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hi i'm mike massimino and this is inside

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there's no red line on here

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first of all it started with some good

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equipment of course the aurora's you

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know my favorite five miles a second

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hi i'm mike massimino and this is inside

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the international space station

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today we're going to go into the mission

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control center and we're going to talk

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to mike fossum he's been in space for

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almost six months and he's coming home

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soon and we're going to talk to him

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about some of the great images some of

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the great photography he's taken while

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he's been in space come on let's go say

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i'm not even doing anything no you're

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not getting any of this emily's best

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all right is mike ready for this i think

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so what happened to dylan you disappear

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again can i see here who's on the phone

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someone's ordering a pizza it was really

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cool in over an imax theater over space

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in houston

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if you were traveling that fest how fast

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is it though it's uh

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well we really appreciate you spending

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some time with us we know you're coming

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to the to the end of your stay up there

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and uh you know very little time and

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you're real busy but we just wanted to

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ask you a couple questions you know one

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thing that's been going on down here is

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we've really been enjoying

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this great photography these images

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you've been

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sending down and it's it's almost it

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almost looks like it's science fiction

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or some kind of hollywood stuff but

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there's no way anyone could imagine this

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of how beautiful it is and uh so we're

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wondering how did you how did you do

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this well how do you get those great

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shots that you've been getting them well

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first of all it started with some good

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equipment that we have and particularly

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the low light stuff is the it's the uh

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d3 camera is has some really amazing low

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light capabilities and then it was good

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training the the training team at jsc i

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i told them i was interested in this

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kind of stuff and so we worked on it

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some uh i started with the training and

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the procedures up here and then i

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started practicing and that's one of the

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great things about a long duration

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mission on a shuttle mission you're good

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if you can point a camera to the window

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and take a few snapshots

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but up here you have the time and we

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have weekends and some off-duty time to

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practice these things and that's what i

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did i spent a lot of time you know in

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the cupola during the night passes

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trying to figure out how to get the

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right the right lighting and timing yeah

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because the the the nighttime imagery

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is so amazing because it's so hard to

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get up until now you know recently that

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you've been able to do it like this you

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see all these beautiful scenes during

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the day that we can get because there's

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plenty of light and you can see with

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your eye you know at night time it's

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like this magical place in space of

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course the aurora's you know my favorite

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because it's such a just an unbelievable

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phenomenon and i've seen it once from

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the ground i saw it once many many years

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ago on a boy scout trip into the

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wilderness of canada and

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you know i've always just dreamed about

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seeing it i saw it on that trip and then

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ever never have never seen it since

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except for the little smudge on on my

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shuttle flights and so to see that is

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just amazing but it's also really great

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to see uh the the uh the planet lit up

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particularly by moonlight if you have

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more than about a half moon you get

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enough illumination to go to really pick

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up a lot of things in places like like

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africa and the interior of australia

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that are so washed out by the sunlight

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it's the sunlight so intense it really

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washes it out when you light those up

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with a cl with a nearly full moon it

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really enriches the colors and the

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details that you can see that you just

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don't notice in the broad daylight but

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you get that mo that soft moon

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illumination it really brings out the

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colors and details it's great

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you know we've uh we've really enjoyed a

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mike and we're going to be incorporating

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some of those images when we uh when we

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release this uh little segment here to

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the public so it's just been great

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you've been kind of taking us along for

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the journey you know going going into

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space is a is a really cool experience

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you've been able to share with

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with millions of people down here with

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your uh with all your techniques and

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photography that you've been you've been

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doing i wanted to ask you a little bit

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more about the auroras because like you

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said you saw him on earth you know i've

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in in canada you know that's always sort

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of it's a northern kind of thing you

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know northern lights whatever but you've

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been seeing them all over the planet

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what's the what's the story with that is

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something different going on right now

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well the sun's activity is picking up

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and that's what really allows us to see

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them like this uh and that the

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it's the charged particles that are

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streaming from the sun when it goes into

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an active sunspot time and there's

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there's a there's a huge area of

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physics associated with this it's just

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fascinating science with the sun's cycle

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it's roughly an average of 11 years when

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you go through this period of high

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activity and it's ramping up right now a

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great job with the with the photography

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and the video and describing it and i

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can just tell talking to you tonight

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that you're really having a great time

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up there

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and uh it's been a very special

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time in your life to to be up there and

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living up there for the amount of time

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you've been there and it's almost time

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for you to come home

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so i just want if you wouldn't mind

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sharing a little bit about what you're

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feeling right now with uh this wonderful

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experience we've had but the same time

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you're going to come home and see

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see the family and your friends here and

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i guess

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a few days really and just wondering how

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you're feeling about that

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the mission has been has met every

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expectation i could have

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to be here for the final shuttle mission

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uh was was a very bittersweet experience

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it was very emotional for everybody

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involved it truly was but i'm happy to

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have been been part of it and helped

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make that a successful mission

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uh the time has flown by i

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i can't believe i've been up here over

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five months already that's

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that's uh doesn't seem possible because

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it's really gone fast

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that's because we're busy and we're

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supposed to be busy

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and we've had the chance to do a lot of

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things

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i enjoy sharing the photography that of

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course isn't why i'm here we're here to

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run the space station and operate it as

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an orbiting laboratory and that's been

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been a lot of fun very enjoyable

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and very rewarding to do that too

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well i i hope you enjoyed that half as

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much as i did it was because i was here

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and getting a chance to actually speak

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to mike but uh getting to hear his

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stories

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and having a chance to see the imagery

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he's taking the pictures he's taken and

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getting to hear his uh his personal

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feelings about being in space and and

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sharing those pictures with us that was

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quite a treat so emily i'm very glad

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you didn't let us in thank you very much