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good afternoon thank you for joining us

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for today's expedition crew news

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conference joining us today are members

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of the expedition 27 and 28 cruise the

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three will launch from the baikonur

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cosmodrome on march 30th arriving at the

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international space station on april 1st

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we'll start with introductions and then

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take questions first let me introduce

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astronaut ron garan

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ron was born in yonkers new york he

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earned a bachelor of science degree in

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business economics from the state

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university of new york college at

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oneonta and holds master's degrees from

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embry-riddle aeronautical university and

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the university of florida he is also a

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retired colonel from the u.s air force

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he was selected as a pilot by nasa in

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july 2000 and completed his first space

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flight in 2008 on

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sts-124 as a mission specialist 2 for

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snn entry he has also logged more than

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13 days in space and 20 hours and 32

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minutes of spacewalking experience in

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three evas

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we'll turn it over now to ron to

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introduce his crewmates thanks nicole um

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good afternoon i just want to introduce

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my crewmates uh to my left there is uh

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the commander of the soyuz spacecraft

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alexander samuel kotayev and alexander

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is a lieutenant colonel in the russian

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air force he's a former test pilot was

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selected as a cosmonaut in 2003

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and has been training uh since then to

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uh for his first mission uh which we're

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about to embark on his wife oksana and

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and daughter anastasia are here with us

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today so welcome to you

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um the commander of the space station

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for increment 28 is andrei borishanka uh

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to alexander's left

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andre graduated from the leningrad

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military and mechanical institute and he

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is also in the uh cosmonaut class of

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2003 and he went to work for energia and

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was involved in some of the motion

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control for the mir

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space station and also was a shift

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flight director at the mission control

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moscow and so

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together we are the expedition 27 and 28

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all right thank you so much ron we'll

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start with questions here from the

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johnson space center and we'll start on

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this side if you'll state your name and

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hey thank you very much mark caro and

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i'm representing aviation week in space

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technology i believe my question is for

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ron that anyone else involved

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would be welcome i want to ask you about

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dragon operations during your time on

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the space station and kind of what you

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what you train for and what you sort of

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anticipate at this point if if anything

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uh well that's that's a good question uh

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one that we don't have an answer for

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right now

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we are trained all the way through

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capture and mating of the dragon capsule

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and for me that's

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really exciting to do that i was

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involved in the source selection for the

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what's what's known as the commercial

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over transportation system so it's you

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know really exciting for me to see this

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uh commercialization of space uh take

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root in these first few steps here what

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determined yet so we're looking at that

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there is some discussion about combining

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two of the demo missions into one

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to answer your question we are trained

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mating if it comes down to that

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if you were on orbit and they made a

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decision to do some of the you know to

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bring it in bertha

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would you have to do additional training

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training while you were already on the

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space station with that have you worked

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that out if it became necessary or or

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the robotic operations that would be

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necessary so we would build up our

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hi robert perlman with collectspace.com

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russia celebrations for

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the 50th anniversary of human space

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flight of year garand's flight i wonder

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what what activities are being planned

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to support that both in relation to your

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launch and then on the anniversary

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itself from space

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and answer that because i think that's a

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really important question um

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for us this is obviously a you know a

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very big event this is something that we

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really wanted to uh recognize and um we

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you know way back when we were in

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training we realized that we were going

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to coincide with this very important

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historic moment and so that's why we

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included that in our patch design for

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the expedition 28 patch and as you see

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the soyuz patch as well included that so

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we got permission from the families of

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yuri gagarin and al shepard to include

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their names on our patch in recognition

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of these historic events so it's

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something that's really really important

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50 years ago on april 12th um you know

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we as a species became different you

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know we were no longer confined to the

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uh to the earth and i think that was a

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you know pivotal pivotal moment in the

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history of humanity and i think it's you

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know well worth recognizing this um and

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because there's a great deal of

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celebrations planned there's a great

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deal of activities planned both in the

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u.s and in russia and actually around

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that send the first human into space so

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declared 2011 the year of human space

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flight so this year has already started

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for us as well as the celebrations and

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this year the first crew that that will

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launch from baikonur and we are going to

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launch from gagarin pad this is

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where yuri gagarin

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launched into space for the first time

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30th of march and there will be a lot of

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submit a lists in advance so that

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there is a great interest to this event

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be participating in all the public

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affairs events i cannot tell you right

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now what events will take part in

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now jim oberg with nbc news and for the

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commander uh

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you will be commanding the spaceship

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gagarin is that your call sign or do you

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again um for ron uh last night during

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the state of the union president obama

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cited uh

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the sputnik moment as uh

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and the launch of the space race as a

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catalyst for getting students in

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interested in science education

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what plans

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are

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do your crew have to um to extend

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education as a national goal for for

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both russia and the united states um

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through your through your work with

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students from the space station

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well our mission is going to be chock

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full of education outreach activities

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that's one of the big things that we're

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going to be doing um

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but you know let me just step back for a

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second and just tell tell a story about

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how

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the space program affected my own

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educational background and you know i

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was a i was a young high school student

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in yonkers new york and um you know i

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had dreamed ever since the first moon

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landing to become an astronaut but

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during that time frame when i was

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getting ready to go to college

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as far as i was concerned this kid from

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from yonkers you know we didn't have a

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space program it was after sky lab it

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was before the first space shuttle

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mission and so i went off to college

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really not knowing what i wanted to do

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with my life when i was a sophomore in

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college we had the first space shuttle

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mission and the very next day i went to

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my advisor and i started taking math and

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science courses and started pursuing a

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degree in engineering because that

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reawakened this dream that i had since i

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was a young child

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of flying in space and getting

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interested in space so from a personal

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experience you know i could tell just

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the fact that we are in space and we're

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doing what we're doing and we're doing

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the amazing things on the space station

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that we're doing you know that that i

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think is an inspiration to young

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students but we're not going to just

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you know that's not enough for us we we

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you know the science that we're doing on

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board not only does it affect

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the earth you know not only does it

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allow us to go further and further in

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the solar system but it also you know

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really helps us on the on the planet but

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you know we are not going to just you

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know keep that a secret you know we are

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going to you know

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use that in our education outreach we're

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going to describe the science that we're

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doing on board to students we're going

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to allow students to participate in

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whenever we can in those scientific

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experiments we have a thing called

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saturday morning science where where

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students submit uh experiments that we

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that we as the crew conduct on board so

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we have you know i could spend a couple

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of hours you know describing all the

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different educational outreach

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outreach events that we have planned uh

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not just for our mission but for all the

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missions so that we can help that next

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generation be ready for all the the big

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jim oberg again we're hearing about

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things you're doing for other people i

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want to ask the three of you what you're

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going to do for yourselves ron you're

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going to have more time than 13 days on

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orbit

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and i want to ask them the things that

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you you didn't have time to do last time

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and for the other

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crew members

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uh what do you look forward to what do

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you

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look forward to doing for the first time

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that people have told you about

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what things are you going to do

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for your own pleasure

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i think the big thing for me is the you

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know what this mission will provide me

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is the ability to process the experience

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as it's happening so on a space shuttle

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mission you know you're just up there

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for a couple of weeks and it's you know

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it's very very busy and you've trained

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and trained for these very specific

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tasks that you're going to do

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and you know it's a wonderful experience

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but it's over so fast that you really it

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almost seems like a dream when it's all

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over that it happens so fast so being up

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there for almost six months

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you know we will have the opportunity to

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eventually when we get used to living

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there when we when we settle into a

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routine there to be you know it will

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become normal for us you know we will

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not be visitors to space we will be

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residents of space and we will be able

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to experience that on a day-to-day basis

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and to really process that experience

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and i think that it will be a deeper

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okay well

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well it is really hard to add anything

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to

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what one has just said

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and

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we both are pilots so we basically have

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the same ideas

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about what we'll be doing there

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i would

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only like to add that i'm looking

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forward to

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look um down on the earth from space i

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think it is a truly a magical moment to

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be doing it for the first time

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from space and

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as they say our earth looks very very

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um

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this will be the first space flight for

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me uh as well as uh like

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like for uh alexander

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and i think that

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uh due to this any activity that we'll

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be doing there any work will be

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interesting for me because any task will

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be new

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of course i

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will enjoy taking pictures of earth

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i think it is a very interesting and

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undescribable

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experience i have seen many pictures

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taken by

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other

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cosmonauts and astronauts

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taken at different times so i think it

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will be

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quite difficult for me to

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take unique

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pictures however

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i will try to accomplish that

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and secondly

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i'm planning on doing certain work with

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the

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ground control team in moscow

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we'll be doing experiments to develop

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methodology

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to uh control and monitor human space

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flights to

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all right

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next question

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mark

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uh for aviation week again and mine's

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for ron garan can you sort of discuss

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the volume and pace of science

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activities

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overall i know you can't delve into each

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experiment but but sort of what you're

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anticipating as far as workload and and

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how much

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attention and time you can devote to

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science

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well

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you know we we are just starting the you

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know the pure utilization phase of the

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of the space station so with you know

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the increase

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to a six person crew that affords us a

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lot more time to do science so

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um you know the exact percentages you

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know i don't know what it's going to be

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it all depends on you know the other

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things that are going on we are going to

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have a lot of visiting vehicles that are

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going to take up a lot of time we do

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have spacewalks so all of that has to be

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has to be figured into our timeline

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but

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you know i'm really looking forward to

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all of those different experiments that

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we're going to be doing you know the

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materials science the combustion

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research the research on the human body

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all those things that we're going to be

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doing and i'm really looking forward to

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you know seeing the results of those

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things and you know in some cases

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we're what i would call lab assistants

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and in other cases we're lab rats where

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we're kind of the what the experiment is

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being conducted on and so you know we

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have the opportunity to to participate

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and to contribute in both those aspects

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um so a significant portion of the day

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is going to be taken up with you know

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one of those two types of assistance

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with the experiments and

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um

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you know pretty much you know every day

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there's going to be

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something something going on in the

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science department so we're looking

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okay any other follow-ups on this side

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um first for ron you you had a marvelous

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blog last year

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very insightful comments about your

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training in moscow and baikonur and i

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hope you're going to start that again

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and i hope other others may continue uh

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colonel condratiev's blog which is also

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very helpful so will you be blogging

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from orbit that which of you will be

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blogging uh from orbit yeah um i i which

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are referring to as a website that i

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started called fragile oasis and the

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goals of that site are um we have a

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number of them one is to allow people to

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kind of live vicariously and ex have

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this experience with us

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uh to what you know to know and to see

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and experience what what it is to live

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and work uh on orbit and so

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uh that's one of the big things but you

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know not just as spectators you know we

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want them to be participants in it so we

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have a number of interactive things that

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we're going to do with the site um you

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know another big goal is going to be to

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you know use the unique orbital

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perspective to shine a light on some of

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the challenges facing our planet and so

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that's a that's another big part of it

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but i'm going to continue i'm going to

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do it as much as much as i can as much

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as the timeline allows

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because i really feel that that you know

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is an important thing i feel a

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responsibility as as

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i think everybody does who has this you

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know privilege of flying in space to be

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able to share that as best we can with

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as many people as we can so i'm gonna

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i'm gonna do my best to do that um

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another big aspect that we're trying to

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do with that is going back to the other

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questions about education outreach is

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going to be a very big education

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outreach uh part of that

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so yes we're going to try and blog we're

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going to try to send down as many

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pictures as many videos and to really as

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best we can

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get everybody on board and get everybody

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to participate with in the mission with

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us

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yeah and the other side will you try to

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well it is hard for me to say whether

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we'll be actually blogging or um

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sharing our experience in any other form

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but certainly we'll try to to do this

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and

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i can

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say for sure that we're going to use all

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our resources all our eloquence

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to

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share

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our impressions of

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all isis

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okay

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seeing no further questions that will

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conclude our briefing for more

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information on the international space

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station and its cruise please visit our