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public radio this is Houston please call

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station for a voice check station this

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is National Public Radio how do you hear

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me we hear you loud and clear welcome

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aboard the International Space Station

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thank you so much this is Melissa block

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with all things considered and do we

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have Katie Collman there she is here as

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well as paolo nespoli Oh fantastic and

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Scott Kelly that must be you yes it is

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great welcome thanks so much for talking

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to me and Katie I wonder if I could

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start with you I gather that you have

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brought music with you to the

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International Space Station and wanted

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to ask you what you have with you well I

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I the flute on the ground and not it's

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one of the things I love to do so I

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brought my own flute with me but I also

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brought some other flutes with me I have

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Chieftains and also a very old Irish

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flute from matt molloy at the Chieftains

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and i have a flute from ian anderson of

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jethro tull so a pretty well-rounded

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spectrum and I am I having a great time

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up here with them oh that's amazing now

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how did it come to be that you have

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those three flutes with you well so with

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mine it makes for total and we get to

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bring a certain number of things with us

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to represent their just too we just get

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a certain amount of space to bring stuff

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share how amazing it is up here and you

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people and I relate to flute players and

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I just wanted them to understand what a

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cool place it was and how many

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possibilities there were to play music

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up here on the space station well what

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is it like to play the flute and

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experience weightlessness is it is it

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easier is it harder you know it's just

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actually really a different I've

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actually been having the most really the

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nicest time up in our Koopa lights it's

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a module that has windows all the way

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and you know I end up I just basically

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float around in there and a lot of times

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play with my eyes closed and what's

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really funny to me is that I'll suddenly

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sort of run into something and something

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you just had no idea was so close is is

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right there at your nose which you know

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room it just doesn't happen that way so

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it's been pretty neat to just float

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around and not know quite where you are

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but still be creating your own little

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world with music that sounds great what

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did the Buddy the acoustics like up

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lot more now that I found the cupola

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which but what the nicest part about it

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besides the view at least for me is that

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nobody can hear me play in there if

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they're in some other part of the

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as bright sounding but I've been trying

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to play module by module and they all

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sound pretty good you know I'm thinking

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Colonel Coleman that it would be a

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pretty amazing thing for you to have

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know you playing up there on the space

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station along with paddy moloney and ian

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technical difficulty in that i'll tell

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somebody who sort of listens and then

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the same time we're trying to work that

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part out but it might be that they send

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me something to play and then I send it

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instruments up here I think I have a lot

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of flute players up here with me Katie

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European Space Agency and I wonder Scott

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and Paulo what you think of katie's

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playing is this something that the that

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pleasant well the be honestly is she she

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really big and she's a you know does it

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her flute here and she thought you might

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ask her not to put her on a spot or

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anything but she was thinking that you

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might ask her to play so that's really

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well you're missing out but you will get

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to here in just a second let me turn to

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you commander Scott Kelly there for a

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second commander Kelly you are the the

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brother-in-law of congresswoman

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it's been especially hard to be there on

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the International Space Station and

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unable to be with your brother Mark

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Kelly and the congresswoman during this

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time as she's recovering you know I

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think it'd be hard to be anywhere you

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know whether it's with them or a place

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difficulties but you know we have you

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communicate you know certainly I prefer

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to be you know able to support my

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brother and Gabby certainly and in my

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kids and other friends and family in

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person but you know I understand this is

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my place and I have a job to do so it's

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I'm getting along fine do you think that

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you have in any way some different

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perspective following all of this from

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where you are you know 200 miles above

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the earth well you know if you would

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have asked me that when right when this

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happened I you know I probably would

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have said yes because you know the

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immediate reaction after something like

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this you know you have varying emotions

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but one of them is certainly anger you

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know you're very angry at that something

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happened but something like this

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since since the accident so i guess in

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has changed because you know where i

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telephone and with email and following

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the news than I did before the this

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tragedy yes well I know Katie Collman

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you have your your flute I'm not sure

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which loot you have there with you but

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you have a flute with you when you tell

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would play us out with a song well I'm

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from Massachusetts and I brought my own

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flute which was made by a really neat

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company in Massachusetts and the

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someone's going to play is called blue

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nose it's by a Canadian guy named Stan

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I'd love to play and it's about you know

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being away from home and and that's the

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kind of perspective you can't help but

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the earth and you think about the early

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explorers and here we are more more

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recent explorers but we all have some

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the astronaut office is the cornerstone

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of our branch and it's his favorite song

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Katie Collman a little little flute

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music from space thank you so much well

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thank you I'm a big NPR fan since a

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pleasure to talk to you and to share our

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space station life with folks thanks to

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commander Scott Kelly and engine and

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mmm excuse me and and astronaut paolo

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nespoli thanks to all of you and best of

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thanks very much station this is Houston

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loud and clear welcome aboard the

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appreciate you talking with us family

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touching base with you Scott I was at

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the press conference when your brother

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announced he will be flying the next

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mission just wondering how you weighed

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in on that decision and what kind of

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advice you gave him well you know I

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when you're you know trying to you know

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flying this flight was the right thing

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to do for you know him personally and in

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first brothers in space together but I

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know due to delays that's not going to

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happen but any thoughts on that would

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have been a historic moment well you

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been fun for us but you know we both

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liked but certainly I am NOT

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disappointed you know and originally

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with his original launch date his

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mission would have been concluded prior

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to mine so it was just really a you know

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luck and timing for a while anyway that

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causes cause delays in the flight

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schedule and that's what happened and

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not not an issue for either of us sure

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your sister-in-law your your brother put

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out am a facebook note to everyone that

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she's doing amazingly well but wondering

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balancing work and family concerns and

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also the outpouring of support well like

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you would imagine it's you know pretty

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shocking to hear that you know your

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sister-in-law your your brother's wife

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that you know you're very close to her

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I'm certainly very close to my brother

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that originally she was shot and then

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you know soon thereafter heard that it

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was unconfirmed but that but she had

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died so certainly you know really

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horrible news to ear and you know in any

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situation whether you're on the space

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station or anywhere for that matter you

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know yet multi-part question but but as

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far as how I dealt with it I think

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in whatever spare time i had spent time

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on the phone you know talking to my

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brother my kids other you know family

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and friends and also communicating via

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email and following her recovery and the

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news as best we can in this isolated

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environment here in aboard the

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International Space Station and has the

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outpouring of support been helpful i

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would think i'll tell you it's really

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been incredible you know I've gotten

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hundreds if not thousands of messages I

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can't imagine how many my brother and

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gabi have received messages of support

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from all over the world so it you know

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really is heartwarming to see that that

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people are are concerned about her and

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you know and my brother and then you

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know a small part you know concerned in

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in how I'm doing up here I'm wondering

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just switch gears what do you think of

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SpaceX and it is it a viable possibility

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isn't any better than what NASA may have

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developed along the way well it's I

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think it's great you know that that

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they've been able to achieve something

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that holy governments have done and just

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a few governments have done previously

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you know it's an incredible achievement

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that they need to be very proud of I

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don't know you know a lot of the

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technical details and you know be able

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to compare you know there's space X you

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know they're Falcon 9 and the dragon

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with you know NASA's what would have

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been the you know NASA version of that

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with the constellation program but you

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know I think like I said I think they

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should be very proud of themselves and I

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think yea it is definitely a viable

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program so I'm excited to see you know

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how far they get and and watch them

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along the way

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and how are the experiments and all the

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different things you're doing going on

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the space station is there anything

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interesting that you can talk about in

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you know it's incredibly interesting and

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exciting the space station is an

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absolutely amazing place it is a you

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know one of the great achievements of

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mankind in my opinion probably you know

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the hardest most difficult engineering

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accomplishment that anyone has ever ever

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done we have 130 different science

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experiments operating on board at any

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given time right now we're very busy

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with visiting cargo vehicles kind of

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preparing for when the shuttle finally

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stops lying we have a shuttle flight ulf

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5 come in in a couple of weeks so you

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know between doing the science we're

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doing and preparing for all these

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vehicles we're staying very busy you

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know in my opinion this whole program is

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one large science experiment how to keep

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people alive and systems operating for

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long periods of time in an isolated

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environment so when the time comes when

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we decide to go you know back to the

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moon on to Mars or other destinations we

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have the knowledge and the engineering

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capability to do that so it's a really a

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critical program and I'm very proud to

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be a part of it it's quite extraordinary

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work that you're all doing Katie shout

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out from Connecticut I'm from

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Connecticut originally so high to

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Massachusetts and wondering if you could

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talk a little bit about your flute

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playing is that something you do in your

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down time and I don't know if you would

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do a repeat performance for us as you

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did for NPR you know I I love to play

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mostly with people that's the biggest

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difference down on the earth I almost

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always play with with friends and groups

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and and you know they're playing

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something and I play something in the

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background and it's

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thing I do in my spare time I probably

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won't change day jobs too soon and so

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doing it up here alone is a little bit

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different but what I've done is brought

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actually their music with me and so I

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play their music in the background and

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play along and just I think up here and

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such a it's a big place and yet there's

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six of us that are here all the time and

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one of the ways that you get along is

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just to be able to create your own world

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and and have a place that you can go to

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and for me that's by playing music and

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so it's been really nice to play up here

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with you also be able to play us out I

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sir well I appreciate it oh it's their

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thank you so much we appreciate your

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you're very welcome thanks for joining

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us today station this is Houston acrl

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that concludes the event thank you thank

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