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fisk planetarium this is houston please

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station this is dr doug duncan at the

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dr duncan this is mike fossum commander

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of expedition 29 on the international

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all right loud and clear

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hi my name is emily my question is does

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space travel change the way your body

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hey emily your body definitely has to

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adjust to gravity right now your body's

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working hard your bones are working just

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to hold you up as you stand there uh and

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your heart has to work to move the blood

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from down in your legs up to your heart

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and lungs and then to your brain it up

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here it doesn't have to work so hard and

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so your body adapts by getting kind of

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lazy and your bones get weak if you

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don't work out and

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my name is stephanie

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hey stephanie we eat a lot of the same

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things that you might eat at home

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they're just kind of used sometimes

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packaged a little differently

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i have some with me right here

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when we want to drink you know

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when we want to drink some orange juice

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we can't just pour a glass of orange

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juice because it would fall out of the

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glass it wouldn't it'd make a real mess

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and so what we do is we have our things

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like orange juice inside a bag like this

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and i'm going to come just a little

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closer so you can see

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this and i'm going to try not to make

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too much of a mess but see that

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that's the orange juice coming out of

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let's say that other foods we have are

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things like this it's broccoli and

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cheese and so it looks doesn't look very

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like this it's not it's they've taken

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dehydrated it's kind of like camping

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food so we add hot water

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something good to eat some of the things

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don't need water

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you know some things we eat are just

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we just catch them differently

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hi my name is lacey my question is how

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oh yeah i am lazy that's a good question

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because day and night don't make don't

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mean much here we go around the globe in

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90 minutes and so we have a day and a

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night every 90 minutes and so that

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doesn't you know we can't pay we don't

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know what time it is by looking out the

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window and checking the sun so we have

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a gmt or standard time and we wake up

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based on the clock and we turn on the

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lights and when it's day time up here

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and when it's night time we turn down

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the lights so that our bodies adjust to

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uh to thinking it's time to go to sleep

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hey anthony we do lots of different

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crewmate satoshi just a few minutes ago

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special experiment to see how the roots

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on earth the plant the seed knows

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how to grow it gets covered up with dirt

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to put the roots up or the roots down it

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study how plants grow up here where

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there's no gravity to tell the roots

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certain materials go from being a liquid

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crystals inside and we can learn a lot

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about them about those materials by

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mentioned earlier for what our bodies do

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in space and so we're guinea pigs for

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watching what happens to our bones and

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our muscles in space and so that we do

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you know research on ourselves measuring

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our hearts and our muscles to actually

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earth we have a new fairly new piece of

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equipment on the outside of the space

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hi my name is eleanor my question is

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uh it's just a little bit and i i like

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to say you know you're sitting on top of

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top of this well the space shuttle on

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the ground weighs about four and a half

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million pounds and about four million

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pounds of that is rocket fuel that's

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about to push you off the planet with

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those seven million pounds of thrust so

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anybody that's not a little concerned

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getting in a rocket uh doesn't

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understand what's going on so sure

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there's a little bit of that but mostly

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you're excited excited about about

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starting the mission because we train

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excited about going and finally getting

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to do that which we've trained so long

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to do and for a lot of us myself

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included and maybe you it's a dream that

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you've had since childhood that that's

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interesting question i chose to be an

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astronaut or i i wanted to be an

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astronaut because i i watched the space

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space missions when i was you know young

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and it was my dad really loved the space

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program and thought it was important and

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i remember watching that and thinking

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preparation but it's a it's a great

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challenge and it's also great fun you

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know we work hard but we also have the

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chance to look out of the windows and

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see the earth rolling by and i you know

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watch the stars without the atmosphere

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the same but the stars really look

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looks like fun doesn't it

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hi my name is nikki

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my question is did you see her hurricane

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the clouds starting to form and of

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area but you can tell when these clouds

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pattern going out there that oh

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something's brewing so we followed that

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and got video and photos of of irene all

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the way up until it

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it hit the coast and then up the coast

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people's homes and the dirt and stuff

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math that i have used

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further studies of engineering and

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science because you really can't

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the math behind it when you understand

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how the space station stays in orbit and

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and the physics and science all together

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hey nice and loud

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hi my name is victor my question is what

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hey hey victor well that's a good

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question you've already seen that

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sometimes we play with our food

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which your mom tells you not to do but

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up here you just can't help it but you

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do have to clean up your own mess if

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that sticky kool-aid or stick orange

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drink gets away

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favorite pastime of everybody that's

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been in space when you have some free

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time is go to the window it doesn't

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matter day or night there there is

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something amazing to see

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outside and it that's i love you know

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our planet i love being in the outdoors

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uh and i i get outdoors every chance i

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get to go hiking and i love you know

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backpacking around colorado i'm really

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jealous that you guys live in colorado

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it's such a beautiful beautiful

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wonderful place to live

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watch it from up above too i'll be back

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packing in your mountains again as soon

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as i can get rehabilitated and get back

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up there but for now i enjoy looking at

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okay nice and loud hi my name is carlos

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my question is how many days will you be

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is that how many days will i be in space

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uh 160 days about that and that might be

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changes in in some of our plans

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but it'll be about that which is just

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just short of three months or six months

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rather and that's a great time i had two

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short missions on the space shuttle

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which were wonderful but they were just

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two weeks and after two weeks you're

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finally starting to kind of get used to

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living and working up here

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but i'll say after two months i was

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still learning how to work up here and

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now i've been up here about three and a

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half months

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and uh it's great i'm enjoying every

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minute of it

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i'd love to go home and visit my family

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but you know right now i'm just i'm

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hi my name is avery and my question is

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what is the biggest adjustment to living

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avery that's a great question

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the biggest adjustment to living on the

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space station is things don't

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they don't fall down

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when you drop something

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it falls in any direction it wants

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it it just has a mind of its own so i i

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maybe i'm collecting food for dinner and

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i turn my back on it

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and to get something else out and then i

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go looking and it's not here where i

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left it

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and instinctively we look down because

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our whole lives when you lose something

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it probably fell down around your feet

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and so we we start looking down but up

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here that's absurd because it can fall

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up just as easy as it can fall down

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because the things we lose don't know up

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and down and so you know my broccoli has

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has gone out that way out of my reach

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and out of my sight and so you lose

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stuff

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and that is that's really frustrating to

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be working on things to have a tool

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or you're taking something apart and

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there's little pieces and you're trying

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to control them trying to stick them to

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a piece of duct tape or trying to get

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them into as a a baggie or something

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like that so you don't lose them

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and and something escapes

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and that's that's a big adjustment is

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learning how to control all of your

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things because they they will

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wander off in their own directions

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hi my name is erica my question is have

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you ever been outside of the

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station seven times doing space walks um

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and that is an amazing experience to be

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outside working on it uh you know it's

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uh it's actually it's a very physical

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thing because you're moving around in

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this spacesuit that's that's inflated

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it's pressurized to help keep the oxygen

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you know environment around your body uh

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to one where you can you you know can

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live and and work hard and be strong in

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uh at the same time the suit is thick

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and so you're working against this

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inflated suit and everything you grab

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you're walking we call it space walks

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but our legs don't do very much we use

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our hands to move around the the space

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station as we're moving around out there

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and going from one place to another

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and so it feels sometimes it feels kind

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of like you're a fly on the ceiling

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that's just hanging on by

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by its little claw tips

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and looking down at the earth as uh from

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outside looking not through these big

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thick windows but through the thin

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bubble helmet is uh that's pretty

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hi my name is mimi and my question is

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hi mimi uh that this has been a very

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challenging time in the iss we have

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been building the iss since 2000

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really since the 98 the first pieces

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came up first people came up here in the

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in the year 2000

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and we've had people up here

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continuously since then with uh fairly

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regular visits from the space shuttle

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for most of that time

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as we have been building the space

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station

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we are now done

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and the space shuttles flew its last

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flight a couple of months ago

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so there are no more space shuttle

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missions to the space station and we've

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transitioned we're transitioning now

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from a time of assembly where you're

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worried about getting ready for the next

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big piece of space station that's coming

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up now that's that's behind us we have

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accomplished that

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uh and now we're moving into bringing

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these new experiment facilities uh into

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operation and starting up a lot of the

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work that the space station was really

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built to do so now we can focus on that

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a couple of years ago we went from a

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three-person crew up to a six-person

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crew which gives us more people to do

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more of the science and stuff right now

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we're down to three people for a little

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so we're doing our best to keep that

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momentum going

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and uh that that's our mission is to ex

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first to you know keep the space station

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operating safely and second is to do a

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lot of these different science

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experiments and some of them we get real

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hands-on where we're physically doing

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things ourselves and observing and

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recording and some of them we're just

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the people that change the samples in

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the furnace you know i don't they don't

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they don't let me loose with a

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thousand-degree furnace but i'll get in

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there change the samples and stuff and

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then get it all inspected and closed out

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and then the scientists on the ground

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are actually running the experiment from

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down on earth

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and they're controlling the furnace up

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here and then we'll bring those samples

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okay

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hi my name is isabella

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my question is what does earth look like

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earth is beautiful from space i'd seen

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the pictures but to me

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i didn't really understand it until i

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looked the first time on my first space

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shuttle mission my job was to take

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photographs of the fuel tank as it fell

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away from the space shuttle and so

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you know i got to un take off my seat

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belts and jump up and go to the window

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as soon as we got to space which happens

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fairly quickly and so i jump up and i'm

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looking out and i realize i'm looking at

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the atlantic ocean down below with these

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little dappling of white clouds on the

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top and then there's a black sky up

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above

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totally black

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and in between was a big curve of the

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earth because like the horizon was

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curved and i saw out at arm's length

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this little thin band

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that's our atmosphere

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and i it shocked me to see how thin that

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really looks from space but the earth is

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beautiful you see the oceans clouds

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the the the the land masses and and

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that's so varied the mountains the

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deserts the forests uh the lakes and

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there's always something different to

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see it is phenomenally i'd say earth is

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mike this is dottie we're here in

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colorado and it's just been so wonderful

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to talk with you and just hear your

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answers and uh we're sending a big shout

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out you guys want to shout out to mike

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oh you guys are awesome dottie you are

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wonderful thank you so much for being

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there and for the for the folks in

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denver what a great event the kids super

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questions super questions keep asking

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those questions and i hope you get to

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come find your own answers someday

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thanks a bunch it's been great joining

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station this is houston acr that

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this planet fisk planetarium and the

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university of colorado station you're a