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station this is Houston are you ready

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Houston station we're ready for the

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event WNYW TV this is Mission Control

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Houston please call station for our

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voice text catch and release back then

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you took it home and it can you hear a

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hi good morning by stamp I please

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montauk you can actually see the whale

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better cause I don't want to fish them

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ya know hi good morning alright are we

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ready to go to outer space mara the

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ayats on the International Space Station

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hi there join us right now we have crew

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members dan burbank and don pettit

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astronauts both gentlemen welcome to

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good day New York can you hear us Greg

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we got you loud and clear welcome aboard

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the International Space Station sites

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okay listen what's it like up there for

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you guys now especially you know you're

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hanging out with the cosmonauts these

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days well we've been doing that actually

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that for quite a long time it's the

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International Space Station for good

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reason we've got 50 nations all around

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the world that helped build this and and

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continue to operate it today so we've

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got currently a crew of three Russian

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cosmonauts and we've got Andre Kuiper's

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from the Netherlands and Don Pettit

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myself from from the US and from a crew

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perspective there's only one space

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station well that's beautiful it really

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is and we're we're proud of you and how

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long have you been up there by the way

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let's start with the scientist Don

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Pettit you know I can't actually

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remember how long I've been up here I I

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left home in the middle of October to go

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to Star City Russia and I haven't been

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back since what kind of experiments have

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you been conducting up there well a week

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we have two general classes of

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experiments we have life science

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experiments where we're the guinea pigs

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mostly and we poke and snip at ourselves

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to try to look at secrets to human

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physiology using gravity as another

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experimental variable and then we do

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science experiments combustion

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experiments crystal growth experiment

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stades like that and this morning I have

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in fact actually up until about two

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minutes before this PA o event I was

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working with some folks at NASA Glenn on

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combustion experiments we were burning

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solid materials I was burning up a

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sphere of pmma not to be confused with

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our PM a.m. which is a module but pmma

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its polymethylmethacrylate burning a

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little sphere of that stuff it's plastic

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and looking at its characteristics in a

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weightless environment with forced

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convection and it's fascinating we saw

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some deposition along the the Terminator

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of the sphere that hasn't been seen

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before on on Earth based combustion

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experiments it's really exciting stuff

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that sounds so cool dan I want to know

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from you what you do in the off time

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because I know you have that astronaut

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musical band what to call max Q are you

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singing up in space yeah that actually

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resent I haven't had as much time as I

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like to play the guitar we have a guitar

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keyboard and occasionally in the

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weekends will be a little bit of time

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and I'll break the guitar out and in

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play got to keep my my chops up enough

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so that I can rejoin the band when I

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come back late in April then let me ask

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you this where are you right now where

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relative to earth what are you over and

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well Greg we're moving about 17,500

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miles an hour when we started this

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discussion we were over the Midwest by

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the time we finish in a couple of

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headed out over the Atlantic and then

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the South Atlantic I wonder do you guys

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ever get nauseous while you're up there

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does it ever get all just floating

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around well the answer the first

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of us been pretty fortunate there's

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probably about a forty percent or so

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incidents where there'll be a little bit

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of what we call space motion sickness

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for for some folks when they first

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launched it generally goes away in a

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couple of days it's it's very transient

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and when when folks feel a little bit

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off it'll generally pass pretty quickly

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and like I say after about a week or so

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just about everybody I think feels full

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up all of us had a better pretty easy go

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of it as far as do you ever get tired of

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it I can say at least after well after

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four months now you don't even get close

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to getting tired of being weightless up

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here it's one of the neatest aspects of

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being in space and if we had the

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technology right now I would emigrate to

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space I'd load my my family up my boys

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up on a rocket and emigrate the space

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that never come back to earth but of

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course that's a safe thing for me to say

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because we don't have the technology to

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do that uh listen I've always been

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curious where you actually sleep and

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that kind of thing I'm it doesn't look

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very comfortable where you are there a

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lot of wires and things hanging around

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that looked like might get in the way

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it's very rec room or anything like that

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no no rec room no holodeck nothing like

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that for our sleeping quarters we each

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have about a phone booth size volume to

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sleep in and actually it sounds like

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it's it's pretty cramped and cozy but

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it's more than enough in and we have

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each host have a sleeping bag

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essentially that can be suspended from

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the ceiling in the floor and sometimes

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at least in my case I will just sleep

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and it's fine it's like sleeping in this

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office softest bed you can imagine could

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could you uh maybe let go of the

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microphone could we see it was can we

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see a weightless demonstration something

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mild something small we'd love to there

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it is that's very cool can we look out

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the window there he goes on around ah

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come back that looks like so much fun

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hey house yeah actually the food's

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pretty good we have a great selection of

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food and there's a lot of food up here

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that you would think would not

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necessarily be be all that well suited

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for rehydrating for example and it

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actually actually does really well some

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of the food comes thermally stabilized

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and pouches and and it's a very similar

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to what some of our troops might might

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have to eat what we call meals ready to

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eat you know over in the Gulf a lot of

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the food though is is dehydrated we do

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that because we can save a lot on launch

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weight by launching food dry and adding

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the water when we get here the folks

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that plan and figure out how to do that

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do a really good job so when you add a

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little bit of water in the dispenser

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unit that's right above our heads right

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you can have anything from shrimp

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cocktail to screamed to creamed spinach

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to steak and and it's all really great

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it looks like a lot of fun I can see why

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don wants to emigrate to space

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permanently finally do you get to watch

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movies you get to watch TV shows email

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down time that you have to have from

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time to time you're up there for months

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on end you have to relax every now and

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then what do you do well we have this

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same called the cupola and it's a series

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of seven windows that look out on earth

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and as far as I'm concerned there's no

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need to have TV and movies and things

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like that when you could go look at this

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view which is an incredible feast for

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your eyes and then of course we're in

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this weightless environment and there's

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all kinds of fascinating little side

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experiments you can do on your off-duty

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time investigating things that just

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don't work this way when you are on the

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surface of Earth and I think this is

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part of being in a frontier where we're

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living in an environment that's unknown

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and it's counter to our intuition and

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the answers are not in the back of the

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book and we're in the process of right

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in the book Don Pettit Dan Burbank

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thanks so much safe travels real quick

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can we look out the window with you

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probably not it looks like that cameras

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kind of fixed in one position we got

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about 20 windows scattered all about the

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space station and there's one directly

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below your right now but unfortunately

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for us to open it up and give you a view

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I don't think you have the time to do

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that but it was great talking with you

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today and we wish you all the very best

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we just got a peek from another camera

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thank you so much again be careful up

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there and we look forward to you coming

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okay thank you all best station this is

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Houston ACR that concludes the event

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thank you Thank You WNYW TV station