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station this is houston are you ready

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i think we're ready for the event

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wgby tv this is mission houston control

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i hear you loud and clear

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great katie it's such an honor to have

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can we proceed with the questions

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i am ready

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great

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as a veteran of two shuttle missions can

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you talk about how different it was

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your missions with the space shuttles

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and going aboard the international space

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well the soyuz fits three people

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sorry we're just uh configuring audio

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here so i'll start again

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uh

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the the soyuz is a smaller vehicle and

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it really just barely fits three people

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and so when we're in there um

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it's uh we're sitting pretty close and

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we're very close to the outside of the

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vessel so i would say you know in the

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space shuttle you feel like you're in a

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spaceship and you're on your way to

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space and uh in the soyuz you feel like

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you are the spaceship and you are

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hurtling into space so it really feels a

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lot closer i mean just about three

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inches from your right foot is the

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outside of the hull so it's pretty

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exciting

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what's been the biggest surprise so far

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well i i'm both surprised at how quickly

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we get used to microgravity it just you

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know floating around and just being able

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to you know move with just a few fingers

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controlling our movements and so how

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quickly we get used to it and at the

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same time i'm surprised that i'm always

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learning new things and new ways to do

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things in a in a zero-g environment you

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know and realizing new possibilities

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that i hadn't actually anticipated so i

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sorry about that

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hey that's okay you know it's just a

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busy day here and we had a lot to do a

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you know things that needed done at a

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certain time and this is just the way it

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is sometimes i think we just adjusted

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the lighting as well

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i understand and i know it's been

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extremely busy aboard the space station

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can you talk about some of the work that

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it's been a really exciting time because

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we've had several supply vehicles in

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fact from all the international partners

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it's kind of normal or you know not

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every day but every few months a russian

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progress vehicle will come up here a

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russian supply vehicle and we'll bring

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supplies and take away trash

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but now this year we have both the

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japanese supply vehicle the htv and also

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the european automated transfer vehicle

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which is a european supply vehicle and

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until yesterday we had all three of

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those here on the space station at the

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same time and what that means for us as

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a crew is that there's a lot of loading

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and unloading and organizing of new

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supplies and actually organizing of

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things that we want to get off the

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station and in fact the htv which we

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robotic arm paulo nespoli and i

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were operating the robotic arm and so

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literally we had we take the japanese

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supply vehicle the htv off of the

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station and hold it out into free space

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release it with the robotic arm and then

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it actually sends we send commands to it

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and it actually backs itself slowly away

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from the station and then we'll enter

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re-enter the earth's atmosphere just

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tomorrow so it's been a very exciting

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especially with the japanese supply

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vehicle it has a very large hatchway

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pieces of equipment or things that we

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don't need aboard the station and that

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that's been really valuable to clear out

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space for new experiments and new

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supplies that we do need for the

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lifetime of the station

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second time where i got to be at the

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controls of the robotic arm and actually

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reach out the the japanese supply

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vehicle was hovering uh just about you

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practiced that a number of times you

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times i was required to practice and

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vehicle was pretty well behaved but um

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something like this you know you get a

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little bit nervous at least i do and and

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part of you kind of wonders you know are

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you going to make a mistake and the way

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is just to say you know i've done all

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april 12th marks the 50th anniversary of

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manned space flight and i'm curious what

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does it feel like to be up in space at

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this sort of historic point point in

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instead by just a minute wgby

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and houston uh is it should we move to

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two for this continuation of this po

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in wgby i know um this is to tape and so

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forgiving we're just trying to get some

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things straightened out you know it's

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here is that we basically have two

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channels to talk to the ground and often

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would be nicer to have more channels but

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so i think your question was about the

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the 50th anniversary was that correct i

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heard most of it all right i did hear

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the question if you're ready

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if you want to go ahead and answer it

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that'd be great just about the 50th

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anniversary what it feels like to be up

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five years or ten years or in this case

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numbers like this that cause us to think

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makes us realize how far we've come it

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have had i mean we live in a universe

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fact that we are on a path and that we

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that we've really come a very long way

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pleased and and honored to be up here

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during a time when when everybody takes

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a minute just to think about uh really

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how special our job is and how great it

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is that real people are living in and

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working and doing really interesting

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science experiments in space every day

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katie it's a great honor to speak with

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you and thank you so much for your time

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today and the hard work you're doing up

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it's really nice to to talk with you too

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and i know that uh um you know we i

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in mr massachusetts uh it's just been

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great to have your station on board um

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for the longest time and uh in fact i

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listen to the news up here so i get to

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this is springfield technical community

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springfield i hear you loud and clear

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great you know i'm really happy to be

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i know it's taken a lot of organization

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on the part of a lot of different folks

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to organize this event and i'm just

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really thrilled that we're doing this in

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massachusetts i've had some beautiful

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views of massachusetts during my time up

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here in fact usually about twice a day i

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can see massachusetts and

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i'm tamera rivera from mcmahon have you

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ever made a mistake but then work

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you know we certainly have made mistakes

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team we've made mistakes and that's

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really why we practice you know one

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itself and then the other thing is to

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understand you know how we as people

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react to that and how we react as a team

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and what i really like about the people

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that i work with you know both appear in

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space and down on the ground is that you

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know we're all upset when we make a

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mistake we don't like it we wish we

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didn't and we but what we're doing our

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job up here is more important than

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yelling at somebody for making a mistake

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or being mad at them about it or being

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mad at yourself you just our job is so

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important and important to do correctly

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and safely that we just have to put that

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is school well a dog or other animal

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they they could come here but i will

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tell you it's taken me a little while to

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get used to living up here in fact it's

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just doing a training exercise where i

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had to carry around our pressure reading

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in the modules if i actually just kind

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knees here and then i could just carry

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it around and i would have my hands free

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to make sure i could find a path and not

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cats and all the other creatures would

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all sorts of insects up here and

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fish and worms in fact we have worms up

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have some things in common with us as

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people and we can learn about what

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affects these the the worms or whatever

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insects or animals we're talking about

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what affects them up in space and it

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helps us understand what affects people

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up in space so that we can then go on to

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really unders to really know what's

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going to happen when we are further away

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from home and spend a long time away

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hi my name is manuel ortiz from stumble

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academy my question is how do you keep

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in touch with your family and how does

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your family deal with you being in space

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well emmanuel um

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i i get to call home so to speak um i i

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call home i would say almost every day

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i've been up here just about 102 days

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now and i think i've only missed three

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days in in terms of calling home because

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we have an internet protocol phone that

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we can use when we have the right

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satellite coverage so somehow i find

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some time to to call i think the bad

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thing is that they can't call me and

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that makes it a little bit you know hard

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for them to always be the ones who get

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called and if the satellite coverage

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ends then you know i can't really call

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back right away and they've gotten a

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little bit used to that but

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i think what you know when you're a

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family and when you have a close

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relationship you just learn how to

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be happy about the communication that

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you do have and so we we try to talk

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about our days and how our days are

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going um i read to my son and read

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stories just like i would at home

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and we just try to make the most of the

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communication that we have we also have

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video conferences once a week and those

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hi my name is laura ernst from mcmahon

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school how does the is has

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helped prepare astronauts for a future

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learn in lots of different ways we're

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learning about you know sort of the

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equipment side of things about how to

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run a spaceship and how to make sure

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that a spaceship runs i'll give you an

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example

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we can't bring all the water that we

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need up here and so we recycle our water

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and i know that sounds kind of yucky and

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actually i guess it is kind of yucky but

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i'll tell you that when i go to the the

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water dispenser and get water it tastes

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beautiful and clean

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but we are actually recycling

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all of our sweat all of our urine all of

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our you know old water and and that

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seems to work out pretty well but i'll

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tell you that the recycling system has

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been

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expected when we designed it and so

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we're learning lessons about how to make

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a water recycling system so there's that

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equipment side of things and then we're

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learning about you know how people react

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to being up in space we actually lose

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bone mass up here because we don't walk

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around on our legs and we don't send

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those signals to our brain that says she

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needs these muscles in bones so we don't

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walk around in those legs and so we need

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we we actually lose bone mass

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at a rate about 10 times of like an

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older person that has osteoporosis so

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we're learning about how exercise and

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medicines can help us prevent that

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hi i'm carlos modino from kelly school

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what are the positive points and the

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well you know for the the downsides

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you know i'm not really sure i can think

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of one i mean i know i'm away from home

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for a long time from my family and

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there's some things that i miss there's

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food that i miss there's people that i

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miss

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but i'm in an amazing and wonderful and

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magical place where you know life is

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really different and i'm learning more

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about it every single day about what i

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can do living in a in a weightless

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environment i mean first of all it's

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really fun so i just don't think that

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there's a lot of disadvantages in in

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those disadvantages that i mentioned

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um are the same as a lot of our like

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military people that are away from home

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and serving their country i mean they're

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spending time away from their families

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and they're not in nearly as nice or

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exciting a place as this

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and they don't get the view that i have

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to be able to look down at the earth and

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see amazing amazing things on the earth

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so

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there are advantages and disadvantages

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but i'm really really happy up here and

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i don't really actually want to come

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hi i'm janelle bryan from stem middle

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academy my question is what happens if

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you have an unexpected medical emergency

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it depends on the emergency we're all

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medically trained i mean not to be

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doctors but to do a lot of different

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procedures and especially we have an

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automatic defibrillator up here if

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somebody has some kind of a heart

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problem so we're well trained in all the

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basic procedures and you know the ground

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is just one phone call and one video

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call away and we have doctors that are

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there all the time and so we can always

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call and get their help and if it's

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something where they need to show us

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something or tell us how to do something

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then we have ways and we've practiced

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ways of doing that and if it's really an

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emergency we could actually be home in

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probably about 15 hours

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because we just climb in our soyuz on

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our spacecraft and do orbit and land on

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hi my name is anna diaz and i'm from

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mcmahon school my question is do you

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remember the exact time you realized you

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wanted to be an astronaut and what did

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your family and friends say when you

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anna you might find this surprising but

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when i was growing up a long time ago

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it was actually strange for girls to

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become astronauts now i think you know

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you probably could think of a couple of

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women astronauts and so i think it's

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really great but when i was growing up

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it was something i didn't even think of

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until i met dr sally ride and she didn't

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remember meeting me we've talked about

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it since but all sudden i looked at her

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i shook her hand and i thought well

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she's a real person just like me

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and maybe that means i could do that job

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and that's actually why i'm here talking

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to you today not so much so that all of

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you become astronauts but so that you

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realize that people who do the jobs that

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you think are so cool and amazing those

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hi my name my name is raniel um i come

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from kelly school here's my question

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after the recent earthquake in japan

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have you noticed any changes to the

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we have uh

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noticed we've been taking pictures of

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japan specifically and just looking down

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with your eyes i don't see much

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difference although some i think you can

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see changes in the water around

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japan with more sedimentation but we've

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been using very big lenses to take

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detailed pictures of japan to help

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people on earth understand

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the extent of the damage and places

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where people might need help so every

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time we go over japan we try to take

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hi my name is devine davis i'm from stem

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middle academy as you orbit the earth

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can you see the impact of humans on the

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yvonne we can see

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different different impacts

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one of the easiest ones to see is is

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looking at the coastline we can see

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different amounts of sediment you know

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out into the water

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when we're going over land can actually

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see uh you know regular patterns of

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where land has been um has been farmed

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or cultivated so it looks different than

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you know whether there's not little

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straight lines you know where things

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haven't been cultivated we can see the

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burning of the rain forest we can see um

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lakes that over time are gotten smaller

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and smaller and smaller people have

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taken pictures of like for example lake

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chad in africa um you know for years and

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years and years from space and we can

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see that it's become smaller and smaller

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and smaller so we can understand that

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there's the effects of different

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droughts it's a really interesting

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hi my name is megan demaris from mcmahon

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school and my question is what kinds of

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experiments are you doing right now and

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and most of the experiments are long

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term in that they're going on for a long

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time here and some of them have samples

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that come back to earth some of them um

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the data is right up here on the space

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station i just uh started a experiment

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this morning called nanoskeletons where

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we're actually looking at different ways

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to form crystals up here in space and

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and crystals form differently up here in

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space because down on the ground

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building a crystal or having a crystal

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grow is is kind of like

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building a brick wall and if all the

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bricks really could be exactly where

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they'd like to be they'd actually all be

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in a row but sometimes gravity will make

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one of them sit down crooked well the

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the friends of that brick don't know

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that he's sitting down crooked and they

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sit down crooked on top of him and

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suddenly we have a brick wall that has

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straight parts and parts that are not in

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the right place and so those can be

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defects for example in electronic um

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crystals that we use for computers so

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there's lots of different kinds of

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experiments the ones that i think are

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really interesting at least for me to

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look at

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involve growing crystals and also fluid

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fluid experiments where we get to

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understand

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what the fluids are doing and that's

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pretty neat because they all float

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my name

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this is mission control houston we're in

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a break as we hand over from one

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satellite to another in the tracking

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data with a satellite constellation as

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soon as we get the satellite signal back

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we'll resume our event with katie

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coleman aboard the international space

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station and students at the springfield

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technical community college in

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springfield massachusetts

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katie on one we're just waiting for k.u

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to lock up

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okay springfield go ahead

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my name is amaris and i'm from kelly

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school

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on the next space shuttle mission

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sts-134

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and orb is being sent up so scientists

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can study how it makes its web are you

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studying any creatures in space right

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now

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we have we have some worms up here right

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now and they're so tiny they don't

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really look like worms they look like

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little dots but we're under we're trying

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to understand how they actually multiply

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in space and what their structures are

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if they're any bit if they're any

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different when they don't have gravity

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to worry about and i think it's going to

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be really interesting to see what the

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spiders do when you think about making a

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web you know they must take gravity into

547
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account they must think about the parts

548
00:24:29,269 --> 00:24:28,080
you know how they have to be structured

549
00:24:31,669 --> 00:24:29,279
on the parts where they might be more

550
00:24:33,350 --> 00:24:31,679
likely to fall and up here where you're

551
00:24:34,630 --> 00:24:33,360
not likely more likely to fall from

552
00:24:36,549 --> 00:24:34,640
anywhere because everything's going to

553
00:24:46,230 --> 00:24:36,559
float i'm thinking that they will become

554
00:24:51,190 --> 00:24:49,029
hi my name is francesca from the middle

555
00:24:53,510 --> 00:24:51,200
academy and my question is

556
00:24:58,830 --> 00:24:53,520
how do you all get along on the iss and

557
00:25:03,350 --> 00:25:01,590
conflicts francesca um because we're up

558
00:25:05,750 --> 00:25:03,360
here in this totally marvelous and

559
00:25:07,830 --> 00:25:05,760
amazing place it's a little easier to to

560
00:25:09,990 --> 00:25:07,840
get along than you might think but we do

561
00:25:11,669 --> 00:25:10,000
have our differences and the thing that

562
00:25:14,149 --> 00:25:11,679
i try to do and i'm not always

563
00:25:15,510 --> 00:25:14,159
successful but what i try to do is i try

564
00:25:17,590 --> 00:25:15,520
to remember that when there's something

565
00:25:18,390 --> 00:25:17,600
about somebody that i don't particularly

566
00:25:20,149 --> 00:25:18,400
like

567
00:25:22,070 --> 00:25:20,159
or maybe is just different than the way

568
00:25:24,390 --> 00:25:22,080
i do it sometimes i think oh we should

569
00:25:26,630 --> 00:25:24,400
do it my way but actually the best thing

570
00:25:28,950 --> 00:25:26,640
is to realize that when you have a group

571
00:25:30,789 --> 00:25:28,960
of people together everybody in that

572
00:25:32,950 --> 00:25:30,799
group does something

573
00:25:35,029 --> 00:25:32,960
better than you do and you do something

574
00:25:37,430 --> 00:25:35,039
better than they do and together that

575
00:25:39,029 --> 00:25:37,440
makes a really powerful team and so when

576
00:25:40,630 --> 00:25:39,039
something is a little different and

577
00:25:42,470 --> 00:25:40,640
maybe you don't like it think well wait

578
00:25:44,070 --> 00:25:42,480
a minute what does this person do that

579
00:25:45,750 --> 00:25:44,080
they do better than i do i'm going to

580
00:25:47,510 --> 00:25:45,760
have them do that and i'm going to do

581
00:25:53,750 --> 00:25:47,520
the things that i'm good at too

582
00:25:57,190 --> 00:25:55,590
hello my name is dominic evans from

583
00:25:59,430 --> 00:25:57,200
mcmahon school

584
00:26:01,029 --> 00:25:59,440
do you get tired physically in space

585
00:26:07,510 --> 00:26:01,039
even though your muscles are not working

586
00:26:12,789 --> 00:26:08,470
we

587
00:26:14,630 --> 00:26:12,799
really hard i think my head gets tired

588
00:26:16,630 --> 00:26:14,640
you know we work pretty hard every day

589
00:26:18,630 --> 00:26:16,640
and at the same time we also do almost

590
00:26:20,630 --> 00:26:18,640
two hours of exercise every day and

591
00:26:22,549 --> 00:26:20,640
that's because our muscles don't get a

592
00:26:25,110 --> 00:26:22,559
workout unless we work unless we

593
00:26:27,430 --> 00:26:25,120
actually do some exercise and we use um

594
00:26:30,070 --> 00:26:27,440
a weightlifting machine that is based on

595
00:26:32,149 --> 00:26:30,080
vacuum so i'm literally pulling against

596
00:26:34,230 --> 00:26:32,159
a cylinder inside a cylinder that

597
00:26:35,669 --> 00:26:34,240
doesn't want to that has just air or no

598
00:26:37,269 --> 00:26:35,679
air back there and when i pull it's

599
00:26:39,350 --> 00:26:37,279
really hard and so we can adjust the

600
00:26:42,070 --> 00:26:39,360
weights to make them hard for us and i

601
00:26:43,350 --> 00:26:42,080
do all sorts of exercises i do squats

602
00:26:47,669 --> 00:26:43,360
and i do

603
00:26:53,669 --> 00:26:47,679
i will be actually very tired at the end

604
00:26:59,830 --> 00:26:56,789
hi i'm evander barrios from kelly school

605
00:27:02,230 --> 00:26:59,840
when will robot robonaut 2 be activated

606
00:27:07,269 --> 00:27:02,240
and working on the iss and what will his

607
00:27:11,510 --> 00:27:09,190
we are all very anxious to activate

608
00:27:14,149 --> 00:27:11,520
robonaut and start him working although

609
00:27:16,310 --> 00:27:14,159
i will i will clarify that you know

610
00:27:18,549 --> 00:27:16,320
in terms of what he's up here for he's

611
00:27:20,549 --> 00:27:18,559
up for up here so that we can understand

612
00:27:23,430 --> 00:27:20,559
what robots can do

613
00:27:26,149 --> 00:27:23,440
and how the way they they work

614
00:27:28,070 --> 00:27:26,159
mechanically is affected by the lack of

615
00:27:30,230 --> 00:27:28,080
gravity so to speak i mean let's say i

616
00:27:33,190 --> 00:27:30,240
want robonaut to reach out and then push

617
00:27:35,669 --> 00:27:33,200
a switch whatever he gets some signal

618
00:27:37,909 --> 00:27:35,679
well without you know on the ground all

619
00:27:39,909 --> 00:27:37,919
those calculations that tell robonaut

620
00:27:42,149 --> 00:27:39,919
how far to put his hand out and then how

621
00:27:44,710 --> 00:27:42,159
hard to push on the switch they all take

622
00:27:46,310 --> 00:27:44,720
gravity into account and so when we take

623
00:27:48,310 --> 00:27:46,320
away that variable we need to have

624
00:27:50,389 --> 00:27:48,320
understand how to change all the

625
00:27:51,830 --> 00:27:50,399
equations that define his motions so

626
00:27:53,669 --> 00:27:51,840
that's one of the things that we'll be

627
00:27:56,230 --> 00:27:53,679
looking at and we'll also be looking at

628
00:27:57,830 --> 00:27:56,240
how people and machines work together

629
00:27:58,870 --> 00:27:57,840
what's scary about that what's

630
00:28:00,310 --> 00:27:58,880
interesting and what are the

631
00:28:01,510 --> 00:28:00,320
possibilities

632
00:28:03,430 --> 00:28:01,520
that we haven't even thought of and

633
00:28:04,870 --> 00:28:03,440
that's why robonaut's up here so it'll

634
00:28:06,470 --> 00:28:04,880
be pretty fun once he starts but it's

635
00:28:13,669 --> 00:28:06,480
going to be a little while we have to

636
00:28:18,389 --> 00:28:16,630
hi i'm dumani from stem on the iss you

637
00:28:19,990 --> 00:28:18,399
work with people from all over the world

638
00:28:26,070 --> 00:28:20,000
have you ever had any problems with

639
00:28:29,750 --> 00:28:27,830
i don't know if i would say problems but

640
00:28:31,430 --> 00:28:29,760
i will say that you know we all come

641
00:28:33,430 --> 00:28:31,440
from different countries

642
00:28:35,510 --> 00:28:33,440
the major sort of partners or the major

643
00:28:37,350 --> 00:28:35,520
languages i'll say up here are russian

644
00:28:39,510 --> 00:28:37,360
and english and so

645
00:28:41,350 --> 00:28:39,520
all the u.s partners do our best to

646
00:28:43,350 --> 00:28:41,360
learn russian and the russians do their

647
00:28:45,669 --> 00:28:43,360
best to learn english and at the same

648
00:28:46,950 --> 00:28:45,679
time sometimes we do have you know times

649
00:28:49,350 --> 00:28:46,960
that we think we understand what each

650
00:28:51,510 --> 00:28:49,360
other says and it's not true so we

651
00:28:54,070 --> 00:28:51,520
actually always have to be listening for

652
00:28:56,230 --> 00:28:54,080
when we might have a miscommunication

653
00:28:58,549 --> 00:28:56,240
and just explain patiently to our other

654
00:29:00,310 --> 00:28:58,559
crew member or vice versa that we've

655
00:29:02,389 --> 00:29:00,320
misunderstood and we work out those

656
00:29:03,669 --> 00:29:02,399
systems while we're training together

657
00:29:09,909 --> 00:29:03,679
and so we're pretty good at it by the

658
00:29:14,549 --> 00:29:13,110
hi my name is justin from mcmahon school

659
00:29:22,549 --> 00:29:14,559
what does it feel like to be in the

660
00:29:26,389 --> 00:29:24,870
jason it is so

661
00:29:28,230 --> 00:29:26,399
exciting it's pretty amazing you know

662
00:29:29,830 --> 00:29:28,240
you're sitting so close in the soyuz so

663
00:29:32,149 --> 00:29:29,840
close to two other people i'm on the

664
00:29:34,389 --> 00:29:32,159
right side and dimas in the middle and

665
00:29:36,950 --> 00:29:34,399
and paulo was on the left and in there

666
00:29:38,470 --> 00:29:36,960
we all all are with our knees almost

667
00:29:40,389 --> 00:29:38,480
touching each other and we're in a

668
00:29:42,389 --> 00:29:40,399
spaceship and the count the clock is

669
00:29:45,269 --> 00:29:42,399
counting down and i will tell you when

670
00:29:47,510 --> 00:29:45,279
that rocket uh lit off in kazakhstan it

671
00:29:49,350 --> 00:29:47,520
was totally totally amazing and

672
00:29:51,990 --> 00:29:49,360
immediately you are just hurtling

673
00:29:53,909 --> 00:29:52,000
through space and it's happening so fast

674
00:29:55,990 --> 00:29:53,919
and it's mostly i think just really

675
00:29:57,750 --> 00:29:56,000
exciting because you realize that here

676
00:30:00,310 --> 00:29:57,760
you are a regular old person who just

677
00:30:02,310 --> 00:30:00,320
worked hard and you're getting to go to

678
00:30:04,549 --> 00:30:02,320
to the space station to live and work up

679
00:30:07,590 --> 00:30:04,559
there for six months so it was really

680
00:30:09,350 --> 00:30:07,600
just exciting to be on that journey and

681
00:30:11,590 --> 00:30:09,360
eight and a half minutes later

682
00:30:17,750 --> 00:30:11,600
there we are in space and and that was

683
00:30:21,110 --> 00:30:20,070
hi i'm gilberto medeiros from sun meadow

684
00:30:23,350 --> 00:30:21,120
academy

685
00:30:30,070 --> 00:30:23,360
what happens during an emergency on the

686
00:30:34,470 --> 00:30:32,230
now that is a great question and one of

687
00:30:36,470 --> 00:30:34,480
the reasons why i just came all all at

688
00:30:38,870 --> 00:30:36,480
the very last minute to our interview

689
00:30:40,630 --> 00:30:38,880
today was that we were practicing what

690
00:30:43,029 --> 00:30:40,640
if an emergency happens and that's what

691
00:30:44,630 --> 00:30:43,039
we do we practice those things and make

692
00:30:46,070 --> 00:30:44,640
sure that we don't just kind of know the

693
00:30:47,909 --> 00:30:46,080
plan in our head but we've actually

694
00:30:49,990 --> 00:30:47,919
practiced it together who's going to do

695
00:30:51,590 --> 00:30:50,000
what what the valve that you're supposed

696
00:30:53,350 --> 00:30:51,600
to go and close what that really looks

697
00:30:55,190 --> 00:30:53,360
like the emergency that we practiced

698
00:30:57,350 --> 00:30:55,200
today was what if there's a hole in the

699
00:30:59,110 --> 00:30:57,360
space station what are we going to do

700
00:31:01,029 --> 00:30:59,120
and we have a system we've got a really

701
00:31:02,870 --> 00:31:01,039
big space station and the first thing we

702
00:31:04,389 --> 00:31:02,880
do is actually make sure we're all safe

703
00:31:05,909 --> 00:31:04,399
and then we close one of the hatches in

704
00:31:07,909 --> 00:31:05,919
the middle and we figure out which half

705
00:31:09,830 --> 00:31:07,919
is leaking and then within that half we

706
00:31:11,430 --> 00:31:09,840
figure out which part is leaking and

707
00:31:13,830 --> 00:31:11,440
while we do that we always make sure

708
00:31:15,669 --> 00:31:13,840
that we can get to our rescue ship which

709
00:31:17,350 --> 00:31:15,679
is always attached to the space station

710
00:31:19,029 --> 00:31:17,360
so we practice those kinds of things and

711
00:31:20,789 --> 00:31:19,039
the same goes for fire and other

712
00:31:27,110 --> 00:31:20,799
emergencies that happen up here and we

713
00:31:31,110 --> 00:31:28,630
i'm sean rodriguez from stem middle

714
00:31:32,549 --> 00:31:31,120
academy and my question is if

715
00:31:38,470 --> 00:31:32,559
if you can go anywhere in space where

716
00:31:42,389 --> 00:31:40,389
if i could go anywhere in space i'll

717
00:31:44,710 --> 00:31:42,399
tell you i'm very happy just orbiting

718
00:31:47,350 --> 00:31:44,720
the earth like i am 16 times a day i

719
00:31:48,870 --> 00:31:47,360
mean i just love being up here but if i

720
00:31:50,950 --> 00:31:48,880
could go to other places i think i would

721
00:31:52,870 --> 00:31:50,960
go to mars you know as soon as i could

722
00:31:55,190 --> 00:31:52,880
because that's the planet that we think

723
00:31:56,950 --> 00:31:55,200
is the most like earth the one where we

724
00:32:00,470 --> 00:31:56,960
think that people could actually you

725
00:32:02,070 --> 00:32:00,480
know make a new home and be you know be

726
00:32:03,669 --> 00:32:02,080
living in a different part of our

727
00:32:06,310 --> 00:32:03,679
universe so i would go there as soon as

728
00:32:07,830 --> 00:32:06,320
i could but i know that before i do that

729
00:32:09,590 --> 00:32:07,840
i want it to be safe i want to

730
00:32:11,350 --> 00:32:09,600
understand that i'm going to get in a

731
00:32:12,549 --> 00:32:11,360
spaceship that's going to get there i

732
00:32:14,789 --> 00:32:12,559
want to understand that i'm going to be

733
00:32:16,470 --> 00:32:14,799
able to come home once i've been there

734
00:32:17,909 --> 00:32:16,480
and i want to understand that i can live

735
00:32:19,350 --> 00:32:17,919
safely there so that's the kinds of

736
00:32:21,190 --> 00:32:19,360
things we're doing up here on the space

737
00:32:28,389 --> 00:32:21,200
station and also down on the earth we

738
00:32:33,750 --> 00:32:31,669
hi my name is victor figueroa and do you

739
00:32:35,590 --> 00:32:33,760
think the space program would be

740
00:32:40,789 --> 00:32:35,600
different if we hadn't landed on the

741
00:32:44,470 --> 00:32:42,789
victor i i do think it would be

742
00:32:47,990 --> 00:32:44,480
different because

743
00:32:48,950 --> 00:32:48,000
somehow when people left our planet

744
00:32:51,990 --> 00:32:48,960
and then

745
00:32:53,990 --> 00:32:52,000
flew to the moon landed on the moon and

746
00:32:56,149 --> 00:32:54,000
could come back and tell us about it and

747
00:32:58,870 --> 00:32:56,159
had pictures and video to show that they

748
00:33:01,110 --> 00:32:58,880
were really there i think it it just

749
00:33:02,870 --> 00:33:01,120
affected us as people we realized that

750
00:33:04,630 --> 00:33:02,880
no matter how much we think that our

751
00:33:06,789 --> 00:33:04,640
everyday life is right here on earth we

752
00:33:08,789 --> 00:33:06,799
realize that we live in a huge

753
00:33:11,269 --> 00:33:08,799
neighborhood we live in a universe and

754
00:33:12,549 --> 00:33:11,279
our earth is one tiny little part of

755
00:33:15,269 --> 00:33:12,559
that universe

756
00:33:17,509 --> 00:33:15,279
and we were meant to find out what else

757
00:33:19,830 --> 00:33:17,519
is out there so i think that the fact

758
00:33:21,909 --> 00:33:19,840
that we landed on the moon gave people

759
00:33:24,149 --> 00:33:21,919
the courage to be really sure about the

760
00:33:27,029 --> 00:33:24,159
fact that they were saying let's go

761
00:33:29,590 --> 00:33:27,039
further let's invent spacecraft let's

762
00:33:31,750 --> 00:33:29,600
invent life support systems and let's

763
00:33:32,630 --> 00:33:31,760
let's you know make sure that people are

764
00:33:35,590 --> 00:33:32,640
ready

765
00:33:37,990 --> 00:33:35,600
for when they grow up to be adults to

766
00:33:39,669 --> 00:33:38,000
come and and go to other places and the

767
00:33:41,110 --> 00:33:39,679
fact that all of you today are asking

768
00:33:46,230 --> 00:33:41,120
these kinds of questions you're getting

769
00:33:50,870 --> 00:33:48,710
okay let's go ahead

770
00:33:52,470 --> 00:33:50,880
good morning katie my name is paul revel

771
00:33:53,990 --> 00:33:52,480
i'm secretary of education for the

772
00:33:55,669 --> 00:33:54,000
commonwealth of massachusetts and on

773
00:33:57,909 --> 00:33:55,679
behalf of governor deval patrick number

774
00:33:59,509 --> 00:33:57,919
one i want to thank you for being such a

775
00:34:00,870 --> 00:33:59,519
great role model and such a great

776
00:34:02,950 --> 00:34:00,880
teacher in the way you've responded to

777
00:34:04,549 --> 00:34:02,960
students questions today i have the

778
00:34:05,909 --> 00:34:04,559
honor of asking the last question i have

779
00:34:07,269 --> 00:34:05,919
a question i'm supposed to ask and then

780
00:34:09,190 --> 00:34:07,279
i have a question i want to ask so i'm

781
00:34:10,869 --> 00:34:09,200
going to ask two questions and take that

782
00:34:12,869 --> 00:34:10,879
prerogative the first question is the

783
00:34:15,909 --> 00:34:12,879
scientific question why does the space

784
00:34:18,710 --> 00:34:15,919
station orbit 200 miles from earth just

785
00:34:20,389 --> 00:34:18,720
200 miles from earth the second is

786
00:34:22,710 --> 00:34:20,399
what would be your advice to these

787
00:34:25,030 --> 00:34:22,720
students as they think about careers in

788
00:34:26,710 --> 00:34:25,040
stem how to pursue their education what

789
00:34:28,550 --> 00:34:26,720
was important in your educational

790
00:34:33,270 --> 00:34:28,560
experience how what advice would you

791
00:34:36,869 --> 00:34:35,430
okay you know um i did get some of these

792
00:34:38,470 --> 00:34:36,879
questions in advance and i saw your

793
00:34:41,109 --> 00:34:38,480
question i thought you know i don't know

794
00:34:43,030 --> 00:34:41,119
if i exactly know the answer to why why

795
00:34:46,550 --> 00:34:43,040
are we 200 miles above the earth and not

796
00:34:49,190 --> 00:34:46,560
300 or 400 or 100 and i think that it's

797
00:34:51,109 --> 00:34:49,200
a balance between you know the further

798
00:34:53,669 --> 00:34:51,119
away from the earth we go the more fuel

799
00:34:55,109 --> 00:34:53,679
it takes to get there and to stay there

800
00:34:56,869 --> 00:34:55,119
because even though we know we're up in

801
00:34:59,990 --> 00:34:56,879
space orbiting around we're actually

802
00:35:01,910 --> 00:35:00,000
always spiraling back down to the earth

803
00:35:03,829 --> 00:35:01,920
you know that's we're actually always in

804
00:35:05,270 --> 00:35:03,839
a path to end up landing on the earth

805
00:35:08,310 --> 00:35:05,280
it's just it's going to take a really

806
00:35:10,550 --> 00:35:08,320
really long time and so um the the

807
00:35:12,390 --> 00:35:10,560
reason i think we picked 200 miles is

808
00:35:15,030 --> 00:35:12,400
that it's it's it's basically what our

809
00:35:16,550 --> 00:35:15,040
spaceships can carry in terms of fuel in

810
00:35:18,630 --> 00:35:16,560
order to get us up here and actually

811
00:35:20,630 --> 00:35:18,640
have enough fuel to keep giving us that

812
00:35:23,109 --> 00:35:20,640
extra speed just to stay up here and not

813
00:35:24,310 --> 00:35:23,119
be falling back to the earth

814
00:35:26,630 --> 00:35:24,320
but you might want to check that answer

815
00:35:29,030 --> 00:35:26,640
because that's just my best instinct

816
00:35:31,109 --> 00:35:29,040
now your second question about what i

817
00:35:32,870 --> 00:35:31,119
would tell um

818
00:35:35,190 --> 00:35:32,880
you know kids that are interested in in

819
00:35:37,030 --> 00:35:35,200
science and technology i mean first of

820
00:35:39,750 --> 00:35:37,040
all i think they're doing exactly the

821
00:35:41,589 --> 00:35:39,760
right thing today by having the courage

822
00:35:43,589 --> 00:35:41,599
to ask their questions even though they

823
00:35:45,510 --> 00:35:43,599
might think that maybe their silly

824
00:35:47,349 --> 00:35:45,520
questions or maybe everybody knows the

825
00:35:49,030 --> 00:35:47,359
answer to that question but them they're

826
00:35:50,550 --> 00:35:49,040
having the courage to stand up and ask

827
00:35:53,270 --> 00:35:50,560
their questions and i think that's

828
00:35:55,670 --> 00:35:53,280
really important to do and it's a hard

829
00:35:57,910 --> 00:35:55,680
thing to do so i congratulate all of you

830
00:36:00,630 --> 00:35:57,920
for doing that today and i encourage you

831
00:36:02,390 --> 00:36:00,640
to do it tomorrow and the next day and

832
00:36:03,910 --> 00:36:02,400
then day after that too

833
00:36:05,109 --> 00:36:03,920
and don't just you know wait until

834
00:36:07,030 --> 00:36:05,119
you're talking to somebody who's up on

835
00:36:09,430 --> 00:36:07,040
the space station again if you have a

836
00:36:10,950 --> 00:36:09,440
question for an adult about their job do

837
00:36:12,870 --> 00:36:10,960
they like their job what's the most

838
00:36:14,950 --> 00:36:12,880
interesting thing about their job what

839
00:36:16,470 --> 00:36:14,960
do they hate about their job what would

840
00:36:17,750 --> 00:36:16,480
they change in their job if they could

841
00:36:20,150 --> 00:36:17,760
change anything

842
00:36:21,829 --> 00:36:20,160
as kids it is your job to ask those

843
00:36:23,109 --> 00:36:21,839
questions because it gets you ready for

844
00:36:25,030 --> 00:36:23,119
the future

845
00:36:27,349 --> 00:36:25,040
and the last thing i would tell you is

846
00:36:28,710 --> 00:36:27,359
that there's all sorts of different

847
00:36:32,630 --> 00:36:28,720
aspects of

848
00:36:34,950 --> 00:36:32,640
becoming a new engineer or scientist or

849
00:36:38,710 --> 00:36:34,960
mathematician any of those things and in

850
00:36:41,670 --> 00:36:38,720
fact any career languages art music all

851
00:36:44,470 --> 00:36:41,680
those things some people have a gift at

852
00:36:46,470 --> 00:36:44,480
some part of that okay but other parts

853
00:36:50,150 --> 00:36:46,480
of it are going to be hard for them for

854
00:36:52,470 --> 00:36:50,160
example for me i like math okay and i'm

855
00:36:54,230 --> 00:36:52,480
probably pretty good at math and i love

856
00:36:55,750 --> 00:36:54,240
chemistry i mean to me it's just

857
00:36:57,510 --> 00:36:55,760
interesting and sometimes i know the

858
00:36:59,109 --> 00:36:57,520
answer even if i don't even really know

859
00:37:01,270 --> 00:36:59,119
how i know the answer

860
00:37:03,750 --> 00:37:01,280
i will tell you that physics is really

861
00:37:05,990 --> 00:37:03,760
hard for me i have to think hard about

862
00:37:08,950 --> 00:37:06,000
every single thing it doesn't exactly

863
00:37:11,190 --> 00:37:08,960
make sense to me it's not the way that i

864
00:37:12,390 --> 00:37:11,200
think now does that mean that physics is

865
00:37:14,550 --> 00:37:12,400
not for me

866
00:37:16,390 --> 00:37:14,560
it doesn't it means that physics is

867
00:37:18,390 --> 00:37:16,400
harder for me and i have to work harder

868
00:37:20,069 --> 00:37:18,400
at physics and so

869
00:37:22,069 --> 00:37:20,079
when you're doing something in the

870
00:37:23,430 --> 00:37:22,079
classroom and it's easy for your friend

871
00:37:25,829 --> 00:37:23,440
sitting next to you but it's a little

872
00:37:26,790 --> 00:37:25,839
harder for you don't think oh this isn't

873
00:37:28,550 --> 00:37:26,800
for me

874
00:37:30,790 --> 00:37:28,560
realize that everybody is good at

875
00:37:33,510 --> 00:37:30,800
different things and some things we have

876
00:37:35,829 --> 00:37:33,520
to work harder at and especially realize

877
00:37:38,310 --> 00:37:35,839
that when you do work hard at it you're

878
00:37:40,710 --> 00:37:38,320
going to get it that practice is really

879
00:37:43,270 --> 00:37:40,720
going to make perfect perfect and if you

880
00:37:44,870 --> 00:37:43,280
learn things step to step step by step

881
00:37:46,710 --> 00:37:44,880
you're going to know just as much as

882
00:37:49,750 --> 00:37:46,720
your friend next door who maybe knew it

883
00:37:51,829 --> 00:37:49,760
a little faster so believe in yourselves

884
00:37:53,670 --> 00:37:51,839
and believe that you can be anything and

885
00:37:56,470 --> 00:37:53,680
you can do any of the things that you'd

886
00:37:58,230 --> 00:37:56,480
like to do but you need to be prepared

887
00:38:00,230 --> 00:37:58,240
it's not just going to happen you're

888
00:38:01,829 --> 00:38:00,240
going to have to do the work and i think

889
00:38:03,270 --> 00:38:01,839
that today you've made a good start at

890
00:38:04,630 --> 00:38:03,280
that by asking some really great

891
00:38:06,470 --> 00:38:04,640
questions

892
00:38:09,349 --> 00:38:06,480
station this is houston acr that

893
00:38:11,510 --> 00:38:09,359
concludes the event thank you

894
00:38:13,349 --> 00:38:11,520
thank you wgby tv and springfield

895
00:38:14,550 --> 00:38:13,359
technical community college station we