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houston we are ready for the event

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okay great kgo tv this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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station this is kgo tv how do you hear

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greg we have you loud and clear welcome

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aboard the international space station

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thank you for that you guys looking good

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um let's just start with progress what

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are you hearing about the loss of that

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well obviously that's uh

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you know potentially a significant

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impact on operations up here not only uh

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because of the cargo

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that uh you know will not be delivered

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now but also the implications to the

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booster and uh you know implications to

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soyuz launches et cetera so um we're

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still trying to figure out uh what the

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exact impacts are going to be uh what

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our path forward is going to be uh so

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we're kind of in the wait and see

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up here in the wait and see

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mindset obviously there's a lot of

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people formulating plans and backup

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down here we've heard that you know if

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they can't pull something together that

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a couple of you guys might be coming

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no i don't think there's any chance of

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coming home early um there there are

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there is a chance of of maybe the three

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of us that were supposed to come back on

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september 8th to be delayed

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so that's something that we're looking

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i was watching pictures of the hurricane

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a moment ago i don't know if you guys uh

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if all of you got to see it uh but how

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how what do you think of that thing and

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yeah we just passed over tahiti in the

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south pacific still heading to the

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southeast it's night out this way

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on i grew up on the gulf coast i've seen

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a lot of hurricanes and a hurricane is a

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scary thing no matter what angle you're

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looking at it from and it certainly is a

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it's a it's really big and we've seen

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several days in a row and really saw a

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big change evident yesterday when we

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passed over it was much more condensed

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much it just appeared solid uh it was

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of solid clouds with the eye having

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mike i was looking at some of your

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photographs and i think you tweeted one

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that said this is the best picture i've

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how's the what is it like up there uh to

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feel like a tourist

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especially the low light photography

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picking up that was that that that

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taken at night time it's a lot of fun

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yeah we actually do hold on i'll get it

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so this is uh this is the erb ii and uh

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satoshi they let you play with that

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all right we've uh we've done some

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filming with it both uh recorded um

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documentation and also um the live the

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you think it's gonna be an educational

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an educational tool i think it's a it's

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a tool that we can use to help people

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there's a lot of practical applications

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i'd like to ask satoshi you know what

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when cancer cells grow the

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if you block that uh growth then uh it

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leads to cancer cancer remedy so uh we

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we didn't know that either

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because our friends don't call me doctor

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they ever come they ever come to you say

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pretty much the full utilization mode of

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the space station so we've at any at any

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given time there's probably you know

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three or four or five experiments going

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activity so a good part of our day

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across the across the whole station on

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all six crew members is doing some of

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the science that this this amazing

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how long do it's quite huge how long

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does it take you to traverse from from

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yet or tried to set any new world

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records but uh i bet you it's probably

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there's it's not a straight line so so

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everything is not lined up in a straight

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different directions so if you were

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aft end just a couple of minutes of

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fast flying through those modules we'll

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let me ask mike this i never cease to

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nasa does and you know

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apollo the shuttle program now iss

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how about you guys do you ever stop

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that has a little trouble with it so

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the early days and dreaming you know

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that we're some of the most fortunate

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people you know on or off the planet to

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is a fantastic experience and i'm making

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thank you guys for taking the time to

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station this is houston

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concludes the kgo tv portion of the

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event please stand by for a voice check

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station this is uh tarek malek from

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hi tarik great to talk to you welcome

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great well uh thank all all of you for

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having some time to talk with us today

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i wanted to uh let you know we did uh

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ask our readers if they had questions

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for you and the first one that came back

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tomorrow and we were wondering what your

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extra time on the space station with

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the outreach more time to share the

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the best for the program and uh we'll

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fully support it

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thanks uh the other thing on on

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everyone's mind on at least the east

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coast here uh is hurricane irene and uh

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i've seen some of the amazing videos and

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uh you and your crewmates have been back

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down uh and i'm wondering uh maybe for

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what your impressions are of of the

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storm itself uh

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and uh and the impact it might have um

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you bet tariq i grew up on the gulf

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coast of texas i've seen a lot of

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hurricanes uh through the years a

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hurricane is a scary thing it's

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certainly a scary thing when it's

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bearing down on top of you it's a scary

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thing when you're out of town and

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watching it head towards your home like

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ron and i both were when i came ashore

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three years ago

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and it's a it's a terrifying thing from

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up above too we saw a big change in the

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structure of the storm over the several

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days that we've watched her especially

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yesterday the the differences were very

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pronounced it was very uniform kind of a

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dome shape to the whole thing with the

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eye fully formed we did not see the eye

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you could tell where it was starting to

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swirl tight uh two days ago but

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yesterday the eye you could see the eye

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wall

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and down into the wa uh down into the

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eye itself so you know that is a

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powerful storm and uh there's uh you

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know those are never good news when

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they're heading your way so our you know

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prayers and thoughts are really with the

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people in her path

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well thank you we're based in new york

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city i know we're we're keeping a close

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eye on it as well um some of the our

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readers uh uh are curious just how your

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your life is on on the space station and

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uh for satoshi um two readers chris

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maxwell and adrian ruiz they're

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wondering what you missed the most about

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earth your life at home and if you ever

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with regard to everyday life

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i miss a hot bath tab most

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because it's it's a kind of japanese

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culture and that at the end of the day

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to sink in a hot bath tab and relax it's

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awesome so i missed that but uh

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living on board the station is very good

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because uh we perform scientific

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scientific experiments and we have

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excellent earth view and star views

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great thanks another question and this

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might be for you ron um uh is is from

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trisha harvey and she wants to know uh

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how the aurora borealis uh looks from uh

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from space uh if it undulates like it

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appears to on earth or is it just a

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well that's a really good question

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it depends it depends uh where you are

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in the orbit it depends where um you

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know what part of the earth you're over

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and usually when we see auroras you know

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we see them cut out towards the horizon

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and uh they're no matter where they are

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they're always spectacular and and yes

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they they look like you know dancing

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luminescent waves of a vapor

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it's just absolutely breathtaking but i

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had one opportunity a few months ago

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where uh you know i opened up the

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shutters of the cupola and i was just

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you know blown away by this view it it

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seemed as though we were flying through

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the auroras i mean it was just this you

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know glowing vapor all around us and it

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was just absolutely spectacular so it's

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uh you know it's always is great uh to

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see that mike's taking some great uh

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photos of the auroras so it's uh you

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know that's one of the fascinating

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things that we get to see uh on a fairly

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regular basis up here so it's a it's a

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you know one of the the joys that we

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thanks

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and this question uh comes from another

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reader and uh i was actually going to

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ask it as well um you're several months

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in to your increment now on the space

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station uh you travel around the planet

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at more than 17 000 miles an hour and

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you've already had one visiting shuttle

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and several months ahead um

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uh we're just wondering first of all how

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the mission has gone so far and does it

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feel like the time goes a lot faster in

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space because you're so busy than it

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well um yeah it's been you know i've

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been up here i guess closing on five

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months now and uh it's been a very very

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busy five months you know we saw two

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shuttle missions

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uh you know the uh undocking of a atv i

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i can't even remember how many

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progresses have come come and gone

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so it's uh it's been very very busy uh

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we've had soyuz docking soyuz undocking

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um but really the you know the main

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thing that that this time period i think

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is important for is we saw our

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transition we saw our transition from

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the construction of the international

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space station to full utilization of the

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international space station and we we've

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all

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been able to witness that and just see

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an amazement how you know the science

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that we're doing on board has just

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ramped up and uh you know

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every day you know the whole

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space station is is fully busy you know

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cranking out science and you know i

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think that's going to lead to some

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really great discoveries uh i think it's

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not only going to be you know a stepping

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stone for continued exploration of our

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solar system

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i think it's also going to show that you

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know we've the research that has been

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conducted on board here has improved

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life on earth because it simply can't be

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conducted anywhere else so

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seeing that and being a part of that

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has been very exciting to answer the

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other part of the question

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looking back over the last five months

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it because so much has happened it

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really does seem uh like a long time it

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it hasn't gone by in the blink of an eye

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because so much has has been

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accomplished um

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but you know on a day-to-day basis

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though the days go you're so busy though

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thanks and um perhaps for uh for mike um

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this question from ian garrett he wants

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to know um and i think i do too what you

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see

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from life on the station are the top

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three improvements uh that will be vital

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for um for say to actually make a colony

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uh living on a space station uh uh

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you know viable uh what do you really

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need

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wow that is a really interesting

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question the top three things we would

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need up here

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i think

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i mean to really colonize you'd need to

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have a way i think to grow some food we

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you know we eat a lot of the thermal

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stabilized food and dehydrated food and

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in a lot of ways it's like camping food

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or military mres

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that i think some fresh food would go a

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long way toward improving uh life on

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here you know life in space and we get a

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little bit on when the cargo vehicles

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come they bring some fruit and

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vegetables and that's a delight to a

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bite into a tomato or even believe it or

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not to bite into an onion we slice

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onions up into into big wedges and eat

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them with a little bit of salt because

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it's a taste of earth

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other than that i you know i

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we we have what we need uh the the

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window views i think are really

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important you if you don't have a window

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view then you could be you may as well

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be working uh you know in a trailer with

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a zero gravity machine which of course

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doesn't exist uh

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but uh the windows to see the earth to

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escape just a little bit and and look at

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places below that you dream about

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visiting someday as you enjoy the the

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sights from above

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i think the third thing that would be

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really great if you're going to colonize

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the space would be a transporters

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transporters would be really good so we

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thank you so much i think they'd be

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great here for life on earth too uh mike

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uh i would love to stay and chat with

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you all day but i unfortunately i'm out

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of time thank you all mike fossum ron

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garrett uh satoshi from uh for uh your

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time today and uh all the best for the

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thank you hey i think the last time i

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talked to you i was living on the bottom

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of the ocean

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so it's good good to talk to you again

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station this is houston acr thank you

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thank you to kgo tv and space.com