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good afternoon thank you for joining us

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for this afternoon's crew news

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conference joining us are nasa astronaut

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mike fossum

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cosmonaut sergey volkov and jaxa

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astronaut satoshi furukawa members of

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the expedition 28 and 29 cruise the

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three are scheduled to launch on a soyuz

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may 30th with docking to the space

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station on june 1st their mission is

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expected to conclude with a landing in

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november

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we'll now start with introductions and

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then take questions we'll begin with

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nasa astronaut mike fossum who will

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serve as a flight engineer for

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expedition 28 and is commander for

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expedition 29.

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mike was born in sioux falls south

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dakota and grew up in mcallen texas he

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holds degrees from texas a m university

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the air force institute of technology

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and the university of houston clear lake

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mike received his commission in the u.s

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air force from texas a m university in

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may of 1980 and in 1981 he was detailed

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to the nasa johnson space center where

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where he supported space shuttle flight

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operations beginning with sts-3

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he was selected for air force test pilot

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school at edwards air force base

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california where he graduated in 1985.

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mike resigned as a colonel from active

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duty in 1992 to work for nasa

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in january 1993 mike was employed by

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nasa as a systems engineer serving

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numerous roles before being selected as

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an astronaut in june 1998.

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he has flown on two space shuttle

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missions sts-121 in 2006 and sts-124 in

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2008 and has performed three spacewalks

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on each mission with that we'll now turn

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it over to mike to introduce his crew

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hi i'm mike fossum commander of

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expedition 29

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we're excited to be here we're excited

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to be part of opening up the second half

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decade of humans or half century rather

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of human space flight

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it's a really busy time for us

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scott kelly returned to houston on

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thursday morning after his landing in

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kazakhstan on wednesday and this morning

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ron garan and his crew including backup

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dan burbank left star city headed for

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kazakhstan to go through their final

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flight preparations it's a really busy

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we're just a couple of months behind

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them and going through our final work

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here in houston this week and sergey is

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heading back to russia and we'll be

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joining him there very soon

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i'd like to introduce my three crewmate

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or my my crewmates first uh to my left

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sergey alexandrovich volkov

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he was born in ukraine and grew up in

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star city russia

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he's married and has two sons the

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youngest of which is only two and a half

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months old

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he's an air force pilot

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and was selected as a cosmonaut in

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he's uh trained on several backup crews

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and for a period of time trained with

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the sts-121 crew to fly with me on 121

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before there were some crew changes and

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we missed that opportunity to fly

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together but we made up for it in 2008

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when he was the commander of soyuz

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and the commander of expedition 17

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and he hosted us on discovery on mission

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1j sts-124 when we installed the

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japanese laboratory so we've been in

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during that his previous flight he had

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he is a hero of the russian federation

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and the first second generation space

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i'm really really happy to be flying

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to my far left satoshi furukawa

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he was born in yokohama japan and i grew

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up there he's married and has a son and

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he is a medical doctor a surgeon and has

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a phd in medical sciences

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it's been observed he's probably the

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most educated crew member to fly on the

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and in spite of the double uh degrees

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there we refused to call him dr doctor

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he was selected as an astronaut in 99

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he's had extensive training first in

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japan then in russia then in the united

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states in three primary languages

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he served previously on two backup crews

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he'll be our main flight engineer on the

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soyuz and a flight engineer on the space

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station and i really look forward to

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sharing his first flight

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all right thank you mike we'll begin

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with questions and if you'll just state

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your name and affiliation we'll start on

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uh thanks so i'm mark caro i'm

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representing aviation week and space

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technology and i think i'll start with

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uh mike fossum

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could you uh sort of give us a little

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bit of the flavor of the sort of

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activity and the pace of research that

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hi mark good to see you again

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where we are now is moving out of the

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assembly phase and into the more

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and so we're going to be dealing with a

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little more trying to put things away

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the sciences it covers the gamut the

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first would be you know us as the guinea

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changes in the heart itself uh first at

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rest and then he'll go work up a sweat

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exercise protocol called the sprint

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which uses a higher intensity shorter

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duration kind of exercise and they want

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to compare that to the results with

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flammability or a flame experiment where

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about them we right now are each

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shuttle atlantis was up there for the

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135 mission the purpose of that is to

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the pump module which failed about nine

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that failed pump module to the ground so

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why things fail and learn how to make

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hi robert perlman with collectspace.com

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uh with a question i think for sergey

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do they have an understanding at what

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what the issues were and how that's

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pressurization issues that they've had

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were able to reprogram the neptune and

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they received practically

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whole data

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after undocking and landing

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but we have

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backup equipment already installed on

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devices that already were checked by the

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expedition

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has recently returned from space and

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they work properly

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we have already installed this equipment

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and uh

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since all three of you represent three

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different countries i wonder if you

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could talk a little bit about what

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outreach activities you're doing to

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reach out while you're in space to your

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respective populations and to the

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from japanese point of view uh i'm going

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going to uh perform

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many

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outreaches i mean pao events or

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educational events especially in

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japanese

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that would help

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people uh

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in the japanese uh

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speaking society to uh

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get up get to understand the space

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from my previous experience usually we

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have sort of together

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po events when we're going to be three

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hours we'll talk with the kids or

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primarily that's our primary target to

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talk with the kids with the students

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to inspire them to be not maybe the

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austrians or cosmos but at least be

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involved in this program you know

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uh

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where

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we can

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explore something new for us

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po events with

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our own citizens and for me it's going

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to be of course russian

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russian schools

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russian maybe institutes and

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some highest authorities because it's

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fifth anniversary of the first space

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flight and the year dedicated to this

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and of course it's a lot attention right

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now and i expect that we'll have more

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till the end of the year

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and for me i'd say in general having

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flown two short duration missions on the

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shuttle you're so busy it's a it's a

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complete race for the two weeks that

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you're up and the short time that you're

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on the space station eight or nine days

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i look forward to having the opportunity

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on time to not just you know working in

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space for a short time but actually

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living there and having the opportunity

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to do more of these kind of of

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activities just to reach out and and

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representing bay area houston magazine

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question for sergey

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of course you've flown on station before

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what will you think be your most

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challenging

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part of your mission this time and the

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most rewarding part for this mission uh

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honestly it's hard to tell before the

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flight uh that

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going to be the most challenging part of

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our flight because

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so far

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just to live for a long period of time

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out of our families i think that most

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challenging part

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but still

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and i'm sure of 100 none of us will want

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to

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be back home earlier than it's scheduled

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that's also sort of challenging part

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and

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rewarding part

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be able to work onboard the space

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station

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that's i think the most rewarding part

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all right switching to this side you can

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state your name and affiliation please

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yeah

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i want to ask the mr furukawa about the

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japanese big ass cake so in japanese

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alright

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thank you

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okay our thoughts and prayers are with

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those that suffered a great deal of

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damage from the big earthquake in japan

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and uh ganbara nippon

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we are with you people all over the

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world are with you

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and

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i'd like to do whatever i can

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to

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for others for those that are suffered

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from the damage and for all the japanese

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and for all the people all over the

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world

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moving along on this side

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okay uh jim oberg with nbc hello

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can i talk about the digital soyuz again

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this is only the second flight uh are

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there additional test flight additional

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test objectives for you to broaden the

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envelope to widen the capability of this

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of the new ship are you doing special

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activities in the beginning of the

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mission at the end of the mission to

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further explore the digital soyuz

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capabilities

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actually for us it's going to be the

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middle of our autonomous flight to the

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station

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uh when we'll uh

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will

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use for

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almost 100 all abilities of new

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tv

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for the document that's uh they

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going to be really new because previous

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iu they just

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use uh

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only partially all these abilities

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that's our primary goal is uh

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testing

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uh

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700 says

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and

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another more practical question uh once

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you get there both russian coyotes will

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be occupied where are you going to sleep

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i hope michael allowed me to sleep in

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note 2 as a commander

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we'll make room for him

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somewhere all right there's six coyotes

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hi um i'm at

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from tv asahi japanese television

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network i have a question for mr

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furukawa i also like to ask the

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what is the most challenging and also

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rewarding part of this mission

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okay

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challenging part

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i cannot

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imagine well

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because this is my first flight

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everything i am very excited at

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everything uh during the mission

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and

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everything is the rewarding part

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did i answer a question yes thank you

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actually excuse me

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i've been training taking training for

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12 years

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in other words

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i dedicated one-fourth of my life to

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astronaut training so i'm really looking

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forward to that

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hi i'm marianne dyson with the national

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space society i had the pleasure of

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working with with mike uh 30 years ago

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in the flight activity officers support

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room and i'm wondering if you could

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describe how you've seen flight planning

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evolve

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from

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that time period to the way you work

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with mission control nowadays to plan

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your typical week up on the space

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station

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wow yeah marianne it's good seeing you

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again it's been a lot of changes since

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since we were flying with one space

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shuttle orbiter

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and then figuring out how we were going

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to handle two and we were going to write

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flight procedures to handle the minor

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differences in those two vehicles

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and at in those days all of the flight

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procedures were completely rewritten for

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every flight because they were six to

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eight months apart and we had time to

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rewrite them to a cruise

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whims if you will and there were a lot

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of them as people had their own

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preferences as we've moved forward

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beyond that we couldn't rewrite the

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procedures to everybody's personal

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preference and you had to begin training

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to more standards and standardizing

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things

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and coming up with standard ways the

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procedures could handle differences

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you know and and so

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with the space station it's it's quite

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different and we don't carry 90 to 100

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pounds of books of procedures anymore we

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really just have very few primarily

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emergency books and a few others that

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are in paper

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the rest are electronic

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when we first began that it was

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frankly very frustrating and a lot of us

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were skeptical that we would be able to

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move from paper to electronic procedures

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but they got a they finally got really

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smart with it where you can link from

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procedure to procedure and you can hit

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the back button it takes you back to

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that nested procedure where you left off

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and pick it up again it's actually quite

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good now you can write your values in on

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the computer and it saves it for the

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ground

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on space station also that the the crew

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or the ground is

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very busy replanting

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your

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not today but tomorrow and the day after

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really planning about a week out with a

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lot of details

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so we try to get our job done today but

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if we don't get it all done today then

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some of it goes into tomorrow or the day

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after and so a lot of it's kind of

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modular

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working on maintenance activities and

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then you complete that and you step into

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the the science procedures you go change

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out the samples activate a rack uh make

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some observations that kind of thing and

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so it's all done in blocks using an

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electronic planner the onboard

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short-term plan viewer ostpv it's the

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bane of our existence

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there's a red line marching across and

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all the procedure blocks that you're

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supposed to be doing and you look and

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you see that i'm behind again

532
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and as you're really scrambling and i've

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seen that even on a short shuttle flight

534
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like oh you know it's it's

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but it's it's a wonderful thing because

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it it's a graphical way a very visual

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way of knowing where you are what's

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coming up next what your crewmates are

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doing

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and and you can see if somebody's

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getting behind that you know where you

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00:21:48,950 --> 00:21:46,960
need to roll over to give them a hand

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and help catch up and you can also see

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dependencies

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where different procedures have to be

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done back to back in order and you can't

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get things out of order so it's amazing

548
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from the days when we had to rewrite 100

549
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pounds worth of procedures you know

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custom ride them for for a shuttle

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okay any other follow-ups on this side

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of the room

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all right if not we will switch back to

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the side where we believe we have at

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jill tolk with bay area houston magazine

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we've asked

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sergey and satoshi one question so let's

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ask mike

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what's the most challenging part that

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you think might this this mission might

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bring to you and also the most rewarding

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part

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the most challenging is going to be

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separation from family you know i have

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four kids in a brand new granddaughter

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that's just three weeks old and so i'm

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gonna you know miss seeing them

568
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but

569
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you know

570
00:22:51,750 --> 00:22:49,760
the uh i i look forward to the challenge

571
00:22:54,470 --> 00:22:51,760
of doing this i've dreamed about doing

572
00:22:55,909 --> 00:22:54,480
this since i was a small child i was

573
00:22:57,510 --> 00:22:55,919
working in mission control when

574
00:23:00,549 --> 00:22:57,520
president reagan announced the start of

575
00:23:04,230 --> 00:23:00,559
the space station program in 1984.

576
00:23:06,630 --> 00:23:04,240
i came back to nasa and began work in 93

577
00:23:08,549 --> 00:23:06,640
just when we kicked into a

578
00:23:10,630 --> 00:23:08,559
fairly extensive redesign

579
00:23:12,390 --> 00:23:10,640
and a few months later the russians were

580
00:23:14,390 --> 00:23:12,400
major partners in the program much to

581
00:23:16,870 --> 00:23:14,400
our surprise and it's been a great

582
00:23:19,270 --> 00:23:16,880
partnership and a just a great benefit

583
00:23:22,310 --> 00:23:19,280
to us all and so it that all of this

584
00:23:24,549 --> 00:23:22,320
working for all these years and now to i

585
00:23:26,470 --> 00:23:24,559
helped build it helped design it in ways

586
00:23:29,149 --> 00:23:26,480
and during the redesign process in the

587
00:23:32,950 --> 00:23:29,159
mid-90s i helped build it on

588
00:23:39,750 --> 00:23:32,960
sts-121 and 124 and now i get to live on

589
00:23:43,190 --> 00:23:41,750
uh genus and sari abc news for mike

590
00:23:47,510 --> 00:23:43,200
forgive me if this has been asked but

591
00:23:50,710 --> 00:23:49,269
there's no room for my aggie boots on

592
00:23:52,870 --> 00:23:50,720
board

593
00:23:54,710 --> 00:23:52,880
so in lieu of the boots what will you be

594
00:23:56,710 --> 00:23:54,720
taking from a m

595
00:23:59,029 --> 00:23:56,720
might be an aggie ring or two on board

596
00:24:02,950 --> 00:23:59,039
yeah all right thank you you bet there

597
00:24:07,430 --> 00:24:05,669
any uh remaining follow-ups

598
00:24:09,590 --> 00:24:07,440
with that uh we'll conclude our briefing

599
00:24:10,950 --> 00:24:09,600
a reminder you can find information

600
00:24:12,390 --> 00:24:10,960
about the crew and the international

601
00:24:15,190 --> 00:24:12,400
space station on our website at