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station this is wbit-tv how do you hear

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wvit-tv this is international space

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station we've got you loud and clear

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we're in for a real treat today

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ready

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we're in for a real treat today we're

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getting a chance to see what life is

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like on board the international space

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station joining us is connecticut's own

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expedition 30 commander dan burbank and

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flight engineer don pettit hello to you

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hi good morning it's great to be with

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you today

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it's great to have you now dan let's

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start off with you you were born in

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manchester raised in tallinn i have to

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ask did you take a little momento of

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i have a few uh connecticut state flags

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with you know small ones with me here

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and uh and a number of pictures and

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photos of friends and family from

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very nice now don can you tell us a

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little bit about your mission and what

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we

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basically work in two general categories

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one is what i call engineering research

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and this is doing the background

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engineering required to learn how to

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make spacecraft systems so that we can

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eventually go away from planet earth and

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venture off into our solar system the

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second category of work we do up here is

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what is scientific research uh where we

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are advancing different forefronts of

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science uh mainly biological science

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human physiology and then physical

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sciences

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now when you're not researching and

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you're not working i know you have a lot

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of work to do but how do you pass the

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well our day starts about a.m when we

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wake up and our day the operational part

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of the day

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will kick off with a conference where we

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talk to all the mission control centers

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that are that are part of the

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international space station team and it

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begins with houston and we speak with

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huntsville which is uh in alabama which

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is where the marshall space flight

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center is that's the head of the uh the

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center

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for the u.s research on board space

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station we talked to the folks in munich

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for the european space agency uh

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scuba in uh in japan um and we also

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talked to the the folks at outside of

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moscow and coral yov which is the uh the

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russian mission control center and

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basically that gets our day underway and

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like don said it'll consist of various

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research investigations sometimes

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operational uh work uh working with the

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space station robotic arm for example a

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lot of time we'll uh we'll be working

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and operating and and repairing some of

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the equipment on board space station and

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on occasion rare occasion we'll be doing

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very nice impressive now don before we

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go what are your thoughts on the

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retirement of the space shuttle and

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oh boy there that's a

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a question you could talk on for about

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an hour

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space shuttle there's

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the the hard part about seeing the space

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shuttle goes that we didn't have another

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vehicle ready in time to fly when when

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that one uh was ready for the museum the

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fact that the space shuttle is going

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well that's 1970s technology it's time

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to upgrade that and and get on with

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another phase of space exploration and

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we're still actively working now on

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making the next generation rocket

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well we appreciate the work that you

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both are doing before we go when are you

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um don and i are on separate cruise

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my two crew mates anton shkaplerov and

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anatoly venetian

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the three of us will return on april

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30th and don and his two crew mates on

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their soyuz will return a couple months

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later

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all right safe travels to you both dan

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it was great too great to be with you