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station this is houston are you ready

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houston this is station we're ready for

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bloomberg tv this is mission control in

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houston please call station for a voice

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check station this is ryan chilcote with

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we've got you loud and clear

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fantastic what an honor and a pleasure

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welcome to ryan's russia

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i understand i have all six of you uh on

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ryan you almost do oleg's busy flying

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the space station he's still hard at

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work but we've got five of six

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someone has to fly the space station

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that's very excusable

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how does it work up there i want to ask

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you there's six of you it's a big

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station right do you

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do you work in separate areas are are

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some areas segregated russians only some

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no absolutely not but it's a great

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question ryan

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we've got uh we we do often talk about

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there being two segments there being the

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u.s operational segment the russian

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segment when in fact this is one space

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station one crew and we're

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supported and uh and the space station

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is largely operated by control centers

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all around the world but from the

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perspective of the people that live and

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uh and work aboard space station this is

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one big team

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was that a mosquito he was just uh

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knocking down there what

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maybe i shouldn't ask what that was

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so in terms of the size no mosquitoes up

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in terms of the size of the station do

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you find yourselves bumping into one

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another how big is it and how often do

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we bump into each other every day all

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day long and station is big but it is

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amazing how often we'll all be working

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in like one cubic meter out of the

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thousand cubic meters that are up here

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and it's just it's just one of the facts

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that happens that you'll have one rack

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and there'll be a set of experiments and

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and at least three of us will be working

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all around this one rack

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and how do you divvy up the resources i

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mean i know sort of six grown men

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two bathrooms right one on the american

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side one on the russian side do you

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share bathrooms what happens if one

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a timely question that that often does

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happen here and we've got i guess i

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would consider we have almost uh two

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full baths or fully functional ones

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we've got two smaller ones that are in

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the uh the soyuz vehicles that brought

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us up here and we'll bring each of us

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crews of three back to the planet earth

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we do spend a surprising amount of time

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keeping that hardware working and

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functioning and but it's important to us

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and when there's an issue with uh with

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the one that's in node three for example

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service module and if there's an issue

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with that one then we all use the one up

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here but uh no there's no uh no

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restrictions one way or the other

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and you have like a maintenance schedule

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of some kind i mean could can you

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something presumably the commander can

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mutiny no actually there's not there's

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duty cycle would happen to be on it

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if you don't mind if i could ask one of

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the cosmonauts a question i want to ask

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about how you eat on board is that

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something that you do separately do you

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we live here like one family

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dinner together we speaking about our

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problems about our family

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birthday parties uh me and anatoly uh

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give me one thing that you think russia

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flight and one thing that you think the

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so that's an interesting question ryan

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there's there's a there's a lot of

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aspects to it if you look at just the

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day-to-day and the kind of things we

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interact with stuff that that would seem

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trivial sometimes maybe on on planet

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package uh food on the on the food that

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of long-duration space flight how do you

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live and work how does a

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human being stay up here and operate for

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six months at a time how do you keep the

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lessons here um on the modules that are

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this moment and the budgetary problems

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of the next half year but in the long

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mining on the moon and we will get

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great sources uh of energy we will use

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space flight we have to be very patient

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the moon and possibly go to mars and and

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before we will see real progress on this

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tell me about some of the traffic you've

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got coming up there you've got uh it's

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it's being called

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the cosmic traffic jam you've got an

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awful lot of spacecraft coming up there

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yeah we sure do and it's actually the

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lifeblood of space station a lot of the

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cargo vehicles um are key to keeping the

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space station operating and functioning

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it's the the method for us to return

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science something we put the shuttle to

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good use for in addition to bringing

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cargo up here

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and spacex the dragon uh their their

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vehicle which will launch we hope on

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april 30th of this this month will

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afford the capability of returning

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hardware from station

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we also have a progress card cargo

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vehicle dock to station right now it

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will uh bring uh trash back uh it'll

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actually be incinerated on the way back

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to earth's atmosphere another progress

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vehicle is lined up to come here and

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most importantly and most uh immediate

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for all of us on board is very soon

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we'll have the european automated

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transfer vehicle number three that's

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going to be docking on the aft part of

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space station here in a week

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so you've got commercial spacecraft

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you've got european spacecraft you've

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got japanese spacecraft russian

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spacecraft um the commercial from the

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united states i mean it is that an

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indication that the times have changed

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the old sort of uh cold war space race

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is long past because it's not just two

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countries not just two spacecraft but i

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mean it's you know you guys are busier

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than star trek up there with

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yeah i think well we are already for a

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while in the in this international era

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and i think that's a very good thing i i

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really like it to work one day in the

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japanese module then do something in the

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russian module

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and european american that's very good

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and i think we're getting into another

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new era and that is the the commercial

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space flight so it's very interesting

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that uh

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that the dragon

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is coming soon and uh that's that's the

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future like like with all kind of

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transportation we have uh

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on earth in the beginning it's uh it's

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it's new and it's some pioneers and then

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the

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companies take over and agencies go

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beyond and do new things and then

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continue with exploration i think it's a

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natural process and i'm very pleased

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that i'm here now when we start with it

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spacex says they may have round trip

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flights to mars

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for

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let me make sure i get this right a half

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million dollars in 10 years time

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what do you guys think about that that

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i think if we can greatly reduce the

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expense of getting things to low earth

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orbit it opens up in an unbelievable way

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uh space exploration for many more

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people that have had a privilege to do

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this so far and i think probably all of

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us would share the sentiment that says

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the more the merrier and uh and as soon

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as you can have uh companies are able to

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do this and be viable um and uh in the

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private sector then it greatly greatly

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opens up the possibilities for space

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flight

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like andre said i think it's important

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for the really hard very very tough

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things to be done probably by um by

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nations and by nations space agencies

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and and ideally by nations working

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together so those are the big steps that

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need to be taken you know on a big scale

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and they don't often return a lot of in

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return a lot on the investments in the

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near term as soon as we figured out the

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earth to low earth orbit piece and i

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think we're getting pretty close to that

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right now then the time is right for

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commercial companies to be able to step

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in and take over that piece and then the

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governments and the international space

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agencies will then take the next stride

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and and i think that's great and i think

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the more vehicles that we have that are

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able to fly in space the better it is

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for all of us

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now a very important question

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we don't have any electronics up here

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that we can capable of playing it

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no video yeah yeah it's too

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it's too sophisticated for the space

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station yeah

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we

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ryan is still with us

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yeah yeah

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look i'm sorry i i thought we might have

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lost you

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sure

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we are bloomberg tv

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we were wondering how do you keep track

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of your investments when you're so far

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yeah we're all looking at each other

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saying what investments

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the folks that fly in space generally

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don't do this to become to become uh

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rich and uh you know the the the

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richness we have is in the opportunity

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to do this so actually i don't really

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think a whole lot about it and uh don't

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uh

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don't really have a whole lot in that

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maybe down the road sometime but uh for

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me my focus has been you know working in

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this business and uh working with this

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uh this great team that we have on board

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and and with all the wonderful folks

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smart folks that are on the ground that

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make it possible

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one last quick question and i think our

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biggest

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success in investment is our families

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and that goes well

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one quick question when you look out the

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window everybody wants to see obviously

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you can see earth i think we only got

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about 30 seconds you can see what other

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planets asteroids

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space junk what do you see out the

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well the thing that that really captures

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your uh the view is the planet earth i

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mean it is spectacular it is just beyond

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description at least beyond description

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for somebody like me and uh but with

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that said you can see stars that are

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just brilliant points of light that do

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not twinkle you see comets you see other

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satellites and spacecraft and uh but

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your eyes are always drawn back to our

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thank you very much thank you for

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joining us on ryan's russia

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ryan thank you it's pleasure talking to

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you today

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station this is houston acr that

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