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houston station we are ready for the

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kex radio this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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kex in portland voice check one two

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three four five kex radio portland one

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talking to portland today

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well don good

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greetings from portland oregon your home

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state paul lindman and scotland with you

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how are you enjoying life on the space

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paul i'll tell you the second time

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around is just as good as the first time

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you told your family upon arrival

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christmas eve that it was like being

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it's like going to your summer home or

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it's it's obviously not my home because

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my home is with my family in houston but

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it is going back to it is like going

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back to visit an old friend and it's

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wonderful to be here

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don this is scott lynn the former oregon

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state beaver announcer wanting to say uh

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hello to a former beaver right up there

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in space uh i i just wonder one of the

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really cool experiments that you're

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well uh we just finished up

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uh right before this bao event and and

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it's a human experiment we we experiment

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on ourselves we're kind of like guinea

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pigs and we're looking at how human

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physiology uh responds to living for

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environment and this experiment is

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cardiovascular system as it slowly uh

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changes or degrades depending on what

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it in a weightless environment and what

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measurements on my heart looking at

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what the heart physiology is like and

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the cardiovascular exercise that we do

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physiological experiment and i just

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don pettit i've read you say that when

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you're on earth you dream about being up

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there you dream about flying and when

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i know there are students here in oregon

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and all across america if not the world

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who are following you right now and your

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of rocket and it's going to be really

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really exciting and and it's going to be

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really exciting to visit places beyond

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whole world of opportunity so to speak

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for all these students who want to come

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does that seem daunting at all when you

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of your life in a human lifestyle or a

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and don how close are we to having that

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gosh my crystal ball doesn't see that

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political will to to back a program that

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do we could roll up our sleeves and do

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it we're speaking with nasa astronaut

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don pettit from oregon he's at the

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like we on earth have not seen but i've

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instant creamer and sugar so you got

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don you and i are about the same age

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many of our generation grew up thinking

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it would be so great to be an astronaut

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astronaut don pettit speaking to us from

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thrill to talk to you today godspeed and

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we're proud of you here in the state of

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i'll tell you it's uh it's uh i'm proud

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of the state of oregon for

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giving me the opportunity through

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thank you very much ktx radio in

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please stand by for a voice check from

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coin tv station hears you loud and clear

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good morning don thank you so much for

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taking the time with to talk with us we

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appreciate you uh taking time out of

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your busy schedule tell us a little bit

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about what you're doing up there in

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i was working on a number of experiments

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experiments uh on ourselves where human

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guinea pigs we're looking at how human

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physiology responds to long-duration

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of interesting changes that occur in

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human beings are not used to living in a

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weightless environment and when you can

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how things operate so so uh that's uh

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investigations that we're doing up here

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on today

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you've been up there for about a month

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have you already been able to see

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changes in your body or do you

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anticipate significant changes over the

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course of your mission significant

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uh one is your face gets all puffy you

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get kind of chipmunk cheeks

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after arriving into space and it takes

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the the size of your legs kind of shrink

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down to what look like little pickle

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sticks

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uh but the amazing thing that happens is

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all the skin on the bottom of your feet

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peels off and you lose all your calluses

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and the bottoms of your feet are just as

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soft and tender as a baby's bottom

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so it's the the outer space exfoliation

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treatment the outer space exfoliation

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treatment it's an outer space

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exfoliation treatment and i'll tell you

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what happens you develop calluses on the

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top of your feet because

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you spend a lot of time hooking your

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feet into handrails

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to to hold yourself in position like

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right now my my feet are underneath a

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handrail what's really holding me there

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is the top of my feet

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and the tops of your feet aren't used to

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that kind of contact and they get sore

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and and

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after a

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few months of doing this you get all

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these calluses on the top of your feet

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while you lose all the calluses on the

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bottom of your feet

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don tell us a little bit about your trip

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into space obviously we're now using the

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russian space program to help get crews

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to the international space station

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what's it like going through their

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program to access the iss versus the old

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way that we have traditionally known the

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old way that we have traditionally known

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well

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there are more similarities

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in the space programs and there are

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differences and i i think it's because

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the technology is

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pretty much on par

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you have to get in a rocket and you have

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to blast off and it's a highly dynamic

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environment and you have a short period

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of time to make decisions and so you

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have to do a lot of training for

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for a possible maladies so that you know

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how to respond and the the russian

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training program is quite similar to our

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training program we we do simulator runs

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we do classroom training we have exams

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uh

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russia we go into quarantine and

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baikonur and then uh uh the the human

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emotion content is also similar when

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you're walking out to your rocket

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there's a lot of dynamics going on in

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your heart

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that says that you're a human being and

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you're getting ready to blast off of

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this planet

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as a human being and one who

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gets to experience the excitement of

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space which do you prefer being in space

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oh gosh

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i i'd hate to have to choose uh i'll be

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greedy and say i i want to do both

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i i will say that ultimately you have to

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be where your family is and my family is

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on earth

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if we had the technology

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which hopefully some time in the future

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we will

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i'd load my family on the next rocket

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and immigrate into space and possibly

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never even come back to earth but we

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don't have that technology today so

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so i'm earthbound after this mission

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well your family some of it may be in

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houston texas but you grew up here in

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oregon and we consider you an oregonian

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tell us a little bit about what it was

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like growing up in silverton and how it

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well silverton

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i i've got a a special place in my heart

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for silverton it's a small town it's a

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long and farming community people work

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really hard and

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there's all kinds of opportunity for

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kids growing up to learn real world

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skills you can you get yourself an old

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jalopy you can have a motor scooter you

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can uh have a go-cart you can you can

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you can

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work on your lawnmower engines and and

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all of these skills

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uh help you in the real world and then

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uh during the summers you can work and

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you you can work doing meaningful jobs

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on the farms uh in in the logging

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industry

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and and these meaningful jobs pay quite

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well so you can make some money and you

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can use that to help pay your way

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through college or

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buy more jalopy parts

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and and that environment i found gave me

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everything i needed to go off and and uh

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do whatever i needed to do in the world

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well for children

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in silverton or in corvallis or really

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anywhere how can we get them excited

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about the space program when so much in

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the news lately has been about

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what's going away how do we get them

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well one thing to focus on is

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focus on what is to come and for example

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the the shuttle program has ended but we

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are in the process of making a new

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generation of rockets and these rockets

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are designed from the ground up so to

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speak to take human beings not only into

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low earth orbit but also away from the

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planet and and that gives us an amazing

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opportunity now

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to explore other aspects of our solar

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system so i see the future of space to

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be bright it's something that has a and

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a special attraction for students

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and and it's something that that i

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encourage students to take the hard

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classes in in school take the math take

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the science the physics the engineering

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and and when you're ready come do my job

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your job you still obviously have a

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couple months left to do it do you think

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this is your last time in space will you

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get to go back or maybe even further

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well i'm i'm ready to go back into space

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at the drop of a hat and we'll just have

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to see what the opportunities are we've

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got a a heap of uh younger folks coming

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in to the astronaut office and all of

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them want to fly into space and and so

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we have to be willing to uh to spread

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the fundness around so

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so we'll see whether another opportunity

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comes around if it does i'll be willing

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if it doesn't i've had a wonderful

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career

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all right you're we're just getting

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wrapped up here don what is your what do

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you want to say to the folks here in

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oregon who remember you growing up with

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them or are so proud of what you've

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accomplished from the community and

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where you came what message would you

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well one one message is is i think

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education is the key to doing everything

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cool in life and i appreciate the fact

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that oregon has valued education

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and uh and i know there's a lot of

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taxpayers at grumble when it comes time

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to pay your taxes particularly the

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school taxes because they they they're

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they're not cheap but but those school

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taxes are what gives the next generation

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a chance to go off and do things so so

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that's something that i really

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appreciate

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the oregonians that gave me the

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opportunity to get the education that

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allowed me to be where i am now

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don pettit graduate of silverton high

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and oregon state university joining us

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from the international space station don

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thank you so much and we look forward to

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it's been a pleasure talking to you and

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and i i do want to add that we flew over

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crater lake

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a couple days ago and looking down that

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is just an amazing sight to see from

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from from orbit

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uh we can only imagine how great it is

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in person here on uh here on land only

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to see it from space don thank you so

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bye now

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event thank

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you thank you kex radio and koin tv