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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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o'henry middle school this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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a voice check

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station this is congressman lamar smith

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at little henry middle school in austin

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congressman smith we've got you loud and

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clear welcome aboard the international

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great we're looking forward to this

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and we'll proceed with the questions by

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the students here at o'henry middle

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good morning space station this is

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matthew nelson with henry middle school

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we have several future astronauts and

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scientists have some questions to ask

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you guys today first up is levon

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my name is levon and my question is for

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how long does it take to get in your

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well that depends on the spacesuit

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you're talking about if you're talking

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about the ones that we typically wear

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when we launch and enter on a soyuz

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capsule which are very similar to the

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ones we wore on the space shuttle

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it probably takes about 20 or 30 minutes

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to actually put it on and then we spend

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some time actually checking it out to

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make sure that it's uh it's leak tight

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and the communications

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system in the suit works if you're

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talking about the spacesuit that we use

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to go outside when we're doing a

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spacewalk on space station that one's a

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little bit more complicated and it'll

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take over an hour to get that one

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completely donned and checked out and

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my name is ireland and i and my question

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is for dawn how much room do you have to

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we we have

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a lot of volume up here on space station

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it's equivalent to living in a big house

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and and it's divided instead of being

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divided into rooms it's divided into

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modules and we could float all around or

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my name is jack and my question is for

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this is a very essential question a very

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good question actually and a lot of

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people think about that

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well we don't have weight so we have to

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to to simulate or we have to replace

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that and we do that with airflow so you

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have to put on some kind of vacuum

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cleaner

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in order to get everything in the right

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place and of course you have to hold

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yourself as well to stay in the right

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position so it's it's a

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little endeavor to go to the restroom in

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space but it works all fine

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um my name is amity and my question is

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for dan

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what process do you go through and what

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certifications do you need to be

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important thing you have to do is you

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have to apply for it you actually have

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to send an application to nasa

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to to compete with lots and lots of

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other people that want to do this

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um at the very beginning of the space

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program almost everybody that flew uh

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minority of all the people that actually

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fly so we've got scientists engineers

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course we even have teachers so there

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are many many different people i think

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the thing that we all have in common all

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degree would be uh but but everybody

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typically did very well at the things

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that they they did before so they were

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very good at that and the key to being

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good at those things is to choose wisely

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to find something that you love to do so

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that working hard at it and become

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becoming good at it is is not like work

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my name is nick and my question is for

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to do science experiments or engineering

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experiments and we have all kinds of

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on a new kind of toilet and we have one

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support that can take the urine that we

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generate and turn it back and pump it

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my name is evan and my question is for

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what does it feel like to be in zero

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floating underwater you don't touch

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that if you want to experience it a bit

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the space station because you might kick

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my name is avery and my question is for

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international space station what do you

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foreground is the international space

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station itself which is huge it is

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million pounds and you see that all

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moon planets you see stars thousands and

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country and the stars here don't twinkle

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points of light and but the thing that's

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of earth the continents mountains uh

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islands uh the liquid uh the oceans and

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my name is ian my question is for don

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what kind of data are you collecting

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data and again that gets placed on our

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computers and gets relayed back to earth

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fly in space and have dreamed about it

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awful long ways away and in order to be

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that so it'll be decades but it'll be by

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the time that you grow up by the time

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that you kids are certainly our age i

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believe that we will have been there and

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semi-permanent basis and i hope will

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be on the moon and on asteroids there's

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humanity's destination or destiny to do

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to do that kind of exploration and we

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need a lot of smart and energetic folks

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like you to help pave the way and

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provide the rocket fuel for that kind of

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communication and ku band which is in

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satellite system and then back to earth

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oh that's a good question uh

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even on earth i don't remember probably

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when i ate last night but it's but uh

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well actually uh what i ate i know i

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know uh there was a mixed vegetables

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sweet potatoes that's my one of my

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favorites

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and i think i had some

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some beef with mushrooms but i'm not

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sure about that cause anymore so you

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hear there's a lot of different uh

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choices we have we can choose from a lot

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of different foods both on the u.s side

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and on the russian side and we even have

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our bonus food

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and in my case it means that i also have

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some some dutch products

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on board so we have a lot of choice

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my name is annelisia and my question is

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for them how do you get water

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electricity and auctioning up the space

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okay that's really important the water

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and the oxygen

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at least initially we bring it up via

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cargo vehicles and when the shuttle was

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coming to space station

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the shuttle would ship a lot of water

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that it generated as a byproduct of

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making electricity and it would give it

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to space station we have we preserve as

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much of the water as possible up here so

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like don was describing to you before

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we try our best to close most of the of

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the water cycle or the environmental

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control loop so we preserve it because

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it's very expensive and difficult to get

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any kind of cargo be it

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be it food or water or science

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experiments up to space space station

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the electricity is a little bit easier

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as it turns out and we've got almost an

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acre worth of solar rays and those solar

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panels we keep pointed at the sun and we

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basically use those in electrical system

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thank you

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my name is jamel and my question is for

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how do you avoid hitting things in space

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well there's there's two levels of that

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question one is when we're flying around

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inside a space station you have to avoid

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hitting things because if you do hit

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something it's probably with your head

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and and so you you just need to watch

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out it's just like uh on on earth you

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could you could trip and fall down and

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skin your knee well here on space

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station you basically don't watch what

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you're doing and you bang your head on

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something

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and what i think you probably really are

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referring to is the space station run

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into other things in orbit and uh

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one thing it's it's

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space is big and the probability of

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running into something is really really

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small however on occasion uh our orbit

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could get close to a piece of space

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debris and

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and in that case we either change the

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orbit of space station or we we go into

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our soyuz capsules and get ready for an

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emergency deorbit if we were to strike

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something and we did that a couple

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my name is yay me and my question is for

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andre

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how do you sleep in space and do you

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i sleep very well in space

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we float

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so that means that it doesn't matter

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where you sleep you can't sleep on the

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ceiling you can sleep upright and of

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course on the floor if you can call it

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the floor uh so uh it's it's it's a bit

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strange because you don't feel a

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mattress you don't you don't have a

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pillow

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so those aspects of sleeping uh you're

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missing but we work hard here and uh we

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sleep very well as soon as we close our

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eyes uh and we have indeed our own

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sleeping cabins and that's a nice place

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because this is your home you have the

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pictures of the family on the wall we

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have our laptops we uh this is really

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our our private place and that's that's

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very pleasant so we sleep well on board

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my name is isaiah and my question is for

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what is a robo

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well robonaut like the name

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implies is a robot and it's a human-like

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robot from its configuration in that

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it's got arms with hands and fingers and

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and a head with uh cameras in place of

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eyes and and it's the first

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little baby step

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towards making a human-like robot that

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could do human-like tasks either on

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my name is giselle and my question is

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for don do you miss your home when you

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are gone and what kind of things do you

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you okay and and i'll go ahead and take

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that question

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and the question was do we miss

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our families uh i think the thing that

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yeah the thing that we miss most uh when

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we come to space is uh being close to

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our families physically close and be

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able to uh to see them to to hug our

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kids to kiss our spouses and that's

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something you certainly can't do when

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you're on space station but we can

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actually see our families and uh and be

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close to them in a virtual sense

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through the communication system that

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don talked about and we can actually see

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them and do uh

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essentially a video phone call at least

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once a week and we can talk to them

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essentially over what would be very

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similar to a phone call or a cell phone

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a cell phone call from planet earth most

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any time that we're free like every day

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or so um and uh but it's still one of

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the things that we'll very much look

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forward to when we get back get back

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home again

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apart from that there's there's probably

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a few other things you miss uh from uh

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from earth the things that we bring as

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reminders um like don like andre had

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mentioned was pictures of friends and

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family and uh we have a little bit of

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room to carry some small um

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mementos i guess things to to remember

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to help remember physically remember

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their our families and friends here and

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we can also bring some other things that

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we potentially can bring back with us

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our notes our notebooks and things like

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that so we can we can write about

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the experiences that we have and

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maintain a journal if you will and be

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able to bring that back and

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and essentially have

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a more personal day-to-day connection

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with our experiences that we had while

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we're up here it's a real precious time

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that you have here yeah we're very

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fortunate to be able to do this

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there's an awful lot of people that are

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in line to come up here and continue the

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the exploration and research on station

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and that line extends all the way back

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expedition 30 commander burbank

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flight engineers keepers and pettit my

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name is peter price i'm the principal at

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o'henry middle school we would like to

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thank you for your time for sharing your

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expertise your love of your job

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we we wish you we wish you the best

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in your future endeavors and again thank

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you so much for taking the time

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to learn about your lives and we

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appreciate all you do

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it was our pleasure and it was wonderful

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station this is houston acr thank you

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that concludes the event

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thank you oh henry middle school

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dan and don please stand by while we

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