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i'm mike massimino and this is inside

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international space station

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absolutely no strings attached to mike

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get out

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to kind of share it with as many people

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as possible streaking across the sky

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we're going to clean it out and air it

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we're here in the mission control center

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at the johnson space center and we're

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going to find out what this crew is up

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to we have six crew members on the space

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station including two americans ron and

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mike we're gonna go speak to them we're

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gonna find out what they're up to

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because there's been a lot of reports in

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the papers since the space shuttle

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program ended that the space program was

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ending so we're wondering what are these

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guys doing and do they even know that

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the space program ended we're going to

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find out what they're up to come on

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let's go inside

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people here supporting the crew 24 hours

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a day every day there's people here

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this is in case we get out of control

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they're going to hit us with this thing

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it says attitude control device right

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this is so close i

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got my buddy right here

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hey mike

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good luck

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on the big screen

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uh you can't see us though can you

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no i can't but i can i can imagine uh

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imagine you

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here comes mike he uh he had a clue

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but here comes mike he had to clean

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himself up he didn't want to scare the

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children in case there are any children

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watching we might seem like a scary boy

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if you just hear the voice you know like

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if we were to play tricks and like get

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out

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or something like that does that scare

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you guys at all yeah that's funny that's

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exactly the way robonaut sounds

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sometimes in the middle of the night

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is that is that scary is that robot

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pretty scary to have him on board

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uh he's been pretty tame so far we're

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gonna hopefully unleash him in the next

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week and uh we'll see what happens well

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hey you know guys we really appreciate

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you spending some time with us i know

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you're busy it's the end of your day

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it's very kind to you to uh to come and

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say uh let us come and say hi but we

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have we have some questions you guys got

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the news up there right don't you get

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the news of the shuttle program being

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over

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so the first thing i thought about is

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right the space program is over

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what are you guys doing nobody told us

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it was over yeah we did we went you know

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we do get the news up here but i guess

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we'd missed out on that that tidbit that

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the space program was over because

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you know i don't know how how we got up

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here and how we're getting back so uh

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so um yeah we're doing a lot up here we

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we've got this amazing complex that we

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built called the international space

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station we be in the 15 nations of the

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international space station partnership

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and we are conducting uh experiments uh

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in a whole wide range of areas uh that

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that we really believe are going to make

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a difference and there is anything you

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can do to prove to us right now that

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directly in space i mean i do some kind

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of floaty astronaut trick or something

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for us

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yeah so

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yeah there's here's

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there's there's absolutely no strings

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attached to mike as far as i know you

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can't even have to warn the kids don't

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try this at home because there's no way

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they could try that at home

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the most fun things that we can do up

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here is just simply look out the window

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and and you know when you see these

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views you're like oh i wish everybody

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can see this so so you really want to

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try and take as many pictures as you can

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as many as much video as you can

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to kind of share it uh with as many

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people as possible so that's been uh

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that's been a um you know a big goal of

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ours up here and you know we try and

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take pictures that are a little bit

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different we don't want to take you know

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the same pictures that you could see

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from satellite imagery we try and um you

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know give give a different perspective

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give it a different view of the planet

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than you you'd get just by uh you know

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going on the internet and looking at

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satellite imagery three pictures that

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i've taken that i i really was fortunate

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to get i took a lot of photos but three

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of them came out uh really nice there

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were one was with atlantis here

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and i was watching a night pass and the

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aurora was starting to kick up and so

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i've got this the green aurora kind of

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sneaking on the horizon there with

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atlantis hanging on the end of the

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station that was a cool one

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another one the night before she left

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the mplm is

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is tucked in the payload bay and i got

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got really lucky and i've got a really

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nice picture with atlantis on the end of

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the station and a lot of stars showing

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atlantis looking like a meteor streaking

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across the sky

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very inspired by your

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your sharing of the images and what

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you're seeing out the out the window has

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and so now for for ron you've got what

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about another two weeks left on there is

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that right two weeks from today but

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who's counting are you going to miss ron

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are you going to keep his room like a

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kid leaving for college are you not

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going to touch his room are you going to

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move in there

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we're going to clean it out and air it

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out for sure

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but yeah we're going to miss him going

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to miss him a lot

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he's been the the

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the usos lead up here he's been the

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senior guy he knows how to how to do

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everything where everything's located

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and stuff and so i've been learning from

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him school has started guys right yeah

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but what are you gonna do about the

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parent teacher conference and you know

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making sure everything's running

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smoothly with the with the school work

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because i know you guys help the kids

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with the homework when you're at home so

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well mostly for me i i encourage my wife

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milani who is engaging in that arena

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because yeah it's a little hard to get

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involved with the parent-teacher

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conferences if things don't get on track

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here fairly quickly though i may

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threaten to start calling or emailing

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teachers that'll cause a lot of

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attention which my son really won't like

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i mean if it came down to it we needed

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to use the phone to help with homework

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we could certainly do that and i i

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actually get the uh clear creek high

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school football game sent up to me so i

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could keep track of things there so it's

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a it's a you know again this is just

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another way that we stay connected with

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what's going on college football season

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starting too i'm sure mike is uh

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raring to go on that

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who are you going to be rooting for this

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year

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yeah he's a big longhorn fan

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all right we're going to get that one

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we came in here there was another

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downlink going on and and uh

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we're showing some uh some video of you

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guys and did you ever guys get you ever

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get you know we don't know what really

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we can't really see we just see your

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so i was wondering you ever guys get

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tempted just to do some work and then

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tape it and then just replay it over and

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over again down and so people think

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you're working is that that's what

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crossed my mind this is probably why

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they never let me on the space station

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but do you ever guys get tempted to do

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anything like that

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you know i we haven't but that's because

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we're not creative enough to think of

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that now that now that you mention it

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we're going to hack into the uh video

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downlink i know to both you guys i know

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you guys are tight it might just be fun

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to be up there together you bet it is

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we've been working and training together

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for like five years

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uh to train and fly 124 three years ago

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and right after we got home it seemed

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like well that and a hurricane cleanup

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for ronnie uh he started training and a

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few months later i jumped in and and the

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fact that he was in the line was that's

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one of the big reasons i decided to you

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know to go for it and and and just enjoy

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the ride together again so it is you

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know when you're living like this you

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become like family we're about out of

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time here we got just about 30 seconds

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left of k.u

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we really appreciate you spending the

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time with us that you know take cutting

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into your pre-sleep time so in the last

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couple of seconds though you've done a

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great job of describing things we

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obviously have people in space this

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space program is by no means over he

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just finishes up with some more

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astronaut tricks that prove again that

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you are actually in space this is not

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this is not a farce

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have you lost some weight you see look