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good afternoon thank you for joining us

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for today's news conference with members

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of the expedition 32 and 33 cruise

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joining me today are sunita williams

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cosmonaut yuri malenchenko and japanese

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astronaut aki hoshide

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expedition 32 begins with the soyuz

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tma-03m

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undocking in july

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these three crew members are scheduled

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to launch on july 15th and join their

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expedition 32 counterparts joe acabi

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acaba gennady padalka and sergey revin

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will arrive on the station in mid-may

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once joe gennady and sergey depart sunny

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aki and yuri will remain on board to

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begin expedition 33 and sunny will

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transition from flight engineer to the

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role of station commander they're

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scheduled to conclude their

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long-duration mission in november 12th

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sunny was born in ohio but considers

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needham massachusetts to be her hometown

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she holds degrees from the u.s naval

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academy and the florida institute of

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technology

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she was selected as an astronaut in 1998

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and served as a flight engineer for

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expedition 14. during that long-duration

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mission sunny established a world record

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for females with four spacewalks and

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also broke the existing duration record

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previously held by shannon lucid setting

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a new record for females of 195 days in

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sunny will also be the second female to

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serve as commander for the international

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to her left yuri malenchenko was born in

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ukraine and is a graduate of kharkov

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military aviation school and the

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javascript air force engineering academy

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in 1987 he was selected as a cosmonaut

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and completed his first long-duration

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mission on space station mir in 1994. he

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also flew on the sts-106 space shuttle

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mission to the international space

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station and returned to the station as a

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commander of expedition 7 and flight

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engineer for expedition 16.

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aki was born in tokyo japan he holds

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degrees from kyo university and the

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university of houston he was selected as

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a japanese astronaut candidate in 1999

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and flew as a mission specialist as part

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of sts-2024

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with that we'll now turn it over to

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sonny

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thanks nicole and thanks to everyone

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who's here for the press conference and

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everybody out there in tv land who's

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watching and listening to us here

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we're really excited to be getting

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closer and closer to our launch in july

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it's going to be a great mission really

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exciting lots of things to do i mean

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it's it's pretty unbelievable when you

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think about all the things that are on

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the on the menu out there for that's

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waiting for us um i've got some great

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crew members here which nicole

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introduced yuri and aki we're sort of

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like a family and we got a couple other

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great crew members up on board that will

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be up on board that will be joining like

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nicole mentioned uh gennady and sergey

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and then after after uh gennady sergey

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and joe leave we'll be joined by kevin

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tarelkin so as you could probably see

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it's a pretty international

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cruise that we're working with here

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we backed up a european astronaut and

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we will be backed up by a canadian

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astronaut as well american and russian

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astronauts and cosmonauts so the the

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crew composition uh has been very

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and we're really looking forward to

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things that we're going to be doing up

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there it's going to be loaded not only

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with international astronauts and

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cosmonauts but when we get there will be

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atv probably the european

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spacecraft shortly thereafter

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we arrive will be htv japanese

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spacex or orbital another american

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really international time when we'll be

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unfortunately our mission is only four

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months i wish it would be years and

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years and years but i think we're going

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to jam a lot of stuff into that four

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really exciting again i'm really lucky

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to be flying with yuri anaki they're

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great professional astronauts cosmonauts

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and i think we're going to have a great

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time and i hope you all will be watching

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all right thank you sonny we'll start

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with questions here at the johnson space

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center and if you can just step up to

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the microphone if you have questions and

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state your name and affiliation and

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who your question is directed to if you

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hi robert perlman with collectspace.com

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i guess for sunny uh can you talk a

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little bit about how the launch delays

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um have impacted your your expedition um

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has have you had to replan and

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are there activities that had to fall

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luckily our job is to fly in space so

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a vehicle ready for us to jump into i

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for the flight program the planners had

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the things that they had thought that

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expedition 31 30 and 31 are taking care

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of business uh they're up there for a

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little bit longer than they had

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initially planned but they're filling in

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sort of rank what your activities what

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will be your most prominent activities

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the research is actually getting new

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years and years in space and it's a

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great idea because people are going to

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durations at least several people

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to fly one or even two years duration

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research but there's still a lot more

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flying space easier and more

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i asked a question to aki if i should

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launch is sneering there was a delay but

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could answer it in english and also in

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japanese if possible okay well let's

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first try in

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english

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hopefully

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you know i'm better in english than

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japanese at this point um

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first of all yeah um we were in baikonur

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in december as a backup crew so that

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means we were ready to uh launch if

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necessary if something happened to the

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uh the prime crew so i'm confident uh

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that we're at that level right now what

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we're doing is uh just proficiency uh

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training just making sure that we

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remember everything that we were taught

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and also a lot of science and payload

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operation kind of training

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but i feel confident with these two uh

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very experienced crew members

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and we

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trained together for more than a year

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more than two years now so i'm looking

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forward to going back home

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the home especially the japanese portion

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that

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i helped build

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and looking forward to all the

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experiment that we'll be doing and

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with respect to eba yes um uh

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we know that it is uh on the plan

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uh and we'll be you know lucky if we can

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uh get it um but we've been training

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along with sunny

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and uh the whole team in jsc

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so

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we've been training for that um if

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we need to go out the door

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and i'm looking forward to that

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experience experience as well

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thank you so much

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okay any additional questions here go

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hi my name is chimi uh from nico nicole

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well i would like to ask you all of you

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actually um about dragon nine

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uh the dragon nine will be launching a

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few months and there is a possibility

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that you will be able to

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take part in the dark and docking

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uh of the craft so

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now you're excited to be able to

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witness the commercial spacecraft in

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action and also

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how do you feel about next

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just to summarize just your your

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question is about the spacex

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vehicle that's come that's potentially

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coming up

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at the end of

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and then on our flight schedule right

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now that looks like a second one in in

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august

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so we're really excited we aki and i

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actually went to california for some

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training for spacex

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probably about a year ago and

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had the opportunity to look around at

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the company and at the at

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what they were doing on the floor right

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there building the spacecraft and you

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know anytime you look at real hardware

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it's really exciting when you see shiny

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metal coming down the the path going to

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be launched into space so that was

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pretty awesome and to see you know a

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bunch of really excited engineers and

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scientists and working on this

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spacecraft was was great

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our fingers are crossed i'm hoping

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everything happens for them and they are

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have a very successful launch we'll be

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waiting for them the first you know the

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crews that are up there right now will

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be waiting for the first spacex and then

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we'll we'll see how the what lessons

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they learned and for the second spacex

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i hope we get to participate with a new

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vehicle coming up to the space station

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like i said every single one that i

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talked about is a little bit different

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they have little bit different systems

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so watching their performance and seeing

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how they successfully get to the space

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station will be exciting

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so we're really looking forward to

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hopefully having them come join us and

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and like what we'll do for that is you

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know take the robotic arm and grab it

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outside of the space station and dock it

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so that will be another exciting

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challenge every time we

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connect with a vehicle that's uh with

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the robotic arm it's a little bit

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different arm configuration and so it's

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provides new challenges for us on board

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the space station and our robotic skills

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so that will be very exciting and uh

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like i said my fingers are across our

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fingers are crossed for this

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for spacex to launch and be successfully

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well i'm

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more responsible for other vehicles but

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really looking forward to see this

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new vehicle on station

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it will it always exciting to see

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something new in space and also it is a

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big

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developing of

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space program in general so i'm really

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happy and as i said they're looking

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forward to see

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so just to add on to what sonia and yuri

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mentioned you know right now we have

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progress atv and htv supplying uh

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logistics and and uh science samples

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and our you know most important our food

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but uh

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in addition to that if we can get you

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know dragon and cygnus uh up and running

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that provides more capability for us and

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look for the whole space program and uh

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getting the uh the commercial you know

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private sector involved i think it's a

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very good thing

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it opens up new doors

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um for not just the space community

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right now but uh for you know

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a bigger possibility as a whole so i'm

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okay any additional quote yes

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yes

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he is from tv asahi his name is tori

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um he is asking um here and ask about

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the experiment japanese experiment

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the experiment of module kibo and we

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learned it's very comfortable space

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there but we'd like to know how much you

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know about people and also what you

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expect

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about people um are you going to visit

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there and what are you going to do and

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also um aki we direct ask what you would

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like to do

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as a mission in

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iss uh last time you through the

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rugby ball but we'd like to hear what

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for the first question about kibo i'm i

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can't wait to go into kibo when i was

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there again last time was a number of

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years ago and the space station stopped

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at the at the front of the lab so now

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it's uh has a lot more modules node two

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of course uh kibo and the columbus and

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so i i can't wait i saw pictures of when

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aki installed kibo and of course inside

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and outside and it looked awesome

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we had the opera i've had the

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opportunity to go to japan and train

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to be an operator on the kibo

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systems and so i'm going to actually do

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a couple of japanese experiments i have

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one on me actually right now as a matter

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of fact and

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some other experiments inside the kibo

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module so i'm really looking forward

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to spending some time in there i heard

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it's nice and peaceful as well

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and

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it also has

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an airlock which i think we're planning

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to be using for the first time while

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we're up there it also has some great

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windows that i'd be really fun to look

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out those windows and see the japanese

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robotic arm in action when htv3 is there

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and also when we use the the japanese

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airlock so i'm really looking forward to

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spending some quality time in the kibo

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i can say same words i'm really looking

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forward to see

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this module module

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i was in japan and have

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very good training

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i'm sure

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it

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will be a

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very useful

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place to work with science and a very

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important

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model and

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i expect to

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have a

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good possibility to work over there

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i don't have something particular to

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work

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with this model but

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since i have basic training i in case if

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i

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thank you

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and i also look forward to going back to

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kibo

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as i mentioned

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in terms of what i'd like to do up in

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space when i'm back there

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first of all something unique about

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our increment is that we have a very uh

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huge

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uh sports event

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during our increment

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so what we're talking amongst ourselves

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is why don't we do something you know

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some kind of a sport event on orbit too

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inside the space station we have a you

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know a us a russian and a japanese so we

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can compete each other

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so but we're just tossing ideas right

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now uh what kind of uh sport event we

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can do up there but that's something

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okay one last call

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all right i think at this point we will

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transition over to the phone bridge

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where we have a couple of reporters with

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some questions we'll start with clara

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moskowitz with space.com

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hi yeah sunny mentioned that it was an

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especially international crew this time

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and i'm just wondering um for each of

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you what you're planning to do

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to share elements of your culture with

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wow there's a good question

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i i might do the same thing that i did

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last time which was

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introduce everybody to peanut butter and

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fluff which was which was a an all-time

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american favorite sandwich of mine

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i've also tortured them already with a

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little bit of my dog and how much you

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know having a pet at home means to me

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and also you know i'm sure

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i will torture them also with pictures

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of cape cod where my family is and every

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time it's easy to pick out on uh

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of course from space just because of the

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shape of it but um

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as well as different parts of the united

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states i'm sure i'll be sharing some of

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those little aspects with these guys

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while we're up there

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culture of course we do that as we sit

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around the dinner table i think it just

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comes out you start talking about

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missing home a little bit and talking

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about your family and your friends and

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well the truth it is very important

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i have not decided what to do something

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particular but

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since we have a russian segment and a

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lot of

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we can spend

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some time together during free time and

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to create something

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but in reality every day

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when we

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that's why this time we also

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sharing our some

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specific

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culture things

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so and

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since we have

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more time in future

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on space station specialists i think we

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can

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and uh yeah um i couldn't agree more uh

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with what sonia and yuri just mentioned

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i think food is one thing

563
00:25:30,549 --> 00:25:28,960
that i can share i can't cook i'm not a

564
00:25:31,909 --> 00:25:30,559
very good cook and sonny knows that very

565
00:25:34,310 --> 00:25:31,919
well but uh

566
00:25:36,390 --> 00:25:34,320
fortunately we have a couple of japanese

567
00:25:37,190 --> 00:25:36,400
food that i'm bringing up

568
00:25:38,789 --> 00:25:37,200
so

569
00:25:42,230 --> 00:25:38,799
i like to share that with my fellow

570
00:25:44,310 --> 00:25:42,240
crewmates uh during my stay but uh just

571
00:25:46,390 --> 00:25:44,320
like yuri mentioned i think working

572
00:25:48,789 --> 00:25:46,400
together on on orbit and just you know

573
00:25:51,029 --> 00:25:48,799
sharing stories talking to each other

574
00:25:52,470 --> 00:25:51,039
provides a great

575
00:25:55,430 --> 00:25:52,480
base

576
00:25:57,830 --> 00:25:55,440
of international cooperation and also

577
00:25:59,750 --> 00:25:57,840
not just the crew but we'll be

578
00:26:01,750 --> 00:25:59,760
interacting with all the

579
00:26:02,789 --> 00:26:01,760
mission control centers all over the

580
00:26:04,789 --> 00:26:02,799
world

581
00:26:07,830 --> 00:26:04,799
moscow houston

582
00:26:10,549 --> 00:26:07,840
munich and scuba so

583
00:26:12,390 --> 00:26:10,559
just communicating with them and

584
00:26:19,190 --> 00:26:12,400
working together provides a great

585
00:26:21,590 --> 00:26:20,630
all right clara did you have another

586
00:26:23,190 --> 00:26:21,600
question

587
00:26:24,789 --> 00:26:23,200
no i'm all set thanks very much all

588
00:26:27,430 --> 00:26:24,799
right with that we will move on to todd

589
00:26:30,390 --> 00:26:27,440
halverson with florida today

590
00:26:32,630 --> 00:26:30,400
um thanks very much this is for uh sonny

591
00:26:35,029 --> 00:26:32,640
williams i'm i'm wondering what your

592
00:26:37,190 --> 00:26:35,039
thoughts are about being the

593
00:26:39,990 --> 00:26:37,200
only the second one woman commander on

594
00:26:42,789 --> 00:26:40,000
the international space station and in

595
00:26:46,470 --> 00:26:42,799
your judgment what would the uh best

596
00:26:49,830 --> 00:26:46,480
compliment or makeup be for a crew on a

597
00:26:55,029 --> 00:26:52,549
sounds like a tricky question

598
00:26:57,190 --> 00:26:55,039
but seriously i um i didn't even think

599
00:26:59,510 --> 00:26:57,200
about that i didn't even realize that i

600
00:27:00,789 --> 00:26:59,520
i mean of course i knew peggy whitson

601
00:27:02,710 --> 00:27:00,799
was the commander of the space station

602
00:27:04,470 --> 00:27:02,720
before but i never really put two and

603
00:27:06,549 --> 00:27:04,480
two together that i would be number two

604
00:27:09,110 --> 00:27:06,559
it sort of never crossed my mind

605
00:27:12,070 --> 00:27:09,120
i think it just sort of happens with

606
00:27:14,549 --> 00:27:12,080
people who have experience you you

607
00:27:16,070 --> 00:27:14,559
you i guess you get uh selected to be

608
00:27:17,669 --> 00:27:16,080
the commander

609
00:27:19,029 --> 00:27:17,679
based on your experience in the past and

610
00:27:20,789 --> 00:27:19,039
i haven't really hadn't really thought

611
00:27:22,710 --> 00:27:20,799
about the numbers and and all that kind

612
00:27:24,149 --> 00:27:22,720
of stuff so i didn't really have a

613
00:27:26,710 --> 00:27:24,159
thought on it so i hope i'm not letting

614
00:27:27,830 --> 00:27:26,720
you down too much so i'm i'm sorry about

615
00:27:28,950 --> 00:27:27,840
that um

616
00:27:47,909 --> 00:27:28,960
i

617
00:27:49,669 --> 00:27:47,919
uh where they're where they're needed

618
00:27:51,750 --> 00:27:49,679
and the skills that they have uh and

619
00:27:53,350 --> 00:27:51,760
what they what they bring to the table

620
00:27:55,350 --> 00:27:53,360
and i think that's probably the right

621
00:27:57,510 --> 00:27:55,360
way to do it um most of the people in

622
00:27:59,669 --> 00:27:57,520
this business uh from all the different

623
00:28:01,830 --> 00:27:59,679
partner agencies uh they're all

624
00:28:03,990 --> 00:28:01,840
professional astronauts and cosmonauts

625
00:28:06,470 --> 00:28:04,000
they've been through a rigorous program

626
00:28:09,110 --> 00:28:06,480
to get to where we are

627
00:28:11,430 --> 00:28:09,120
we go through training courses such as

628
00:28:13,510 --> 00:28:11,440
national outdoor leadership school

629
00:28:15,350 --> 00:28:13,520
together and other other programs like

630
00:28:18,070 --> 00:28:15,360
that the nemo missions where we live in

631
00:28:20,149 --> 00:28:18,080
a aquatic habitat under the water

632
00:28:21,669 --> 00:28:20,159
and we we get along i mean people are

633
00:28:23,110 --> 00:28:21,679
professional they know the job that they

634
00:28:24,630 --> 00:28:23,120
need to get done

635
00:28:26,389 --> 00:28:24,640
they know their strengths and their

636
00:28:28,950 --> 00:28:26,399
weakness and i think at this stage in

637
00:28:30,710 --> 00:28:28,960
our our lives nobody really has a big

638
00:28:31,590 --> 00:28:30,720
ego about that stuff you know you know

639
00:28:35,590 --> 00:28:31,600
where

640
00:28:37,590 --> 00:28:35,600
somebody else can actually take up the

641
00:28:39,430 --> 00:28:37,600
slack for you and you ask for help when

642
00:28:40,630 --> 00:28:39,440
you need it and so you need people who

643
00:28:42,950 --> 00:28:40,640
are like that

644
00:28:44,630 --> 00:28:42,960
i haven't really thought about

645
00:28:46,789 --> 00:28:44,640
men versus women which i think that was

646
00:28:49,350 --> 00:28:46,799
sort of where the question was going um

647
00:28:52,070 --> 00:28:49,360
but i think if everybody's professional

648
00:28:54,230 --> 00:28:52,080
i think it really doesn't matter

649
00:28:55,669 --> 00:28:54,240
except for the fact that aki can't cook

650
00:28:57,269 --> 00:28:55,679
and i

651
00:29:00,870 --> 00:28:57,279
you do need somebody who can put food

652
00:29:05,830 --> 00:29:03,350
and just one quick follow if i could i

653
00:29:07,510 --> 00:29:05,840
was just curious as to whether you've

654
00:29:10,389 --> 00:29:07,520
registered for

655
00:29:12,950 --> 00:29:10,399
any marathon during this particular

656
00:29:15,909 --> 00:29:12,960
increment if you plan on another orbital

657
00:29:17,990 --> 00:29:15,919
marathon thanks uh good question uh like

658
00:29:19,830 --> 00:29:18,000
aki mentioned there's a major sporting

659
00:29:22,149 --> 00:29:19,840
event going on while we're

660
00:29:23,990 --> 00:29:22,159
up in space and i think we're going to

661
00:29:25,190 --> 00:29:24,000
do something a little more team oriented

662
00:29:26,950 --> 00:29:25,200
this year

663
00:29:28,870 --> 00:29:26,960
this time around rather than have me run

664
00:29:31,669 --> 00:29:28,880
a marathon actually aki and i are

665
00:29:34,310 --> 00:29:31,679
participating in a uh in a science

666
00:29:36,149 --> 00:29:34,320
experiment and sport protocol called

667
00:29:38,470 --> 00:29:36,159
sprint which is

668
00:29:40,630 --> 00:29:38,480
absolutely not running a marathon it's

669
00:29:42,389 --> 00:29:40,640
hard working doing sprinting type of

670
00:29:45,590 --> 00:29:42,399
exercises so

671
00:29:46,630 --> 00:29:45,600
i i don't think i'll be in marathon

672
00:29:48,470 --> 00:29:46,640
shape

673
00:29:52,070 --> 00:29:48,480
but i'll i will be in good sprinting

674
00:29:55,510 --> 00:29:54,070
okay i believe that concludes our phone

675
00:29:57,110 --> 00:29:55,520
bridge questions i'm going to return

676
00:29:59,350 --> 00:29:57,120
here to the johnson space center for any

677
00:30:01,110 --> 00:29:59,360
remaining follow-ups by reporters here

678
00:30:02,710 --> 00:30:01,120
in person

679
00:30:04,630 --> 00:30:02,720
okay seeing none we're going to move on

680
00:30:08,549 --> 00:30:04,640
to questions that have been submitted

681
00:30:13,269 --> 00:30:10,950
okay guys first we have a comment the

682
00:30:18,149 --> 00:30:13,279
first one was for aki this comment just

683
00:30:21,590 --> 00:30:19,909
first question we have here comes from

684
00:30:23,269 --> 00:30:21,600
and i'm going to spell this out i think

685
00:30:24,310 --> 00:30:23,279
it's actually we have a lower third so

686
00:30:28,549 --> 00:30:24,320
you'll be able to see this but it's

687
00:30:41,830 --> 00:30:30,630
did you apply for the expedition or were

688
00:30:45,750 --> 00:30:43,590
um

689
00:30:47,190 --> 00:30:45,760
selected i you know where uh

690
00:30:48,470 --> 00:30:47,200
there's a bunch of us in the u.s

691
00:30:50,870 --> 00:30:48,480
astronaut corps i think we have

692
00:30:53,110 --> 00:30:50,880
somewhere around 65 or 70 active

693
00:30:55,990 --> 00:30:53,120
astronauts uh

694
00:30:57,830 --> 00:30:56,000
57 a little lower

695
00:30:59,350 --> 00:30:57,840
and we we sort of rotate through

696
00:31:00,789 --> 00:30:59,360
missions because it takes about two and

697
00:31:02,389 --> 00:31:00,799
a half years for the training program

698
00:31:04,470 --> 00:31:02,399
for us to fly in space and then there's

699
00:31:06,310 --> 00:31:04,480
about a six month rehab program

700
00:31:07,750 --> 00:31:06,320
when you come back from space and

701
00:31:09,430 --> 00:31:07,760
usually after that you use your

702
00:31:11,509 --> 00:31:09,440
experience to help the office and the

703
00:31:14,230 --> 00:31:11,519
younger astronauts and then you're sort

704
00:31:15,590 --> 00:31:14,240
of waiting in a pool for the rest uh

705
00:31:17,830 --> 00:31:15,600
with the rest of the astronauts there to

706
00:31:20,870 --> 00:31:17,840
be assigned and hopefully your skill set

707
00:31:22,149 --> 00:31:20,880
um is is uh avail is one of the ones

708
00:31:24,070 --> 00:31:22,159
that they need for the next mission

709
00:31:26,230 --> 00:31:24,080
coming up and so

710
00:31:28,070 --> 00:31:26,240
the chief of the office makes the

711
00:31:29,990 --> 00:31:28,080
selection uh for who's going to be on

712
00:31:32,630 --> 00:31:30,000
the mission from the u.s side i think

713
00:31:34,789 --> 00:31:32,640
that's pretty parallel for the japanese

714
00:31:37,029 --> 00:31:34,799
side in the russian side yes the

715
00:31:39,590 --> 00:31:37,039
japanese site is pretty similar um you

716
00:31:41,909 --> 00:31:39,600
know once we finish our mission on orbit

717
00:31:44,230 --> 00:31:41,919
we'll come back down uh on the ground

718
00:31:46,789 --> 00:31:44,240
and and then support other missions for

719
00:31:50,310 --> 00:31:46,799
instance i was a capcom working here in

720
00:31:53,590 --> 00:31:50,320
houston and also helping out robotics

721
00:31:54,470 --> 00:31:53,600
and all the japanese modules and htv as

722
00:31:55,509 --> 00:31:54,480
well

723
00:31:58,149 --> 00:31:55,519
so

724
00:32:01,669 --> 00:31:58,159
that helps the mission as well as you

725
00:32:04,389 --> 00:32:01,679
you learn a lot from those technical

726
00:32:05,909 --> 00:32:04,399
jobs and then you're in a waiting mode

727
00:32:07,350 --> 00:32:05,919
and then you know if

728
00:32:10,470 --> 00:32:07,360
everything lines up then you get

729
00:32:12,389 --> 00:32:10,480
selected for a mission

730
00:32:15,269 --> 00:32:12,399
okay great thank you okay we have this

731
00:32:17,269 --> 00:32:15,279
next question it comes from mps forza

732
00:32:20,789 --> 00:32:17,279
how does the cardiovascular system react

733
00:32:24,870 --> 00:32:22,789
well we're working on figuring that out

734
00:32:27,750 --> 00:32:24,880
actually there's a slew of experiments

735
00:32:29,350 --> 00:32:27,760
called integrated cardiovascular and

736
00:32:31,990 --> 00:32:29,360
it's a bunch of scientists from all over

737
00:32:35,750 --> 00:32:32,000
the place taking lots of measurements on

738
00:32:40,230 --> 00:32:37,590
part of that is

739
00:32:43,029 --> 00:32:40,240
imaging using ultrasound

740
00:32:44,549 --> 00:32:43,039
before and after physical fitness and

741
00:32:45,909 --> 00:32:44,559
just trying to figure out what is

742
00:32:47,990 --> 00:32:45,919
actually going on on with your

743
00:32:50,470 --> 00:32:48,000
cardiovascular system but you know it's

744
00:32:52,230 --> 00:32:50,480
a muscle and it's not being taxed as

745
00:32:54,470 --> 00:32:52,240
much just in general you know basic

746
00:32:56,710 --> 00:32:54,480
words it's it's not being as taxed

747
00:32:58,470 --> 00:32:56,720
in space as much as it is

748
00:32:59,990 --> 00:32:58,480
when we're usually on the ground your

749
00:33:01,909 --> 00:33:00,000
heart has to work against gravity to

750
00:33:03,830 --> 00:33:01,919
pump blood all over the place all over

751
00:33:05,350 --> 00:33:03,840
your body and in space it doesn't have

752
00:33:07,110 --> 00:33:05,360
to work so hard obviously it's not

753
00:33:09,269 --> 00:33:07,120
working against gravity so there's

754
00:33:11,909 --> 00:33:09,279
probably a decrease in the in the muscle

755
00:33:13,590 --> 00:33:11,919
mass while we're up in space um but we

756
00:33:14,630 --> 00:33:13,600
don't know all of that for sure and so

757
00:33:16,070 --> 00:33:14,640
that's why we're doing some of the

758
00:33:18,230 --> 00:33:16,080
research that we're doing and some of

759
00:33:20,070 --> 00:33:18,240
the ultrasounds are really going to help

760
00:33:21,830 --> 00:33:20,080
it's going to be interesting to see the

761
00:33:25,350 --> 00:33:21,840
difference of when we're working out up

762
00:33:26,870 --> 00:33:25,360
in space versus just relaxing so um

763
00:33:28,149 --> 00:33:26,880
that's a lot of research that's ongoing

764
00:33:31,110 --> 00:33:28,159
right now

765
00:33:33,430 --> 00:33:31,120
okay great thanks and uh

766
00:33:35,430 --> 00:33:33,440
another one comes from at jules burford

767
00:33:37,990 --> 00:33:35,440
burford how would you manage with a

768
00:33:42,149 --> 00:33:38,000
medical emergency i.e appendicitis and

769
00:33:48,149 --> 00:33:44,950
that's a very good question um

770
00:33:50,870 --> 00:33:48,159
we do train uh you know my background as

771
00:33:54,310 --> 00:33:50,880
an engineer not a doctor but we do get

772
00:33:55,830 --> 00:33:54,320
some training in case of emergency now

773
00:33:57,590 --> 00:33:55,840
doing an operation that might be a

774
00:34:00,870 --> 00:33:57,600
different story but

775
00:34:04,149 --> 00:34:00,880
just like a first aid kit or cpr we're

776
00:34:06,310 --> 00:34:04,159
trained to do that and we do train

777
00:34:07,990 --> 00:34:06,320
on each other you know in a mock-up

778
00:34:10,710 --> 00:34:08,000
let's say someone

779
00:34:13,109 --> 00:34:10,720
you know fell what do you do and then we

780
00:34:15,030 --> 00:34:13,119
we coordinate amongst ourselves and get

781
00:34:16,470 --> 00:34:15,040
the first aid kit and start working you

782
00:34:18,470 --> 00:34:16,480
know cpr

783
00:34:20,470 --> 00:34:18,480
and all that stuff so uh we are trained

784
00:34:21,750 --> 00:34:20,480
to do that

785
00:34:24,230 --> 00:34:21,760
but of course

786
00:34:28,550 --> 00:34:24,240
we're not doctors so we can't do like a

787
00:34:30,550 --> 00:34:28,560
very detailed skill based operation

788
00:34:33,030 --> 00:34:30,560
okay thank you and we have another one

789
00:34:34,629 --> 00:34:33,040
this one comes from rickstar1

790
00:34:36,149 --> 00:34:34,639
they want to know what is the number one

791
00:34:41,990 --> 00:34:36,159
thing you are looking forward to doing

792
00:34:45,270 --> 00:34:43,990
so let's see i

793
00:34:47,750 --> 00:34:45,280
i'm really looking forward to the

794
00:34:50,869 --> 00:34:47,760
docking we practice that

795
00:34:53,030 --> 00:34:50,879
pretty rigorously in star city

796
00:34:55,669 --> 00:34:53,040
it's supposed to be automatic

797
00:34:57,750 --> 00:34:55,679
but we've yuri of course is trained to

798
00:34:59,430 --> 00:34:57,760
take over manually in case we need to do

799
00:35:01,270 --> 00:34:59,440
a manual docking

800
00:35:03,349 --> 00:35:01,280
i was like as a

801
00:35:05,589 --> 00:35:03,359
flight engineer i was also lucky enough

802
00:35:07,430 --> 00:35:05,599
to train to do that as well so it's

803
00:35:09,829 --> 00:35:07,440
actually flying a little spacecraft

804
00:35:11,910 --> 00:35:09,839
around which is pretty amazing

805
00:35:14,630 --> 00:35:11,920
so i'm and last time i flew up to the

806
00:35:16,630 --> 00:35:14,640
space station on a space shuttle

807
00:35:18,150 --> 00:35:16,640
and it was a pretty slow process this

808
00:35:19,990 --> 00:35:18,160
time it's going to be a little faster

809
00:35:21,990 --> 00:35:20,000
process from what it from what we've

810
00:35:24,069 --> 00:35:22,000
trained to do so i'm i'm really looking

811
00:35:24,950 --> 00:35:24,079
forward to the docking and opening the

812
00:35:28,230 --> 00:35:24,960
hatch

813
00:35:31,109 --> 00:35:28,240
we're going to have three other crew

814
00:35:32,230 --> 00:35:31,119
members there to greet us and shortly

815
00:35:33,910 --> 00:35:32,240
thereafter

816
00:35:35,589 --> 00:35:33,920
we'll probably be

817
00:35:37,510 --> 00:35:35,599
able to talk to our family and friends

818
00:35:39,190 --> 00:35:37,520
and just tell them in person that we we

819
00:35:41,190 --> 00:35:39,200
made it there successfully so i think

820
00:35:44,150 --> 00:35:41,200
that's going to be the highlight just to

821
00:35:46,230 --> 00:35:44,160
hear their voices when we get up there

822
00:35:48,310 --> 00:35:46,240
thank you sunny okay i have one more and

823
00:35:49,910 --> 00:35:48,320
this one is actually for yuri

824
00:35:51,670 --> 00:35:49,920
it's a two-part question the first part

825
00:35:54,150 --> 00:35:51,680
is in russian and the second part is

826
00:35:56,390 --> 00:35:54,160
english first part is cocktail

827
00:36:01,670 --> 00:35:56,400
as a cosmonaut how does your training

828
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,950
well i

829
00:36:11,589 --> 00:36:07,430
my responsibility is mostly russian

830
00:36:14,630 --> 00:36:11,599
segment and i focus on all tasks which

831
00:36:17,430 --> 00:36:14,640
bring russian space program

832
00:36:20,430 --> 00:36:17,440
and also i'm

833
00:36:23,670 --> 00:36:20,440
so used commander so i have

834
00:36:27,990 --> 00:36:23,680
a lot of training with

835
00:36:29,109 --> 00:36:28,000
controls i use transport vehicle

836
00:36:30,790 --> 00:36:29,119
and

837
00:36:33,349 --> 00:36:30,800
also we have

838
00:36:36,870 --> 00:36:33,359
national science program and

839
00:36:38,550 --> 00:36:36,880
i'm focused on this and

840
00:36:41,510 --> 00:36:38,560
but

841
00:36:43,349 --> 00:36:41,520
at the same time i have training in u.s

842
00:36:44,150 --> 00:36:43,359
japan in europe

843
00:36:45,910 --> 00:36:44,160
and

844
00:36:48,710 --> 00:36:45,920
depends what

845
00:36:52,829 --> 00:36:48,720
agencies want me to do i

846
00:36:56,790 --> 00:36:55,510
so as i said it's

847
00:36:59,270 --> 00:36:56,800
mostly just

848
00:37:02,870 --> 00:36:59,280
focus more to

849
00:37:06,829 --> 00:37:02,880
different parts of station and

850
00:37:09,430 --> 00:37:06,839
maybe i work in more of these people

851
00:37:11,589 --> 00:37:09,440
who working in

852
00:37:13,270 --> 00:37:11,599
a russian control centers

853
00:37:14,870 --> 00:37:13,280
okay

854
00:37:16,470 --> 00:37:14,880
that's all we have for today

855
00:37:18,870 --> 00:37:16,480
thank you all right

856
00:37:20,470 --> 00:37:18,880
thank you with that we'll return for one

857
00:37:22,230 --> 00:37:20,480
last

858
00:37:25,109 --> 00:37:22,240
opportunity for any remaining questions

859
00:37:27,030 --> 00:37:25,119
here from the johnson space center