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station this is houston on space ground

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this is the international space station

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we are ready for the event

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hess tech conference this is mission

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control in houston please call the

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hello here

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this is congressman ruben inohosa from

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deep south texas

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how long do you hear me

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congress congressman hinojosa

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and his tech sir it's great to speak to

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you again i hear you

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let me tell you we are so proud

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that you are from mcallen texas and deep

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south texas and we're all rooting for

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thank you very much i've been to hashtag

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oh that is wonderful we started it ten

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we're supposed to start with the

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questions so let's get the students up

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my name is andrea and my question is

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what experiments are you currently

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hey andrea working on a lot of different

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experiments we have different furnace

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type experiments which are melting

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things and then growing the crystals and

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as they solidify without the forces of

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gravity we're doing plant growth

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experiments we're growing doing a

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combustion or fire kind of experiments

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and i'm a guinea pig in a number of

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different experiences about the effects

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of zero g and how to minimize the bone

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loss and muscle loss and things like

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hello my name is jacob and my question

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is what is the mission or goal for your

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hey jacob that's a great question well

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right now our job is to take care of the

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space station and you know keep it

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running and to conduct the different

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science experiments on board uh it's

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been a great a great challenge for me

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it's been the adventure of a lifetime to

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be here uh the first university that i

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attended was pan american university

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where you are right now as i started

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taking classes back there long ago and

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always while i was walking to the night

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classes at pan am i'd look up at the

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stars and dream about being up here

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someday and i can't believe i really am

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uh but but it's mainly to keep the space

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station running to keep the crew working

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uh effectively and and and well together

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and to continue moving all of the

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my name is allegra and my question is

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since you aren't using the shuttle

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hey that's a great question uh the the

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we saw the sp the last space shuttle

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come and go from the space station while

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i was here that was a an amazing thing

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it was a very emotional thing for me as

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the program lasted 30 years

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and was a incredibly successful

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right now for humans going back and

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forth to the space station we're using

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the russian soyuz spacecraft that's how

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i arrived here about three and a half

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months ago was on a on a russian

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spacecraft

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which was quite an adventure in its own

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way i grew up in the valley of course

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speaking some spanish uh and and as a

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kind of a second language or being

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exposed to it uh and so in order to do

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this i had to learn a lot of russian

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which was a very very different

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challenge for me but uh it was quite an

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adventure i flew two times on the space

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shuttle

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and so my third flight now came up here

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on the russian soyuz spacecraft the

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future is is changing rapidly though uh

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you know the the united states is

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working on several different ideas for

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human spacecraft uh you know in the next

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10 years or so we hope very much to see

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some of these coming uh coming to being

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at the same time we're using different

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cargo ships russian cargo ships european

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cargo ships japanese cargo ships and

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we're real close to launching the first

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american cargo ships probably in the

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next four to six months to to begin

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coming up to the space station too great

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my name is jackie and my question is

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space how are you adjusted to

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hey jackie the great question

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mission that i was adjusted to

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microgravity but i found here after one

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month and even two months i'm still

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continuing to learn and my body

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continues to adjust a little bit

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i feel like i'm very very much

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stabilized right now where things aren't

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changing but the fluid shift is the

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first thing your head gets full uh like

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you kind of like you have a cold or and

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your body has a lot of a lot of fluid in

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it that as a without the gravity pulling

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that fluid down to your lower torso and

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it it kind of goes up here and makes

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your head feel really full and kind of

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gives you a headache so your body

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adjusts in those ways you learn how to

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move up here and that's really a cool

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thing uh to to really instead of kind of

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stumbling around and and bumping into

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things a whole lot you learn to move i

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think of it kind of like moving like a

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cat or maybe

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moving like spider-man through as you're

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you're going through and you're grabbing

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things and you're flying along uh and so

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those are part of the adaptation

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working with stuff is actually hard

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because things don't stay on a workbench

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like they do at home you start to take

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something apart

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make sure it's tacked down or it's in a

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bag or secured with velcro because when

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you lose stuff up here it doesn't fall

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to your feet it can fall to the ceiling

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or the walls and it can bounce and just

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getting used to is controlling your

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and learning how to how to find it when

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you do lose it happens all the time

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my name is marissa and my question is

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see if i can demonstrate that a little

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bit without going completely out of

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control here it feels kind of like

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yeah there we go where you're moving and

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you can get stuck too because you can't

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swim in this in the air you can't swim

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you really need to hold on to things and

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so now i'm going to go out of control

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while i try to get my feet back down on

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my name is maya and my question is when

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in zero gravity our spines stretch the

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little discs between the bones in our

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back stretch some they get relaxed and

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so i've grown up about an inch to an

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inch and a half up here unfortunately

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when i get back to the ground i'm going

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to scrunch back down and and and that'll

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be part of the adjustment part of the

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adjustments learning how to walk again

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use them in a different way i have them

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hooked underneath handrails and i'm

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hooked underneath things you have to you

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and i talked about that fluid shift when

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you come to space and the fluid that

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that's no longer being held down in your

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legs and stuff comes back you know comes

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pulling your blood and and and other

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fluids down and so you have to rehydrate

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my name is veronica and my question is

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responsibilities

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of a flight commander versus a flight

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as we're all you know crew members up

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here and we have our different assigned

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responsibilities as as the commander

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then i'm i'm the guy kind of in charge

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now we're all working for mission

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control and really mission control

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centers all over the globe in houston in

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control centers all over the world and

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we're working for those different flight

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directors and and and directors in those

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control centers but up here we need one

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person that's in charge and for this

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period of time you know that's me and so

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mostly we work things together and we

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nutshell is somebody's got to be in

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my name is jason and my question is what

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hey jason i think that two things i miss

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the most is i i'd really love a good

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pizza right now with a big thick chewy

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cheesy uh crust on it uh that would

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taste really good because our foods are

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rehydrated foods or foods and foil packs

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and stuff so we have bread but it's kind

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of packaged to say you know shelf life

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mug of just hot black coffee

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pouches you know kind of like this one

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right here and it's just not the same as

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sitting sitting down in the morning with

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my cup of coffee and my newspaper to get

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ready for the day instead i sit down

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with a bag of coffee and my computer

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screen to read the the morning messages

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before starting work so i i look forward

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to pizza and a cup of coffee not

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my name is matthew my name is matthew

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and my question is do you lose or gain

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now matthew broke

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fluid shift i talked about once your

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body adjusts to the zero gravity it

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you don't need as much blood volume and

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so you're you will lose some of that

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some of that liquid so most of us lose

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my name is chris

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i'm sorry can you say that again

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what inspired you to become an astronaut

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progression of things i grew up in the

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early days of the space program i was

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actually born two months after the

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sputnik satellite was the first man-made

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object you know in orbit around the

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earth and so i grew up when when going

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to space was was an amazing thing and

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watching the

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the the missions that led up to us

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landing on the moon i remember vividly

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and i i just like every other just

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red-blooded kid in the world i said man

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i want to do that someday

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and growing up in mcallen you know in

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the valley i thought that was the

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furthest thing from from possible that

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you could even

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even dream of that there's no way such a

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thing could happen but you know what

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that's not true it's really not true i

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never gave i somehow part of me didn't

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believe the dream but part of me never

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completely gave up with it

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and so when i was in school

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you know i tried to do my best and i

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wasn't always the top of my class i was

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pretty rarely the top of my class but i

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was working hard and dreaming and using

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that dream to give me a direction and a

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motivation to stay in school and keep

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working hard and i knew you know one one

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day that that education and the hard

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work was going to pay off and i'm really

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my name is ashley and my question is

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what do you do for entertainment on the

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oh that's an easy one that what we do

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for entertainment up here when we have

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some free time

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is look out the windows there's always

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something amazing to see our planet is

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just

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incredibly beautiful as it rotates

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beneath us

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looking out the window we're we're going

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about five miles a second and so we

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cover a lot of ground very quickly but

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it's always amazing to see what the

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world looks like what texas looks like

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what the valley looks like going

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overhead as we're

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you know ripping down the you know up

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the gulf coast across the country across

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the globe

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looking down on the planet without all

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those colored lines that we draw and

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call borders

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looking at the planet at night and

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seeing the cities where people are and

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the lights are on and it's astonishing

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to go across the united states and

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europe and and and you know the

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different parts of the world and see

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what they look like at night because

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it's very very different and then

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there's the stars and i love looking at

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the stars i've loved that since i was a

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a kid as a boy scout in the valley going

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camping and going out into the

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you know out away from the city lights

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and looking up at the night sky and here

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it's really really amazing because the

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stars are steady with uh without the

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twinkle that is caused by our atmosphere

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and so there it's always amazing to look

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out the windows and that entertains us

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for hours on end if if we only had hours

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hello my name is jesus

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and how how does being on the

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international space station change your

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view about the earth and the

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oh that's a that's a profound question

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there i think you know for me it's like

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i mentioned before you really get a

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sense that the the earth is one place

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you know when when we're on the ground

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and we're watching the news and we're

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going about our business in our little

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corners uh you know of this globe we

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think of it all very locally

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and and that's that's appropriate up

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here though when you can go across

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countries in in seconds

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uh maybe not seconds but certainly in in

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well

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you know go across countries very

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quickly and go

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go across continents in minutes

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you really get a sense that we are on

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you know one

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in one place in spaceship earth you know

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is a finite place it's a small place and

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you know in some places it's a crowded

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place and you kind of wish that we could

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all just

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live and work here uh together in a in a

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friendlier way in a more cooperative way

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because it is one one world one planet

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you know one atmosphere uh the the

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oceans

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are all joined together and so we share

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so much and

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and i think we need to learn how to take

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care of that together and be good

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stewards of this this gift that we have

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that i think that's probably just an

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awareness of those kind of things is is

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the biggest to me

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my name is diego and my question is

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having logged over 1 000 hours and 34

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different aircrafts which aircraft was

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hey derego i think my favorite without a

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doubt is the the f-16 military air force

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aircraft i spent a lot of years working

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on that airplane

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helping develop it as a flight test

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engineer and then working in the program

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office and uh you know it's it's a it's

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a very high performance airplane

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very good at what it does and i've got a

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lot of my own fingerprints on the the

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design and the capabilities in that

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airplane so i gotta say i love the f-16

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hi my name is noah and my question is

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how and where do you sleep on the space

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hey norah that's a good practical

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question we actually

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we we sleep in sleeping bags because you

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know we don't really have beds and beds

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wouldn't make much sense because most of

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your bed is as big frames to hold

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mattresses and spring cushions and

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things like that which we don't need up

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here

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and sleeping bags we have plenty of room

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for sleeping bags because they don't

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have to go on the floor like you might

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use them at your house when you have

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friends over we can put them on the

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walls or the ceiling just as easily just

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as easily as we can put them on the

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floors

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each of us has a little a little we call

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them crew quarters it's really kind of

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like a crew closet uh that's it's about

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the size just a little bigger maybe than

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an old uh old phone booth

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and that's where our sleeping bag is

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located and some of our personal stuff

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and a little computer so i can go in

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there and i can do email and there's

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actually a phone hookup through my

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computer so i can call my wife and my

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kids so that's it's kind of a like i

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said it's about the size of a broom

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closet you might have close to your

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kitchen

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last question

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hi my name is fernando and my question

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is if you weren't an astronaut what job

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wow now that's a really interesting

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question i've done a lot of different

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things i had a lot of different

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part-time jobs summer jobs school jobs

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when i was growing up i think probably

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one of the hardest jobs that i've done

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of course i was in the military i did

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flight tests and i loved the flight test

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business working as a flight test

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engineer

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and very challenging very

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very rewarding work

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to being in the military to serve in our

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country in that way

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for me another one too that i enjoyed

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for a period of time

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was was teaching and i could see

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teaching someday i actually worked as a

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substitute high school teacher

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for four to five months in between being

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on active duty in the air force and

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starting work at nasa and that was uh

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that was such an amazing thing to be in

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a classroom like your teachers are all

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the time and they're some of the just

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bravest hardest working people there are

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but i've been in those shoes just a

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little bit not not like they are where

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they're really responsible for for you

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and your learning all year long but it

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gave me a real appreciation for teaching

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my wife is a teacher now too and i know

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how hard that that she works but i know

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how rewarding it is to see the the

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students that are that are coming to

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life and are waking up and are enjoying

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what they're learning and are excited

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about it because that's what that's why

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teachers teach they teach because they

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love it and they love working with you

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and seeing you

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understand and come let the pieces start

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fitting together in your head and

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as you start to understand this stuff

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and that and the reason that's so

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rewarding is because it they know

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that that's preparing you for your

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tomorrow it's giving you the skills that

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you need to pursue your dreams whatever

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they might be whether it's to take my

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place up here in a few years

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or to be a teacher yourself or any kind

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of businessman or engineer or scientist

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that those what you learn in the

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classroom is building your foundation

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for your future to follow whatever your

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dreams might be

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and that's why teachers love it so much

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that's why they keep doing what they're

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doing and i think maybe teaching in some

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way thanks for the question it was a

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commander

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these five glass students have a message

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for you representing a thousand five

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hundred other boys and girls here in the

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rio grande valley

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goodbye and thank you for visiting with

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congressman hinojosa thank you very much

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sir your your support for hestech is

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amazing you're bringing a lot of ideas

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and energy into the valley into the

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lives of these students who are going to

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be changed by this in so many ways and

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our future depends on them we give it to

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them and to their energy to their skills

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and and ideas to lead us into the future

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thank you very much congressman and to

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all the students at hestech and all the

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teachers and supporters that make it

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happen

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thank you very much you guys enjoy the

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enjoy the day make the best out of it

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this is mike fossum on the international

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station this is houston acr

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thank you that concludes the event

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that's that conference congressman

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inohosa and the university of texas pan

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american