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cbs news this is mission control houston

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please call station for a voice check

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station this is cbs news radio at

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is this bill i've got you loud and clear

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well actually it's peter king but bill

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harwood is with me and we both have

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questions for you this morning dan first

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of all good morning and happy

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thanksgiving

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the holiday tomorrow we're wondering how

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you celebrate what you'll eat and you

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even have time to enjoy a holiday this

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peter good morning to you too um

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yes tomorrow it's going to be a day off

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for us it'll be a holiday and we'll get

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a chance to celebrate

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with uh with our our families at least

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remotely from space station um for

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myself i i've got some turkey

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some cranberry dressing stuffing um all

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of the standard traditional uh

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for a thanksgiving meal already lined up

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and ready to go and we've got enough for

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anton and anatoly and i all three to

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share

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the three of you have really had kind of

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a rush 10 days really hitting the ground

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running how's the early going been and

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what's at the top of your to-do list

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well it actually has been been really

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busy it's it's been busy for the two

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months actually leading up the launch

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too peter

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we

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saw them off on their way back home

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yesterday

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we basically as quickly as possible

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tried to learn our way around the space

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station from a system standpoint

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payloads and all the rest

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and we've hardly even had a chance to

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unpack our things and get settled into

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our crew quarters so i guess for us

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right now for tomorrow for the holiday

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that's probably pretty high on the list

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of priorities is just complete the the

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moving in process if you will

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hey dennis bill harwood uh we were all

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mightily impressed to watch you take off

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in what looked like a blizzard the other

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day that's quite a quite an all-weather

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machine the russians have what was

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launched like how was uh from a shuttle

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guys perspective what was it like riding

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yeah great question bill uh to me

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actually the sensations of the ride

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uphill were pretty much the same i think

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the acceleration profiles very similar

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to what the shuttle is

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we all have to go to from zero to 17 500

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miles an hour in about nine minutes or

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so and that's that's pretty much the

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the accommodations are a little bit more

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uh cozy i guess i'd put it so it's a lot

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smaller inside

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pretty much the same getting into the

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rocket was a little bit different

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as you mentioned

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with the snow and we also had a lot of

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of fog that's kind of caused by

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uh the super cooled propellant that's in

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the rocket basically chilling down the

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air so it was uh it was basically a

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bucket brigade of the very specialists

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and strap in crews and uh in russian uh

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space agency management that kind of led

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us in our uh in our snow suits i think

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you might have seen those as well uh to

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the ladder to to make our way up to the

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to the elevator and on board and uh and

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there was basically two arms length

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worth of it worth of visibility on the

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way in um but once you got inside it was

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it was just like you trained in the sim

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and uh and actually very neat

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very cool you know i know with the short

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hand handover you guys are still getting

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your your space legs i guess but

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one question i had looking down the road

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i'd seen a reference earlier about uh

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main bus switching unit number one

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having some some difficulties and and

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that might be something you end up

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having to go outside and do something

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about what what's the status of mbsu-1

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and and what might be on your plate

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well right now mbsu-1 is still working

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source that being the solar rays down to

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the downstream load so it's it's doing

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its job in passing power but it's not

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talking to the computers that control it

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right now so it's what we call a loss a

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calm situation right now but it's

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functioning and doing all the things it

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needs to to keep all the loads working

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as a precaution we've got

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a jumper cable that we've installed

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that'll protect us from the mbsu failing

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outright and potentially losing some

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critical loads inside the space station

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we also have another jumper that'll

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protect us from a similar failure

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causing us to lose some of our external

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cooling so that one's in standby but the

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jumper to protect all the internal loads

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that's in place should it actually fail

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entirely then that would be a reason to

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go outside and uh and repair it i think

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so uh but right now uh right now it

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seems to be doing its job okay

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yeah and would you be the one that would

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go outside would it be uh

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i'm assuming it would be you but i'm not

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sure about that if it happened early

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if it lasted if it worked okay to

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through the end of our expedition then

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want to defer that as long as possible

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and put it on the next planned u.s eva

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for example usc va 18.

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if it fails between now and the end of

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our expedition then likely what we would

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do is i'd go outside either with andre

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kuipers or with don pettit and

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and the other of the two of them i one

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of the other the other of the two of

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them would probably either do arm

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support from a camera an overall viewing

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standpoint or potentially if it was

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complicated arm operations uh to the

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one of one of the two eba crew members

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needed to be in a foot restraint mounted

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on the arm probably i think don would be

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inside flying the arm for that operation

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dan you've got the daily double of

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holidays that you'll be missing here on

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earth not just thanksgiving but

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christmas and add new years to that

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did i say don dan excuse me how tough is

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it to be be away from your family and

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and i'm wondering if on that last

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progress that came up if you've got

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christmas packages uh that are on there

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no i sure do peter actually i had a

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halloween package and a thanksgiving

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package and then i've got

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actually i haven't opened that one yet

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i'm not allowed to until tomorrow

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morning and there's also a christmas

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package and we actually got some things

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for all three of us for christmas anton

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anatoly and i um it's it's always tough

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being away from your family and and

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it's been that way for a long time and

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for crews that do long duration you're

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away for a considerable period of time

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during the training leading up to launch

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the two years or two and a half years

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away from family on the road and so

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forth and in kind of an interesting

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sense now that i've got on board space

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station i actually have a little bit

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better communication with the family

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right now i almost feel like i'm i'm uh

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i'm i'm with them to a greater extent

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than i would be if i was overseas for

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example in star city or uh in in europe

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or japan and that's because we've got a

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great capability on board to video

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conference so at the very least a couple

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of times a week one time a week for sure

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and this week definitely tomorrow as

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well i'll have a a two-way video

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conference with the family

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they can watch me to the degree that

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it's it's not too boring for them they

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can watch me almost any time on

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on iss live or on the nasa nasa tv

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website so

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they're always watching me i get a

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chance to see them i can call them a

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couple of times a day without almost you

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know any problem at all

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and and that's really neat so they they

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feel like they're with me you know here

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at ksc we're awaiting another launch the

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mars science lab and curiosity rover on

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saturday morning you're going to be home

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of course by the time it lands on mars

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ultimate goal in the next couple of

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to mars it's the most earth-like planet

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in the solar system it's a planet that

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uh many millions billions of years ago

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was probably very similar to earth and

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very wet

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that there are uh there's evidence of

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life and potentially even current life

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albeit in a in a in a very simple form

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buried in the soil of mars so

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as we've gradually gone from you know

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from viking uh to the spirit and

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opportunity rovers to now mars science

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laboratory we have more and more

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that can analyze samples and and uh and

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indication that there's life give us

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some very strong clues and it's a it's a

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great way to pave the future uh flights

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are destined to go there and dan as we

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close out we did have a request from a

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twitter follower who wants to know when

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you'll start tweeting and hopefully

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it'll be soon when things settle down

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have a great thanksgiving and from bill

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and bill and me bill and i hope you have

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a very safe mission we look forward to

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peter bill it was great to have you on

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board great talking with you and that's

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on my list of things to do when the in

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all the uh the hectic time leading up to

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so far i haven't been able to keep up

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with that but i will you you folks take

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care have a wonderful thanksgiving and

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station this is houston acr

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and thank you cbs news station please