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station this is houston are you ready

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houston we're ready for the event

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hey hou tv this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is khou tv how do you hear

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hey this is space station we hear you

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fantastic gentlemen thank you for taking

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glad to be with you today

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first question mr fossum how are you

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holding up after

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your time

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oh no this is uh the time has gone by in

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a flash it's been

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the calendar says it's been five and a

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half months to me it seems more like

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five and a half weeks if you ask my wife

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it's probably more like five and a half

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understood understood you are you are

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that busy five and a half months goes by

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oh it goes by in a flash you bet i've

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dreamed about living and working on a

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space station literally since i was a

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kid and so this is a dream come true for

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me i'm enjoying every bit of the the

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trip up here and indeed enjoyed the two

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and a half year training road uh to the

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before launching and coming up here so

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this has been great i it's i

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would be more than happy to stay here a

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bit longer

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and mr burbank we're not going to leave

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you out but i gotta ask a couple aggie

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questions first how are you possibly

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gonna move from this quiet location

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relatively where you are now to an aggie

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football game in just two days after you

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i am afraid i'm going to have to going

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to have to watch this particular game on

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tv i've enjoyed watching the games and

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game highlights appear through the

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season it's been a hard season but uh

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you know all die hard fans are watching

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so there's no way travel time you could

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possibly find yourself in that stadium

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in that short amount of time but i i

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when we were coming home about a week

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earlier that we were definitely uh

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holding on to that thought and would

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love to do it uh we'll have family and

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friends at the game but it's a little

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too quick after getting home for me to

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try to

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mingle with 85 000 people in kyle field

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much as i'd love to be there

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would it be too much culture shock if

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shock that's the that's 85 000 family

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members there no problem at all it's

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the rehabilitation takes a little bit of

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time and i think two days after getting

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home is a little quick too i try to

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venture out that much

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exactly and what is the most difficult

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part of being in space for five and a

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half months is the isolation up there

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the amount of time it's going to take

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you to recover and your advice for mr

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burbank is he begins his stay

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for me the hardest part is just a

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separation from family

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we stay in touch email phone calls and a

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weekly video conference but my family my

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kids some of my kids are older married

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and out of state and

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it's uh missing out on being there for

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the family events like that it's

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probably the hardest part

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professionally it's it's awesome it's

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been just a wonderful experience and my

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advice for dan is enjoy every bit of

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though there any time you know you think

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that you're getting a little bit

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frustrated uh get a grip because you're

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in the most amazing place imaginable

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working in the world's premier

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laboratory in orbit you know 240 miles

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an amazing place and what a just a great

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experience it is every bit of it

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and mr burbank if i can start with you

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uh where are you guys physically right

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now in iss and uh where in orbit are you

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okay right now on the iss we're in the

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u.s laboratory destiny so we're probably

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about three quarters of the way from the

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very furthest aft part of the space

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station to the very furthest forward

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part and this is where most of the the

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american science is done in this

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laboratory right here

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as far as where we are over planet earth

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couldn't tell you the window that we

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would ordinarily be able to look down

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and look through right now has a science

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experiment in it and it's closed up and

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we've got computers that'll often tell

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if we were right now in node three where

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the cupola is it would be almost

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effortless because we'd have a 360

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degree view of the world scrolling by

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beneath us but i i couldn't tell you

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right now i'm embarrassed embarrassed to

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with just a few days of overlap up here

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they just they didn't schedule in window

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time we get that later at night once the

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regular work schedule is complete as we

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did last night enjoyed dan's first look

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panoramic view from the cupola which is

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just absolutely stunning and we look

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forward to more of that this evening

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after the works complete and a question

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for both of you i'd i've got to ask you

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to compare your your various rides uh up

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given that it's your your only way to

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ride uphill i'd say the acceleration the

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sensations are are very similar um the

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inside so there's it's a it's a

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different experience as far as the crew

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is and and it goes we've got if you're

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mission specialist number two seat

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smaller capsule the windows that you've

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it's spectacular we went from basically

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leaving the pad and uh blowing snow and

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uh very impressive very neat

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i flew uh also two times on the space

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shuttle and for me i felt on the on the

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shuttle that launch you really feel the

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lot of weight uh you know and and you

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to move people to and from the space

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which is very valuable but that's not

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hauling people and it's good at that uh

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but a very different ride home

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where the shuttle comes in

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you as you come in like that sitting in

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backs and we'll be feeling the g's

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know in a gentle type fashion it we land

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under parachutes and the parachute

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opening shock and the dynamics of that

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parachute opening the repositioning

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as the uh there's a soft landing rockets

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that go off just above the ground to to

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begin that final deceleration before you

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we're less than two minutes but i got to

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ask both of you does it trouble either

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um as far as your your first question

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i think in general it behooves all of us

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to have as many ways to get to and from

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space as we can and i'm encouraged by

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the fact that shortly uh in the next

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couple years we probably will have a

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whole suite of different vehicles and

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options to get to space

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reliable very quick way to come back and

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american capability to launch humans to

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and from space to get to and from space

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to get to and from the space station i

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think it's an obligation as a space

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station partner to have a redundant

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capability uh in case there's a a delay

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or a problem with the with the russian

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system and we saw a potential you know

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significant setback after the the soyuz

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in august that delayed dan's arrival by

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a couple of months if that was a little

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bit longer then we would be turning out

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figuratively up here and nobody wants to

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do that

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as for the game hey aggies are going to

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win that thanksgiving game hands down

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look forward to it

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gentlemen thank you it's been an honor

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talking to you uh best of luck up there

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and your stay and mr fossum coming home

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thank you much

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station this is houston acr that