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station this is houston are you ready

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good afternoon we're ready for the event

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carver high school this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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station this is congresswoman terry

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sewell at carver high school in

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you hear me carver high school this is

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mike fossum on the international space

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well astronaut folsom

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we want to thank you for taking the time

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really looking forward to both an

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inspirational and informative session

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our students will ask the questions now

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and they will introduce themselves

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what school they're from and ask their

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that's great

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my name is brianna erskine and i'm from

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taint middle school is it difficult to

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hi brianna good question i think for me

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the hardest part for me is leaving

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behind my family i'm married i have four

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kids and i have a granddaughter now too

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so it's hard for me to be away from home

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for a long time for those kind of

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reasons but i think what i'm doing here

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my name is lord

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my name

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is from hurting k28 middle school

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how long do you have to train

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hey louis it's a great question how long

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do you have to train for a mission uh

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the the training goes on for many years

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it really started when i was in school

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just like you as i began an interest in

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math and science and technology uh and

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and began actually laying the the basics

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or the foundations for my mission up

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here back when i was in grade school

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after you go through college and and

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work and are selected as an astronaut

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well then for a space station mission

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like this it was intensive training

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for two and a half years of dedicated

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training before i launched on this

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uh which is a a long time so you take

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two and a half years of training and

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then almost half a year in space so

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that's a that's a three year chunk out

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of your life and it is wonderful i'm

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enjoying every minute of it of the

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training and now every minute of the

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i'm takiyah vader from engineer k-8

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school

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how long does it take the space station

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it's kind of surprising it only takes us

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90 minutes to go all the way around the

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earth just an hour and a half

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because that's because we're going over

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17 000 miles an hour

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or about five miles a second and so it's

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it's really pretty amazing to look out

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the window and i've done this a few

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times when i had time on a weekend to

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just watch the world go by and to see

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an entire day in about 45 minutes and

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minutes so it's it's a it's pretty

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pretty cool to see that so knowing

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whether it's light outside doesn't

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it doesn't get dark at night here when

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still shining bright and we're still

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going around the earth having a day and

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my name is santiago romero and

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wickerson middle school and my question

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when when you are on the space station

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what prevents everyone and everything

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are our windows right behind me but

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there's no way to open those windows

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there's a cover on the outside and

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we might talk about opening the windows

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but we're not really opening the windows

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we'll just there's a cover that helps

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protect the windows from being damaged

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sealed up and to keep all of the air

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inside and that's really really

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important and anytime we're doing

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something we do have little vents that

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go outside and we have hatches like when

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hatch to the soyuz spacecraft or one of

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our cargo ships and we'd spend a lot of

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perfectly so we're not going to leak air

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through those things now if the hole got

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rushing out of those holes and if it's a

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big enough hole then we're all going to

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get sucked out of it so we're but we

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get holes in the wall it makes for an

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exciting scene in a movie

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my name is elia torrell i'm from dane

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payne middle school

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what happens to rockin's when at rocket

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rockets when they're finished with their

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mission uh it it it depends but in

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general the rocket

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fuels and the big rocket engine to get

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they burn out when they use up the fuel

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in those sections those things fall away

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stages or some some kind of like rockets

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ones at the bottom and those fall away

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has the humans you know on the top

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incredibly hot temperatures as we're

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to earth and a few pieces of that

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spaceship get reused but most of it goes

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my name is jamir and i'm from hudson

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what you really love what are you

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different areas and when we have

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astronauts that are geologists they

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physicists medical doctors engineers of

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astronautical engineers we have mechanic

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different kind of engineers too and so

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the real answer for what you should

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interested in it in order to stick to it

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and to be one of the best and that's

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what you really want to do is do

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work at it really hard so you can be one

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of the best people ever doing whatever

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you have your best chance of taking my

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my name is maya wilson from casey ray

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school how long have you spent space and

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those missions that was just two weeks

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busy and now this is really long to be

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living in space for over a year and so

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my name is jayla glenn and i'm from

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hudson k2a school how often do you get

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uh and the other kids if they're there

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normal telephone like you have but it's

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through the computers and stuff where i

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call my family and say hi and talk about

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school and work and how things are going

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back and and then i get it we have a

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that well but it it is a way of staying

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in touch with family and friends which

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my name is ray shaw taylor from carver

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high school and my question is have you

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seen the aurora borealis and australis

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the the northern and southern lights are

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starting to become more active now and

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that's a fascinating thing to see with

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your eyes up here where you're not on

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the ground you can see them in the

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northern parts of the united states you

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can see it sometimes

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or in the southern parts of the world

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but up here you have the chance to fly

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through those areas and

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and you can actually we actually fly

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through it and it's it's a pretty

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strange thing with this incredible green

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kind of waving lights and there's some

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red

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glowing in the atmosphere up above too

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which is really cool

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uh i think other than that the

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you know that's probably the coolest

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thing of all of this really cool

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my name is kiera victor and i attend

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carver high school i want to know why do

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hey carrick good question we wear

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spacesuits for the same reason uh when

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we're talking about why

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we don't you know because there's a

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vacuum outside there's no air outside we

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don't all get sucked outside and die

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the spacesuit we wear for the same

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reason to keep that air pressure around

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us

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our air pressure up here

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where we're living and working in space

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is the same as the air pressure around

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you right now in alabama and and we keep

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it that way because that's what where

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our bodies were designed to work at this

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kind of pressure and live at this

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pressure the spacesuit is designed to

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keep the air pressure around our bodies

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to to uh to help keep us healthy it also

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protects us from extreme cold

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or heat

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i've done seven space walks and outside

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the temperatures can get plus and minus

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200 degrees

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if it if it's away from the sun it gets

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really really cold and if the sun's

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shining on things it can get 200 degrees

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or even hotter from the intense energy

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on it so it the spacesuit protects us

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my name is marvel rhodes and i attend

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george washington high school my

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question is why do the rockets get i

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mean excuse me how do the rockets get to

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it's a

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good question margo the the rockets use

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thrust

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and they generate a lot of energy you

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know pushing out of the back of the

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rocket and it we combine a fuel

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and an oxidizer and a

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simple way to think of it would be like

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gasoline and oxygen it's not gasoline

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but you know it's fuels that that that

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we're all familiar with and you combine

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the two of them together it makes an

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explosive mixture that burns really

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really well and very very quickly uh and

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you know if you have some some gasoline

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or alcohol that that's out

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uh you know and you light it and i'm not

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recommending that uh you know you'll see

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that it burns and kind of a it mixes

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with air and stuff when when you mix the

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oxygen with it in that rocket engine it

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creates uh i mean a tremendous reaction

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of of force as the those liquids are

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expanding then into hot gas and the

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nozzle of the rocket kind of funnels

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that and push and directs it to push it

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down and you're sitting up on top of it

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and so that it's that's the kind of

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force that's generated from that

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combustion

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of the oxidizer and the fuel

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and then going through the nozzle of the

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rocket to push and it's literally a push

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i don't know the numbers for the soyuz

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rocket for the space shuttle it it

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weighs about four and a half million

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pounds sitting on the ground

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uh that's the the space shuttle itself

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and the fuel tanks and everything else

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and when it's leaving the earth it's

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pushing with over 7 million pounds of

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thrust

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and so that's that's a tremendous amount

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of incredible energies involved to get

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from sitting still on the surface of the

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earth

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and into orbit around the planet

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in about nine minutes

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it's a it's huge energies involved it's

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my name is demarcus jimbo and i attend

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dave payne middle school

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why are things different in space for

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example why do footprints stay on the

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oh that's a great question uh marcus the

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the the with for the moon

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i mean what changes the earth all the

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time if you go out and put footprints in

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the mud today

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sometime in the next week or two so the

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wind's going to come along somebody else

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is going to come along and step on them

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or a car is going to drive over them or

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it's going to rain again and it's going

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to wash it away the moon doesn't have

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the kind of weather that we have here

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because the weather depends on

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an atmosphere

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and rain and wind

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erosion processes and things like that

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that's why the moon has all these

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craters if you look at the moon with a

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good set of binoculars you can see these

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craters pockmarking the moon it's really

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amazing

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but the earth is in the same space that

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the moon is in so when we look at the

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earth and i look at the earth and i'm

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looking for these craters and you can

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find some there's there are many craters

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on the earth but they're barely visible

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most of them are just barely visible

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anymore because over time

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the weather processes have kind of

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washed away or eroded away

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most of the big signs of these craters

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as well as on the earth we have plate

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tectonics and that gets really

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complicated where the plates that make

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up the surface of our earth are shifting

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and grinding against each other over

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time and uh you know so there's several

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things but those footprints they leave

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on the moon are going to be there for a

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long time

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and i think it's really kind of cool to

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think about the fact that there are

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still you know our human footprints on

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the moon and someday we're going to go

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back up there and we're going to see

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that the footprints and the tire tracks

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from the lunar rovers and someday

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we're going to be putting human

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footprints on mars

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and that's a really cool thing too but

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they're not going to stay on mars

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because mars has wind

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it doesn't have much atmosphere it's

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very thin but it does have wind that

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kicks up big dust storms so the

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footprints on mars will make the history

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books but they won't be there a hundred

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commander felson thank you so much we

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are just so thrilled to have this

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opportunity and i know i speak on behalf

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of all those students here and

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birmingham and bessemer city schools and

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americans to say thank you for your

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service thank you so much for this

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safe travels

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oh

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thank you very much the the the children

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are amazing those were some awesome

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questions some really good questions i

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can tell they're really thinking and i

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know that the the purpose of this is to

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expose them to different ideas about the

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science and technology engineering and

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math that are key to our future there's

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a lot of things that they hear about in

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the world

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then and

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the key to figuring out some of these

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problems that they hear about in the

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news are really

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delving into the science and the

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technology behind these things to find

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out better solutions for a better

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tomorrow and enjoy the

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enjoy the adventures because it is fun

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stuff it's exciting stuff i've really

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enjoyed talking to you and

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now it's mike fossum on the

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station this is houston acr thank you

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that concludes the event

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and thank you carver high school

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representative sewell and students