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station this is houston are you ready

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houston station i'm ready for the event

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krg

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tv this is mission control houston

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houston this is krgbtv i am ready do you

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krg this is mike fossum on the space

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good morning commander fossum it is so

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it's great to talk to you today too dina

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all right so much to talk about uh tell

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i i'd prefer to think of it as my latest

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mission in space this this one's a

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really big adventure you know i started

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off uh well first two space shuttle

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missions each about two weeks in

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duration helping build the space station

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and now i'm living on the space station

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for almost six months and i am currently

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serving as the commander of the

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international space station it's an

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awesome responsibility but it's really a

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what's it been like for you these last

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learning to to adapt to not just

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visiting space but to living up here and

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there's a lot of adaptation because our

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the ground to help keep our bones and

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our muscles healthy our cardiovascular

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system healthy and all of our habits on

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your ability to take a tool set it on

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the workbench and it stays there and

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you have to adapt you have to learn how

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to hold everything down

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all the spare parts all the nuts and

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as you're working on things or they

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won't just fall to the floor because

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there's no falling to the floor they

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will go in all different directions and

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i saw you not too long ago at hess tech

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hundreds of students from the valley and

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you showed them some really cool tricks

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kids at heztech hestech's a wonderful

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and uh it's it's a great opportunity for

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people to come in and for them the the

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the children to be exposed to different

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parts of science technology engineering

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mathematics and see that it really is

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these are exciting fields of study they

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explain through the science and

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technology it it explains how our world

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works and so any any kid that's looked

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up in the sky and wondered why is it

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looked at the the tides and and science

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that it helps put the some of the

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understanding behind the wonder in in a

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really see where people live where the

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cities are located with all of the

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lights and it's so fascinating to see

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united states and how that changes in

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i'm up here now and there's there's more

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a month to eventually take my place up

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experience to to go through all of that

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american rocket again and i'm excited

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challenge of a career and a great

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opportunity for me but i am looking

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for my launch so it's a it's a long road

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look out at them that was my dream but

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kveo tv this is mike fossum on the

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commander fossum hi from mcallen where

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our our partners spoke spanish i'd be in

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career i thought back on the days and

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and as a scout when i was tackling a

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mountain that was impossibly high for me

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over 12 000 feet

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high you know for a kid growing up in

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the valley that's that's an impossible

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kind of mountain and i didn't think i'd

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ever get to the top but you keep pushing

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and you help each other along and you

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find out you can do amazing things that

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you didn't dream about

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now it's a risky job being in space but

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i know the information and the science

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you bring back is tremendous can you

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talk about the risk you know in learning

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there is some risk associated with with

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traveling in space there's a big risk

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associated with a launch when you're

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harnessing you know millions of pounds

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of thrust to push you off the planet and

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take you from sitting still on a launch

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pad

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to

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nine minutes later

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being in orbit literally nine minutes

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later you're going over 17 000 miles an

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hour that's one heck of a lot of energy

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and there's a you know you're a little

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concerned that this great big explosion

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is going on behind you that's shoving

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you off of the planet living up here

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there's risks associated with being up

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here too there's there's radiation risk

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there's micro meteorite or orbital

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debris hitting the space station is one

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of the risks we train for there's the

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technical risks inside

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fires toxic spills we train train train

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we're always working to on those things

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and to to minimize the risk

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in the design and then to be ready to

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respond if we need to

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why why do we do all this it's because

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it's part of exploration the space

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station is the world's premier

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laboratory we can investigate things

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here that cannot be investigated in the

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presence of the gravity field sitting

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still on earth the the solidification of

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materials

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exotic metals and and as they are melted

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in furnaces and then cooled in certain

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ways and on the ground there's currents

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that arise in the molten metal or

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materials

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just from the gravity where the the the

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hotter stuff rises to the top

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and that causes a mixing here you get

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pure very pure crystals out of those

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kinds of experiments we're doing flame

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combustion experiments where you don't

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have the the the presence of the

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convective forces on earth when the

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the

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air around a flame heats up it rises

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that's what pulls the camera or the the

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candle uh flame into a taper

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up here flames are round and they tend

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to be a little dim and orange because

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you're not getting that infusion of

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oxygen and you can study the physics of

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combustion in a way that you can't do on

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the ground and if we could figure out

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how to make a combustion process a

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burner a heater just half a percent more

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effective we would be saving billions of

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dollars in energy costs around the globe

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that's the kind of things that drive us

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that's great now you're not up there

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alone you're up there with uh sergey

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volkov and uh sawatashi furukawa talk to

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me be honest you know how is it up there

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oh we all we all bring our own funny

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living habits because you know to uh to

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a china or to a japanese guy and a

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russian

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the you know americans seem funny and

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you know vice versa and so we're really

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we're we're like brothers from around

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the globe from different corners of the

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globe i really enjoy sitting on them and

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and we sit in the evening we we're

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pretty busy most of the day we usually

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get together for a quick lunch and then

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in the evening it we we spend an hour or

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so over dinner and we talk about things

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we talk about our university uh you know

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our growing up experiences our college

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experiences our military experiences and

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those kind of things and it's just

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fascinating to learn from each other and

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really uh to become you know bonded

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together because our lives depend on

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each other so we're more than just

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crewmates we're friends

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right and you know with the ending of

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the space program tell me a little bit

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about you know what are the future plans

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well nasa's plans for the immediate

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future for the next 10 years are to

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continue

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to

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staff and maintain the international

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space station

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it's kind of a

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misnomer that the space program has

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ended the space shuttle program has

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ended that's just one program out of

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several we've had through the years

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it's it's a little hard to just wrap our

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brains around right now because the

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shuttle program was flying for 30 years

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so most of america knows

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our country as a space faring nation and

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that means the space shuttle the space

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shuttle's program is done its mission is

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complete and now they're being prepared

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to go to museums around the country

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there's a number of different programs

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in work right now to develop commercial

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vehicles first for cargo because the

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space shuttle brought a tremendous

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amount of cargo up with each flight

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so the commercial vehicles trying to

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get a cargo capability for the space

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station and they're working very quickly

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to uh

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go beyond that to carrying humans so

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we're going to continue

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in one of these arenas to continue

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flying americans to space right now i

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flew up on a russian rocket four months

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ago and i'll be returning on the russian

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spacecraft uh just before thanksgiving

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and that's what we'll be using for the

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next uh the next few years but it won't

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be long i believe until we have an amer

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another american rocket capable of

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carrying humans to and from space first

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to the space station we're talking about

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sending humans to an asteroid i have no

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doubt there'll be human footprints on

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back on the moon again and on mars

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within our lifetimes and i can't wait to

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see it well that's interesting to hear

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and i know you like you said are coming

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back on november 22nd you'll be

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returning home what are your thoughts on

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i am looking forward to being home i've

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been gone for four months up here and a

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couple of months before that for final

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training and preparation in russia

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before uh launching i'm definitely

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looking forward to being home i've been

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training in russia for the last two

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thanksgivings in a row so i'm i look

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forward to being home with my whole

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family at thanksgiving time at the same

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time at the same time this has been an

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awesome experience i don't feel like

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today i'm not ready to go i have a lot

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of work yet to do

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and a lot of things i want to see and

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accomplish yet up here but in six weeks

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when it's time to go home i'll be ready

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you know you're definitely a man that

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goes after his dreams you know many

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times kids start that process but they

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don't follow through and continue that

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pursuit what advice can you give valley

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youth and the young adults here in the

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valley about following their following

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absolutely

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it's critical to believe that your

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dreams can come true

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and and they can i grew up in the early

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days of the space program watching our

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steps as we moved toward the moon and

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and remembered the first moon landing

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it was a

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few months after that with boy scouts i

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was camping at falcon lake i remember

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this night vividly out away from you

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know most of the lights it's a very dark

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part of the the valley and sitting on a

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hillside out there

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after the evening campfire just looking

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up into the sky until you feel like

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you're in the middle of the stars and i

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really did feel like that and indeed the

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earth is in the middle of the stars

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because the milky way becomes bright you

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can see all these things

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and i just dreamed about you know what

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if could i really go out there could

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this be possible

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and you know part of me didn't believe

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that it was even possible and a lot of

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people didn't believe that these kind of

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things could really happen to some you

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know boy from the valley but i'll tell

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you what those dreams can come true you

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have to believe and then work at it

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don't just dream because dreaming is

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easy the hard part comes when you're

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putting the

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your shoulder into it and you're pushing

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working in school working in the jobs

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beyond that to be the best that you can

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be

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and it was it was not a sure thing that

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i was going to get here this was a long

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road and i i had a lot of adventures

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along the way i had disappointments

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along the way it wasn't a direct path

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for me but i believed and i kept working

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in that direction and i enjoyed the ride

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too

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all of the journey was a great adventure

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of

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you know moves and opportunities

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along the way and i'm really blessed

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with the family that has supported me

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through all of this and so it's been a

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it's been a real blessing and answer to

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a lot of prayers and i'm definitely

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living my dream now and if i can do it

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again i grew up right there in the

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valley just like everybody else my first

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paying job was on literally on an orange

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picking crew for 25 cents a bushel

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if i can move up from orange picken

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to the be the commander of the

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international space station

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anybody can do it

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well mike i have to say your story is

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incredible i hope you know the valley

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supports you i could see it in the eyes

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of the teenagers at the hez tech

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convention two weeks ago and let's face

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it if you can capture the love and

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interest of teenagers you can do

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anything right so on that note thanks

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again good luck and safe travels from

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kveo newscenter 23 thanks a bunch it's

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station this is houston acr thank you

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that concludes the event