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station houston are you ready for the

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yeah we're ready for the event

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kprc tv this is houston please call

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station this is kprc tv how do you hear

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we hear you loud and clear welcome

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aboard the international space station

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well it's so exciting to get to talk to

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well i'm coming home on march 16th but

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my my two crewmates here

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uh paulo naspoli and katie coleman are

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coming home sometime in may i'm not sure

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all right now what are you looking

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forward to most when you come home

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you know actually gravity is not

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something i look forward to because

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after being up here for so long you get

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and i'm sure it's going to be uh

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difficult and you know in some ways it

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may be a little bit painful getting used

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to it first but you know things like you

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looking forward to to getting home and

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being able to talk more with your

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mark kelly how often do you get to talk

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gabrielle gifford's condition and also

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him returning now getting ready for the

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all right and what do you think about

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person for the job having trained for it

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for such a long time and uh you know his

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family supports the decision gabrielle

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close friends so i think it's and nasa

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six crew members now to to maintain it

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uh keep it operating and do all the uh

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the the science we have up here we have

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good morning to everyone back in houston

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thank you guys so much and best of luck

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you're very welcome nice talking to you

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thanks so much hi this is elizabeth

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commander kelly i understand that you

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to end next month what do you think the

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about to end in june what do you think

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russian government to make sure

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utilizing the space station in every way

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someday certainly it's going to take me

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a little bit a little bit of time to

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recondition myself and

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you know get used to living back on

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earth again but someday i i would like

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to fly

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another long-duration mission perhaps if

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the uh if the opportunity presented

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same question for a flight engineer you

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i was going to say uh paulo and i got up

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here in uh mid december mid to late

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december and i think i'm still in denial

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about having to come home in may you

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know right now i'm really excited about

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living and working up here and

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i'm really anxious to see my family and

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and see friends uh back there on the

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ground but i haven't thought much

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further than that

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and finally uh for uh commander kelly

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how do you see human man space flights

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manifesting itself during the next 10 to

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15 years

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while we wait for the next american

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launch vehicle and spacecraft for

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well our plan is to continue to to

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fly and operate the space station until

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at least 2020 perhaps

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and this is just me my speculation that

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we could go beyond that i think that the

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station just certainly has the uh

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the margin and the the capability to do

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that

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uh of course the us needs its own way to

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get people into low earth orbit whether

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that's a nasa built vehicle or

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or even a commercial vehicle like uh

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like you know we're currently uh in

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certain partnerships with certain

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companies to

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design and build we we definitely need

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that so

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um you know it's an incremental approach

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certainly our country has budget

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challenges

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but i think that you know with the right

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plan

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and

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you know the right money that's

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committed to to a plan we can still

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achieve great things in this country and

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i

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thanks so much to all of you have a safe

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thanks for your time

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the daily portion of the event

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please stand by for a voice check from

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newsweek the daily beast

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station this is peter boyer at the

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we have you loud and clear welcome

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aboard the international space station

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well thank you this is uh very exciting

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for me i i hope you all slept well scott

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yeah i sleep pretty well up here better

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than i do on earth

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i saw a very cool uh video this morning

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of your tour of the uh of your quarters

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there elizabeth um uh asked a couple of

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my questions uh for engineer coleman

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including uh all of y'all's feeling

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about the space shuttle coming to an end

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i have one quick question about

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your return home you're

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i assume you come home on that uh new

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soyuz right and i just wonder how you if

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this will be the sort of the first

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re-entry for that

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system how you

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interesting question it is the uh

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the first uh time that this new soyuz

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with a new flight control computer

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and a new new software for that flight

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control computer will

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enter the atmosphere now it has

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the computer has flown on other vehicles

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the progress unmanned

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resupply vehicles and

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of course it's flown on on air flight up

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here but it will be a demonstration of

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the first time

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that it's flown during a uh entry and

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how we prepare is basically the same way

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you would prepare for any mission you

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you train very thoroughly in the

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simulator and you uh

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you know get

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very uh adept at uh responding to a

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bunch of different malfunctions that can

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occur

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but uh you know we're we're test pilots

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test uh cosmonauts and this is what we

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do and uh you know if there are issues

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we'll respond to it um as we're we are

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trained

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thank you for that um

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scott i wanted to ask inevitably um

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forgive me the just a couple of quick

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things about about

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your sister-in-law and about your

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brother's coming mission first a dopey

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question but

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how do how do you get news up there i i

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know you have the internet occasionally

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and i you're not constant

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contact with with

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with houston but

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in this particular instance when it's

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big news and it's personal news how do

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well i heard about the tragedy um

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via the chief of the astronaut office i

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was told

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on a

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saturday not too long ago that the chief

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of the astronaut office peggy whitson

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needed to speak to me

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and they privatized one of the

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space-to-ground channels and

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you know when you hear that

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that your boss wants to talk to you and

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wants to talk to you right now without

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any heads up

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without any notice you know then what

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she has to say is probably not good so i

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was expecting

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um some bad news certainly not of this

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magnitude

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so i was told over the space to ground

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channel and then houston continued to

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give me updates throughout the day and

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we also have the capability to watch

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television up here when we have the

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satellite available

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through a

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you know a meeting a computer meeting

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type

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software

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so it's not a perfect signal but it did

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allow me to follow the events through uh

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television news also like you mentioned

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we do have the internet

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and we also have a phone that when we

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have the satellite coverage we can talk

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to you know practically anyone on earth

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so i spent a lot of time on a telephone

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as well

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i hope that you mentioned television

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coverage as you know it was imperfect in

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the early hours i hope i just wondered

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did you did you as your brother did go

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through that brief period when it looked

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well when uh

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absolutely

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that is

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was certainly the case i told the uh

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i told

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my boss peggy whitson that

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i wanted to hear uh whatever the news

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was reporting even if it was unconfirmed

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so

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they did uh

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houston did report to me to be a

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privatized uh channel

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that uh there were unconfirmed reports

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that that gabby had passed away so yes i

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i did hear that

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well thank god uh her course has taken a

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happier turn since then about

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mark's mission on uh 134 i think it is

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you you have spoken to him

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about that

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i i wonder what your sense as an

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astronaut what your sense is of the sort

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of larger symbolic

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meaning of his taking command of that

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mission

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i haven't really given it a whole lot of

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thought but you know i think it it shows

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a uh

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you know a certain level of resilience

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and

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you know commitment uh to duty

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that

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uh not only he has but you know many

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people in our country

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do certainly uh you know there are many

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people in the u.s military that have to

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deal with similar issues and still go on

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deployments for instance

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for for even longer periods of time in

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times of uh you know family and personal

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tragedy so you know i think it shows

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something about you know what we're made

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of and i think

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you know we're gonna see that much much

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more with gabby as we follow her through

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her recovery she is a very strong

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strong-willed and dedicated person and i

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look forward to uh

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you know seeing her and you know the

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example that she sets

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for all of us and how she deals with the

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you know very very personal tragedy like

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this

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scott i'll ask the last quick question

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you're returning a few weeks before

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mark's scheduled mission this has been a

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long duration event of course

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just out of sheer ignorance i don't know

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how long until how long after such a

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mission

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before you can resume normal activity

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and do you have any sort of special

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reunion plans with your family i know

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you know it varies from person to person

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in in the

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rehabilitation or reconditioning uh

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process

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um

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i've been very uh you know dedicated to

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the exercise

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program we have up here so i i

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anticipate doing just fine

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i don't see any issue with me going to

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my brother's launch

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i think even if it was a week later i'd

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be able to attend and i would attend

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and as far as reunion with

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family and friends

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i am sure that my brother will be as

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well as some other you know people that

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are very close to me

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at the bottom of the airplane at

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ellington field waiting when i arrived

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back in houston

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that's the case i thank all of you all

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being with you today

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the newsweek the daily beast

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portion of the event please stand by for

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hey i'm here it's bob woodruff how are

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you

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aboard the international space station

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thank you thank you so much mr kelly and

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dr coleman mr despoli

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i don't know when i start asking

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go ahead right now would be a great time

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well first of all it's uh it's a

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pleasure to talk to you up there i i

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would love to uh someday fly up there

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with you but i don't think that's ever

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going to happen so i'll just ask you

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some questions about what you're what

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you're going through up there

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um you know first of all uh

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you know in terms of the

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your healthiness while you're up in the

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uh your health when you're up there in

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space

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what does it feel like in terms of

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what your what your muscles feel like

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what your bones feel like what your

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brain feels like that's different than

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when y'all when that when you're on on

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as we have a very good exercise program

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up here so

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i actually feel better than

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you know before i flew because i

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exercised you know practically two hours

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a day up here which i

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you know i exercise on earth but not

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nearly the intensity and the frequency

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as we do up here so i think i'm

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definitely going to return in

565
00:24:40,950 --> 00:24:39,200
in better physical shape than when i

566
00:24:43,590 --> 00:24:40,960
left now certainly there's a

567
00:24:45,669 --> 00:24:43,600
re-adaptation of gravity that will will

568
00:24:48,789 --> 00:24:45,679
probably take its toll on me for a few

569
00:24:50,950 --> 00:24:48,799
days if not maybe a week or so

570
00:24:52,549 --> 00:24:50,960
but overall physically i feel

571
00:24:54,149 --> 00:24:52,559
absolutely great

572
00:24:55,909 --> 00:24:54,159
mentally

573
00:24:58,310 --> 00:24:55,919
when you first get up here there

574
00:25:00,390 --> 00:24:58,320
definitely is a sense of you know being

575
00:25:02,630 --> 00:25:00,400
in a little bit of a fog

576
00:25:03,590 --> 00:25:02,640
for a lack of a better way to describe

577
00:25:05,909 --> 00:25:03,600
it and

578
00:25:07,909 --> 00:25:05,919
i would say after about a month that's

579
00:25:10,710 --> 00:25:07,919
kind of cleared up completely i think it

580
00:25:12,310 --> 00:25:10,720
varies from person to person but

581
00:25:14,630 --> 00:25:12,320
certainly

582
00:25:18,149 --> 00:25:14,640
does have some effect on your your

583
00:25:21,590 --> 00:25:18,159
ability to focus and perform uh certain

584
00:25:24,390 --> 00:25:21,600
certain tasks but overall it's not a bad

585
00:25:26,390 --> 00:25:24,400
environment to live and work in

586
00:25:29,269 --> 00:25:26,400
dr coleman i know you've done some bone

587
00:25:31,430 --> 00:25:29,279
density research what does that show you

588
00:25:32,950 --> 00:25:31,440
about exactly what causes this change in

589
00:25:37,350 --> 00:25:32,960
bone density and what's what's been the

590
00:25:41,029 --> 00:25:39,190
well i'm part of that research and then

591
00:25:43,669 --> 00:25:41,039
i'm a subject for it i haven't performed

592
00:25:46,070 --> 00:25:43,679
it myself when we're up here we lose

593
00:25:48,950 --> 00:25:46,080
bone mass about 10 times faster than

594
00:25:51,430 --> 00:25:48,960
your average osteoporotic

595
00:25:53,669 --> 00:25:51,440
person who's maybe around 70 years old

596
00:25:55,990 --> 00:25:53,679
and we also have pretty clean medical

597
00:25:58,710 --> 00:25:56,000
history so it makes us ideal subjects

598
00:26:01,350 --> 00:25:58,720
for research in osteoporosis looking at

599
00:26:03,350 --> 00:26:01,360
how much bone is lost what kind of bone

600
00:26:04,149 --> 00:26:03,360
is lost and then actually when we come

601
00:26:06,870 --> 00:26:04,159
home

602
00:26:08,710 --> 00:26:06,880
um how that bone is rebuilt and in what

603
00:26:11,269 --> 00:26:08,720
form it is is it just as good as other

604
00:26:13,110 --> 00:26:11,279
bone in fact we're taking some of us are

605
00:26:14,950 --> 00:26:13,120
taking uh different drugs for

606
00:26:17,350 --> 00:26:14,960
osteoporosis to see how they work on us

607
00:26:19,430 --> 00:26:17,360
up here and in a way we just get sort of

608
00:26:21,590 --> 00:26:19,440
faster data since it happens so much

609
00:26:22,830 --> 00:26:21,600
faster up here it's pretty interesting i

610
00:26:25,590 --> 00:26:22,840
think a real important thing that we're

611
00:26:27,350 --> 00:26:25,600
doing given the fact that the shuttle is

612
00:26:29,669 --> 00:26:27,360
only up for a very short period of time

613
00:26:31,750 --> 00:26:29,679
compared to going up to the soyuz is it

614
00:26:33,830 --> 00:26:31,760
is do we know exactly what would be the

615
00:26:36,230 --> 00:26:33,840
limit on how long we could stay up in

616
00:26:42,710 --> 00:26:36,240
space in terms of the impact on the

617
00:26:46,789 --> 00:26:44,789
our exercise program like i was saying

618
00:26:48,149 --> 00:26:46,799
is very very good so we've actually had

619
00:26:50,310 --> 00:26:48,159
people come back

620
00:26:51,590 --> 00:26:50,320
after a six month flight

621
00:26:53,029 --> 00:26:51,600
with

622
00:26:57,110 --> 00:26:53,039
very little

623
00:26:58,470 --> 00:26:57,120
uh loss in in bone and and and muscle

624
00:27:00,950 --> 00:26:58,480
although we don't really measure the

625
00:27:03,510 --> 00:27:00,960
muscle mass like we do the bone

626
00:27:06,549 --> 00:27:03,520
uh density with you know a very uh

627
00:27:09,269 --> 00:27:06,559
objective uh bone scan

628
00:27:11,909 --> 00:27:09,279
so i don't know that there would be a

629
00:27:14,870 --> 00:27:11,919
limit on how long we could stay in space

630
00:27:17,110 --> 00:27:14,880
uh based on our loss of bone and muscle

631
00:27:20,470 --> 00:27:17,120
because we do mitigate those certainly

632
00:27:22,870 --> 00:27:20,480
radiation is a factor and

633
00:27:24,310 --> 00:27:22,880
i think the lifetime limit

634
00:27:26,630 --> 00:27:24,320
for a

635
00:27:29,510 --> 00:27:26,640
male of my age is somewhere on the order

636
00:27:30,389 --> 00:27:29,520
of a thousand days in space which is a

637
00:27:31,510 --> 00:27:30,399
lot

638
00:27:33,909 --> 00:27:31,520
but

639
00:27:37,350 --> 00:27:33,919
you know if we had to comply with those

640
00:27:39,590 --> 00:27:37,360
osha type radiation standards i think

641
00:27:40,630 --> 00:27:39,600
that would probably be uh one limiting

642
00:27:42,870 --> 00:27:40,640
factor

643
00:27:45,990 --> 00:27:42,880
after a thousand days is it uh there's a

644
00:27:47,669 --> 00:27:46,000
danger of of what not ban will recover

645
00:27:49,190 --> 00:27:47,679
fully when you get back to the earth or

646
00:27:52,630 --> 00:27:49,200
you just would not survive what does

647
00:27:59,029 --> 00:27:55,430
i i think it's just a matter of the uh

648
00:28:00,070 --> 00:27:59,039
increased uh risk of certain types of

649
00:28:02,630 --> 00:28:00,080
cancer

650
00:28:04,630 --> 00:28:02,640
is uh you know after

651
00:28:07,029 --> 00:28:04,640
spending over a thousand days in space

652
00:28:08,950 --> 00:28:07,039
is uh above a certain uh

653
00:28:10,870 --> 00:28:08,960
government i think osha

654
00:28:13,029 --> 00:28:10,880
limits so we would have a you know

655
00:28:15,029 --> 00:28:13,039
increased risk of cancer and

656
00:28:17,029 --> 00:28:15,039
i guess any any bit of radiation

657
00:28:19,350 --> 00:28:17,039
probably increases your risk but that

658
00:28:21,750 --> 00:28:19,360
you know you at that number of days you

659
00:28:23,190 --> 00:28:21,760
trip a certain threshold

660
00:28:24,950 --> 00:28:23,200
i know i haven't done this kind of

661
00:28:26,630 --> 00:28:24,960
research i'm sure you you know it but

662
00:28:28,789 --> 00:28:26,640
has there been cases of cancer they

663
00:28:33,110 --> 00:28:28,799
believe is caused by time spent up there

664
00:28:37,430 --> 00:28:35,830
i don't know it's uh you know possible

665
00:28:39,190 --> 00:28:37,440
but i'm not an expert on this and i

666
00:28:40,870 --> 00:28:39,200
would have to you know

667
00:28:42,470 --> 00:28:40,880
defer or

668
00:28:44,710 --> 00:28:42,480
you know suggest that

669
00:28:46,870 --> 00:28:44,720
someone else at nasa could possibly get

670
00:28:49,269 --> 00:28:46,880
back you with those answers i'm not i'm

671
00:28:50,870 --> 00:28:49,279
certainly not an expert in this area

672
00:28:52,470 --> 00:28:50,880
so when you land over there in

673
00:28:53,990 --> 00:28:52,480
kazakhstan what's that what does that

674
00:28:56,950 --> 00:28:54,000
feel like when you when you land and

675
00:28:58,549 --> 00:28:56,960
then gravity comes back and uh

676
00:29:02,789 --> 00:28:58,559
what what are we gonna see when you come

677
00:29:07,909 --> 00:29:05,830
i haven't landed in a soyuz but

678
00:29:09,750 --> 00:29:07,919
i've been told it's uh

679
00:29:11,909 --> 00:29:09,760
pretty uh exciting i think it's more

680
00:29:14,710 --> 00:29:11,919
like crashing with a parachute above

681
00:29:16,470 --> 00:29:14,720
your head you hit the ground very hard

682
00:29:17,350 --> 00:29:16,480
and uh

683
00:29:18,950 --> 00:29:17,360
the other

684
00:29:21,830 --> 00:29:18,960
thing that people have told me is when

685
00:29:24,310 --> 00:29:21,840
the hatch is open you really get a

686
00:29:27,110 --> 00:29:24,320
sense of the earth the uh you know the

687
00:29:29,590 --> 00:29:27,120
feel of the air on your face the smell

688
00:29:32,149 --> 00:29:29,600
of the uh you know the earth below you

689
00:29:33,190 --> 00:29:32,159
that was recently been been kicked up by

690
00:29:37,029 --> 00:29:33,200
the

691
00:29:39,510 --> 00:29:37,039
know

692
00:29:42,070 --> 00:29:39,520
steps of uh kazakhstan

693
00:29:45,350 --> 00:29:42,080
so it's definitely uh going to be an

694
00:29:47,269 --> 00:29:45,360
experience that i i look forward to and

695
00:29:49,669 --> 00:29:47,279
i look forward to getting back back i

696
00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:51,990
uh in terms of as you're coming down

697
00:29:55,510 --> 00:29:53,760
what you see and all that in terms of

698
00:29:57,430 --> 00:29:55,520
what's what's what's been like uh you

699
00:29:58,549 --> 00:29:57,440
know scientifically on the impact on

700
00:30:01,590 --> 00:29:58,559
your vision

701
00:30:03,029 --> 00:30:01,600
because of this change in gravity uh

702
00:30:04,389 --> 00:30:03,039
your your your

703
00:30:06,389 --> 00:30:04,399
your optical

704
00:30:09,029 --> 00:30:06,399
parts of your of your sight is it has

705
00:30:15,510 --> 00:30:09,039
there been a change in that is there

706
00:30:21,190 --> 00:30:18,149
i can only speak for myself because of

707
00:30:22,389 --> 00:30:21,200
you know privacy issues but you know for

708
00:30:23,669 --> 00:30:22,399
me

709
00:30:25,269 --> 00:30:23,679
my vision

710
00:30:27,669 --> 00:30:25,279
is definitely affected by the

711
00:30:31,430 --> 00:30:27,679
microgravity environment it was on a

712
00:30:34,630 --> 00:30:31,440
short duration flight it is here it's uh

713
00:30:37,990 --> 00:30:34,640
you know i can't see as well um

714
00:30:57,110 --> 00:30:38,000
and i suspect and hope that when i get

715
00:31:09,190 --> 00:30:58,710
station this is houston acr that