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houston station we're ready for the

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pbs radio this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station good morning this is cbs news

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we've got you loud and clear good

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morning

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and flight engineer don pettit good

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morning this is peter king bill harwood

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will be uh joining me in just a moment

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and we just want to start with the news

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of the day and that is uh this solar

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storm that we've all been talking about

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that's pretty much turned out to be a

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bust but

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we're wondering and i think a lot of

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people would love to know for commander

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burbank what is protecting you from uh

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well it yeah you should well in general

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uh peter the same thing that's

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protecting you and all the folks on

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planet earth most of the work is done by

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the earth's magnetosphere and uh we're

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there's some of the protection that you

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don't benefit from uh the space station

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hull itself actually protects us some

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and it kind of depends on the energy of

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the particles don here has a uh a

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particle uh detector uh that's actually

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showing you i don't know if you're able

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to hear it at all but it actually gives

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particle events and depending on where

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that'll actually be a little bit more

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energetic and if the sun's more

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energetic you'll actually see an

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indication on here as well

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if the situation were to become more

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that if the situation were to become

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more dangerous where would you go for

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there's actually a place in the back

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part of the space station in the service

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module it's probably the best shielded

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radiation standpoint you know ultimately

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if it got serious enough then you always

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have the capability of returning and in

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low-earth orbit generally speaking i

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big issue we get reports and the space

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flight meteorological folks that that

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track uh this for nasa give us reports

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regularly the doctors track it as well

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we wear dosimeters we actually have

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dosimeters in our pockets we take those

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of lots of folks and uh lots of

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technology that kind of has our back uh

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don you know we've seen some pretty

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amazing pictures that you guys have sent

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back especially the northern lights but

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australialis are the phase of our flight

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good displays of that and it looks like

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luminous amoebas crawling around in the

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the kennedy space center and don that's

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a fabulous description you know we've

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seen some video in recent weeks

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time lapse stuff that shows the aurora

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of aurora we have the goddess of the

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rainbow the goddess of the sky the

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goddess of waterfalls and the goddess of

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all these other things uh it's too you

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should be a goddess of aurora

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yeah i guess there should that's a

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pretty good description hey let me shift

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the other day that if this had been the

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normal schedule you'd be packing up i

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guess to to head out in a week or so and

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actually bill i think everybody

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unfortunate and certainly it's a

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difficult thing to work through from an

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accelerate the the processing for the

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other soyuz vehicles but just on a

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may on the current schedule anyway uh

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be gone but what you and andre have to

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how much additional work is required

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all come close to station and then we

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arm and and uh and grapple it and then

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both gotten your taxes done

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much of an excuse or i i won't be filing

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mine but i did put in an extension

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before launch i figured that would be a

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commander same here

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smart move and good planning on both

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your parts you know this is an election

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year and you know later on we'll be

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asking about people voting and stuff

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candidate has talked about moon bases

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multiple rocket launches week after week

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you how you guys feel about this

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being part of the political landscape

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astronauts or anybody in the space

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business including all the folks that

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have space elevated a little bit in the

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public consciousness it's it is such a

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real a very small amount that we as a

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people as taxpayers invest in space and

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that you're in space and able to to uh

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priceless but it's less than it's on the

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going to throw this over to don pettit

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using the angry birds to teach physics

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why it's important to use uh something

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driving your car to work or or

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whether you're just running a vacuum

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an interesting way to capture young

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people's minds and let them know that

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there's more to a video game than just

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figure out how this game works you need

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know how to play a video game but if you

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understand the physics behind it and you

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learn about the computer programming

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when you're done with your entertainment

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when you're done with your hobby you can

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go out and get yourself a good job and

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you can do interesting things with the

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knowledge that you gain so i see i see

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any number of these venues

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as a means of getting people to become

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aware the technology around them and

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become interested in the technology it

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helps you be better citizens and

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ultimately allows you to go out and do

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very interesting things with your life a

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great don pettit and commander dan

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burbank we thank you both for your time

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to have a great rest of your flight stay

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safe and we'll look forward to seeing

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you back down here on earth in a few

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peter bill thanks very much it was great

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station this is houston acr thank you

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thank you cbs radio station please stand