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all right as you know we've been

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following astronaut katie coleman's

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journey to space this past year she's

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station now for almost four months and

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we want to find out what it's like up

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there so katie joins us now live from

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the international space station

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220 miles above the earth along with

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commander dmitry kondratyev flight

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engineers paolo nespali ron gayran andre

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borosenko and alexander samokutya thank

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you for joining us it's great to see you

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uh katie you you welcomed on uh

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wednesday evening i don't know how you

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guys keep time up there but on wednesday

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evening you welcome some new guests uh

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to the international space station tell

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us about that and how it's going up

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they're so excited about being here and

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it reminds us of all the things that are

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just unique looking out the window

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floating and uh and just loving every

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my next question is to flight engineer

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ron garan i want to ask you

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about a warning that we heard last week

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that the you know headlines maybe there

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was a piece of space junk that you guys

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at first nasa warned of a potential

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evacuation but clearly nothing nothing

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came of that you get a little nervous up

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well no we've got many people on the

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they keep us advised when anything gets

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if something gets too close or if need

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katie i want to ask you about this uh

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flute duet that we we saw a little bit

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of our viewers saw a little bit of we'll

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recently made history by playing the

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first ever space earth flute duet you

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tull this is fascinating i don't know

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how you work that all out but tell us

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the the bass track you know the sort of

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first space shuttle launch what does it

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the human kind kind of leap forward

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fascinating and all these countries up

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here on the station but also and uh

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overall underground can work together

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boundaries and societies and pushes us

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for work and their kids are no different

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explore further and further into the

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solar system and that's what you know

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the future doing and just as you said

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world it'll be commonplace and so

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good well you guys stay safe up there

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great talking to you ron katie paolo

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dimitri andre and alexander good luck up

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great thank you

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um so my first question is for everyone

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it's sort of a big picture question

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bolden the national administrator will

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announce which museums the shuttles will

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and talk about your role in the space

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that it seems a little bit normal to us

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almost addicting and just a tangible

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you're in the middle of doing something

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and you're missing pieces and you cannot

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find things anymore suddenly you have uh

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i mean you have something one moment and

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you don't find it anymore and of course

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on the ground you can hear them falling

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on the floor here you don't hear

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anything they just float away and they

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disappear

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it's kind of funny because you know you

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don't see them you look around cannot

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find them and then five minutes later

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you turn around and it's sitting here

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this

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here besides you and you've been looking

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for it for 15 minutes

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um another thing uh very quickly we we

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we had a table here and where we

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would eat all together uh and and we had

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we had a problem because the table was

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kind of put in a flat position and we

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cannot all fit and it took us really uh

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several weeks before we figured out that

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we could tilt the table and make it

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almost vertical so it's in front of us

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because here things don't fall off the

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table they just stay there actually you

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have to you have to velcro them to the

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table otherwise they don't stay at all

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and and this concept here takes time

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before it settles in but when it settles

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the next question is for catherine

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coleman you're coming back to earth next

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month have you thought about what you'll

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well i would say no you know i've been

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so involved in being here and besides

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just getting back to my family and

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uh you know seeing my son and my husband

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and and

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maybe just uh asparagus season in

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massachusetts i'm looking forward to i

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hadn't really thought really further

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past the debriefings that we do when we

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get home we we like to take a lot of

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notes and

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and try to think of things that could

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make getting ready for the space station

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more efficient or even operating the

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space station more efficient and when we

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come home we spend several weeks

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actually talking with all the different

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disciplines about what our experience

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was really like because that's one of

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the challenges that we have up here is

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that we have our own little world but

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often it's hard to communicate what life

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is really up like for us to the people

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on the ground who are actually

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organizing our life and directing all

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the tasks that need to be done and so

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our job is to communicate to them you

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know what life is like so that they can

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most effectively

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give us the plan because they're the

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ones who have the knowledge to make the

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plan

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will you be looking to sign up for

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i would i would love another trip to iss

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and i'm actually not you said a month i

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thought oh no only a month i'm just not

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quite ready to come home

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okay

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um this is for ron garan i know he got

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there but i guess the same question

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we'll be looking to another trip on the

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to iss do something else in nasa or look

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yeah well i i just got here so you

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probably need to ask me in about five

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months but i i think what my answer will

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be is if i'm needed to i think you know

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we've got a long list of people who

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haven't had this experience yet so

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uh if if there was a need for me to do

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it certainly i would i would

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love to do that again but i also you

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know we need to we need to spread the

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given that there's no longer going to be

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shuttle and there's fewer people going

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to the station

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or into space i do you still encourage

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yeah i um you know we do a lot of

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speaking to um to various groups

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including a lot of children and you know

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what i always tell them is to to

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that they can achieve whatever it is

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they set their mind to and if that is

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you know to become an astronaut then

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yeah of course and you know we are

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retiring the space shuttle but we are

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going to have something down the line we

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are going to continue we're not giving

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up on exploration there's always going

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to be uh somewhere to explore there's

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always going to be a need for that and

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if if you know kids have you know they

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naturally have that you know exploration

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mindset and so you know that's something

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that we can it should encourage and we

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should nurture and you know hopefully

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they carry that through their adulthood

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um if if they would like to to become

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astronauts that's certainly within the

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realm of possibilities

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okay uh this is my last question and for

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anyone and everyone

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what will you miss most when you leave

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now i i will miss the the floating and

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just uh as paulo was explaining you know

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learning to adapt to this environment

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and and just uh how to get from place to

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place uh you know when we're first here

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we sort of grab onto things and move

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ourselves around and once we get used to

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the place then it just takes the touch

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of a finger to send you directly to

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where you want to go and and it's just

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this delicious you know fascinating

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feeling like peter peter pan and i will

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miss uh just

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living and sort of moving in in a unique

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great thank you all