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mesa verde elementary school space

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endeavor this is genie khan

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representing mesa verde do you how do

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you read

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yeah we we've got you

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loud and clear i think there might be a

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little bit of a delay it's great to have

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you here on board space shuttle

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endeavour

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with us

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it's a beautiful day here in space as

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always the earth looks

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great and i'm glad you guys could get

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together to talk to us today

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this is foster hepler the principal of

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mesa verde we are ready to begin

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all right why don't we start off with uh

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some some questions i

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uh we got a little bit of a preview and

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you guys lined up some good questions

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for us

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hi my name is sydney enos and my

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question is how long does it take to get

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well we go from zero to seventeen

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thousand five hundred miles an hour

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in just eight minutes and 20 seconds

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and when those main engines start it's

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going a thousand miles an hour

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and it's incredible the amount of thrust

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and then we get into orbit pretty

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quickly and we're hundreds of miles up

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into space going really really fast

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hi my name is katie

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and my question is

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what is the most interesting or exciting

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thing you've ever seen in space

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oh hey katie

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yes just yesterday i was outside the

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space station and i could see stars i

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could see the moon but the most exciting

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thing i i've seen while i was up here is

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planet earth we have such a beautiful

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amazing wonderful planet from space we

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can see all the continents we can see

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rivers we can even see cities and roads

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it's really amazing

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hi my name is jake rocky and my question

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is do you need any type of military

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training to go up in space

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hi jake i'm in the united states navy

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and mike here is in the u.s air force

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um the rest of our crew

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half about half of us are in the

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military and half are not so to answer

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your question absolutely not you do not

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need to be in the military to be an

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astronaut though in my case and in

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mike's that that worked out well for us

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thank you for your question

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hello my name is ashley jake and my

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question is why do you have to wear the

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whole spacesuit not just a helmet

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all right it sounds like ashley ashley

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it turns out there's no air in space

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that's why you need air to breathe but

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did you know that the atmosphere also

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puts pressure on our bodies and uh if we

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go out into space without a spacesuit on

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we blow up like a balloon

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and uh that would not be very good for

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us so we have to wear an entire we have

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to wear an entire spacesuit when we go

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hello my name is damon brightman and my

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who decides the destination of the space

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in space and where has it all been

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bring satellites and payloads up and

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down into earth orbit and sometimes

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bring them home

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we currently are at the international

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space station which is where the space

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shuttle visits most of the time it's

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also been to the hubble space telescope

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it's retrieved satellites in orbit and

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delivered others but as far as

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destinations are concerned i'd say

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pretty much the international space

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hello my name is owen bakker and my

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space station without blowing away

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well owen that's actually uh really

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tricky if you're in space and weightless

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and uh you're you want to float away you

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really do so what we do is we have some

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techniques you know where we learn how

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stay in one place we also have these

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things all throughout the shuttle and

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the space station and they we call them

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handrails but we usually use them for

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our feet so right now you can't see it

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but i'm standing under two stirrups

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so that it looks like i'm standing up

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my name is sophia sanchez and my

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question is how fast does the space

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shuttle go

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hi sophia that's a very good question

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500 miles an hour around the planet we

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see a sunrise or a sunset

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yesterday it's in the vacuum of space so

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there's no air flowing by so even though

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you're really going fast it's not like

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sticking your arm out the window of the

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hi my name is brenna loving and my

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what is the longest amount of time

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international space station twice for

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two six months missions so i've been in

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space for about a year

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my my name is mayonna mosey and my

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question is how do you brush your teeth

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in space

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is one of the few things that we do just

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so we just brush our teeth and we spit

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kleenex and then we throw the kleenex

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just the same and brushing teeth is

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important for you guys as well for as

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hello my name is brayden matazawa and

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come to admire your classmate christina

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green very much i've learned a lot about

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her and when i was

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christina's age it's when apollo

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remember watching that on tv

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anything strange or odd flying around in

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space or old things like space junk and

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the planet there are things that are

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going even faster above us and we really

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don't see them now and then we might see

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a small flash but they're so small

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and the planet it's really hard to see

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them so up here we don't think there's

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some things that are out there but we

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hi my name is nolan and my question is

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it feels a lot different and then

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rockets light and you're pushed back in

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really super exciting i mean every time

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i launch into space i'm just so excited

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hello my name is trevor crabb

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my question is who decides who gets to

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the the people above her actually you

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mission uh whether it's a space shuttle

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and uh i can't say that i've ever seen

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anything strange but that's a good

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new things and i haven't seen anything

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strange personally i don't think anybody

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of the space station it started

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50 million particles stayed on 50

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what is the makeup of the universe what

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where do they come from and it's

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so we're hoping to learn after a number

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of years with this experiment operating

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on the space station we're hoping to

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learn a lot about the origin of the

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my my name is kaylen hoff

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and my question is can you tell which

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country or continent has the most air

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hey caitlin the

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space program has been really helpful

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for human beings to understand what uh

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what's going on with our own planet

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that means that uh not just the space

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station and the space shuttle but other

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satellites have been able to tell us

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what's going on with our rivers and our

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oceans and our land maps aboard the

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space station and the space shuttle

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things like wildfires and things like

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that so it's pretty amazing what you can

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see up here and when you know about

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something then you can do things to help

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my name is tessa my question is how can

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well astronaut it's great that you it

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sounds like you want to be an astronaut

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and the best thing you could do

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school felt mike and i paid attention

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while we were in class and did our

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homework and worked really hard and

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tried to go to the best university that

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we could he even went to mit and

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stanford but i you don't have to do that

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i didn't i didn't go to

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a school like that but it really

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is worth your time

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to work really really hard and do your

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hello my name is michael gunderson and

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can you see or study a black hole from

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the space station

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hey michael and a really good question

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from the space station uh thank goodness

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we really can't see black holes because

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that means we'd be too close and we run

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into a lot of trouble

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so uh what i think

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what we can do though is with the

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things like the alpha magnetic

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spectrometer which is a really neat

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particle detector we can

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learn things about black holes and the

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rest of the universe the hubble space

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telescope which was delivered by the

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space shuttle it also uh was able to

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help us understand black holes a lot

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better because even 50 or 60 years ago

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we just knew that there should be black

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holes but we had no idea if they really

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existed so there's a whole bunch of new

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well mesa verde it was a great for me to

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have this opportunity to be with you

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today and answer your questions

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my wife congresswoman giffords is from

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tucson arizona i spend a lot a lot of

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time there and i'm a big fan of tucson i

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have the arizona wildcat shirt i didn't

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have a mesa verde elementary school

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shirt but what i do have is

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i have your yearbook

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uh the mesa verde mountain lions 2010

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2011 with me here in space and i'll get

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a picture of this with the earth in the

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background and hopefully i can bring it

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back and hand deliver it to your school

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just opening up

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the page here to

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honoring christina green and it's a very

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nice yearbook and mike and i

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just signed it in the back and i'll get

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my other crew members and the space

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station crew members to sign it and then

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we'll we'll send it back to you

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again it was really great to be with you

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uh at mesa verde today and i hope to see

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you soon

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endeavor this is houston acr that

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concludes the event

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thank you mesa verde elementary school

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endeavor we are now resuming operational

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audio communications thanks for taking