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this is Houston please call discovery

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ISS for a voice check discovery ISS this

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is NASA educational technology services

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how do you hear me we hear you loud and

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clear welcome aboard the International

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Space Station good morning from inside

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the payload Operations Center at the

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Marshall Space Flight Center

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I'm Heather Smith writer of the NASA

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education taking up space blog we are

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excited to ask you questions chosen by

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our blog readers today the first

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question is for commander Scott Kelly

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what are some ways that the work you do

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in space can encourage both our youth

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encourage kids and and scientists is

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that we have a incredibly challenging

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work environment and a in challenging

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problem building a space station and

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then and then utilizing it and the way

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we do that is through teamwork and

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teamwork is critical I think not only

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the ground so hopefully in kids and

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scientists and other professionals

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looking at the teamwork that nASA uses

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to get things done they can take

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inspiration from that and and use that

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themselves for whatever they're involved

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with on the ground

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great the next question is for Katie

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what kinds of experiments are currently

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earth we're doing some really exciting

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physics and combustion and sometimes

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those things sound like well why would I

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want to know about that well combustion

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it's all about pollution up here where

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everything is weightless those hot gases

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don't rise and we can understand how we

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can actually look at how things burn and

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how pollution products are generated so

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we can do combustion research we get to

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see for fluid physics we get to see what

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liquids really want to do down on earth

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gravity actually dictates it's such a

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big force compared to all the other ones

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gravity dictates and so we can

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understand what liquids really want to

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do and so many processes on earth are

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liquids going through pipes everything

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appearance in space okay for commander

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Lindsay how has the station changed

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since you were first there well the

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the airlock and in the Russian segment

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but since then the Russians have added I

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guess three modules we've added the

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Japanese module the Columbus module of

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nodes on the cupola and it's a

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different place so it has changed

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from Georgia Tech and my question is for

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role do you think that robots will play

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in the future of space exploration go

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jackets and what's the good word go

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60s and 70s what what would the role be

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life most people probably said not a

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whole lot but now we have computers and

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way and that's robots will allow us

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humans and the robot and they'll be able

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see a bigger role as time continues for

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Heather this question is for aldrick how

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well does reduce gravity flight prepare

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well the short answers is very useful

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of different things we can use we have

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the neutral buoyancy laboratory of the

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pool that helps us but it doesn't

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field because that the water's viscous

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virtual reality laboratories which give

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doesn't all it doesn't give us that same

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two dynamics akin it like kinematics of

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gravity flights give you all that you

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orbit for brief periods of time so you

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can get a sense of you know how things

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this question is for Steve Bowen how has

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greater internet connectivity and social

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media affected the spaceflight

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I actually spent 14 years in summary

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enforce where we had zero internet

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connection and so the similarities

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very real and this communication up here

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tweet it's all about communication and

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communication can lead to some deception

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as well you know just like the internet

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is full of information but it's not

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necessarily the knowledge it's data its

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information but it's not real knowledge

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it's not real action

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and glimmers of data and little hints

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and information but unless you're

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actually there and you have the ability

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to perform some action you know it can

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give you a slight sense of it but you

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really need to be there in any of these

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communication forms regardless whether

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it's social media or whatever term you

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life on the internet from here you

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actually need to be someplace to do

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you know spaceflight or any other

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activity that you're doing okay there's

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questions for mike barratt what do you

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space shuttle program well that's a

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shuttle has given us and beyond that

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sir commander Kelly since many high

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school and college students are involved

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in programming spheres robots can you

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your return to space well you know my

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family might not want to hear this but

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fun in microgravity and do you have any

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special tricks you like to do yeah we

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call those stupid astronaut tricks and I

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have several that I'm not very good at

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but and I have the bruises to show for

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it

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but you know just you just see one of

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our crew members just floated away

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you see Scott's doing a little flip for

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you so we can do that all day long

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what's really interesting is I'll give

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you a little physics lesson here is that

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when you throw a ball on the earth and

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play catch or something like that you

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you have to actually loft that ball for

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because gravity will cause that ball to

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drop and we do it subconsciously just

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because we're used to living in one

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when you come up here in space the first

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time you tried to throw a ball or a or

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any item to another crew member you and

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invariably will throw it over that

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person's head because you are used to

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lofting all the time so the one of the

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biggest challenges in just moving around

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and floating through the module just

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unlock loft yourself so that you don't

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slam into the top of wherever you're

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traveling but but you never get tired of

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a plane in microgravity and learning how

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to move around and do things for eric

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boe what emotions are you feeling during

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well I remember when I was in high

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school I went to the new Air and Space

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Museum in Washington and seeing a large

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scale model of the Space Shuttle being

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displayed and I marveled at it and I'm

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up here on discovery on its final flight

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and still marveling it's an amazing

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machine amazing ship and just trying to

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savor every moment up here that we have

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to enjoy but obviously when we come back

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and land back at Earth we're focused on

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the mission right now I think that's

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when the bittersweet moment when we land

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will happen and we actually look at and

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survey the shuttles had a made amazing

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legacy and discovery all the people that

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have worked on her and to me that's what

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makes the ship that's what makes

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Discovery's all the people that are

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involved with making her fly hi this is

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Joel Stein I'm an intern from Virginia

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Tech and I was just wondering for our

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true astronauts trained long and hard to

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be prepared in space but once we get

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there is there anything that you have

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there's always plenty of things that are

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anyplace you go that you're never

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prepared for I think for me the biggest

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thing is stuckness is probably the one

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word that comes to mind like being

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outside my last two spacewalks there

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were no things out there that are

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supposed to move that didn't want to

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move all the time I would love to have

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had a can of wd-40 out there with me to

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loosen up a lot of those things the

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other part is the things around here

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inside have the opposite problem nothing

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stays put so you look for your glasses

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you look for your checklist there

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they're always sitting right behind your

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head inevitably but so they they don't

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stay stuck when they want them say stuck

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and there's velcro that sticks to

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everything you don't want it to stick to

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as well as the things you do want it to

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stick to and the final element of

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stuckness I've run into is just traffic

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around here we've got a bunch of narrow

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corridors that connect us through all

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these different modules as well as a

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shuttle and we're always working in the

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exact same place the exact same time

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where they're trying to get meals or

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trying to fix the same thing and there's

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12 of us up here there's always just

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traffic jams that go on here and so you

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wind up in a queue waiting to get where

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you're going and it means what it means

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it's things to take longer than you

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planned on and so you said to have a

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little patience and you understand why

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they give you maybe an hour for what you

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thought was a 20-minute task for Steve

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Bowen what do you think is some of the

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most valuable science or information to

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let's see actually I saw this in two

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parts the first part is I have

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absolutely no idea because a lot of

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special e here on the International

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Space Station what a lot of what you do

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is basic research which is fundamental

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properties of how things interrelate how

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they operate how the world actually

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works and it's impossible at least for

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me to look at some of this stuff and say

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what that will lead to what knowledge

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that will lead to in the future so I

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think the contributions are incredible I

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can't point to one right now but our

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understanding the universe is expanding

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continuously while we're doing research

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up here the second part though being old

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like I am and remembering when we landed

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on the moon that whole my whole

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generation everybody that's about my age

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which there are some people here who

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about my age of engineers and scientists

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that were inspired by the early space

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program that's really our greatest

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contribution to science and knowledge on

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earth is the whole generation of kids

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who are now adults that became engineers

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and scientists because of the research

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on exploration we did to Apollo and

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Gemini and Mercury that was really

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exciting stuff and even though we all

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can't grow up to be astronauts I was

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perfectly happy being an engineer and

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that would have been a great great place

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to spend my life for mike barratt what

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is a failure that occurred during one of

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your space flights and how did the crew

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handle it well that's a really good

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question you know I've got a little over

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200 days in space and let me tell you

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that failures happen and the one thing I

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learned is that the best way to react to

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a failure is to be ready for it in the

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first place and everything we do up here

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involves a lot of planning and having

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backup systems and methods to handle

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things when I first arrived at the space

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station on the Soyuz our automatic

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docking system failed and we were

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trained and equipped to bring it in

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manually and we did that and more

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recently here oh and I had steve bowen

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out on the end of the robotic arm and he

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had a big big heavy piece of very

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expensive hardware and our robotic

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workstation crash

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and you know that's not a good place to

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be but we had a backup system and the

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space station crew in a very calm very

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cool headed but very quick response

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brought up that secondary work station

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and within a few minutes we were back in

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business and good to go and and Steve

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was moving again so Steve a long time to

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Steve but obviously being prepared is is

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the the biggest thing and it's just it's

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great to see that when everything is in

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order and the crew reacts to their

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training and cool heads and you're back

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in business really fast turn nicole

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stott if you could pick any flight in

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the history of the space program to

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well I think I have to answer two

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flights the flight I had before to the

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space station and the flight that I have

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now for different reasons the the the

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space station flight was something I was

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really looking forward to we were at a

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point in the program where he had just

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moved to a six-person crew so I was

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really interested to see how how that

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would work I had a fantastic crew up

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here and I think we did a lot of really

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good things with robotics with the HTV

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the first HTV capture that we had and we

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had over a hundred and fifty or so

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science investigations going on at any

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one time so it felt like a really

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productive time and and this flight on

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discovery I think I was really really

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honored to be asked to be a part of this

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crew given that at the point it was

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going to be the last space shuttle

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flight and the last as we know space

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shuttle flight of discovery and there's

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a lot of you know emotion and sentiment

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I think associated with that and just

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pride and the the legacy of this program

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and that you know that we have the honor

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of being a part of that sir commander

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Kelly what do you think is the coolest

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he listens to what I say and he does all

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of his homework

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unlike to other people I know actually

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it's a you know it's a great technology

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demonstrator it's actually has pretty

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limited functionality right now but in

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the future like someone here was saying

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like I think Steve or Eric was saying

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you know like computers robots are going

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to become a integral part of our lives

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and it's a great way to start with

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Robonaut here on the space station and

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you know we're gonna we're going to put

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them to work in in the limited capacity

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he can work in and hopefully that will

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lead to more sophisticated and useful

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robots in the future for Cady Coleman

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when when you were viewing the Earth

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from space what do you most like to look

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well for me looking straight down

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geography just becomes alive I was never

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a kid that sort of knew every country

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and where it was and now when I look

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down at the earth and you get to see all

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the all the different features the

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mountains the rivers and you know you

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can see where people are living you can

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see where people aren't living and think

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about why it makes me think of how

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incredible it was when we you know where

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we still are exploring but even when you

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know going across the United States when

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there was just nothing down there and

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then the pioneers crossing the country

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how difficult that must have been I can

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see all that through geography because I

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see the mountain ranges and you see the

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weather and so to me it's like looking

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at the history that already was in

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thinking about the places that we still

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have yet to enjoy and explore and I love

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looking down at the earth just because

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it's it's really it's our place it's our

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special place there's no lines between

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the countries there's no capital letters

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saying what countries are where it's

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just all of our planet all the countries

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all the people and I feel very special

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being one to have this viewpoint for

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commander Lindsay with so much equipment

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on station how do you find something

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you're looking for wow that's I tell you

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what that's a big challenge and but we

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actually have a system up here on the

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space station an inventory management

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system that every time something's moved

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or put away or moved to new location

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it's actually logged into the computer

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and all of the bags and all the

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equipment have little barcodes on them

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like when you go to the grocery store

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and checkout now you you swipe the items

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the the cashier swipes the items through

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this barcode reader and in a logs price

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well what we have up here is is these

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barcodes will track all of these items

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so when you go to do a new procedure or

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get equipment out the procedure will

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tell you where it's located and it's

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tracked all based on that barcode now on

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the Space Shuttle we don't have quite so

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elegant a system we have things stowed

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and we have a stowage locations and

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things like that but as things get moved

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around it becomes a little more

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challenging

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for us to find things on shuttle but

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fortunately the shuttle has a much

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smaller space in the space station it

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can only go so far our last question is

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for Eric both are there any basic tasks

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that are much harder or easier to do in

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space yes - but both they're much harder

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things and much easier things let me do

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an example for harder yesterday I was in

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the module that we brought up on

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discovery the permanent multi-purpose

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module and I had to take off 22 bolts

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that were in there and they also had on

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the the fasteners were free so as soon

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as you the watcher that was on it could

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come free and be released so basically

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44 parts on earth you could just take a

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drill do all those let the let the

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screws sit there but in space they would

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actually float away and those pieces

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would get lost might get stuck some more

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so that test makes it much harder

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because every one of them you have to

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make sure that you pull it off by hand

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and stick it into a bag so that it

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doesn't get lost

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on the much easier side moving a rack a

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lot of our racks on the space station or

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about the size of a refrigerator weigh

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anywhere from 500 to a thousand pounds

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you can pick that out and leave it with

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one person and move it around from place

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to place you know like moving on a piano

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on the ground is usually considered a

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very difficult task in space if you had

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a piano up here would be significantly

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easier moving it from point A to point B

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thank you all so much for joining us

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today and answering our questions well

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you're welcome and thanks for joining us

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we we enjoyed your questions discovery

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ISS this is Houston ACR that concludes

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the event thank you thank you discovery

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ISS and NASA educational technology

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services we are now resuming normal

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audio communications this is Mission

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Control Houston the expedition 26 crew

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and Discovery's crew they are finishing

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up an education event answering some