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and um there's a few more nasa people

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here from washington and we're just

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waiting on them and we will get in the

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van and uh head to the hotel here in a

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and a lot of people right now okay so

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you guys are adcoz right yes that's

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correct attitude determination and

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are you impressed that i actually knew

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that i'm a little bit impressed yeah uh

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so tell people what that actually is

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what is it what do you do you're

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stationed right station flight okay so

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we work for the international space

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station what the attitude officer does

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is that we control how the space

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station's oriented as it orbits around

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the earth so you get to point the thing

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exactly right

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is that intimidating sometimes

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redundant and so a lot of times it just

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flies itself and we use

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gyroscopes and thrusters to uh maintain

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the attitude so what are you guys doing

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land the soyuz landings what are you

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doing um we're here actually to fly the

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during the shuttle missions it gets a

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lot more complex because you've added a

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the station exactly and so

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we find it's easier to talk face-to-face

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working directly over the phones or over

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the loops of your interpreters because

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there's a lot of coordination that has

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and the team here in moscow there's a

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lot of coordination so we spend most of

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something we've never done before so

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this one but we'll do it

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flawlessly it's gonna be fine it's gonna

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all right where are we heading we're

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going to the esa office in moscow the

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european space agency correct

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meeting right we're going to talk about

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with some showers and nice between

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heartlake and coastal you might have to

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muddy over there but some of the ground

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the spacecraft lands you see the the

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from the vehicle because that hatch will

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video camera almost got hit by the hatch

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hey everybody it's day four here in

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saturday right now you saw our landing

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team meeting with the nasa personnel

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that we had day before yesterday so all

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that went off uh fine we got our safety

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over here about what to do what not to

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star city which of course is where the

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cosmonauts and the astronauts train

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whatever they're part of these

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expeditions we're going to meet up with

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jessica's gone that we will head down to

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lot of his images back that's when you

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the landing sites were appropriate for

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the nasa team has received their

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helicopter assignments they're prepared

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control center houston they've

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coordinated with the other partner

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mission controls and all the michigan

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right and then tomorrow morning bright

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yes how many of these have you done

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it's always an adventure isn't it it's

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chilly that's what i did snow was

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it was a very very poor visibility so

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about this landing is that we're going

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to get some pretty unusual pictures of

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the space station with the shuttle

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actually attached so how cool is that

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going to be it's great you know we've

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been waiting for years to get that

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opportunity and we weren't really sure

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that we would we've been studying this

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uh dual doc ops which was what we call

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it but really to watch the soyuz back

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while the shuttle's still there

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and uh we've studied it for quite a

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while knew that we could do it just the

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opportunity didn't present itself and

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we finally got the chance and so i'm

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beautiful pictures with the shuttle

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is that a 134 that is 1734 man you are

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supporting the home crowd aren't you

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gentlemen would you like a picture

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kirk has a

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gigantic bag

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what's in that

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what's in this i could tell you but i'd

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so you're staying behind while we go

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tromp around i am i'm going to stay here

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at the lovely cosmonaut hotel in

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karaganda by the city it's a it's a nice

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hotel it's a beautiful hotel

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they've got great food here so how long

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now since january of 2010.

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has it been over a year already

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that is i'm sorry how long a year that's

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that year it's a year yeah it's been

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over here it's been almost a year and a

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half are you enjoying it yeah having a

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really good time so you're speaking

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the kids are doing really well like i

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kind of i kind of get by

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and practice a little bit i'm not afraid

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to make a fool of myself which is a very

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important trait when you're over here

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trying to speak russian otherwise you'll

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never venture out but uh

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but the kids are in uh russian schools

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so uh they've been like an immersion and

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they're almost fluent adapting like

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crazy yeah yeah it's embarrassing when

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you're seven-year-old almost

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seven-year-old is correcting you cannot

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speak here you haven't asked what what

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did you say yeah and she goes i can't

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tell you i can't help you

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so how different is doing this over here

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than being the commander of shuttle and

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oh goodness gracious i mean totally

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different i i i'm really enjoying it uh

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i i know people think that uh all

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astronauts want to do is fly all the

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time which maybe for some is true but i

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mean i enjoy a change of pace

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and uh it's really a great environment

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for the family and it's special to go

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ahead and do this and it's really a lot

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of fun to go ahead and watch

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all the astronauts that are coming out

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for training as they go through their

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flows to get them out the door to get

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them down the bike or to watch them

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launch to watch them when they come back

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after their landings and it's a really

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rewarding thing and especially you know

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in the office

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um it's always been the case we're kind

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of you're used to seeing a certain group

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of astronauts because of how your jobs

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all line up

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and so there's a whole other group of

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astronauts that you barely see

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and so now i'm seeing a lot of the folks

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that i normally wouldn't see that much

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of as they go through the station flow

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and so i get to spend more time with

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them so it's been really a lot of fun

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because the training flow's like what

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two years it's about two years yeah

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pretty pretty close to doing that but

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between when they start their language

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training for immersion and they start

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coming because there's a lot of travel

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especially for those that are going

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through his left cedars and the soyuz

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because there's so much more additional

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training to get them ready to fly the

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vehicle so some of them spent a long

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it's going to be under high temperature

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so they ask you not to move during the

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if there are any issues please talk to

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and please do not get off the vehicle

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have a nice fight

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this aircraft is equipped with two

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emergency exits

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one thing you have to have on these

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so there's our ride for today this is

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the russian mi-8 helicopter there's

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going to be uh i think 12

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supporting the landing today

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there's usually about i think anywhere

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between six and ten of us that ride

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in these choppers out to the landing

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site but

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of course we came down

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last night down to the city jessica's

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gone we spent a very short night here

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everybody got up at about

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4 30 or 5 o'clock this morning and

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part of our team went ahead and went

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down to the ballistic site

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which is where the capsule would land if

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it comes in a bit steeper than normally

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planned so they went ahead and left and

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that's actually who's leaving right now

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over there

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so they're going to take off and then

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we're going to be airborne

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usually around the time that

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we get confirmation that the orbit burn

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has taken place so

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everything's pretty much

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ready to go it's actually a nice day out

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here it

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can get pretty cold out here

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in kazakhstan but today i think it's

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supposed to be in the 70s

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and

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everything's everything's all set all

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right steve hart you are

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katie's flight surgeon so they say so

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exactly how many pounds of supplies are

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you having to carry

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uh i try not to think about it

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it's probably

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probably about 35.

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now talk a little bit about what exactly

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you guys will do once the landing takes

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place you go and you check the crew just

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make sure they're feeling okay yeah um

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ideally our job is maytag repair manage

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and that we uh you know we're able to

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just stand back and observe the crew

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member

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the russians are very thorough in what

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they do as far as immediately taking

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care of folks monitoring

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blood pressure and pulses and such

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and i'm happy if i can just stand back

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and eyeball my crew member and see that

378
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i need to get involved i mean typically

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that doesn't happen until we get into

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the tent

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that's when the time when the suit comes

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off and we're able to do to do a more

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thorough assessment and

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if we need to use medications uh

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usually injections of fenergan

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medications like that for anti-nausea or

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if it gets more it's more uh involved

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then we end up having to put in ivs for

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fluid support and in general that's um

390
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you know if it's been a safe phenomenal

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landing

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that's all we're up against

393
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how hard is it actually to diagnose a

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patient that's actually up in space i

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mean you can't actually you know

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see them touch them you know like a

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normal doctor would so what kind of

398
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challenges is that um it's very

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difficult in

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in the ways that doctors usually trained

401
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i was

402
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educated as a neurologist and that's a

403
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field where there's a whole lot of

404
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hands-on and a lot of

405
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a lot of information you get from

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talking to the patient in the form of

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history is helpful so

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um for our crew members

409
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usually we're limited to emails three

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times a day at best and then if we're

411
00:17:05,750 --> 00:17:02,720
lucky we get phone calls on the cell

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as far as being able to lay hands on it

413
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we rely on other crew members on board

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to

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tell us what they feel or see

416
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and i spend a lot of time looking at

417
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images and there's quite a bit of

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imagery coming down from on board so

419
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it's high resolution high definition

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imagery so i'm able to get in there and

421
00:17:26,549 --> 00:17:25,439
see things and ask crew members later on

422
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about the

423
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bruised finger or

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scratch here or something like that

425
00:17:33,190 --> 00:17:32,080
usually they've forgotten how it even

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happened

427
00:17:35,510 --> 00:17:34,320
now one thing i think people don't

428
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realize that you're carrying a very

429
00:17:40,870 --> 00:17:36,960
important document which is katie's

430
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she can't don't leave home without it

431
00:17:48,549 --> 00:17:47,270
i uh technically it's an entry into the

432
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country so they've actually got to do

433
00:17:53,029 --> 00:17:51,280
customs paperwork and exit yeah exactly

434
00:17:54,470 --> 00:17:53,039
exactly

435
00:17:58,150 --> 00:17:54,480
so talk how many cameras you actually

436
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carry uh two take two cameras that's it

437
00:18:01,430 --> 00:18:00,080
you got two arms man but how many but

438
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you take a lot for launch though because

439
00:18:06,390 --> 00:18:03,120
you've got the remotes it's like a lot

440
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so how many of these have you done

441
00:18:11,669 --> 00:18:10,559
uh i don't know more than you can count

442
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uh

443
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i think every american landing except

444
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for one perhaps

445
00:18:17,430 --> 00:18:16,400
i think a lot of people don't realize

446
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that you know you don't simply just

447
00:18:20,870 --> 00:18:19,520
point the camera out of the window and

448
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take the shot that you guys because

449
00:18:25,110 --> 00:18:23,280
you're on the media helicopter with the

450
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associated press reuters whoever else

451
00:18:28,470 --> 00:18:26,799
comes out here

452
00:18:30,789 --> 00:18:28,480
and they actually open up the door for

453
00:18:32,470 --> 00:18:30,799
you guys and they strap you in and you

454
00:18:34,310 --> 00:18:32,480
literally basically you've already get

455
00:18:35,750 --> 00:18:34,320
your harness there you go furnace stuff

456
00:18:37,830 --> 00:18:35,760
you actually lean out and take the

457
00:18:40,630 --> 00:18:37,840
picture right yeah just a little bit how

458
00:18:42,789 --> 00:18:40,640
do you keep it still i mean seriously uh

459
00:18:46,150 --> 00:18:42,799
just a high shutter speed and

460
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stabilizer and a little bit of praying

461
00:18:48,710 --> 00:18:47,679
and once it lands your job's not done

462
00:18:50,950 --> 00:18:48,720
because you still have to take a ton of

463
00:18:52,150 --> 00:18:50,960
pictures of the crew and the capsule if

464
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we're lucky we'll get on the ground

465
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before the crew has come out and we can

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get over to the capsule and get some

467
00:19:00,549 --> 00:18:58,400
shots of uh them opening the hatch doors

468
00:19:02,710 --> 00:19:00,559
and each crew member coming out

469
00:19:03,990 --> 00:19:02,720
then uh hopefully having a beautiful day

470
00:19:05,590 --> 00:19:04,000
like today they won't be in a hurry to

471
00:19:08,710 --> 00:19:05,600
get inside the tent i imagine they'll

472
00:19:10,870 --> 00:19:08,720
enjoy it outside so unlike last time

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freezing

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sideways so

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and uh first thing i saw last time when

476
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i got off the helicopter was snowmobiles

477
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going by me

478
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it's always a bad sound

479
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so anyway hopefully today they'll sit on

480
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the ground in the chairs a little bit

481
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and then get some shots there and then

482
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them carrying them into the medical tent

483
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where they get their social suits taken

484
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off and uh their flight suits taking off

485
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and

486
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then hopefully they'll start sending

487
00:19:36,230 --> 00:19:34,320
some pictures right away and then you

488
00:19:37,510 --> 00:19:36,240
actually have to write the captions do

489
00:19:39,110 --> 00:19:37,520
everything yeah i've got those kind of

490
00:19:40,470 --> 00:19:39,120
in the bag i'll just modify them a

491
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little bit too

492
00:19:43,350 --> 00:19:41,679
for the pictures well there's no

493
00:19:45,029 --> 00:19:43,360
surprises if some random crew member

494
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comes home or something right

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15.

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so this is what it looks like right

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after soyuz lands you've got a ton of

498
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stuff going on that's the medical tent

499
00:21:50,549 --> 00:21:49,120
right there that they've set up probably

500
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100 yards or so away from where the

501
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soyuz landed

502
00:21:55,669 --> 00:21:53,919
uh the team here is already starting to

503
00:21:59,510 --> 00:21:55,679
uh gather up this

504
00:22:01,350 --> 00:21:59,520
just huge parachute that's on the ground

505
00:22:02,630 --> 00:22:01,360
and then there's the soyuz the guys are

506
00:22:03,990 --> 00:22:02,640
still working on getting the uh the

507
00:22:05,270 --> 00:22:04,000
hatch open they're after taking some

508
00:22:06,310 --> 00:22:05,280
pictures of the crew which is still

509
00:22:08,310 --> 00:22:06,320
inside

510
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um one thing we always try to look at is

511
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exactly how far the soyuz has bounced

512
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and as you can see it hasn't really that

513
00:22:17,750 --> 00:22:15,200
much

514
00:22:19,430 --> 00:22:17,760
and it's also upright

515
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so what i have to do now is actually

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00:22:23,990 --> 00:22:21,679
call into houston

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00:22:27,510 --> 00:22:24,000
and give kind of a live report

518
00:22:31,029 --> 00:22:27,520
on how things look here josh

519
00:22:33,350 --> 00:22:31,039
it looks like a gorgeous day out there

520
00:22:35,110 --> 00:22:33,360
you actually could not ask for

521
00:22:37,270 --> 00:22:35,120
better weather or better operations i

522
00:22:39,190 --> 00:22:37,280
mean this has just been fairly easy from

523
00:22:40,230 --> 00:22:39,200
beginning to end

524
00:22:42,070 --> 00:22:40,240
i mean the weather's probably in the

525
00:22:43,430 --> 00:22:42,080
upper 70s right now

526
00:22:45,590 --> 00:22:43,440
uh you can see they're taking the

527
00:22:46,950 --> 00:22:45,600
commander out now they just uh they just

528
00:22:59,590 --> 00:22:46,960
got him out of the capsule you also

529
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:12,789
we haven't smelled anything in a while

530
00:23:15,029 --> 00:23:14,149
they're moving the crew into the medical

531
00:23:15,909 --> 00:23:15,039
tent now they were out there for

532
00:23:17,830 --> 00:23:15,919
probably

533
00:23:19,830 --> 00:23:17,840
15 minutes we're moving pretty quick

534
00:23:21,350 --> 00:23:19,840
today so we'll go in there and get the

535
00:23:23,350 --> 00:23:21,360
launch suits off put their flight suits

536
00:23:24,470 --> 00:23:23,360
on and then everybody's going to start

537
00:23:27,190 --> 00:23:24,480
getting their helicopter and we're going

538
00:23:29,669 --> 00:23:27,200
to head back to karaganda

539
00:23:59,029 --> 00:23:29,679
and that's how you do that

540
00:24:02,390 --> 00:24:00,950
welcome back to moscow josh thank you

541
00:24:11,990 --> 00:24:02,400
it's been a long day

542
00:24:15,590 --> 00:24:13,510
so you guys you have to take the tapes

543
00:24:17,350 --> 00:24:15,600
now that we actually we're not shooting

544
00:24:20,549 --> 00:24:17,360
on tapes we're shooting on digital now

545
00:24:22,549 --> 00:24:20,559
we are uh at chikawski airfield

546
00:24:24,230 --> 00:24:22,559
uh just about an hour northeast of

547
00:24:27,590 --> 00:24:24,240
moscow where

548
00:24:29,269 --> 00:24:27,600
a lot of the nasa and russian soyuz

549
00:24:32,470 --> 00:24:29,279
landing group have returned from the

550
00:24:34,630 --> 00:24:32,480
city of karaganda where they landed

551
00:24:36,710 --> 00:24:34,640
actually where they flew into after the

552
00:24:39,110 --> 00:24:36,720
soyuz landed it was about a three hour

553
00:24:41,029 --> 00:24:39,120
flight from carraganda back here and

554
00:24:43,750 --> 00:24:41,039
what we're going to be doing in a little

555
00:24:47,110 --> 00:24:43,760
while is transmitting some of the video

556
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that alexei shot in karaganda of the

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welcome ceremony of the expedition 27

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crew

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and uh we did some uh interviews with

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them as well and we don't uh we don't

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uplink from karaganda but what we're

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going to do is get that to a point as

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close as we can here in moscow and send

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that out to nasa tv so we can share that

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with people as quickly as we can and

566
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uh welcome our crew back home and i can

567
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watch it in the video file the nasa tv

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video file which we love oh so much yes

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we do

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you can watch it on nasa tv or at

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www.nasa.gov

572
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ntd hey you could be a commentator

573
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you know every time that you come over

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here and you get to work one of these

575
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soyuz landings or one of the launches

576
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they're all different they all have

577
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different personalities they all have

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different challenges

579
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uh they all have different memories

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but the one thing that i think is the

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common thread through all of it

582
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is that each of us they get to come out

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here and participate in this

584
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uh it's a high honor for us to be able

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to do that uh it is completely different

586
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from the space shuttle and totally

587
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different than the work that we do

588
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on the shuttle and and with those crews

589
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you're a long way from home the uh the

590
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hours are long the work is extremely

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hard

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you're really tired at the end of the

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day but whenever you step back and you

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look at it and you realize that

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you know you're one of the small you're

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part of a small group of people that

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gets to come over here

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and

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also work with

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the uh the russians and also our other

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international partners like the

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europeans and the japanese

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you know you realize that

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you're doing something that you probably

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never thought that you'd be able to do

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whenever you were growing up not

607
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everybody gets to do this

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and to be able to be a part of that team

609
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is something that is pretty remarkable

610
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you know you're getting to go up close

611
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to

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this small capsule that's all charred

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and

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realize it was just docked with the

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international space station just

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you know a few hours ago

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and you get to see the crew as they get

618
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out and they haven't

619
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been on earth in five or six months and

620
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you get to be uh sort of part of the uh

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the welcoming party

622
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i think it's to bring them back home

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and i think that it's something that

624
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each of us that gets to come over here

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and

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do this

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takes pretty seriously