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station this is Houston are you ready

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for the event Houston this is station

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where we are ready space com this is

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Mission Control Houston please call

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station from a voice check station this

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is space com how do you hear me hello

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Denise Mike Fossum with you loud and

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clear hi commander so nice to speak to

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you this morning I've got a fun one to

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start us off is there anything special

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planned for Halloween on the space

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station you know we haven't looked

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forward to Halloween we have a there is

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a bag of some of the personal items up

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here that the crews have brought up in

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the past right on the top are the

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Christmas kind of items I'm going to

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look underneath that and see if we have

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some masks or something we can have a

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little fun with that day commander

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you've been living in space for a couple

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months now with the population of Earth

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set to surpass 7 billion people I'm

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curious as to how evident humans are

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from space is it at all evident how much

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the population has grown either and how

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many lights you see I'm not sure you

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know quite how to measure that there's

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places on the earth where it's very

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evident there are not many people going

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across parts of the rain forests in

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Africa and South America you could see

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the unbroken dark green forest canopy

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that goes on seemingly without end and

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then of course you do reach the end and

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you see that that where where people are

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moving in and and you know in changing

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the earth changing the face of it it's

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really the most evident though at night

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when the lights come up and you can see

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where the industrialized world lives

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it's quite stunning to it to spend time

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with to light adjust in the cupola or

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station and go across parts of the world

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that are heavily populated and you see

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the cities you can see the highways

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across remote areas in certain countries

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and then the small bits of communities

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that sprout up off of those highways or

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rail railways perhaps

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so it's it's really fascinating I think

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to look at this the earth at night

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because it gives you that idea of the

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footprint of the presence a little more

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clearly it's fascinating and we also

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asked our readers what they were most

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curious about living and working from

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space so I'm going to ask a few of their

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questions now one of our readers Vicki

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Barker would like to know what's the one

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thing besides friends and family that

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you miss most about home a good question

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from Vicki Barker I think for me it's

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fresh fruit and vegetables would be near

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the top of my list because if eventually

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get a little tired of eating food out of

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a pouch rehydrated or or stabilized I

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think a really good pizza is high on my

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list of things to so it's it's creature

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comforts things that that I want to eat

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another thing that I miss are just the

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sounds and smells of nature of growing

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things of the damp moist earth that is

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from from which springs forth life I

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really missed that great and Rob would

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like to know would you command a mission

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to Mars right now if it were possible

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and if you were given the choice and if

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so what top three personal items would

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you bring to leave there Wow the first

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one I can answer hands down absolutely

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into space i started a notebook on Mars

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because I was pretty sure I was going to

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see human footprints on Mars and that I

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might have the chance to put those

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footprints on there myself or add mine

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still think that I will see that in my

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lifetime in our lifetimes and look

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forward to it a lot I'd have to not sure

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what I would leave what I would take to

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leave on Mars as just part of

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representing humankind I'll have to pass

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on that one Tim Greene asks despite

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having gone through countless hours of

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training what is surprised you the most

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on the International Space Station that

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because our training is extensive but as

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business most of your training focuses

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on the emergency scenarios and and when

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you really have to get into the details

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of knowing the systems knowing how to

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emergency situation but thankfully we

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have very little opportunity to exercise

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those up here and so there's more Oh

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payloads work we do and the simple

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things like going through and cleaning

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like that and so for me that was a

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filter just last week that I had not

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there and that we were measuring airflow

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doing some air flow measurements and it

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was a little low and Mission Control

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complex it's this big longer and wider

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than a football field and a lot of a lot

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of details hidden behind little panels

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that you didn't even know we're there

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Vince asks what do you feel is needed to

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recapture the imagination and passion to

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people to explore the stars with budget

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cuts in the weak economy what can we do

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to inspire and drive our young people

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and our governments to make exploration

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an important priority events continue to

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tell the story and that's what I'm

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other work that we're doing is just to

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successes the failures the things that

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really is and I think it's worth doing I

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think it really speaks to the pioneering

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spirit that's part of being an American

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and that that wants to explore wants to

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find ways to reach out to new places and

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visit which has been a great part of my

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very very different experience and I

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that story and to capture the

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imagination because as you capture the

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public's imagination and the imagination

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of not just young kids but even the

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college-age kids and and other people

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space program but through technology we

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can influence our world and a lot of the

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problems of our world have come about

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like the lights on so we build power

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plants and there's a downside to that

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solution for the future to to help clean

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resources more responsibly leave a

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smaller human footprint Tim Nunez asks

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screened for claustrophobia do you ever

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feel strained or otherwise impacted

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go by underneath you or make a phone

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call literally to home to talk to our

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families and so I am surprised really at

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up here at all it I it's hard for me to

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space i see a miracle what do you assign

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to see and are you still in

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of the view out of the windows well

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one of my jobs as soon as the engines

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cut off was just unstrap and grab

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cameras and jump up to the window to

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looking out the window that I'm not

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window at the North Atlantic with a

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impossibly thin layer of atmosphere and

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then a black sky up above and what

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the Earth from God's point of view

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looking down at the earth like this and

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technical person I do also appreciate

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the the processes of nature the the

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the planet where the rocks really stand

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lines the mountains the oceans it's a

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fascinating thing to watch well I think

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we're at the end of our time commander

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fossum thank you so much good luck with

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the remainder of your mission and have a

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safe trip home thanks Denise I really

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enjoyed talking to you station this is

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hey Vic Mike Fossum on the space station

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loud and clear good morning Mike good to

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see you tell me a little bit about

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final shuttle mission and so we jumped

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immediately into preparations for that

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there's an absolute date that you're

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working toward and you have a lot of

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work to do and it was pretty frantic

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frantic maybe not the right word but it

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was really busy working up to that you

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know it since that that part of that you

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know and going through the mission and

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it was just a wonderful experience it

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was a very emotional experience too but

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now we're in a different phase of

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operations and this is why we built the

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space station so we could continue and

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really concentrate not on preparations

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for a shuttle docking and more assembly

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but concentrate on the science

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objectives and we've had a lot of really

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good experiences and even fun activating

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the new facilities and changing out the

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different samples and and getting a lot

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of different science projects up and

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running and it's been great and so the

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focus has changed instead of that

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frantic assembly operations shuttle

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docked ops it's it's more to the

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utilization it's a great thing have you

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already got a long list of things that

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you would like the shuttle to bring up

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to you except the shuttles not there

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anymore surprisingly not uh the it they

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brought so much this time we have you

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know food and supplies to last for many

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months some things up to a year so we're

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in in really good shape there there's a

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you know a small list of things it's

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like okay next time we get a chance in

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fact the progress flight are the proper

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we have a progress fight in a few weeks

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the end of the month and you know

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they're bringing stuff up and there was

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a there was move in Houston dislike okay

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what are our top priority items to get

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up there and you know there's a few

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things coming up with it there's a few

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things coming up with the next crew on

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the Soyuz so we have cargo capability

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you know in place you know we've had a

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little I mean we've had of course with

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then that cargo shipped down we've lost

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some things there but there was nothing

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particularly critical in that and we're

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supply we're well supplied at this point

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in your flight Mike what do you miss

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most is it it's fall how about apples

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and leaves on the ground you have a

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grandchild that kind of thing you bet

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well I yeah you i miss my granddaughter

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that's for sure she was very young when

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I left and she has changed so much while

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seen some little video clips of her and

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and get the chance to talk mostly at her

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but here on the phone and it's a that's

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a you know probably the single person

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that I I you know just I can't

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communicate with her yet and so all I

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can do is look at pictures and I can't

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talk to her on the phone so I miss her

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and I definitely miss apples the fall is

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the time for those fresh crisp apples

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and I'm looking forward to some of those

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coming up on the progress oh that's the

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first I've heard about a progress

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bringing up that kind of thing I'll

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pizza maybe no I don't think pizza will

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make the trip but you bet the Russian

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vehicles come up with an assortment of

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fruit and vegetables so we'll have

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apples oranges they'll be actually uh

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there's always onions and perhaps even

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garlic and so those are it's it's great

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to taste the earth and I another thing

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that I miss really is just the sights

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the smells and sounds of nature it's a

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it's a little sterile inside a

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laboratory living environment like this

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and I missed the sound of the birds in

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the backyard and the smells of this

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things that are growing what your

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granddaughter being told that you're

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she's she's too young to understand what

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she's being told but on the at the top

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of my short list of things to do before

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I leave is to make a tour video of a

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tour for my granddaughter and so in a

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couple of years when she's old enough to

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start to understand these things she's

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going to have to endure another one of

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those talks with grandpa Mike as we sit

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down to watch my movie serious subject

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there's a scientific report that says

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almost half of people have been on the

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ISS event I problems when they return

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serious eye problems how worried are you

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about that that is of course something

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that gets everybody's attention when you

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when you hear about this and learn about

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it we're screened a lot to to try to

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keep but you know in a number of

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different ways looking at our interact

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or pressures the same kind of exams that

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are done in a doctor's office at home

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and we measure those up here we take

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actually ultrasounds of our eyes or

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optic nerves as well as a scans of the

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retina these are these are just

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diagnostic tools that are used at the

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doctor's office back home and we're

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using them with remote guidance up here

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to help track these kind of things

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there's something going on there with

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the eyes that we don't understand and

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that's a potentially significant thing

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we're fortunate that we're not

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experiencing anything that that appears

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to be you know of that nature which just

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adds a little more confusion to it don't

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know why some people are affected and

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some are you know less affected but it's

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something we need to understand and kind

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of get to the get to the bottom of if we

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you know want to continue them one of

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the things we're trying to do is learn

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how to live and work in space for long

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periods of time when we go to Mars it's

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going to be a long trip we're going to

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be you know off of the earth for a

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couple of years probably going there

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getting some work done coming back and

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we need to understand things like this

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and this came as a kind of a surprise

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but it's part of why we do this long

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duration research with us human guinea

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pigs do you have a kind of hunch about

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that do you think it's radiation

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I do not the the kind of hunches that I

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that I had don't seem to have played out

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and I I couldn't explain why there's you

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know again why it affects some people

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and does not affect does not appear to

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affect others the same way no idea okay

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last question time's running out what

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are you going to be dressed as for

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halloween although I might do something

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outrageous and dressed like an astronaut

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I always wanted to be one there must be

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a mask up there there is there is

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there's a bag of things like that and I

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know where the bag is located but i have

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not had a chance to dig into it and pick

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mine out so i I'm sorry about that well

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I have to do an interview again next

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week and I'll I'll pull it out okay safe

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thanks a bunch i really appreciate the

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interview the time to talk to you and

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this is mike fossum on the International

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Space Station sign it out station this

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is Houston ACR thank you that concludes

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the event thank you space com and ABC