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hi my name is dan burbank and i'm

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talking to you from aboard the

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international space station as commander

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of expedition 30.

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holidays spent away from family and

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friends especially when you're thousands

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of miles away and in our case hundreds

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of miles above the surface of the planet

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can be a little tough sometimes but we

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know that in our case in a very real

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sense we're not far from those who care

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about us

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for one thing we have hundreds of people

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worldwide and control centers watching

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over us and our space station 24 7.

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and we also know that our families and

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friends are thinking about us and

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supporting us every step of the way

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my crewmates anton shkaplerov

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anatoly ivanishin and i have been living

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aboard space station for nearly a month

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it's been a very busy but wonderful

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experience iss is designed for a crew of

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six so we've been at half strength for

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quite a while now

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that's about to change next week when

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we're joined by our friends and

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crewmates oleg kononenko andre kuipers

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and don pettit

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with their arrival iss will be back at

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full strength but will also have three

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good friends uh to join us

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will also happen just in time for the

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holidays the christmas and new year's

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holidays we've already put up

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decorations and we've gathered together

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all the cards and gifts that our friends

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and families have sent to us and we're

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planning a couple of very big meals that

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that'll be great and we'll celebrate the

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holidays in uh in great fashion after

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to see planet earth

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from above from the vantage point of

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space is an incredible experience and

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we're very fortunate to be able to do

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that

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this planet of ours is indescribably

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beautiful when seen from above

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in my opinion photographs just don't do

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it justice

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a couple of nights ago at the end of the

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workday

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the three of us were in the cupola

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taking turns sharing the view

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and that's a room that we have in one of

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the modules about midway down the stack

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of the space station it's got a 360

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degree view and you can see thousands of

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miles of the earth's surface from a

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horizon to horizon to horizon to horizon

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and it was nighttime and we're flying up

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the east coast the united states and we

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could see

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from florida to cape cod massachusetts

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we could see from washington d.c to

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chicago illinois

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and then within about 10 minutes we were

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flying over the north atlantic and the

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aurora borealis the northern lights were

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putting on a spectacular show

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and then a few minutes later we were

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flying over the swiss alps still night

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time and then over the mediterranean

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and

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to me it looked as if the northern

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lights

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on both sides of the atlantic

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and i couldn't help but think what many

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the

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previous space fliers have thought i

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think and said before

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and that is that this planet is

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unimaginably beautiful

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and it's peaceful and it's serene when

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you look at it from plant from from

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space

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and that night pass to us seemed like

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a holiday greeting card the most

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beautiful one you could imagine

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so on behalf of the expedition 30 crew

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aboard the international space station

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we wish everyone on planet earth a happy