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are ready all right kpr ktv this is

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Mission Control Houston you can now call

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station for a voice check thanks but

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station this is Katie RK Ted Oberg how

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do you hear me Ted we have you loud and

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clear welcome aboard the International

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to you guys I'm curious as a as an

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opener maybe a softball is it is it

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lonely now without the shuttle crew and

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after watching him leave I'll give I'll

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give the mic the softball yet Ted it

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certainly got a lot quieter they were

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they were up here they were a crew of

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eight to ten because they worked like

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that and it was it was gangbusters here

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for the entire time they were here it

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was great having them here and it did

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get a lot quieter and and we have a

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little less room after they left I

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assume all stuff you need though right I

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mean you haven't eaten all that food

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food on board so no it'll take us awhile

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a question you excited about the

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prospect of these commercial ships

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all nervous about this new technology

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you know getting so close well new

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technology like this new ships are

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always exciting they really are i think

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that we won't be here to greet the first

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ones of the new generation of ships if

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prospects there's a lot of people across

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the country you know with the different

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teams working really hard we're excited

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about it I wouldn't say nervous is a

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player but you know you need to pay

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close attention to the details and make

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sure they're ready to come aboard

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tricky business to come up close and

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hover and then reach out and grab it

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commercial crews can do that well the

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those arrive here within about five

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station where we'll reach out and grab

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crude vehicle with people on board and

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gears a little bit I think one of the

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research facility and right now we were

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years we still manage to conduct over

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labor up here of everybody's labor to

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build this place and we are going to see

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this place was an amazing investment

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improvements in life on Earth and vast

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discoveries that are going to be made

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scientists yourselves is it is 36 hours

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your health concerns what does NASA told

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monitor and what are the changes you

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hear you loud and clear how about us

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thing we want to say is go aggies i

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here for sure I of course I'm an Aggie

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grad and an Aggie dad and Ron Garan is

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an Aggie dead himself so you know we've

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in this new chapter this new chapter

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Earth and and I think it's something to

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really be proud of and we are really

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proud of all those people that are

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involved in that Ron Garan Mike Fossum

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as you look at expedition 28 and you're

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represented by the US by Russia by Japan

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what is it like in the space station in

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terms of just language issues relational

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issues yellow is I'm glad you brought

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that up because you know not only is

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this place you know the stepping stone

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to exploration beyond the the low Earth

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orbit not only is it going to make life

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better on planet earth it's also a

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shining example of international

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cooperation really is it's it's amazing

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to see what this international

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partnership has accomplished up here on

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orbit and to think that if we can do

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this on orbit you know imagine what we

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can do to solve the problems facing our

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planet but you know on board we are in

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crew we primarily speak English however

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we do speak Russian to our Russian

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crewmates to the Mission Control in

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Moscow we have a Japanese crew mate with

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us on board and he occasionally if he if

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he needs to for technical reasons it

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will speak Japanese to the control

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center in Japan and that's this is the

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wave of the future we are you know I

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think we're going to be able to do great

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things working together as an

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international partnership and i think

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mike wants to add some words to that is

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no okay so i mean i think that's a that

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you know it's it's really a neat place

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to work it's it's a you know great to be

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part of this international partnership

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mike fossum ron garan astronauts on the

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International Space Station events who

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were speaking with here this morning

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gentlemen is there is there ever a time

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when you can find some privacy I would

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assume at some point maybe you just kind

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of need to go off somewhere and breed or

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just kind of be by yourself is there

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anywhere on the space station where you

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can kind of be alone and just maybe

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think this is mike with you i think for

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me the favorite my favorite place to go

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is a little cluster of windows it's on

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the bottom part of the space station and

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we affectionately call it the cupola

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it's a fairly late addition to the space

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station it was not here the last times

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I've been here but it is a marvelous

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just view of not just the world the

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earth as its rolling by five miles a

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second but it's also really neat to be

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able to see the stars because we have

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kind of a sideways view out of this

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cluster of windows so you can see the

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stars hanging above the earth this

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morning I got up early and went to take

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a look and there was the aurora borealis

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kind of shimmering in the distance and

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that was a really neat time to just you

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know relax a little bit I had a little

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bag of coffee with me and you know kind

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of collect my thoughts and get ready for

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the day now who else carries a bag of

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coffee instead of a cup Mike thanks so

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much for that Mike and Ron we're talking

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to you we understand you're quite the

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spacewalk team how do you become a

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hey I think for us it's just a lot of

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hard work and even more good luck we

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flew together on sts-1 24 3 years ago

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and actually we're standing in the

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japanese laboratory right now and Ron

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and I did the spacewalks associated with

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adding this laboratory to the complex up

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here so we did three spacewalks with 124

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and then shortly after we got back home

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run got into the space station training

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flow and then I was lucky enough to join

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him a few months later and as luck has

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it we're here together and they needed a

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little work done so they knew who to

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call and as we said it were putting the

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band back together all right well that

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leads me then to my next question which

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I didn't know if I was going to ask or

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not but I watched the Peter Frampton

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video and Ron I saw you you know talking

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with Peter Frampton who I have met on a

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few occasions nice guy and you said that

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you did bring Frampton Comes Alive up to

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the International Space Station i'm

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going to call you on that right now is

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that indeed true or were you just kind

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of placating Peter Frampton and that San

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Francisco audience no it is definitely

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true and as a matter of fact in that

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clip he showed a picture of that CD on

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in orbit and and you know music is a

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really interesting thing to talk about

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up here because this is a very sterile

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environment all you hear is you know

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pumps and fans and you know it's really

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really nice to be able to listen to

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music because you know it really gives

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you a connection to your home planet if

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you will I mean it really is a nice

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connection and it's really surreal if

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you you know to think about you know

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looking at the earth and seeing this

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beautiful planet while you're listening

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to beautiful music and have that

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connection with with the earth it's

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really you know almost indescribable you

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know how do each of you think of and

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this is up sorry yeah this is mike i

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just have to add you know we do have an

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assortment of music yesterday was Steven

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Curtis Chapman day because he was in

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Mission Control and got to talk to us

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other days r ZZ Top day and and where

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you know rocking the station so we enjoy

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music as a way to help pass the time and

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have a little fun I know we have to wrap

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this up but I've got to ask what you

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think of yourselves i know you've called

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yourselves human guinea pigs and you're

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working on the human body biology

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physics materials you're doing

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cutting-edge experiments that will

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really influenced many of us for years

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and decades to come yeah I mean that

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that's that's part of the reason why we

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do what we do here we realize that you

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know this is a this is an opportunity

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for us as not just the nation but us as

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as as a species as humanity to improve

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our lot to improve our planet to improve

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our the way we live there's experiments

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that we're doing on board that I think

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will lead to better ways to provide

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clean water better food better medicines

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better materials the list goes on and on

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and to be a part of that and to be

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working with all those thousands of

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people not just across the nation but

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across round the world to to basically

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this is a pretty you know important

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pretty this is a pretty big deal this is

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this is something that's going to change

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the world and to be a part of that is

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just an absolute honor and if that means

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that sometimes we got to donate some of

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our blood to and throw it in the freezer

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for evaluation back on the earth and

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that's a small price to pay because you

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know it's a it's it's really an honor

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and a privilege to do this Mike Fossum

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Ron Garan thank you so much for the time

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for the International Space Station from

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all of us here at Katie rh back on earth

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thanks bad thanks Louis it was great