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all right gentlemen the time is here are

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all right outstanding boy scouts of

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america northern star council this is

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station this is the boy scouts of

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america northern style northern star

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boy scouts of america northern star

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council the international space station

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hi i'm ben johnston from henry sibley

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high school this question is for mike

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were any of you scouts and do you feel

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that anything in your scouting career

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oh absolutely i'm i am a

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i'm an eagle scout

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and i'm a scout master

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so yeah there's a lot of scouting and i

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believe there's a lot of scouting in

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what we do here as you just like

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for uh scouts you meet weekly and you

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train for the monthly campouts and get

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ready for the big adventures in the

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summertime the high adventure camps for

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older scouts well this is like one six

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month long super high adventure

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expedition here where it's taking all of

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the training and all the stuff i've

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learned for many many years beginning as

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a scout all the way through my air force

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days and nasa training to today and now

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hi this is thomas rooney from academy of

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holy angels high school this question is

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for ron

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why did you decide to become an

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young watching

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the first moon landing uh back in 1969

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inspired me and motivated me i just

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could not believe that we had people

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walking on the moon and and that really

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woke up a spirit of exploration in me

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wanted to do and uh you know i think we

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this desire to see what's beyond the

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next hill and uh and see what's out

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there so i think that's one of the big

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reasons why i was motivated to become an

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hi this is jackson armstrong from

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harvest preparatory school this question

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is for mike what it what was it like

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hey zach that's a great question my

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first time was three years ago on a

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space shuttle mission and for me the

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most several things really stand out and

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the first was the first time i jumped up

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out of my seat we've gone through launch

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eight and a half minutes in eight and a

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half minutes we went from sitting still

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on the coast of florida to being in

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space and all of a sudden we're

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to take pictures of our fuel tank

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the north atlantic ocean down below

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blue ocean little dappling of white

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clouds and i realized the horizon was

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curved big curve of the earth and a

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totally black sky up above with this

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little thin band of atmosphere there it

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was just breathtaking

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looking at the world the way god looks

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at the world from outside and what a

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hi this is mark dodge from henry sibley

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high school with questions for ron

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what did you study in college that

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prepares you for space travel do you

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have to study at astronomy to become an

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obviously pilots scientists engineers

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studied business in college but i

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aeronautical science and in graduate

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school so i think what uh what all those

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math and science and i think those are

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hi this is conor o'leary from henry

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sibley high school this question is for

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we are studying disability awareness are

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you doing microgravity research that

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will help people with diseases or

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the the work that we're doing here does

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not address those completely indirectly

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of robots outside perhaps a person with

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them so we're learning more about those

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kind of things actually the the ground

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systems outside the space station you

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effects of microgravity on the human

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strength and trying to find ways to stay

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give us the kind of exercise that you

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hi this is matt bachman from heritage

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this question is for ron

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how much exercise do you do a day while

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question because uh you know the human

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body is an amazing thing and

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environment up here this weightless

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environment the human body adapts very

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adaptation is is beneficial to us for

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instance the body realizes it doesn't

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need a skeleton anymore it doesn't need

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strong muscles in your legs your heart

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exercise two hours a day we have uh

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treadmills on board where we bungee

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weakness that we would normally see from

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really need to get get a handle on and

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understand if we're going to go further

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and further in space exploration great

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hi this is graham smith from henry

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sibley high school this question is for

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what's it like to be in a confined space

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fraction of what the space station is we

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look out of to enjoy the earth and we

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station that that help make us you know

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hi this is matt kinney from henry sibley

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high school this question is for ron

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what is the estimated weight for the

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international international space

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pounds so we've been constructing uh

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getting it bigger and bigger more and

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more modules more and more capability

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airlocks and robotic arms and and you

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structure right now uh and like i said

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structure and a very very amazing

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hi this is joe coyle from heritage

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middle school this question is for mike

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what language do you speak on the space

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control center uh and uh these days with

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russian but sometimes you hear other

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hi this is dylan o'leary from st joseph

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what is next for manned space

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space space shuttle era um and that uh

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history but i think what it what it also

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chapter that that'll see us going beyond

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low earth orbit and uh you know

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exploring the rest of the solar system

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enabler for us to be able to do that to

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go further and further into into space

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hi this is ben johnston from henry

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sibley high school this question is for

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mike do the constellations look

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hey ben i it you know that's a really

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last night uh it was

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night pass if you will and i was

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to looking at the stars from my hometown

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area and then when i went to philmont

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scout ranch in the rocky mountains and i

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went outside the first night excited to

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see the stars and i couldn't find them i

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taught the astronomy merit badge and i

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couldn't find the stars that i loved

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because there were so many of them i get

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hi this is thomas rooney from academy of

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holy angels this question is for ron can

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you check your facebook or tweet from

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well

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yes we can uh but you know what i want

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to say about that is is we are real you

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know since since mike and i were scouts

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you know the world has changed a lot and

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we've become a lot more interconnected

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the world has world has become a smaller

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place uh and which is which is good

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because you know we realize that we're

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all in this together and so we use those

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type of things both of us are on twitter

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and and other ways that we can share

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this perspective this perspective of of

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life

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the planet from orbit

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these are these are tools that we can

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use to better

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allow people to share this with us as

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best we can because um you know it would

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really be wonderful if everybody could

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see this because you know i think the

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world would be a better place and we'd

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have a lot less problems in the world if

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everybody could could look at the earth

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and see it the way we are able to see it

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up here and to realize that we're all in

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this together uh i think

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you know that's one of the things that

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we're trying to do with uh this social

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media type of tools that we have on

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board so it's it's you want to say

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something okay

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so it's a you know it's a it's a great

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tool

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so how does he find you on twitter well

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don't go to astro underscore aggie

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because then

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mike has asked your underscore aggie and

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i'm asked to underscore ron so that's

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hi this is connor o'leary from henry

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sibley high school this question is for

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mike

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how do you protect yourself your eyes

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and the international space station from

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oh that's a really good question all of

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our windows are treated with an

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ultraviolet uh film that blocks the

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ultraviolet because that would be the

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most most dangerous thing

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at times we have had windows in space

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where that that covering could be

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removed and we've had some people get

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some pretty significant sunburn in a

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very short period of time without the

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earth's atmosphere helping protect us

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the sun is intense ron and i have done

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four space walks together and the visor

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of our helmet there is covered

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with actually it's a silver film it

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looks gold

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that helps block out that that

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ultraviolet also

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so that's the main thing there there's

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other forms of radiation of course

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and uh the space station has some amount

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of shielding for some of them uh and uh

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you know it and and not as much for

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others so we're actually watching some

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of the the solar weather if you will

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some of the we've heard the reports of

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big storms on the sun that might be uh

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throwing some radiation our way uh we

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hope to see some of that in the form of

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the northern and southern lights

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hi this is mark dos from henry civilly

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high school this question is for ron

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if water clumps together in space what

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happens when you release something like

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that's a good question i'm going to try

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and take a minute here i've got i happen

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to have a bag of water here if you could

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be my trusted assistant here so we're

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going to move a little closer

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so you're you know what it's not going

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to do it's not going to rise to the top

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because you don't have um

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convection and

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other effects up here

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so

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aren't you yeah

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all right so i don't know if you can see

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this but when we release water in this

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uh microgravity environment it clumps

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together into a bubble and that's caused

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by surface tension so here we have our

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he's he's blowing on it to help push it

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back up into the field of view if it

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gets out of control he's just gonna have

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to eat it yeah

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so we'll uh we'll use this uh little

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green thing here to simulate oil and

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we'll see if we could uh

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get it inside so there you have it i'm

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so basically the

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water bubble has

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encompassed this little piece of uh

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green food like substance

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and

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you know again the surface tension is

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what's keeping this uh as a bubble and a

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sphere so

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i hope that answers the question it was

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it was fun to try who's gonna eat that

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okay you guys cheers

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hi this is jackson armstrong from

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robert's preparatory school this

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question is from mike

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hey jackson

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that's a good question

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we rode up here on a russian uh two

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different russian soyuz rockets

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launching out of uh kazakhstan place

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called baikonur cosmodrome a very exotic

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place very historic place the first

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human to launch into space yuri gagarin

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did so you know in april

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of 1961 50 years ago and we launched off

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the exact same launch pad as him so it's

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a really cool thing to be part of that

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history our ride home is that same

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uh same soyuz spaceship so ron's leaving

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in what four and a half weeks or so and

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hi this is matt bachman from heritage

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middle school this question is for ron

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how do you avoid stress extreme

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yeah

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well as mike said you know we've done

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four spacewalks together so i've the

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only one i've ever been out on a

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spacewalk uh with is mike and on all the

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spacewalks he would always say as as i

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was coming out of the hatch hey ron

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don't look down but on the last

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spacewalk that we just did a few weeks

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ago when when i climbed out of the hatch

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uh the bahamas were beneath us and it

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was just absolutely spectacular to see

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that and so i beat mike to the punch and

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i said hey mike look down look at this

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look at this beautiful look at this

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beautiful planet we have here but um you

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know we we when we are doing spacewalks

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we have a lot of work to do and we have

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a lot of tasks to perform and so just

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staying focused on those and getting the

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job done is uh is really how we overcome

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oh

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thank you very much on behalf of the boy

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scouts of america and northern star

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council we really appreciate you being

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hey guys

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yeah that's okay

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guys thank you very much it's uh it's

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great to talk to the to all the scouts

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there it sounds like you've got a huge

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crowd and a and a great program we've

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heard about it and it sounds like a

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wonderful thing if you guys enjoy all

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that scouting has to offer it's about

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fun friends and adventure and a whole

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lot more but don't worry about that you

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guys concentrate on the fun friends and

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adventure have a great summer and enjoy

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the ride it's a it's quite a trail you