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station this is houston are you ready

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houston we are ready for the event

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abc news radio this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is abc news radio how do

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good morning vic we hear you loud and

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clear how about us

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super good morning mike good morning ron

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well it's good to hear you we wish we

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could see you

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but uh hey we're uh right now we just

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entered into orbital sunrise orbital

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daytime up here right over the great

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about 230 miles up

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it's vic ratner let me ask you without

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the space shuttle to deliver how do you

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handle your shopping list for supplies

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well uh one of the ways we did is is to

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you know think ahead and you know make

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very very good use of our last shuttle

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missions that we had to bring up just a

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tremendous amount of supplies to really

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get us postured for the next 10 years

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up here but we also have other vehicles

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you know this is the international space

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we have a japanese cargo ship we have a

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cargo ships that all have the capability

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i'm still not sure what you do if you

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yeah vic it's a good question

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when the shuttle departed we they left

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us with about a year's worth of food

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that presents more of a storage problem

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short term if we drink up all of a

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certain flavor of coffee we'll get used

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and we are putting together our list of

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things for next available space on ships

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that come up if a certain piece of

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mike how do you compare what you're

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i'd love to go visit those places but in

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we're in a remote location we are not

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the experts in what we do there's a wide

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range of different kinds of experiments

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uh that we're involved with and we're

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not the experts we get involved with

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them we talk to them they see video of

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what we are doing and so and so the

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results are going down to the ground and

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we have them you know literally looking

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over our shoulder as so what are the

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voice actuated

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robots if you will doing the work for

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can you give americans an idea

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what you're doing up there what the

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scientists are doing up there that are

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hey that's a really really good question

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you know we've had a continuous human

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presence onboard the international space

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station for over a decade and over the

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course of that time we have conducted

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over 600 experiments on board and many

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conducted anywhere else this is a very

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very unique environment this

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microgravity environment and it

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research being conducted up here simply

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that this is an incredible global asset

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science-related activities that uh that

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i promise to come back to you on that at

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for now you're also learning about long

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what are you finding out about what long

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is serving as the guinea pigs ourselves

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for bone loss muscle loss and trying

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regimens to uh to maintain our health

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humans will go to mars someday and when

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they get there it's it's a long trip to

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get there and when they do arrive they

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support personnel that are waiting for

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pigs uh and uh and we can do that in the

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six month time frame that we're up here

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medical doctor on board satoshi furkawa

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keep up with the news i mean do you know

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about the stock market cratering

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yesterday did can you check your 401 k

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around now that we've kind of chosen a

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direction at the national level and and

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stuff frankly it's a little too busy to

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they shipped the the music up to us and

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uh and ship movies up to us but no we

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what life is like up there

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thanks vic it was great talking to you

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happening right now six men at the

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international space station are working

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to be fun hopefully there's not too much

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miles up in space flight engineers mike

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fossum and ron garan are joining us now

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to talk guys uh you know what we can't

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see you quite yet but can you explain

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daytime and uh you know we right now

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investment that we have in this uh this

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amazing orbital research facility so

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there is a great deal of science being

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well the modules i mean we have russian

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modules and we have us modules and

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japanese and european we have a lot of

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different modules but we have one space

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station and we we operate as a single

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and we have different investigators on

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the ground that have uh their

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experiments going on in different parts

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of the space station

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it tends to be that the russians are

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operating uh you know russian

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experiments and the the uh other crew

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members are are operating uh the

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experiments from from europe or japan or

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the us so uh it you know just from a a

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logistics point of view we're we're not

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separated but we have different

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facilities uh but we are we have one

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and this is up for either one of you

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guys a recent report by tribune

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newspaper says if something were to

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happen to the soyuz where it was not

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able to get back and forth between earth

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and the iss there's not a formal

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contingency plan how would you guys get

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when we

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yeah our ride home is the soyuz

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spacecraft that's the only option that

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we have

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we will ride home on the the ships that

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brought us up here and so that's that's

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not in question

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if there was an interruption in soyuz

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service for new launches there is a

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remote possibility that the space

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station uh would go unmanned there's a a

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an on-orbit lifetime limit to the soyuz

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of about i don't remember exactly it's

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about 200 220 days so that those ships

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the ones we came up in need to go home

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so ronnie will be going home in early

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september

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as planned and i'll be going home in

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now ron you're somewhat of a local guy

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right you have some florida connections

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and some family in this area you may not

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get to talk to him that often do you

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want to say hi to any family members

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yeah just to say hi to my mom and uh

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step dad in port st lucie and you know

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all astronauts have ties to the florida

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uh you know area you know with the

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kennedy space center and everything and

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you know we have a very very special

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place in our heart for for that for that

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you know amazing uh national asset the

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kennedy space center but really you know

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the national asset is more in the people

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at the kennedy space center that uh you

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know we just want to say uh shout out to

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the workforce there at the kennedy space

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center uh in florida so a very special

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place in our hearts

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yeah i know you're a gator as well you

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guys have a unique perspective obviously

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from where you're at we've been tracking

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tropical storm emily from the ground

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anything you guys see up there we might

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need to be concerned about here in

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we haven't had a chance to catch a

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glimpse of emily yet but we hope to do

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that i hope to do that soon

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uh and i'm sure with the of course with

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the the national weather satellites and

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continuous observations you get views

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from lots of different areas and what an

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amazing thing and a capability that the

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as you guys also know today we may be

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launching a rocket here from central

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florida heading to jupiter what are your

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thoughts on a mission to jupiter what

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exactly should we be looking for so

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people like me who don't fully

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understand the ins and outs of space

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well i mean like anything that we're

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doing the space program you know we're

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trying to basically see what's beyond

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the next hill we're trying to you know

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increase the understanding of the

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universe that we have uh on our planet

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and

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you know that that you know meets a

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certain human nature that we have to to

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be curious and to explore but the more

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we understand about the universe and the

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more we understand about our own planet

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the you know better off life is going to

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be on our planet and the more we'll be

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able to to you know make use of

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resources in space uh to

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help some of the challenges that we face

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on earth so it's just another step in

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this

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process of exploration that

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you know started at the at the dawn of

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i'd like to hear a response from both of

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you guys to this because i've heard some

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interesting responses from astronauts

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how has it changed your perception of

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earth

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well that really is an interesting

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question and it's hard to put into words

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especially succinctly

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but uh you know you can't help but look

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at the earth from space without being

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moved in some way and uh

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i you know my experience led me to to

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form a website called fragile oasis at

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fragileasis.org where

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we're trying as best we can to share

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what we call this orbital perspective

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this view that you know we are all this

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in this together we are all riding on

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this spaceship we call earth through the

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universe together and you know obviously

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you know you've heard it said over and

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over again you can't see any borders

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from space of course you can't but from

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space you know everything looks exactly

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like it should be everything looks

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peaceful everything looks beautiful uh

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but we see also quite quite clearly how

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fragile everything is and and you know

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we how precarious our situation is and

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how much you know we need to take care

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of this amazing gift that we've been

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given and so you know i think that's the

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the main thing that we get at and you

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know there's only six of us up here

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right now and you know we wish everybody

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could see this because if you could see

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this i think you know we'd have a lot

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less problems on the earth

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since everybody can't do that then you

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know the best we can do is try and

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explain and share it as best we can with

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as many people as we can because i think

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it's it's a really really important

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perspective for everybody to have and

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that's the perspective that we were all

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in this together and i'll hand over to

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for me

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the first look out of the window on my

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first space flight i was struck by the

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the stark and sheer beauty of our planet

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from above

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uh it occurred to me immediately that i

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was kind of looking at it from god's

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point of view up above the planet

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looking down

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as i watched you know over the days and

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now months on orbit you're struck

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another thing that that strikes you

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fairly quickly is when you're looking at

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the earth and trying to figure out where

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you are it's difficult because you don't

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have all those colored lines that we

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draw on maps uh and those those lines of

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course were drawn by men

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and kind of similar to what ronnie said

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uh the

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the the earth is really one place and

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we're all crew just like we're an

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international crew on the international

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space station and we have to work out

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our differences and figure out how to

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work together cooperate together it's

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for everybody's benefit

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we're all passengers we're all crew

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really on spaceship earth and it we need

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to think of it i think a little more on

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on

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ignoring not ignoring but but

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making less of a barrier to those

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borders and i don't mean opening the

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borders but i mean thinking of the

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planet as our home

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and figuring out how to cooperate and

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more for the benefit of everybody

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involved because we're all in this

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all right mike fossum ron garan flight

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engineers thanks so much guys do

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appreciate it there'll be a big delay so

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you're welcome thank you

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station this is houston acr that

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okay thank you

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thank you abc news radio and wofl tv

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