who

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i'm talking to they're talking to me and

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i think it makes for more direct

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communication and we get i think more

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work done uh enough in a quicker manner

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in terms of the bone loss we exercise

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almost two hours a day both aerobic and

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weightlifting and that seems to um you

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i'm also a test subject for some

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different osteoporosis studies to

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understand how some of the different

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drugs work or don't work

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so tell me a little bit about what you

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guys do up there um during the day you

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know when you get up when you go to bed

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what you eat what you do for

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entertainment and what you're doing work

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massachusetts i wake up around between

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six and seven in the morning and we

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start our day with a conference with the

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various mission controls all together

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all of us on the station and then all

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the mission controls all on one call

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talking about um what we're going to do

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that day the plan the schedule will

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already be on both on board in

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electronic form and each of us you know

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well has a timeline that says what we

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should be doing all day

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we're busy i mean often each each thing

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that you need to do there's different

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maintenance and you know making sure the

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station is working right analyzing air

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quality work water quality things like

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that and then there's experiments like i

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stress test where i'm riding on a bike

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and i've all i have instruments

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everywhere instrumentation i have you

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know electrodes and ekg leads and blood

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pressure and pulse and i'm breathing

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into a bag and into a tube

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and so um we're able to understand

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exactly how my body's reacting under

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stress and how it reacts differently so

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a number of different material science

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plant growing chemistry you name the

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science and we are doing it up here and

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it's really fascinating to me

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as a polymer chemist who you know

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graduated from umass right there in

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amherst um it's great to be up here and

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see science in action although some of

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that action is slow you know we're

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watching things grow taking photographs

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starting cooling cycles or heating

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cycles and then analysis cycles so a lot

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of different experiments that really

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still pretty new up here there's just um

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floating around is just the most fun uh

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thing that we can do and just

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understanding how to work in this

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music and movies that are sent up here

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of it because two hours a day can be a

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lot of time and so we can listen to

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music and and watch different things and

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all at dinner time we tend to all go and

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pick our food from our crates of food

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which are all divided up by category

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meats and vegetables and we sort of put

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scott says we're enjoying football i'll

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take the fifth on that i'm actually

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enjoying watching scott watch football

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that's pretty fun

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and uh in some comedy shows and and we

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also try for some shows that are common

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to you know they're easy for all of us

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to understand you know being from an

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international crew and so we've got some

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some of the more physical comedy shows

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that tend to be pretty funny and uh i

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how is what you guys are learning up

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going to help me down here what are you

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bringing back or what do you think

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you'll be bringing back that might help

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for me is is osteoporosis um up here we

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lose bone mass in an actual bone at a

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rate about 10 times that of a

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70 year old woman who has osteoporosis

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population you might find that there's a

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complicating it whereas

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accelerated that we can see changes um

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in just the time we're up here and so

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prevent bone loss and we're able to

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analyze you know various tests um to see

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whether i am actually preventing bone

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loss and we'll also look at my bones

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before i left and then when i come back

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uh you know how what the difference is

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effect on anyone in in the world

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population affected by osteoporosis

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which is a large number of people

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materials and also what plants can

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factor down there on earth which is

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gravity we can take most of that away

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materials really act

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we're able to identify active sites and

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viruses to lead to

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vaccines for diseases a lot of different

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kinds of experiments and it's it's fun

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and um right now and you've said that

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sally ride was your inspiration and you

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inspiring other young women how do you

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feel about that how does that make you

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good job and hope that that when when

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some you know young girl looks up and

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thinks you know well boy she looks kind

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of normal and if she can do that then i

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can do that too or i can do what i'd

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that i'm very proud to be a part of that

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view like up there do you do you have

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windows all over the place where you can

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see out or is that something you're

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we have a cupola module and it's got um

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after work we go there during the day if

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will ever ever get tired of it um during

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detail and at night it's actually neat

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bit it's it's a fascinating place both

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katie um are you playing the flute up

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say the first two weeks has been it's

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and it's just so um busy just

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learning how to work up here and making

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flute out yet it's actually put together

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played yet i'm hoping to do that this

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okay thank you i want to thank you and

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hey it's really nice to talk to you and

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uh i'm really happy that you're managing

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to talk to folks in western mass about

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what we're doing up here i think it's

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really important and i love flying over

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the reporter's uh portion of

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the event please stand by for a voice

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take a step back in a perfect world what

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would you like to do she just said well

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you know i've got this show idea i'd

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love to do it i said great let's make it

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happen so

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we hear you loud and clear

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and then also she enjoys writing so she

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wants to get back to that

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great stand by we are going to be coming

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to you in three minutes three minutes

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she would want to work in the media

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new york on the international space

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station for 10 years if you can believe

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it up next live from space what it's

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this is msnbc again just wanted to let

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with is chris

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chris is the anchor and you will be live

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okay thank you

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30 seconds back 30 seconds

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hi guys it's audio do you hear me

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hear you loud and clear

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now if you're a glass hassle kind of

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person you might say that the thousands

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of americans still waiting to get home

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after christmas will at least have some

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interesting tales to tell but

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no one arguably has a more unique

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holiday story than our next guest even

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though they're just a few hundred miles

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from home

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from way above us in the international

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space station commander scott kelly

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flight engineer katie coleman ndsa

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astronaut paolo nespoli and from here on

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earth we send our new year's greetings

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scott let me start with you because i

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laughed just a little bit when i saw you

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grew up not far from here in orange new

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jersey which got stocked in this

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snowstorm so i'm curious what you see

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little over 200 miles above the earth

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and um we have a a great view of our

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incredibly beautiful planet

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but as far as being able to tell how

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much snow you got there on the northeast

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that there's snow on the ground but uh

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couldn't tell the uh the magnitude of

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the uh blizzard uh that you guys

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unfortunately experienced the uh but the

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planet is beautiful and we certainly uh

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enjoy looking at it in our spare time

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and even though you missed the holidays

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with your families katie at least you

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didn't have to shovel i guess you can

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look at it that way tell us what you

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guys are up to today give us an inside

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look at some of the cool stuff you have

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day we're always we're interested in um

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how the body works both on earth and up

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in space and up in space uh gives us

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some insight into um you know how it

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really works so today we actually did a

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very extensive ultrasound on my heart

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and also looking at different uh blood

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vessels around to see how they change in

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well you look good i don't know what the

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test results are but you certainly look

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at paulo you're from italy a more recent

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addition to the crew just a a few weeks

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into the station so what's it like up

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there what's the transition been like

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you you're used to

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gravity and you come up here and you

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have to learn everything by scratch you

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don't walk anymore you go around with

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your hands everything floats you let

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things go you look for them on the

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ground and they're floating away so

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all of these things are are very

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interesting in fact they're so

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interesting that some of the scientists

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are looking at our brain trying to

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figure out how our brain responds to

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and have to rewire our brain but it's

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very very interesting and i actually

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laugh when i float through the lab and

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lose control and start rocketing tearing

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things apart and of course scots look at

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me with a stern face i need to i need to

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learn all of this and it's very nice and

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well we're all jealous i must say those

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of us here in the uh in the news

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business apollo scott katie thanks to

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you're welcome and happy new year to you

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event thank you

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thank you the recorder and msnbc